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Introduction
I am a retired professor of Geography and of Textiles and Clothing but continue to be active in research, writing, and teaching. I edit Pre-Columbiana: A Journal of Long-Distance Contacts. I collect tribal textiles and other art. My daughter and I maintain four rental houses in Provence, France.
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July 1964 - present
Position
- Professor Emeritus
Description
- I was with the Department of Geography 1964-1996 and with the Division of Textiles and Clothing thereafter.
Position
- Retired
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- Davis
Education
September 1962 - January 1963
September 1960 - November 1964
September 1956 - June 1960
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Publications (267)
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/YMHEYMJSW2MTSTY2JZXH/full?target=10.1080/08873631.2024.2341976
Ae of Ancient White Sands, NM, Human Tracks Questioned
Buchanan comments on Jett's interpretation of a Utah inscription.
[Barry Fell comments on a Utah inscription reported by Jett.]
Carl Lewis Johannessen (1924–2019), a literal and figurative giant of cultural-plant geography and cultural-diffusionist studies, died at age 95, on 13 November 2019. He was Professor Emeritus and one-time head (1978–1981) of Geography at the University of Oregon, where he had been hired in 1959. Carl was a charter member of the Editorial Board of...
[The origin of the use of the word "Phui" in Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe mystery novels]
Although Navajo culture reflects fusion with pre-existing Native cultures in
the U.S. Southwest, the Navajo retained the language of the Athabaskanspeaking
component that migrated southward from western Canada well
over half a millennium ago. Like other Athabaskan languages, Navajo resists
linguistic borrowing and contains a minimum of placenames o...
Epigraphic evidence of readable ancient Chinese writings in the American Southwest dated to the Bronze era of China by multiple expert sinologists and epigraphers.
The article describes the beginnings of the systematic search for natural bridges and arches, by Robert H. Vreeland and the author.
Ancient Ocean Crossings paints a compelling picture of impressive pre-Columbian cultures and Old World civilizations that, contrary to many prevailing notions, were not isolated from one another, evolving independently, each in its own hemisphere. Instead, they constituted a “global ecumene," involving a complex pattern of intermittent but numerous...
The crime novel The Mountain Cat Murders, ostensibly set in Cody, WY, takes place in a venue corresponding not to Cody but, rather, to Reno, NV.
The Navajo (Diné) of the US Southwest speak an Apachean, or Southern
Athabascan, language. Navajo names for natural landscape features are
very largely both fully translatable and physically descriptive. Despite an
initially small, scattered population of migrants from western Canada,
over a few centuries, Navajos filled their new habitat with a de...
The standard view has been that once the Americas were settled via Beringia, the human denizens of the Western Hemisphere were essentially cut off from interaction with peoples of the Old World. Here, I present multidisciplinary evidence that the hemispheres were, instead, interconnected by repeated voyages over millennia, resulting in profound inf...
For a full text, see: http://www.nerowolfe.org/pdf/gazette/Rugs_of_Nero_Wolfe_Spring_2011.pdf
Humans interact with landscape by classifying and labeling a select multitude of the landscape's limitless individual areas and features. Studying place names reveals much about language, perception, values, beliefs, environment, economy, and history. Like place-naming among other Athabaskan speakers , Navajo toponymic practice overwhelmingly produ...
"Radical Theory of First Americans Places Stone Age Europeans in Delmarva 20,000 Years Ago" by Brian Vastag. Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post, March, 2, 2012. [and many other newspapers]
"New Evidence Suggests Stone Age Hunters from Europe Discovered America." London: The Independent, February 29, 2012.
"Iberia, Not Siberia?" by David Malako...
Landscape is fundamental to human experience. Yet until recently, the study of landscape has been fragmented among the disciplines. This volume focuses on how landscape is represented in language and thought, and what this reveals about the relationships of people to place and to land. Scientists of various disciplines such as anthropologists, geog...
