Elliot H Blair
Biographic Data
| ID | 322867 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elliot H Blair |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elliot H |
| FAMILY NAME | Blair |
| SIGNATURE | BLAIR E H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0190-8910 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Nueva Cadiz Glass Beads at James Fort in Virginia: Addressing Questions of Origin through Compositional Analysis
The glass bead assemblage generated by archaeological excavations at the seventeenth-century English colonial site of Jamestown in Virginia contains an anomalously large proportion of types, such as Nueva Cadiz and faceted chevron, that traditionally have been viewed as diagnostic of sixteenth-century Spanish assemblages. This study has applied the Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) method of compositional ana…
Sequential villages and settling down on the southeast U.S. coast
The adoption of more sedentary residential practices is a long process in which groups shift in size, permanence, makeup, and even location in response to the social, demographic, ecological, and subsistence pressures associated with settling down. Coastal peoples living in the Southeast U.S. are among the first to adopt more sedentary lifeways in North America as evidenced by their creation of dozens of large circular or arcing shell middens dur…
Objects of coalescence: Using LA-ICP-MS to study ceramics recovered from an eighteenth-century Choctaw village
Collaborative multimethod geophysics at the Prewitt Slave Cemetery, Northport, Alabama
This paper serves to highlight the partnership built between the Prewitt Slave Cemetery Association (PSCA) and the University of Alabama (UA) through the work conducted by the UA archaeological field school at the Prewitt Slave Cemetery (PSC) in Fall 2022. During this collaborative project, the field school students geolocated, recorded and photographed more than 700 above‐ground grave markers and conducted a multi‐method geophysical survey that …
Air and sound: Indigenous wind instruments made of bone in the Southeast United States
By studying the distribution of wind instruments made of bone, we investigate the presence of musical traditions in the American Southeast and nearby regions during the last few centuries prior to European arrival. Our findings show that southeastern Indigenous peoples used bone instruments far less than their neighbors, suggesting that they almost exclusively made whistles and flutes from reeds, wood, and other materials that do not survive in t…
Of missions and marshes: Stable isotope analysis of Mission-Era Guale oyster harvesting on St. Catherines Island, Georgia
This article presents the results of oxygen stable isotope analysis on eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) samples (n = 25) from a Mission-Era (ca. AD 1565–1680) site, Pueblo Santa Catalina de Guale, on St. Catherines Island, GA. Stable isotope analysis was used to assess the seasonality of oyster harvesting on St. Catherines Island during the Mission Era to better understand how Spanish colonization and the Catholic mission system may have im…
Chemical analysis of glass beads in Palau, western Micronesia reveals 19th century inter-island exchange systems in transition
Multi‐method geophysical investigation at Snow's Bend, a Mississippian platform mound
Archaeological investigations of Mississippian platform mounds have traditionally required invasive excavation or coring. Excavations are damaging to sites, and in many cases, invasive or destructive research methods on Native American mounds are forbidden or inappropriate. Non‐invasive geophysical investigations avoid these issues but have their own challenges in terms of resolving the interior of the mound, particularly if electrically conducti…
The Elemental Analysis of Glass Beads
Glass beads, both beautiful and portable, have been produced and traded globally for thousands of years. Modern archaeologists study these artifacts through sophisticated methods that analyze the glass composition, a process which can be utilized to trace bead usage through time and across regions. This book publishes open-access compositional data obtained from laser ablation - inductively coupled plasma - mass spectrometry, from a single analyt…
Itineraries and networks of the Mission San Joseph de Sapala beads
Reconsidering the Precolumbian Presence of Venetian Glass Beads in Alaska
In a recent article, Kunz and Mills (2021) report 10 drawn, a speo finished, turquoise blue, IIa40 beads manufactured in Venice and recovered from three late precontact sites in the Alaskan Arctic. They argue that these beads date to the fifteenth century, predating Columbus's arrival in the Americas. This conclusion is certainly in error because beads of this type were not manufactured prior to approximately AD 1560. The historical and archaeolo…
Organic residue analysis of two Mississippian period human effigy pipes
Modeling consumption
In this chapter, the author focuses on glass bead assemblage to present a methodological approach for examining bead consumption among the population of Mission Santa Catalina. She believes individuals from the community of Mission San Diego de Satuache can be recognized as comprising a distinct community of consumption at Mission Santa Catalina. Combining the concepts of object itineraries, communities of practice, and the methods of social netw…
An XRF Compositional Analysis of Opaque White Glass Beads from 17th-Century Mission Santa Catalina de Guale, Georgia
