ethnoarchaeological

I regularly lied to missionaries about the work I was doing in Africa, particularly when doing ethnoarchaeological work with the Hadza I would usually spin them a good story about studying impala mating behavior or whatever struck my fancy at the time.

End of the Spear Christopher O'Brien 2006

I regularly lied to missionaries about the work I was doing in Africa, particularly when doing ethnoarchaeological work with the Hadza I would usually spin them a good story about studying impala mating behavior or whatever struck my fancy at the time.

Archive 2006-06-01 Christopher O'Brien 2006

One ethnoarchaeological demonstration of the danger of simply reading off social status from burial practices was carried out in the early 1980s by Michael Parker Pearson, who was studying with Ian Hodder at Cambridge University.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

The enthusiasts included Lewis Binford, who in the late 1960s and early 1970s began his own ethnoarchaeological work among the Nunamiut peoples of Alaska.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

In Symbols in Action, Ian took direct aim at Lewis Binford, criticizing, among other things, his ethnoarchaeological work among the Nunamiut peoples of Alaska.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

Here he relied on some previous estimates from ethnoarchaeological studies, which ranged from four to nine inhabitants.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

Through a combination of ethnoarchaeological studies of living Sausas, excavations of their ancient dwellings, and chemical isotope analyses of skeletons from ancient burials—which gave an indication of what people had been eating—Christine was able to demonstrate that a shift in gender roles had probably taken place after the Incas conquered the valley in about 1460 A.D.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

In addition, our earlier ethnoarchaeological research on the subsistence economy of the Maasai (1990-2002) will provide models of settlement and subsistence strategies against which to assess our archaeological findings in Laikipia.

Egyptology News Andie 2010

In addition, our earlier ethnoarchaeological research on the subsistence economy of the Maasai (1990-2002) will provide models of settlement and subsistence strategies against which to assess our archaeological findings in Laikipia.

Egyptology News 2010

Note 2: For an elegant model of this feminist-ethnoarchaeological approach to material culture, see Janet Spector, What This Awl Means: Feminist Archaeology at a Wahpeton Dakota Village (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1993).

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005