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For many Native American community members, becoming an archaeologist can be a difficult choice. This is especially true if you have witnessed the wanton destruction of your sacred sites, the disrespectful treatment of your ancestors by archaeologists and have been taught by your family and community to see archaeologists solely as grave diggers. My review of the archaeological literature and interaction with archaeologists during the 1990’s only supported this perspective, bringing doubt to my...
On the Edge of the New World: Colonizing the Bahamas (2017)
The Bahama archipelago is the last place colonized in the New World, and the first encountered by Europeans. Previous efforts to explain the arrival of humans followed the stepping-stone model of expansion that began in the Orinoco River drainage of lowland Venezuela. Communities island-hopped through the Lesser Antilles, expanded into the Greater Antilles, and continued their northward migration through the southern Bahamas after crossing the last open water gap between Hispaniola and the Turks...
One Thing Leads to Another: Causal Triggering among Archaeological Events (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Practical Approaches to Identifying Evolutionary Processes in the Archaeological Record" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A causal connection between archaeological events is frequently little more than a convenient assumption. The repeated occupation of a site, the occurrence in time and space of a ceramic ware, or the phases of settlement construction are all assumed to reflect some causal sequence, but it is far from...
One Tough Act to Follow: A Retrospective of the Archaeological Career of Lawrence L. Loendorf (2019)
This is an abstract from the "The Art and Archaeology of the West: Papers in Honor of Lawrence L. Loendorf" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation summarizes the remarkable career of Lawrence L. Loendorf, who has conducted cutting edge archaeological research for nearly six decades. As his son, my life follows the arc of Larry’s research as an archaeologist from when it formally began in early 1960s through today. Consequently, I am...
Opening Remarks to the Session and A Case Study of Tribal Involvement with Research into the Indian Division of the Civilian Conservation Corps (1933-1942) (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community-Based Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The CCC and other federally sponsored work programs provided needed employment during the Great Depression and have been examined by scholars in a range of fields. Archaeologists have examined CCC projects as examples of early scientific excavations that trained many American archaeologists, setting the stage for Cultural Resource Management...
The origin of Indian corn and its relatives (1939)
This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...
Origin of the Pitch Lake: An Amerindian Myth from Trinidad (2017)
Although Trinidad is referred to in various myths of the Warao and Arawak of the Orinoco delta and the Guiana coastal zone, only one mythical tradition is known which was documented among the Amerindians formerly living on the island. Explaining the origin of the major asphalt seepage known as the Pitch Lake in southwest Trinidad, this myth appears to be closely related to part of a mythological cycle related by the Lokóno (Arawak) of Guyana and northwest Suriname which narrates the...
The Osteobiography of Human Remains from the Seaview and Indian Town Trail Archaeological Sites (2024)
This is an abstract from the "At the Frontier of Big Climate, Disaster Capitalism, and Endangered Cultural Heritage in Barbuda, Lesser Antilles" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Climate change and privatization activities related to disaster capitalism threaten land ownership rights and landscape preservation in Barbuda. Barbuda is home to multigenerational residences, businesses, schools, and buildings of cultural significance. Also, on this land...
Our Future Is Applied: The Applied Archaeology MA Program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (2023)
This is an abstract from the "The Future of Education and Training in Archaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since 2009 the Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) Applied Archaeology MA program has prepared students for archaeology careers outside of the academy. Through constant contact with employers and alumni, as well as an advisory board of archaeology professionals, the IUP program has been responsive to changes in the job market. The...
Our Sites at Risk: Climate Related Threats to NPS Administered Archeological Sites (2018)
Over the past 15 years NPS archeological sites from Texas to Maine have faced devastating impacts from hurricanes and other climate related events. During this time, Hurricanes such as Isabel, Ivan, Katrina, Sandy and most recently Harvey and Irma have caused extensive damage to NPS archeological sites. Although not subjected to direct impacts from these recent hurricanes, National Capital Region (NCR) parks have been heavily damaged by their collateral impacts, typically in the form of...
Out of site, Out of Mind: Women's Hidden Labor and the Making of Modern American Archaeology (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Sins of Our Ancestors (and of Ourselves): Confronting Archaeological Legacies" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While some work has been done over the past few decades to uncover the roles of female archaeologists who supported their husband's careers with little acknowledgment, less work has been done to explore the diversity of forgotten women's labor that helped support American archaeology since the late 19th...
Outcomes of Site Stewardship: Exploring the Vast Archives of Site Preservation (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Democratizing Heritage Creation: How-To and When" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Data collected through site stewardship programs are unique and provide insights into the long-term preservation of archaeological sites. Stewardship programs across the country are working with communities to document changes over time from environmental and human-driven causes. Site changes are recorded using photography, monitoring...
Outreach and Education: Approaches and Strategies from the Montana State Historic Preservation Office (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Outreach and Education: Examples of Approaches and Strategies from the Pacific Northwest" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Having a public that is knowledgeable about, and interested in, archaeology benefits us all. However, achieving that goal requires we learn from each other to better serve our mission and build communities. The Montana State Historic Preservation Office (MT SHPO), which is part of the Montana...
