Bretton Giles

Kansas State University, Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, Supervisory Archaeologist/Curation Specialist

Colorado State University, CEMML, Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands, Supervisory Archaeologist/Curation Specialist

Binghamton University, Anthropology, Alumnus

Kansas State University, Anthropology, Adjunct

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Mnemonic Parallelism and the Cosmologies Materialized in Late Mississippian Pecan Point Headpots

University Press of Florida eBooks, Oct 19, 2021

Symbolic and Iconographic Perspectives on the Burials from Mound 2 at the Hopewell Site

The 86th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 2021

Conceptualizing cosmoscapes

Oxbow Books, Sep 8, 2022

Woodland and Mississippian Cultures of the North American Heartland

Springer eBooks, 2020

The Routledge Handbook of Sensory Archaeology. Robin Skeates and Jo Day, editors. 2020. Routledge, London. xviii + 592 pp. $250.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-13867-629-9. $52.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-03233-777-7. $52.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-31556-017-5

American Antiquity

Mound 2 at the Hopewell Site as cosmoscape

Archaeologies of Cosmoscapes in the Americas

Final thoughts on the archaeologies of cosmoscapes

Archaeologies of Cosmoscapes in the Americas

Vol. 1 Ch. 9 The Genealogical Connections between Particular Hopewellian and Mississippian Avian Motifs and Themes

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Introduction:: New Methods and Theories for Analyzing Mississippian Imagery

Prehistoric Use of the Wind Creek Locality at Fort Riley, Kansas

Kindling "New Fires" in Ohio Hopewell Ceremonial Regimes

Two Paleoarchaic Sites along Wind Creek in Riley County, Kansas

A Comparison of Two Bluff Top Prehistoric Sites at Fort Riley, Kansas

Landscape Preference and Pre-Contact Site Location Modeling in the Central Plains, USA

Investigating Hopewell interaction at the Crib Mound Site through source analysis of chert cache bifaces

Assessment of an east-west phenotypic variation in body height, body form and body mass among prehistoric hunter-gatherers of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, chile

Chungará (Arica), 2017

Fuego-Patagonia's marine and terrestrial groups were historically described as phenotypically dis... more Fuego-Patagonia's marine and terrestrial groups were historically described as phenotypically distinct but, studies of these phenotypic differences have yet to be conducted. This study evaluates phenotypic variation in Fuego-Patagonia. Phenotypic disparities result from extrinsic and intrinsic factors and therefore can reveal differences in both long and short term adaptations as well as genetic differences. Fifty-one adults were assessed. A total of six post-cranial measurements were included: maximum length of the humerus (MHL); maximum length of the radius (MRL); Bicondylar length of the femur (BFL); Maximum length of the tibia (MTL); bi-iliac breadth (BIB), and; antero-posterior diameter of the femoral head (FHD). Brachial index, crural index, body mass, body mass index and stature were then calculated. In general, terrestrial individuals had longer lower limb bones and were the tallest and heaviest. Marine individuals had the shortest bones and were shorter and lighter. Mixed-economy individuals showed mostly intermediate values. The trends are more marked in males than in females. The results suggests the presence of an east-to-west phenotypic gradient in the region that may have resulted from intrinsic and/or extrinsic differences between the groups. But, the sample size of this study is small, and thus the results should be cautiously considered.

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A Contextual and Iconographic Reassessment of the Headdress on Burial 11 From Hopewell Mound 25

American Antiquity, 2013

I explore in this paper the significance of the headdress interred on Burial 11 under Hopewell Mo... more I explore in this paper the significance of the headdress interred on Burial 11 under Hopewell Mound 25 by reexamining its archaeological context and the history of its interpretation. Following Shetrone’s (1926) initial interpretation, I argue that it was an avian headdress that specifically portrayed a two-headed raptor. I support this reassessment with an iconographie analysis of related representations from the Central Ohio River Valley, especially the imagery engraved on a femur from Hopewell Mound 25. I also delve into what these two-headed raptors might have meant to people in the Eastern Woodlands.

A Mississippian Mace at Iroquoia's Southern Door

Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, 2014

Abstract This paper documents a Mississippian chipped stone mace, found by Lyle Edger, an amateur... more Abstract This paper documents a Mississippian chipped stone mace, found by Lyle Edger, an amateur collector, in an agricultural field in Nichols, NY, along the Susquehanna River. This crown-form mace is made out of Dover chert and was probably produced by Mississippian people who lived in Middle Tennessee, circa A.D. 1200–1400. We argue that the Nichols Mace could have been acquired by Iroquoian people as the result of either a gift or diplomatic negotiations. We conclude that the meanings the mace held for Iroquoian people were likely tied to how they acquired it.

War Is Shell

Warfare in Cultural Context

Mnemonic Parallelism and the Cosmologies Materialized in Late Mississippian Pecan Point Headpots

New Methods and Theories for Analyzing Mississippian Imagery

Mnemonic Parallelism and the Cosmologies Materialized in Late Mississippian Pecan Point Headpots

University Press of Florida eBooks, Oct 19, 2021

Symbolic and Iconographic Perspectives on the Burials from Mound 2 at the Hopewell Site

The 86th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 2021

Conceptualizing cosmoscapes

Oxbow Books, Sep 8, 2022

Woodland and Mississippian Cultures of the North American Heartland

Springer eBooks, 2020