Welcome to the video tutorial
Section for eHRAF archaeology, I'm Alissa Jordan and I'll be your guide in this video
I'm going to show you how to browse tradition profiles in eHRAF archaeology using the example of the early
Anasazi Tradition profile first we have to start at the main page for eHRAF archaeology now
We step straight into browse traditions up here at the top next to advanced search you can browse
Traditions by A-Z index by region and by country in this case
I already know I want to look at the early Anasazi tradition profile, so I can simply begin typing
Now you can see that in browse traditions There are menus under the tradition name these include traditions summary
Collection description and collection documents. Let's talk about each of these for a moment
collection descriptions have a brief tradition description
certain collection information and sometimes collection indexing notes
Tradition descriptions provide the name of the Tradition Certain Geographic region Details OWC
identifiers and a single paragraph about the tradition
The collection information Tab provides documents and pages in eHRAF for each tradition as well as a brief
overview by a HRAF anthropologist
collection indexing notes provide pertinent information about how HRAF's
Anthropologists Index the subject content inside the document
The Tradition Summary is a brief overview of a tradition almost all traditions in eHRAF archaeology contain a summary
Most traditions that we describe are adapted from the encyclopedia of prehistory
2001 to 2002 Which HRAF produced together with Kluwer academic
summaries offer key information time period Sites and
Diagnostic material attributes within each summary you will find a standardized set of information about each tradition
Covering everything from population size and economy to social organization
The Tradition summary is indexed by Ocm code with Ocm subjects for each paragraph
Located in a column to the right of the text as applicable font the first thing we see in the tradition summary
Right below the author's names are other names for the traditions
Then we come to a section titled orientation this covers general information on time periods locations
diagnostic Material attributes of Early Anasazi groups
regional subdivisions and a list of important sites
this is followed by a section entitled culture summary here it introduces the early Anasazi landscape and
environment including climate Data
ecological information and other such data in this section
We see where early Anasazi people dwelled was largely sedimentary rock broken up by Volcanic
Deposit which provided strong and valuable materials for manufacturing lithics next we find information on settlements including
Settlement systems in this section I learned that early Anasazi settlements were often composed of small hamlet's spread around water sources
However in the course of 400 years new pueblo settlement patterns emerged such as those at Chaco Canyon
Where village aggregation occurred and several hundreds of families dwelled together the next
subcategories describe Community organization housing and
population health and disease data
Following the culture summary and settlement sections there is an economic section which addresses the subsistence patterns Foods arts
Utensils ornaments trade Patterns labor division as well as differential access to resources within early
Anasazi period dwellings
the subsequent section on socio-Political organization includes distinct subheadings of social organization and political
Organization as well as a summary of conflict present in Anasazi Society such as evidence of Endemic warfare by the 13th century
related to environmental conditions
the final section addresses
religious and expressive traditions in this section for the early
Anasazi we learn that Rock art at the end of the period may provide some evidence of the Growth of Kachina Cults
But otherwise there is little known of early Anasazi religious beliefs and practices
Here there's a section on art
Containing information on the rectilineal and geometric design patterns present during this period As well as data on death and the afterlife
including treatment of the Dead
following this section is a credit and
finally a bibliography of sources
Used in the compilation of the tradition summary for the final part of this video
Let's close the tradition summary and we're going to go ahead and take a look at the collection documents tab for early Anasazi here
You'll see all of the documents pertaining to the tradition in eHRAF you can sort these by the author's last name document title or
publication date by clicking on the Column headers
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