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This is an abstract from the "Journeying to the South, from Mimbres (New Mexico) to Malpaso (Zacatecas) and Beyond: Papers in Honor of Ben A. Nelson" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. According to the collective social identification framework, sustained collective action depends on the degree to which groups of individuals share networks of social interaction (i.e., relational identification) and recognize membership in the same social categories...
The Social Implications of Pottery Technology, Production, and Design from the Basketmaker Communities Project (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Adopting the Pueblo Fettle: The Breadth and Depth of the Basketmaker III Cultural Horizon" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Dillard site (5MT10647)-the earliest community center identified in the Mesa Verde region-may contain among the oldest examples of multi-household pottery production during the Basketmaker III period. A thorough understanding of how pottery was produced, decorated, and obtained at this early...
Social Inequality and Food Storage at Hohokam Platform Mound Sites in the Phoenix and Tonto Basins (2017)
Some social theorists contend that the critical threshold in the development of complex, ranked societies is the emergence and institutionalization of inequality, or a formalized hierarchical organization that is inherited and reproduced. One pathway that elites take in establishing and institutionalizing political power is by attaining control over the economy. A key strategy of establishing economic power is to mobilize and store food surpluses. For the prehistoric Hohokam of southern Arizona,...
The Social Life of Employment Contracts (WGF - Post PhD Research Grant) (2020)
This resource is an application for the Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Even as unemployment rates fall, contract and freelance work is on the rise, and job tenures are short - the current median tenure is 4.2 years. The changes in work follow a historical shift in how Americans understand the employment contract. Under contemporary capitalism, people increasingly see themselves in business terms: they are the "CEO of me." In this perspective, hiring resembles a...
The Social Lives of Horses: Comanche Equestrianism in New Mexico (2018)
Over the past century, a great deal of scholarly attention has been paid to Plains horse culture, particularly focusing on how horses transformed the economic practices of nomadic people and the ecology of the Great Plains. As one of the most iconic equestrian cultures of the eighteenth century, the Comanche have been a common subject of these anthropological and historical investigations. Recent studies of the Comanche have focused on the role of horses in facilitating their rise from...
A Social Network Exploration of Models of Social Space and Community Organization at Moundville (2021)
This is an abstract from the "People and Space: Defining Communities and Neighborhoods with Social Network Analysis" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Moundville is one of the largest Mississippian sites in North America consisting of at least 29 earthen mounds positioned around an open plaza. Numerous researchers have remarked on the regularized spatial layout of the site, arguing that the formal arrangement of the mounds and plaza reflect social...
A Social Perspective on Wood Remains: Rural Colonisation and Urban Growth in the Saint Lawrence Valley, 1600-1900 AD (2017)
Dendrochronology is widely used as a dating tool in archaeology. In North America, the wood record is especially associated with colonial dynamics when farmlands were cleared, rural buildings were erected and young cities drew upon timber resources from expanding hinterlands. In the Saint Lawrence Valley, colonisation began in the early seventeenth century and developed in waves, as prime agricultural lands were saturated and became launching pads for secondary colonisation into marginal regions...
A Social Perspective on Wood Remains: Rural Colonisation and Urban Growth in the Saint Lawrence Valley, 1600-1900 AD (2017)
Dendrochronology is widely used as a dating tool in archaeology. In North America, the wood record is especially associated with colonial dynamics when farmlands were cleared, rural buildings were erected and young cities drew upon timber resources from expanding hinterlands. In the Saint Lawrence Valley, colonisation began in the early seventeenth century and developed in waves, as prime agricultural lands were saturated and became launching pads for secondary colonisation into marginal regions...
Social Reactors Project datasets
Datasets from various publications of the Social Reactors Project
Social Relationships and Connections from the Mississippi Valley to the Great Lakes during the Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Interactions across the North American Midcontinent" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. “Mississippianization” has been used by archaeologists to explain the appearance of shell-temper and certain decorative ceramic motifs found in the northern Prairie Peninsula during and after the eleventh century. These ceramic attributes are supposed symbols of an expanding Cahokian worldview, sent north by a diffusionist wave of...
Social Significance of Glass Beads at San Luis de Talimali (8Le4) (2019)
This is an abstract from the "First Floridians to La Florida: Recent FSU Investigations" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. How do the number and type of glass beads found in the structure recovered from FSU’s 2018 field school at San Luis de Talimali (8Le4) differ from other Spanish living structures on the site? And what do these beads (especially the special decorated types, such as Cornaline d’Aleppo or striped beads) tell us about the social...
The Social Significance of Jemez Mountains Obsidian at Aztec Ruins National Monument (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Studying the sources of obsidian in the American Southwest has provided valuable insights into both resource procurement and the social and political processes that underlie it. We report on a large sourcing study from Aztec Ruins National Monument, a Chacoan community significant both for its political history and for its multiple great houses....
