Dean R Snow
Biographic Data
| ID | 98776 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dean R Snow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dean R |
| FAMILY NAME | Snow |
| SIGNATURE | SNOW D R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 164 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The Extraordinary Journey of David Ingram: An Elizabethan Sailor in Native North America
David Ingram was an ordinary seaman of the Elizabethan age. He served on a slave ship captained by John Hawkins, the queen's slaver. After sailing first to Africa and then taking enslaved people to sell in the Caribbean, the little fleet was nearly destroyed in a furious battle with the Spanish. Ingram and two other marooned men then walked over 3,600 miles from Mexico to New Brunswick in 11 months before being rescued. A dozen years later Ingram…
Archaeology in the Modern World
The Archaeology of Native North America
The Archaeology of Native North America presents the ideas, evidence, and debates regarding the initial peopling of the continent by mobile bands of hunters and gatherers and the cultural evolution of their many lines of descent over the ensuing millennia. The emergence of farming, urban centers, and complex political organization paralleled similar developments in other world areas. With the arrival of Europeans to North America and the inevitab…
Archaeology of Native North America
This comprehensive text is intended for the junior-senior level course in North American Archaeology. Written by accomplished scholar Dean Snow, this new text approaches native North America from the perspective of evolutionary ecology. Additionally, book is extensively illustrated with the author's own research and findings
Sexual Dimorphism in European Upper Paleolithic Cave Art
Preliminary research on hand stencils found in the Upper Paleolithic cave sites of France and Spain showed that sexual dimorphism in human hands is expressed strongly enough to allow empirical determination of the sexes of the individuals who made some of them. Further research increased the sample of measurable cases from 6 to 32, a large enough sample to show that persons who made hand stencils in the caves were predominantly females. This find…
Sexual dimorphism in Upper Palaeolithic hand stencils
Sexual roles in deep prehistory are among the most intriguing puzzles still to solve. Here the author shows how men and women can be distinguished by scientific measurement in the prints and stencils of the human hand that occur widely in Upper Palaeolithic art. Six hand stencils from four French caves are attributed to four adult females, an adult male, and a sub-adult male. Here we take a step closer to showing that both sexes are engaged in ca…
Eastern Woodlands of North America
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A Population History of North America
Population History of North America. Michael R. Haines and Richard H. Steckel. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 736 pp
Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity
Book Review| October 01 2001 Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity By David Hurst Thomas. (New York: Basic Books, 2000. xxxix + 326 pp.,foreword, prologue, endnotes, bibliography, index. $25.00 cloth.) Dean R. Snow; Dean R. Snow Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Michael E. Harkin; Michael E. Harkin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Susan J. Wurtzburg; …
The Iroquois in the War of 1812
Book Review| April 01 2000 The Iroquois in the War of 1812 By Carl Benn. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. xiv + 272 pp.,introduction, maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index.) Dean R. Snow Dean R. Snow Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2000) 47 (2): 493–495. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-47-2-493 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citati…
In Mohawk Country: Early Narratives about a Native People
With general introductions, and in some cases, new translations, this collection comprises all of the 38 principle narratives, written from 1634 to 1810, describing the Mohawk valley and its Iroquois inhabitants. It provides a detailed look at an American Indian nation
The Great Law and the Longhouse: A Political History of the Iroquois Confederacy
The Great Law and the Longhouse:. Political History of the Iroquois Confederacy. William N. Fenton. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998.786 pp
In Mohawk Country: Early Narratives about a Native People
Mohawk Demography and the Effects of Exogenous Epidemics on American Indian Populations
Ancient North America: The Archaeology of a Continent
entire course of native American history is traced in this book, from the first appearance of humans in the New World, more than 14,000 years ago, to the cataclysmic aftermath of European settlement. This text has been completely revised and expanded. It includes an updated account of controversies over first settlement, and new material on the eastern Plains farmers, the rock paintings of the Pecos areas and the archaeology of the Northwest Plat…
More on Migration in Prehistory: Accommodating New Evidence in the Northern Iroquoian Case
Crawford and Smith have developed important new evidence that bears on the hypothesis that the Northern Iroquoians migrated into the lower Great Lakes region sometime after A.D. 900. Clarification of the Princess Point Complex in Ontario forces a revision of the hypothesis. While an Appalachian origin for the Northern Iroquoians and their subsequent migration is not rejected, new evidence strongly suggests that the population shift took place thr…
The Iroquois
