Richard I Ford
Biographic Data
| ID | 112117 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard I Ford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard I |
| FAMILY NAME | Ford |
| SIGNATURE | FORD R I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Sacred springs of the Tewa Pueblos, New Mexico
In the Tewa Pueblos, water is life. The Tewa were created under a spring in southern Colorado and they emerged from there with instructions for living from their ceremonial White and Blue Corn Mothers. The Corn Mothers created sodalities to address the natural and social problems the Tewa were having in their new world. The last two social forms they created were the Scalp Society and the Women’s Society that worked together to feed and care for …
Douglas Wright Schwartz (July 29, 1929-June 29, 2016)
The Distinguished Ethnobiologist Award Address: Dick in Wonderland: Adventures of an Ethnobiologist
I am most grateful to the Society of Ethnobiology for presenting me with its first Distinguished Ethnobiologist Award. Naturally, the recipient questions if he is deserving of such an honor when there are so many others whose contributions are equally or more meritorious. This new award, I am certain, will honor them as they become historically recognized contributors to the dynamic field of Ethnobiology. As I prepared this acceptance speech, I r…
Foragers and Farmers in the Northern Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico
The dispersal of early agriculture across the American Southwest occurred quite rapidly. However, we do not currently understand intraregional variation in respect to the exact timing, context, and nature of early maize agriculture. It appears that maize was integrated into local foraging economies, being cultivated in both lowland and upland contexts within the northern Rio Grande Valley. The period leading to the dependence on this cultigen was…
Sangre De Cristo Micaceous Clays: Geochemical Indices for Source and Raw Material Distribution, Past and Present
Archaeological research has shown that northern Rio Grande potters have used micaceous clays in the production of cooking, serving, and ritual vessels for more than 700 years, yet little is known about the raw material sources used to make these remarkable wares. Recent survey with traditional potters reveals the locations of micaceous clay deposits and the criteria used to select clays for pottery manufacturing. Instmmental neutron activation an…
The Late Archaic across the Borderlands: From Foraging to Farming
Why and when human societies shifted from nomadic hunting and gathering to settled agriculture engages the interest of scholars around the world. One of the most fruitful areas in which to study this issue is the North American Southwest, where Late Archaic inhabitants of the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts of Mexico, Arizona, and New Mexico turned to farming while their counterparts in Trans-Pecos and South Texas continued to forage. By investiga…
James Bennett Griffin 1905-97
Society for Economic Botany: President’s Report May 28, 1996
Prehistoric Food Production in North America
The Ethnographic American Southwest: A Source Book--Southwestern Society in Myth, Clan, and Kinship
Prehistoric Food Production in North America
As Richard I. Ford explains in his preface to this volume, the 1980s saw an "explosive expansion of our knowledge about the variety of cultivated and domesticated plants and their history in aboriginal America." This collection presents research on prehistoric food production from Ford, Patty Jo Watson, Frances B. King, C. Wesley Cowan, Paul E. Minnis, and others.
Studying Material Culture. A Review Article
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Anthropological perspective of ethnobotany in the Greater Southwest
Volney Hurt Jones, 1903–1982
Geraniums for the Iroquois: A Field Guide to American Indian Medicinal Plants
Archaeology: Paleonutrition: Method and Theory in Prehistoric Foodways . Elizabeth S. Wing and Antoinette B. Brown
Aaa Membership Campaign Supported
Origins of African Plant Domestication. Jack R. Harlan, Jan M. J. de Wet , and Ann B. L. Stemler
Physical Anthropology: Ecological Anthropology . Donald L. Hardesty
Unesco convention needs support
Cma Comes of Age
New and Short Contributions
Joseph W. Shaw, M. J. Becker, James B. Griffin, Richard I. Ford, Bruce D. Smith, James Schoenwetter, William R. Farrand, Frederick R. Matson, Robert Stuckenrath, Heather Lechtman, Garman Harbottle, Edward V. Sayre, Bernard Wailes, New and Short Contributions, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring, 1977), pp. 124-134
Basketmaker Food Plants from the Cimarron District, Northeastern New Mexico
Use of wild food plants during the Basketmaker period is not well known. For this reason, carbonized plant macro remains were collected from two Basket maker sites near Cimarron, New Mexico. Corn, beans, and 11 other food plants were identified. New additions to the Basket maker food plant inventory include marsh elder, wild plum, squawbush, and chokecherries. The paleobotanical evidence is interpreted to indicate that pigweed, lambsquarters, sun…
Educating the educators
Peer Reviewed
Public funding and private collecting
Northeastern Archeology: Past and Future Directions
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Foragers and Farmers in the Northern Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico
