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Today the modern village of Quillagua, an oasis in the hyperarid Atacama Desert, is of limited regional economic importance. However, there is strong evidence to support the argument that, in the past, the village was a node of ancient routes linking the populations of the Pampa, the Pacific Coast, the River Loa, and the Salar of Atacama. Documents from the 18th century suggest that Quillagua was, in fact, an "internal frontier" between populations residing to the north and south of the oasis....
Interlinking Practices and Community Assemblages: Agriculture and ritual in ancient Hualcayán, Peru (2018)
This paper combines assemblage theory with ritual economy in the study of long-term community formation at prehistoric Hualcayán, in highland Ancash, Peru. In particular, it explores how the people of Hualcayán interlinked and coordinated their practices of building, food production, and ritual consumption to assemble a Recuay community during the Andean Early Intermediate Period (AD 1–700). It traces the archaeological evidence of how religious ideologies, social group divisions, and...
Internal Networks and the Materiality of Imported Gold in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia (AD 600–1600) (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Materials in Movement in the Isthmo-Colombian Area" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Muisca of the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia are known for making extensive use of imported gold to manufacture both votive metalwork and body ornamentation over a millennium. To better understand the materiality of this imported raw material, we present new computational models of the compositional datasets pertaining to Muisca...
Interpretative Approaches in Rock Art and Geoglyphs of the Atacama Desert: Between Theories and Methods (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Painting the Past: Interpretive Approaches in Global Rock Art Research" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study reviews the range of interpretative approaches that have delineated rock art research in the Atacama Desert, which has been mainly informed by ethnohistorical, ethnographic, and landscape archaeology perspectives. We focus on the role that prevailing Andean archaeological theories have played in the...
An Interpretative Framework and Description of Ritualized Obsidian from Caracol, Belize (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Ceremonial Lithics of Mesoamerica: New Understandings of Technology, Distribution, and Symbolism of Eccentrics and Ritual Caches in the Maya World and Beyond" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ceremonial life at Caracol, Belize can be assessed through a technological and contextual analysis of ritualized obsidian objects. These items are typically termed "obsidian eccentrics", although "ritualized obsidian" more...
Interpreting Coefficients of Variation in Archaeological Assessments of Cultural Transmission (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Old Technology, New Methodology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. To test hypothesized effects of cultural transmission on material cultural evolution, archaeologists primarily use the coefficient of variation (CV). Interpretation of archaeological CVs is necessarily comparative, and foundational papers have assessed variation across broad geographic regions, and relative to either theoretically-derived threshold CVs or...
Interpreting Increments – What Can Isotopic Evidence Tell Us about Care in the Past? (2018)
Maternal and infant care practices are deeply individual, as well as being affected by both cultural and environmental factors. Disentangling the various processes which lead to decision-making in the past is difficult, and bioarchaeologists must use multiple lines of evidence to begin to understand behaviours. New incremental isotopic techniques mean that it is now possible to look at individual maternal and infant experiences through tissue chemistry. However, incremental isotopic results are...
Interpreting Inka: Local Perspectives from Santa Rita B (Chao Valley, Peru) (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Indigenous Stories of the Inka Empire: Local Experiences of Ancient Imperialism" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological investigations of Inka sites often focus on the presence or quantity of Inka materials as a way of determining the degree of imperial domination. While such analyses may work well in heartland sites with visible Inka materials having a clear imperial connection, in many provincial regions we...
Interpreting Lesser Antillean Island Domestic and Ritual Practices through Household and Ceramic Analysis at the Goddard Site, Barbados (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Biggs analyzed data collected by Hackenberger and others in 1986 during an archaeological rescue on the Goddard Site, Barbados, West Indies. For this study, students redeveloped ceramic and shell spatial datasets, compiled site maps, and rendered new computer maps of house features and artifact distributions. The semi-circular house (with hearths and...
Interpreting Precolumbian Mobility in Eastern Honduras Using Strontium and Oxygen Isotope Assignment Models (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Eastern Honduras was and is a culturally diverse region on the southern periphery of Mesoamerica. Limited research has been conducted in this region, especially when compared to the Maya in western Honduras. We present isotopic data from individuals interred at two sites, Cueva del Río Talgua and Cueva de las Arañas, which were primarily used during the...
Interrogating Decolonization (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. “Decolonization” is now frequently used as the term for repatriating human remains and artifacts housed in institutions of the dominant European-derived societies of the Americas. The term does not fit a postcolonial position. “Decolonization” implies, as a derivative from an action verb, an agent performing an act, i.e., an agent of the dominant society’s...
Interrogating the Past: Intercampus Collaborations to Understand the Impacts of the Pedagogical Narrative in Archaeology Classrooms and Departments (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. When we teach archaeology, we are actively creating the discipline and its norms that students may carry with them beyond the course. In this student-faculty co-creative poster we present ongoing results of a collaborative effort to ask questions about the nature and impact of teaching choices in archaeology courses and broader program curricula. Through...
Intersections of Identity, Health, and Diet in the Wyoming Territory (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The mid to late 19th century in the United States is noted by the Department of the Interior as a significant period of westward colonial expansion, leading to an extension of colonial power structures. This biocultural Master's thesis research on Wyoming Territory burials establishes methodological and theoretical approaches for associating stable isotope...
