Richard G Forbis
Biographic Data
| ID | 158084 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard G Forbis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard G |
| FAMILY NAME | Forbis |
| SIGNATURE | FORBIS R G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 429 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1952 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Distinguished Service Award
A Brief History of the Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary
(The Editor wishes to acknowledge an omission of text in Dr. Richard Forbis' paper which appeared in the May 1993 issue of the Bulletin of the History of Archaeology. The Editor expresses his apologies for the omission and publishes again Dr. Forbis' entire paper so that the reader might have the benefit of the corrections made). During the early 1960s, largely as a result of the the "baby boom" of the 1940s, large numbers of students of college …
A Brief History of the Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary
During the early 1960s, largely as a result of the "baby boom" of the 1940s, large numbers of students of college age surfaced. They demanded a wider scope for higher education in Canada. The period saw not only the expansion of facilities in already established universities, but also the creation of many new institutions, among them the University of Calgary. During the early 1960s, the number of full-time professionals practicing and teaching a…
The Significance of Food Storage Among Hunter-Gatherers: Residence Patterns, Population Densities, and Social Inequalities [and Comments and Reply]
Some hunter-gatherer societies (the Indians of California and of the Northwest Coast, for instance) depart significantly from the commonly accepted definition. This paper demonstrates that in such societies the economic structure is based on seasonal and intensive storage of major food resources. The societies presenting this type of economic structure are (1) sedentary, (2) high-density, and (3) prone to socioeconomic inequality. These three cha…
The Fourth of July Valley, Glacial Geology and Archeology of the Timberline Ecotone, by James B. Benedict
The Mount Albion Complex, A Study of Prehistoric Man and the Altithermal, by James B. Benedict and Byron L. Olson
Some Facets of Communal Hunting
In 1923, when comparing the Plains Indian bison corral with the reindeer pound of Lappland, Robert H. Lowie was struck by the detailed resemblances between these struc tures, which were pivotal in the quest for game in each area. Truly phenomenal numbers of bison formerly ranged the Plains. In 1793, Peter Fidler observed a herd near the Red Deer River in Alberta so large that no ground could be seen for them in that compleat semi-circle & extendi…
Food Taboos, Diet, and Hunting Strategy: The Adaptation to Animals in Amazon Cultural Ecology [and Comments and Reply]
The issue of food prohibitions on such Amazonian game animals as deer is examined from an ecological perspective, in contrast to previous symbolic or structuralist views on this subject. Examined in conjunction with settlement pattern, technology, animal behavior, and habitat productivity, which together determine the food-extraction potential of a population, the avoidance of certain inherently edible species by characterizing them as inebible i…
The De Winton Burial: A Tragedy Across The Years
A human burial was discovered during housebuilding operations in the community of De Winton, a few miles south of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The fragmentary remains consist of an immature aborigine of uncertain chronological and cultural assignment.The remains are described and forensically evaluated. Floral and faunal remains in presumed association\with the burial are also described and evaluated. All materials are then interpreted with relevanc…
Australopithecine Scavenging and Human Evolution: An Approach From Faunal Analysis [and Comments and Reply]
The controversy surrounding australopithecine hunting and/or scavenging behavior and the problem of Dart's contended osteodontokeratic culture of Australopithecus prometheus are hardly new issues. Yet most of the contentions on all sides have been speculative, with little firm support. Faunal analysis, when developed as a generalizing, systematic and explicit technique based on a deductively formulated body of hypotheses about cultural adaptation…
Behavioral Analysis and the Structure of a Prehistoric Industry [and Comments and Reply]
Assuming that aboriginal behavior was recorded on chipped-stone implements and debitage, and assuming that the analyst can train himself to recognize and interpret that record, then a classification of lithic artifacts based on manufacturing behavior may be considered an inherent classification. Lithic behavioral classification is examined from the perspective of other archaeological classifications as well as from general taxonomic theory. Advan…
Archeology: Introduction to Middle Missouri Archeology. Donald J. Lehmer
By-Laws of Plains Anthropologist
Fletcher: A Paleo-Indian Site in Alberta
In 1963, the Glenbow Foundation excavated a bison bone bed exposed at a water hole in southern Alberta near the Montana border. Age estimates grounded in geology place the bone bed between 7,000 and 11,000 years ago. Projectile points at the Fletcher site include the Alberta and Scottsbluff types. Other artifacts suggest that the site was not only a kill but also a butchering station. The heavy emphasis on bison here, as well as at nearly all rel…
