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In this chapter the evidence for a rule of Vedic and Indo-European Phonology is examined from a fresh perspective. Lindeman’s Law proposes that monosyllabic words with an initial Cy- or Cv- cluster in Vedic could exhibit an alternative disyllabic form with Ciy- or Cuv-. This rule has also been attributed to Indo-European. Here it is shown that it is important to consider the role of formulaic composition in the distribution and preservation of archaisms in Vedic. The circumstances of preservation impose limits on what can be known about the original conditions for word initial alternation.

This chapter determines the patterns that require the evaluation of the Terminal Late Woodland settlement data following the Sponemann phase by exploring the Range site. It specifically outlines the current interpretations of that site's community plans, critiques them, and then provides the alternative, thereby establishing the interpretive background framework for addressing the Mississippian period, with special attention on the role of Cahokia within the regional system of the American Bottom. It also offers short descriptions of the community plans along with a critical comparative presentation of the hierarchical and heterarchical interpretive accounts for the later Terminal Late Woodland George Reeves phase and Lindeman phase occupations. It first introduces the peripheral-integrated settlement articulation mode period of the Range site. It turns to summarizing the Dohack phase data, representing the earliest phase of the Terminal Late Woodland period, and Kelly's interpretation of these data. This is followed by a critique and alternative interpretation.

Mary P. Follett's collaboration with Eduard Lindeman, a professor of sociology at the North Carolina College for Women in Greensboro, resulted in the 1924 publication of her Creative Experience and his Social Discovery. However, their relationship was far from smooth. Their research partnership was born after Follett's visit to North Carolina in the spring of 1922. Follett introduced Lindeman to Herbert Croly and Dorothy Whitney Straight, a young New York heiress. In September 1922 Follett and Lindeman, along with Albert Dwight Sheffield, spent a week in Putney planning a program of research. Lindeman would soon try to abandon the joint undertaking due to his increasingly intense yearning for Straight's approval and affection. Follett and Lindeman overcame this and other issues to publish their respective books.

Chapter 2 discusses the Germanic and Vedic evidence for Sievers’ Law in considerable detail. This chapter is situated in Part One (Evidence for Sievers’ Law and the Possibility of Inheritance) the overall aim of which is evaluate the possibility that Sievers’ Law could have been inherited from Indo-European, even in principle. This chapter discusses pressing questions of relative chronology in Germanic. The possibility of a converse of Sievers’ Law in Gothic and Vedic is considered. Seebold’s Anschlußregel and Schindler’s restrictions on Sievers’ Law are discussed, in particular the moraic properties of obstruents (including laryngeals). The implications of Sievers’ Law for Indo-European syllable structure are considered. Edgerton and Lindeman’s arguments for word initial alternations and the importance of monosyllabicity as a criterion for alternation are set in the context of the formulaic language of the Rigveda and the potential skew which this could have produced in the evidence.

A primary objective of the Jornada Basin research program has been to provide a broad view of arid land ecology. Architects of the program, more recently scientists with the Jornada Basin Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program, felt that existing ecological data sets were usually of too short a duration and represented too few ecosystem components to provide a foundation for predicting dynamics in response to disturbances (NSF 1979). This recognition gave rise to the approach of using long-term and multidisciplinary research at particular places to advance a holistic and broad-scale but also mechanistic view of ecological dynamics. Such a view is essential to applying ecological research to natural resources management (Golley 1993; Li 2000). In this synthesis chapter we ask: What has this approach taught us about the structure and function of an arid ecosystem? How should this knowledge change the way we manage arid ecosystems? What gaps in our knowledge still exist and why? The Jornada Basin LTER was established in 1981 with the primary aim of using ecological science to understand the progressive loss of semiarid grasslands and their replacement with shrublands. This motivation echoed that which initiated the Jornada Experimental Range (JER) 69 years earlier. The combined, century-long body of research offers a unique perspective on several core ideas in ecology, including the existence of equilibria in ecosystems, the role of scale, landscape heterogeneity and historic events in ecosystem processes and trajectories, and the linkage between ecosystem processes and biodiversity. From this perspective, we examine key assumptions of this research tradition, including the value of the ecosystem concept and the ability to extrapolate site-based conclusions across a biome. The Jornada Basin research program is also uncommon in its close ties to long-term, management-oriented research. The research questions first asked by the U.S. Forest Service and later by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), such as how to manage livestock operations, frame much of the Jornada Basin research. This allows us to consider the contributions of this research and synthesis toward answering management questions.