American Antiquity, vol. 78, no. 1, January 2013, pp. 181-193
Description
Uses microbotanical data, macrobotanical data and radiocarbon dating to back up claims that maize agriculture did not exist until the historic period at the site examined.
Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, vol. 168, no. 2, February 1993, pp. 307-315
Description
Metal samples studied to distinguish between those with European and North American origins so cultural impact of earliest aboriginal -European contact could be assessed.
Skeptical Inquirer, vol. 36, no. 1, January/February 2012, pp. [48-51]
Description
Offers a critical review of the documentary The Lost Civilizations of North America; examines and responds to claims make in the documentary about DNA evidence of pre-Columbian contact between Indigenous peoples of North America and those from other continents.
Presents new archaeological discoveries about when the first humans entered the new world.
Episode of The Nature of Things which was broadcast January 13, 2011.
Duration: 45:13
Commodifications of the Past? An IPinCH Knowledge Base Bibliography
Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage: Theory, Practice, Policy, Ethics
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
James Herbert
Description
Lists 208 publications (articles, letters, websites, webpages, government documents, and books) deemed to be of interest to the Commodifications of the Past? Working Group from the Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage (IPinCH) research project.
Canadian Journal of Archaeology, vol. 28, no. 2, 2004, pp. 281-318
Description
Study conducted using replicated prehistoric tool types in salmon butchering and processing for drying. Objective of study was to try to understand why certain tool types were used in certain contexts.
Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 4, Fall, 2016, pp. 259-280
Description
Uses material culture and paleobotanical evidence to assess the chronological development of the Wichita society living in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas from 1450 to the 1800s.
Study conducted interviews with Dene Elders and hunters in order to document past and present migration patterns and reasons for changes in those patterns.