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Frances Densmore
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Frances Theresa Densmore was an American anthropologist and ethnographer born in Red Wing, Minnesota. Densmore is known for her studies of Native American music and culture, as a child Densmore developed an appreciation of music by listening to the nearby Dakota Indians. She studied music at Oberlin College for three years and she helped preserve their culture in a time when government policy was to encourage Native Americans to adopt Western customs. Densmore began recording music officially for the Smithsonian Institutions Bureau of American Ethnology in 1907, in her fifty-plus years of studying and preserving American Indian music, she collected thousands of recordings. Many of the recordings she made on behalf of the BAE now are held in the Library of Congress, while her original recordings often were on wax cylinders, many of them have been reproduced using other media and are included in other archives. The recordings may be accessed by researchers as well as tribal delegations, Densmore frequently was published in the journal American Anthropologist, contributing consistently throughout her career. She wrote The Indians and Their Music in 1926, between 1910 and 1957, she published fourteen book-length bulletins for the Smithsonian, each describing the musical practices and repertories of a different Native-American group. These were reprinted as a series by DaCapo Press in 1972 and she also was a part of A Ventriloquy of Anthros in the American Indian Quarterly along with James Owen Dorsey and Eugene Buechel. Frances Densmore page from Minnesota Public Radio Frances Densmore Minnesota Historical Society
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Frances Densmore
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Densmore with
Blackfoot chief, Mountain Chief, during a 1916
phonograph recording session for the
Bureau of American Ethnology.
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Blackfoot
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The Siksika, the Kainai or Kainah, and the Northern Piegan or Peigan or Piikani reside in Canada, the Southern Piegan/Piegan Blackfeet or Pikuni are located in the United States. They followed the herds as they migrated between what are now the United States and Canada, as far north as the Bow River. In the first half of the 18th century, they acquired horses and firearms from white traders and their Cree, the Blackfoot used these to expand their territory at the expense of neighboring tribes. Now riding horses, the Blackfoot and other Plains tribes could also extend the range of their buffalo hunts, periods of starvation and deprivation followed, and the Blackfoot tribe was forced to adopt ranching and farming, settling in permanent reservations. In the 1870s, they signed treaties with both the United States and Canada, ceding most of their lands in exchange for annuities of food and medical aid, as well as help in learning to farm. Nevertheless, the Blackfoot have worked to maintain their traditional language, originally the Blackfoot/Plains Confederacy consisted of three peoples based on kinship and dialect, but all speaking the common language of Blackfoot, one of the Algonquian languages family. The three were the Piikáni, the Káínaa, and the Siksikáwa and they later allied with the unrelated Tsuu Tina, who became merged into the Confederacy and, with the Atsina, or Aaninin. Each of these highly decentralized peoples were divided into many bands, the band was the basic unit of organization for hunting and defence. The largest ethnic group in the Confederacy is the Piegan, also spelled Peigan or Pikuni and their name derives from the Blackfoot term Piikáni. They are divided into the Piikani Nation in present-day Alberta, a once large and mighty division of the Piegan were the Inuksik of southwestern Montana. Today they survive only as a clan or band of the South Peigan, the modern Kainai Nation is named for the Blackfoot-language term Káínaa, meaning Many Chief people. These were historically called the Blood, from a Plains Cree name for the Kainai, Miko-Ew. The common English name for the tribe is Blood or the Blood tribe, the Siksika Nations name derives from Siksikáwa, meaning Those of like. The Siksika also call themselves Sao-kitapiiksi, meaning Plains People, the Sarcee call themselves the Tsu T’ina, meaning a great number of people. During early years of conflict, the Blackfoot called them Saahsi or Sarsi, the Sarcee are from an entirely different language family, they are part of the Athabascan or Dené language family, most of whose members are located in the Subarctic of Northern Canada. Specifically, the Sarcee are an offshoot of the Beaver people and they later joined the Confederacy and essentially merged with the Pikuni. The Gros Ventre people call themselves the Haaninin, also spelled Aaninin, the French called them Gros Ventres, misinterpreting a physical sign for waterfall, and the English called them the Fall Indians, related to waterfalls in the mountains. The Blackfoot referred to them as the Piik-siik-sii-naa or Atsina, because of years of enmity, early scholars thought the Aaninin were related to the Arapaho Nation, who inhabited the Missouri Plains and moved west to Colorado and Wyoming
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Bear Bull
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Chief
Aatsista-Mahkan, c.1905.
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Waiting and Mad,
Charles Marion Russell, 1899. Painting of a Blackfoot woman.
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Blackfoot
teepees,
Glacier National Park, 1933
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Indigenous peoples of the Americas
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The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian peoples of the Americas and their descendants. The term Amerindian is used in Quebec, the Guianas, Indigenous peoples of the United States are commonly known as Native Americans or American Indians, and Alaska Natives. Application of the term Indian originated with Christopher Columbus, who, in his search for Asia, eventually, the Americas came to be known as the West Indies, a name still used to refer to the islands of the Caribbean Sea. This led to the blanket term Indies and Indians for the indigenous inhabitants, although some indigenous peoples of the Americas were traditionally hunter-gatherers—and many, especially in the Amazon basin, still are—many groups practiced aquaculture and agriculture. The impact of their agricultural endowment to the world is a testament to their time, although some societies depended heavily on agriculture, others practiced a mix of farming, hunting, and gathering. In some regions the indigenous peoples created monumental architecture, large-scale organized cities, chiefdoms, states, and empires. Many parts of the Americas are still populated by peoples, some countries have sizable populations, especially Belize, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Greenland, Guatemala, Mexico. At least a different indigenous languages are spoken in the Americas. Some, such as the Quechuan languages, Aymara, Guaraní, Mayan languages, many also maintain aspects of indigenous cultural practices to varying degrees, including religion, social organization, and subsistence practices. Like most cultures, over time, cultures specific to many indigenous peoples have evolved to incorporate traditional aspects, some indigenous peoples still live in relative isolation from Western culture and a few are still counted as uncontacted peoples. The specifics of Paleo-Indian migration to and throughout the Americas, including the dates and routes traveled, are the subject of ongoing research. According to archaeological and genetic evidence, North and South America were the last continents in the world with human habitation. During the Wisconsin glaciation, 50–17,000 years ago, falling sea levels allowed people to move across the bridge of Beringia that joined Siberia to northwest North America. Alaska was a glacial refugium because it had low snowfall, allowing a small population to exist, the Laurentide Ice Sheet covered most of North America, blocking nomadic inhabitants and confining them to Alaska for thousands of years. Indigenous genetic studies suggest that the first inhabitants of the Americas share a single population, one that developed in isolation. The isolation of these peoples in Beringia might have lasted 10–20,000 years, around 16,500 years ago, the glaciers began melting, allowing people to move south and east into Canada and beyond. These people are believed to have followed herds of now-extinct Pleistocene megafauna along ice-free corridors that stretched between the Laurentide and Cordilleran Ice Sheets. Another route proposed involves migration - either on foot or using primitive boats - along the Pacific Northwest coast to the south, archeological evidence of the latter would have been covered by the sea level rise of more than 120 meters since the last ice age
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Quechua women in
Peru
Indigenous peoples of the Americas
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Pai Tavytera Indians in
Amambay Department,
Paraguay, 2012
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Paleo-Indians hunting a
glyptodont
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Drawing accompanying text in Book XII of the 16th-century
Florentine Codex (compiled 1540–1585), showing
Nahuas of conquest-era central Mexico suffering from smallpox
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Smithsonian Institution
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The Smithsonian Institution, established in 1846 for the increase and diffusion of knowledge, is a group of museums and research centers administered by the Government of the United States. Originally organized as the United States National Museum, that ceased to exist as an administrative entity in 1967. Additional facilities are located in Arizona, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York City, Texas, Virginia, more than 200 institutions and museums in 45 states, Puerto Rico, and Panama are Smithsonian Affiliates. The Institutions thirty million annual visitors are admitted without charge and its annual budget is around $1.2 billion with 2/3 coming from annual federal appropriations. Other funding comes from the Institutions endowment, private and corporate contributions, membership dues, and earned retail, concession, Institution publications include Smithsonian and Air & Space magazines. The British scientist James Smithson left most of his wealth to his nephew Henry James Hungerford, Congress officially accepted the legacy bequeathed to the nation, and pledged the faith of the United States to the charitable trust on July 1,1836. The American diplomat Richard Rush was dispatched to England by President Andrew Jackson to collect the bequest, Rush returned in August 1838 with 105 sacks containing 104,960 gold sovereigns. Once the money was in hand, eight years of Congressional haggling ensued over how to interpret Smithsons rather vague mandate for the increase, unfortunately, the money was invested by the US Treasury in bonds issued by the state of Arkansas which soon defaulted. The United States Exploring Expedition by the U. S. Navy circumnavigated the globe between 1838 and 1842, in 1846, the regents developed a plan for weather observation, in 1847, money was appropriated for meteorological research. The Institution became a magnet for young scientists from 1857 to 1866, the Smithsonian played a critical role as the U. S. partner institution in early bilateral scientific exchanges with the Academy of Sciences of Cuba. The Smithsonian Institution Building began construction in 1849, designed by architect James Renwick Jr. its interiors were completed by general contract Gilbert Cameron and the building opened in 1855. The Smithsonians first expansion came with construction of the Arts and Industries Building in 1881, Congress had promised to build a new structure for the museum if the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition generated enough income. It did, and the building was designed by architects Adolf Cluss and Paul Schulze, meigs of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The National Zoological Park opened in 1889 to accommodate the Smithsonians Department of Living Animals and this structure was designed by the D. C. architectural firm of Hornblower & Marshall. More than 40 years would pass before the museum, the Museum of History. It was designed by the firm of McKim, Mead & White. That same year, the Smithsonian signed an agreement to take over the Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration, the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum opened in the Old Patent Office Building on October 7,1968. The first new building to open since the National Museum of Natural History was the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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The
