Robert W Neuman
Biographic Data
| ID | 100398 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert W Neuman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert W |
| FAMILY NAME | Neuman |
| SIGNATURE | NEUMAN R W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Smithsonian Institution Lincoln, Nebraska |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
North American Indian Tent Encampments: Tipi Rings, Wooden Wall Anchors, and Windbreaks
Tent encampments of the North American Plains Indians have been studied and reported upon by a host of observers since at least the middle of the nineteenth century. Much of the pertinent archaeological literature addresses what is commonly called “Tipi Rings.” This paper discusses several other ethnological components that go hand in hand with tipi rings but existed in more sheltered locations awayfrom the winter winds, namely timbers to anchor …
Methodology: Help! For the Small Museum: A Handbook of Exhibit Ideas and Methods. Arminta Neal
Additional Annotated References: An Archeological Bibliography of the Central and Northern Great Plains Prior to 1930
This addendum contains 23 entrees dating between 1859 and 1927 relative to sites in Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, North Dakota, Wyoming, and the provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The first section of this bibliography was published in Volume 7, Number 15, of Plains Anthropologist, 1962, and contained 302 references
General and Ethnology: The Current Status of Anthropological Research in the Great Basin: 1964. W arren L. d ‘A zevedo , W ilbur A. D avis , D on D. F owler , and W ayne S uttles , eds
Atlatl Weights from Certain Sites on the Northern and Central Great Plains
This paper begins with a discussion concerning the development of the term 'atlatl weight' in archaeological literature. It then proceeds to analyze in detail data relative to 60 atlatl weights from 39 locations on the Plains area of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Iowa. Although most of the specimens are surface finds, a number are from systematically excavated, radiocarbon-dat…
Radiocarbon-Dated Archaeological Remains on the Northern and Central Great Plains
This paper consolidates and summarizes the mass of radiocarbon determinations that has accumulated in various books, journals, newsletters, and manuscripts between 1951 and the spring of 1965. The dates are derived from Paleo-Indian, Archaic, Early Ceramic, and Late Prehistoric occupations in the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan and the Plains areas of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Iow…
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Twenty-Third Plains Conference, 1965
The W.B. Nickerson Survey and Excavations, 1912-15, of the Southern Manitoba Mounds Region
Prehistoric Artifacts From The Little Nemaha River Drainage, Otoe County, Nebraska
The article describes certain stream deposited pottery sherds and projectile points found in south eastern Nebraska. Some of the sherds are attributable to the Sterns Creek complex and to the more general category of the Early Ceramic Period on the Central Plains. Most of the projectile points suggest preceramic affinities including the Logan Creek and Angostura complexes
Projectile Points From Preceramic Occupations Near Fort Thompson, South Dakota: A Preliminary Report
The article describes in detail and illustrates 58 projectile points excavated from five sites within a six mile radius near the Big Bend of the Missouri River.Geological interpretations, as well as typological relationships to previously reported points outside of the region, indicate a local human prehistory of at least 8, 000 years
Check-Stamped Pottery on the Northern and Central Great Plains
Check-stamped potsherds have been found at 50 sites on the Plains, and a check-stamped paddle of bone is reported from one site. These sites are found in a large area that extends from central Kansas northward into Saskatchewan and from the foothills of the Rocky Mountains to eastern North Dakota. The sites have been attributed by various writers to the Blackfoot, Crow, Hidatsa, Cree, Mandan, Pawnee, Ponca, Wichita, and Kansa. In most of these si…
A Green Pigment from North Dakota Burial Mounds
A clayey, green pigment was found in association with human interments in 3 mounds at the Boundary Mound site (32S11) on the Missouri River 16 miles downstream from Fort Yates, North Dakota.Samples submitted to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. were identified by microscopic and chemical analysis as Greensand, a sedimentary deposit containing greenish grains of glauconite. The nearest present day exposure appears to be just south of Wess…
An Archaeological Bibliography: The Central and Northern Great Plains Prior to 1930
The bibliography contains 302 references to archaeological phenomena and investigations in the northern sector of the Great Plains Province and spans the period between 1840 and 1930. Much of the bibliography is annotated
Plains Facts: A Historical Note on Tree-Ring Dating
A report of one of the first attempts to date an archaeological site in the United States by dendrochronological methods. Dr. Manesseh Cutler in 1888 attempted to establish the antiquity of the Marietta, Ohio earthworks by dating the largest trees which covered them. On the largest sound trees he counted from 300 to 400 concentric circles with the maximum age of 463 years. He concluded the works to have been deserted more than 900 years ago and i…
Historical Archaeology and Ethnology
The Olson Mound (39BF223) in Buffalo County, South Dakota
A low, dome-shaped, earthern tumulus was excavated during the summer of 1957. The mound contained poorly preserved remains of a secondary burial in a shallow, sub-mound pit. Three individuals were represented in the burial.Artifactual associations were sparse.They consisted of one simplestamped body sherd, 2 end scrapers,4 knives; 1 drill and 3 mealing stone fragments.Similarities between this mound and other sites in the vicinity are discussed. …
