Selected Anthropological Writings of B.K. Swartz, Jr.

Table of Contents

WEST COAST U.S.

A Study of the Material Aspects of Northeastern Maidu Basketry (1958)

Blade Manufacture in Southern California (1960)

Evidence for the Indian Occupation of Santa Barbara Island (1960)

Klamath-Modoc Culture Change (1962)

Highway Salvage Archaeology, Lava Beds National Monument (1962)

AFRICA

An Analysis and Evaluation of the Yapei Pebble Tool Industry, Ghana (1972)

A Stratified Succession of Stone Age Assemblages at Hohoe, Volta Region, Ghana (1974)

Continental Line-Making: A Re-Examination of Basic Paleolithic Classification (1980)

The Eton Pottery Industry of Nkol-Nguele Village, Central Province, Cameroon (1989)

MIDWEST U.S.

Adena: The Western Periphery (1971)

A Provisional Taxonomy of Prufer's Scioto Tradition (1972)

The 1975 Surveying and Sampling of the Archaeological Resources of the Lower Mississinewa Valley (1977)

On Terminology and Eastern United States Prehistory (1979)

The McKern "Taxonomic" System and Archaeological Culture Classification in the Midwestern United States: A History and Evaluation (1996)

A Survey of Adena-Hopewell (Scioto) Anthropomorphic Portraiture (2001)

Middle Woodland Figurines from the Mann Site, Southwest Indiana (2001)

ROCK ART

Review of "Prehistoric Rock Art of Nevada and Eastern California," R. F. Heizer and M. A. Baumhoff (1963)

Klamath Basin Petroglyphs. Revised and Abridged (1978)

Minimum Recording Standards Proposed by the Committee to Advance the Study of Petroglyphs and Pictographs (1980- )

The Management of Recording Procedures in the Preservation of Rock Art Resources (1991)

The Roles of Those Who Serve Rock Art (1993)

Space, Place and Territory in Rock Art Interpretation (1994)

A Comparative Design Element Analysis of Klamath Basin (Modoc), Southern Sierra (Yokuts) and Santa Barbara (Chumash) Pictograph Styles, California-Oregon (1998)

How Prehistoric People of the North American Great Basin Used Petroglyphs to Read their Landscape (2000)

THEORY

Ecological Interpretation in Archaeology (1958)

A Logical Sequence of Archaeological Procedures (1967)

Comment on "Interrelationship of Archaeology and Ethnology, by K. C. Chang" (1968)

Civilization and Urbanism (1969)

Portion of a review "Further Paleoanthropological Studies in Northern Lunda, by J. Desmond Clark" (1970)

Cycles of North American Archaeologies (1977)

OTHER

Mesoamerican Spindle Whorls: A Trial Study (1969)

Disposal of the Dead Amongst the Naciremas (1979)

Clark Wissler, Artifact Collector (1988)

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