Larry Zimmerman
Biographic Data
| ID | 150632 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Larry Zimmerman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Larry |
| FAMILY NAME | Zimmerman |
| SIGNATURE | ZIMMERMAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1006-9717 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 382 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 59 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The Archaeology of the Homed and the Unhomed
Models can be helpful, but common sense may be enough
Models can be helpful, but common sense may be enough." Australian Archaeology, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Repatriation Acts: Before NAGPRA
World Archaeological Congress (WAC): First Code of Ethics
Activism and Archaeology
World Archaeological Congress (WAC)
Kryder-Reid, Elizabeth
The archaeology of the ‘Secret War’: The material evidence of conflict on the Queensland frontier, 1849–1901
Although the historical record relating to nineteenth century frontier conflict between Aboriginal groups and Europeans in Queensland has been clearly documented, there have been limited associated archaeological studies. As part of the Archaeology of the Queensland Native Mounted Police (NMP) project, this paper canvasses the physical imprint of frontier conflict across Queensland between 1849 and the early 1900s, focusing specifically on the ac…
I just don't ever use that word: Investigating Stakeholders' Understanding of Heritage
Understanding the value of heritage sites for diverse stakeholders requires both paying attention to the fields of power in which the sites operate and applying methodologies that are open to user-defined paradigms of value. In the U.S., official discourse often frames the value of heritage sites associated the deep Native American past as archaeological sites, an interpretation that is consistent with settler colonial ideologies. This narrative …
Changing archaeology's 'brand' would be helpful
González-Ruibal et al. raise challenging issues that seem frightening in their implications. In both their specificity and their wider theoretical contexts, I had previously given these issues little thought, and some I had not even recognised. I share fully the authors' concern that archaeologists must seek ways to engage people influenced by 'reactionary populism', people who "are diverse, fragmented and complex", and who may be "greedy, patria…
Beings who are’, ‘Beings who were’, and the Neiden Reburial
Asgeir Svestad’s description of the excavation, analysis and politics surrounding the 2011 reburial of 94 Skolt Sami skeletons is thorough and fascinating. The ethically questionable circumstances
Crafting the Indian: Knowledge, Desire and Play in Indianist Reenactment by Petra Tjitske Kalshoven
Displaced and Barely Visible: Archaeology and the Material Culture of Homelessness
A decade after the Vermillion Accord: What Has Changed and What Has Not?
Activism and creating a translational archaeology of homelessness
Archaeologists can provide useful perspectives on contemporary social problems if they are willing to engage in 'politics' and translate their findings into information useful for developing social policy, and if they are willing to become activists. To do this they need to emphasize the acquisition, use and distribution of material culture and work collaboratively with communities. This paper provides a brief example of how translational archaeo…
The Premise and Promise of Indigenous Archaeology
Researchers have increasingly promoted an emerging paradigm of Indigenous archaeology, which includes an array of practices conducted by, for, and with Indigenous communities to challenge the discipline's intellectual breadth and political economy. McGhee (2008) argues that Indigenous archaeology is not viable because it depends upon the essentialist concept of 'Aboriginalism.' In this reply, we correct McGhee's description of Indigenous Archaeol…
"WHITE People Will Believe Anything!" Worrying about Authenticity, Museum Audiences, and Working in Native American-Focused Museums1
Landscapes of fraud: Mission Tumacácori, the Baca float, and the betrayal of the O'odham - By Thomas E. Sheridan
Plains Indians and Resistance to “Public” Heritage Commemoration of Their Pasts
Society for the Anthropology of North America
Liberating archaeology, liberation archaeologies, and WAC
Beyond Racism: Some Opinions about Racialism and American Archaeology
Beyond RacismSome Opinions about Racialism and American Archaeology Roger Echo-Hawk (bio) and Larry J. Zimmerman (bio) The scrutiny of racism as a cultural practice is well established in scholarship and in American public discourse. The underlying problem of race itself is also a common topic in academic writings and is a matter of ever-increasing consensus in anthropology and biology. But the significance of race as an inherently flawed interpr…
Public Heritage, a Desire for a "White" History for America, and Some Impacts of the Kennewick Man/ Ancient One Decision
The most recent opinion in the so-called Kennewick Man or Ancient One (as many American Indians choose to call the skeleton) case by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit unfortunately resurrects some very old and contentious issues in America. Indians mostly view the opinion as one more echo of the same old story of Native American property issues raised in the courts, but they also understand that some implications may be bro…
