American South

The Field of Sherds: Reconstructing Geomagnetic Field Variations from Peruvian Potsherds

by Jorg W.E. Fassbinder

Stark, F. Leonhardt,R. Fassbinder, JWE. Reindel, M. (2009) in: New technologies for archaeology. Multidisciplinary investigations in Palpa and Nasca, Peru, First, Natural Science in Archaeology, edited by M. Reindel and G.A. Wagner, pp. 103-116, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

Well dated potsherds of Peruvian ceramics, comprising nine different cultural phases from 1000 BC to 1400 AD were... more Well dated potsherds of Peruvian ceramics, comprising nine different cultural phases from 1000 BC to 1400 AD were studied providing the unique opportunity to establish a geomagnetic field intensity curve for Peru. Rock magnetic experiments revealed magnetite and maghemite as main carrier of the thermoremanent magnetization (TRM). Archaeointensities are determined using a Thellier-type technique (MT4), including checks for magnetomineralogical changes during laboratory treatment and multidomain (MD) bias. Additionally, TRM anisotropy tensors and cooling rate dependencies are measured and corrected for. Both experiments, carried out for the first time on Peruvian ceramics, emphasise that these corrections are critical factors in archaeointensity determinations. Our new high quality data set shows that the average intensity of the investigated cultural phases is about 35% higher than the present day local geomagnetic field. Besides three intensity maxima at 350 ± 50 BC, 210 ± 120 AD and 720 ± 100 AD a significant decline around 250 ± BC, complying with today’s magnetic field strength is found. Comparing the new established intensity curve with French and Syrian data, almost no concordance is found. Beneath the intensity maximum in the year 200 AD two further outliers of the epoch of the Middle Horizon (620–820 AD) and the epoch of the Late Intermediate Period (1000–1400 AD) give hints of three archaeomagnetic jerks, which fit very well to the French jerks.

Beneath the desert soil -archaeological prospecting with a ceasium magnetometer

by Jorg W.E. Fassbinder

Jorg W.E. Fassbinder and Tomasz H. Gorka (2009) in New technologies for archaeology. Multidisciplinary investigations in Palpa and Nasca, Peru, First, Natural Science in Archaeology, edited by M. Reindel and G.A. Wagner, pp. 49-69, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

Abstract
Large area prospection with highly sensitive caesium magnetometers up to now has been one of the most... more Abstract
Large area prospection with highly sensitive caesium magnetometers up to now has been one of the most successful geophysical prospecting methods in archaeology. The application of this method on pre-Hispanic cultures provides a perfect framework and has a high potential capacity for further development of magnetometry and archaeological prospection methods in general. Both shallow inclination as well as the low intensity of the geomagnetic field near the equator requires an adaption and modification of the caesium magnetometer. In the case of the geoglyphs of the Peruvian Atacama desert – a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1994 – the prospecting results are exemplified in detail. Magnetometry enables us to visualise not only the traces of numerous lightning strikes in the desert but also the traces of thus far unknown archaeological structures and older invisible lines beneath the multiphase trapezoidal geoglyphs. Magnetometry therefore turns from pure geophysics to a perfect archaeological tool for studying ancient sites without destruction.

“Agrarianism and Cultural Renewal.”

by Lee Cheek

“Agrarianism and Cultural Renewal.”  In The University Bookman, Volume 42, Number 1 (Spring) 2002.

Neuryurus (Xenarthra, Glyptodontidae) in the Lujanian (late Pleistocene - early Holocene) of the Pampean region.

by Esteban Soibelzon

Zurita Alfredo E., Soibelzon E. y Carlini A. A

Neosclerocalyptus spp. (Cingulata, Glyptodontidae, Hoplophorini): cranial morphology and palaeoenvironments, along the changing Quaternary

by Esteban Soibelzon

Zurita, AE., Oliva, C., Dondas, A., Soibelzon, E., Isla, I.

Los Glyptodontidae del Neógeno tardío (Pisos/Edades Chapadmalalense-Marplatense; ca. 3.9-1.8 Ma) constituyen un grupo... more Los Glyptodontidae del Neógeno tardío (Pisos/Edades Chapadmalalense-Marplatense; ca. 3.9-1.8 Ma) constituyen un grupo escasamente conocido, en tanto la mayoría de los registros están limitados a restos aislados de la coraza dorsal y/o caudal. Las únicas excepciones están representadas por Paraglyptodon chapalmalensis (Ameghino in Rovereto), un fósil guía para el Chapadmalalense superior, y el Plohophorini Plohophorus figuratus Ameghino. Por otro lado, los “Hoplophorinae” Hoplophorini son gliptodontes que tienen sus primeros registros durante los Pisos Huayqueriense (Mioceno tardío) y “Araucanense” (Mioceno tardío-Plioceno), pero están prácticamente ausentes durante los Pisos Chapadmalalense-Marplatense (Plioceno-Pleistoceno temprano). Posteriormente, los Hoplophorini (Neosclerocalyptus Paula Couto) son, junto con Glyptodon Owen, los Glyptodontidae de registro más frecuente en el Pleistoceno de América del Sur. En esta contribución damos a conocer el primer registro de un Hoplophorini de antigüedad Chapadmalalense, asignado al género Eosclerocalyptus C. Ameghino (Eosclerocalyptus cf. E. lineatus). Este nuevo material, representado por una coraza dorsal, fue exhumado de la sección superior de la Fm. Chapadmalal, Mar del Plata, provincia de Buenos Aires. Desde una perspectiva morfológica, esta coraza presenta un tamaño intermedio entre E. tapinocephalus Cabrera, E. proximus (Moreno & Mercerat) y Neosclerocalyptus Paula Couto. Junto con cf. Paraglyptodon chapalmalensis y Plohophorus figuratus Ameghino, estos registros representan los Glyptodontidae Pliocenos más completos que se conocen; a su vez, completa parcialmente la distribución estratigráfica de los Glyptodontidae Hoplophorini.
Palabras clave: América del Sur, Argentina, Neógeno tardío, Glyptodontidae

