Oddly, the direct historical approach rarely appears in histories of American anthropology.
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Similarly, very few texts point out that the direct historical approach was used for three distinct purposes.
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The concept was explored by the American archaeologist William Duncan Strong in his direct historical approach to archaeological theory.
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His 1935 study, " An Introduction to Nebraska Archaeology ", is credited with providing a major impetus for the direct historical approach in archaeology.
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Familiar with the direct historical approach, Jelks minored in history while completing his Ph . D ., interested largely in the location of Spanish colonial sites in Texas.
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He pursued his Ph . D . in anthropology at Columbia University in 1938 under the guidance of William Duncan Strong, a firm advocate of the direct historical approach.
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In the early 20th century, many archaeologists who studied past societies with direct continuing links to existing ones ( such as those of Native Americans, Siberians, Mesoamericans etc . ) followed the direct historical approach, compared the continuity between the past and contemporary ethnic and cultural groups.
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Fieldwork in Guatemala in 1991 was inspired by the interest in Classic Maya ceramics, but this interest gradually waned, mostly due to his dissatisfaction with the then-dominant " direct historical approach " in Mesoamerican studies and the tendency by some anthropologists to use material from looted sites.
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Most famously, Cyrus Thomas used the reasoning of the direct historical approach to demonstrate that various earthworks scattered across the eastern and midwestern portions of America ( mounds ) were produced by the direct genetic and cultural ancestors of historically documented ethnic groups ( the indigenous peoples of the Americas ).
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In his presidential address to the American Anthropological Association he stated : one would logically proceed to investigate a [ number of sites of known ethnic affiliation ], and work back from these, because it is only through the known that we can comprehend the unknown, only from a study of the present that we can understand the past . Strong, who later became attributed to this particular methodology, argued that Dixon set forth the procedure of the direct historical approach.
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