Mary L Kwas
Biographic Data
| ID | 4054488 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary L Kwas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary L |
| FAMILY NAME | Kwas |
| SIGNATURE | KWAS M L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arkansas at Fayetteville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mapping Never-Never Land
The well-known map of the Pinson Mounds site published by William Myer in 1922 illustrates numerous earthworks, including 34 mounds and extensive embankments, most of which are not visible today. Researchers have long debated the existence of these features and the accuracy of Myer's map in general. Using early photographs, topographic maps, gradiometry, and, most important, the 1917 field map upon which the 1922 map was based, it is clear that a…
Digital Bridge-Building
Simon T. Sanders and the Meredith Clan
RECENT STUDIES OF KINSHIP have demonstrated that understanding family connections can broaden insights into migratory patterns, political and economic opportunities, and class standing in southern society. Carolyn Earle Billingsley, in Communities of Kinship: Antebellum Families and the Settlement of the Cotton Frontier, makes a strong case for employing kinship in addition to race, class, and gender as an analytical tool. She notes that kinship …
High, Wide, and Frightened
The Bat Creek Stone Revisited
An inscribed stone reportedly excavated by an employee of the Smithsonian Institution from a burial mound in eastern Tennessee, and published by Cyrus Thomas in his 1894 landmark report, has been promoted by transatlantic contact enthusiasts as incontrovertible proof of Precolumbian Old World contacts. The inscription is fraudulent, having been copied from a Masonic treatise. We present the source of the inscription and discuss other circumstance…
The Spectacular 1833 Leonid Meteor Storm
EACH YEAR IN THE MIDDLE OF NOVEMBER, the Earth's orbit passes through the band of Leonid meteors, a stream of dust and crumbs shed from Comet Tempel-Tuttle that provides stargazers a spectacle of falling stars. Most years the shower is light and unremarkable, but for several years during a thirty-three year cycle the Earth bisects the meteoroid stream in such a way as to produce the possibility of a dazzling meteor display. In the last years of t…
Mapping Never-Never Land
The well-known map of the Pinson Mounds site published by William Myer in 1922 illustrates numerous earthworks, including 34 mounds and extensive embankments, most of which are not visible today. Researchers have long debated the existence of these features and the accuracy of Myer's map in general. Using early photographs, topographic maps, gradiometry, and, most important, the 1917 field map upon which the 1922 map was based, it is clear that a…
The Spectacular 1833 Leonid Meteor Storm
EACH YEAR IN THE MIDDLE OF NOVEMBER, the Earth's orbit passes through the band of Leonid meteors, a stream of dust and crumbs shed from Comet Tempel-Tuttle that provides stargazers a spectacle of falling stars. Most years the shower is light and unremarkable, but for several years during a thirty-three year cycle the Earth bisects the meteoroid stream in such a way as to produce the possibility of a dazzling meteor display. In the last years of t…
High, Wide, and Frightened
The Bat Creek Stone Revisited
An inscribed stone reportedly excavated by an employee of the Smithsonian Institution from a burial mound in eastern Tennessee, and published by Cyrus Thomas in his 1894 landmark report, has been promoted by transatlantic contact enthusiasts as incontrovertible proof of Precolumbian Old World contacts. The inscription is fraudulent, having been copied from a Masonic treatise. We present the source of the inscription and discuss other circumstance…
Simon T. Sanders and the Meredith Clan
RECENT STUDIES OF KINSHIP have demonstrated that understanding family connections can broaden insights into migratory patterns, political and economic opportunities, and class standing in southern society. Carolyn Earle Billingsley, in Communities of Kinship: Antebellum Families and the Settlement of the Cotton Frontier, makes a strong case for employing kinship in addition to race, class, and gender as an analytical tool. She notes that kinship …
Digital Bridge-Building
Mapping Never-Never Land
The well-known map of the Pinson Mounds site published by William Myer in 1922 illustrates numerous earthworks, including 34 mounds and extensive embankments, most of which are not visible today. Researchers have long debated the existence of these features and the accuracy of Myer's map in general. Using early photographs, topographic maps, gradiometry, and, most important, the 1917 field map upon which the 1922 map was based, it is clear that a…
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