R Barry Lewis
Biographic Data
| ID | 83806 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Barry Lewis |
| GIVEN NAMES | R Barry |
| FAMILY NAME | Lewis |
| SIGNATURE | LEWIS R B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 183 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Mayakonda, A Fortified Headquarters Town of the Chitradurga Nayakas
The Chitradurga Nayakas ruled part of central Karnataka between the 1550s and 1779. When mapped by the British in the early 1800s, the former Chitradurga kingdom comprised eleven parganas or districts, each of which were administered by a headquarters town. Similar territorial divisions existed throughout the Early Modern kingdoms and chiefdoms of South India. Taking Mayakonda as an example, I trace its development and history as the fortified he…
The Western Kentucky Border and the Cairo Lowland
Mississippian Towns and Sacred Spaces: Searching for an Architectural Grammar
Prehistory of the Central Mississippi Valley
The Central Mississippi Valley, defined as the region along the Mississippi River from where the Ohio River joins in the north to its confluence with the Arkansas River in the south, lies between the two most important archaeological areas of the Southeast: American Bottom/Cahokia and the Lower Yazoo Basin. The valley has been influenced by these major centers and has a complex history of its own. Contributions from experts throughout the region …
The Late Prehistory of the Ohio–Mississippi Rivers Confluence Region, Kentucky and Missouri
QDA Miner 2.0: Mixed-Model Qualitative Data Analysis Software
NVivo 2.0 and Atlas.ti 5.0: A Comparative Review of Two Popular Qualitative Data-Analysis Programs
Mississippian Towns and Sacred Spaces: Searching for an Architectural Grammar
Architecture is the most visible physical manifestation of human culture. The built environment envelops our lives and projects our distinctive regional and ethnic identities to the world around us. Archaeology and architecture find common theoretical ground in their perspectives on the homes, spaces, and communities that people create for themselves. In this volume, prominent archaeologists examine the architectural design spaces of Mississippia…
ArcView 3.2a, MapInfo 6.0, and Manifold 4.5: A Comparative Review of Geographical Information System Software
This review compares the main features of recent releases of three geographical information system (GIS) products: ArcView 3.2a, MapInfo 6.0, and Manifold 4.5. ArcView and MapInfo are both good choices of well-established GIS software packages. ArcView hand-holds the user through many tasks and it is easy to remember how it works. MapInfo's interface is not as nice as that of ArcView or Manifold, but it has good raster image registration tools an…
Sea-Level Rise and Subsidence Effects on Gulf Coast Archaeological Site Distributions
This article examines the archaeological effects of two major geologic factors, eustatic sea-level rise and land subsidence, on the archaeological site distributions of low-energy coastlines. It describes an inexpensive, quick approach to identify these effects, which exploits the interpretive value of state-maintained archaeological site location files. The application of this approach to the Mississippi Gulf Coast suggests that coastal sites ol…
SIMSTAT with WORDSTAT: A Comprehensive Statistical Package with a Content Analysis Module
SIMSTAT is an inexpensive but full-featured Windows/DOS statistical package. Several features set it apart from its competitors in the same price range. First, SIMSTAT offers extensive bootstrapping capabilities (bootstrapping is a statistical technique that uses resampling to estimate population parameters). Second, WORDSTAT, one of several modules that can be purchased to extend the capabilities of SIMSTAT, provides a wide range of quantitative…
After: A Framework of Tools for Ethnographic Research
AFTER Version 3.0 (A Framework of Tools for Ethnographic Research) is an MS Windows-based tool for coding and retrieving texts, sounds, graphics, and videos. The major features, strengths, and limitations of this product are described; useful tips and hints are given for maximizing AFTER's research potential. Emphasis is placed on procedures for coding files, analytical tools available in the software, and types of coded products that may be gene…
Atlas/ti and NUD·IST: A Comparative Review of Two Leading Qualitative Data Analysis Packages
Who's on First: Genealogies with Family Tree Maker(R)
Stata: Statistical Software for Windows, DOS, Macintosh, and Unix
Kwikstat 4.0: A Full-Featured, Low-Cost Statistics Package for DOS
StatMost for Windows 2.5 Statistics and Presentation Graphics in One Package
Cahokia and the Hinterlands: Middle Mississippian Cultures of the Midwest
Cahokia, the largest pre-Columbian urban site north of Mexico, may have been home to between thirty and forty thousand people around A.D. 1100
On Astragalus Dice and Culture Contact: Reply to Eisenberg
Old World Dice in the Protohistoric Southern United States
The Analysis of Contingency Tables in Archaeology
Radiocarbon Dating and Lower Mississippi Valley Archaeology
Our understanding of prehistory is increasingly conditioned by absolute dates, particularly radiocarbon age determinations. Sample selection and date interpretation procedures are therefore important to productive archaeological research. Guidelines for those procedures are described and illustrated with archaeological examples from the Lower Mississippi Valley. Recommendations are made for the improved interpretability and reliability of absolut…
Isotope Assessment and the Seasonal-Mobility Hypothesis in the Southwestern Cape of South Africa [and Comments and Replies]