The dispersal of early agriculture across the American Southwest occurred quite rapidly. However, we do not currently understand intraregional variation in respect to the exact timing, context, and nature of early maize agriculture. It appears that maize was integrated into local foraging economies, being cultivated in both lowland and upland contexts within the northern Rio Grande Valley. The period leading to the dependence on this cultigen was…
Sangre De Cristo Micaceous Clays: Geochemical Indices for Source and Raw Material Distribution, Past and Present
Archaeological research has shown that northern Rio Grande potters have used micaceous clays in the production of cooking, serving, and ritual vessels for more than 700 years, yet little is known about the raw material sources used to make these remarkable wares. Recent survey with traditional potters reveals the locations of micaceous clay deposits and the criteria used to select clays for pottery manufacturing. Instmmental neutron activation an…
Anthropological perspective of ethnobotany in the Greater Southwest
James Bennett Griffin 1905-97
Basketmaker Food Plants from the Cimarron District, Northeastern New Mexico
Use of wild food plants during the Basketmaker period is not well known. For this reason, carbonized plant macro remains were collected from two Basket maker sites near Cimarron, New Mexico. Corn, beans, and 11 other food plants were identified. New additions to the Basket maker food plant inventory include marsh elder, wild plum, squawbush, and chokecherries. The paleobotanical evidence is interpreted to indicate that pigweed, lambsquarters, sun…
Geraniums for the Iroquois: A Field Guide to American Indian Medicinal Plants
A Change, a Challenge: SAA and AAAS
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General, Applied and Theoretical: Seed to Civilization: The Story of Man's Food . CHARLES B. Heiser, JR
Northeastern Archeology: Past and Future Directions
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
The nutritional significance of maize and teosinte
(1976). The nutritional significance of maize and teosinte. Ecology of Food and Nutrition: Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 243-249
New and Short Contributions
Joseph W. Shaw, M. J. Becker, James B. Griffin, Richard I. Ford, Bruce D. Smith, James Schoenwetter, William R. Farrand, Frederick R. Matson, Robert Stuckenrath, Heather Lechtman, Garman Harbottle, Edward V. Sayre, Bernard Wailes, New and Short Contributions, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring, 1977), pp. 124-134
Basketmaker Food Plants from the Cimarron District, Northeastern New Mexico
Use of wild food plants during the Basketmaker period is not well known. For this reason, carbonized plant macro remains were collected from two Basket maker sites near Cimarron, New Mexico. Corn, beans, and 11 other food plants were identified. New additions to the Basket maker food plant inventory include marsh elder, wild plum, squawbush, and chokecherries. The paleobotanical evidence is interpreted to indicate that pigweed, lambsquarters, sun…
Educating the educators
Peer Reviewed
Public funding and private collecting
Origins of African Plant Domestication. Jack R. Harlan, Jan M. J. de Wet , and Ann B. L. Stemler
Physical Anthropology: Ecological Anthropology . Donald L. Hardesty
Unesco convention needs support
Cma Comes of Age
Aaa Membership Campaign Supported
Archaeology: Paleonutrition: Method and Theory in Prehistoric Foodways . Elizabeth S. Wing and Antoinette B. Brown
Geraniums for the Iroquois: A Field Guide to American Indian Medicinal Plants
Volney Hurt Jones, 1903–1982
Prehistoric Food Production in North America
As Richard I. Ford explains in his preface to this volume, the 1980s saw an "explosive expansion of our knowledge about the variety of cultivated and domesticated plants and their history in aboriginal America." This collection presents research on prehistoric food production from Ford, Patty Jo Watson, Frances B. King, C. Wesley Cowan, Paul E. Minnis, and others.
Studying Material Culture. A Review Article
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Anthropological perspective of ethnobotany in the Greater Southwest
The Ethnographic American Southwest: A Source Book--Southwestern Society in Myth, Clan, and Kinship
Prehistoric Food Production in North America
Society for Economic Botany: President’s Report May 28, 1996
James Bennett Griffin 1905-97
The Late Archaic across the Borderlands: From Foraging to Farming
Why and when human societies shifted from nomadic hunting and gathering to settled agriculture engages the interest of scholars around the world. One of the most fruitful areas in which to study this issue is the North American Southwest, where Late Archaic inhabitants of the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts of Mexico, Arizona, and New Mexico turned to farming while their counterparts in Trans-Pecos and South Texas continued to forage. By investiga…
Foragers and Farmers in the Northern Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico
The dispersal of early agriculture across the American Southwest occurred quite rapidly. However, we do not currently understand intraregional variation in respect to the exact timing, context, and nature of early maize agriculture. It appears that maize was integrated into local foraging economies, being cultivated in both lowland and upland contexts within the northern Rio Grande Valley. The period leading to the dependence on this cultigen was…
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