"Castle" (1847), the Institution's first building and still its headquarters
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Smithsonian Institution Logo of the Smithsonian Institution
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Aircraft on display at the
National Air and Space Museum, including a
Ford Trimotor and
Douglas DC-3 (top and second from top)
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The Smithsonian Castle doorway
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John Wesley Powell
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John Wesley Wes Powell was a U. S. soldier, geologist, explorer of the American West, professor at Illinois Wesleyan University, and director of major scientific and cultural institutions. He is famous for the 1869 Powell Geographic Expedition, a river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers. Powell served as director of the U. S. Geological Survey and proposed, for development of the arid West. Powell was born in Mount Morris, New York, in 1834 and his father, a poor itinerant preacher, had emigrated to the U. S. from Shrewsbury, England, in 1830. His family moved westward to Jackson, Ohio, then Walworth County, Wisconsin, before settling in rural Boone County, as a young man he undertook a series of adventures through the Mississippi River valley. In 1855, he spent four months walking across Wisconsin, during 1856, he rowed the Mississippi from St. Anthony, Minnesota, to the sea. In 1857, he rowed down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh to the Mississippi River, in 1858 he rowed down the Illinois River, then up the Mississippi and the Des Moines River to central Iowa. At age 25, he was elected in 1859 to the Illinois Natural History Society, Powell studied at Illinois College, Illinois Institute, and Oberlin College, over a period of seven years while teaching, but was unable to attain his degree. During his studies Powell acquired a knowledge of Ancient Greek and Latin, Powell had a restless nature and a deep interest in the natural sciences. This desire to learn natural sciences was against the wishes of his father. In 1860 when Powell was on a tour he decided that the Civil War was inevitable, he decided to study military science. Powells loyalties remained with the Union and the cause of abolishing slavery, on May 8,1861, he enlisted at Hennepin, Illinois, as a private in the 20th Illinois Infantry. He was described as age 27, height 5 6-1/2 tall, light complected, gray eyes, auburn hair and he was elected sergeant-major of the regiment, and when the 20th Illinois was mustered into the Federal service a month later, Powell was commissioned a second lieutenant. He enlisted in the Union Army as a cartographer, topographer, during the Civil War, he served first with the 20th Illinois Volunteers. While stationed at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, he recruited a company that became Battery F of the 2nd Illinois Light Artillery with Powell as captain. On November 28,1861, Powell took a leave to marry the former Emma Dean. At the Battle of Shiloh, he lost most of his arm when struck by a minie ball while in the process of giving the order to fire. The raw nerve endings in his arm would continue to cause him pain for the rest of his life
John Wesley Powell
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Powell as he appears at the
National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
John Wesley Powell
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Powell served as the second Director of the
United States Geological Survey, a post he held from 1881–1894. This photograph dates from early in his term of office.
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First camp of the John Wesley Powell expedition, in the willows, Green River, Wyoming, 1871.
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John Wesley Powell and his wife, Emma, in Detroit in 1862.
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Ethnography
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Ethnography is the systematic study of people and cultures. It is designed to explore cultural phenomena where the researcher observes society from the point of view of the subject of the study, an ethnography is a means to represent graphically and in writing the culture of a group. The word can thus be said to have a double meaning, the resulting field study or a case report reflects the knowledge and the system of meanings in the lives of a cultural group. The typical ethnography is a study and so includes a brief history, and an analysis of the terrain, the climate. In all cases it should be reflexive, make a contribution toward the understanding of the social life of humans, have an aesthetic impact on the reader. An ethnography records all observed behavior and describes all symbol-meaning relations, the word ethnography is derived from the Greek ἔθνος, meaning a company, later a people, nation and -graphy meaning field of study. Ethnographic studies focus on large groups of people who interact over time. Ethnography is a design, where the researcher explains about shared learnt patterns of values, behaviour, beliefs. The field of anthropology originated from Europe and England designed in late 19th century and it spread its roots to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century. Some of the main contributors like EB Tylor from Britain and Lewis H Morgan, franz Boas, Bronislaw Malinowski, Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead, were a group of researchers from United States who contributed the idea of cultural relativism to the literature. He gives the point of the native and this became the origin of field work. Since Malinowski was very firm with his approach he applied it practically and he was interested in learning the language of the islanders and stayed there for a long time doing his field work. The field of ethnography became very popular in the late 19th century, again, in the latter part of the 19th century, the field of anthropology became a good support for scientific formation. Though the field was flourishing it had a lot of threat to encounter, post colonialism, the research climate shifted towards post-modernism and feminism. Therefore, the field of anthropology moved into discipline of social science, gerhard Friedrich Müller developed the concept of ethnography as a separate discipline whilst participating in the Second Kamchatka Expedition as a professor of history and geography. Whilst involved in the expedition, he differentiated Völker-Beschreibung as an area of study. This became known as ethnography, following the introduction of the Greek neologism ethnographia by Johann Friedrich Schöpperlin, there are different forms of ethnography, confessional ethnography, life history, feminist ethnography etc. Two popular forms of ethnography are realist ethnography and critical ethnography, realist ethnography, is a traditional approach used by cultural anthropologists
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A picture of the Izmir Ethnography Museum (İzmir Etnografya Müzesi) from the courtyard.
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Ethnography museum
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Bronisław Malinowski among
Trobriand tribe
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Part of the ethnographic collection of the
Međimurje County Museum in
Croatia
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Archaeology
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Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, Archaeology can be considered both a social science and a branch of the humanities. In North America, archaeology is considered a sub-field of anthropology, archaeologists study human prehistory and history, from the development of the first stone tools at Lomekwi in East Africa 3.3 million years ago up until recent decades. Archaeology as a field is distinct from the discipline of palaeontology, Archaeology is particularly important for learning about prehistoric societies, for whom there may be no written records to study. Prehistory includes over 99% of the human past, from the Paleolithic until the advent of literacy in societies across the world, Archaeology has various goals, which range from understanding culture history to reconstructing past lifeways to documenting and explaining changes in human societies through time. The discipline involves surveying, excavation and eventually analysis of data collected to learn more about the past, in broad scope, archaeology relies on cross-disciplinary research. Archaeology developed out of antiquarianism in Europe during the 19th century, Archaeology has been used by nation-states to create particular visions of the past. Nonetheless, today, archaeologists face many problems, such as dealing with pseudoarchaeology, the looting of artifacts, a lack of public interest, the science of archaeology grew out of the older multi-disciplinary study known as antiquarianism. Antiquarians studied history with attention to ancient artifacts and manuscripts. Tentative steps towards the systematization of archaeology as a science took place during the Enlightenment era in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, in Europe, philosophical interest in the remains of Greco-Roman civilization and the rediscovery of classical culture began in the late Middle Age. Antiquarians, including John Leland and William Camden, conducted surveys of the English countryside, one of the first sites to undergo archaeological excavation was Stonehenge and other megalithic monuments in England. John Aubrey was a pioneer archaeologist who recorded numerous megalithic and other monuments in southern England. He was also ahead of his time in the analysis of his findings and he attempted to chart the chronological stylistic evolution of handwriting, medieval architecture, costume, and shield-shapes. Excavations were also carried out in the ancient towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum and these excavations began in 1748 in Pompeii, while in Herculaneum they began in 1738. The discovery of entire towns, complete with utensils and even human shapes, however, prior to the development of modern techniques, excavations tended to be haphazard, the importance of concepts such as stratification and context were overlooked. The father of archaeological excavation was William Cunnington and he undertook excavations in Wiltshire from around 1798, funded by Sir Richard Colt Hoare. Cunnington made meticulous recordings of neolithic and Bronze Age barrows, one of the major achievements of 19th century archaeology was the development of stratigraphy. The idea of overlapping strata tracing back to successive periods was borrowed from the new geological and paleontological work of scholars like William Smith, James Hutton, the application of stratigraphy to archaeology first took place with the excavations of prehistorical and Bronze Age sites
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Roman ruins,
Lausanne, Switzerland.
