Warren R Deboer
Biographic Data
| ID | 271994 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Warren R Deboer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Warren R |
| FAMILY NAME | Deboer |
| SIGNATURE | DEBOER W R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queens College, CUNY |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 273 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The Big Drink
Enduring Motives
examines tradition and religious beliefs as they are expressed in landscape, the built environment, visual symbols, stories, and ritual.Bringing together archaeologists and Native American experts, this volume focuses on long-lived religious traditions of the native peoples of the Americas and how religion codifies, justifies, and reinforces these traditions by placing a high value on continuity of beliefs and practice.Using clues from the archae…
Drinking and eating colors in the Peruvian Amazon
Colors for a North American past
Ethnographies of Native North America document an abundant and diverse array of directional color systems, yet archaeology has contributed little to the understanding of the historical development of such systems. Given a rekindling of archaeological interest in color, this paper reviews and organizes the ethnographic data in order to pose historical and functional hypotheses susceptible to archaeological evaluation
Little Bighorn on the Scioto
Identification of probable bighorn sheep representations at Mound City prompts reconsideration of the Rocky Mountain connection to Ohio Hopewell. Following James Griffin's 'one-shot' hypothesis, it is argued that the bighorn finds, along with the imported bulk of obsidian from the Hopewell site, are likely to pertain to a single expedition taking place about A.D. 200
News Under the Sun
Of Dice and Women
In Quest of Prehistoric Amazonia
Meggers's commentary does not effectively address our critique of the seriational argument that large Amazonian sites always represent occupational palimpsests. As a consequence, more general claims about the limitations that Amazonian environments posed for prehistoric cultural development based on this same argument remain unconvincing and fail to account for relevant variability in the archaeological record
Cahokia and the Archaeology of Power
The days are long gone when archaeologists would automatically interpret any major prehistoric monument as evidence of a hierarchically organized society. Faced with a Stonehenge or a Silbury Hill, the evident deployment of large labour forces might naturally lead to thoughts of social élites and stratified societies. The task facing archaeologists today, however, is to interpret such monuments not as programmatic products of parallel social proc…
Metaphors We Dig By
Traces behind the Esmeraldas Shore
Although long famous for its antiquities notably intricate goldwork, elaborate pottery, and earthen mounds the Santiago-Cayapas region of coastal Ecuador has been relatively neglected from the standpoint of scientific archaeology. Until recently, no sound chronology was available, and even the approximate age of the region's most impressive monument, the large and much-looted site of La Tolita, remained in doubt.Building on evidence obtained duri…
Ceremonial Centres from the Cayapas (Esmeraldas, Ecuador) to Chillicothe (Ohio, USA)
Although they are some of the most impressive archaeological monuments in North America, the geometric earthworks of Ohio Hopewell remain poorly understood. By incorporating multiple lines of ethnographic and archaeological evidence an interpretation of the meanings congealed in these ancient earthworks can be offered
Ceramic Seriation and Site Reoccupation in Lowland South America
A long-standing debate in Amazonian archaeology is whether large sites represent contemporaneous communities or palimpsests accrued through multiple reoccupations. Quantitative ceramic seriation has been used to support the latter view. This argument is evaluated in terms of its statistical basis and its assumptions about sources of ceramic variability. On the basis of this evaluation, we conclude that the case for reoccupation, based on seriatio…
An Archaeological Sequence for the Santiago-Cayapas River Basin, Esmeraldas, Ecuador
Esmeraldas Province in northern Ecuador has long been known as the location of the coastal site of La Tolita, at the mouth of the Santiago River. The rainforest interior of this area, however, remained archaeologically unexplored until recently. The work reported in this article should eventually help us better understand both the phenomenon of La Tolita and the broader trends of development on Ecuador's coastal plain, an area notable for its ear…
Pillage and production in the Amazon a view through the Conibo of the Ucayali Basin, eastern Peru
The historically documented pattern of Conibo raiding against neighbouring groups is reviewed and analysed. Conibo raiding is shown to be related to internal features of social structure, notably polygyny and competitive feasting, as well as to external forces induced by Europeans. The prehistoric background for Conibo raiding, as indirectly attested in the archaeological record, is assessed