Previous analyses of the elemental composition of white glass beads have shown that the opacifier used during glass manufacture is temporally diagnostic, with a transition from tin to antimony to arsenic to fluorine. To date, most researchers using this fact for chronological purposes have focused on British, Dutch, and French contact sites in the northeastern United States and Canada. Many of these studies have relied on expensive, and sometimes…
Life among the tides: Recent archaeology on the Georgia Bight : proceedings of the Sixth Caldwell Conference, St. Catherines Island, Georgia, May 20-22, 2011
494 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm. Conference sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History and the St. Catherines Island Foundation
The Study of Indigenous Political Economies and Colonialism in Native California: Implications for Contemporary Tribal Groups and Federal Recognition
This article advocates for a comparative approach to archaeological studies of colonialism that considers how Native American societies with divergent political economies may have influenced various kinds of processes and outcomes in their encounters with European colonists. Three dimensions of indigenous political economies (polity size, polity structure, and landscape management practices) are identified as critical variables in colonial resear…
The Study of Indigenous Political Economies and Colonialism in Native California: Implications for Contemporary Tribal Groups and Federal Recognition
This article advocates for a comparative approach to archaeological studies of colonialism that considers how Native American societies with divergent political economies may have influenced various kinds of processes and outcomes in their encounters with European colonists. Three dimensions of indigenous political economies (polity size, polity structure, and landscape management practices) are identified as critical variables in colonial resear…
The Elemental Analysis of Glass Beads
Glass beads, both beautiful and portable, have been produced and traded globally for thousands of years. Modern archaeologists study these artifacts through sophisticated methods that analyze the glass composition, a process which can be utilized to trace bead usage through time and across regions. This book publishes open-access compositional data obtained from laser ablation - inductively coupled plasma - mass spectrometry, from a single analyt…
Life among the tides: Recent archaeology on the Georgia Bight : proceedings of the Sixth Caldwell Conference, St. Catherines Island, Georgia, May 20-22, 2011
494 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm. Conference sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History and the St. Catherines Island Foundation
Of missions and marshes: Stable isotope analysis of Mission-Era Guale oyster harvesting on St. Catherines Island, Georgia
This article presents the results of oxygen stable isotope analysis on eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) samples (n = 25) from a Mission-Era (ca. AD 1565–1680) site, Pueblo Santa Catalina de Guale, on St. Catherines Island, GA. Stable isotope analysis was used to assess the seasonality of oyster harvesting on St. Catherines Island during the Mission Era to better understand how Spanish colonization and the Catholic mission system may have im…
Multi‐method geophysical investigation at Snow's Bend, a Mississippian platform mound
Archaeological investigations of Mississippian platform mounds have traditionally required invasive excavation or coring. Excavations are damaging to sites, and in many cases, invasive or destructive research methods on Native American mounds are forbidden or inappropriate. Non‐invasive geophysical investigations avoid these issues but have their own challenges in terms of resolving the interior of the mound, particularly if electrically conducti…
Reconsidering the Precolumbian Presence of Venetian Glass Beads in Alaska
In a recent article, Kunz and Mills (2021) report 10 drawn, a speo finished, turquoise blue, IIa40 beads manufactured in Venice and recovered from three late precontact sites in the Alaskan Arctic. They argue that these beads date to the fifteenth century, predating Columbus's arrival in the Americas. This conclusion is certainly in error because beads of this type were not manufactured prior to approximately AD 1560. The historical and archaeolo…
Life among the tides: Recent archaeology on the Georgia Bight : proceedings of the Sixth Caldwell Conference, St. Catherines Island, Georgia, May 20-22, 2011
494 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm. Conference sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History and the St. Catherines Island Foundation
The Study of Indigenous Political Economies and Colonialism in Native California: Implications for Contemporary Tribal Groups and Federal Recognition
This article advocates for a comparative approach to archaeological studies of colonialism that considers how Native American societies with divergent political economies may have influenced various kinds of processes and outcomes in their encounters with European colonists. Three dimensions of indigenous political economies (polity size, polity structure, and landscape management practices) are identified as critical variables in colonial resear…
Modeling consumption
In this chapter, the author focuses on glass bead assemblage to present a methodological approach for examining bead consumption among the population of Mission Santa Catalina. She believes individuals from the community of Mission San Diego de Satuache can be recognized as comprising a distinct community of consumption at Mission Santa Catalina. Combining the concepts of object itineraries, communities of practice, and the methods of social netw…