Salvage Archaeology at a Site Near Fort Thompson. South Dakota
Construction of dams and reservoirs along the Missouri River has resulted in an accelerated program of archaeological field-work. Many sites have been surveyed, numerous others tested, and a lesser number extensively excavated. Surveys and test excavations will add to previously gathered data in terms of the geographical distribution of diagnostic artifacts, speculative routes of migration and cultural diffusion. The minutiae from the tested site…
Porcupine Quill Flatteners from Central United States
Quill flatteners from Wisconsin, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming, which are attributed to Menominee, Sioux, Arikara, Blackfeet, and Arapaho, are described in four groups. Iron, S-shaped flatteners date from the period of European contact and trade, and two types of antler and horn flatteners are believed to have been made during the same time period. The only prehistoric or archaeological specimens are in the fourth group …
The Truman Mound Site, Big Bend Reservoir Area, South Dakota
Six dome-shaped, late Woodland burial mounds were excavated at this site (39BF224). Primary and secondary interments were found; either or both types may be present in a single mound. Primary burials were flexed and always found in deep pits. Each pit contained a single individual and burial offerings. Secondary interments of one or more individuals on the mound floor are represented by scattered masses of bone and also by a compact bundle burial…
Radiocarbon-Dated Archaeological Remains on the Northern and Central Great Plains
This paper consolidates and summarizes the mass of radiocarbon determinations that has accumulated in various books, journals, newsletters, and manuscripts between 1951 and the spring of 1965. The dates are derived from Paleo-Indian, Archaic, Early Ceramic, and Late Prehistoric occupations in the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan and the Plains areas of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Iow…
The Truman Mound Site, Big Bend Reservoir Area, South Dakota
Six dome-shaped, late Woodland burial mounds were excavated at this site (39BF224). Primary and secondary interments were found; either or both types may be present in a single mound. Primary burials were flexed and always found in deep pits. Each pit contained a single individual and burial offerings. Secondary interments of one or more individuals on the mound floor are represented by scattered masses of bone and also by a compact bundle burial…
Atlatl Weights from Certain Sites on the Northern and Central Great Plains
This paper begins with a discussion concerning the development of the term 'atlatl weight' in archaeological literature. It then proceeds to analyze in detail data relative to 60 atlatl weights from 39 locations on the Plains area of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Iowa. Although most of the specimens are surface finds, a number are from systematically excavated, radiocarbon-dat…
Projectile Points From Preceramic Occupations Near Fort Thompson, South Dakota: A Preliminary Report
The article describes in detail and illustrates 58 projectile points excavated from five sites within a six mile radius near the Big Bend of the Missouri River.Geological interpretations, as well as typological relationships to previously reported points outside of the region, indicate a local human prehistory of at least 8, 000 years
Check-Stamped Pottery on the Northern and Central Great Plains
Check-stamped potsherds have been found at 50 sites on the Plains, and a check-stamped paddle of bone is reported from one site. These sites are found in a large area that extends from central Kansas northward into Saskatchewan and from the foothills of the Rocky Mountains to eastern North Dakota. The sites have been attributed by various writers to the Blackfoot, Crow, Hidatsa, Cree, Mandan, Pawnee, Ponca, Wichita, and Kansa. In most of these si…
Salvage Archaeology at a Site Near Fort Thompson. South Dakota
Construction of dams and reservoirs along the Missouri River has resulted in an accelerated program of archaeological field-work. Many sites have been surveyed, numerous others tested, and a lesser number extensively excavated. Surveys and test excavations will add to previously gathered data in terms of the geographical distribution of diagnostic artifacts, speculative routes of migration and cultural diffusion. The minutiae from the tested site…
Porcupine Quill Flatteners from Central United States
Quill flatteners from Wisconsin, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming, which are attributed to Menominee, Sioux, Arikara, Blackfeet, and Arapaho, are described in four groups. Iron, S-shaped flatteners date from the period of European contact and trade, and two types of antler and horn flatteners are believed to have been made during the same time period. The only prehistoric or archaeological specimens are in the fourth group …
The Truman Mound Site, Big Bend Reservoir Area, South Dakota
Six dome-shaped, late Woodland burial mounds were excavated at this site (39BF224). Primary and secondary interments were found; either or both types may be present in a single mound. Primary burials were flexed and always found in deep pits. Each pit contained a single individual and burial offerings. Secondary interments of one or more individuals on the mound floor are represented by scattered masses of bone and also by a compact bundle burial…
The Olson Mound (39BF223) in Buffalo County, South Dakota
A low, dome-shaped, earthern tumulus was excavated during the summer of 1957. The mound contained poorly preserved remains of a secondary burial in a shallow, sub-mound pit. Three individuals were represented in the burial.Artifactual associations were sparse.They consisted of one simplestamped body sherd, 2 end scrapers,4 knives; 1 drill and 3 mealing stone fragments.Similarities between this mound and other sites in the vicinity are discussed. …