Our Collective Responsibility: The Ethics and Practice of Archaeological Collections Stewardship
Archaeology
This chapter contains section titled: WHO WERE THE INDIANS AND WHERE DID THEY COME FROM? DESTROYING THE MOUNDBUILDER MYTH HOW LONG HAVE INDIANS BEEN HERE? A NEW ARCHAEOLOGY AND NEW INDIAN VOICES CONFRONTATION AND COMPROMISE KENNEWICK MOUNDBUILDERS, MANIFEST DESTINY, AND THE PAST AS A PUBLIC HERITAGE THE PAST IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY SHARING CONTROL OF THE PAST
The Premise and Promise of Indigenous Archaeology
Researchers have increasingly promoted an emerging paradigm of Indigenous archaeology, which includes an array of practices conducted by, for, and with Indigenous communities to challenge the discipline's intellectual breadth and political economy. McGhee (2008) argues that Indigenous archaeology is not viable because it depends upon the essentialist concept of 'Aboriginalism.' In this reply, we correct McGhee's description of Indigenous Archaeol…
Activism and creating a translational archaeology of homelessness
Archaeologists can provide useful perspectives on contemporary social problems if they are willing to engage in 'politics' and translate their findings into information useful for developing social policy, and if they are willing to become activists. To do this they need to emphasize the acquisition, use and distribution of material culture and work collaboratively with communities. This paper provides a brief example of how translational archaeo…
Indians and Anthropologists: Vine Deloria, Jr. and the Critique of Anthropology
Thomas Biolsi and Larry J. Zimmerman (eds.), Indians and Anthropologists: Vine Deloria, Jr. and the Critique of Anthropology, Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1997, x + 226 pages, $45.00 (cloth), $19.95 (paper).The legacy of Vine Deloria, Jr.'s Custer Died for Your Sins continues to plague anthropology in complex and amusing ways. A single chapter in his 1969 book, devoted to Anthropologists and Other Friends, presented a satirical, biting an…
The Return of the Ahayu: Da: Lessons for Repatriation from Zuni Pueblo and the Smithsonian Institution [and Comments and Replies]
Our Collective Responsibility: The Ethics and Practice of Archaeological Collections Stewardship
Beyond Racism: Some Opinions about Racialism and American Archaeology
Beyond RacismSome Opinions about Racialism and American Archaeology Roger Echo-Hawk (bio) and Larry J. Zimmerman (bio) The scrutiny of racism as a cultural practice is well established in scholarship and in American public discourse. The underlying problem of race itself is also a common topic in academic writings and is a matter of ever-increasing consensus in anthropology and biology. But the significance of race as an inherently flawed interpr…
Displaced and Barely Visible: Archaeology and the Material Culture of Homelessness
Indians and Anthropologists: Vine Deloria, Jr., and the Critique of Anthropology
In 1969 Vine Deloria, Jr., in his controversial book Custer Died for Your Sins, criticized the anthropological community for its impersonal dissection of living Native American cultures. Twenty-five years later, anthropologists have become more sensitive to Native American concerns, and Indian people have become more active in fighting for accurate representations of their cultures. In this collection of essays, Indian and non-Indian scholars exa…
Epilogue: A New and Different Archaeology
A dozen years ago, in the aftermath of a disastrous meeting with the Executive Committee of the Society for American Archaeology,1 Jan Hammil of American Indians Against Desecration and I were commiserating about how difficult it would be to convince archaeologists to change their views regarding human remains. We were depressed about the prospects, and we agreed that attitudes probably would not change much within our lifetimes. Events over the …
Archaeology, Reburial, and the Tactics of a Discipline's Self-Delusion
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Larry J. Zimmerman; Archaeology, Reburial, and the Tactics of a Discipline's Self-Delusion. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 1 January 1992; 16 (2): 37-56. doi: https://doi.org/10.17953/aicr.16.2.fh3703j62v6238h0 Download cit…
Ante-Mortem Osteopathology At Crow Creek
In the mid-fourteenth century, over 486 individuals apparently were massacred at the Crow Creek Site (39 B F 11), located on the east bank of the Missouri River in South Dakota. During the analysis of the skeletons, a search was made for evidence of diseases, anomalies, and abnormalities which had affected these people during life and had left an imprint upon their bones. The salient pathology is tabulated here, discussed briefly, and illustrated…
Liberating archaeology, liberation archaeologies, and WAC
Disputing the Dead: U. S. Law on Aboriginal Remains and Grave Goods
Each year the remains of hundreds of American Indians, Native Alaskans, and Native Hawaiians, along with artifacts such as potsherds and arrowheads, are discovered across the United States. As many as 600,000 aboriginal remains are currently held by museums, historical societies, universities, and private collections. To the scientific community they provide vital data for the study of human evolution. To many members of aboriginal communities, h…
