Thomas P Myers
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 92704 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Thomas P Myers |
| NOMBRES | Thomas P |
| APELLIDO | Myers |
| FIRMA | MYERS T P |
| AFILIACIONES | New York State Museum |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 499 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1972 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Dark Earth in the Upper Amazon
Artifacts and society in Amazonia
Palaeoindian subsistence behaviour at the Clary Ranch site, Nebraska, USA
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La cerámica manao y el papel de los Manao en la Amazonia
Este artigo descreve a cerâmica Manao coletada por Johann Natterer em 1830 ou 1831. Este conjunto de peças cerâmicas está formado por jarras e tigelas decoradas com incisões largas e pintura aplicada após a cocção. Comparações com a cerâmica contemporânea do rio Negro e da Amazônia superior indicam que as formas deste vasilhame têm relações estreitas com a cerâmica baniwa do rio Içana, mesmo que a pintura desta última seja aplicada antes da cocçã…
Paleoindian Occupation of the Eastern Sand Hills
Paleoindian points from the eastern Nebraska Sand Hills are made of raw materials originating hundreds of miles away to the west instead of much closer sources in eastern Nebraska. This pattern suggests a western origin for these earliest occupants of east central Nebraska, probably reflecting an eastward expansion of the grasslands and the associated bison hunting economy in Pre-Boreal times. It is suggested that the western flint resource areas…
Agricultural limitations of the Amazon in theory and practice
The historical roots of the theory that agricultural potential limits cultural development in the Amazon are examined. It is demonstrated that the agricultural limitations theory is Julian Steward's resolution of the contrasting visions of Paul Kirchoff and Alfred Métraux. While Kirchoff relied upon the earliest observers of Circum-Caribbean cultures, Métraux ignored comparable testimony from the Amazon. Reexamination of the earliest observations…
The Ethics of Collecting Cultural Property
Haffenreffer Subarctic Collection
Barbara A. Hail and Kate C. Duncan 1989 Out of the North: Hie Subarctic Collection of the Hafienreifer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University. (With contributions by William A. Tracy and June Helm.) Distributed by Brown University and the University of Washington Press. 501 pp., 16 color plates, 268 black‐and‐white illustrations, bibliography,. 1/2. 11”, ISBN 0‐912089‐07‐5, $25 (soft cover). University of Washington Press, PO. Box 50096, Seattl…
Mesquakie Art
Gaylor Torrence and Robert Hobbs 1989 Art of the Red Earth People: The Mesquakle of Iowa. The University of Iowa Museum of Art. Distributed by the University of Washington Press. 144 pp., 33 color plates, 66 black‐and‐white illustrations, bibliography, 8‐1/2′′. 11′′, ISBN 0‐295‐96831‐1 (cloth: $50), 0‐295‐96832‐X (paper: $24.95). University of Washington Press, P.O. Box 50096, Seattle, WA 98145‐5096
Arctic Travels and Collections of the Yellow Earl
Shepard Krech III. 1989. Victorian Earl in the Arctic: The Travels and Collections of the Fifth Earl of Lonsdale, 1888‐1889. 216 pp.,. color plates, 150 b&w illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 0‐ 295‐96882‐6. $35.00 (hard cover). University of Washington Press, P.O. Box 50096, Seattle, Washington 98145
Indian Trade Ornaments
James W. VanStone 1989 Indian Trade Ornaments in the Collections of the Field Museum of Natural History. Ficldiana Anthropology, New Series No. 13. 40 pp. 32 illustrations. $11
Archaeological Insights into the Custer Battle
The Simms Collection of Southwestern Chippewa Material Culture
James W. VanStone 1988 The Simms Collection of Southwestern Chippewa Material Culture. Fieldiana, Anthropology, New Series, No. 11. 64 pages, 48 illustrations
Efecto de las pestes sobre las poblaciones de la Amazonía Alta
Hay un desacuerdo bastante serio entre el carácter y complejidad de las culturas amazónicas del siglo XVI y las existentes en el siglo XIX. Desgraciadamente, las observaciones de los científicos del siglo XIX nos han servido de modelo de las culturas indígenas selváticas, y por eso hemos tenido un entendimiento falso de la dimensión y organización de las culturas indígenas de la Amazonía. La diferencia es de tal magnitud, que no se pueden conside…
"Identical" Designs On Three Bora Artifacts
A wooden mask and a gourd rattle were among the artifacts collected in a Peruvian Bora community in 1982. In order to preserve the design, the vendor of the mask had his wife copy the design on a new gourd rattle in my presence. The designs on all three objects were said to be "identical." However, examination of the designs suggests that they are quite dissimilar, at least in a western sense. Several points of interest arise. First, the mask was…
An Examination of Central Plains Moccasins
The thesis of this paper is that ethnographic museum collections can provide important anthropological insights even though the collections themselves may be poorly documented. As a test case, nearly 250 pairs of hardsoled central plains moccasins from the collections of the University of Nebraska State Museum (UNSM) and the Nebraska State Historical Society (NSHS) were examined. This examination revealed 1) that more than half of the moccasins h…
Staple Finance, Wealth Finance, and Storage in the Inka Political Economy [and Comments and Reply]