INTERVENCIÓN DE LA TEXTILERÍA LOCAL COMO ESTRATEGIA DEL TAWANTINSUYO PARA VINCULAR A LAS POBLACIONES DE ATACAMA CON EL NOROESTE ARGENTINO (1350-1535 DC) (2017)
Los materiales textiles tienen la capacidad de contener información relacionada con situaciones de contacto cultural y el grado de intensidad de éstas. Bajo este principio se estudió en forma sistemática la textilería del sitio Doncellas en el Noroeste Argentino -tanto aquella que se encuentra en el Museo Etnográfico Juan B. Ambrosetti en Buenos Aires, como la porción depositada en el Museo del Pucará en Tilcara- y aquella proveniente de sitios del Salar de Atacama y de la cuenca del Loa,...
Interweaved Stories of Resistance: A 1985 Ethnographic Collection in Puerto Rico (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In December 2019, the University of Puerto Rico's Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte, received as a donation the Waiwai Ethnographic Collection (CRGW), which has survived multiple natural disasters. The CRGW was created by the Centro de Investigaciones Indígenas de Puerto Rico (CIIPR) as the result of an ethnographic expedition undertaken in 1985 in...
Introducing Archaeological Methods to Elementary School Age Students: Outreach Contributing as a Solution to the CRM Labor Crisis (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Introducing younger students to CRM through the fun of archaeological method we are reclaiming the narrative around CRM as a great career choice and we are starting early. Five to fourteen year olds are particularly good at engaging with the hands on nature of the study of material culture. Supporting existing curriculum goals including the Since Time...
Introducing Paleoethnobotany to Machine Learning: A Case Study in the Genus *Capsicum (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Chili peppers (*Capsicum spp.) are an incredibly diverse and abundant crop across the Americas whose domestication began around 10,000 BP as a complex co-evolutionary process between humans and these plants. This genus has served many culinary, medicinal, and ritualistic uses throughout its evolution and diversification. With an interest in tracking the...
Introduction to Exploring Globalization and Colonization Through Archaeology and Bioarcheology NSF REU Site (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Exploring Globalization and Colonialism through Archaeology and Bioarchaeology: An NSF REU Sponsored Site on the Caribbean’s Golden Rock (Sint Eustatius)" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Exploring Globalization and Colonization Through Archaeology and Bioarchaeology National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site located on the Dutch Caribbean island of St. Eustatius (Statia)...
Introduction to Session with a Discussion of Measuring Stone Tool Diversity (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Defining and Measuring Diversity in Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. It has been thirty years since the publication of Quantifying Diversity in Archaeology and this edited volume has proven to be an important benchmark in archaeological diversity studies. We review the impact this volume has had on quantitative archaeological research across a number of subfields. We then provide three examples of our work...
An Introduction to the Cultural Sequence of the Cañoncillo Archaeological Complex, Jequetepeque Valley, Peru (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Bridging Time, Space, and Species: Over 20 Years of Archaeological Insights from the Cañoncillo Complex, Jequetepeque Valley, Peru, Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Intensive archaeological excavations of the Cañoncillo Archaeological Complex in the Jequetepeque Valley (north coast of Peru) have underlined the enduring importance of this region to a sequence of precolumbian communities over the past 2,500 years....
Introduction to the Session with a Review of Past Ceramic Technological Studies in the Andes and the Amazon (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Andean and Amazonian Ceramics: Advances in Technological Studies" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As an introduction to this session on technological studies of Andean and Amazonian ceramics, we will briefly review previous research orientations in the field leading to the present investigations and advances in ceramic studies, both archaeometric and technological, in Latin America.
Introduction to the USACE Veterans Curation Program (2018)
For the last 100 years, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has been accumulating archeological materials that require, by laws and regulations, adequate care that ensures continued preservation. USACE administers one of the largest archaeological collections in the country. However, these materials are in less than optimal condition. Overseas contingency operations have increased the number of veterans that lack the essential skills for the current job market. The Veterans Curation...
Investigación con sensores remotos en la colina piramidal de Tulcán, Popayán, Colombia (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El Morro Tulcán es una colina de forma piramidal de 5 ha, modificada antrópicamente, que representa la estructura monumental prehispánica más grande del suroccidente colombiano. Las excavaciones arqueológicas realizadas hace 50 años en el sitio evidenciaron que se dispusieron centenares de adobes y rellenos de tierra de manera ordenada en un área mayor a 2...
Investigating Camelid Herding Strategies in the South-Central Andes Using Stable Isotope Analysis (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pastoral practices shape the responses of herders to environmental and sociopolitical changes. This paper uses stable isotope analysis to examine camelid herding strategies from pastoral settlements in the south-central Andes during a period characterized by climatic and political changes (8th-15th century CE). Samples from archaeological sites in Peru and...
Investigating Huari Urban Residences: An overview of the 2017-18 Ceramic Styles (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Seeing Wari through the Lens of the Everyday: Results from the Patipampa Sector of Huari" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. La cerámica huari ha sido definida como una gran oleada de varios estilos contemporáneos, con sus propias características y conviviendo con un estilo sobresaliente y diferente denominado Conchopata, el cual sirvió como marcador del inicio del Horizonte Medio. Gracias a las excavaciones en Huari y...