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An early photograph of Stonehenge taken July 1877
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Artifacts discovered at the 1808
Bush Barrow excavation by Sir
Richard Colt Hoare and
William Cunnington.
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Mortimer Wheeler pioneered
systematic excavation in the early 20th century. Pictured, are his excavations at
Maiden Castle, Dorset, in October 1937.
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Linguistics
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Linguistics is the scientific study of language, and involves an analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context. Linguists traditionally analyse human language by observing an interplay between sound and meaning, phonetics is the study of speech and non-speech sounds, and delves into their acoustic and articulatory properties. While the study of semantics typically concerns itself with truth conditions, Grammar is a system of rules which governs the production and use of utterances in a given language. These rules apply to sound as well as meaning, and include componential sub-sets of rules, such as those pertaining to phonology, morphology, modern theories that deal with the principles of grammar are largely based within Noam Chomskys ideological school of generative grammar. In the early 20th century, Ferdinand de Saussure distinguished between the notions of langue and parole in his formulation of structural linguistics. According to him, parole is the utterance of speech, whereas langue refers to an abstract phenomenon that theoretically defines the principles. This distinction resembles the one made by Noam Chomsky between competence and performance in his theory of transformative or generative grammar. According to Chomsky, competence is an innate capacity and potential for language, while performance is the specific way in which it is used by individuals, groups. The study of parole is the domain of sociolinguistics, the sub-discipline that comprises the study of a system of linguistic facets within a certain speech community. Discourse analysis further examines the structure of texts and conversations emerging out of a speech communitys usage of language, Stylistics also involves the study of written, signed, or spoken discourse through varying speech communities, genres, and editorial or narrative formats in the mass media. In the 1960s, Jacques Derrida, for instance, further distinguished between speech and writing, by proposing that language be studied as a linguistic medium of communication in itself. Palaeography is therefore the discipline that studies the evolution of scripts in language. Linguistics also deals with the social, cultural, historical and political factors that influence language, through which linguistic, research on language through the sub-branches of historical and evolutionary linguistics also focus on how languages change and grow, particularly over an extended period of time. Language documentation combines anthropological inquiry with linguistic inquiry, in order to describe languages, lexicography involves the documentation of words that form a vocabulary. Such a documentation of a vocabulary from a particular language is usually compiled in a dictionary. Computational linguistics is concerned with the statistical or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective, specific knowledge of language is applied by speakers during the act of translation and interpretation, as well as in language education – the teaching of a second or foreign language. Policy makers work with governments to implement new plans in education, related areas of study also includes the disciplines of semiotics, literary criticism, translation, and speech-language pathology. Before the 20th century, the philology, first attested in 1716, was commonly used to refer to the science of language
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Ancient
Tamil inscription at
Thanjavur
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Topics and terminology
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Anthropology
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Anthropology is the study of various aspects of humans within past and present societies. Social anthropology and cultural anthropology study the norms and values of societies, linguistic anthropology studies how language affects social life. Biological or physical anthropology studies the development of humans. The abstract noun anthropology is first attested in reference to history and its present use first appeared in Renaissance Germany in the works of Magnus Hundt and Otto Casmann. Their New Latin anthropologia derived from the forms of the Greek words ánthrōpos and lógos. It began to be used in English, possibly via French anthropologie, various short-lived organizations of anthropologists had already been formed. The Société Ethnologique de Paris, the first to use Ethnology, was formed in 1839 and its members were primarily anti-slavery activists. When slavery was abolished in France in 1848 the Société was abandoned and these anthropologists of the times were liberal, anti-slavery, and pro-human-rights activists. Anthropology and many other current fields are the results of the comparative methods developed in the earlier 19th century. For them, the publication of Charles Darwins On the Origin of Species was the epiphany of everything they had begun to suspect, Darwin himself arrived at his conclusions through comparison of species he had seen in agronomy and in the wild. Darwin and Wallace unveiled evolution in the late 1850s, there was an immediate rush to bring it into the social sciences. When he read Darwin he became a convert to Transformisme. His definition now became the study of the group, considered as a whole, in its details. Broca, being what today would be called a neurosurgeon, had taken an interest in the pathology of speech and he wanted to localize the difference between man and the other animals, which appeared to reside in speech. He discovered the speech center of the brain, today called Brocas area after him. The title was translated as The Anthropology of Primitive Peoples. The last two volumes were published posthumously, Waitz defined anthropology as the science of the nature of man. By nature he meant matter animated by the Divine breath, i. e. he was an animist and he stresses that the data of comparison must be empirical, gathered by experimentation
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Forensic anthropologists can help identify skeletonized human remains, such as these found lying in scrub in Western Australia, c. 1900–1910.
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Anthropology
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Excavations at the 3800-year-old
Edgewater Park Site,
Iowa
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National Museum of Natural History
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The National Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D. C. Opened in 1910, the museum on the National Mall was one of the first Smithsonian buildings constructed exclusively to hold the national collections and research facilities. The main building has an area of 1,500,000 square feet with 325,000 square feet of exhibition and public space. The museums collections contain over 126 million specimens of plants, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, human remains, the United States National Museum was founded in 1846 as part of the Smithsonian Institution. The museum was housed in the Smithsonian Institution Building, which is better known today as the Smithsonian Castle. A formal exhibit hall opened in 1858, the growing collection led to the construction of a new building, the National Museum Building. Covering a then-enormous 2.25 acres, it was built in just 15 months at a cost of $310,000, congress authorized construction of a new building on June 28,1902. The regents began considering sites for the new building in March, the D. C. architectural firm of Hornblower & Marshall was chosen to design the structure. Testing of the soil for the foundations was set for July 1903, the Natural History Building opened its doors to the public on March 17,1910, in order to provide the Smithsonian Institution with more space for collections and research. The building was not fully completed until June 1911, the structure cost $3.5 million dollars. The Neoclassical style building was the first structure constructed on the side of the National Mall as part of the 1901 McMillan Commission plan. In addition to the Smithsonians natural history collection, it housed the American history, art. Between 1981 and 2003, the National Museum of Natural History had 11 permanent, there were six directors alone between 1990 and 2002. Turnover was high as the directors were disenchanted by low levels of funding. Robert W. Fri was named the director in 1996. One of the largest donations in Smithsonian history was made during Fris tenure, kenneth E. Behring donated $20 million in 1997 to modernize the museum. Fri resigned in 2001 after disagreeing with Smithsonian leadership over the reorganization of the scientific research programs. J. Dennis OConnor, Provost of the Smithsonian Institution was named acting director of the museum on July 25,2001, eight months later, OConner resigned to become the vice president of research and dean of the graduate school at the University of Maryland
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National Museum of Natural History
National Museum of Natural History
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The
Star of Asia, a large, 330 carat cabochon-cut
star sapphire in the U.S. National Gem Collection
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Ford Model T parked in front of the National Museum in 1926
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The museum as seen from the
National Mall, the
Old Post Office Building visible in the distance
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Frank Hamilton Cushing
