Clement W Meighan
Biographic Data
| ID | 89705 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clement W Meighan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clement W |
| FAMILY NAME | Meighan |
| SIGNATURE | MEIGHAN C W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 124 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1951 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 10 And 11: Archaeology of Northern Mesoamerica
The burial of American archaeology
Another View on Repatriation: Lost to the Public, Lost to History
Research Article| July 01 1992 Another View on Repatriation: Lost to the Public, Lost to History Clement W. Meighan Clement W. Meighan Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (1992) 14 (3): 39–45. https://doi.org/10.2307/3378226 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite …
Some Scholars' Views on Reburial
T]here is something inherently distasteful and unseemly in secreting either the fruits or seeds of scientific endeavors. Judge Bruce S. Jenkins (quoted in Palca 1991:884) Destruction of archaeological collections through the demands for reburial presents a serious conflict between religion and science. Archaeologists should not deal with these matters by 'compromise' alone, but must sustain their rights and duties as scholars
The Dig . 1989 (released 1990). Produced by the National Film Board of Canada
Reexamination of the Early Central California Culture
The Early Central California assemblage was described on the basis of four sites in the delta region of California's central valley. The original reports interpret the sites as residential villages with associated cemeteries. In this discussion I argue that the evidence for residential occupation is very weak and that the sites are specialized mortuary mounds. The implications for California archaeology are discussed
The Material Culture of the Chumash Interaction Sphere. Volume 1: Food Procurement and Transportation
Obsidian Dating in California: Theory and Practice
A review of the obsidian hydration rates proposed for California obsidian sources raises questions of both practical and theoretical nature about the use of obsidian dating. Obsidian hydration rates so far proposed (primarily but not exclusively by Jonathon Ericson) require careful evaluation and checking against empirical data; routine use of the preliminary rates ignores cautions raised by the investigators and can lead to inaccurate chronologi…
Rebuttal to King on Publication ol Field Notes
Recognition of Short Time Periods through Seriation
One aspect of the recent article by Drennan (1976) merits some additional discussion. This has to do with the units of time that can be discriminated by seriation methods. One advance claimed for the new method proposed is that it allows for time placement within 25 years or so, stated as ' ... finer than most traditional seriation.' In an article published 17 years ago, I showed this degree of time discrimination, with a much simpler graphical m…
Reply to Tainter
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Mesoamerican Archaeology: New ApproachesThe Shaft Tomb Figures of West Mexico
The Maru Cult of the Pomo Indians: A California Ghost Dance Survival
From the Hand of Man: Primitive and Preindustrial Technologies
Frozen Tombs of Siberia: The Pazyryk Burials of Iron-Age Horsemen by Sergei I. Rudenko (review)
332 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE the lure of primitive ceramics, and was ceramist at the West African Institute of Arts, Industries and Social Sciences at Achimota in Ghana, in which country he also set up his own pottery. Later he was appointed Senior Pottery Officer in the Nigerian Department of Commerce and Industry and developed the Pottery Training Centre at Abuja in North ern Nigeria. He has always been willing not only to learn, bu…
Aspects of Prehistory
Frozen Tombs of Siberia: The Pazyryk Burials of Iron-Age Horsemen
General and Ethnology: Native Americans of California and Nevada. J ack D. F orbes
Stanley V. Long, 1937-1967
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Ancient Greek Gadgets and Machines
Dream Dances of the Kashia Pomo—The Bole‐Maru Religion—Women's Dances. Filmed and produced in 1963 by the University of California Extension Media Center, with S amuel A. B arrett as consultant, Kashi…
Archaeology: An Introduction
The Architecture of the Roman Empire. I. An Introductory Study
History of Mankind, Vol. II: The Ancient World
Prehistoric Rock Paintings in Baja California
Elaborate rock paintings from several rock shelters in the central part of Baja California are reported and described. The paintings are assigned to the Comondú culture on the basis of artifacts found in the shelters, one of which yielded a radiocarbon date of A.D. 1435 ± 80. The paintings apparently served as hunting magic. The complexity of the rock art and the wealth of sites and paintings suggest a somewhat more advanced culture than reported…
Ecological Interpretation in Archaeology: Part I
Interpretations of man's relationship to his environment are basic to the understanding of archaeological data. Such interpretations are made by almost all archaeologists in the course of presenting their findings, and there is a growing trend toward more precise delineation of human ecology in prehistoric times. Yet much archaeological writing of this sort tends to be sketchy and fragmentary, and techniques of value are often overlooked or ignor…
The American Southwest: A Problem in Cultural Isolation
One of the seminar topics scheduled for the summer of 1955 by the Society for American Archaeology was “The American Southwest: A Problem in Cultural Isolation.” The assignment was to “... examine the assumption that these Southwestern cultures resulted from local acceptance and development of generalized and/or specific traits which can be isolated in distant cultural contexts at earlier times than their climactic developments can be observed in…
Frozen Tombs of Siberia: The Pazyryk Burials of Iron-Age Horsemen