The development of the regionally integrated institutions of an expanding state society is predicated on the growth of systems of economic support. Both expansion of existing systems of finance and the development of alternative systems of revenue, such as tribute, administered exchange, and centralized taxation, may be of central importance to the state political economy. This paper examines the reorganization of the economic systems of the Inka…
Archaeological Evidence From Achual Tipishca, Lower Huallaga River, Peru
In Defense of Principles
Meserve Points
In a recent study of the Dalton horizon, Goodyear (1982) suggested that Meserve points were reworked from lanceolate forms and hence were not pertinent to the Dalton horizon. We believe that he is mistaken in this interpretation. In our view, Meserve points reflect the westernmost extension of the Dalton horizon. The early dates now assigned to that horizon force a reexamination of the role of Meserve peoples on the Plains
Redes de intercambio tempranas en lo Hoya Amazónica
La única distribución diferencial de los recursos naturales entre la varzea y la tierra firme en la cuenca del Amazonas no puede explicar las extensas redes comerciales a lo largo del río principal que operaban en el momento de la conquista española de la zona. El autor examina las vastas redes comerciales de artículos comerciales específicos como hachas de piedra, piedra verde, cobre y cerámica. El autor también analiza las referencias etnohistó…
Imitation Chancay Dolls and the Antiquities Trade
Archaeology
Spiral Fractures and Bone Pseudotools at Paleontological Sites
Spiral ('green bone') breakage has been suggested as an indicator of human activity by some workers. Our examination of broken ungulate long bones from six paleontological localities in western Nebraska, however, shows that such fractures commonly occurred in the Miocene and Pliocene, long before the advent of man in North America. Pseudotools also occur frequently in these sites. We postulate that spiral breakage, including the production of pse…
On the Argument From Ceramics to History
The assumption that major changes in pottery closely reflect change in other areas of culture has been widely accepted by prehistorians, but it has seldom been tested against independent historical or ethnographic evidence. It is here suggested, on the basis of dated pottery types and of independently dated historical developments, that there is not necessarily a close connection between the two. The evidence for this conclusion is derived from h…
Staple Finance, Wealth Finance, and Storage in the Inka Political Economy [and Comments and Reply]
The development of the regionally integrated institutions of an expanding state society is predicated on the growth of systems of economic support. Both expansion of existing systems of finance and the development of alternative systems of revenue, such as tribute, administered exchange, and centralized taxation, may be of central importance to the state political economy. This paper examines the reorganization of the economic systems of the Inka…
Spiral Fractures and Bone Pseudotools at Paleontological Sites
Spiral ('green bone') breakage has been suggested as an indicator of human activity by some workers. Our examination of broken ungulate long bones from six paleontological localities in western Nebraska, however, shows that such fractures commonly occurred in the Miocene and Pliocene, long before the advent of man in North America. Pseudotools also occur frequently in these sites. We postulate that spiral breakage, including the production of pse…
Ceramic Ecology of the Ayacucho Basin, Peru
The paper examines some of the interrelationships of environment and ceramic specialization in the area around the village of Quinua, Department of Ayacucho,Peru. The study reveals that agricultural land dependent on rainfall provides a significant limiting factor in the development of full-time ceramic specialization. Furthermore, the complex series of Quinua ceramic styles depends upon a diverse set of ceramic resources which are mined nearby i…
Spanish Contacts and Social Change on the Ucayali River, Peru
Archaeological evidence from the Ucay ali River suggests that large communities, probably with a complex social organization, were character- istic throughout the prehistoric period. In contrast, Steward and M6traux suggest that large communities were the unstable product of the missionary period. Re-examination of the ethnohistoric sources indicates that large, stable communities were in fact characteristic of the mainstream Ucayali tribes at th…
On the Argument From Ceramics to History
The assumption that major changes in pottery closely reflect change in other areas of culture has been widely accepted by prehistorians, but it has seldom been tested against independent historical or ethnographic evidence. It is here suggested, on the basis of dated pottery types and of independently dated historical developments, that there is not necessarily a close connection between the two. The evidence for this conclusion is derived from h…
Agricultural limitations of the Amazon in theory and practice
The historical roots of the theory that agricultural potential limits cultural development in the Amazon are examined. It is demonstrated that the agricultural limitations theory is Julian Steward's resolution of the contrasting visions of Paul Kirchoff and Alfred Métraux. While Kirchoff relied upon the earliest observers of Circum-Caribbean cultures, Métraux ignored comparable testimony from the Amazon. Reexamination of the earliest observations…