I just don't ever use that word: Investigating Stakeholders' Understanding of Heritage
Understanding the value of heritage sites for diverse stakeholders requires both paying attention to the fields of power in which the sites operate and applying methodologies that are open to user-defined paradigms of value. In the U.S., official discourse often frames the value of heritage sites associated the deep Native American past as archaeological sites, an interpretation that is consistent with settler colonial ideologies. This narrative …
Changing archaeology's 'brand' would be helpful
González-Ruibal et al. raise challenging issues that seem frightening in their implications. In both their specificity and their wider theoretical contexts, I had previously given these issues little thought, and some I had not even recognised. I share fully the authors' concern that archaeologists must seek ways to engage people influenced by 'reactionary populism', people who "are diverse, fragmented and complex", and who may be "greedy, patria…
Public Heritage, a Desire for a "White" History for America, and Some Impacts of the Kennewick Man/ Ancient One Decision
The most recent opinion in the so-called Kennewick Man or Ancient One (as many American Indians choose to call the skeleton) case by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit unfortunately resurrects some very old and contentious issues in America. Indians mostly view the opinion as one more echo of the same old story of Native American property issues raised in the courts, but they also understand that some implications may be bro…
The Crow Creek Massacre: Initial Coalescent Warfare and Speculations About the Genesis of Extended Coalescent
Evidence of substantial malnutrition caused Gregg and Zimmerman (1986) and Zimmerman and Bradley (1 986) to suggest that the fourteenth century, Initial Coalescent tradition Crow Creek massacre resulted from internecine warfare over decreased food supplies, population increase, and access to horticultural lands along the Missouri River. A computer simulation suggests that such a scenario is feasible but related to population thresholds and arable…
"WHITE People Will Believe Anything!" Worrying about Authenticity, Museum Audiences, and Working in Native American-Focused Museums1
Settlement-Subsistence Variability In The Glenwood Locality, Southwestern Iowa
Central Plains tradition settlement distribution in Southwest Iowa is poorly understood. Patterns of both nucleated and dispersed forms seem to be represented. The known distribution in the Glenwood locality is examined and an algorithm presented that could explain the existing variability. Initial locality occupants relied heavily on hunting and gathering with minimal horticulture during the Neoatlantic climatic episode. Isolated homesteads were…
Malnutrition in Fourteenth-Century South Dakota: Osteopathological Manifestations
Analysis of mutilated skeletons representing people massacred at the fourteenth-century Crow Creek village on the Missouri River bluffs in central proto-South Dakota provided information implicating metabolic deficiencies as significant factors in the catastrophe. Prominent findings were: lines in long bones indicating metabolic stress during growth; superior orbital plate, skull surface, and long bone changes attributable to iron deficiency anem…
Settlement-Subsistence Variability In The Glenwood Locality, Southwestern Iowa
Central Plains tradition settlement distribution in Southwest Iowa is poorly understood. Patterns of both nucleated and dispersed forms seem to be represented. The known distribution in the Glenwood locality is examined and an algorithm presented that could explain the existing variability. Initial locality occupants relied heavily on hunting and gathering with minimal horticulture during the Neoatlantic climatic episode. Isolated homesteads were…
Ante-Mortem Osteopathology At Crow Creek
In the mid-fourteenth century, over 486 individuals apparently were massacred at the Crow Creek Site (39 B F 11), located on the east bank of the Missouri River in South Dakota. During the analysis of the skeletons, a search was made for evidence of diseases, anomalies, and abnormalities which had affected these people during life and had left an imprint upon their bones. The salient pathology is tabulated here, discussed briefly, and illustrated…
Directions for Miss Deloria: Boas on the Plains
A summary of the collaboration between Ella Deloria and Franz Boas and the work produced from this collaboration is presented. A rare example of a Boasian “research design” for ethnographic studies among the Sioux of South Dakota is also reprinted and discussed
Ecological Characterization as a Foundation for Prediction of Plains Village Tradition Site Locations in Central South Dakota
Upland Plains Village archaeological sites in Central South Dakota located by pedestrian survey were described in terms of physiography and vegetation. Randomly selected, non-archaeological sites were similarly described and served to define the universe of sites available for habitation along the east bank of the Missouri River/Lake Francis Case Reservoir. Physiographic differences between actual and “simulated” archaeological sites suggested th…
A Computer Simulation of Euro-American Trade Good Flow to the Arikara
