Shirley Powell
Biographic Data
| ID | 85213 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shirley Powell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shirley |
| FAMILY NAME | Powell |
| SIGNATURE | POWELL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Illinois University Carbondale |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Sedentism or Mobility: What Do the Data Say? What Did the Anasazi Do?
The very structure of the question, a dichotomy between sedentism and mobility, suggests an epistemological root to the problems surrounding its answer. Every archaeologist working with data from the Colorado Plateau has his or her own interpretation of how prehistoric peoples used the landscape. Cosmos Mindeleff was probably the first trained observer to comment on prehistoric southwestern site morphology and to suggest activities associated wit…
Interpreting Southwestern Diversity: Underlying Principles and Overarching Patterns . Paul R. Fish , J. Jefferson Reid
People of the Tonto Rim: Archaeological Discovery in Prehistoric Arizona
San Gabriel del Yungue as Seen by an Archaeologist
An Ethos for Archaeological Practice
This article explores some of the implications of the relationships among ethos, world view, and archaeological practice by presenting a perspective on the dominant world view and ethos of contemporary American archaeology. The focus of the discussion is on how the archaeologists' world view enhances or obscures archaeological practice in various contexts. The authors propose an ethos and an ethic that reflects their view of the context of contem…
A Perspective on Ethics and the Reburial Controversy
It is our opinion that archaeologists have no inherent right of access to human remains, grave goods, or objects of cultural heritage; that respecting diverse cultural views does not amount to an abdication of academic freedom; that historically archaeologists have been unanthropological in their approach to living populations and inconsistent in their treatment of indigenous peoples; and that archaeologists are fighting a losing battle when they…
People of the Mesa: The Archaeology of Black Mesa, Arizona
Nobility and Adaptation: The Anasazi of Black Mesa, Arizona
Short‐Term Sedentism in the American Southwest: The Mimbres Valley Salado . Ben A. Nelson and Steven A. LeBlanc
Demographic Reconstructions in the American Southwest: Alternative Behavioral Means to the Same Archaeological Ends
Paleodemographic reconstructions are an important component of many evaluations of prehistoric cultural change, and the number of sites in an area, the size of those sites, or both of these variables are frequently used to estimate population size over time. Some of the reconstructions are based on a set of implicit assumptions—that a large number of large sites is the result of a large population. Despite the plausibility of this assumption, fac…
Social Adaptation to Food Stress: A Prehistoric South-Western Example
Combining anthropology, archeology, and evolutionary theory, Paul E. Minnis develops a model of how tribal societies deal with severe food shortages. While focusing on the prehistory of the Rio Mimbres region of New Mexico, he provides comparative data from the Fringe Enga of New Guinea, the Tikopia of Tikopia Island, and the Gwembe Tonga of South Africa. Minnis proposes that, faced with the threat of food shortages, nonstratified societies survi…
New Light on Chaco Canyon
An Ethnoarchaeological Approach to the Detection of Navajo and Anasazi Remains on Black Mesa, Arizona
A broad and comprehensive data base representing highly diverse prehistoric and historical sites is available on Black Mesa, Arizona. Our growing awareness of the kinds of physical remains represented by specific classes of Navajo structures has led us to reconsider the relationship between analogous Anasazi structures and the evidence for those structures. Criteria for designating prehistoric remains as structures may be unrealistically rigorous…
Fifteen Years on the Rock: Archaeological Research, Administration, and Compliance on Black Mesa, Arizona
The Black Mesa Archaeological Project has been conducting field investigations and archaeological research in northeastern Arizona since 1967. The work is contracted for by Peabody Coal Company in order to comply with federal, state, and tribal statutes. The longevity of the project, as well as its size and complexity, affords a unique opportunity to evaluate and refine research, project administration, and legal compliance procedures. In most si…
The Incorporation of Small Contract Projects into a Regional Sampling Design
This paper evaluates the research potential of small contract surveys conducted in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area. It is argued that if the data produced by small project surveys are to be used to answer regional questions, it is necessary to treat each small survey as a sample unit within a region and to synthesize the data from several such surveys. Statistical techniques are employed to determine the representativeness of the greater Ph…
Predicting the Presence of Structures on Small Sites
A Perspective on Ethics and the Reburial Controversy
It is our opinion that archaeologists have no inherent right of access to human remains, grave goods, or objects of cultural heritage; that respecting diverse cultural views does not amount to an abdication of academic freedom; that historically archaeologists have been unanthropological in their approach to living populations and inconsistent in their treatment of indigenous peoples; and that archaeologists are fighting a losing battle when they…
An Ethos for Archaeological Practice
This article explores some of the implications of the relationships among ethos, world view, and archaeological practice by presenting a perspective on the dominant world view and ethos of contemporary American archaeology. The focus of the discussion is on how the archaeologists' world view enhances or obscures archaeological practice in various contexts. The authors propose an ethos and an ethic that reflects their view of the context of contem…
Nobility and Adaptation: The Anasazi of Black Mesa, Arizona
Fifteen Years on the Rock: Archaeological Research, Administration, and Compliance on Black Mesa, Arizona
