David P Braun
Biographic Data
| ID | 3617954 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David P Braun |
| GIVEN NAMES | David P |
| FAMILY NAME | Braun |
| SIGNATURE | BRAUN D P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Illinois University Carbondale |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 185 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Why decorate a pot? Midwestern household pottery, 200 B.C.-A.D.600
Sedentism, Population Growth, and Resource Selection in the Woodland Midwest: A Review of Coevolutionary Developments [and Comments and Reply]
Archeology: Theory and Explanation in Archaeology: The Southampton Conference . Colin Renfrew, Michael J. Rowlands and Barbara Abbott Segraves
Burial practices, material remains, and the anthropological record
Chapman, Robert, Ian Kinnes, and Klavs Randsborg, eds. The Archaeology of Death. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. vii + 159 pp. including preface, unified bibliogaphy, and index. $29.95 cloth. Humphreys, S.C., and Helen King, eds. Mortality and Immortality: The Anthropology and Archaeology of Death. New York: Academic Press, 1981. x + 346 pp. including preface, separate chapter bibliographies, personal name index, and subject index. $…
Some Issues in the Archaeology of 'Tribal' Social Systems
Saitta's (1983) comments on a model of the evolution of tribal social networks (Braun and Plog 1982) are discussed. Aspects of the model are clarified and problems with Saitta's interpretations are noted. In particular, we focus on questions concerning the relationship between stylistic variation and social networks and several issues concerning tribal social organization. We also address weaknesses in the alternative approach that Saitta describ…
Pots as Tools
The Snyders Mounds and Five Other Mound Groups in Calhoun County, Illinois
In the 1940s, Paul F. Titterington, a doctor and avocational archaeologist, excavated several prehistoric burial mounds in Calhoun County, Illinois. He did not publish the results of his research, but he did donate his notebooks, photographs, and artifact collection to the University of Michigan in 1955. In this report, David Braun and James Griffin present Titterington's research
Radiographic Analysis of Temper in Ceramic Vessels: Goals and Initial Methods
Information on several characteristics of temper particles can aid the archaeologist in interpreting details of ceramic vessel use and functional variation. The paper summarizes theoretical reasons and experimental procedures for using X-radiography to obtain rapid, low-cost quantitative measurements of the sizes, shape, density, and orientation of temper particles. The feasibility of this approach is assessed using Woodland period pottery from t…
Evolution of 'Tribal' Social Networks: Theory and Prehistoric North American Evidence
This paper addresses two topics central to the study of nonhierarchical, regional social networks, sometimes termed 'tribal' social networks: (1) alternative models of the evolution of regional integration; and (2) the archaeological determination of characteristics of such regional networks. Problems in previous ethnological and archaeological studies are identified, and an alternative model is proposed. This is based on a more general theory of…
A Critique of Some Recent North American Mortuary Studies
Interpretations of prehistoric social organization based on multivariate statistical analyses of burial practices are becoming increasingly common in the North American archaeological literature. Unfortunately, these analyses and interpretations can incorporate weaknesses ranging from faulty data coding and the mis-application of statistical procedures to biases in the statistical and logical procedures employed. These problems are discussed in l…
Social inference in archaeology: Some progress
Charles L. Redman, Mary Jane Berman, Edward V. Curtin, William T. Langhorne, Jr., Nina M. Versaggi, and Jeffery C. Wanser, eds. Social Archeology: Beyond Subsistence and Dating. New York: Academic Press, 1978. xiv + 471 pp. $25.00
Archaeology: The Hood Site: A Late Woodland Hamlet in the Sangamon Valley of Central Illinois. R. Barry Lewis
Explanatory Models for the Evolution of Coastal Adaptation in Prehistoric Eastern New England
Archaeological records of the fourth and third millennia B.P. in eastern New England, from Massachusetts to Maine, evidence the initiation and spread of intensive shellfish exploitation from a Late Archaic forest and riverine-oriented economic base. Changes in the degree of exploitation of several shellfish species follow the economic shift during Early and Middle Woodland times. Ritchie and Snow have recently explained these changes as the resul…
Evolution of 'Tribal' Social Networks: Theory and Prehistoric North American Evidence
This paper addresses two topics central to the study of nonhierarchical, regional social networks, sometimes termed 'tribal' social networks: (1) alternative models of the evolution of regional integration; and (2) the archaeological determination of characteristics of such regional networks. Problems in previous ethnological and archaeological studies are identified, and an alternative model is proposed. This is based on a more general theory of…
A Critique of Some Recent North American Mortuary Studies
Interpretations of prehistoric social organization based on multivariate statistical analyses of burial practices are becoming increasingly common in the North American archaeological literature. Unfortunately, these analyses and interpretations can incorporate weaknesses ranging from faulty data coding and the mis-application of statistical procedures to biases in the statistical and logical procedures employed. These problems are discussed in l…
Explanatory Models for the Evolution of Coastal Adaptation in Prehistoric Eastern New England
Archaeological records of the fourth and third millennia B.P. in eastern New England, from Massachusetts to Maine, evidence the initiation and spread of intensive shellfish exploitation from a Late Archaic forest and riverine-oriented economic base. Changes in the degree of exploitation of several shellfish species follow the economic shift during Early and Middle Woodland times. Ritchie and Snow have recently explained these changes as the resul…
Radiographic Analysis of Temper in Ceramic Vessels: Goals and Initial Methods