Demographic Estimates in Archaeology
Anthropological archaeologists often employ ethnohistoric and ethnographic data to interpret the archaeological record. Of special concern to the subdiscipline of "action" or "living" archaeology is the problem of devising reasonably accurate methods for estimating the population of a site or of a prehistoric household. Techniques developed by various researchers are here summarized and critiqued. Then the available ethnographic evidence on house…
Pruebas arqueológicas del cultivo de la yuca
En los trópicos húmedos de las Américas, donde la preservación de material vegetal reequilibrado es poco probable, la evidencia arqueológica del cultivo de mandioca consiste principalmente en artefactos asociados con el cultivo de mandioca en el registro etnográfico y que, por analogía, se usaron de manera similar en el pasado prehistórico. La validez de esta inferencia por analogía se examina en términos de platos de cerámica y dientes ralladore…
The Measurement and Meaning of Stylistic Diversity
For archaeologists of many persuasions, style is a hard-working oracle. Style is asked whether prehistoric post-marital residence rules were patrilocal or matrilocal, whether political institutions were religious or imperial in nature, whether populations were seasonally aggregated or dis persed, and whether production was domestically or industrially organized. Above all, cultural historians continue to use style as an ultimate sensor of space-t…
Longevidad cerámica e interpretación arqueológica
La longevidad diferencial de las formas de vasijas cerámicas afecta las frecuencias de estas formas en un basurero arqueológico. Las frecuencias de las formas modernas de vasijas Conibo en uso se proyectan en el registro arqueológico y los resultados se comparan con las frecuencias de formas antecedentes de sitios arqueológicos en el Alto Ucaya li. Se discuten algunas de las variables, distintas de la longevidad diferencial, necesarias para dar c…
Buffer Zones in the Cultural Ecology of Aboriginal Amazonia
Historical and archaeological evidence indicates that unoccupied buffer zones were a pervasive feature of the aboriginal cultural ecology of Amazonian floodplains. Buffer zones in Ucayali culture history are examined in detail, and the more general implications that such zones have for interpretations of Amazonian prehistory and ecology are discussed
Archaeology
The Archaeological Evidence for Manioc Cultivation
In the humid tropics of the Americas, where preservation of plant materials is unlikely, archaeological evidence for manioc cultivation largely consists of artifacts which are similar to artifacts associated with manioc cultivation in the ethnographic record and which, by analogy, were similarly used in the prehistoric past. The validity of this inference by analogy is examined in terms of ceramic platters and stone grater teeth, two of the most …
Ceramic Longevity and Archaeological Interpretation
The differential longevity of ceramic vessel forms affects the frequencies of these forms in an archaeological midden. The observed frequencies of modern Conibo vessel forms in use are projected into the archaeological record and the results are compared to the frequencies of antecedent forms from archaeological sites on the Upper Ucayali. Some of the variables, other than differential longevity, needed to account for the differing frequencies ar…
Binó Style Ceramics From Iparia
Over fifteen years have passed since Donald Lathrap initiated his pioneer investigation into the prehistory of the Ucayali basin in the tropical forests of eastern Peru. During this time, Lathrap and his students have documented a ceramic chronology which extends from the Early Tutishcainyo style of the second millenium B.C. to the ceramics of the present occupants of the Ucayali, the Shipibo and Conibo
Demographic Estimates in Archaeology
Anthropological archaeologists often employ ethnohistoric and ethnographic data to interpret the archaeological record. Of special concern to the subdiscipline of "action" or "living" archaeology is the problem of devising reasonably accurate methods for estimating the population of a site or of a prehistoric household. Techniques developed by various researchers are here summarized and critiqued. Then the available ethnographic evidence on house…
Buffer Zones in the Cultural Ecology of Aboriginal Amazonia
Historical and archaeological evidence indicates that unoccupied buffer zones were a pervasive feature of the aboriginal cultural ecology of Amazonian floodplains. Buffer zones in Ucayali culture history are examined in detail, and the more general implications that such zones have for interpretations of Amazonian prehistory and ecology are discussed
Ceramic Longevity and Archaeological Interpretation
