Alan J Osborn
Biographic Data
| ID | 628516 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan J Osborn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan J |
| FAMILY NAME | Osborn |
| SIGNATURE | OSBORN A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nebraska at Omaha |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Fuelwood Collection and Women’s Work in Ancestral Puebloan Societies on the Colorado Plateau
Anthropologists have recently paid greater attention to gender and the division of labor in subsistence societies around the world. These studies have included Ancestral Puebloan societies in the United States Southwest, particularly on the Colorado Plateau. Based on ethnographic literature, women in this region have been responsible traditionally for a wide range of domestic activities, including child-rearing, farming, food preparation, cooking…
The Ethnoarchaeology of Ambush Hunting: A Case Study of ǂGi Pan, Western Ngamiland, Botswana
Paleoindians, Proboscideans, and Phytotoxins: Exploring the Feasibility of Poison Hunting During the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition
Archaeologists have long envisioned direct encounters between Paleoindians and megafauna of the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition (LGIT, 15–11.5 cal BP). Debate continues regarding the role that these Paleoindian hunters played in the extinction event(s). Archaeologists, paleontologists, and paleobiologists have proposed that Paleoindians proved to be very effective hunters who employed darts and spears tipped with razor-sharp, chipped-stone p…
The Baller biface cache: A possible Clovis site in Hitchcock county, Nebraska
Twenty-six Clovis implement caches are known from western North America. In cases where time-sensitive artifacts (e.g., Clovis projectile points or mammoth ivory rods) or adequate information about their provenience and geological context are absent, assigning temporal and cultural affiliation has been challenging. Such is the case with a cache of eight large bifaces, four of which were donated by Albert E. Baller in the early 1900s to the Univer…
Indigenous Use and Management of Marine Resources . Nobuhiro Kishigami , James M. Savelle
Cattle, Co-wives, Children, and Calabashes: Material Context for Symbol Use among the II Chamus of West-Central Kenya
Snowblind in the Desert Southwest: Moisture Islands, Ungulate Ecology, and Alternative Prehistoric Overwintering Strategies
Archaeologists concerned with human adaptations in the American Southwest have generally assumed that plant resources dominated the diets of hunter-gatherers and cultivators throughout most of the prehistoric record. Such a perspective has probably arisen as a result of the "tyranny of the ethnographic record," the dominant role of "lowland archaeology," and the lack of research that was guided by robust ecologically based theory. Optimal foragin…
Beating a Dead Horse: Reply to Levy's Comments
The author reponds with a rebuttal to comments made by Jerrold E. Levy concerning his paper "Ecological Aspcets of Equestrian Adaptations in Aboriginal North America" which was published in American Anthropologist, volume 85, pages 562-591.
Ecological Aspects of Equestrian Adaptations in Aboriginal North America
Considerable attention has been given by anthropologists, including ethnohistorians, to the impact of domesticated horse use on aboriginal societies in western North America. The spatial and temporal distribution of horses, as well as variation in herd size, has traditionally been explained within a cultural diffusionist or historical particularist paradigm. It is argued here that not only has such an approach failed to account for the distributi…
Ecological Aspects of Equestrian Adaptations in Aboriginal North America
Considerable attention has been given by anthropologists, including ethnohistorians, to the impact of domesticated horse use on aboriginal societies in western North America. The spatial and temporal distribution of horses, as well as variation in herd size, has traditionally been explained within a cultural diffusionist or historical particularist paradigm. It is argued here that not only has such an approach failed to account for the distributi…
The Ethnoarchaeology of Ambush Hunting: A Case Study of ǂGi Pan, Western Ngamiland, Botswana
Snowblind in the Desert Southwest: Moisture Islands, Ungulate Ecology, and Alternative Prehistoric Overwintering Strategies
Archaeologists concerned with human adaptations in the American Southwest have generally assumed that plant resources dominated the diets of hunter-gatherers and cultivators throughout most of the prehistoric record. Such a perspective has probably arisen as a result of the "tyranny of the ethnographic record," the dominant role of "lowland archaeology," and the lack of research that was guided by robust ecologically based theory. Optimal foragin…
The Baller biface cache: A possible Clovis site in Hitchcock county, Nebraska
Twenty-six Clovis implement caches are known from western North America. In cases where time-sensitive artifacts (e.g., Clovis projectile points or mammoth ivory rods) or adequate information about their provenience and geological context are absent, assigning temporal and cultural affiliation has been challenging. Such is the case with a cache of eight large bifaces, four of which were donated by Albert E. Baller in the early 1900s to the Univer…
Ecological Aspects of Equestrian Adaptations in Aboriginal North America
Considerable attention has been given by anthropologists, including ethnohistorians, to the impact of domesticated horse use on aboriginal societies in western North America. The spatial and temporal distribution of horses, as well as variation in herd size, has traditionally been explained within a cultural diffusionist or historical particularist paradigm. It is argued here that not only has such an approach failed to account for the distributi…
Beating a Dead Horse: Reply to Levy's Comments
The author reponds with a rebuttal to comments made by Jerrold E. Levy concerning his paper "Ecological Aspcets of Equestrian Adaptations in Aboriginal North America" which was published in American Anthropologist, volume 85, pages 562-591.
Snowblind in the Desert Southwest: Moisture Islands, Ungulate Ecology, and Alternative Prehistoric Overwintering Strategies
Archaeologists concerned with human adaptations in the American Southwest have generally assumed that plant resources dominated the diets of hunter-gatherers and cultivators throughout most of the prehistoric record. Such a perspective has probably arisen as a result of the "tyranny of the ethnographic record," the dominant role of "lowland archaeology," and the lack of research that was guided by robust ecologically based theory. Optimal foragin…
Cattle, Co-wives, Children, and Calabashes: Material Context for Symbol Use among the II Chamus of West-Central Kenya
Indigenous Use and Management of Marine Resources . Nobuhiro Kishigami , James M. Savelle
Paleoindians, Proboscideans, and Phytotoxins: Exploring the Feasibility of Poison Hunting During the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition
Archaeologists have long envisioned direct encounters between Paleoindians and megafauna of the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition (LGIT, 15–11.5 cal BP). Debate continues regarding the role that these Paleoindian hunters played in the extinction event(s). Archaeologists, paleontologists, and paleobiologists have proposed that Paleoindians proved to be very effective hunters who employed darts and spears tipped with razor-sharp, chipped-stone p…
The Baller biface cache: A possible Clovis site in Hitchcock county, Nebraska
Twenty-six Clovis implement caches are known from western North America. In cases where time-sensitive artifacts (e.g., Clovis projectile points or mammoth ivory rods) or adequate information about their provenience and geological context are absent, assigning temporal and cultural affiliation has been challenging. Such is the case with a cache of eight large bifaces, four of which were donated by Albert E. Baller in the early 1900s to the Univer…
The Ethnoarchaeology of Ambush Hunting: A Case Study of ǂGi Pan, Western Ngamiland, Botswana
Fuelwood Collection and Women’s Work in Ancestral Puebloan Societies on the Colorado Plateau
Anthropologists have recently paid greater attention to gender and the division of labor in subsistence societies around the world. These studies have included Ancestral Puebloan societies in the United States Southwest, particularly on the Colorado Plateau. Based on ethnographic literature, women in this region have been responsible traditionally for a wide range of domestic activities, including child-rearing, farming, food preparation, cooking…
Geography (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · History (6 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (5 works) · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (4 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (3 works) · Biology (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · History (3 works)