Journal Article The Iroquois. By Dean R. Snow. (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1994. xviii, 268 pp. $24.95, ISBN 1-55786-225-7.) and Lewis H. Morgan on Iroquois Material Culture. By Elisabeth Tooker. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1994. xxii, 325 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 0-8165-1347-3. Paper, $40.00, ISBN 0-8165-1462-3.) Get access Matthew Dennis Matthew Dennis University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxf…
Migration in Prehistory: The Northern Iroquoian Case
The archaeology of the Northern Iroquoians has been described in terms of an in situ development out of Point Peninsula culture for half a century. Recently recognized anomalies prompt revision of the in situ hypothesis in favor of one allowing for the derivation of Northern Iroquoians by migration from Clemson's Island culture following A.D. 900. Multifamily dwellings and maize horticulture are argued to have been adaptive advantages that facili…
Recent archaeological research in the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada
Iroquoian Archaeology
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
The Evolution of Political Systems: Sociopolitics in Small-Scale Sedentary Societies
List of tables List of figures Foreword by JONATHAN HAAS Preface 1. Decoupling the processes of political evolution STEADMAN UPHAM SECTION I- EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVES AND EXPLANATORY EVOLUTION 2. Population, permanent agriculture, and polities: unpacking the evolutionary portmaneau ROBERT McC. NETTING 3. Selection and evolution in non-hierarchical organisation DAVID P. BRAUN 4. Analog or digital?: toward a generic framework for explaining the de…
The Recovery of Meaning: Historical Archaeology in the Eastern United States
More Methodological Perspectives: A Rejoinder to Dobyns
Thwaites, Reuben Gold, ed. 1959 [I896] The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents. 73 vols. New York: Pageant. Trigger, Bruce G. 1976 The Children of Aataentsic: A History of the Huron People to i66o. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. 1978 Time and Traditions: Essays in Archaeological Interpretation. New York: Columbia University Press. 1985 Natives and Newcomers: Canada's Heroic Age Reconsidered. Montreal and Kingston: McGil…
Sixteenth-Century Depopulation: A View from the Mohawk Valley
European Contact and Indian Depopulation in the Northeast: The Timing of the First Epidemics
In order to estimate prehistoric Indian population sizes in the New World it is first necessary to gain a better understanding of the demographic effects of European-introduced diseases. To that end we have reexamined the timing of the first introduction of these diseases into one region the [northeastern United States]. A careful reexamination of the ethnohistoric record combined with a study of the history and process of smallpox has led us to …
Sexual dimorphism in Upper Palaeolithic hand stencils
Sexual roles in deep prehistory are among the most intriguing puzzles still to solve. Here the author shows how men and women can be distinguished by scientific measurement in the prints and stencils of the human hand that occur widely in Upper Palaeolithic art. Six hand stencils from four French caves are attributed to four adult females, an adult male, and a sub-adult male. Here we take a step closer to showing that both sexes are engaged in ca…
Migration in Prehistory: The Northern Iroquoian Case
The archaeology of the Northern Iroquoians has been described in terms of an in situ development out of Point Peninsula culture for half a century. Recently recognized anomalies prompt revision of the in situ hypothesis in favor of one allowing for the derivation of Northern Iroquoians by migration from Clemson's Island culture following A.D. 900. Multifamily dwellings and maize horticulture are argued to have been adaptive advantages that facili…
Sixteenth-Century Depopulation: A View from the Mohawk Valley
Ceramic Sequence and Settlement Location in Pre-Hispanic Tlaxcala
A site survey was conducted in the upper drainage basin of the Rio Zahuapan in north-central Tlaxcala, Mexico, during the 1964-65 season. Sixty-three ceramic collections from 59 sites were examined and eventually seriated. The resulting sequence of pottery types indicates that, in spite of its location near major pre-Hispanic centers, this area was apparently not in the mainstream of Mexican prehistory until Late Postclassic times. Moreover, the …
European Contact and Indian Depopulation in the Northeast: The Timing of the First Epidemics
In order to estimate prehistoric Indian population sizes in the New World it is first necessary to gain a better understanding of the demographic effects of European-introduced diseases. To that end we have reexamined the timing of the first introduction of these diseases into one region the [northeastern United States]. A careful reexamination of the ethnohistoric record combined with a study of the history and process of smallpox has led us to …
Foundations of Northeast Archaeology
More on Migration in Prehistory: Accommodating New Evidence in the Northern Iroquoian Case
Crawford and Smith have developed important new evidence that bears on the hypothesis that the Northern Iroquoians migrated into the lower Great Lakes region sometime after A.D. 900. Clarification of the Princess Point Complex in Ontario forces a revision of the hypothesis. While an Appalachian origin for the Northern Iroquoians and their subsequent migration is not rejected, new evidence strongly suggests that the population shift took place thr…
Sexual Dimorphism in European Upper Paleolithic Cave Art
Preliminary research on hand stencils found in the Upper Paleolithic cave sites of France and Spain showed that sexual dimorphism in human hands is expressed strongly enough to allow empirical determination of the sexes of the individuals who made some of them. Further research increased the sample of measurable cases from 6 to 32, a large enough sample to show that persons who made hand stencils in the caves were predominantly females. This find…
Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy So Far [and Comments and Reply]
Rising Sea Level and Prehistoric Cultural Ecology in Northern New England
Sea level has been rising over the past 4 millennia along the coast of northern New England, but the rate of rise has been faster in the direction of the Bay of Fundy. In any given locality, the rate of rise has been steadily slowing during that time. These and other concurrent changes have complicated the study of shifts in prehistoric cultural ecology. This paper utilizes archaeological data from 2 important localities to unravel the complex in…
Wabanaki "Family Hunting Territories"1
It is now generally concluded that hunting and trapping territories developed among the Northern and Eastern Algonquian Indians largely as a result of the fur trade and other factors directly connected with European colonization. Although this appears to be a valid conclusion, this article argues that both prior and subsequent conditions were unique in the case of the Eastern Algonquian in general and the Wabanaki in particular. Evidence for a ri…
The Great Law and the Longhouse: A Political History of the Iroquois Confederacy
The Great Law and the Longhouse:. Political History of the Iroquois Confederacy. William N. Fenton. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998.786 pp
Recent archaeological research in the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada
Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity
Book Review| October 01 2001 Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity By David Hurst Thomas. (New York: Basic Books, 2000. xxxix + 326 pp.,foreword, prologue, endnotes, bibliography, index. $25.00 cloth.) Dean R. Snow; Dean R. Snow Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Michael E. Harkin; Michael E. Harkin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Susan J. Wurtzburg; …
In Mohawk Country: Early Narratives about a Native People
With general introductions, and in some cases, new translations, this collection comprises all of the 38 principle narratives, written from 1634 to 1810, describing the Mohawk valley and its Iroquois inhabitants. It provides a detailed look at an American Indian nation
Archaeology of Native North America
This comprehensive text is intended for the junior-senior level course in North American Archaeology. Written by accomplished scholar Dean Snow, this new text approaches native North America from the perspective of evolutionary ecology. Additionally, book is extensively illustrated with the author's own research and findings
A Population History of North America
Population History of North America. Michael R. Haines and Richard H. Steckel. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 736 pp
More Methodological Perspectives: A Rejoinder to Dobyns
Thwaites, Reuben Gold, ed. 1959 [I896] The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents. 73 vols. New York: Pageant. Trigger, Bruce G. 1976 The Children of Aataentsic: A History of the Huron People to i66o. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. 1978 Time and Traditions: Essays in Archaeological Interpretation. New York: Columbia University Press. 1985 Natives and Newcomers: Canada's Heroic Age Reconsidered. Montreal and Kingston: McGil…
Wabanaki "Family Hunting Territories"1
It is now generally concluded that hunting and trapping territories developed among the Northern and Eastern Algonquian Indians largely as a result of the fur trade and other factors directly connected with European colonization. Although this appears to be a valid conclusion, this article argues that both prior and subsequent conditions were unique in the case of the Eastern Algonquian in general and the Wabanaki in particular. Evidence for a ri…
Ceramic Sequence and Settlement Location in Pre-Hispanic Tlaxcala
A site survey was conducted in the upper drainage basin of the Rio Zahuapan in north-central Tlaxcala, Mexico, during the 1964-65 season. Sixty-three ceramic collections from 59 sites were examined and eventually seriated. The resulting sequence of pottery types indicates that, in spite of its location near major pre-Hispanic centers, this area was apparently not in the mainstream of Mexican prehistory until Late Postclassic times. Moreover, the …
Rising Sea Level and Prehistoric Cultural Ecology in Northern New England
Sea level has been rising over the past 4 millennia along the coast of northern New England, but the rate of rise has been faster in the direction of the Bay of Fundy. In any given locality, the rate of rise has been steadily slowing during that time. These and other concurrent changes have complicated the study of shifts in prehistoric cultural ecology. This paper utilizes archaeological data from 2 important localities to unravel the complex in…
Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy So Far [and Comments and Reply]
Reply to Newman
Some misinterpretations in Newman's argument are pointed out
A Basketful of Indian Culture Change
The Ethnohistoric Baseline of the Eastern Abenaki
Sources on the Eastern Abenaki dating to about 1600 are crucial in establishing the ethnohistorical baseline, the initial cultural state from which all subsequent historical changes occurred. Scholarly opinion is seriously divided over the proper interpretation of certain early documentary sources. It is argued here that the original inhabitants of the Penobscot, Kennebec and adjacent river drainages were occupied by the Abenaki rather than by th…
Die Pyramiden von Cerro Xochitecatl, Tlaxcala (Mexiko)
Archaeology: In Search of Ancient Astronomies, Stonehenge to von Däniken: Archaeoastronomy Discovers Our Sophisticated Ancestors. E. C. Krupp
Comment on Perlman's Review of “The Archaeology of New England”
Some incorrect assertions by Perlman are corrected, and the goals of both the book and the series of which it is a part are restated.
