Papers by Lyle Nakonechny
This study revisits Schwede's (1970) ethnographic Nez Perce (Nimiipuu) settlement model data usin... more This study revisits Schwede's (1970) ethnographic Nez Perce (Nimiipuu) settlement model data using a fresh ensemble of visualization techniques and quantitative methods: 1) The distribution of ethnographic villages and camps with respect to ordinal-scale elevation and stream size-class data is assessed using cumulative proportion plots and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov (K-S) test; and 2) The chi-square (X 2) test is used to examine village and camp settlement distribution with respect to nominal-scale food resource data. Schwede's three settlement research questions are redesigned into testable H 0 hypotheses. The measures of significance provided by the K-S and X 2 tests are used to assess the strength of settlement patterning in order to reject or accept the hypotheses. Many elements of Schwede's ethnographic Nimiipuu settlement model are corroborated by this re-analysis. The additional visualization methods and quantitative techniques reveal subtle details of ethnographic settlement patterning not easily discernible in frequency and percentage tables alone. This re-analysis presents alternative interpretations of the distribution of ethnographic villages and camps with respect to ethnographic food resource areas: village occupations tend to be associated with dual-resource fish and root areas, camps have higher than expected frequencies within single-resource game or root areas, but are most strongly associated with triple-resource (fish, roots, and game) areas, and villages and camps have similar frequency distributions within single-resource fishing areas.
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Papers by Lyle Nakonechny