Gary A Wright
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 101989 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gary A Wright |
| PRENOMES | Gary A |
| SOBRENOME | Wright |
| ASSINATURA | WRIGHT G A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Albany State University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 342 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1967 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Origins of Food Production in Southwestern Asia
The history of ideas on the origins of food production in southwestern Asia is reviewed. It is pointed out that although interest in the origins of food production began as early as the 18th century, no fieldwork to test these ideas directly was initiated until the 1940's. Hypotheses on early food production are discussed, and current data are used to test one of these models-here termed the Flannery-Binford model. It is suggested, on the basis o…
The Location of the Field Museum Yellowstone (F.M.Y., 90) Group Obsidian Source
Two lines of evidence-historical and elemental analyses-indicate that the Field Museum Yellowstone (F.M. Y. or 90 group) obsidian source is actually located in the Camas-Dry Creek area of the Centennial Range, Idaho, and not in Yellowstone National Park as originally believed
People of the High Country
On the interior attached ditch enclosures of the middle and upper Ohio Valley
This paper summarizes data collected from the literature on 123 interior attached ditch enclosures ("sacred enclosures") of the Middle and Upper Ohio River Valley. In addition to the data summary it isolates two structural elements-dirt and water-that were employed consistently in the construction of sacred spaces beginning about 2300 B.P. These same two elements reappear in the historic mythology of the region. It is proposed that the enclosures…
Response to Connor
Archeology
High-Altitude Occupations, Cultural Process, and High Plains Prehistory
Models of hunter-gatherer occupation in mountainous areas are evaluated in light of current data bases and field research strategies. Utilizing evidence from the mountain fringes of the North American High Plains, both climatic and task-specific models are rejected in favor of a broad spectrum model. It is argued that the broad spectrum model better explains the extant data base for the Central Rocky Mountains and that it provides a point of depa…
Obsidian Source Analysis in Northwestern Wyoming
A brief update is given concerning our research into the distribution of obsidian from the three apparently most important sources in, or adjacent to, northwestern Wyoming. These include Obsidian Cliff in Yellowstone National Park and Teton Pass in southern Jackson Hole. The specific location of the third source, the F.M.Y. or 90 Group, obsidian from which was identified on archaeological sites over i 5 years ago, is still unknown. The distributi…
Myth as environmental message
Notes on Chronological Problems on the Northwestern Plains and Adjacent Country
A methodology is presented for the analyses of cultural chronologies covering the last 7300 years. With this we can isolate problem areas within the local sequences. No sequence in any of the six subareas discussed here has a chronology that is not marked by one or more significant time gaps in absolute dates over this temporal interval. These breaks include ones during the later Altithermal, during the time period assignable to the McKean Techno…
High Country Adaptations
A general model of high country adaptations by hunters and gatherers is proposed. It is derived from a consi eration of the specific nature of high country resources and the social structure that seems to exploit them most efficiently. The general model is then illustrated by two test cases, one from northwestern Wyoming and one from southwestern Asia. The paper concludes with a comparative perspective. and discusses the problem of why Native Ame…
The Rise of Civilization
The Shoshonean Migration Problem
The Shoshone were resident in northwestern Wyoming at the time of historic contact, the early mneteenth century. Two hypptheses to explain their presence and time depth there have been proposed. The migration hypothesis brings them from the southern Sierra Nevadas across the Great Basin beginning no earlier than A.D. 1000. The in situ hypothesis argues for a residency of 5000 to 7000 year. The hypotheses are tested by drawing predictions from the…
Anthropological Perspectives on Ancient Trade [and Comments and Replies]
Most studies of ancient trade, it is argued, have tended to isolate the subject too narrowly as habitual patterns in the movement of goods. New knowledge continues to be generated using that approach, partly as a result of recent technical advances in archaeology. Substantial further progress, however, will require an understanding of the more complex and multifaceted significance of trade that must be derived mainly from ethnographic and ethnohi…
