Culture Quiz: Do you know the ethnonyms for Blackfoot?
Which of the following is NOT one of applied names (ethnonyms) for the Blackfoot nation? a) Blood b) Kainai c) Bungi d) Pikunii e) Siksika In eHRAF World Cultures you can find the answer. …
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Live webinars for eHRAF databases
In our live webinars, you can learn more about the eHRAF databases, including how cultures and traditions are organized by regions, sub-regions, samples, and subsistence types. First developed in the 1930s by George Peter Murdock,…
HRAF at Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Conference in Vancouver, B.C. (29 Mar-2 Apr 2017)
Dear Archaeology Faculty, If you are attending the 2017 Society for American Archaeology (SAA) Conference in Vancouver, B.C., please join me at the HRAF booth #225 for a tour of HRAF’s award-winning online cross-cultural databases and…
Carved in Stone: Prehistoric Representative Art
In eHRAF Archaeology, you will find a collection of descriptive texts for prehistoric archaeological traditions from around the world. All of these texts are indexed with subjects based on the Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM), a vast…
HRAF at Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Conference in Baltimore, MD (22-24 Mar 2017)
Dear Librarians, If you are attending the 2017 Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, please join me at the HRAF booth #1054 for an informative tour of HRAF’s award-winning online…
Mississippian Tradition in eHRAF Archaeology
The Mississippian tradition, which includes sites like Cahokia, Moundville, Etowah, and Spiro, is represented by a group of polities that arose in the southeastern United States (particularly in the central and lower Mississippi Valley) after…
eHRAF Archaeology: Prehistoric Cultures of Peru
Check out what eHRAF Archaeology has on prehistoric cultures in Peru. Once you are logged on (contact HRAF at hraf@yale.edu for a temporary log-in) click BROWSE TRADITIONS then By Country and type in “Peru” in…
Subsistence Types in eHRAF for Teaching & Researching
Faculty and researchers who are teaching courses or doing research on subsistence types may be interested in using HRAF’s cross-cultural databases, eHRAF World Cultures & eHRAF Archaeology. The eHRAF databases uniquely facilitate comparisons of cultures by subsistence,…
eHRAF Archaeology: Inka of Peru
The Inka tradition extends from 800 to 400 BP. The original Inka homeland was the Cuzco valley of south-central Peru, but the Inka Empire eventually extended along the Andes from Columbia to northern Argentina and…
HRAF at 2016 SCELCapalooza at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA.
The Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium is one of HRAF’s earliest consortium partners in the U.S. This year Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) has taken up an invitation by consortium director Rick Burke, to participate…