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…
FRAN BARONE / 17 SEP 2015 For over 60 years, Human Relations Area Files has served the educational community and contributed to an understanding of world cultures by assembling, indexing, and providing access to primary…
We are pleased to share information about the Human Relations Area Files’ collaboration with D-PLACE, the Database of Places, Language, Culture, and Environment. D-PLACE is an expandable and open-access database that brings together a dispersed…
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…
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,…
HRAF is pleased to announce the release of our two latest resources for teaching and research. The first, Explaining Human Culture (just launched in a beta version at hraf.yale.edu/ehc), is a publicly accessible database containing information on…
Christiane Cunnar, Member Services, at the HRAF booth. Attending this week’s Society for American Archaeology (SAA) annual meeting in Orlando, Florida? In addition to the meetings, talks, and poster sessions, I hope you find time to stop…
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…
We are excited to announce that both of HRAF’s cross-cultural databases – eHRAF World Cultures and eHRAF Archaeology – have received Outstanding Academic Title awards from Choice Magazine and they were each voted one of the Top…
Happy 2016! Another year has flown by here at HRAF. Since our last yearly review, we’ve been working hard to fulfill our goals. This year, we’re expanding on a number of new projects and initiatives that…