Bernard K Means
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 277667 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Bernard K Means |
| NOMBRES | Bernard K |
| APELLIDO | Means |
| FIRMA | MEANS B K |
| AFILIACIONES | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3871-2893 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Teaching through Technology
Chapter 7 Start the Presses? John Alden Mason as Mesoamericanist and a Reluctant New Deal Archaeologist in the 1930s
During the 1930s, J. Alden Mason was a curator at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia. He was best known during this time for his work at the site of Piedras Negras in northwestern Guatemala. Yet, the 1930s excavations at Piedras Negras were not published until 2005. This delayed publication prevented other scholars from building on this work. Also, during the 1930s, Mason led lesser-known excavations around the Philadelphia area with federal work re…
Misadventures in Archaeology
Misadventures in Archaeology: The Life and Career of Charles Conrad Abbott reviewed by Dr. Bernard K. Means
Relic Hunters
A Digital Passport to the Past
As an undergraduate student at Occidental College in Los Angeles in the 1980s, I quickly realized that being a physicist was not how I wanted to spend my few short years on this planet. This meant
Promoting a More Interactive Public Archaeology
Stewards of the tangible past are increasingly embracing technologies that enable digital preservation of rare and fragile finds. The Virtual Curation Laboratory (VCL) at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) partners with museums, cultural heritage locations, and collections repositories to create three-dimensional (3D) digital models of artifacts from archaeological sites distributed across the globe. In the VCL, undergraduate VCU students bri…
Introduction to Geographic and Spatial Approaches in the History of Archaeology
Who studies the historiography of archaeology? Who reads the history of the discipline? Recent years have seen growing interest in the history of archaeology as is reflected in works such as Christenson (1989), Trigger (1989; 2006), Chakrabarti (1988; 2003), Singh (2004), Díaz-Andreu (2007), and special issues in Antiquity (Schlanger 2002) and Complutum (Moro Abadia & Huth 2013). The target audience for these publications is specialists. So what …
Labouring in the Fields of the Past
New Deal archaeology survey and excavation projects across the lower 48 states exhibit considerable geographic variation in their nature and extent. Part of this variation can be linked to strong regional personalities, while other variation depended on local political acceptance of or resistance to New Deal programs. The nature of the archaeological record itself influenced the amount of New Deal archaeology within a region. These factors are co…
Using Digital 3D Scanning to Create “Artifictions” of the Passenger Pigeon and Harelip Sucker, Two Extinct Species in Eastern North America
The Virtual Curation Laboratory at Virginia Commonwealth University created 3D representations of digital morphological models, termed “artifictions,” of several bone elements from two extinct animals, the passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius Linnaeus Columbidae) and the harelip sucker (Moxostoma lacerum Jordan and Brayton Catostomidae). Procuring recent comparative reference skeletons these species is extremely difficult. The creation of art…
Shovel Ready
Shovel ready
Villagers and Farmers of the Middle and Upper Ohio River Valley, 11th to 17th Centuries AD
Fort Ancient and Monongahela Tradition villagers often placed their dwellings in circles around plazas. However, relatively few village sites from either tradition have seen broad exposure of their community patterns. Fort Ancient and Monongahela circular villages were designed according to geometric models used to spatially organize both elements of the built environment (architecture and spaces defined by architecture) and village social organi…
Memory within a University Landscape
The development of a GIS for New Deal Archaeology
I have recently launched an effort to create a GIS of all New Deal-funded archaeological investigations conducted in the 48 states that comprised the USA during the Great Depression (Means 2011). This effort was inspired by the persistent notion that New Deal archaeology was largely limited to the southeastern United States, where the generally warmer climate was seen as conducive to the lengthy field seasons that ensured continuous work for the …
Upcoming Conferences
natural and man-made objects who, had he lived longer, would have established the Museum as a grand research laboratory and powerhouse of knowledge deserving approbation, not only from the University, but also from the entire world of science and scholarship