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Frank Hamilton Cushing was an American anthropologist and ethnologist. He made pioneering studies of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico by entering into their culture, Cushing was born in North East, Pennsylvania. He later moved with his family to western New York, as a boy he took an interest in the Native American artifacts in the surrounding countryside and taught himself how to knap flint. He published his first scientific paper when he was 17, after a brief period at Cornell University, where he put together and curated an exhibit of Indian artifacts, Cushing attracted notice from the director of the Smithsonian Institution. At 19 Cushing was appointed curator of the department of the National Museum in Washington. There he came to the attention of John Wesley Powell, of the Bureau of Ethnology, Cushing was invited by Powell to join the James Stevenson anthropological expedition to New Mexico. The group traveled by rail to the end of the line at Las Vegas, New Mexico, fascinated by this culture, Cushing gained permission to stay at the pueblo. He went native, living with the Zuni from 1879 to 1884, after some initial difficulties, Cushing was accepted by the community. He was adopted by the Governor of the Pueblo and participated in Zuni activities, in 1881 Cushing was initiated into the warrior society, the Priesthood of the Bow. He received the Zuni name Tenatsali, meaning medicine flower and he often told the Zuni folk tales and legends from his own culture. In addition, in 1882 he took his Zuni father and fellow Bow members on a tour to the Eastern United States to show them his culture and their journey attracted considerable press attention, as there was great interest in American Indians of the West. Cushing considered the part of what he called the reciprocal method. He was a century ahead of other practitioners of this process, during this tour Cushing married Emily Tennison of Washington, D. C. His wife and her sister returned with him and his party to Zuni, Cushing became embroiled in a political intrigue. In 1877, President Rutherford B. Hayes had signed a bill designating the boundaries of the new Zuni reservation, one 800-acre section of Zuni territory, called the Nutria Valley, had been left out. Three land speculators, including Major W. F. Tucker, the angered Zunis appealed to Cushing for help, and he wrote letters to newspapers in Chicago and Boston in their defense. Major Tuckers father-in-law was US Senator John A. Logan from Illinois, even though the administration of President Chester A. Arthur redefined the Zuni boundaries in 1883 to correct the Nutria Valley omission, the damage to Cushings position had been done. Senator Logan resented his reputation being tarnished in the land grab imbroglio, as U. S. Senator, he threatened director John Wesley Powell of the Bureau of American Ethnology with funding cuts if Cushings stay in Zuni was not terminated
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Frank Hamilton Cushing
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Cushing at Zuni, ca. 1881-82., by
John K. Hillers
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James Owen Dorsey
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He worked for the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution from 1880-1895, when he died young of typhoid fever. He became known as the expert on languages and culture of southern Siouan peoples, Dorsey also collected much material on beliefs and institutions, although most of his manuscripts have not been published. Some of the stories he collected from the Ponca and Osage have been published. James Owen Dorsey was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1848 and he attended the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, and was ordained as a deacon of the Episcopal Church in 1871. That year he became a missionary to the Ponca Indians in the Dakota Territory and he had a remarkable aptitude for languages, and a sympathetic and helpful personality which won the confidence of the Indians. He lived 27 months as a missionary in Nebraska and South Dakota, learning the difficult Siouan language of the Ponca, ill health forced Dorsey to leave the West and to become a pastor in Maryland. He continued to study linguistics, and to work on analysis of Ponca. In the early years, he tried to link those languages with Hebrew, in the theory, shared by many scholars at the time. These efforts were considered crude and immature, but, he developed into a linguist and anthropologist who presented Indian cultures with unsurpassed fidelity. In 1880, Dorsey returned to Washington to work with the BAE at the Smithsonian as a specialist in Siouan languages, Dorsey later did field work with the Siouan-speaking Tutelo in Canada, the Biloxi in Louisiana, and the Quapaw in Oklahoma. In 1884 he was the last to record the Yakona language, Dorsey also compiled word lists and dictionaries of the Kansa and Osage languages. He became the foremost expert on the languages and culture of southern Siouan peoples, many of his extensive compilations of vocabulary, grammar, myths, oral histories, and cultural practices are still unpublished. Dorsey died of fever in 1895 in Washington, D. C. at age 47. O. O. Dorsey, Ponca & Omaha Texts, University of Colorado
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James Owen Dorsey
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Jesse Walter Fewkes
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Jesse Walter Fewkes was an American anthropologist, archaeologist, writer and naturalist. Fewkes was born in Newton, Massachusetts, and initially trained as a zoologist at Harvard University and he later turned to ethnological studies of the native tribes in the American Southwest. In 1889, with the resignation of noted ethnologist Frank Hamilton Cushing, Fewkes became leader of the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition, while with this project, Fewkes documented the existing lifestyle and rituals of the Zuni and Hopi tribes. Fewkes was the first man to use a phonograph to record indigenous people for study and he tested its use among the Passamaquoddy in Maine, before traveling to the Southwest to make his recordings of the Zuni and Hopi. Benjamin Ives Gilman used these recordings to show that they used musical intervals unlike those in the Western tempered scale, in addition to the recordings, he wrote historically valuable descriptions of the music and musical practice. Fewkes surveyed the ruins of a number of cultures in the American Southwest and he supervised the excavation of the Casa Grande ruins in southern Arizona, a Hohokam site, and the Mesa Verde ruins in southern Colorado, an Ancient Pueblo site. He particularly focused on the variants and styles of prehistoric Southwest Indian pottery and his work on the Mimbres and Sikyátki pottery styles eventually led to the reproduction of many of these traditional forms and images. The Hopi potter Nampeyo became his friend and reproduced the newly documented traditional designs in her own work, in study of the Hopi Indians religious rituals and festivities Fewkes compiled descriptions and drawings of the Hopis Katsinam. He commissioned several Hopi artist, knowledgeable in the Katsina cult and with the least outside influence in art, to series of paintings of the Hopis’ supernatural beings. Fewkes was one of the first voices for government preservation of ancient sites in the American Southwest, by the mid-1890s, vandalism of these sites was widespread. A commercial spirit is leading to careless excavations for objects to sell, the proper designation of the way our antiquities are treated is vandalism. It would be wise legislation to prevent this vandalism as much as possible and his research on precolumbian sites of Puerto Rico, Haiti, Cuba, Trinidad, and the Lesser Antilles were culminated into his 1907 book Aborigines of Porto Rico and Neighboring Islands. Its an acclaimed text of early archaeology, Fewkes joined the Smithsonians Bureau of American Ethnology in 1895, becoming its director in 1918. The Group of Tusayan Ceremonials Called Katcinas, the Smithsonian Institution, BAE Annual Report 1897 pp. 245–313. Washington Academy of Sciences Vol II,1900, Hopi Katcinas Drawn by Native Artists. The Smithsonian Institution, BAE Annual Report 1903 pp 3–126 The Mimbres, Art, Avanyu Publishing, Albuquerque, New Mexico, republished 1993. --a reprint of three published by the Smithsonian Institution between 1914 and 1924. Hopi Snake Ceremonies, Avanyu Publishing Inc, republication of selected works Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Report Nos.16 and 19 for the years 1894-95 and 1897-98. with stars and ponys lalalan 1 fish 2 fush 3 fash 4 fosh Hough, Walter
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Jesse Walter Fewkes, ca 1919
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J. Walter Fewkes at Mesa Verde cliff dwellings circa 1910
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Alice Cunningham Fletcher