Native American Ethnohistory. Papers in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma, Vol. 23, Number 2
Foundations of Northeast Archaeology
The Original Vermonters: Native Inhabitants Past and Present
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Natives and Newcomers: Canada's “Heroic Age” Reconsidered . Bruce G. Trigger
European Contact and Indian Depopulation in the Northeast: The Timing of the First Epidemics
In order to estimate prehistoric Indian population sizes in the New World it is first necessary to gain a better understanding of the demographic effects of European-introduced diseases. To that end we have reexamined the timing of the first introduction of these diseases into one region the [northeastern United States]. A careful reexamination of the ethnohistoric record combined with a study of the history and process of smallpox has led us to …
More Methodological Perspectives: A Rejoinder to Dobyns
Thwaites, Reuben Gold, ed. 1959 [I896] The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents. 73 vols. New York: Pageant. Trigger, Bruce G. 1976 The Children of Aataentsic: A History of the Huron People to i66o. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. 1978 Time and Traditions: Essays in Archaeological Interpretation. New York: Columbia University Press. 1985 Natives and Newcomers: Canada's Heroic Age Reconsidered. Montreal and Kingston: McGil…
Sixteenth-Century Depopulation: A View from the Mohawk Valley
The Recovery of Meaning: Historical Archaeology in the Eastern United States
Iroquoian Archaeology
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
The Evolution of Political Systems: Sociopolitics in Small-Scale Sedentary Societies
List of tables List of figures Foreword by JONATHAN HAAS Preface 1. Decoupling the processes of political evolution STEADMAN UPHAM SECTION I- EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVES AND EXPLANATORY EVOLUTION 2. Population, permanent agriculture, and polities: unpacking the evolutionary portmaneau ROBERT McC. NETTING 3. Selection and evolution in non-hierarchical organisation DAVID P. BRAUN 4. Analog or digital?: toward a generic framework for explaining the de…
Recent archaeological research in the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada
The Iroquois
Journal Article The Iroquois. By Dean R. Snow. (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1994. xviii, 268 pp. $24.95, ISBN 1-55786-225-7.) and Lewis H. Morgan on Iroquois Material Culture. By Elisabeth Tooker. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1994. xxii, 325 pp. Cloth, $75.00, ISBN 0-8165-1347-3. Paper, $40.00, ISBN 0-8165-1462-3.) Get access Matthew Dennis Matthew Dennis University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxf…
Migration in Prehistory: The Northern Iroquoian Case
The archaeology of the Northern Iroquoians has been described in terms of an in situ development out of Point Peninsula culture for half a century. Recently recognized anomalies prompt revision of the in situ hypothesis in favor of one allowing for the derivation of Northern Iroquoians by migration from Clemson's Island culture following A.D. 900. Multifamily dwellings and maize horticulture are argued to have been adaptive advantages that facili…
Mohawk Demography and the Effects of Exogenous Epidemics on American Indian Populations
Ancient North America: The Archaeology of a Continent
entire course of native American history is traced in this book, from the first appearance of humans in the New World, more than 14,000 years ago, to the cataclysmic aftermath of European settlement. This text has been completely revised and expanded. It includes an updated account of controversies over first settlement, and new material on the eastern Plains farmers, the rock paintings of the Pecos areas and the archaeology of the Northwest Plat…
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