Household Archaeology (Other Keyword)

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Founding House, Neighborhood, Village: Hunter-Gatherer Social Complexity at the Slocan Narrows Site, Upper Columbia River Area, Interior Pacific Northwest, North America (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Nathan Goodale. Alissa Nauman.

The Slocan Narrows site is a prehistoric pithouse village aggregation on the Slocan River, a tributary of the Upper Columbia River in the interior Pacific Northwest, North America. 14C dating of housepit deposits have revealed a complex occupational history, likely reflecting fluctuating demographic and habitation cycles beginning ca. 3100 cal BP continuing to approximately contact in the late 18th or early 19th centuries. Slocan Narrows was occupied through three millennia characterized by...


Fragments of the Past: Applying Microarchcaeological Techniques to House Floors at Tumilaca, Moquegua, Peru (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Bradley Parker.

For decades archaeologists have been trying to develop methodologies that will help them determine what activities took place in and around domestic structures. Since people tend to clean activity areas, especially those that are used repeatedly, visible artifacts like pottery, bones and stone tools are rarely discovered in the context where they were originally used. Instead, such artifacts are usually discovered in refuse heaps or other secondary contexts. Microarchaeology, the study of the...


From "Gray Literature" to "Big Data": Synthesizing Archaeological Data in Washington, DC (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Lupu.

This is an abstract from the "Adventures in Spatial Archaeometry: A Survey of Recent High-Resolution Survey and Measurement Applications" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The vast array of technical reports produced through cultural resources management (CRM) archaeology are sometimes referred to as “gray literature,” due to their limited reuse after the project is completed. However, archaeologists working in CRM excavate the majority of sites in...


From Homes to Ruins: Ethnoarchaeology and Small-Scale Village Dynamics at Post-19th Century Kızılkaya, Central Turkey (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Ayse Bursali. Ian Kuijt.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Drawing on interviews with former residents of the abandoned Turkish village of Kızılkaya, as well as photogrammetry and other visual research, in this poster we consider how this post-1800 rural village was organized around the household, the mosque, access to the river, and raising and caring for animals. The rural village of Kızılkaya, located in the...


From Household to Polity: (Dis)integration along the Ucí-Cansahcab Causeway in the Northern Maya Lowlands (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Barry Kidder. Scott Hutson. Jacob Welch. Daniel Vallejo-Cáliz. Shannon Plank.

Over the past decade, the Ucí-Cansahcab Regional Integration Project (UCRIP) has utilized multiples scales of analysis, from broad household excavations to large swathes of LiDAR collection, to examine the social processes of community (dis)integration of a polity in the northern Maya Lowlands. This polity, headed by Ucí, was integrated by an 18-km-long inter-site causeway system by the Terminal Preclassic and connected the emerging regional capital with three secondary sites. Extensive test...


Geosourcing and Geopolitics: Handheld XRF Analysis of Obsidian from Households in the Yaxuna-Coba Region (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Clark. Danielle Waite. Steph Miller. Brigitte Kovacevich. Travis Stanton Traci Ardren.

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 results of sourcing analysis of artifacts from Classic period Maya sites in Northern Yucatán and Quintana Roo from household contexts using handheld X-ray fluorescence (hXRF). Previous analysis by Danielle Waite sourced artifacts from Coba and Yaxuna from excavations by the Proyecto de Interacción Política del Centro de Yucatán and...


Groundstone Analysis from West Phoenix Basin Hohokam Village Sites (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Summer Peltzer. Kaley Kelly. Ryan Arp. Christopher Schwartz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. To date, much of the archaeological research in the Phoenix Basin has focused on the central Phoenix area, and specifically the areas surrounding Canal Systems 1 and 2. Recent cultural resource management testing and excavation projects in the west Phoenix area have provided new insights into Hohokam daily life at the confluence of the Salt and Gila...


The Groundstone Artifacts of Housepit 54, Bridge River Site, British Columbia (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Molly Eimers.