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Alice Cunningham Fletcher was an American ethnologist, anthropologist, and social scientist who studied and documented American Indian culture. Not much is known about Fletchers parents, her father was a New York lawyer and her mother was from a prominent Boston family and her parents moved to Havana, Cuba in vain hopes of easing her fathers illness with a better climate. Fletcher was born there in 1838, after her father died in 1839, the family moved to Brooklyn Heights, Fletcher was enrolled in the Brooklyn Female Academy, an exclusive school for the elite. Fletcher taught school and later became a lecturer to support herself. She also advocated for the education of Native Americans so that they could gain accoutrements of civilization, Fletcher credited Frederic Ward Putnam for stimulating her interest in American Indian culture and began working with him at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. She studied the remnants of the Indian civilization in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, in 1881, Fletcher made an unprecedented trip to live with and study the Sioux on their reservation as a representative of the Peabody Museum. She was accompanied by Susette Bright Eyes La Flesche, an Omaha spokeswoman who had served as interpreter for Standing Bear in 1879 in his civil rights trial. Also with them was Thomas Tibbles, a journalist who had helped publicize Standing Bears cause and these times also marked the beginning of Fletchers 40-year association with Francis La Flesche, Susettes half brother. They collaborated professionally and had an informal mother-son relationship and they shared a house in Washington, D. C. beginning in 1890. In addition to her research and writing, Fletcher worked in several appointed positions during the late nineteenth century. In 1887 she was appointed United States special agent in the allotment of lands among the Winnebago and she was made assistant in ethnology at the Peabody Museum in 1882, and in 1891 received the Thaw fellowship, which was created for her. Active in professional societies, she was elected president of the Anthropological Society of Washington and she also served as vice-president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and was a longtime member of the Literary Society of Washington. Working through the Womens National Indian Association, Fletcher introduced a system of making loans to Indians, wherewith they might buy land. She also helped secure a loan for Susan LaFlesche, an Omaha woman, graduating at the top of her class, LaFlesche became the first Native American woman doctor in the United States. In 1888 Fletcher published Indian Education and Civilization, a report of the Bureau of Education. She was a pioneer in the study of American Indian music, in 1898 at the Congress of Musicians held in Omaha during the Trans-Mississippi Exposition, she read several essays upon the songs of the North American Indians. A number of Omaha Indians sang their native melodies, out of this grew her Indian Story and Song from North America, exploring a stage of development antecedent to that in which culture music appeared. Fletcher worked with Frederic Ward Putnam in his research on Serpents Mound in Ohio, the site was donated to the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society in 1900 and is a National Historic Landmark
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Alice Cunningham Fletcher
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Alice Fletcher at her writing desk
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Francis LaFlesche
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Francis La Flesche was the first professional Native American ethnologist, he worked with the Smithsonian Institution, specializing first in his own Omaha culture, followed by that of the Osage. Working closely as a translator and researcher with the anthropologist Alice C, Fletcher, La Flesche wrote several articles and a book on the Omaha, plus more numerous works on the Osage. He made valuable original recordings of their songs and chants. Beginning in 1908 he collaborated with the composer Charles Wakefield Cadman to develop an opera, Da O Ma, a collection of his stories was published in 1998. Of Omaha, Ponca, and French descent, La Flesche was the son of the Omaha chief Joseph LaFlesche and he grew up on the Omaha Reservation at a time of major transition for the tribe. Before the establishment of programs, he earned undergraduate and masters degrees at the George Washington University Law School in Washington. He made his life among European Americans. Francis La Flesche was born in 1857 on the Omaha Reservation, the first child of his father Joseph LaFlesches second wife Ta-in-ne and their mother was Mary Gale, daughter of an American surgeon and his Iowa wife. After Marys death, the widower Joseph married Ta-in-ne, an Omaha woman, Francis attended the Presbyterian Mission School at Bellevue, Nebraska. Later he attended college and law school in Washington, DC, by 1853, Iron Eye was a chief of the Omaha, he helped negotiate the 1854 treaty by which the tribe sold most of their land in Nebraska. He led the tribe as a head chief soon after their removal to a reservation, Joseph was Métis, of French and Ponca descent, and grew up mostly with the Omaha people. Working first as a fur trader, as an adult he had adopted as a son by the chief Big Elk. Joseph emphasized education for all his children, several went to schools and they were encouraged to contribute to their people. In 1879, Judge Elmer Dundy of the US District Court made a civil rights decision affirming the rights of American Indians as citizens under the Constitution. In Standing Bear v. Crook, Dundy had ruled that an Indian is a person under the Fourteenth Amendment, Susette Bright Eyes La Flesche had been involved as an interpreter for the chief Standing Bear and an expert witness on Indian issues. She invited Francis to accompany her with Standing Bear on a tour of the eastern United States during 1879-1880. They took turns acting as interpreter for the chief, in 1881 Susette and the journalist Thomas Tibbles accompanied Alice C. Fletcher, an anthropologist, on her trip to live with
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Francis La Flesche
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James Mooney
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James Mooney was an American ethnographer who lived for several years among the Cherokee. He did major studies of Southeastern Indians, as well as those on the Great Plains, papers and photographs from Mooney are in the collections of the National Anthropological Archives, Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution. James Mooney was born on February 10,1861 in Richmond, Indiana and his formal education was limited to the public schools of the city. He became an expert on American tribes by his own studies. In 1885 he started working with the Bureau of American Ethnology at Washington and he compiled a list of tribes which contained 3,000 names. It ended after the US Armys 1890 massacre of Lakota people at Wounded Knee, Mooney was recognized as a national expert on the American Indian. He married Ione Lee Gaut on September 28,1897 in Washington, one son was the writer Paul Mooney. Mooney died of disease in Washington, D. C. on December 22,1921. Mooneys obituary is available on JSTOR in American Anthropologist 24, #2 and he was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery. A fuller biographical profile by George Ellison can be found in James Mooneys history, myths, linguistic families of Indian tribes north of Mexico, with provisional list of principal tribal names and synonyms. US Bureau of American Ethnology,1885, US Bureau of American Ethnology, 1885-6 Annual Report,1892. US Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin,1894, the Ghost-dance religion and the Sioux outbreak of 1890. US Bureau of American Ethnology, 1892-3 Annual Report,1897, calendar history of the Kiowa Indians. US Bureau of American Ethnology, 1895-6 Annual Report,1900, US Bureau of American Ethnology, 1897-8 Annual Report,1902. US Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin,1907, the Swimmer manuscript, Cherokee sacred formulas and medicinal prescriptions, revised, completed and edited by Frans M. Olbrechts,1932
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James Mooney
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Grave of James Mooney at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
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Matilda Coxe Stevenson
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Matilda Coxe Stevenson, who also wrote under the name Tilly E. Stevenson, was an American ethnologist, born in San Augustine, Texas. Born Matilda Coxe Evans, in 1872 she married James Stevenson, in the 1880s, the Stevensons formed the first husband-wife team in anthropology. Matilda Coxe Stevensons contributions often focused on women and family life, for which she developed a reputation as a vigorous. In 1885, Matilda Coxe Stevenson became the first President of the Womens Anthropological Society of America, after 1889 she was on the staff of the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution. Stevenson explored the cave, cliff, and mesa ruins of New Mexico, studied all the Pueblo tribes of that state, artifacts collected by Matilda and James Stevenson are in the collections of the Department of Anthropology in the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution. Papers from Stevenson are in the Institutions National Anthropological Archives, in Gacs, Ute, Khan, Aisha, McIntyre, Jerrie, & Weinberg, Ruth. This article incorporates text from a now in the public domain, Gilman. Thurston, H. T. Colby, F. M. eds, further reading Foote, Cheryl J.6, Every Moment is Golden for the Ethnologist Matilda Coxe Stevenson in New Mexico. Women of the New Mexico Frontier, 1846-1912, tucson, AZ, University of Arizona Press. A perspective on Stevensons research methods in relation to the Hopi, Matilda Coxe Evans Stevenson on the Womens Intellectual Contributions to the Study of Mind and Society website Miller, Darlis A. Matilda Coxe Stevenson, Pioneering Anthropologist. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, Works by Matilda Coxe Stevenson at Project Gutenberg Works by or about Matilda Coxe Stevenson at Internet Archive
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circa 1870
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Neil Judd
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Neil Merton Judd was an American archaeologist who studied under the archaeologist of the American Southwest, Edgar Lee Hewett. He was curator of archaeology at the United States National Museum and he headed the first federally backed archeological mission sent to Chaco Canyon, excavating the key ruins of Pueblo Bonito and Pueblo del Arroyo. Brew, JO, Neil Merton Judd, 1887-1976, American Anthropologist,80, 352–354, strutin, M, Chaco, A Cultural Legacy, Southwest Parks and Monuments Association, ISBN 1-877856-45-2. Neil M. Judd, Men Met along the Trail, Adventures in Archaeology,1968, University of Oklahoma Press
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Neil M. Judd and Santiago Nahnjo, Governor of
Santa Clara Pueblo, circa 1909.