An XRF Compositional Analysis of Opaque White Glass Beads from 17th-Century Mission Santa Catalina de Guale, Georgia
Previous analyses of the elemental composition of white glass beads have shown that the opacifier used during glass manufacture is temporally diagnostic, with a transition from tin to antimony to arsenic to fluorine. To date, most researchers using this fact for chronological purposes have focused on British, Dutch, and French contact sites in the northeastern United States and Canada. Many of these studies have relied on expensive, and sometimes…
Organic residue analysis of two Mississippian period human effigy pipes
Itineraries and networks of the Mission San Joseph de Sapala beads
Reconsidering the Precolumbian Presence of Venetian Glass Beads in Alaska
In a recent article, Kunz and Mills (2021) report 10 drawn, a speo finished, turquoise blue, IIa40 beads manufactured in Venice and recovered from three late precontact sites in the Alaskan Arctic. They argue that these beads date to the fifteenth century, predating Columbus's arrival in the Americas. This conclusion is certainly in error because beads of this type were not manufactured prior to approximately AD 1560. The historical and archaeolo…
Chemical analysis of glass beads in Palau, western Micronesia reveals 19th century inter-island exchange systems in transition
Multi‐method geophysical investigation at Snow's Bend, a Mississippian platform mound
Archaeological investigations of Mississippian platform mounds have traditionally required invasive excavation or coring. Excavations are damaging to sites, and in many cases, invasive or destructive research methods on Native American mounds are forbidden or inappropriate. Non‐invasive geophysical investigations avoid these issues but have their own challenges in terms of resolving the interior of the mound, particularly if electrically conducti…
The Elemental Analysis of Glass Beads
Glass beads, both beautiful and portable, have been produced and traded globally for thousands of years. Modern archaeologists study these artifacts through sophisticated methods that analyze the glass composition, a process which can be utilized to trace bead usage through time and across regions. This book publishes open-access compositional data obtained from laser ablation - inductively coupled plasma - mass spectrometry, from a single analyt…
Collaborative multimethod geophysics at the Prewitt Slave Cemetery, Northport, Alabama
This paper serves to highlight the partnership built between the Prewitt Slave Cemetery Association (PSCA) and the University of Alabama (UA) through the work conducted by the UA archaeological field school at the Prewitt Slave Cemetery (PSC) in Fall 2022. During this collaborative project, the field school students geolocated, recorded and photographed more than 700 above‐ground grave markers and conducted a multi‐method geophysical survey that …
Air and sound: Indigenous wind instruments made of bone in the Southeast United States
By studying the distribution of wind instruments made of bone, we investigate the presence of musical traditions in the American Southeast and nearby regions during the last few centuries prior to European arrival. Our findings show that southeastern Indigenous peoples used bone instruments far less than their neighbors, suggesting that they almost exclusively made whistles and flutes from reeds, wood, and other materials that do not survive in t…
Of missions and marshes: Stable isotope analysis of Mission-Era Guale oyster harvesting on St. Catherines Island, Georgia
This article presents the results of oxygen stable isotope analysis on eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) samples (n = 25) from a Mission-Era (ca. AD 1565–1680) site, Pueblo Santa Catalina de Guale, on St. Catherines Island, GA. Stable isotope analysis was used to assess the seasonality of oyster harvesting on St. Catherines Island during the Mission Era to better understand how Spanish colonization and the Catholic mission system may have im…
Sequential villages and settling down on the southeast U.S. coast
The adoption of more sedentary residential practices is a long process in which groups shift in size, permanence, makeup, and even location in response to the social, demographic, ecological, and subsistence pressures associated with settling down. Coastal peoples living in the Southeast U.S. are among the first to adopt more sedentary lifeways in North America as evidenced by their creation of dozens of large circular or arcing shell middens dur…
Objects of coalescence: Using LA-ICP-MS to study ceramics recovered from an eighteenth-century Choctaw village
Nueva Cadiz Glass Beads at James Fort in Virginia: Addressing Questions of Origin through Compositional Analysis
The glass bead assemblage generated by archaeological excavations at the seventeenth-century English colonial site of Jamestown in Virginia contains an anomalously large proportion of types, such as Nueva Cadiz and faceted chevron, that traditionally have been viewed as diagnostic of sixteenth-century Spanish assemblages. This study has applied the Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) method of compositional ana…
Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (12 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Geology (7 works) · History (6 works) · Bead (5 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis (4 works) · Oceanography (4 works)