The people of the Middle Fraser Canyon traditionally used groundstone to accomplish a wide range of tasks spanning food processing to weaponry and ornamentation. Excavations of Housepit (HP) 54 at the Bridge River Site, British Columbia, in 2014 revealed an unexpectedly large sample of groundstone tools. Many items were apparently used, broken, and recycled as cooking rocks on select floors. This study draws from multiple data sources to define variability in the nature of groundstone tools...


A hearth with a view, the spatial analysis of a Late Holocene hunter-gatherer house (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Ethan Epstein.

Excavations of a house floor located in North America’s Great Basin resulted in hundreds of bone and stone artifacts. We present a spatial analysis of the recovered household artifacts. Identified raw materials provide evidence for connections to communities farther afield. Results indicate a diverse and complex suite of social goals. SAA 2015 abstracts made available in tDAR courtesy of the Society for American Archaeology and Center for Digital Antiquity Collaborative Program to improve...


Hinterland Domestic Economies: A Summary of Recent Investigations at the San Lorenzo Settlement Cluster (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jason Whitaker.

This paper summarizes recent archaeological investigations at the San Lorenzo settlement cluster in the Mopan River Valley of Western Belize. Current research at this ancient hinterland settlement is concerned with better understanding household economic organization and integration during the Late and Terminal Classic (A.D. 670-890) occupations of this site. Households are fundamental units of economic organization in both past and present societies. The examination of ancient household...


Hinterland Household Economy: A Preliminary Analysis of Data from the San Lorenzo Settlement Cluster. (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jason Whitaker.

This paper is a summary of recent archaeological investigations at the San Lorenzo settlement cluster in the Mopan River Valley of Western Belize. The primary objective of current research at this ancient hinterland settlement is to better understand the dynamics of ancient Maya household economic organization and integration during the Late and Terminal Classic periods (A.D. 670-890). Households are fundamental units of economic organization in both past and present societies. The examination...


Historic St. Mary's City Archaeology 1971 - 1986: a Bibliography of Publications and Manuscripts Prepared by or for the Archaeology Department, Historic St. Mary's City (1986)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Garry W. Stone. Henry M. Miller.

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 National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R 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 at comments@tdar.org.


A HISTORY OF HOUSEHOLD ARCHAEOLOGY AT PRINCE RUPERT HARBOUR (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Gary Coupland.

The practice of household archaeology has a long history in the Prince Rupert area, owing in large part to the remarkable preservation of sites in the region including the existence of house depression features on the ground surface of many village sites. Approaches to investigating these house features have shifted over the years as new theoretical paradigms have arisen to replace older ones. Issues of chronology and culture history dominated early investigations, but more recently questions...


Home, Hearth, and Hammer: Detecting Migrants in the Wari Empire, Peru (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Donna Nash.

This is an abstract from the "Seeing Migrant and Diaspora Communities Archaeologically: Beyond the Cultural Fixity/Fluidity Binary" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The existence of a prehistoric Wari Empire in the Andes of Peru was debated for several decades. Despite major shifts in settlement patterns and large-scale landscape transformations corresponding to their early expansion in the seventh century CE, researchers questioned Wari hegemony...


Home-making in the Khorezm Oasis (Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan) (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Brite.

This is an abstract from the "Empirical Approaches to Mobile Pastoralist Households" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A key feature of mobile pastoralism is the circulation of kin groups within a landscape, where movement is structured at least in part by the repeated return to places of social and ritual significance. Cultural anthropologists describe these as practices of "belonging made by moving," where notions of lineal descent, home, and...


The House Next Door (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Pollock.

This is an abstract from the "From Households to Empires: Papers Presented in Honor of Bradley J. Parker" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The attention devoted to households and houses in archaeology over the last few decades has brought with it a welcome emphasis on small-scale domestic practices and the rhythms of daily life. But houses are not only constructed and lived in – they are also abandoned and reused in various ways. I will focus on...


House of the Boxer, House of the Fire God: Sport and Religion in a Humble Hinterland Household of the Copan Classic Maya, Honduras (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Nancy Gonlin. David Webster. David Reed.