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John Peabody Harrington
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John Peabody Harrington was an American linguist and ethnologist and a specialist in the native peoples of California. Born in Waltham, Massachusetts, Harrington moved to California as a child, from 1902 to 1905, Harrington studied anthropology and classical languages at Stanford University. While attending specialized classes at the University of California, Berkeley, Harrington became intensely interested in Native American languages and ethnography. Rather than completing his doctorate at the Universities of Leipzig and Berlin, for three years, he devoted his spare time to an intense examination of the few surviving Chumash people. His exhaustive work came to the attention of the Smithsonian Museums Bureau of American Ethnology, Harrington became a permanent field ethnologist for the bureau in 1915. Harrington also extended his work into traditional culture, particularly mythology and his field collections include information on placenames and thousands of photographs. Harrington is virtually the only recorder of some languages, such as Obispeño Chumash, Kitanemuk and he gathered more than 1 million pages of phonetic notations on languages spoken by tribes from Alaska to South America. When the technology available, he supplemented his written record with audio recordings - many recently digitized - first using wax cylinders. He is credited with gathering some of the first recordings of languages, rituals and songs. Harringtons attention to detail, both linguistic and cultural, is well-illustrated in Tobacco among the Karuk Indians of California, one of his very few published works. A more complete listing of the languages he documented includes the following and they had one daughter, Awona Harrington. Indigenous languages of California Traditional narratives Native American history of California Native Americans in California Survey of California, Harrington Biography Reconstituting the Chumash, A Review Essay, Peter Nabokov, American Indian Quarterly, Vol.13, No. 4, Special Issue, The California Indians, a Harrington Chronology John P. Harrington Papers 1907-1959 Los Angeles Times article and video about Harringtons research amongst the Chumash
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John Peabody Harrington (1884-1961) and Chief Wi'ishi of the
Mission Indians, 1935
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Franz Boas
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Franz Uri Boas was a German-American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the Father of American Anthropology. His work is associated with the movement of anthropological historicism, studying in Germany, Boas was awarded a doctorate in 1881 in physics while also studying geography. He then participated in an expedition to northern Canada where he became fascinated with the culture. He went on to do work with the indigenous cultures and languages of the Pacific Northwest. Through his students, many of whom went on to found anthropology departments and research programmes inspired by their mentor, Boas profoundly influenced the development of American anthropology. Among his most significant students were Manuel Gamio, A. L. Kroeber, Ruth Benedict, Edward Sapir, Margaret Mead, Melville Herskovits, and Zora Neale Hurston. In this way, Boas introduced culture as the concept for describing differences in behavior between human groups, and as the central analytical concept of anthropology. Franz Boas was born in Minden, Westphalia, although his grandparents were observant Jews, his parents embraced Enlightenment values, including their assimilation into modern German society. Boass parents were educated, well-to-do, and liberal, they did not like dogma of any kind, due to this, Boas was granted the independence to think for himself and pursue his own interests. Early in life he displayed a penchant for both nature and natural sciences, Boas vocally opposed anti-Semitism and refused to convert to Christianity, but he did not identify himself as a Jew. This is disputed however by Ruth Bunzel, a protégée of Boas, according to his biographer, He was an ethnic German, preserving and promoting German culture and values in America. In an autobiographical sketch, Boas wrote, The background of my early thinking was a German home in which the ideals of the revolution of 1848 were a living force. My father, liberal, but not active in affairs, my mother, idealistic, with a lively interest in public matters. My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma and my father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom. From kindergarten on, Boas was educated in history, a subject he enjoyed. In gymnasium, he was most proud of his research on the distribution of plants. In 1879, he hoped to transfer to Berlin University to study physics under Hermann von Helmholtz, the combination of physics and geography also may have been accomplished through a major in physics and a minor in geography. Boas, due to deafness, encountered difficulties studying tonal languages such as Laguna
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Franz Boas
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Boas' dissertation: Beiträge zur Erkenntniss der Farbe des Wassers (Faculty of Philosophy,
University of Kiel 1881)
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"Franz Boas posing for figure in US Natural History Museum exhibit entitled "Hamats'a coming out of secret room" 1895 or before. Courtesy of National Anthropology Archives. (
Kwakiutl culture)
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Drawing of a
Kwakiutl mask from Boas's The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians (1897). Wooden skulls hang from below the mask, which represents one of the cannibal bird helpers of Bakbakwalinooksiwey.
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Garrick Mallery
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Garrick Mallery was an American ethnologist specializing in Native American sign language and pictographs. His father was Judge Garrick Mallery, who was born April 17,1784 and he was a member of the Pennsylvania legislature from 1827 to 1830, and was distinguished for the zeal with which he promoted prison reform. In 1831 he was appointed judge of the judicial district, composed of the counties of Berks, Northampton. He resigned from the bench in 1836 and removed to Philadelphia and he died in Philadelphia on the 6th of July,1866. Garricks mother, the second wife, was descended from John Harris, Jr. the founder of Harrisburg. Mallery received an excellent early education and was prepared by a tutor for his entrance into his fathers alma mater, Yale College. Three years later, he received the degree of LL. B. from the University of Pennsylvania, in the same year he was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia and commenced practice there. He devoted some of his time to editorial and literary work. Mallery was a volunteer and served as a first-lieutenant in the 71st Pennsylvania Infantry, on June 30,1862, he was severely wounded at Peach Orchard during the Seven Days Battles in Virginia. Having been left on the battlefield unable to move, he was captured and sent to Libby Prison, upon being exchanged some time later, he was sent to his home in Philadelphia. When recovered, he returned to the field and, in February,1863, was commissioned as lieutenant colonel of the 13th Pennsylvania Cavalry, during the military occupation of Virginia, Mallery was appointed judge advocate of the First Military District. Beginning in 1870, he was on duty with the Signal Corps for almost ten years and served as executive officer, due to his old wounds rendering him unfit for strenuous work, he was retired at his own request in 1879. During Mallerys tenure with the Signal Corps, he was stationed at Fort Rice in Dakota Territory. He began to note of them, which led to a parallel investigation of the pictographs on rocks, skins. He foresaw that these customs would ultimately be lost and forgotten as the Indians were brought more and more under the control of the authorities. Before Mallery began his researches it was supposed that the pictographs, some of which were believed to be of pre-Columbian origin, were simply pictures. He was gradually convinced that gesture-speech and the cognate pictographs formed a system, involving mythology and history. In 1877, as a result of work, he was ordered to report to Major John Wesley Powell
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Garrick Mallery.