The differential longevity of ceramic vessel forms affects the frequencies of these forms in an archaeological midden. The observed frequencies of modern Conibo vessel forms in use are projected into the archaeological record and the results are compared to the frequencies of antecedent forms from archaeological sites on the Upper Ucayali. Some of the variables, other than differential longevity, needed to account for the differing frequencies ar…
Colors for a North American past
Ethnographies of Native North America document an abundant and diverse array of directional color systems, yet archaeology has contributed little to the understanding of the historical development of such systems. Given a rekindling of archaeological interest in color, this paper reviews and organizes the ethnographic data in order to pose historical and functional hypotheses susceptible to archaeological evaluation
Ceremonial Centres from the Cayapas (Esmeraldas, Ecuador) to Chillicothe (Ohio, USA)
Although they are some of the most impressive archaeological monuments in North America, the geometric earthworks of Ohio Hopewell remain poorly understood. By incorporating multiple lines of ethnographic and archaeological evidence an interpretation of the meanings congealed in these ancient earthworks can be offered
Ceramic Seriation and Site Reoccupation in Lowland South America
A long-standing debate in Amazonian archaeology is whether large sites represent contemporaneous communities or palimpsests accrued through multiple reoccupations. Quantitative ceramic seriation has been used to support the latter view. This argument is evaluated in terms of its statistical basis and its assumptions about sources of ceramic variability. On the basis of this evaluation, we conclude that the case for reoccupation, based on seriatio…
Little Bighorn on the Scioto
Identification of probable bighorn sheep representations at Mound City prompts reconsideration of the Rocky Mountain connection to Ohio Hopewell. Following James Griffin's 'one-shot' hypothesis, it is argued that the bighorn finds, along with the imported bulk of obsidian from the Hopewell site, are likely to pertain to a single expedition taking place about A.D. 200
The Archaeological Evidence for Manioc Cultivation
In the humid tropics of the Americas, where preservation of plant materials is unlikely, archaeological evidence for manioc cultivation largely consists of artifacts which are similar to artifacts associated with manioc cultivation in the ethnographic record and which, by analogy, were similarly used in the prehistoric past. The validity of this inference by analogy is examined in terms of ceramic platters and stone grater teeth, two of the most …
Pillage and production in the Amazon a view through the Conibo of the Ucayali Basin, eastern Peru
The historically documented pattern of Conibo raiding against neighbouring groups is reviewed and analysed. Conibo raiding is shown to be related to internal features of social structure, notably polygyny and competitive feasting, as well as to external forces induced by Europeans. The prehistoric background for Conibo raiding, as indirectly attested in the archaeological record, is assessed
Of Dice and Women
The Measurement and Meaning of Stylistic Diversity
For archaeologists of many persuasions, style is a hard-working oracle. Style is asked whether prehistoric post-marital residence rules were patrilocal or matrilocal, whether political institutions were religious or imperial in nature, whether populations were seasonally aggregated or dis persed, and whether production was domestically or industrially organized. Above all, cultural historians continue to use style as an ultimate sensor of space-t…
In Quest of Prehistoric Amazonia
Meggers's commentary does not effectively address our critique of the seriational argument that large Amazonian sites always represent occupational palimpsests. As a consequence, more general claims about the limitations that Amazonian environments posed for prehistoric cultural development based on this same argument remain unconvincing and fail to account for relevant variability in the archaeological record
Cahokia and the Archaeology of Power
The days are long gone when archaeologists would automatically interpret any major prehistoric monument as evidence of a hierarchically organized society. Faced with a Stonehenge or a Silbury Hill, the evident deployment of large labour forces might naturally lead to thoughts of social élites and stratified societies. The task facing archaeologists today, however, is to interpret such monuments not as programmatic products of parallel social proc…
An Archaeological Sequence for the Santiago-Cayapas River Basin, Esmeraldas, Ecuador
Esmeraldas Province in northern Ecuador has long been known as the location of the coastal site of La Tolita, at the mouth of the Santiago River. The rainforest interior of this area, however, remained archaeologically unexplored until recently. The work reported in this article should eventually help us better understand both the phenomenon of La Tolita and the broader trends of development on Ecuador's coastal plain, an area notable for its ear…