A new stratigraphic profile of Punta Hermengo (Buenos Aires Province, Argentina). Magnetostratigraphy and biostratigraphy

by Esteban Soibelzon

Soibelzon E., Tonni, E.P., Bidegain, JC.

Biogeographic analysis of the South American Cerrado Avifauna

by Sergio Bolívar Leguizamón

José Maria Cardoso da Silva, 1995

"She Just Called You Honey": My Quandary at Waffle House

by Brett Lunceford

Lunceford, Brett. "'She Just Called You Honey': My Quandary at Waffle House." ETC: A Review of General Semantics 68, no. 4 (2011): 446-60.

An essay is presented on rhetorical strategies used to create relationships between people. It offers the views of a... more An essay is presented on rhetorical strategies used to create relationships between people. It offers the views of a cultural outsider observing waitresses at a Southern United States Waffle House restaurant, where staff often use the epithet "honey" when speaking to customers. The author describes a shift in power where the restaurant staff are in control rather than the customer and the psychological implications, sexual aspects, and relationship defining results of his being called "honey" by the waitstaff.

Remus Orthography: The History of the Representation of the African-American Voice

by Jeffrey Hadler

Movilidad y procesos migratorios en el espacio de frontera argentino-boliviana, Prensa universitaria de Cordoba, Córdoba, Argentina

by Ceydric Martin

Domenach, Hervé ; Arze, Hugo; Celton, Dora; Hamelin, Philippe, editores (2007)

Green Revolutions: The American South, Mexico, and the Twentieth-Century Remaking of the Rural World

by Tore Olsson

Dissertation in progress, to be defended in Spring 2013

This project will examine how Cold War programs of global rural development, particularly the Green Revolution, were... more This project will examine how Cold War programs of global rural development, particularly the Green Revolution, were born out of the transnational conversation between reformers working in the American South and Mexico. In the first half of the twentieth century, rural reformers from diverse backgrounds - Rockefeller Foundation agronomists, Mexican revolutionary agrarians, and New Deal social planners, to name a few - looked across the Caribbean for both models and warnings, believing rightly that both Mexico and the U.S. South shared the colonial complexes of plantation agriculture and unequal landownership. But the solutions that reformers proposed for righting these historic wrongs were many and often at odds, ranging from redistributive politics to technocratic science. When this transnational exchange was globalized with the Rockefeller Foundation's push into the postwar Third World, the clash between these multiple visions was especially stark, and the fate of the rural planet lay in their resolution.

'Gender and the Politics of the Household in Reconstruction Louisiana, 1865–-1878

by Marek Steedman

Michael Perman, Pursuit of Liberty: A Political History of the American South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010, $35.00). Pp. 408. isbn 978 0 8078 …

by Marek Steedman

Immigrants in the New South

by Carl L Bankston

Immigrants in the New South

by Carl L Bankston

The Silence of the Gators: Cajun Ethnicity and the Intergenerational Transmission of Louisiana French

by Carl L Bankston

co-authored with Jacques Henry

New People in the New South: An Overview of Southern Immigration

by Carl L Bankston

Minds in place: Thornwell, Palmer, Dabney, and Breckinridge in "Fast Day Sermons: or, The Pulpit on the State of the Country" (1861)

by Xaris A. Martínez

MA Thesis 2011 (Southern Studies, University of Mississippi)

This thesis provides a contextual description and analysis of four southern fast day sermons delivered in the winter... more This thesis provides a contextual description and analysis of four southern fast day sermons delivered in the winter of 1860-61 by the following Presbyterian ministers: James Henley Thornwell (South Carolina), Benjamin Morgan Palmer (Louisiana), Robert Lewis Dabney (Virginia), and Robert Jefferson Breckinridge (Kentucky). The introduction provides a short history of the practice of communal fasting, a brief review of sermon scholarship, and a description of the book, Fast Day Sermons (1861), in which these four sermons were published. Each chapter centers on a different sermon, providing information on the venue in which the sermon was delivered, a biographical sketch of the specific minister, a description of the socio-political context and events that led to a fast day proclamation, an analysis of the sermon text, and an account of the media coverage the sermon received. The conclusion draws attention to the need for further scholarly investigation of this particular sermon genre.

Counterfeit Gentlemen: Manhood and Humor in the Old South (review)

by Jonathan B Crider

De Bow's Revolution: The Memory of the American Revolution in the Politics of the Sectional Crisis, 1850–1861

by Jonathan B Crider