New and Forthcoming Cultures and Traditions in eHRAF World Cultures & Archaeology (2024-2025)

Culture and tradition updates with background image of Lalibela, Ethiopia

Culture collections in the eHRAF databases are updated up to several times a year. Below is a brief summary of what cultures and traditions we have added or updated in eHRAF World Cultures and eHRAF Archaeology in the past year, followed by a preview of what we will be working on analyzing throughout 2025.

Cultures and Traditions Added in 2024

Collection	Region	OWC	Culture Name	content	docs	pp	note
Archaeology	North America	ND63	Northern Archaic	complete	15	439	Completes the Arctic and Sub-Arctic North American regional sequence
World Cultures	North America	NA07	Eyak	culture summary	1	12
World Cultures	Middle America and the Caribbean	NU34	Tarascans	complete	16	1648
World Cultures	South America	SF10	Chiriguano	complete	16	1693

Cultures and Traditions Projected for 2025

Collection	Region	OWC	Culture Name	content	docs	pp	note
Archaeology	Europe	E068	East-Central European Iron Age	complete	9	171
Archaeology	North America	N037	Late Paleo-Indian	added documents	2	16
Archaeology	North America	NA48	Western Arctic Small Tool	complete	10	762	under review
Archaeology	Africa	F057	South African Iron Age	complete	35	1886	(hopeful) Completes the Southern Africa regional sequence
World Cultures	Europe	EL14	Ghanaians in Germany	complete	6	153	African Diaspora, modern
World Cultures	Europe	ES21	Ghanaians in the United Kingdom	complete	11	513	African Diaspora, modern
World Cultures	Europe	ET10	Ghanaians in the Netherlands	complete	8	153	African Diaspora, modern
World Cultures	North America	NC07	Ghanaians in Canada	complete	12	234	African Diaspora, modern
World Cultures	North America	NK20	Ghanaians in the United States	complete	7	513	African Diaspora, modern
World Cultures	Africa	FJ22	Nuer	update & added documents	10	440	African Diaspora, homeland (existing: 22 docs, 2181 pp)
World Cultures	North America	NK10	Nuer in the United States	complete	11	780	African Diaspora, modern
World Cultures	World	WFJ2	Nuer Diaspora	complete	2	45	African Diaspora, modern
World Cultures	North America	NN23	Sea Islanders	update & added documents	11	535	African Diaspora, orginal (existing: 15 docs, 2909 pp)
World Cultures	Middle America and the Caribbean	SA12	Garifuna	update & added documents	5	520	African Diaspora, orginal (existing: 23 docs, 3665 pp)
World Cultures	South America	SR15	Saramaka	update & added documents	3	58	African Diaspora, original (existing: 7 docs, 1937 pp)
World Cultures	Asia	RY03	Itelmen	complete	4	67	near ready
World Cultures	Asia	AR20	Mara	culture summary update	1		ready
World Cultures	Asia	AE15	Han Chinese	culture summary (text only)	1
World Cultures	Asia	AT03	West Punjabi	culture summary	1
World Cultures	Africa	FI21	Masa	culture summary	1
World Cultures	Middle East	MF07	Israelites	culture summary	1
World Cultures	Africa	MS11	Fulani	culture summary	1
World Cultures	North America	ND14	Slavey	culture summary	1
World Cultures	North America	NU30	Popoluca	culture summary	1
World Cultures	Oceania	OA08	Sama-Bajau	culture summary	1
World Cultures	South America	SP26	Xavante	culture summary	1

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Image credits

Ethiopia: Biete Maryam in Lalibela by Goddard_Photography from Getty Images Signature (via Canva Pro)