Eric W Ritter
Biographic Data
| ID | 4052684 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric W Ritter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric W |
| FAMILY NAME | Ritter |
| SIGNATURE | RITTER E W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bureau of Land Management |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Shell Beads and Ornaments in Prehistoric Baja California
Toward Collective Memory Reconstruction as Epistemic Activism
The United States, alongside other Western democracies, is in search of a usable past. Collective memory in the United States has persistently distorted or whitewashed its past, resulting in a distinct kind of (socially sanctioned) ignorance of the present. Collective memory reconstruction can thus be understood as “epistemic activism,” targeting an “epistemology of ignorance,” borrowing and expanding key concepts from the work of Charles Mills a…
Investigations of Archaeological Variability in Northeastern Baja California Sur, Mexico
Baja California Sur represents one of the last great frontiers of North American archaeology. This chapter considers a pioneering effort in peninsula archaeology. The assumed interaction of humans and their cultural and natural environments is an important consideration for the archaeologist and shapes the scientist&s;s discoveries, interpretations, and explanations. The ethnographic literature provided a baseline for comparing and contrasting th…
The Archaeology of West and Northwest Mesoamerica
Remembering Louis Arthur “Sam” Payen, The Cattleman Archaeologist (1940–2013)
An Archaeological Approach to the Rupestrian Images at La Angostura, Central Baja California
A modest-sized rock art site in the Central Desert of Baja California provides information to measure the articulation between environmental (landscape) and cultural remains and the ethnographic record. Enigmatic and esoteric images, likely 500 to 3000 years in age and largely abstract-geometric, suggest multiple purposes, including individualistic and group welfare, communication, identity, achievement, life crises ritual, fecundity, and group s…
Reply to Bischoff, Childers, and Shlemon
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Chronology of the Farmington Complex
Recent geomorphic investigations in central California coupled with a re-evaluation of radiocarbon determinations from one Farmington complex locus provide a base for a more explicit definition of the age of this alleged Paleoindian manifestation. Flaked stone implements were apparently buried in gravels deposited during terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene times when channel filling occurred in the Sierra Nevada foothill drainages. The radioc…
Chronology of the Farmington Complex
Recent geomorphic investigations in central California coupled with a re-evaluation of radiocarbon determinations from one Farmington complex locus provide a base for a more explicit definition of the age of this alleged Paleoindian manifestation. Flaked stone implements were apparently buried in gravels deposited during terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene times when channel filling occurred in the Sierra Nevada foothill drainages. The radioc…
Reply to Bischoff, Childers, and Shlemon
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
An Archaeological Approach to the Rupestrian Images at La Angostura, Central Baja California
A modest-sized rock art site in the Central Desert of Baja California provides information to measure the articulation between environmental (landscape) and cultural remains and the ethnographic record. Enigmatic and esoteric images, likely 500 to 3000 years in age and largely abstract-geometric, suggest multiple purposes, including individualistic and group welfare, communication, identity, achievement, life crises ritual, fecundity, and group s…
Remembering Louis Arthur “Sam” Payen, The Cattleman Archaeologist (1940–2013)
Investigations of Archaeological Variability in Northeastern Baja California Sur, Mexico
Baja California Sur represents one of the last great frontiers of North American archaeology. This chapter considers a pioneering effort in peninsula archaeology. The assumed interaction of humans and their cultural and natural environments is an important consideration for the archaeologist and shapes the scientist&s;s discoveries, interpretations, and explanations. The ethnographic literature provided a baseline for comparing and contrasting th…
The Archaeology of West and Northwest Mesoamerica
Toward Collective Memory Reconstruction as Epistemic Activism
The United States, alongside other Western democracies, is in search of a usable past. Collective memory in the United States has persistently distorted or whitewashed its past, resulting in a distinct kind of (socially sanctioned) ignorance of the present. Collective memory reconstruction can thus be understood as “epistemic activism,” targeting an “epistemology of ignorance,” borrowing and expanding key concepts from the work of Charles Mills a…
Shell Beads and Ornaments in Prehistoric Baja California
Archaeology (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (4 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (4 works) · History (3 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (2 works) · Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes (2 works) · Law (2 works)