This paper consists of a stable carbon isotopic assessment of the diets of the Holocene human inhabitants of the southwestern Cape, South Africa. Samples of the foods these people ate were collected from each of the four major physiographic zones in the area and their 13C/12C rations measured. A total of more than 200 such analyses enabled the estimation of the average 13C values of prehistoric human diets in each zone. This information is used t…
Reductionism in Cultural Ecology: The Amazon Case [and Comments and Reply]
Cultural ecologists attempting to trace the influence of ecological scarcities on cultural development are often criticized for reductionism. In the Amazon case, critics of ecological theories have argued that resource scarcity is of minor importance as a determinant of cultural features because native communities appear to enjoy abundant land and fully nutritious diets. This paper presents data and arguments suggesting that much of this "resourc…
Isotope Assessment and the Seasonal-Mobility Hypothesis in the Southwestern Cape of South Africa [and Comments and Replies]
This paper consists of a stable carbon isotopic assessment of the diets of the Holocene human inhabitants of the southwestern Cape, South Africa. Samples of the foods these people ate were collected from each of the four major physiographic zones in the area and their 13C/12C rations measured. A total of more than 200 such analyses enabled the estimation of the average 13C values of prehistoric human diets in each zone. This information is used t…
Cahokia and the Hinterlands: Middle Mississippian Cultures of the Midwest
Cahokia, the largest pre-Columbian urban site north of Mexico, may have been home to between thirty and forty thousand people around A.D. 1100
Prehistory of the Central Mississippi Valley
The Central Mississippi Valley, defined as the region along the Mississippi River from where the Ohio River joins in the north to its confluence with the Arkansas River in the south, lies between the two most important archaeological areas of the Southeast: American Bottom/Cahokia and the Lower Yazoo Basin. The valley has been influenced by these major centers and has a complex history of its own. Contributions from experts throughout the region …
Reductionism in Cultural Ecology: The Amazon Case [and Comments and Reply]
Cultural ecologists attempting to trace the influence of ecological scarcities on cultural development are often criticized for reductionism. In the Amazon case, critics of ecological theories have argued that resource scarcity is of minor importance as a determinant of cultural features because native communities appear to enjoy abundant land and fully nutritious diets. This paper presents data and arguments suggesting that much of this "resourc…
QDA Miner 2.0: Mixed-Model Qualitative Data Analysis Software
Old World Dice in the Protohistoric Southern United States
Mississippian Towns and Sacred Spaces: Searching for an Architectural Grammar
Architecture is the most visible physical manifestation of human culture. The built environment envelops our lives and projects our distinctive regional and ethnic identities to the world around us. Archaeology and architecture find common theoretical ground in their perspectives on the homes, spaces, and communities that people create for themselves. In this volume, prominent archaeologists examine the architectural design spaces of Mississippia…
Sea-Level Rise and Subsidence Effects on Gulf Coast Archaeological Site Distributions
This article examines the archaeological effects of two major geologic factors, eustatic sea-level rise and land subsidence, on the archaeological site distributions of low-energy coastlines. It describes an inexpensive, quick approach to identify these effects, which exploits the interpretive value of state-maintained archaeological site location files. The application of this approach to the Mississippi Gulf Coast suggests that coastal sites ol…
On Astragalus Dice and Culture Contact: Reply to Eisenberg
SIMSTAT with WORDSTAT: A Comprehensive Statistical Package with a Content Analysis Module
SIMSTAT is an inexpensive but full-featured Windows/DOS statistical package. Several features set it apart from its competitors in the same price range. First, SIMSTAT offers extensive bootstrapping capabilities (bootstrapping is a statistical technique that uses resampling to estimate population parameters). Second, WORDSTAT, one of several modules that can be purchased to extend the capabilities of SIMSTAT, provides a wide range of quantitative…
Radiocarbon Dating and Lower Mississippi Valley Archaeology
Our understanding of prehistory is increasingly conditioned by absolute dates, particularly radiocarbon age determinations. Sample selection and date interpretation procedures are therefore important to productive archaeological research. Guidelines for those procedures are described and illustrated with archaeological examples from the Lower Mississippi Valley. Recommendations are made for the improved interpretability and reliability of absolut…
Reductionism in Cultural Ecology: The Amazon Case [and Comments and Reply]
Cultural ecologists attempting to trace the influence of ecological scarcities on cultural development are often criticized for reductionism. In the Amazon case, critics of ecological theories have argued that resource scarcity is of minor importance as a determinant of cultural features because native communities appear to enjoy abundant land and fully nutritious diets. This paper presents data and arguments suggesting that much of this "resourc…
The Analysis of Contingency Tables in Archaeology
Radiocarbon Dating and Lower Mississippi Valley Archaeology