Efecto de las pestes sobre las poblaciones de la Amazonía Alta
Hay un desacuerdo bastante serio entre el carácter y complejidad de las culturas amazónicas del siglo XVI y las existentes en el siglo XIX. Desgraciadamente, las observaciones de los científicos del siglo XIX nos han servido de modelo de las culturas indígenas selváticas, y por eso hemos tenido un entendimiento falso de la dimensión y organización de las culturas indígenas de la Amazonía. La diferencia es de tal magnitud, que no se pueden conside…
Isolation and ceramic change
Detailed archaeological research in the tropical rain forests of eastern Peru suggests that the Pacacocha Tradition is ancestral to the ceramics of modern Panoan tribes. However, seriation of prehistoric and modern ceramic complexes would yield an erroneous reconstruction of regional culture history. The source of error lies in the fact that the modern pottery of interfluvial tribes is little different from the pottery manufactured before A.D. 80…
Archaeological Insights into the Custer Battle
Defended Territories and No-man's-lands
Formative Period Occupations in the Highlands of Northern Ecuador
Valdivia-related ceramics found near Lake San Pablo (Imbabura) demonstrate that this area was in contact with coastal Ecuador prior to 2000 B.C. The interaction between the coast and highlands is attributed to the existence of trade routes which probably originated in preceramic times. It is suggested that coca was among the scarce resources which attracted trade to the northern highlands
Palaeoindian subsistence behaviour at the Clary Ranch site, Nebraska, USA
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In Defense of Principles
Redes de intercambio tempranas en lo Hoya Amazónica
La única distribución diferencial de los recursos naturales entre la varzea y la tierra firme en la cuenca del Amazonas no puede explicar las extensas redes comerciales a lo largo del río principal que operaban en el momento de la conquista española de la zona. El autor examina las vastas redes comerciales de artículos comerciales específicos como hachas de piedra, piedra verde, cobre y cerámica. El autor también analiza las referencias etnohistó…
Evidence of Prehistoric Irrigation in Northern Ecuador
Paleoindian Occupation of the Eastern Sand Hills
Paleoindian points from the eastern Nebraska Sand Hills are made of raw materials originating hundreds of miles away to the west instead of much closer sources in eastern Nebraska. This pattern suggests a western origin for these earliest occupants of east central Nebraska, probably reflecting an eastward expansion of the grasslands and the associated bison hunting economy in Pre-Boreal times. It is suggested that the western flint resource areas…
An Examination of Central Plains Moccasins
The thesis of this paper is that ethnographic museum collections can provide important anthropological insights even though the collections themselves may be poorly documented. As a test case, nearly 250 pairs of hardsoled central plains moccasins from the collections of the University of Nebraska State Museum (UNSM) and the Nebraska State Historical Society (NSHS) were examined. This examination revealed 1) that more than half of the moccasins h…
Meserve Points
In a recent study of the Dalton horizon, Goodyear (1982) suggested that Meserve points were reworked from lanceolate forms and hence were not pertinent to the Dalton horizon. We believe that he is mistaken in this interpretation. In our view, Meserve points reflect the westernmost extension of the Dalton horizon. The early dates now assigned to that horizon force a reexamination of the role of Meserve peoples on the Plains
Evidence of Prehistoric Irrigation in Northern Ecuador
Field evidence for the existence of irrigation at a late pre-Inca site in northern Ecuador is examined. The implications of irrigation agriculture are examined with respect to the probable level of socio-political complexity. It is concluded that the pre-Inca societies of northern Ecuador were more stable and more clearly stratified than had been suspected previously. They were, therefore, an attractive addition to the Inca Empire which was unwil…
La Arqueología de Santa Ana, Huila
An Archaeological Survey of the Lower Aguaytía River, Eastern Peru
An Archaeological Survey of the Lower Aguaytía River, Eastern Peru
A Seasonal Campsite in the Peruvian Montana
The rapid decomposition of organic remains under tropical forest conditions forces the archaeologist to rely entirely upon soil characteristics, indestructible artifacts, and refuse deposition patterns for his cultural interpretations. Such evidence is used to identify a unifunctional turtle harvesting encampment on the lower Aguatia River in eastern Peru
Archeology
Evidence of Prehistoric Irrigation in Northern Ecuador
Field evidence for the existence of irrigation at a late pre-Inca site in northern Ecuador is examined. The implications of irrigation agriculture are examined with respect to the probable level of socio-political complexity. It is concluded that the pre-Inca societies of northern Ecuador were more stable and more clearly stratified than had been suspected previously. They were, therefore, an attractive addition to the Inca Empire which was unwil…
Evidence of Prehistoric Irrigation in Northern Ecuador
Resultados preliminares de las investigaciones arqueológicas de la Universidad de Indiana en Colombia, 1972