A computer simulation is used to examine the influx of Euro-American trade goods to the Leavenworth site (39C09), the last earthlodge village occupied by the Arikara in South Dakota. Parameters for the simulation were set according to reliable historical sources, and over 200 computer runs were made. The simulation suggests that complete saturation of Euro-American goods could have occurred at an Arikara village fairly rapidly after the commencem…
"Tell Them about the Suicide" A Review of Recent Materials on the Reburial of Prehistoric Native American Skeletons
Larry J. Zimmerman, Larry J. Zimmerman, "Tell Them about the Suicide" A Review of Recent Materials on the Reburial of Prehistoric Native American Skeletons, American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 4 (Autumn, 1986), pp. 333-343
Bison Kills and Bone Counts: Decision Making by Ancient Hunters
Peoples of Prehistoric South Dakota
Red-Wing
Malnutrition in Fourteenth-Century South Dakota: Osteopathological Manifestations
Analysis of mutilated skeletons representing people massacred at the fourteenth-century Crow Creek village on the Missouri River bluffs in central proto-South Dakota provided information implicating metabolic deficiencies as significant factors in the catastrophe. Prominent findings were: lines in long bones indicating metabolic stress during growth; superior orbital plate, skull surface, and long bone changes attributable to iron deficiency anem…
Webb on reburial: A North American perspective
A comment, following Webb's paper in the last number, comes from another place where comparable issues have arisen about reburial
Editor’s Corner: From Somewhere on the Trailing Edge of Technology
Archeology: Academic Freedom and Apartheid: The Story of the World Archaeological Congress. Peter Ucko
Editor’s Corner
Reflections on the issues: Implications for the scholarly disciplines
The First Intercongress of the World Archaeological Congress focused on archaeological ethics and the treatment of the dead. The Intercongress developed from an intense concern by both archaeologists and indigenous peoples to work toward resolution of the reburial issues. The meeting ended in the adoption of the Vermillion Accord, a six-clause document that may provide a foundation of mutual respect so that compromises can be formed. The Accord c…
Archaeological Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Bighorn
South Dakota Leaders: From Pierre Choteau, Jr., to Oscar Howe
Journal Article South Dakota Leaders: From Pierre Choteau, Jr., to Oscar Howe Get access South Dakota Leaders: From Pierre Choteau, Jr., to Oscar Howe. Edited by Hoover Herbert T. Zimmerman Larry J.. (Vermillion: University of South Dakota Press, 1989. xxv + 500 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $47.50.) Rex C. Myers Rex C. Myers South Dakota State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scho…
South Dakota Leaders
Disputing the Dead: U. S. Law on Aboriginal Remains and Grave Goods
Each year the remains of hundreds of American Indians, Native Alaskans, and Native Hawaiians, along with artifacts such as potsherds and arrowheads, are discovered across the United States. As many as 600,000 aboriginal remains are currently held by museums, historical societies, universities, and private collections. To the scientific community they provide vital data for the study of human evolution. To many members of aboriginal communities, h…
Archaeology, Reburial, and the Tactics of a Discipline's Self-Delusion
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Larry J. Zimmerman; Archaeology, Reburial, and the Tactics of a Discipline's Self-Delusion. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 1 January 1992; 16 (2): 37-56. doi: https://doi.org/10.17953/aicr.16.2.fh3703j62v6238h0 Download cit…
The Return of the Ahayu: Da: Lessons for Repatriation from Zuni Pueblo and the Smithsonian Institution [and Comments and Replies]
The Crow Creek Massacre: Initial Coalescent Warfare and Speculations About the Genesis of Extended Coalescent
Evidence of substantial malnutrition caused Gregg and Zimmerman (1986) and Zimmerman and Bradley (1 986) to suggest that the fourteenth century, Initial Coalescent tradition Crow Creek massacre resulted from internecine warfare over decreased food supplies, population increase, and access to horticultural lands along the Missouri River. A computer simulation suggests that such a scenario is feasible but related to population thresholds and arable…
Wounded Knee 1973: A Personal Account
Women of the Earth Lodges: Tribal Life on the Plains
Journal Article Women of the Earth Lodges: Tribal Life on the Plains. By Virginia Bergman Peters. (North Haven: Archon, 1993. xvi, 217 pp. $39.30, ISBN 0-208-02219-8.) Get access Larry J. Zimmerman Larry J. Zimmerman University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 1995, Page 1183, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945141 …
Marks of the Ancestors: Ancient Indian Rock Art of Arizona
Marks of the Ancestors: Ancient Indian Rock Art of Arizona. Prod. by Peter Blystone. Echo Productions, 1994. 43 mins. (Vision Maker Video, P.O. Box 83111, Lincoln, NE 68501) Get access Larry J. Zimmerman Larry J. Zimmerman University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 3, December 1996, Pages 1112–1113, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945805 Publi…
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