Salvage Archaeology at a Site Near Fort Thompson. South Dakota
Construction of dams and reservoirs along the Missouri River has resulted in an accelerated program of archaeological field-work. Many sites have been surveyed, numerous others tested, and a lesser number extensively excavated. Surveys and test excavations will add to previously gathered data in terms of the geographical distribution of diagnostic artifacts, speculative routes of migration and cultural diffusion. The minutiae from the tested site…
A Green Pigment from North Dakota Burial Mounds
A clayey, green pigment was found in association with human interments in 3 mounds at the Boundary Mound site (32S11) on the Missouri River 16 miles downstream from Fort Yates, North Dakota.Samples submitted to the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. were identified by microscopic and chemical analysis as Greensand, a sedimentary deposit containing greenish grains of glauconite. The nearest present day exposure appears to be just south of Wess…
An Archaeological Bibliography: The Central and Northern Great Plains Prior to 1930
The bibliography contains 302 references to archaeological phenomena and investigations in the northern sector of the Great Plains Province and spans the period between 1840 and 1930. Much of the bibliography is annotated
Plains Facts: A Historical Note on Tree-Ring Dating
A report of one of the first attempts to date an archaeological site in the United States by dendrochronological methods. Dr. Manesseh Cutler in 1888 attempted to establish the antiquity of the Marietta, Ohio earthworks by dating the largest trees which covered them. On the largest sound trees he counted from 300 to 400 concentric circles with the maximum age of 463 years. He concluded the works to have been deserted more than 900 years ago and i…
Historical Archaeology and Ethnology
Check-Stamped Pottery on the Northern and Central Great Plains
Check-stamped potsherds have been found at 50 sites on the Plains, and a check-stamped paddle of bone is reported from one site. These sites are found in a large area that extends from central Kansas northward into Saskatchewan and from the foothills of the Rocky Mountains to eastern North Dakota. The sites have been attributed by various writers to the Blackfoot, Crow, Hidatsa, Cree, Mandan, Pawnee, Ponca, Wichita, and Kansa. In most of these si…
Prehistoric Artifacts From The Little Nemaha River Drainage, Otoe County, Nebraska
The article describes certain stream deposited pottery sherds and projectile points found in south eastern Nebraska. Some of the sherds are attributable to the Sterns Creek complex and to the more general category of the Early Ceramic Period on the Central Plains. Most of the projectile points suggest preceramic affinities including the Logan Creek and Angostura complexes
Projectile Points From Preceramic Occupations Near Fort Thompson, South Dakota: A Preliminary Report
The article describes in detail and illustrates 58 projectile points excavated from five sites within a six mile radius near the Big Bend of the Missouri River.Geological interpretations, as well as typological relationships to previously reported points outside of the region, indicate a local human prehistory of at least 8, 000 years
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Twenty-Third Plains Conference, 1965
The W.B. Nickerson Survey and Excavations, 1912-15, of the Southern Manitoba Mounds Region
Atlatl Weights from Certain Sites on the Northern and Central Great Plains
This paper begins with a discussion concerning the development of the term 'atlatl weight' in archaeological literature. It then proceeds to analyze in detail data relative to 60 atlatl weights from 39 locations on the Plains area of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Iowa. Although most of the specimens are surface finds, a number are from systematically excavated, radiocarbon-dat…
Radiocarbon-Dated Archaeological Remains on the Northern and Central Great Plains
This paper consolidates and summarizes the mass of radiocarbon determinations that has accumulated in various books, journals, newsletters, and manuscripts between 1951 and the spring of 1965. The dates are derived from Paleo-Indian, Archaic, Early Ceramic, and Late Prehistoric occupations in the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan and the Plains areas of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Iow…
Additional Annotated References: An Archeological Bibliography of the Central and Northern Great Plains Prior to 1930
This addendum contains 23 entrees dating between 1859 and 1927 relative to sites in Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, North Dakota, Wyoming, and the provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The first section of this bibliography was published in Volume 7, Number 15, of Plains Anthropologist, 1962, and contained 302 references
General and Ethnology: The Current Status of Anthropological Research in the Great Basin: 1964. W arren L. d ‘A zevedo , W ilbur A. D avis , D on D. F owler , and W ayne S uttles , eds
Methodology: Help! For the Small Museum: A Handbook of Exhibit Ideas and Methods. Arminta Neal
North American Indian Tent Encampments: Tipi Rings, Wooden Wall Anchors, and Windbreaks
Tent encampments of the North American Plains Indians have been studied and reported upon by a host of observers since at least the middle of the nineteenth century. Much of the pertinent archaeological literature addresses what is commonly called “Tipi Rings.” This paper discusses several other ethnological components that go hand in hand with tipi rings but existed in more sheltered locations awayfrom the winter winds, namely timbers to anchor …
Archaeology (17 works) · Geography (17 works) · Geology (11 works) · Geology (11 works) · History (11 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (10 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (8 works) · Prehistory (5 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (4 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (4 works)