Bristlecone Pine Calibrations of Radiocarbon Dates
Tooth Wear and Culture
Studies of hominid fossils have frequently reported that one of their outstanding characteristics is their heavily worn teeth. Many skeletal remains of modern man also show this condition of dental attrition, which is probably related to certain cultural activities. The varieties of foods consumed by primitive man and the specialized tool functions of the teeth have left significant marks in the form of worn occlusal surfaces over the dental arch…
Archeology
On Trade and Culture Process in Prehistory
Obsidian Samples from Archaeological Sites in Northwestern Alaska
Reports the Na and Mn contents and Na/Mn ratios, determined by neutron activation analyses of 103 obsidian samples from the Onion Portage and nine related archeological sites. The occurrence and stratigraphic distribution are noted of four groups of obsidian distinguished by Mn content and Na/Mn ratio. Group B, the largest, appears in a complex with an age of 4000-3900 BC and in another of 1000-1700 AD, group A in complexes dating at 2600-2200 an…
Distribution and Utilization of Obsidian from Lake Van Sources between 7500 and 3500 B. C
Identification of the Sources of Hopewellian Obsidian in the Middle West
One hundred and twenty years ago, the first obsidian implements were reported from Hopewellian mounds by Squier and Davis (1848). Since that time, a number of regions have been suggested as the source area: Alaska, the Pacific Coast, Yellowstone National Park, New Mexico, and central Mexico. Neutron activation analysis of the elemental composition of Hopewellian obsidian indicates two separate element groups. One of these, the 150 Group, has its …
Neutron Activationianalysis of Obsidian
By a process of neutron activation, obsidian samples from an archaeological site may be traced to their quarry sources. The potential of this type of information remains largely unexplored and this paper is one small example of its application to Northwestern Plains Archaeology
On Late Pleistocene Chronology
Tooth Wear and Culture
Studies of hominid fossils have frequently reported that one of their outstanding characteristics is their heavily worn teeth. Many skeletal remains of modern man also show this condition of dental attrition, which is probably related to certain cultural activities. The varieties of foods consumed by primitive man and the specialized tool functions of the teeth have left significant marks in the form of worn occlusal surfaces over the dental arch…
Anthropological Perspectives on Ancient Trade [and Comments and Replies]
Most studies of ancient trade, it is argued, have tended to isolate the subject too narrowly as habitual patterns in the movement of goods. New knowledge continues to be generated using that approach, partly as a result of recent technical advances in archaeology. Substantial further progress, however, will require an understanding of the more complex and multifaceted significance of trade that must be derived mainly from ethnographic and ethnohi…
Identification of the Sources of Hopewellian Obsidian in the Middle West
One hundred and twenty years ago, the first obsidian implements were reported from Hopewellian mounds by Squier and Davis (1848). Since that time, a number of regions have been suggested as the source area: Alaska, the Pacific Coast, Yellowstone National Park, New Mexico, and central Mexico. Neutron activation analysis of the elemental composition of Hopewellian obsidian indicates two separate element groups. One of these, the 150 Group, has its …
High-Altitude Occupations, Cultural Process, and High Plains Prehistory
Models of hunter-gatherer occupation in mountainous areas are evaluated in light of current data bases and field research strategies. Utilizing evidence from the mountain fringes of the North American High Plains, both climatic and task-specific models are rejected in favor of a broad spectrum model. It is argued that the broad spectrum model better explains the extant data base for the Central Rocky Mountains and that it provides a point of depa…
Origins of Food Production in Southwestern Asia
The history of ideas on the origins of food production in southwestern Asia is reviewed. It is pointed out that although interest in the origins of food production began as early as the 18th century, no fieldwork to test these ideas directly was initiated until the 1940's. Hypotheses on early food production are discussed, and current data are used to test one of these models-here termed the Flannery-Binford model. It is suggested, on the basis o…
The Shoshonean Migration Problem