Monongahela Subsistence-settlement Change
The Late Prehistoric (c. A.D. 1050/1100–1635) Monongahela tradition of southwestern Pennsylvania and portions of adjoining states has come to be associated with specific subsistence-settlement traits. These include a heavy dependence on maize-based agriculture, large percentages of villages in upland locales, and use of semisubterranean storage facilities. In the traditional approach, that entails the construction of a series of sequential time p…
The Later Prehistory of Meyersdale, Pennsylvania, and its Surroundings
Publicly-funded archaeological investigations, in the form of work relief programs in the 1930s and compliance excavations in the 1970s and 1990s, generated the data presented in this overview of Late Prehistoric sites in the vicinity of Meyersdale, Pennsylvania. A consideration of information on community patterns, subsistence, and chronology suggested that the adoption and cultivation of maize inspired social and cultural changes that led to th…
Toward a Model of Monongahela Village Community Organization
An ongoing review of the Somerset County Relief Excavations shows that architectural and feature data are integral to modeling Monongahela village community organization. In this paper, I focus on how feature morphology can be used as a tool to analyze Monongahela village community organization. While conducting this study, I encountered and overcame limitations in the field techniques and data recording procedures employed during the relief exca…
Introductory Remarks to Collected Papers from the Session “Making a Future for the Past
Il s'agit d'un appel a communication afin de participer a une session. Les auteurs insistent ici sur l'importance des collections anciennes et de leur conservation. Elles peuvent ainsi contribuer au developpement de nouvelles etudes, soit en realisant de nouveaux travaux sur les objets de collection, soit en utilisant les travaux deja realises comme reference pour aller plus loin dans de nouvelles investigations
Sites on the Margins are not Marginal Archaeology
When faced with a wide range of site types within an area under study, the attention of the archaeologist is often drawn toward larger settlements, such as base camps or villages, where one can reasonably expect a large quantity and diversity of cultural remains. While the role of smaller, limited resource procurement sites in subsistence-settlement systems is usually acknowledged, the sites themselves are seen as uninteresting or insignificant. …
Promoting a More Interactive Public Archaeology
Stewards of the tangible past are increasingly embracing technologies that enable digital preservation of rare and fragile finds. The Virtual Curation Laboratory (VCL) at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) partners with museums, cultural heritage locations, and collections repositories to create three-dimensional (3D) digital models of artifacts from archaeological sites distributed across the globe. In the VCL, undergraduate VCU students bri…
Using Digital 3D Scanning to Create “Artifictions” of the Passenger Pigeon and Harelip Sucker, Two Extinct Species in Eastern North America
The Virtual Curation Laboratory at Virginia Commonwealth University created 3D representations of digital morphological models, termed “artifictions,” of several bone elements from two extinct animals, the passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius Linnaeus Columbidae) and the harelip sucker (Moxostoma lacerum Jordan and Brayton Catostomidae). Procuring recent comparative reference skeletons these species is extremely difficult. The creation of art…
Labouring in the Fields of the Past
New Deal archaeology survey and excavation projects across the lower 48 states exhibit considerable geographic variation in their nature and extent. Part of this variation can be linked to strong regional personalities, while other variation depended on local political acceptance of or resistance to New Deal programs. The nature of the archaeological record itself influenced the amount of New Deal archaeology within a region. These factors are co…
Monongahela Subsistence-settlement Change
The Late Prehistoric (c. A.D. 1050/1100–1635) Monongahela tradition of southwestern Pennsylvania and portions of adjoining states has come to be associated with specific subsistence-settlement traits. These include a heavy dependence on maize-based agriculture, large percentages of villages in upland locales, and use of semisubterranean storage facilities. In the traditional approach, that entails the construction of a series of sequential time p…
The Later Prehistory of Meyersdale, Pennsylvania, and its Surroundings
