Archaeological Field Work in North America during 1934

1935 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles R. Keyes
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Research Council ◽  
National Research Council ◽  
Field Work ◽  
American Anthropologist ◽  
American Archaeology ◽  
The Past ◽  
North American Archaeology ◽  
Work Done

This is the thirteenth of a series of annual statements covering field activities in North American archaeology, assembled by the Committee on State Archaeological Surveys of the Division of Anthropology and Psychology, National Research Council. The first eleven statements were published each year in the American Anthropologist. The twelfth statement, for the year 1933, appeared in planograph form as Circular Series No. 18, issued by the Committee. The present article is a compilation of brief reports, arranged alphabetically by states, sent to the Committee for this specific use by the representatives of most of the institutions and organizations supporting such field work on this continent. Its purpose is to record briefly the work done and the results obtained during the past calendar year. Space restrictions require the exclusion from this compilation of statements of field work done under private auspices, as well as reports upon laborator, museum, and educational undertakings, and the publications resulting therefrom.

The 1990s: North American archaeology with a human face?

Antiquity ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 64 (245) ◽  
pp. 778-787 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce G. Trigger
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
History Of Archaeology ◽  
Human Face ◽  
Standard Account ◽  
American Archaeology ◽  
The Past ◽  
North American Archaeology ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

The English reviewer for Nature (Renfrew 1990) declared that Bruce Trigger's new history of archaeology will become the standard account of our subject's history, and the French reviewer for ANTIQUITY also has a warm view (this issue, page 960). Having looked to the past, what does Trigger see for the future of archaeology in North America, as the reaction comes to the view of archaeology as, primarily, science that has dominated these last decades?

scholarly journals The Digital Index of North American Archaeology: networking government data to navigate an uncertain future for the past

Antiquity ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 92 (362) ◽  
pp. 490-506 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric C. Kansa ◽  
Sarah W. Kansa ◽  
Josh J. Wells ◽  
Stephen J. Yerka ◽  
Kelsey N. Myers ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
American Archaeology ◽  
The Past ◽  
North American Archaeology ◽  
Government Data ◽  
Uncertain Future ◽  
Image Position

Abstract

THE NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL'S REPORT ON A STUDY OF MILK REGULATIONS AND SANITARY MILK CONTROL*

1954 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 139-143
Author(s):  
Harold S. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Milk Production ◽  
Research Council ◽  
National Research Council ◽  
Field Work ◽  
American City ◽  
Milk Samples ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
Quality Of Milk ◽  
Control Work

This article reports upon research performed under the direction of the Committee on Milk Production Distribution and Quality of the National Research Council. The purpose of this research was to study the effect of milk regulations and their enforcement on the sanitary quality of milk. Eight large American city milk supplies were studied in detail. The field work included an inspection of a representative group of farms and milk plants and the examination of milk samples representative of each supply. Certain regulations governing the production and handling of milk were found to be definitely reflected in the bacteriological quality of both the raw and finished product. Several significant conclusions are drawn which should be of particular value to those engaged in milk control work.

scholarly journals Dance to the Two-Spirit. Mythologizations of the Queer Native

2018 ◽  
pp. 33-46
Author(s):  
Marianne Kongerslev
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
American Anthropologist ◽  
Lesbian And Gay ◽  
The Past ◽  
Trans People ◽  
Noble Savage ◽  
Two Spirit ◽  
Gay Identities

In 1998, the American anthropologist Will Roscoe referred to pre-colonial North America as “the queerest continent on the planet” (Roscoe 1998, 4), expressing a more universally accepted idea that before settlers arrived in North America, Indigenous peoples embraced and celebrated queer and trans people. Building on this anachronistic assumption, this article investigates the historical and anthropological constructions of the ‘Sacred Queer Native’ trope and argues that its attendant discourses perpetuate an idea of the ‘Sacred Queer Native’ figure as a mythological Noble Savage doomed to perish. The anthropological accounts therefore serve as settler colonial tools of elimination, relegating (queer) Indigenous peoples to the past, while emulating their ‘queerness’ in order to legitimize modern Lesbian and gay identities. At the same time, Indigenous poets celebrate(d) the same figuration as a strategy for empowerment, reclaiming historical positions of power and sovereignty through celebratory and often erotic poetries that directly and indirectly critique settler colonial heteropatriarchy. The article concludes that the contentions over the figure of the Sacred Queer Native and its anti-colonial, Indigenouscounter-construction, Two-Spirit, illustrates both the constructedness of gender and sexualities and the need for continued critique in the field.