Abstracts of Papers presented At the Twenty-second Plains conference, 1964
(1965). Abstracts of Papers presented At the Twenty-second Plains conference, 1964. Plains Anthropologist: Vol. 10, No. 27, pp. 45-57
Archeology: The Old Cordillera Culture in the Pacific Northwest . B. Robert Butler. Appendix by Earl H. Swanson, Jr
A Brief Account Of Excavations at the Cluny Earthlodge Village
"A Brief Account Of Excavations at the Cluny Earthlodge Village." Plains Anthropologist, 6(12), pp. 101–102
Early Point Types from Acasta Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada
A small collection of stone artifacts from an esker-ridge site at the edge of the Barren Lands, which includes an Agate Basin point and two Lerma points, but apparently no microblades, may be the earliest so far recognized in the Canadian tundra
Archeology: Excavations at the LoDaisKa Site in the Denver, Colorado, Area. H. J. and C. C. Irwin
An Early Man Site in Montana
The Significance of Food Storage Among Hunter-Gatherers: Residence Patterns, Population Densities, and Social Inequalities [and Comments and Reply]
Some hunter-gatherer societies (the Indians of California and of the Northwest Coast, for instance) depart significantly from the commonly accepted definition. This paper demonstrates that in such societies the economic structure is based on seasonal and intensive storage of major food resources. The societies presenting this type of economic structure are (1) sedentary, (2) high-density, and (3) prone to socioeconomic inequality. These three cha…
Food Taboos, Diet, and Hunting Strategy: The Adaptation to Animals in Amazon Cultural Ecology [and Comments and Reply]
The issue of food prohibitions on such Amazonian game animals as deer is examined from an ecological perspective, in contrast to previous symbolic or structuralist views on this subject. Examined in conjunction with settlement pattern, technology, animal behavior, and habitat productivity, which together determine the food-extraction potential of a population, the avoidance of certain inherently edible species by characterizing them as inebible i…
Behavioral Analysis and the Structure of a Prehistoric Industry [and Comments and Reply]
Assuming that aboriginal behavior was recorded on chipped-stone implements and debitage, and assuming that the analyst can train himself to recognize and interpret that record, then a classification of lithic artifacts based on manufacturing behavior may be considered an inherent classification. Lithic behavioral classification is examined from the perspective of other archaeological classifications as well as from general taxonomic theory. Advan…
Fletcher: A Paleo-Indian Site in Alberta
In 1963, the Glenbow Foundation excavated a bison bone bed exposed at a water hole in southern Alberta near the Montana border. Age estimates grounded in geology place the bone bed between 7,000 and 11,000 years ago. Projectile points at the Fletcher site include the Alberta and Scottsbluff types. Other artifacts suggest that the site was not only a kill but also a butchering station. The heavy emphasis on bison here, as well as at nearly all rel…
An Early Man Site in Montana
Australopithecine Scavenging and Human Evolution: An Approach From Faunal Analysis [and Comments and Reply]
The controversy surrounding australopithecine hunting and/or scavenging behavior and the problem of Dart's contended osteodontokeratic culture of Australopithecus prometheus are hardly new issues. Yet most of the contentions on all sides have been speculative, with little firm support. Faunal analysis, when developed as a generalizing, systematic and explicit technique based on a deductively formulated body of hypotheses about cultural adaptation…
Some Facets of Communal Hunting
In 1923, when comparing the Plains Indian bison corral with the reindeer pound of Lappland, Robert H. Lowie was struck by the detailed resemblances between these struc tures, which were pivotal in the quest for game in each area. Truly phenomenal numbers of bison formerly ranged the Plains. In 1793, Peter Fidler observed a herd near the Red Deer River in Alberta so large that no ground could be seen for them in that compleat semi-circle & extendi…
A Brief Account Of Excavations at the Cluny Earthlodge Village
"A Brief Account Of Excavations at the Cluny Earthlodge Village." Plains Anthropologist, 6(12), pp. 101–102
Early Point Types from Acasta Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada
A small collection of stone artifacts from an esker-ridge site at the edge of the Barren Lands, which includes an Agate Basin point and two Lerma points, but apparently no microblades, may be the earliest so far recognized in the Canadian tundra
An Early Man Site in Montana
Archeology: Excavations at the LoDaisKa Site in the Denver, Colorado, Area. H. J. and C. C. Irwin
A Brief Account Of Excavations at the Cluny Earthlodge Village
"A Brief Account Of Excavations at the Cluny Earthlodge Village." Plains Anthropologist, 6(12), pp. 101–102
Early Point Types from Acasta Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada
A small collection of stone artifacts from an esker-ridge site at the edge of the Barren Lands, which includes an Agate Basin point and two Lerma points, but apparently no microblades, may be the earliest so far recognized in the Canadian tundra
Archeology: The Old Cordillera Culture in the Pacific Northwest . B. Robert Butler. Appendix by Earl H. Swanson, Jr
Abstracts of Papers presented At the Twenty-second Plains conference, 1964
(1965). Abstracts of Papers presented At the Twenty-second Plains conference, 1964. Plains Anthropologist: Vol. 10, No. 27, pp. 45-57