The Shoshone were resident in northwestern Wyoming at the time of historic contact, the early mneteenth century. Two hypptheses to explain their presence and time depth there have been proposed. The migration hypothesis brings them from the southern Sierra Nevadas across the Great Basin beginning no earlier than A.D. 1000. The in situ hypothesis argues for a residency of 5000 to 7000 year. The hypotheses are tested by drawing predictions from the…
Neutron Activationianalysis of Obsidian
By a process of neutron activation, obsidian samples from an archaeological site may be traced to their quarry sources. The potential of this type of information remains largely unexplored and this paper is one small example of its application to Northwestern Plains Archaeology
On the interior attached ditch enclosures of the middle and upper Ohio Valley
This paper summarizes data collected from the literature on 123 interior attached ditch enclosures ("sacred enclosures") of the Middle and Upper Ohio River Valley. In addition to the data summary it isolates two structural elements-dirt and water-that were employed consistently in the construction of sacred spaces beginning about 2300 B.P. These same two elements reappear in the historic mythology of the region. It is proposed that the enclosures…
High Country Adaptations
A general model of high country adaptations by hunters and gatherers is proposed. It is derived from a consi eration of the specific nature of high country resources and the social structure that seems to exploit them most efficiently. The general model is then illustrated by two test cases, one from northwestern Wyoming and one from southwestern Asia. The paper concludes with a comparative perspective. and discusses the problem of why Native Ame…
People of the High Country
On Trade and Culture Process in Prehistory
Obsidian Source Analysis in Northwestern Wyoming
A brief update is given concerning our research into the distribution of obsidian from the three apparently most important sources in, or adjacent to, northwestern Wyoming. These include Obsidian Cliff in Yellowstone National Park and Teton Pass in southern Jackson Hole. The specific location of the third source, the F.M.Y. or 90 Group, obsidian from which was identified on archaeological sites over i 5 years ago, is still unknown. The distributi…
The Rise of Civilization
Distribution and Utilization of Obsidian from Lake Van Sources between 7500 and 3500 B. C
Notes on Chronological Problems on the Northwestern Plains and Adjacent Country
A methodology is presented for the analyses of cultural chronologies covering the last 7300 years. With this we can isolate problem areas within the local sequences. No sequence in any of the six subareas discussed here has a chronology that is not marked by one or more significant time gaps in absolute dates over this temporal interval. These breaks include ones during the later Altithermal, during the time period assignable to the McKean Techno…
Bristlecone Pine Calibrations of Radiocarbon Dates
On Late Pleistocene Chronology
Neutron Activationianalysis of Obsidian
By a process of neutron activation, obsidian samples from an archaeological site may be traced to their quarry sources. The potential of this type of information remains largely unexplored and this paper is one small example of its application to Northwestern Plains Archaeology
Obsidian Samples from Archaeological Sites in Northwestern Alaska
Reports the Na and Mn contents and Na/Mn ratios, determined by neutron activation analyses of 103 obsidian samples from the Onion Portage and nine related archeological sites. The occurrence and stratigraphic distribution are noted of four groups of obsidian distinguished by Mn content and Na/Mn ratio. Group B, the largest, appears in a complex with an age of 4000-3900 BC and in another of 1000-1700 AD, group A in complexes dating at 2600-2200 an…
Distribution and Utilization of Obsidian from Lake Van Sources between 7500 and 3500 B. C
Identification of the Sources of Hopewellian Obsidian in the Middle West
One hundred and twenty years ago, the first obsidian implements were reported from Hopewellian mounds by Squier and Davis (1848). Since that time, a number of regions have been suggested as the source area: Alaska, the Pacific Coast, Yellowstone National Park, New Mexico, and central Mexico. Neutron activation analysis of the elemental composition of Hopewellian obsidian indicates two separate element groups. One of these, the 150 Group, has its …
Archeology
On Trade and Culture Process in Prehistory
Tooth Wear and Culture
Studies of hominid fossils have frequently reported that one of their outstanding characteristics is their heavily worn teeth. Many skeletal remains of modern man also show this condition of dental attrition, which is probably related to certain cultural activities. The varieties of foods consumed by primitive man and the specialized tool functions of the teeth have left significant marks in the form of worn occlusal surfaces over the dental arch…
