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Dismal River culture

Index Dismal River culture

The Dismal River culture refers to a set of cultural attributes first seen in the Dismal River area of Nebraska in the 1930s by archaeologists William Duncan Strong, Waldo Rudolph Wedel and A. T. Hill. [1]

57 relations: A. T. Hill, Alaska, Antelope Creek Phase, Antonio Valverde y Cosío, Apache, Apishapa culture, Archaeological site, Archaic period (North America), Arkansas River, Athabaskan languages, Étienne de Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont, Berry, Bison, Black Hills, Canada, Cedar Point Village, Cherry County, Nebraska, Colorado, Comanche, Cucurbita, Dismal River, El Quartelejo Ruins, Franktown Cave, French people, Great Plains, Hayes County, Nebraska, Hearth, Hogan, Hooker County, Nebraska, Jicarilla Apache, Kansas, Kiowa, Lincoln County, Nebraska, Lipan Apache people, List of prehistoric sites in Colorado, Maize, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nomad, North America, Nut (fruit), Olla, Pawnee people, Plains Apache, Pottery, Prehistory of Colorado, Projectile point, Salina, Kansas, Sandhills (Nebraska), Sopris Phase, ..., South Dakota, Southern Athabaskan languages, Thomas County, Nebraska, Waldo Rudolph Wedel, Wichita people, William Duncan Strong, Woodland period. Expand index (7 more) »

A. T. Hill

Asa Thomas Hill (November 29, 1871 – March 21, 1953), generally known as A. T. Hill, was an American businessman and archaeologist.

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Alaska

Alaska (Alax̂sxax̂) is a U.S. state located in the northwest extremity of North America.

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Antelope Creek Phase

The Antelope Creek Phase was an American Indian culture in the Texas Panhandle and adjacent Oklahoma dating from 1200 to 1450 AD.

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Antonio Valverde y Cosío

Antonio Valverde y Cosío (1670–1728) was a prominent entrepreneur and Spanish soldier who served as interim governor of Santa Fe de Nuevo México in 1716 and from 1718–1721.

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Apache

The Apache are a group of culturally related Native American tribes in the Southwestern United States, which include the Chiricahua, Jicarilla, Lipan, Mescalero, Salinero, Plains and Western Apache.

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Apishapa culture

The Apishapa culture, or Apishapa Phase, a prehistoric culture from 1000-1400, was named based upon an archaeological site in the Lower Apishapa canyon in Colorado.

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Archaeological site

An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology and represents a part of the archaeological record.

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Archaic period (North America)

In the classification of the archaeological cultures of North America, the Archaic period or "Meso-Indian period" in North America, accepted to be from around 8000 to 1000 BC in the sequence of North American pre-Columbian cultural stages, is a period defined by the archaic stage of cultural development.

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Arkansas River

The Arkansas River is a major tributary of the Mississippi River.

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Athabaskan languages

Athabaskan or Athabascan (also Dene, Athapascan, Athapaskan) is a large family of indigenous languages of North America, located in western North America in three groups of contiguous languages: Northern, Pacific Coast and Southern (or Apachean).

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Étienne de Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont

Étienne de Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont (April 1679 – 1734) was a French explorer who documented his travels on the Missouri and Platte rivers in North America and made the first European maps of these areas in the early 18th century.

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Berry

A berry is a small, pulpy, and often edible fruit.

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Bison

Bison are large, even-toed ungulates in the genus Bison within the subfamily Bovinae.

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Black Hills

The Black Hills (Ȟe Sápa; Moʼȯhta-voʼhonáaeva; awaxaawi shiibisha) are a small and isolated mountain range rising from the Great Plains of North America in western South Dakota and extending into Wyoming, United States.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Cedar Point Village

Cedar Point Village is an archaeological site located in Elbert County, Colorado near Limon.

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Cherry County, Nebraska

Cherry County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska.

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Colorado

Colorado is a state of the United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.

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Comanche

The Comanche (Nʉmʉnʉʉ) are a Native American nation from the Great Plains whose historic territory, known as Comancheria, consisted of present-day eastern New Mexico, southeastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, western Oklahoma, and most of northwest Texas and northern Chihuahua.

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Cucurbita

Cucurbita (Latin for gourd) is a genus of herbaceous vines in the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae, also known as cucurbits, native to the Andes and Mesoamerica.

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Dismal River

The Dismal River is a winding U.S. Geological Survey.

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El Quartelejo Ruins

El Quartelejo, or El Cuartelejo (from Spanish cuartelejo, meaning far quarter or district) is the name given to the archeological remains of the northernmost Indian pueblo and the only known pueblo in Kansas.

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Franktown Cave

Franktown Cave is located 25 miles south of Denver, Colorado on the north edge of the Palmer Divide.