Fletcher: A Paleo-Indian Site in Alberta
In 1963, the Glenbow Foundation excavated a bison bone bed exposed at a water hole in southern Alberta near the Montana border. Age estimates grounded in geology place the bone bed between 7,000 and 11,000 years ago. Projectile points at the Fletcher site include the Alberta and Scottsbluff types. Other artifacts suggest that the site was not only a kill but also a butchering station. The heavy emphasis on bison here, as well as at nearly all rel…
By-Laws of Plains Anthropologist
Archeology: Introduction to Middle Missouri Archeology. Donald J. Lehmer
Australopithecine Scavenging and Human Evolution: An Approach From Faunal Analysis [and Comments and Reply]
The controversy surrounding australopithecine hunting and/or scavenging behavior and the problem of Dart's contended osteodontokeratic culture of Australopithecus prometheus are hardly new issues. Yet most of the contentions on all sides have been speculative, with little firm support. Faunal analysis, when developed as a generalizing, systematic and explicit technique based on a deductively formulated body of hypotheses about cultural adaptation…
Behavioral Analysis and the Structure of a Prehistoric Industry [and Comments and Reply]
Assuming that aboriginal behavior was recorded on chipped-stone implements and debitage, and assuming that the analyst can train himself to recognize and interpret that record, then a classification of lithic artifacts based on manufacturing behavior may be considered an inherent classification. Lithic behavioral classification is examined from the perspective of other archaeological classifications as well as from general taxonomic theory. Advan…
The De Winton Burial: A Tragedy Across The Years
A human burial was discovered during housebuilding operations in the community of De Winton, a few miles south of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The fragmentary remains consist of an immature aborigine of uncertain chronological and cultural assignment.The remains are described and forensically evaluated. Floral and faunal remains in presumed association\with the burial are also described and evaluated. All materials are then interpreted with relevanc…
The Mount Albion Complex, A Study of Prehistoric Man and the Altithermal, by James B. Benedict and Byron L. Olson
Some Facets of Communal Hunting
In 1923, when comparing the Plains Indian bison corral with the reindeer pound of Lappland, Robert H. Lowie was struck by the detailed resemblances between these struc tures, which were pivotal in the quest for game in each area. Truly phenomenal numbers of bison formerly ranged the Plains. In 1793, Peter Fidler observed a herd near the Red Deer River in Alberta so large that no ground could be seen for them in that compleat semi-circle & extendi…
Food Taboos, Diet, and Hunting Strategy: The Adaptation to Animals in Amazon Cultural Ecology [and Comments and Reply]
The issue of food prohibitions on such Amazonian game animals as deer is examined from an ecological perspective, in contrast to previous symbolic or structuralist views on this subject. Examined in conjunction with settlement pattern, technology, animal behavior, and habitat productivity, which together determine the food-extraction potential of a population, the avoidance of certain inherently edible species by characterizing them as inebible i…
The Fourth of July Valley, Glacial Geology and Archeology of the Timberline Ecotone, by James B. Benedict
The Significance of Food Storage Among Hunter-Gatherers: Residence Patterns, Population Densities, and Social Inequalities [and Comments and Reply]
Some hunter-gatherer societies (the Indians of California and of the Northwest Coast, for instance) depart significantly from the commonly accepted definition. This paper demonstrates that in such societies the economic structure is based on seasonal and intensive storage of major food resources. The societies presenting this type of economic structure are (1) sedentary, (2) high-density, and (3) prone to socioeconomic inequality. These three cha…
A Brief History of the Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary
(The Editor wishes to acknowledge an omission of text in Dr. Richard Forbis' paper which appeared in the May 1993 issue of the Bulletin of the History of Archaeology. The Editor expresses his apologies for the omission and publishes again Dr. Forbis' entire paper so that the reader might have the benefit of the corrections made). During the early 1960s, largely as a result of the the "baby boom" of the 1940s, large numbers of students of college …
A Brief History of the Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary
During the early 1960s, largely as a result of the "baby boom" of the 1940s, large numbers of students of college age surfaced. They demanded a wider scope for higher education in Canada. The period saw not only the expansion of facilities in already established universities, but also the creation of many new institutions, among them the University of Calgary. During the early 1960s, the number of full-time professionals practicing and teaching a…
Distinguished Service Award
Archaeology (19 works) · Geography (14 works) · History (13 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 works) · History (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Library science (6 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (5 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (5 works) · Archaeological Research and Protection (4 works)