Bristlecone Pine Calibrations of Radiocarbon Dates
Anthropological Perspectives on Ancient Trade [and Comments and Replies]
Most studies of ancient trade, it is argued, have tended to isolate the subject too narrowly as habitual patterns in the movement of goods. New knowledge continues to be generated using that approach, partly as a result of recent technical advances in archaeology. Substantial further progress, however, will require an understanding of the more complex and multifaceted significance of trade that must be derived mainly from ethnographic and ethnohi…
The Shoshonean Migration Problem
The Shoshone were resident in northwestern Wyoming at the time of historic contact, the early mneteenth century. Two hypptheses to explain their presence and time depth there have been proposed. The migration hypothesis brings them from the southern Sierra Nevadas across the Great Basin beginning no earlier than A.D. 1000. The in situ hypothesis argues for a residency of 5000 to 7000 year. The hypotheses are tested by drawing predictions from the…
High Country Adaptations
A general model of high country adaptations by hunters and gatherers is proposed. It is derived from a consi eration of the specific nature of high country resources and the social structure that seems to exploit them most efficiently. The general model is then illustrated by two test cases, one from northwestern Wyoming and one from southwestern Asia. The paper concludes with a comparative perspective. and discusses the problem of why Native Ame…
The Rise of Civilization
Notes on Chronological Problems on the Northwestern Plains and Adjacent Country
A methodology is presented for the analyses of cultural chronologies covering the last 7300 years. With this we can isolate problem areas within the local sequences. No sequence in any of the six subareas discussed here has a chronology that is not marked by one or more significant time gaps in absolute dates over this temporal interval. These breaks include ones during the later Altithermal, during the time period assignable to the McKean Techno…
Myth as environmental message
Obsidian Source Analysis in Northwestern Wyoming
A brief update is given concerning our research into the distribution of obsidian from the three apparently most important sources in, or adjacent to, northwestern Wyoming. These include Obsidian Cliff in Yellowstone National Park and Teton Pass in southern Jackson Hole. The specific location of the third source, the F.M.Y. or 90 Group, obsidian from which was identified on archaeological sites over i 5 years ago, is still unknown. The distributi…
Archeology
High-Altitude Occupations, Cultural Process, and High Plains Prehistory
Models of hunter-gatherer occupation in mountainous areas are evaluated in light of current data bases and field research strategies. Utilizing evidence from the mountain fringes of the North American High Plains, both climatic and task-specific models are rejected in favor of a broad spectrum model. It is argued that the broad spectrum model better explains the extant data base for the Central Rocky Mountains and that it provides a point of depa…
Response to Connor
The Location of the Field Museum Yellowstone (F.M.Y., 90) Group Obsidian Source
Two lines of evidence-historical and elemental analyses-indicate that the Field Museum Yellowstone (F.M. Y. or 90 group) obsidian source is actually located in the Camas-Dry Creek area of the Centennial Range, Idaho, and not in Yellowstone National Park as originally believed
People of the High Country
On the interior attached ditch enclosures of the middle and upper Ohio Valley
This paper summarizes data collected from the literature on 123 interior attached ditch enclosures ("sacred enclosures") of the Middle and Upper Ohio River Valley. In addition to the data summary it isolates two structural elements-dirt and water-that were employed consistently in the construction of sacred spaces beginning about 2300 B.P. These same two elements reappear in the historic mythology of the region. It is proposed that the enclosures…
Origins of Food Production in Southwestern Asia
The history of ideas on the origins of food production in southwestern Asia is reviewed. It is pointed out that although interest in the origins of food production began as early as the 18th century, no fieldwork to test these ideas directly was initiated until the 1940's. Hypotheses on early food production are discussed, and current data are used to test one of these models-here termed the Flannery-Binford model. It is suggested, on the basis o…
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