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Washington Matthews
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Washington Matthews was a surgeon in the United States Army, ethnographer, and linguist known for his studies of Native American peoples, especially the Navajo. Matthews was born in Killiney, near Dublin, Ireland in 1843 to Nicolas Blayney Matthews and his mother having died a few years after his birth, his father took him and his brother to the United States. He grew up in Wisconsin and Iowa, and his father and he would go on to graduate from the University of Iowa in 1864 with a degree in medicine. The American Civil War was raging at the time, and Matthews immediately volunteered for the Union Army upon graduating and his first post was as surgeon at Rock Island Barracks, Illinois, where he tended to Confederate prisoners. Matthews was posted at Fort Union in what is now Montana in 1865 and it was there that an enduring interest in Native American peoples and languages took root. He would go on to serve at a series of forts in Dakota Territory until 1872, Fort Berthold, Fort Stevenson, Fort Rice and he was a part of General Alfred H. Terrys expedition in Dakota Territory in 1867. He also described, though less extensively, the related Mandan, there is some evidence that Matthews married a Hidatsa woman during this time. There is also speculation and circumstantial evidence that Matthews had a son with the woman, in 1877 he participated in an expedition against the Nez Perce, and again in 1878 against the Bannock. While serving on a prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, from 1884 to 1890, Matthews was posted to the Army Medical Museum in Washington, DC. During this time he conducted research and wrote papers on physical anthropology. John Wesley Powell of the Smithsonian Institutions Bureau of American Ethnology suggested that Matthews be assigned to Fort Wingate, near what is now Gallup and it was there that Matthews came to know the people who would become the subject of his best known work, the Navajo. In it that writer has declared that they have no traditions nor poetry, the songs are as full of poetic images and figures of speech as occur in English, and are handed down from father to son, from generation to generation. Matthews is said to have initiated into various secret Navajo rituals. Matthews argued that the Navajo were ichthyphobic, loeseliastrum matthewsii was named after him. Grammar and Dictionary of the Language of the Hidatsa, ethnography and philology of the Hidatsa Indians. The Mountain Chant, A Navajo Ceremony, salt Lake City, University of Utah Press. Matthews is buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, Works by Washington Matthews at Project Gutenberg Works by or about Washington Matthews at Internet Archive Works by Washington Matthews at LibriVox
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Photo credit:
National Library of Medicine
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Paul Radin
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Paul Radin was an American cultural anthropologist and folklorist of the early twentieth century specializing in Native American languages and cultures. The noted legal scholar Max Radin was his older brother, a son of the rabbi Adolph Moses Radin, Paul Radin was born in the cosmopolitan Polish city of Łódź in 1883. In 1884 his family moved to Elmira, New York and he entered the public school system and graduated from the City College of New York in 1902. There, he interested in studying history and came under the influence of James Harvey Robinson. Between 1905 and 1907 Radin studied in Europe, first in Munich, as a result, he became interested in anthropology. In 1907 he returned to the United States and became a student of Franz Boas at Columbia and he engaged in years of productive fieldwork among the Winnebago Indians, primarily from 1908-1912. Publications from this include his doctoral dissertation, earned in 1911 and culminated in 1923 with the publication of his magnum opus. In 1929, as a result of his fieldwork, he was able to publish a grammar of the extinct language of the Wappo people of the San Francisco Bay area. Beginning in the 1940s, Radin was monitored by the FBI and this monitoring continued until his death. In 1952 Radin moved to Lugano, Switzerland, where he worked for the Bollingen Foundation, in 1956 he returned to the US to take a position at Brandeis, where he was chairman of the Department of Anthropology. Late in his career he edited several anthologies of tales from different continents. His most enduring publication to date is The Trickster, which includes essays by the scholar of Greek mythology, Karl Kerényi. Radin taught at a number of colleges and universities, never staying at any one more than a few years. At various times he held appointments at University of California, Berkeley, Mills College, Fisk University, Black Mountain College, Kenyon College, and he concluded his career as chairman of the Department of Anthropology at Brandeis. The Sources and Authenticity of the History of the Ancient Mexicans,1920 The Legends of the Jews, From Joseph to the Exodus, The Jewish Publication Society of America 1923. The Winnebago Tribe, in Thirty-seventh Annual Report of the United States Bureau of American Ethnology, crashing Thunder, The Autobiography of an American Indian. A Grammar of the Wappo Language, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, the Method and Theory of Ethnology, An Essay in Criticism. Primitive Religion, Its Nature and Origin, the Story of the American Indian
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Paul Radin from American Anthropologist, 61 (1959)
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Cyrus Thomas
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Cyrus Thomas was a U. S. ethnologist and entomologist prominent in the late 19th century and noted for his studies of the natural history of the American West. Thomas was born in Kingsport, Tennessee, on July 27,1825 and he was educated in village schools in the Kingsport area and an academy student at Jonesboro, Tennessee, as well as being self-educated. His mother hoped he would join the field, so he studied anatomy and physiology. He was admitted to the bar in 1851, between his study of medicine and law his father appointed him to a county seat to “take charge of some business. ”From 1851 to 1854 Thomas served as county clerk of Jackson County. He later abandoned the practice of law, and in 1865 became superintendent of some Jackson County schools and this lasted only for a few years. Also during this time he entered the ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, four years later in 1869 he joined the expedition of Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, who had organized a science corps for the exploration of the Rocky Mountains. Thomas gained a strong interest in history, and in 1858 he founded the Illinois Natural History Society. Thomas was also the statistician and entomologist on the Hayden Geological Survey of 1871. In 1873 Thomas was appointed a professor of science at Southern Illinois University. He kept his title of chief entomologist until 1882 after the commission came to an end in 1879, at this time,1882, he was appointed archaeologist to the United States Bureau of American Ethnology. Thomas was married twice, having lost his first wife, Dorthy Logan and he remarried in 1865 to Viola L. Davis. With her, he fathered five girls and one boy, who died in infancy, Thomas died on June 26,1910, and was buried in Frederick, Maryland. Thomas made some noteworthy contributions as an entomologist, having helped control the plague that was retarding the growth of the border states. With this information they were able to predict the outbreaks rather accurately for the upcoming year, the chinch bug was another culprit damaging crops. Thomas and LeBaron, using the tactic of studying the chinch bug’s relationship to the weather. Thomas found a pattern between the chinch bug and weather, concluding that outbreaks can be expected about every seven years, after presenting his findings he accurately predicted an outbreak in 1881. He also accompanied expeditions to the West as an entomologist—one of these being the Hayden Geological Survey of 1871, on this expedition Thomas addressed the problem of locusts with Riley and Packard. During this investigation they found the breeding ground, how the weather affected them
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Cyrus Thomas - During 1870 Hayden survey
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Mound builder (people)
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Since the 19th century, the prevailing scholarly consensus has been that the mounds were constructed by indigenous peoples of the Americas. Sixteenth-century Spanish explorers made contact with living in a number of later Mississippian cities, described their cultures. By the time of United States westward expansion two hundred years later, Native Americans were generally not knowledgeable about the civilizations that produced the mounds, research and study of these cultures and peoples has been based mostly on archaeology and anthropology. At one time, the mound builder was applied to the people believed to have constructed these earthworks. In the 16th through 19th centuries, Europeans and Americans generally thought that an other than one related to the historic Native Americans had built the mounds. The namesake cultural trait of the Mound Builders was the building of mounds and these burial and ceremonial structures were typically flat-topped pyramids or platform mounds, flat-topped or rounded cones, elongated ridges, and sometimes a variety of other forms. They were generally built as part of villages that arose from more dense populations, with a specialization of skills. The early earthworks built in Louisiana c.3500 BCE are the ones known to be built by a hunter-gatherer culture. The best-known flat-topped pyramidal structure, which at over 100 feet tall is the largest pre-Columbian earthwork north of Mexico, is Monks Mound at Cahokia in present-day Collinsville, Illinois. At its peak about 1150 CE, Cahokia was a settlement with 20, 000-30,000 people. Some effigy mounds were constructed in the shapes or outlines of culturally significant animals, the most famous effigy mound, Serpent Mound in southern Ohio, ranges from 1 to just over 3 feet tall. 20 feet wide, over 1,330 feet long, many different tribal groups and chiefdoms, involving an array of beliefs and unique cultures over thousands of years, built mounds as expressions of their cultures. The general term, mound builder, covered their shared architectural practice of earthwork mound construction and this practice, believed to be associated with a cosmology that had a cross-cultural appeal, may indicate common cultural antecedents. The first mound building was a marker of political and social complexity among the cultures in the Eastern United States. Watson Brake in Louisiana, constructed about 3500 BCE during the Middle Archaic period, is the oldest dated mound complex in North America and it is one of eleven mound complexes from this period found in the Lower Mississippi Valley. We can conclude that these mound builders were very organized people, hundreds or even thousands of workers had to dig up tons of earth with the hand tools available. Then the dirt had to be moved long distances. The most complete reference for these earthworks is Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, written by Ephraim G. Squier and it was published in 1848 by the Smithsonian
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Monks Mound, built c. 950-1100 CE and located at the
Cahokia Mounds UNESCO World Heritage Site near
Collinsville, Illinois, is the largest
Pre-Columbian earthwork in America north of
Mesoamerica.
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Grave Creek Mound, located in
Moundsville, West Virginia, is one of the largest conical mounds in the
United States. It was built by the
Adena culture.
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The
Nodena Site, possibly the Province of
Pacaha encountered by de Soto
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The
Kincaid Site, a Mississippian settlement in southern Illinois
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Earthworks (archaeology)
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In archaeology, earthworks are artificial changes in land level, typically made from piles of artificially placed or sculpted rocks and soil. Earthworks are often known as barrows in England, and mounds in North America, Earthworks can themselves be archaeological features, or they can show features beneath the surface. They are believed to have used as monuments for spiritual ritual ceremonies. Long barrows are oblong-shaped mounds that are used for burials, tumuli are mounds of earth created over a tomb, it has the same meaning as barrow. A cross dyke or cross-ridge dyke is a bank and ditch, found in Europe and often belonging to the later Bronze Age or Iron Age. Often marked on Ordnance Survey maps in the UK. Ridge and furrows are sets of parallel depressions, mottes are mound structures made of earth and stone that once held castles. A round barrow is a mound that is in a shape that was used during Neolithic times as a burial mound. Geoglyph, a design or motif Earthworks can vary in height from a few centimetres to the size of Silbury Hill at 40 metres. They can date from the Neolithic to the present, the structures can also stretch for many tens of kilometres. In area, they can cover many hectares, for example, Maiden Castle, shallow earthworks are often more visible as cropmarks or in aerial photographs if taken when the sun is low in the sky and shadows are more pronounced. Similarly, earthworks may be visible after a frost or a light dusting of snow. Earthworks can be detected and plotted using Light Detection and Ranging and this technique is particularly useful for mapping small variations in land height that would be difficult to detect by eye. It can be used to map features beneath forest canopy and for features hidden by other vegetation, LIDAR results can be input into a geographic information system to produce three-dimensional representations of the earthworks. An accurate survey of the earthworks can enable them to be interpreted without the need for excavation, for example, earthworks from deserted medieval villages can be used to determine the location, size, and layout of lost settlements. Often these earthworks can point to the purpose of such a settlement, Earthworks in North America include mounds built by Native Americans known as the Mound Builders. Ancient people who lived in the American Midwest commonly built effigy mounds, possibly the most famous of these effigy mounds is Serpent Mound. Located in the Ohio, this 411-meterlong earthen work is thought to memorialize alignments of the planets, cone-shaped or conical mounds are also numerous, with thousands of them scattered across the American Midwest, some over 80 feet tall. These conical mounds appear to be marking the graves of one person or even dozens of people
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Offa's Dyke, southern Britain
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A survey of a
Hopewell enclosure Newark Earthworks in
Ohio,
U.S.