Information on several characteristics of temper particles can aid the archaeologist in interpreting details of ceramic vessel use and functional variation. The paper summarizes theoretical reasons and experimental procedures for using X-radiography to obtain rapid, low-cost quantitative measurements of the sizes, shape, density, and orientation of temper particles. The feasibility of this approach is assessed using Woodland period pottery from t…
The Snyders Mounds and Five Other Mound Groups in Calhoun County, Illinois
In the 1940s, Paul F. Titterington, a doctor and avocational archaeologist, excavated several prehistoric burial mounds in Calhoun County, Illinois. He did not publish the results of his research, but he did donate his notebooks, photographs, and artifact collection to the University of Michigan in 1955. In this report, David Braun and James Griffin present Titterington's research
Some Issues in the Archaeology of 'Tribal' Social Systems
Saitta's (1983) comments on a model of the evolution of tribal social networks (Braun and Plog 1982) are discussed. Aspects of the model are clarified and problems with Saitta's interpretations are noted. In particular, we focus on questions concerning the relationship between stylistic variation and social networks and several issues concerning tribal social organization. We also address weaknesses in the alternative approach that Saitta describ…
Burial practices, material remains, and the anthropological record
Chapman, Robert, Ian Kinnes, and Klavs Randsborg, eds. The Archaeology of Death. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. vii + 159 pp. including preface, unified bibliogaphy, and index. $29.95 cloth. Humphreys, S.C., and Helen King, eds. Mortality and Immortality: The Anthropology and Archaeology of Death. New York: Academic Press, 1981. x + 346 pp. including preface, separate chapter bibliographies, personal name index, and subject index. $…
Explanatory Models for the Evolution of Coastal Adaptation in Prehistoric Eastern New England
Archaeological records of the fourth and third millennia B.P. in eastern New England, from Massachusetts to Maine, evidence the initiation and spread of intensive shellfish exploitation from a Late Archaic forest and riverine-oriented economic base. Changes in the degree of exploitation of several shellfish species follow the economic shift during Early and Middle Woodland times. Ritchie and Snow have recently explained these changes as the resul…
Archaeology: The Hood Site: A Late Woodland Hamlet in the Sangamon Valley of Central Illinois. R. Barry Lewis
Social inference in archaeology: Some progress
Charles L. Redman, Mary Jane Berman, Edward V. Curtin, William T. Langhorne, Jr., Nina M. Versaggi, and Jeffery C. Wanser, eds. Social Archeology: Beyond Subsistence and Dating. New York: Academic Press, 1978. xiv + 471 pp. $25.00
A Critique of Some Recent North American Mortuary Studies
Interpretations of prehistoric social organization based on multivariate statistical analyses of burial practices are becoming increasingly common in the North American archaeological literature. Unfortunately, these analyses and interpretations can incorporate weaknesses ranging from faulty data coding and the mis-application of statistical procedures to biases in the statistical and logical procedures employed. These problems are discussed in l…
The Snyders Mounds and Five Other Mound Groups in Calhoun County, Illinois
In the 1940s, Paul F. Titterington, a doctor and avocational archaeologist, excavated several prehistoric burial mounds in Calhoun County, Illinois. He did not publish the results of his research, but he did donate his notebooks, photographs, and artifact collection to the University of Michigan in 1955. In this report, David Braun and James Griffin present Titterington's research
Radiographic Analysis of Temper in Ceramic Vessels: Goals and Initial Methods
Information on several characteristics of temper particles can aid the archaeologist in interpreting details of ceramic vessel use and functional variation. The paper summarizes theoretical reasons and experimental procedures for using X-radiography to obtain rapid, low-cost quantitative measurements of the sizes, shape, density, and orientation of temper particles. The feasibility of this approach is assessed using Woodland period pottery from t…
Evolution of 'Tribal' Social Networks: Theory and Prehistoric North American Evidence
This paper addresses two topics central to the study of nonhierarchical, regional social networks, sometimes termed 'tribal' social networks: (1) alternative models of the evolution of regional integration; and (2) the archaeological determination of characteristics of such regional networks. Problems in previous ethnological and archaeological studies are identified, and an alternative model is proposed. This is based on a more general theory of…
Pots as Tools
Archeology: Theory and Explanation in Archaeology: The Southampton Conference . Colin Renfrew, Michael J. Rowlands and Barbara Abbott Segraves
Burial practices, material remains, and the anthropological record
Chapman, Robert, Ian Kinnes, and Klavs Randsborg, eds. The Archaeology of Death. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. vii + 159 pp. including preface, unified bibliogaphy, and index. $29.95 cloth. Humphreys, S.C., and Helen King, eds. Mortality and Immortality: The Anthropology and Archaeology of Death. New York: Academic Press, 1981. x + 346 pp. including preface, separate chapter bibliographies, personal name index, and subject index. $…
Some Issues in the Archaeology of 'Tribal' Social Systems
Saitta's (1983) comments on a model of the evolution of tribal social networks (Braun and Plog 1982) are discussed. Aspects of the model are clarified and problems with Saitta's interpretations are noted. In particular, we focus on questions concerning the relationship between stylistic variation and social networks and several issues concerning tribal social organization. We also address weaknesses in the alternative approach that Saitta describ…
Sedentism, Population Growth, and Resource Selection in the Woodland Midwest: A Review of Coevolutionary Developments [and Comments and Reply]
Why decorate a pot? Midwestern household pottery, 200 B.C.-A.D.600
Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (11 works) · Archaeology (10 works) · History (10 works) · Geography (6 works) · Woodland (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)