The Little Harbor Site, Catalina Island: An Example of Ecological Interpretation in Archaeology
The islands off southern California have attracted archaeological attention since the 1880's, yet actual site reports on island archaeology are virtually nonexistent. This report presents data on excavations at Little Harbor, Catalina Island. It is the first published site report for Catalina Island and the first complete description of a site excavation for the Channel islands as a group. Chronologically, the radiocarbon dating of the site provi…
Some Scholars' Views on Reburial
T]here is something inherently distasteful and unseemly in secreting either the fruits or seeds of scientific endeavors. Judge Bruce S. Jenkins (quoted in Palca 1991:884) Destruction of archaeological collections through the demands for reburial presents a serious conflict between religion and science. Archaeologists should not deal with these matters by 'compromise' alone, but must sustain their rights and duties as scholars
Prehistoric Rock Paintings in Baja California
Elaborate rock paintings from several rock shelters in the central part of Baja California are reported and described. The paintings are assigned to the Comondú culture on the basis of artifacts found in the shelters, one of which yielded a radiocarbon date of A.D. 1435 ± 80. The paintings apparently served as hunting magic. The complexity of the rock art and the wealth of sites and paintings suggest a somewhat more advanced culture than reported…
Reexamination of the Early Central California Culture
The Early Central California assemblage was described on the basis of four sites in the delta region of California's central valley. The original reports interpret the sites as residential villages with associated cemeteries. In this discussion I argue that the evidence for residential occupation is very weak and that the sites are specialized mortuary mounds. The implications for California archaeology are discussed
Folk Traditions as Historical Fact: A Paiute Example
proved in many cases to be consistent with archaeological evidence. This suggested that the Paiute had preserved some historical knowledge of the Puebloid people for about 800 years, during which period accurate information was transmitted in an oral tradition. In the summer of 1956, only seven specific statements relating to the prehistoric people, called Mukwitch by the Paiute, were collected. Five of these seven statements are to some extent v…
Archaeological Resources of San Nicolas Island, California
San Nicolas is a small island located off the coast of southern California some 75 miles southwest of Los Angeles and 55 miles from the nearest point of the mainland. It is the most distant from the mainland of eight islands referred to collectively as the Channel Islands. San Nicolas is about 8 miles long by 4 miles wide and is 32.2 square miles in area. According to Norris (n.d., pp. 67-74), San Nicolas Island is a faulted asymmetric anticline …
Obsidian Dating in California: Theory and Practice
A review of the obsidian hydration rates proposed for California obsidian sources raises questions of both practical and theoretical nature about the use of obsidian dating. Obsidian hydration rates so far proposed (primarily but not exclusively by Jonathon Ericson) require careful evaluation and checking against empirical data; routine use of the preliminary rates ignores cautions raised by the investigators and can lead to inaccurate chronologi…
New Findings in West Mexican Archaeology
A New Method for the Seriation of Archaeological Collections
This graphical technique utilizes only three types of artifacts from the collection to the seriated. The relationship between the three selected types is plotted on three-pole graph paper. The points on the graph are clustered along a line representing change through time; hence the archaeological materials are arranged in their correct temporal sequence. Data from Paragonah, Utah, and Pindi, New Mexico, two Southwestern sites for which the time …
Californian Cultures and the Concept of an Archaic Stage
Western archaeologists have almost unanimously shunned the term 'Archaic' in describing their finds. In the few cases where the word has been used at all, it has generally been qualified by using quotation marks, a question mark, or some statement indicating the author's belief that this is not arealArchaic culture. As a result, none of the described western cultures is conventionally labeled 'Archaic.' Avoidance of the term has stemmed from two …
Another View on Repatriation: Lost to the Public, Lost to History
Research Article| July 01 1992 Another View on Repatriation: Lost to the Public, Lost to History Clement W. Meighan Clement W. Meighan Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (1992) 14 (3): 39–45. https://doi.org/10.2307/3378226 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite …
Recognition of Short Time Periods through Seriation
One aspect of the recent article by Drennan (1976) merits some additional discussion. This has to do with the units of time that can be discriminated by seriation methods. One advance claimed for the new method proposed is that it allows for time placement within 25 years or so, stated as ' ... finer than most traditional seriation.' In an article published 17 years ago, I showed this degree of time discrimination, with a much simpler graphical m…
Archaeology: An Introduction
Ecological Interpretation in Archaeology: Part II
In a previous paper (Meighan and others 1958), we considered techniques whereby the archaeologist can derive conclusions concerning prehistoric man's relationship to his environment. We limited our study to hunting and gathering societies since we felt that these were most directly and intimately affected by environment. In the present discussion, we have attempted to expand our study to include archaeological communities marked by the presence o…
A Late Complex in Southern California Prehistory
Archaeological Exploration of Sixteenth-Century Indian Mounds at Drake's Bay
A Shell Snake Effigy from British Honduras