Metaphors We Dig By
Pruebas arqueológicas del cultivo de la yuca
En los trópicos húmedos de las Américas, donde la preservación de material vegetal reequilibrado es poco probable, la evidencia arqueológica del cultivo de mandioca consiste principalmente en artefactos asociados con el cultivo de mandioca en el registro etnográfico y que, por analogía, se usaron de manera similar en el pasado prehistórico. La validez de esta inferencia por analogía se examina en términos de platos de cerámica y dientes ralladore…
Binó Style Ceramics From Iparia
Over fifteen years have passed since Donald Lathrap initiated his pioneer investigation into the prehistory of the Ucayali basin in the tropical forests of eastern Peru. During this time, Lathrap and his students have documented a ceramic chronology which extends from the Early Tutishcainyo style of the second millenium B.C. to the ceramics of the present occupants of the Ucayali, the Shipibo and Conibo
Binó Style Ceramics From Iparia
Over fifteen years have passed since Donald Lathrap initiated his pioneer investigation into the prehistory of the Ucayali basin in the tropical forests of eastern Peru. During this time, Lathrap and his students have documented a ceramic chronology which extends from the Early Tutishcainyo style of the second millenium B.C. to the ceramics of the present occupants of the Ucayali, the Shipibo and Conibo
Ceramic Longevity and Archaeological Interpretation
The differential longevity of ceramic vessel forms affects the frequencies of these forms in an archaeological midden. The observed frequencies of modern Conibo vessel forms in use are projected into the archaeological record and the results are compared to the frequencies of antecedent forms from archaeological sites on the Upper Ucayali. Some of the variables, other than differential longevity, needed to account for the differing frequencies ar…
The Archaeological Evidence for Manioc Cultivation
In the humid tropics of the Americas, where preservation of plant materials is unlikely, archaeological evidence for manioc cultivation largely consists of artifacts which are similar to artifacts associated with manioc cultivation in the ethnographic record and which, by analogy, were similarly used in the prehistoric past. The validity of this inference by analogy is examined in terms of ceramic platters and stone grater teeth, two of the most …
Buffer Zones in the Cultural Ecology of Aboriginal Amazonia
Historical and archaeological evidence indicates that unoccupied buffer zones were a pervasive feature of the aboriginal cultural ecology of Amazonian floodplains. Buffer zones in Ucayali culture history are examined in detail, and the more general implications that such zones have for interpretations of Amazonian prehistory and ecology are discussed
Archaeology
The Measurement and Meaning of Stylistic Diversity
For archaeologists of many persuasions, style is a hard-working oracle. Style is asked whether prehistoric post-marital residence rules were patrilocal or matrilocal, whether political institutions were religious or imperial in nature, whether populations were seasonally aggregated or dis persed, and whether production was domestically or industrially organized. Above all, cultural historians continue to use style as an ultimate sensor of space-t…
Longevidad cerámica e interpretación arqueológica
La longevidad diferencial de las formas de vasijas cerámicas afecta las frecuencias de estas formas en un basurero arqueológico. Las frecuencias de las formas modernas de vasijas Conibo en uso se proyectan en el registro arqueológico y los resultados se comparan con las frecuencias de formas antecedentes de sitios arqueológicos en el Alto Ucaya li. Se discuten algunas de las variables, distintas de la longevidad diferencial, necesarias para dar c…
Pruebas arqueológicas del cultivo de la yuca
En los trópicos húmedos de las Américas, donde la preservación de material vegetal reequilibrado es poco probable, la evidencia arqueológica del cultivo de mandioca consiste principalmente en artefactos asociados con el cultivo de mandioca en el registro etnográfico y que, por analogía, se usaron de manera similar en el pasado prehistórico. La validez de esta inferencia por analogía se examina en términos de platos de cerámica y dientes ralladore…
Demographic Estimates in Archaeology
Anthropological archaeologists often employ ethnohistoric and ethnographic data to interpret the archaeological record. Of special concern to the subdiscipline of "action" or "living" archaeology is the problem of devising reasonably accurate methods for estimating the population of a site or of a prehistoric household. Techniques developed by various researchers are here summarized and critiqued. Then the available ethnographic evidence on house…
Pillage and production in the Amazon a view through the Conibo of the Ucayali Basin, eastern Peru
