Thomas W Neumann
Biographic Data
| ID | 3815569 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas W Neumann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas W |
| FAMILY NAME | Neumann |
| SIGNATURE | NEUMANN T W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Anthropology University of Minnesota Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Heritage Legislation, The Introduction of: Disciplining Through Law
Cultural Resources Archaeology: An Introduction
Most students who pursue a career in archaeology will find employment in cultural resource management (CRM), rather than in academia or traditional fieldwork. It is CRM, the protection and preservation of archaeological and other resources, that offers the jobs and provides the funding. Few textbooks, however, are dedicated to teaching students the techniques and practices of this field. Cultural Resources Archaeology, now brought completely up d…
Cleaning Artifacts with CalgonTM
Experiments in which recently excavated artifacts were soaked for at least four hours in 40 g/liter aqueous solutions of CalgonTM (sodium [hexa]metaphosphate), then rinsed off in a colander under tap water, show this method to be 1.5 to 6.4 times more thorough than traditional scrubbing while taking only two-thirds the time. This method, particularly effective in cleaning large batches of small or intricately surfaced objects, is a practical cost…
High-Magnification Use-Wear Analysis Of Projectile Points From Southeastern Lviinnesota
Analysis of 120 Late Archaic-Middle Woodland projectile points from the Johnson’s Spring Site (21HU35) m southeastern Minnesota indicates the presence of microwear traces and breakage patterns consistent with their use as knife blades. The assemblage includes representatives of eleven point types common in the midwestern United States, of which all dating from before A.D. 500 show such evidence. The implications of these findings for the interpre…
Human-wildlife competition and the passenger pigeon: Population growth from system destabilization
The Opossum Problem: Implications for Human-Wildlife Competition over Plant Foods
The Opossum Problem refers to the infrequent presence of opossum remains, relative to raccoon and squirrel remains, in sites in the eastern United States. The presence or absence of opossum remains is seen to be part of a larger pattern in prey selection in which hunting helped to reduce interspecies competition over plant foods. Spatial and temporal distributions of sites with opossum remains suggest that opossum was not selected as prey prior t…
A Model for the Vertical Distribution of Flotation-Size Particles
An attempt is made to isolate and model the effects of pedoturbation on the vertical distribution of flotation particles within a site matrix. The derived model states that the concentration of particles at a specific depth is directly proportional to the initial quantity deposited and inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the original deposition. The potential value of the model is exemplified through an analysis of differenc…
More on Salt Taboos
A Biocultural Approach to Salt Taboos: The Case of the Southeastern United States [and Comments and Reply]
Cultural behavior, when viewed as an extrasomatic adaptation for humans, alters previous interpretations of taboos as harmless placations of the supernatural. If the adaptive premise is true, then one may expect to find that taboos either have, or at one time had, an adaptive significance. This paper examines the salt and salt-containing-food taboos that were prevalent among the Indians in the southeastern United States during the early historic …
On Salt Taboos
The Physiological Consequences of Child-Rearing among the Creek, Chicasaw, and Choctaw
The Opossum Problem: Implications for Human-Wildlife Competition over Plant Foods
The Opossum Problem refers to the infrequent presence of opossum remains, relative to raccoon and squirrel remains, in sites in the eastern United States. The presence or absence of opossum remains is seen to be part of a larger pattern in prey selection in which hunting helped to reduce interspecies competition over plant foods. Spatial and temporal distributions of sites with opossum remains suggest that opossum was not selected as prey prior t…
A Biocultural Approach to Salt Taboos: The Case of the Southeastern United States [and Comments and Reply]
Cultural behavior, when viewed as an extrasomatic adaptation for humans, alters previous interpretations of taboos as harmless placations of the supernatural. If the adaptive premise is true, then one may expect to find that taboos either have, or at one time had, an adaptive significance. This paper examines the salt and salt-containing-food taboos that were prevalent among the Indians in the southeastern United States during the early historic …
On Salt Taboos
The Physiological Consequences of Child-Rearing among the Creek, Chicasaw, and Choctaw
A Biocultural Approach to Salt Taboos: The Case of the Southeastern United States [and Comments and Reply]
Cultural behavior, when viewed as an extrasomatic adaptation for humans, alters previous interpretations of taboos as harmless placations of the supernatural. If the adaptive premise is true, then one may expect to find that taboos either have, or at one time had, an adaptive significance. This paper examines the salt and salt-containing-food taboos that were prevalent among the Indians in the southeastern United States during the early historic …
On Salt Taboos
A Model for the Vertical Distribution of Flotation-Size Particles
An attempt is made to isolate and model the effects of pedoturbation on the vertical distribution of flotation particles within a site matrix. The derived model states that the concentration of particles at a specific depth is directly proportional to the initial quantity deposited and inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the original deposition. The potential value of the model is exemplified through an analysis of differenc…
More on Salt Taboos
Human-wildlife competition and the passenger pigeon: Population growth from system destabilization
The Opossum Problem: Implications for Human-Wildlife Competition over Plant Foods
The Opossum Problem refers to the infrequent presence of opossum remains, relative to raccoon and squirrel remains, in sites in the eastern United States. The presence or absence of opossum remains is seen to be part of a larger pattern in prey selection in which hunting helped to reduce interspecies competition over plant foods. Spatial and temporal distributions of sites with opossum remains suggest that opossum was not selected as prey prior t…
High-Magnification Use-Wear Analysis Of Projectile Points From Southeastern Lviinnesota
Analysis of 120 Late Archaic-Middle Woodland projectile points from the Johnson’s Spring Site (21HU35) m southeastern Minnesota indicates the presence of microwear traces and breakage patterns consistent with their use as knife blades. The assemblage includes representatives of eleven point types common in the midwestern United States, of which all dating from before A.D. 500 show such evidence. The implications of these findings for the interpre…
Cleaning Artifacts with CalgonTM
Experiments in which recently excavated artifacts were soaked for at least four hours in 40 g/liter aqueous solutions of CalgonTM (sodium [hexa]metaphosphate), then rinsed off in a colander under tap water, show this method to be 1.5 to 6.4 times more thorough than traditional scrubbing while taking only two-thirds the time. This method, particularly effective in cleaning large batches of small or intricately surfaced objects, is a practical cost…
Cultural Resources Archaeology: An Introduction
Most students who pursue a career in archaeology will find employment in cultural resource management (CRM), rather than in academia or traditional fieldwork. It is CRM, the protection and preservation of archaeological and other resources, that offers the jobs and provides the funding. Few textbooks, however, are dedicated to teaching students the techniques and practices of this field. Cultural Resources Archaeology, now brought completely up d…
Heritage Legislation, The Introduction of: Disciplining Through Law
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