Publicly-funded archaeological investigations, in the form of work relief programs in the 1930s and compliance excavations in the 1970s and 1990s, generated the data presented in this overview of Late Prehistoric sites in the vicinity of Meyersdale, Pennsylvania. A consideration of information on community patterns, subsistence, and chronology suggested that the adoption and cultivation of maize inspired social and cultural changes that led to th…
Introduction to Geographic and Spatial Approaches in the History of Archaeology
Who studies the historiography of archaeology? Who reads the history of the discipline? Recent years have seen growing interest in the history of archaeology as is reflected in works such as Christenson (1989), Trigger (1989; 2006), Chakrabarti (1988; 2003), Singh (2004), Díaz-Andreu (2007), and special issues in Antiquity (Schlanger 2002) and Complutum (Moro Abadia & Huth 2013). The target audience for these publications is specialists. So what …
Sites on the Margins are not Marginal Archaeology
When faced with a wide range of site types within an area under study, the attention of the archaeologist is often drawn toward larger settlements, such as base camps or villages, where one can reasonably expect a large quantity and diversity of cultural remains. While the role of smaller, limited resource procurement sites in subsistence-settlement systems is usually acknowledged, the sites themselves are seen as uninteresting or insignificant. …
Chapter 7 Start the Presses? John Alden Mason as Mesoamericanist and a Reluctant New Deal Archaeologist in the 1930s
During the 1930s, J. Alden Mason was a curator at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia. He was best known during this time for his work at the site of Piedras Negras in northwestern Guatemala. Yet, the 1930s excavations at Piedras Negras were not published until 2005. This delayed publication prevented other scholars from building on this work. Also, during the 1930s, Mason led lesser-known excavations around the Philadelphia area with federal work re…
A Digital Passport to the Past
As an undergraduate student at Occidental College in Los Angeles in the 1980s, I quickly realized that being a physicist was not how I wanted to spend my few short years on this planet. This meant
Toward a Model of Monongahela Village Community Organization
An ongoing review of the Somerset County Relief Excavations shows that architectural and feature data are integral to modeling Monongahela village community organization. In this paper, I focus on how feature morphology can be used as a tool to analyze Monongahela village community organization. While conducting this study, I encountered and overcame limitations in the field techniques and data recording procedures employed during the relief exca…
Sites on the Margins are not Marginal Archaeology
When faced with a wide range of site types within an area under study, the attention of the archaeologist is often drawn toward larger settlements, such as base camps or villages, where one can reasonably expect a large quantity and diversity of cultural remains. While the role of smaller, limited resource procurement sites in subsistence-settlement systems is usually acknowledged, the sites themselves are seen as uninteresting or insignificant. …
Toward a Model of Monongahela Village Community Organization
An ongoing review of the Somerset County Relief Excavations shows that architectural and feature data are integral to modeling Monongahela village community organization. In this paper, I focus on how feature morphology can be used as a tool to analyze Monongahela village community organization. While conducting this study, I encountered and overcame limitations in the field techniques and data recording procedures employed during the relief exca…
Introductory Remarks to Collected Papers from the Session “Making a Future for the Past
Il s'agit d'un appel a communication afin de participer a une session. Les auteurs insistent ici sur l'importance des collections anciennes et de leur conservation. Elles peuvent ainsi contribuer au developpement de nouvelles etudes, soit en realisant de nouveaux travaux sur les objets de collection, soit en utilisant les travaux deja realises comme reference pour aller plus loin dans de nouvelles investigations
The Later Prehistory of Meyersdale, Pennsylvania, and its Surroundings
Publicly-funded archaeological investigations, in the form of work relief programs in the 1930s and compliance excavations in the 1970s and 1990s, generated the data presented in this overview of Late Prehistoric sites in the vicinity of Meyersdale, Pennsylvania. A consideration of information on community patterns, subsistence, and chronology suggested that the adoption and cultivation of maize inspired social and cultural changes that led to th…
Monongahela Subsistence-settlement Change