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La Arqueología de Santa Ana, Huila
Spanish Contacts and Social Change on the Ucayali River, Peru
Archaeological evidence from the Ucay ali River suggests that large communities, probably with a complex social organization, were character- istic throughout the prehistoric period. In contrast, Steward and M6traux suggest that large communities were the unstable product of the missionary period. Re-examination of the ethnohistoric sources indicates that large, stable communities were in fact characteristic of the mainstream Ucayali tribes at th…
Ceramic Ecology of the Ayacucho Basin, Peru
The paper examines some of the interrelationships of environment and ceramic specialization in the area around the village of Quinua, Department of Ayacucho,Peru. The study reveals that agricultural land dependent on rainfall provides a significant limiting factor in the development of full-time ceramic specialization. Furthermore, the complex series of Quinua ceramic styles depends upon a diverse set of ceramic resources which are mined nearby i…
Current Research
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Mat Impressed Pottery From Yarinacocha, Peru
(1976). MAT IMPRESSED POTTERY FROM YARINACOCHA, PERU. Nawpa Pacha: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 61-67
Archaeology
Fluted Points from the Sulphur Springs Valley, Cochise County, Arizona
Three obsidian fluted points from southeastern Arizona are described. The use of Folsom fluting technology suggests that these points were manufactured by a regional variant of Folsom culture
Isolation and ceramic change
Detailed archaeological research in the tropical rain forests of eastern Peru suggests that the Pacacocha Tradition is ancestral to the ceramics of modern Panoan tribes. However, seriation of prehistoric and modern ceramic complexes would yield an erroneous reconstruction of regional culture history. The source of error lies in the fact that the modern pottery of interfluvial tribes is little different from the pottery manufactured before A.D. 80…
Formative Period Occupations in the Highlands of Northern Ecuador
Valdivia-related ceramics found near Lake San Pablo (Imbabura) demonstrate that this area was in contact with coastal Ecuador prior to 2000 B.C. The interaction between the coast and highlands is attributed to the existence of trade routes which probably originated in preceramic times. It is suggested that coca was among the scarce resources which attracted trade to the northern highlands
Defended Territories and No-man's-lands
Formative Period Occupations in the Highlands of Northern Ecuador
Athens' attack is based upon the fact that I did not cite an unpublished manuscript in my possession. In fact, the paper has little bearing upon the temporal argument. The radiocarbon dates which it contains should not be applied to the material in question. However, the paper does contain information which supports my hypothesis of contacts between the Coast and the Highlands. Such contacts help to account for the ceramic similarities between th…
On the Argument From Ceramics to History
The assumption that major changes in pottery closely reflect change in other areas of culture has been widely accepted by prehistorians, but it has seldom been tested against independent historical or ethnographic evidence. It is here suggested, on the basis of dated pottery types and of independently dated historical developments, that there is not necessarily a close connection between the two. The evidence for this conclusion is derived from h…
Spiral Fractures and Bone Pseudotools at Paleontological Sites
Spiral ('green bone') breakage has been suggested as an indicator of human activity by some workers. Our examination of broken ungulate long bones from six paleontological localities in western Nebraska, however, shows that such fractures commonly occurred in the Miocene and Pliocene, long before the advent of man in North America. Pseudotools also occur frequently in these sites. We postulate that spiral breakage, including the production of pse…
Archaeology
Imitation Chancay Dolls and the Antiquities Trade
Meserve Points
In a recent study of the Dalton horizon, Goodyear (1982) suggested that Meserve points were reworked from lanceolate forms and hence were not pertinent to the Dalton horizon. We believe that he is mistaken in this interpretation. In our view, Meserve points reflect the westernmost extension of the Dalton horizon. The early dates now assigned to that horizon force a reexamination of the role of Meserve peoples on the Plains
Redes de intercambio tempranas en lo Hoya Amazónica
La única distribución diferencial de los recursos naturales entre la varzea y la tierra firme en la cuenca del Amazonas no puede explicar las extensas redes comerciales a lo largo del río principal que operaban en el momento de la conquista española de la zona. El autor examina las vastas redes comerciales de artículos comerciales específicos como hachas de piedra, piedra verde, cobre y cerámica. El autor también analiza las referencias etnohistó…
Archaeological Evidence From Achual Tipishca, Lower Huallaga River, Peru
In Defense of Principles
Archaeology (25 obras) · Geography (24 obras) · History (19 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (15 obras) · Computer Science (12 obras) · History (12 obras) · Art (10 obras) · Ecology (8 obras) · Geology (8 obras) · Library science (8 obras)