The Social Significance of Mimbres Painted Pottery in the U.S. Southwest
Supporting data for "The Social Significance of Mimbres Painted Pottery in the U.S. Southwest" by Michelle Hegmon, Will G. Russel, Kendall Baller, Matthew A. Peeples, and Sarah Striker. (2021) American Antiquity 86(1):23-42. doi:10.1017/aaq.2020.63 All of the data for this article are derived from the Mimbres Pottery Images Digital Database (MimPIDD) at https://core.tdar.org/collection/22070/mimbres-pottery-images-digital-database-with-search. Data for specific analyses are compiled in...
Social Status and Inter-Household Interactions Amongst a 19th Enslaved Community (2013)
During the antebellum era, James Madison’s Montpelier was home to over one hundred enslaved African Americans. Within this broad community, distinctions in social status could have been apparent amongst the enslaved households, potentially creating a system of social hierarchy. At the same time, these households would have been connected to each other through a web of social interactions on a community wide basis. Utilizing crossmended ceramic vessels from five recently excavated enslaved...
The Social Use and Value of Blue-Green Stone Mosaics at Sites within Canal System 2, Phoenix Basin, Hohokam Regional System (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Journeying to the South, from Mimbres (New Mexico) to Malpaso (Zacatecas) and Beyond: Papers in Honor of Ben A. Nelson" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The occurrence of nonlocal objects, raw materials, and ideas in the southwestern United States (US SW) has long been recognized as evidence of interaction between prehispanic peoples of this region and those of greater Mesoamerica. Though many archaeologists have...
Social, Material, and Symbolic Transformations of Value at the Margins of Colonization: A View from the Seventeenth-Century Metallurgical Terraces at Paa-ko (LA 162), NM (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Hill People: New Research on Tijeras Canyon and the East Mountains" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mining communities are often at the peripheries of colonial expansion. Yet, the material and social forms developed from such communities can profoundly affect colonial social and economic structures from local to global scales. The archaeological analyses of the metallurgical terraces at the Pueblo of Paa-ko allow for a...
Social-Ceremonial Organization, Ritual Practice, and Ritual Use of Fauna in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico (2017)
Chaco Canyon, located in northwestern New Mexico, is widely believed to have formed the religious, economic, and political core of a large regional network that thrived during the Pueblo II period. However, debate continues to surround Chacoan ceremonial and sociopolitical organization. One approach to understanding the social-ceremonial organization of Chacoan great houses is through an understanding of the nature of ritual practice and the scales at which it was organized. Pueblo peoples, past...
Socializing Novel Landscapes: Reconsidering "Colonization" through Indigenous Philosophies (2017)
Archaeologists have long been interested in studying how landmasses became "colonized." Using biological analogies, archaeologists often describe colonization as a process by which ecological niches become filled by human populations that evolve to best fit into their new environs. This paper suggests an alternative informed by Indigenous philosophies that describe a world filled with animate and powerful beings emplaced throughout the landscape. Forging relations with these beings is a critical...
The Society of Jesus in the Kingdom of the Calusa (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Jesuit Missions, Plantations, and Industries" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1567, the Jesuit Juan Rogel traveled to Calos, the capital of the Calusa kingdom. We now know that the capital was the archaeological site of Mound Key, located in Estero Bay, Florida. There, Juan Rogel interacted with Calusa kings and other inhabitants of the capital. This would be the first of several outposts setup by the Spanish...
The Society of Primitive Technology and Experimental Archaeology (1999)
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...
The Society of Primitive Technology and Experimental Archaeology: Who are we? (1995)
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...
The Socio-Ecological Determinants of Community Centers (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Applications of Network Analysis" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Community centers often play a dual role in archaeological contexts, as a civic space where individuals can participate in shared rituals and exchange and as a residential space connecting a large number of unrelated households. Given that these two roles are not perfectly coincident with each other, it is interesting to consider why...
The Socio-Ecological Dynamics of the Uinta Fremont Agricultural Transition (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Global Perspectives on Climate-Human Population Dynamics During the Late Holocene" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Northeastern Utah’s Uinta Basin marks the northernmost extent of maize agriculture diffused from the American Southwest, with as many as a dozen distinct Fremont pithouse communities forming between AD 300-1350. Recent work in the Cub Creek locality of Dinosaur National Monument demonstrates that Fremont...
A Socio-Economic Study of the Ceramics of 322 South Main Street, St. Charles, Missouri (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Meaning in Material Culture" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Lindenwood University has uncovered an unusually high density of 19th and 20th century ceramics in just two test units associated with a possible infilled cellar. The site is located along what used to be a small street or alley. The research questions being pursued are based on the idea of these ceramics being the result of primary deposition by...
Socioecological Dynamics of Forager to Farmer Transitions in Southern Utah (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Fifty Years of Fretwell and Lucas: Archaeological Applications of Ideal Distribution Models" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The specific ecological and social processes that structure the spread of agriculture into regions occupied by hunter-gatherers remain elusive. Drawing on ideal distribution models from population ecology, we evaluate whether the spread of agriculture in southern Utah was driven by free,...