This is an abstract from the "Innovations and Transformations in Mesoamerican Research: Recent and Revised Insights of Ancestral Lifeways" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A Classic Maya rural household, Site 34C-4-2, yielded two artifacts considered unusual for this nonurban context: a manopla (a 15-pound tuff ball with a handle used in a sport similar to boxing) and a miniature sculpture of a house or altar that resembles those found in Copan’s...


Household Archaeology and Slavery in Tidewater Virginia (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Maria Franklin.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper focuses on the results of fieldwork at an urban plantation in colonial Williamsburg that once belonged to John Coke, a tradesman and tavern owner. In order to address questions concerning the enslaved household economy and labor, I compared the artifacts from Coke’s quarter to those of two other tidewater plantation sites. An approach which positions these households...


Household archaeology in Angkorian Cambodia: Preliminary results and challenges for future research (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Alison Carter. Cristina Castillo. Rachna Chhay. Tegan McGillivray. Yijie Zhuang.

This paper presents the results from the 2015 excavation of a house mound within the Angkor Wat enclosure. Although household archaeology is well established in other tropical locations, notably Mesoamerica, few households have been closely examined in Southeast Asia. In this paper, we discuss some of the preliminary findings from our excavation of an Angkorian house mound, as well as research on the use of space around the mound and the potential for household gardens. A comparison with...


Household Archaeology of a Late Archaic Pit-house in Southern New England (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Cosimo Sgarlata.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The focus of this paper is the Warner Site, a Late Archaic Pit-house in Southern New England. The research combines traditional and modern perspectives of household archaeology. Traditionally, archaeologists relied on spatial analysis of activity areas, and ethno-archaeological comparison. However, more recently their has been a concern for overcoming...


Household Archaeology of Shaw Creek, Alaska (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Gerad Smith.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study compares the remains of two prehistoric houses to those of the protohistoric past. Each housepit represents a different archaeological tradition, dating roughly to 1,000 and 2,000 years ago. If house features represent a stable material culture correlate reflecting a culture's core concept of the family unit, the comparison allows us a viewpoint of...


Household Archaeology on the Northern Channel Islands of the Santa Barbara Coast, California (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lynn Gamble. Brian Barbier.

House depressions are visible at many archaeological sites on the Northern Channel Islands, including some that are thousands of years old, yet household archaeology is a topic that is often overlooked in the region. Documenting the number, size, location, and layout of house depressions can help in understanding past settlement strategies, access to resources, the emergence of cultural complexity, demography, cultural landscapes, environmental change, and craft specialization, among other...


Household Cordage in the Ancient Ozette Longhouses, a Mudslide-Covered Village on Northwest Coast of North America (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Dale Croes.

This is an abstract from the "Cordage, Yarn, and Associated Paraphernalia" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Rarely can you characterize all the cordage and knots in use within an ancient household. At Ozette Village, three centuries ago, a large mudslide flattened, covered, and preserved large cedar plank long-houses. Thousands of cordage and wood/fiber artifacts were preserved and recovered in situ, in use and stored by the ancient extended...


Household Diversity in a Palenque Neighborhood: Preliminary Considerations (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lisa Johnson. Lucas Johnson. Arianna Campiani. Rodrigo Liendo Stuardo. Rosemary Joyce.

This is an abstract from the "Dynamic Frontiers in the Archaeology of Chiapas" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Increasingly, archaeologists working in Classic period Maya cities have focused their attention on defining “neighborhoods” as a means to reconcile both a bottom-up and top-down approach. A consideration of Palenque’s urban form and patterns in the clustering of stone structures along built terraces makes the existence of neighborhoods...


Household Ecology and the Legacy of the Secondary Products Revolution in Yucatán (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Rani Alexander. Héctor Hernández Álvarez.

In this paper, we examine the changes in household ecology that resulted from the introduction of European domesticates to Yucatán after the Spanish invasion. New animals and plants were not adopted wholesale as a Euroagrarian suite in the sixteenth century. Instead, heterogeneous practices took root in highly altered demographic and environmental settings. Ecosystems were re-engineered as animals moved into new anthropogenic niches. We compare archaeological and ethnoarchaeological evidence of...