Southwestern Social Units and Archaeology

1965 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward P. Dozier
Keyword(s):  
American Southwest ◽  
Exchange Of Information ◽  
Initial Effort ◽  
Ceremonial Life ◽  
Social Units

AbstractInterest in the nature of the socio-political and ceremonial life of prehistoric inhabitants in recent years has resulted in an exchange of information between archaeologists and ethnologists. This paper is an initial effort to furnish a list of the kinds of social units to be found among Southwestern groups in the ethnographic present. It is hoped that this list will stimulate further discussion, bring about greater exchange of information, and result in a better understanding of the nature of prehistoric and ethnographic socio-political and ceremonial units in the American Southwest.

Kiln Firing Groups: Inter-Household Economic Collaboration and Social Organization in the Northern American Southwest

2000 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 365-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wesley Bernardini
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Production Process ◽  
American Southwest ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Production Stage ◽  
Mesa Verde ◽  
Economic Collaboration ◽  
Social Units

AbstractRecent research on trench kilns from the Mesa Verde region of the northern American Southwest (Blinman and Swink 1997) suggests that trench kilns represent collaborative firings by groups of potters. This study presents a method for estimating the sizes of these proposed kiln firing groups. A comparative analysis between firing group sizes and the size of other contemporaneous social units provides insights into socioeconomic relationships between Mesa Verde households in both dispersed and aggregated settlement contexts. This study demonstrates that different stages of a production process may involve different production groups and highlights the utility of examining each production stage individually. It further suggests the importance of searching for archaeological evidence of production beyond residential areas to other production contexts, such as firing features, if the organization of all stages of production is to be understood.

System development informing staff on the causes and consequences of equipment failures

2018 ◽  
pp. 49-55
Author(s):  
V. A. Azev ◽  
I. N. Sukharkov ◽  
V. I. Arikulov ◽  
V. Yu. Zalyadnov ◽  
V. A. Khazhiev
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
System Development ◽  
Transport Equipment ◽  
Exchange Of Information ◽  
Equipment Failures

The Exchange of information on the results of the functioning of the systems to ensure the efficiency of the equipment within the company, Association or enterprise is an important component of production activities. Properly organized exchange of information about the causes of failures and malfunctions of equipment, as well as best practices and effective solutions to ensure the efficiency of equipment allows without significant investments to improve the efficiency and safety of production. The purpose of this article is to describe the work carried out in LLC «SUEKKhakassia» to improve the efficiency of development and development of solutions aimed at improving the performance of mining and transport equipment.

Digital Copyright

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Litman
Keyword(s):  
Motion Picture ◽  
General Public ◽  
File Sharing ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Copyright Law ◽  
Information Policy ◽  
Free Society ◽  
Digital Copyright ◽  
Exchange Of Information ◽  
Copyright Laws

The general public is used to thinking of copyright (if it thinks of it at all) as marginal and arcane. But copyright is central to our society’s information policy and affects what we can read, view, hear, use, or learn. In 1998 Congress enacted new laws greatly expanding copy owners’ control over individuals’ private uses of their works. The efforts to enforce these new rights laws have resulted in highly publicized legal battles between established media, including major record labels and motion picture studios, and upstart internet companies such as MP3.com and Napster.In this book, I question whether copyright laws crafted by lawyers and their lobbyists really make sense for the vast majority of us. Should every interaction between ordinary consumers and copyright-protected works be restricted by law? Is it practical to enforce such laws, or expect consumers to obey them? What are the effects of such laws on the exchange of information in a free society? My critique exposes the 1998 copyright law as an incoherent patchwork. I argues for reforms that reflect the way people actually behave in their daily digital interactions.The Maize Books edition includes both an afterword written in 2006 exploring the rise of peer-to-peer file sharing and a new Postscript reflecting on the consequences of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act as it nears its twentieth birthday.

AUTOMATIC EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION SEBAGAI BIG DATA DI BIDANG PERPAJAKAN

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-133
Author(s):  
Selvi Selvi
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Developing Country ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Large Data ◽  
Economic Globalization ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Related Literature ◽  
Exchange Of Information

Economic globalization between countries becomes commonplace. Differences in financial rules are used for many parties to practice the Basic Erosion and Shifting Profit (BEPS) which leads to state losses. In tackling it has been agreed to implement Automatic Exchange of Information (AEoI), which automatically converts data into large data in the field of taxation.The research method of this paper is a literature study which combines several related literature and global and national implications using secondary data.Drawing up the conclusion that AEoI challenges have been theoretically overcome by Indonesia as a developing country. However, practically mash has not been able to find out whether it can be overcome or not because Indonesia still has not implemented AEoI

Water scarcity and sustainability in the arid area of North America: Insights gained from a cross border perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia ◽  
John W. Day
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
North America ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
American Southwest ◽  
Arid Area ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Sharp Focus ◽  
The Face

The arid border region that encompasses the American Southwest and the Mexican northwest is an area where the nexus of water scarcity and climate change in the face of growing human demands for water, emerging energy scarcity, and economic change comes into sharp focus.

Vertebrate paleontology, stratigraphy, and paleohydrology of Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument, Nevada (USA)

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 55-98
Author(s):  
Kathleen Springer ◽  
Jeffrey Pigati ◽  
Eric Scott
Keyword(s):  
Las Vegas ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Plant Macrofossils ◽  
Distinct Species ◽  
American Southwest ◽  
Local Fauna ◽  
Climatic Oscillations ◽  
Las Vegas Valley ◽  
National Monument ◽  
Desert Wetlands

Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument (TUSK) preserves 22,650 acres of the upper Las Vegas Wash in the northern Las Vegas Valley (Nevada, USA). TUSK is home to extensive and stratigraphically complex groundwater discharge (GWD) deposits, called the Las Vegas Formation, which represent springs and desert wetlands that covered much of the valley during the late Quaternary. The GWD deposits record hydrologic changes that occurred here in a dynamic and temporally congruent response to abrupt climatic oscillations over the last ~300 ka (thousands of years). The deposits also entomb the Tule Springs Local Fauna (TSLF), one of the most significant late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) vertebrate assemblages in the American Southwest. The TSLF is both prolific and diverse, and includes a large mammal assemblage dominated by Mammuthus columbi and Camelops hesternus. Two (and possibly three) distinct species of Equus, two species of Bison, Panthera atrox, Smilodon fatalis, Canis dirus, Megalonyx jeffersonii, and Nothrotheriops shastensis are also present, and newly recognized faunal components include micromammals, amphibians, snakes, and birds. Invertebrates, plant macrofossils, and pollen also occur in the deposits and provide important and complementary paleoenvironmental information. This field compendium highlights the faunal assemblage in the classic stratigraphic sequences of the Las Vegas Formation within TUSK, emphasizes the significant hydrologic changes that occurred in the area during the recent geologic past, and examines the subsequent and repeated effect of rapid climate change on the local desert wetland ecosystem.

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