The historically documented pattern of Conibo raiding against neighbouring groups is reviewed and analysed. Conibo raiding is shown to be related to internal features of social structure, notably polygyny and competitive feasting, as well as to external forces induced by Europeans. The prehistoric background for Conibo raiding, as indirectly attested in the archaeological record, is assessed
An Archaeological Sequence for the Santiago-Cayapas River Basin, Esmeraldas, Ecuador
Esmeraldas Province in northern Ecuador has long been known as the location of the coastal site of La Tolita, at the mouth of the Santiago River. The rainforest interior of this area, however, remained archaeologically unexplored until recently. The work reported in this article should eventually help us better understand both the phenomenon of La Tolita and the broader trends of development on Ecuador's coastal plain, an area notable for its ear…
Ceramic Seriation and Site Reoccupation in Lowland South America
A long-standing debate in Amazonian archaeology is whether large sites represent contemporaneous communities or palimpsests accrued through multiple reoccupations. Quantitative ceramic seriation has been used to support the latter view. This argument is evaluated in terms of its statistical basis and its assumptions about sources of ceramic variability. On the basis of this evaluation, we conclude that the case for reoccupation, based on seriatio…
Ceremonial Centres from the Cayapas (Esmeraldas, Ecuador) to Chillicothe (Ohio, USA)
Although they are some of the most impressive archaeological monuments in North America, the geometric earthworks of Ohio Hopewell remain poorly understood. By incorporating multiple lines of ethnographic and archaeological evidence an interpretation of the meanings congealed in these ancient earthworks can be offered
Traces behind the Esmeraldas Shore
Although long famous for its antiquities notably intricate goldwork, elaborate pottery, and earthen mounds the Santiago-Cayapas region of coastal Ecuador has been relatively neglected from the standpoint of scientific archaeology. Until recently, no sound chronology was available, and even the approximate age of the region's most impressive monument, the large and much-looted site of La Tolita, remained in doubt.Building on evidence obtained duri…
Cahokia and the Archaeology of Power
The days are long gone when archaeologists would automatically interpret any major prehistoric monument as evidence of a hierarchically organized society. Faced with a Stonehenge or a Silbury Hill, the evident deployment of large labour forces might naturally lead to thoughts of social élites and stratified societies. The task facing archaeologists today, however, is to interpret such monuments not as programmatic products of parallel social proc…
Metaphors We Dig By
Of Dice and Women
In Quest of Prehistoric Amazonia
Meggers's commentary does not effectively address our critique of the seriational argument that large Amazonian sites always represent occupational palimpsests. As a consequence, more general claims about the limitations that Amazonian environments posed for prehistoric cultural development based on this same argument remain unconvincing and fail to account for relevant variability in the archaeological record
News Under the Sun
Little Bighorn on the Scioto
Identification of probable bighorn sheep representations at Mound City prompts reconsideration of the Rocky Mountain connection to Ohio Hopewell. Following James Griffin's 'one-shot' hypothesis, it is argued that the bighorn finds, along with the imported bulk of obsidian from the Hopewell site, are likely to pertain to a single expedition taking place about A.D. 200
Colors for a North American past
Ethnographies of Native North America document an abundant and diverse array of directional color systems, yet archaeology has contributed little to the understanding of the historical development of such systems. Given a rekindling of archaeological interest in color, this paper reviews and organizes the ethnographic data in order to pose historical and functional hypotheses susceptible to archaeological evaluation
The Big Drink
Enduring Motives
examines tradition and religious beliefs as they are expressed in landscape, the built environment, visual symbols, stories, and ritual.Bringing together archaeologists and Native American experts, this volume focuses on long-lived religious traditions of the native peoples of the Americas and how religion codifies, justifies, and reinforces these traditions by placing a high value on continuity of beliefs and practice.Using clues from the archae…
Drinking and eating colors in the Peruvian Amazon
Archaeology (18 works) · Geography (15 works) · History (11 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (10 works) · History (10 works) · Prehistory (9 works) · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Biology (7 works) · Amazon rainforest (6 works)