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Jesse D. Jennings
Jesse D. Jennings
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a job on a campus grounds crew and, after brief curricular explorations, fount! his way into the Department of Anthropology.
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. Distribution of material culture traits is essential knowledge in determining distribution of cultural groups.
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For this reason every effort should be and is being made to interpret archaeological data from these early historical reports. This procedure is the only sound method for determining the ancestors of our historic Indian tribes and properly interpreting the few remaining indestructible fragments of their material culture (pp.
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A final section on Archaeological Implications placed Peachtree in the emerging chronological sequence for the region. Jennings discussed briefly the site's relations to the Adena, Hopewell, and Mississippian patterns and identified its occupants as Cherokee on the grounds of Peachtree's late date and location in the heart of the ethnohistorical Cherokee range.
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by the ciata in hancI: Having waded through the minutiae necessary to a factual reporting of a series of excavation units, the student is usually ready to accept the challenge offered in a concluding section by indulging in the wildest of speculations and by parading his pet theories. In spite of the strong temptation to theorize and tie up loose ends in order to confuse future generations of students, it is probably more desirable to restrain this impulse, attempting instead to evaluate and weigh the meager artifactual data .
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for a time as a National Park Service ranger at Montezuma Castle in Arizona, then was transferred to Ocmulgee National Monument in Georgia as its first superintendent. After time out for Woric!
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seminal treatise on subsistence en c! settlement patterns among a broacler range of Great Basin aboriginal peoples, "Basin-Plateau Aboriginal Sociopolitical Groups" (BAE Bulletin 120~.
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the Eastern Great Basin" is a still broacler synthesis that pulls together results from several major desert culture sites that follower! Danger Cave, from the Glen Canyon project, en c!
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, brought together uncler his editorship synthetic essays by more than a clozen prominent students of this vast area for a first-time summation of its prehistory. Although {ennings's interest in archaeological synthesis no doubt has aciclitional intellectual roots, the taproot surely is the sheer breadth of the archaeological experiences he accumulates!
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results most notably his account of the desert culture that are surely to be reckoned as having great theoretical importance, even though he clic! not consoler the desert culture a theory, but merely the conclusions arrived at through his effort to consider as
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In the classroom or in the field the latter one of Jennings' most important teaching venues things are not left to chance, and things are not let go. Responsibility is demanded of a seminar student scheduled to perform at a given time or of a field crew chief coping with the many necessities of that position.
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cope appropriately with whatever exigencies the wild canyon lands field situation might present was memorializec! in a little clitty sung to the tune of The Frozen Logger, accompanies!
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it is to figure out the structure of an archaeological deposit while in the act of cligging it away. A greeting to a neophyte crew chief, "so, Aikens, you're making the mistakes on this site," meant, "I see that You are in charge here'" en c!
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in an exceptional list of major honors that came throughout his career. He was chosen editor of American Antiquity (1950-54)
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THIS BlOG~PHY COMBINES text previously published by the author as an obituary in American Anthropologist (100~41~; as part of a foreword in Accidental Archaeologist (1994~; and as part of an obituary in SAA Bulletin (15 t5]
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Society for American Archaeology Memoir 14. Also published as University of Utah Anthropological Papers 27.
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1966 Glen Canyon: A summary. University of Utah Anthropological Papers 81.
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1986 Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 11, Great Basin. Subeditor and contributor.
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