ICAS Specification for Aerial Photography: A Look at their Influence on Manufacturers, Contractors and Users

1983 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 145-155
Author(s):  
E. A. Fleming
Keyword(s):  
Aerial Photography ◽  
Research Council ◽  
National Research Council ◽  
Aerial Survey ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Topographic Mapping ◽  
Technical Standards ◽  
The Past ◽  
Extensive Research Program ◽  
Air Photo

Aerial photography specifications for small-scale mapping in Canada have been in a process of evolution since they were first issued in 1950. An extensive research program carried out by the National Research Council has determined many of the technical standards that are in use today and the ICAS Specification for Aerial Survey Photography governs all federal photography contracted for by the Interdepartmental Committee on Air Surveys and destined for inclusion in the National Air Photo Library. The latest revision of the Specification has given them wider application by providing for the use of a greater variety of camera focal lengths and filters than are normally considered in topographic mapping. A Manual of Procedures has also been compiled which consolidates the operationally useful information for the production of photography to meet the specifications. To determine the effectiveness of the Specification an analysis of the inspection records for the past five years of small-scale photography contracted under the specifications was made. It was found that those photographic items that are essential to the photogrammetrist (lack of y-parallax, overlap) are very well controlled by this method of defining and enforcing requirements, but other important items which affect but do not noticeably impede the work of the photogrammetrist (errors in exposure and processing) have not been effectively controlled. Other methods should be investigated for achieving improvements in the future.

Folsom and Nepesta Points

1940 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 290-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Scoggin
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Rocky Mountains ◽  
American Archaeology ◽  
Relative Age ◽  
Survey Article ◽  
The Past ◽  
Different Parts

The reported occurrence of Folsom points in California, and the suggestion that the parts of the Folsom complex will be found to be as generally widespread west of the Rocky Mountains as they have to the eastward, raises several interesting problems as to the relative age and significance of Folsom material reported from different parts of North America. It becomes obvious, moreover, that an appreciable time has been involved in the spread of the complex if its limits are to be extended, as recent occurrences would suggest.These and other considerations properly belong to a survey article, and it is enough for the purpose of this paper to mention briefly that during the past several years the Folsom complex has occupied a singular place in any postulated chronological scheme for American archaeology because investigation during this time has failed to show what lies immediately on either side of it.

A Comparative Study of the Preceramic Occupations of North America

1953 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 204-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wesley R. Hurt
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
North American ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
American Archaeology ◽  
North American Archaeology ◽  
Relative Chronology ◽  
Good Guess

In view of the present turmoil in North American archaeology caused by the continuing release of radiocarbon dates, it is most difficult to maintain an understanding of the preceramic occupations. What seems like a good guess today is tomorrow relegated to the realm of unwarranted speculation. The continual excavation of preceramic sites in North America and the constant revision in geological and climatological theories also force us to be cautious in making interpretations and to be willing to change any of them. Yet the evidence now available for reconstructing the preceramic traditions in some instances appears to be sufficient and reliable enough to justify certain interpretations, even though reservations must be kept in mind. In particular the relative chronology of several cultural complexes is slowly taking form.

DETERMINATION OF AN ABSOLUTE SCALE OF CAPACITANCE

1964 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. F. Dunn
Keyword(s):  
Research Council ◽  
National Research Council ◽  
The Past ◽  
Absolute Scale ◽  
Measuring Techniques ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Better Than

In the past decade or two, the measurement of capacitance has become of much greater importance in many fields of scientific and technological investigation as well as forming the basis of many production applications. The capabilities of the capacitance measuring techniques available are of great importance, and the measurement and maintenance of an absolute scale of capacitance has become of prime importance. In the National Research Council of Canada, the absolute unit of capacitance is now known with an accuracy better than ±0.0005%, with the capability of scaling the unit of capacitance over six decades of capacitance both above and below 1 pf (1 × 10−12 f) without introducing an additional indeterminacy any greater than ±0.0005% or ±0.3 af (af = attofarad = 10−18 f).

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