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French people

The French (Français) are a Latin European ethnic group and nation who are identified with the country of France.

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Great Plains

The Great Plains (sometimes simply "the Plains") is the broad expanse of flat land (a plain), much of it covered in prairie, steppe, and grassland, that lies west of the Mississippi River tallgrass prairie in the United States and east of the Rocky Mountains in the U.S. and Canada.

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Hayes County, Nebraska

Hayes County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nebraska.

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Hearth

In historic and modern usage, a hearth is a brick- or stone-lined fireplace, with or without an oven, used for heating and originally also used for cooking food.

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Hogan

A hogan (or; from Navajo) is the primary, traditional dwelling of the Navajo people.

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Hooker County, Nebraska

Hooker County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska.

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Jicarilla Apache

Jicarilla Apache one of several loosely organized autonomous bands of the Eastern Apache, refers to the members of the Jicarilla Apache Nation currently living in New Mexico and speaking a Southern Athabaskan language.

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Kansas

Kansas is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States.

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Kiowa

Kiowa people are a Native American tribe and an indigenous people of the Great Plains.

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Lincoln County, Nebraska

Lincoln County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska.

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Lipan Apache people

Lipan Apache are Southern Athabaskan (Apachean) Native Americans whose traditional territory included present-day Texas, New Mexico, Colorado and the northern Mexican states of Chihuahua, Nuevo León, Coahuila, and Tamaulipas prior to the 17th century.

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List of prehistoric sites in Colorado

List of prehistoric sites in Colorado includes historical and archaeological sites of humans from their earliest times in Colorado to just before the Colorado historic period, which ranges from about 12,000 BC to AD 19th century.

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Maize

Maize (Zea mays subsp. mays, from maíz after Taíno mahiz), also known as corn, is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago.

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Nebraska

Nebraska is a state that lies in both the Great Plains and the Midwestern United States.

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New Mexico

New Mexico (Nuevo México, Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern Region of the United States of America.

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Nomad

A nomad (νομάς, nomas, plural tribe) is a member of a community of people who live in different locations, moving from one place to another in search of grasslands for their animals.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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Nut (fruit)

A nut is a fruit composed of an inedible hard shell and a seed, which is generally edible.

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Olla

An olla is a ceramic jar, often unglazed, used for cooking stews or soups, for the storage of water or dry foods, or for other purposes.

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Pawnee people

The Pawnee are a Plains Indian tribe who are headquartered in Pawnee, Oklahoma.

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Plains Apache

The Plains Apache are a small Southern Athabaskan group who traditionally live on the Southern Plains of North America, in close association with the linguistically unrelated Kiowa nation, and today are centered in Southwestern Oklahoma.

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Pottery

Pottery is the ceramic material which makes up pottery wares, of which major types include earthenware, stoneware and porcelain.

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Prehistory of Colorado

Prehistory of Colorado provides an overview of the activities that occurred prior to Colorado's recorded history.

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Projectile point

In archaeological terms, a projectile point is an object that was hafted to weapon that was capable of being thrown or projected, such as a spear, dart, or arrow, or perhaps used as a knife.

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Salina, Kansas

Salina is a city in and the county seat of Saline County, Kansas, United States.

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Sandhills (Nebraska)

The Sandhills, often written Sand Hills, is a region of mixed-grass prairie on grass-stabilized sand dunes in north-central Nebraska, covering just over one quarter of the state.

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Sopris Phase

Sopris Phase (AD 1000-1250) is a Late Ceramic period hunter-gatherer culture of the Upper Purgatoire, also known as the Upper Purgatoire complex.

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South Dakota

South Dakota is a U.S. state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Southern Athabaskan languages

Southern Athabaskan (also Apachean) is a subfamily of Athabaskan languages spoken primarily in the Southwestern United States (including Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah) and the Mexican state of Sonora, with two outliers in Oklahoma and Texas.

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Thomas County, Nebraska

Thomas County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska.

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Waldo Rudolph Wedel

Waldo Rudolph Wedel (September 10, 1908 – August 27, 1996) was an American archaeologist and a central figure in the study of the prehistory of the Great Plains.

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Wichita people

The Wichita people are a confederation of Midwestern Native Americans.

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William Duncan Strong

William Duncan Strong (1899–1962) was an American archaeologist and anthropologist noted for his application of the direct historical approach to the study of indigenous peoples of North and South America.

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Woodland period

In the classification of Archaeological cultures of North America, the Woodland period of North American pre-Columbian cultures spanned a period from roughly 1000 BCE to European contact in the eastern part of North America, with some archaeologists distinguishing the Mississippian period, from 1000 CE to European contact as a separate period.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dismal_River_culture

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