During a field trip to British Honduras in the summer of 1950, the carved representation of a serpent sketched in Figure 116 was seen in the private collection of Mr. Eustace Evans of Belize. Esthetically, the piece is designed and executed with a skill that makes it an outstanding example of aboriginal art. The specimen is also deserving of description because it is stylistically unusual for the Maya area, being quite different from the traditio…
Archaeological Exploration of Sixteenth-Century Indian Mounds at Drake's Bay
Archaeological Resources of San Nicolas Island, California
San Nicolas is a small island located off the coast of southern California some 75 miles southwest of Los Angeles and 55 miles from the nearest point of the mainland. It is the most distant from the mainland of eight islands referred to collectively as the Channel Islands. San Nicolas is about 8 miles long by 4 miles wide and is 32.2 square miles in area. According to Norris (n.d., pp. 67-74), San Nicolas Island is a faulted asymmetric anticline …
A Late Complex in Southern California Prehistory
The American Southwest: A Problem in Cultural Isolation
One of the seminar topics scheduled for the summer of 1955 by the Society for American Archaeology was “The American Southwest: A Problem in Cultural Isolation.” The assignment was to “... examine the assumption that these Southwestern cultures resulted from local acceptance and development of generalized and/or specific traits which can be isolated in distant cultural contexts at earlier times than their climactic developments can be observed in…
Archeology: Clay Figurines of the American Southwest. Noel Morss
Archeology: Ceramics for the Archaeologist. Anna O. Shepard
Archeology: Archeology of Zion Park. Albert H. Schroeder
Archeology: An Archeological Survey of the Fremoni Area . James H. Gunnerson: Two Fremont Sites and Their Position in Southwestern Prehistory . DEE C. Taylor: The Glen Canyon Survey in 1957 . Robert H…
Archeology: Late Pleistocene and Recent Changes in Land Forms, Climate, and Archaeology in Central Baja California. Brigham A. Arnold
Ecological Interpretation in Archaeology: Part II
In a previous paper (Meighan and others 1958), we considered techniques whereby the archaeologist can derive conclusions concerning prehistoric man's relationship to his environment. We limited our study to hunting and gathering societies since we felt that these were most directly and intimately affected by environment. In the present discussion, we have attempted to expand our study to include archaeological communities marked by the presence o…
Ecological Interpretation in Archaeology: Part I
Interpretations of man's relationship to his environment are basic to the understanding of archaeological data. Such interpretations are made by almost all archaeologists in the course of presenting their findings, and there is a growing trend toward more precise delineation of human ecology in prehistoric times. Yet much archaeological writing of this sort tends to be sketchy and fragmentary, and techniques of value are often overlooked or ignor…
New Findings in West Mexican Archaeology
Folk Traditions as Historical Fact: A Paiute Example
proved in many cases to be consistent with archaeological evidence. This suggested that the Paiute had preserved some historical knowledge of the Puebloid people for about 800 years, during which period accurate information was transmitted in an oral tradition. In the summer of 1956, only seven specific statements relating to the prehistoric people, called Mukwitch by the Paiute, were collected. Five of these seven statements are to some extent v…
A New Method for the Seriation of Archaeological Collections
This graphical technique utilizes only three types of artifacts from the collection to the seriated. The relationship between the three selected types is plotted on three-pole graph paper. The points on the graph are clustered along a line representing change through time; hence the archaeological materials are arranged in their correct temporal sequence. Data from Paragonah, Utah, and Pindi, New Mexico, two Southwestern sites for which the time …
Californian Cultures and the Concept of an Archaic Stage
Western archaeologists have almost unanimously shunned the term 'Archaic' in describing their finds. In the few cases where the word has been used at all, it has generally been qualified by using quotation marks, a question mark, or some statement indicating the author's belief that this is not arealArchaic culture. As a result, none of the described western cultures is conventionally labeled 'Archaic.' Avoidance of the term has stemmed from two …
The Little Harbor Site, Catalina Island: An Example of Ecological Interpretation in Archaeology
The islands off southern California have attracted archaeological attention since the 1880's, yet actual site reports on island archaeology are virtually nonexistent. This report presents data on excavations at Little Harbor, Catalina Island. It is the first published site report for Catalina Island and the first complete description of a site excavation for the Channel islands as a group. Chronologically, the radiocarbon dating of the site provi…
The Beginnings of Technology
More on Folk Traditions
The Growth of Archaeology in the West Coast and the Great Basin, 1935-60
Archaeological research in the Far West of North America is reviewed in terms of the contributions to methodology and theory. The generally simple level of culture in an area in which functioning native cultures survived until recent times has led to the perfection of analytical techniques for non-ceramic evidence, the development of ingenuity in deriving conclusions, and a considerable use of the direct-historical approach. New methodological ap…
The Dawn of Civilization
Ryukyuan Culture and Society: A Survey
Archeology: Archaeology of the Rose Spring Site Iny‐372 . E dward P. L anning
Archeology: California's Gabrielino Indians. Bernice Eastman Johnston
Criticism of Review of “Hidden Heart of Baja”
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