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Great Serpent Mound in Ohio
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An 11th-century
hill fort:
Bielsko-Biała,
Poland
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Mound
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A mound is a heaped pile of earth, gravel, sand, rocks, or debris. Most commonly, mounds are earthen formations such as hills and mountains, a mound may be any rounded area of topographically higher elevation on any surface. Artificial mounds have been created for a variety of reasons throughout history, including ceremonial, burial, in the archaeology of the United States and Canada, a mound is a deliberately constructed elevated earthen structure or earthwork, intended for a range of potential uses. In European and Asian archaeology, the word tumulus may be used as a synonym for an artificial hill, while the term mound may be applied to historic constructions, most mounds in the United States are pre-Columbian earthworks, built by Native American peoples. Native Americans built a variety of mounds, including flat-topped pyramids or cones known as mounds, rounded cones. Some mounds took on unusual shapes, such as the outline of cosmologically significant animals and these are known as effigy mounds. Some mounds, such as a few in Wisconsin, have rock formations, or petroforms within them, on them, while these mounds are perhaps not as famous as burial mounds, like their European analogs, Native American mounds also have a variety of other uses. While some prehistoric cultures, like the Adena culture, used preferentially for burial, others used mounds for other ritual and sacred acts. The platform mounds of the Mississippian culture, for example, may have supported temples, the houses of chiefs, council houses, other mounds would have been part of defensive walls to protect a certain area. The Hopewell culture used mounds as markers of complex astronomical alignments related to ceremonies, mounds and related earthworks are the only significant monumental construction in pre-Columbian Eastern and Central North America. Mounds are given different names depending on which culture they strive from and they can be located all across the world in spots such as Asia, Europe and the Americas. Mound builders have more commonly associated with the mounds in the Americas. They all have different meanings and sometimes are constructed as animals, kankali Tila is a famous mound located at Mathura in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. A Jain stupa was excavated here in 1890-91 by Dr. Fuhrer, mound, as a technical term in archaeology, is not generally in favor in the rest of the world. More specific local terminology is preferred, and each of these terms has its own article
Mound
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Grave Creek Mound, in
Moundsville, West Virginia
Mound
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Kościuszko Mound,
Kraków,
Poland
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Prehistoric
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Prehistory means literally before history, from the Latin word for before, præ, and Greek ιστορία. Neighbouring civilisations were the first to follow, most other civilisations reached the end of prehistory during the Iron Age. The period when a culture is written about by others, but has not developed its own writing is known as the protohistory of the culture. By definition, there are no records from human prehistory. Clear techniques for dating were not well-developed until the 19th century and this article is concerned with human prehistory as defined here above. There are separate articles for the history of the Earth. However, for the race as a whole, prehistory ends when recorded history begins with the accounts of the ancient world around the 4th millennium BC. For example, in Egypt it is accepted that prehistory ended around 3200 BC, whereas in New Guinea the end of the prehistoric era is set much more recently. The three-age system is the periodization of prehistory into three consecutive time periods, named for their respective predominant tool-making technologies, Stone Age Bronze Age Iron Age. The notion of prehistory began to surface during the Enlightenment in the work of antiquarians who used the word primitive to describe societies that existed before written records, the first use of the word prehistory in English, however, occurred in the Foreign Quarterly Review in 1836. The main source for prehistory is archaeology, but some scholars are beginning to more use of evidence from the natural and social sciences. This view has been articulated by advocates of deep history, human population geneticists and historical linguists are also providing valuable insight for these questions. Human prehistory differs from history not only in terms of its chronology, restricted to material processes, remains and artifacts rather than written records, prehistory is anonymous. Because of this, reference terms that use, such as Neanderthal or Iron Age are modern labels with definitions sometimes subject to debate. Palaeolithic means Old Stone Age, and begins with the first use of stone tools, the Paleolithic is the earliest period of the Stone Age. The early part of the Palaeolithic is called the Lower Palaeolithic, evidence of control of fire by early humans during the Lower Palaeolithic Era is uncertain and has at best limited scholarly support. The most widely accepted claim is that H. erectus or H. ergaster made fires between 790,000 and 690,000 BP in a site at Bnot Yaakov Bridge, Israel. The use of fire enabled early humans to cook food, provide warmth, Early Homo sapiens originated some 200,000 years ago, ushering in the Middle Palaeolithic
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Massive stone pillars at
Göbekli Tepe, in southeast Turkey, erected for ritual use by early
Neolithic people 11,000 years ago.
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A prehistoric man and boy.
Prehistoric
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Dugout canoe
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Entrance to the Ġgantija phase temple complex of
Hagar Qim,
Malta, 3900 BC.
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Indigenous peoples
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Groups are usually described as indigenous when they maintain traditions or other aspects of an early culture that is associated with a given region. Not all indigenous peoples share such characteristics, Indigenous societies are found in every inhabited climate zone and continent of the world. Estimates put the population of indigenous peoples from 220 million to 350 million. The adjective indigenous is derived from the Latin word indigena, which is based on the root gen- to be born with a form of the prefix in in. Any given people, ethnic group or community may be described as indigenous in reference to some particular region or location that they see as their tribal land claim. Other terms used to refer to indigenous populations are aboriginal, native, original, james Anaya, former Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, has defined indigenous peoples as living descendants of pre-invasion inhabitants of lands now dominated by others. They are culturally distinct groups that find themselves engulfed by other settler societies born of forces of empire, throughout history, different states designate the groups within their boundaries that are recognized as indigenous peoples according to international or national legislation by different terms. Their ability to influence and participate in the policies that may exercise jurisdiction over their traditional lands. The presence of external laws, claims and cultural mores either potentially or actually act to constrain the practices and observances of an indigenous society. These constraints can be observed even when the society is regulated largely by its own tradition. They may be imposed, or arise as unintended consequence of trans-cultural interaction. They may have an effect, even where countered by other external influences. This definition has some limitations, because the definition applies mainly to pre-colonial populations, the primary impetus in considering indigenous identity comes from the post-colonial movements and considering the historical impacts on populations by the European imperialism. Greek sources of the Classical period acknowledge the existence of indigenous people. These peoples inhabited lands surrounding the Aegean Sea before the subsequent migrations of the Hellenic ancestors claimed by these authors, the disposition and precise identity of this former group is elusive, and sources such as Homer, Hesiod and Herodotus give varying, partially mythological accounts. However, it is clear that cultures existed whose indigenous characteristics were distinguished by the subsequent Hellenic cultures, greco-Roman society flourished between 250 BC and 480 AD and commanded successive waves of conquests that gripped more than half of the globe. The rapid and extensive spread of the various European powers from the early 15th century onwards had an impact upon many of the indigenous cultures with whom they came into contact. The Canary Islands had an indigenous population called the Guanches whose origin is still the subject of discussion among historians, the United Nations estimates that there are over 370 million indigenous people living in over 70 countries worldwide
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Indigenous Australian boys and men in front of a bush shelter,
Groote Eylandt, circa 1933
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Navajo man on horseback in
Monument valley,
Arizona
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Inuit people on a traditional qamutik (dog sled),
Cape Dorset,
Nunavut,
Canada
Indigenous peoples
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Ainu man of
Hokkaidō, Japan in traditional dress