The Late Prehistoric (c. A.D. 1050/1100–1635) Monongahela tradition of southwestern Pennsylvania and portions of adjoining states has come to be associated with specific subsistence-settlement traits. These include a heavy dependence on maize-based agriculture, large percentages of villages in upland locales, and use of semisubterranean storage facilities. In the traditional approach, that entails the construction of a series of sequential time p…
Upcoming Conferences
natural and man-made objects who, had he lived longer, would have established the Museum as a grand research laboratory and powerhouse of knowledge deserving approbation, not only from the University, but also from the entire world of science and scholarship
Memory within a University Landscape
The development of a GIS for New Deal Archaeology
I have recently launched an effort to create a GIS of all New Deal-funded archaeological investigations conducted in the 48 states that comprised the USA during the Great Depression (Means 2011). This effort was inspired by the persistent notion that New Deal archaeology was largely limited to the southeastern United States, where the generally warmer climate was seen as conducive to the lengthy field seasons that ensured continuous work for the …
Villagers and Farmers of the Middle and Upper Ohio River Valley, 11th to 17th Centuries AD
Fort Ancient and Monongahela Tradition villagers often placed their dwellings in circles around plazas. However, relatively few village sites from either tradition have seen broad exposure of their community patterns. Fort Ancient and Monongahela circular villages were designed according to geometric models used to spatially organize both elements of the built environment (architecture and spaces defined by architecture) and village social organi…
Shovel Ready
Shovel ready
Promoting a More Interactive Public Archaeology
Stewards of the tangible past are increasingly embracing technologies that enable digital preservation of rare and fragile finds. The Virtual Curation Laboratory (VCL) at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) partners with museums, cultural heritage locations, and collections repositories to create three-dimensional (3D) digital models of artifacts from archaeological sites distributed across the globe. In the VCL, undergraduate VCU students bri…
Introduction to Geographic and Spatial Approaches in the History of Archaeology
Who studies the historiography of archaeology? Who reads the history of the discipline? Recent years have seen growing interest in the history of archaeology as is reflected in works such as Christenson (1989), Trigger (1989; 2006), Chakrabarti (1988; 2003), Singh (2004), Díaz-Andreu (2007), and special issues in Antiquity (Schlanger 2002) and Complutum (Moro Abadia & Huth 2013). The target audience for these publications is specialists. So what …
Labouring in the Fields of the Past
New Deal archaeology survey and excavation projects across the lower 48 states exhibit considerable geographic variation in their nature and extent. Part of this variation can be linked to strong regional personalities, while other variation depended on local political acceptance of or resistance to New Deal programs. The nature of the archaeological record itself influenced the amount of New Deal archaeology within a region. These factors are co…
Using Digital 3D Scanning to Create “Artifictions” of the Passenger Pigeon and Harelip Sucker, Two Extinct Species in Eastern North America
The Virtual Curation Laboratory at Virginia Commonwealth University created 3D representations of digital morphological models, termed “artifictions,” of several bone elements from two extinct animals, the passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius Linnaeus Columbidae) and the harelip sucker (Moxostoma lacerum Jordan and Brayton Catostomidae). Procuring recent comparative reference skeletons these species is extremely difficult. The creation of art…
A Digital Passport to the Past
As an undergraduate student at Occidental College in Los Angeles in the 1980s, I quickly realized that being a physicist was not how I wanted to spend my few short years on this planet. This meant
Relic Hunters
Misadventures in Archaeology
Misadventures in Archaeology: The Life and Career of Charles Conrad Abbott reviewed by Dr. Bernard K. Means
Teaching through Technology
Chapter 7 Start the Presses? John Alden Mason as Mesoamericanist and a Reluctant New Deal Archaeologist in the 1930s
During the 1930s, J. Alden Mason was a curator at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia. He was best known during this time for his work at the site of Piedras Negras in northwestern Guatemala. Yet, the 1930s excavations at Piedras Negras were not published until 2005. This delayed publication prevented other scholars from building on this work. Also, during the 1930s, Mason led lesser-known excavations around the Philadelphia area with federal work re…
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