Our understanding of prehistory is increasingly conditioned by absolute dates, particularly radiocarbon age determinations. Sample selection and date interpretation procedures are therefore important to productive archaeological research. Guidelines for those procedures are described and illustrated with archaeological examples from the Lower Mississippi Valley. Recommendations are made for the improved interpretability and reliability of absolut…
Isotope Assessment and the Seasonal-Mobility Hypothesis in the Southwestern Cape of South Africa [and Comments and Replies]
This paper consists of a stable carbon isotopic assessment of the diets of the Holocene human inhabitants of the southwestern Cape, South Africa. Samples of the foods these people ate were collected from each of the four major physiographic zones in the area and their 13C/12C rations measured. A total of more than 200 such analyses enabled the estimation of the average 13C values of prehistoric human diets in each zone. This information is used t…
Old World Dice in the Protohistoric Southern United States
On Astragalus Dice and Culture Contact: Reply to Eisenberg
Cahokia and the Hinterlands: Middle Mississippian Cultures of the Midwest
Cahokia, the largest pre-Columbian urban site north of Mexico, may have been home to between thirty and forty thousand people around A.D. 1100
Kwikstat 4.0: A Full-Featured, Low-Cost Statistics Package for DOS
StatMost for Windows 2.5 Statistics and Presentation Graphics in One Package
Stata: Statistical Software for Windows, DOS, Macintosh, and Unix
Atlas/ti and NUD·IST: A Comparative Review of Two Leading Qualitative Data Analysis Packages
Who's on First: Genealogies with Family Tree Maker(R)
SIMSTAT with WORDSTAT: A Comprehensive Statistical Package with a Content Analysis Module
SIMSTAT is an inexpensive but full-featured Windows/DOS statistical package. Several features set it apart from its competitors in the same price range. First, SIMSTAT offers extensive bootstrapping capabilities (bootstrapping is a statistical technique that uses resampling to estimate population parameters). Second, WORDSTAT, one of several modules that can be purchased to extend the capabilities of SIMSTAT, provides a wide range of quantitative…
After: A Framework of Tools for Ethnographic Research
AFTER Version 3.0 (A Framework of Tools for Ethnographic Research) is an MS Windows-based tool for coding and retrieving texts, sounds, graphics, and videos. The major features, strengths, and limitations of this product are described; useful tips and hints are given for maximizing AFTER's research potential. Emphasis is placed on procedures for coding files, analytical tools available in the software, and types of coded products that may be gene…
ArcView 3.2a, MapInfo 6.0, and Manifold 4.5: A Comparative Review of Geographical Information System Software
This review compares the main features of recent releases of three geographical information system (GIS) products: ArcView 3.2a, MapInfo 6.0, and Manifold 4.5. ArcView and MapInfo are both good choices of well-established GIS software packages. ArcView hand-holds the user through many tasks and it is easy to remember how it works. MapInfo's interface is not as nice as that of ArcView or Manifold, but it has good raster image registration tools an…
Sea-Level Rise and Subsidence Effects on Gulf Coast Archaeological Site Distributions
This article examines the archaeological effects of two major geologic factors, eustatic sea-level rise and land subsidence, on the archaeological site distributions of low-energy coastlines. It describes an inexpensive, quick approach to identify these effects, which exploits the interpretive value of state-maintained archaeological site location files. The application of this approach to the Mississippi Gulf Coast suggests that coastal sites ol…
Mississippian Towns and Sacred Spaces: Searching for an Architectural Grammar
Architecture is the most visible physical manifestation of human culture. The built environment envelops our lives and projects our distinctive regional and ethnic identities to the world around us. Archaeology and architecture find common theoretical ground in their perspectives on the homes, spaces, and communities that people create for themselves. In this volume, prominent archaeologists examine the architectural design spaces of Mississippia…
NVivo 2.0 and Atlas.ti 5.0: A Comparative Review of Two Popular Qualitative Data-Analysis Programs
QDA Miner 2.0: Mixed-Model Qualitative Data Analysis Software
The Late Prehistory of the Ohio–Mississippi Rivers Confluence Region, Kentucky and Missouri
The Western Kentucky Border and the Cairo Lowland
Mississippian Towns and Sacred Spaces: Searching for an Architectural Grammar
Prehistory of the Central Mississippi Valley
The Central Mississippi Valley, defined as the region along the Mississippi River from where the Ohio River joins in the north to its confluence with the Arkansas River in the south, lies between the two most important archaeological areas of the Southeast: American Bottom/Cahokia and the Lower Yazoo Basin. The valley has been influenced by these major centers and has a complex history of its own. Contributions from experts throughout the region …
Mayakonda, A Fortified Headquarters Town of the Chitradurga Nayakas
The Chitradurga Nayakas ruled part of central Karnataka between the 1550s and 1779. When mapped by the British in the early 1800s, the former Chitradurga kingdom comprised eleven parganas or districts, each of which were administered by a headquarters town. Similar territorial divisions existed throughout the Early Modern kingdoms and chiefdoms of South India. Taking Mayakonda as an example, I trace its development and history as the fortified he…
Geography (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (7 works) · History (7 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (5 works) · Prehistory (5 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (4 works) · Geology (4 works) · History (4 works)