Elizabeth Prine Pauls

Former Encyclopædia Britannica Editor

BIOGRAPHY

Elizabeth Prine Pauls was Associate Editor, Anthropology and Languages, at Encyclopædia Britannica. She was State Archaeologist of Iowa from 2002 to 2006. She coedited Plains Earthlodges: Ethnographic and Archaeological Perspectives and has written scholarly and popular articles on indigenous cultures and histories.

Primary Contributions (22)

Articles

reservation

Reservation, tract of land set aside by a government for the use of one or more aboriginal peoples. In the early 21st century, reservations existed on every continent except Antarctica but were most numerous in the United States, Canada, and Australia. Most of the reservations in these countries,…

Native American

assimilation

female genital cutting

American Indian

Trail of Tears

Northeast Indian

Northwest Coast Indian

American Subarctic peoples

exogamy

couvade

culture area

The Difference Between a Tribe and a Band

Native American Self-Names

Tribal Nomenclature: American Indian, Native American, and First Nation

Publications (1)

Plains Earthlodges: Ethnographic and Archaeological Perspectives

What, Where, And When Is An Earthlodge? / Donna C. Roper And Elizabeth P. Pauls -- Confounding Stereotypes / Michael Scullin -- Architecture As A Source Of Cultural Conservation / Elizabeth P. Pauls -- From Earthlodge To Medicine Lodge? / Margot P. Liberty -- Middle Ceramic Period Earthlodges As The Products Of Craft Traditions / Donald J. Blakeslee -- Earthlodge Dynamics 101 / Donna C. Roper -- This Old Earthlodge Village / Stephen C. Lensink -- Geophysical Signatures Of Earthlodges In The Dakotas...