SelectedWorks - Gordon Rakita

Selected Works of Gordon Rakita

Associate Vice President, Faculty Development and Research

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Present	Faculty Member, University of North Florida
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Anthropology, Archaeological Anthropology, and Social and Cultural Anthropology

Social Interaction, Social Status, and the Organization of Medio Period ...

Lithic technology (2017)

Todd L. VanPool, Kenneth W. Kircher, Christine S. VanPool and Gordon F.M. Rakita

The analysis of ground stone artifacts is a productive avenue for gaining useful information regarding the past societies of the ...

Contribution to Book

Bioarchaeology as a Process: An Examination of Bioarchaeological Tribes in ...

Archaeological Human Remains (2014)

Gordon F. M. Rakita

This chapter reviews the over 35 year history of bioarchaeology within the USA. From a rather humble beginning, the field ...

Ancestors and Elites : Emergent Complexity and Ritual Practices in the ...

Gordon F. M. Rakita

Ancestors and Elites examines prehispanic ritual behaviors characteristic of the Casas Grandes region of Chihuahua, Mexico. Gordon Rakita analyzes the ...

An archaeological perspective on ritual, religion, and ideology from American ...

Gordon F. M. Rakita and Jane E. Buikstra

Interacting with the Dead: Perspectives on Mortuary Archaeology for the ...

Gordon F. M. Rakita, Jane E. Buikstra, Lane A Beck and Sloan R Williams

This collection explores the behavioral and social facets of funerary, mortuary, and burial rites in both past and present societies. ...

Social complexity, religious organization, and mortuary ritual in the Casas ...

Gordon F. M. Rakita

Numerous anthropologists and sociologists have observed a correlation between different religious systems and socio-cultural complexity. This correlation seems to relate ...

Models, Definitions, and Stylistic Variation: Comment on Ortman

American Antiquity (2001)

Teresa D. Hurt, Gordon F. M. Rakita and Robert D. Leonard

Style and Function Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Archaeology

Teresa D. Hurt and Gordon F. M. Rakita

The Temporal Sensitivity of Casas Grandes Polychrome Ceramics

KIVA Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History (2001)

Gordon F.M. Rakita and Gerry R Raymond

This paper examines the chronological sensitivity of various ceramic types found within the greater Casas Grandes region of northwestern Chihuahua. ...