The Black Mesa Archaeological Project has been conducting field investigations and archaeological research in northeastern Arizona since 1967. The work is contracted for by Peabody Coal Company in order to comply with federal, state, and tribal statutes. The longevity of the project, as well as its size and complexity, affords a unique opportunity to evaluate and refine research, project administration, and legal compliance procedures. In most si…
People of the Mesa: The Archaeology of Black Mesa, Arizona
Demographic Reconstructions in the American Southwest: Alternative Behavioral Means to the Same Archaeological Ends
Paleodemographic reconstructions are an important component of many evaluations of prehistoric cultural change, and the number of sites in an area, the size of those sites, or both of these variables are frequently used to estimate population size over time. Some of the reconstructions are based on a set of implicit assumptions—that a large number of large sites is the result of a large population. Despite the plausibility of this assumption, fac…
Predicting the Presence of Structures on Small Sites
San Gabriel del Yungue as Seen by an Archaeologist
Predicting the Presence of Structures on Small Sites
The Incorporation of Small Contract Projects into a Regional Sampling Design
This paper evaluates the research potential of small contract surveys conducted in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area. It is argued that if the data produced by small project surveys are to be used to answer regional questions, it is necessary to treat each small survey as a sample unit within a region and to synthesize the data from several such surveys. Statistical techniques are employed to determine the representativeness of the greater Ph…
An Ethnoarchaeological Approach to the Detection of Navajo and Anasazi Remains on Black Mesa, Arizona
A broad and comprehensive data base representing highly diverse prehistoric and historical sites is available on Black Mesa, Arizona. Our growing awareness of the kinds of physical remains represented by specific classes of Navajo structures has led us to reconsider the relationship between analogous Anasazi structures and the evidence for those structures. Criteria for designating prehistoric remains as structures may be unrealistically rigorous…
Fifteen Years on the Rock: Archaeological Research, Administration, and Compliance on Black Mesa, Arizona
The Black Mesa Archaeological Project has been conducting field investigations and archaeological research in northeastern Arizona since 1967. The work is contracted for by Peabody Coal Company in order to comply with federal, state, and tribal statutes. The longevity of the project, as well as its size and complexity, affords a unique opportunity to evaluate and refine research, project administration, and legal compliance procedures. In most si…
Social Adaptation to Food Stress: A Prehistoric South-Western Example
Combining anthropology, archeology, and evolutionary theory, Paul E. Minnis develops a model of how tribal societies deal with severe food shortages. While focusing on the prehistory of the Rio Mimbres region of New Mexico, he provides comparative data from the Fringe Enga of New Guinea, the Tikopia of Tikopia Island, and the Gwembe Tonga of South Africa. Minnis proposes that, faced with the threat of food shortages, nonstratified societies survi…
New Light on Chaco Canyon
Short‐Term Sedentism in the American Southwest: The Mimbres Valley Salado . Ben A. Nelson and Steven A. LeBlanc
Demographic Reconstructions in the American Southwest: Alternative Behavioral Means to the Same Archaeological Ends
Paleodemographic reconstructions are an important component of many evaluations of prehistoric cultural change, and the number of sites in an area, the size of those sites, or both of these variables are frequently used to estimate population size over time. Some of the reconstructions are based on a set of implicit assumptions—that a large number of large sites is the result of a large population. Despite the plausibility of this assumption, fac…
Nobility and Adaptation: The Anasazi of Black Mesa, Arizona
People of the Mesa: The Archaeology of Black Mesa, Arizona
An Ethos for Archaeological Practice
This article explores some of the implications of the relationships among ethos, world view, and archaeological practice by presenting a perspective on the dominant world view and ethos of contemporary American archaeology. The focus of the discussion is on how the archaeologists' world view enhances or obscures archaeological practice in various contexts. The authors propose an ethos and an ethic that reflects their view of the context of contem…
A Perspective on Ethics and the Reburial Controversy
It is our opinion that archaeologists have no inherent right of access to human remains, grave goods, or objects of cultural heritage; that respecting diverse cultural views does not amount to an abdication of academic freedom; that historically archaeologists have been unanthropological in their approach to living populations and inconsistent in their treatment of indigenous peoples; and that archaeologists are fighting a losing battle when they…
San Gabriel del Yungue as Seen by an Archaeologist
People of the Tonto Rim: Archaeological Discovery in Prehistoric Arizona
Interpreting Southwestern Diversity: Underlying Principles and Overarching Patterns . Paul R. Fish , J. Jefferson Reid
Sedentism or Mobility: What Do the Data Say? What Did the Anasazi Do?
The very structure of the question, a dichotomy between sedentism and mobility, suggests an epistemological root to the problems surrounding its answer. Every archaeologist working with data from the Colorado Plateau has his or her own interpretation of how prehistoric peoples used the landscape. Cosmos Mindeleff was probably the first trained observer to comment on prehistoric southwestern site morphology and to suggest activities associated wit…
Archaeology (13 works) · History (12 works) · Geography (10 works) · History (9 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (8 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (7 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (4 works) · Prehistory (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)