Outreach, Education, and Archaeological Collections: Public Archaeology at the Office of the Wyoming State Archaeologist (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Touching the Past: Public Archaeology Engagement through Existing Collections" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Office of the Wyoming State Archaeologist (OWSA) has become increasingly focused on implementing public outreach initiatives to more effectively engage Wyoming’s citizenry in archaeological investigations and collections care. Our office manages the University of Wyoming Archaeological Repository, and the...
Overview and Preliminary Results from the 2022 Excavation at Fort Louise Augusta, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The former Danish West Indies are one of the scant examples of Scandinavian colonialism and the only example of Danish colonialism in the Americas. Although considered latecomers to the region, the Danes maintained almost continuous control of their West Indies from their initial settlement until the islands were sold to the United States in 1917. This...
Overview of a Photogrammetry / Map-Stories Approach to Heritage Management on Barbuda (2024)
This is an abstract from the "At the Frontier of Big Climate, Disaster Capitalism, and Endangered Cultural Heritage in Barbuda, Lesser Antilles" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological sites on the island of Barbuda are increasingly under threat from natural disasters and human practices. Photogrammetry is a promising tool to preserve detailed spatial data of threatened sites for future study and present sites to both researchers and the...
Overview of the Archaeological Work in Barbuda: A 20-Year Retrospective (2024)
This is an abstract from the "At the Frontier of Big Climate, Disaster Capitalism, and Endangered Cultural Heritage in Barbuda, Lesser Antilles" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Barbuda has been the focus of transdisciplinary investigation since 2005. Central to our work in Barbuda is our collaborative relationship with the outmost experts of the island, the Barbudan people. The foundation for all work on island is that of mutual respect for our...
Overview of Traditional Cultural Properties in Relation to the NHPA and Bulletin 38 (2018)
The publication of National Register Bulletin 38 in 1990 highlighted the importance of living communities to historic preservation by establishing traditional cultural properties as places eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places (Register). While the concept of traditionally important places was not new in 1990, locations important to living communities had received varied, and often minimal, consideration under the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). By...
Pacific basketmakers: a living tradition: catalog of the 1981 Pacific basketmaker's symposium and exhibition. (Fairbanks, Alaska) Symposium of traditional basketmakers; Honolulu, 1981.05. (1983)
This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...
Paleoethnobotanical Analysis of a Classic Taino Ritual Site at Cinnamon Bay, St. John (AD 1000–1490) (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster presents preliminary analysis of paleoethnobotanical data from excavations at a Classic Taino site (AD 1000–1490) located at Cinnamon Bay on St. John, US Virgin Islands. Excavations began in 1992 when it was determined that the site was at risk of being lost to erosion. Until now, there has been no analysis of the paleoethnobotanical samples...
A Paleogenomic Approach toward Reconstructing Bison Evolutionary History (2023)
This is an abstract from the "A Further Discussion on the Role of Archaeology in Resource and Public Land Management" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. At the end of the nineteenth century, overexploitation of bison reduced the population from an estimated 30 million to approximately 1,000 individuals. Despite the magnitude of this bottleneck, we do not understand how bison were affected at the genetic level, nor do we know past bison population...
The Paleoindian Database of the Americas: On Such a Full Sea Are We Now Afloat (2024)
This is an abstract from the "*SE Big Data and Bigger Questions: Papers in Honor of David G. Anderson" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Paleoindian Database of the Americas (PIDBA) freely shares primary and detailed attribute data on tens of thousands of ancient lithic tools spanning the Paleoindian and Early Archaic time periods. In its first iteration in 1990, David G. Anderson compiled descriptive datasets into a tool for investigating the...
Paleoindian Lifeways Set in Stone: Studying Variation in Fluted-Point Assemblages (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Variability: A Reassessment of Its Meaning, Afforded Range, and the Relation to Process" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Several studies have found variation in fluted-point technological attributes and morphology to be patterned in the Americas. Many of these patterns can be organized by geographical, ecological, and behavioral variables, and have helped formulate our current understanding of some of the earliest...
The Paradox of Livestock: Transformative Agents and Tools of Resilience (2024)
This is an abstract from the "The Columbian Exchange Revisited: Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives on Eurasian Domesticates in the Americas" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The introduction of Eurasian domesticated animals during the European colonial invasion of the Americas led to rapid, large-scale transformations of North American landscapes, irrevocably altering the relationships between Native people and Native landscapes....
Parents, Infants and Material Culture (2018)
A study of over 50 U.S. parents of infants that included interviews and the recording of toys and living spaces shows that material culture does provide clues to both parental beliefs and behaviors, but, not surprisingly, the reflection is imperfect. The material presence of infants is considerable, but even in relatively affluent households much of it is often second hand and gifted, so may not directly reflect the espoused beliefs of parents. This is especially true of objects reflecting...