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This is an abstract from the "Embodied Essence: Anthropological, Historical, and Archaeological Perspectives on the Use of Body Parts and Bodily Substances in Religious Beliefs and Practices" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. When considering the claim that it has long been common for people to attribute spiritual power to certain body parts and bodily substances of humans and nonhuman animals and incorporate them into their religious beliefs and...
Recent Search and Recovery Efforts: Honoring Missing US Service Personnel through Forensic Archaeology (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Fulfilling a Nation’s Promise: The Search, Recovery, and Accounting Efforts of DPAA and Its Partners" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) is dedicated to identifying and honoring missing US service personnel, particularly from World War II and other conflicts. Recent search and recovery efforts conducted by Alta Archaeological Consulting (ALTA), through the DPAA Partnerships and...
Reclaiming and Activating Chinese American Heritage in Wyoming (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Activating Heritage: Encouraging Substantive Practices for a Just Future" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Rock Springs Chinatown in Wyoming was the site of the 1885 Chinese Massacre, where a white mob murdered 28 Chinese coal miners. Survivors took refuge at the Evanston Chinatown, approximately 100 miles west. While archaeological research led by Dudley Gardner has been ongoing at both Chinatowns for over three...
Recompiling the Archaeology of East Africa: The Swahili GIS Project, and What Comes Next (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Capacity Building or Community Making? Training and Transitions in Digital Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The East African coast is famous for the stonetowns of the 'maritime trading' culture of the Swahili, but the scale of this region, fractured history of research, and scattered publication of work have until recently prevented macro-scale investigations of settlement patterns and coastal interactions....
Reconciling with the Past and Present: Efforts at Colorado Federal Indian Schools (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Between 1880 and 1920, Colorado hosted nine institutions that focused on the assimilation of Native youth, including day schools, on-reservation boarding schools, and off-reservation boarding schools. One institution in particular, Fort Lewis Indian Boarding School, became a state college with the intent to serve the Native population. Today Fort...
Reconnaissance Assessment of Cultural Resource Sensitivities at Six Alternative Sites for the Canadian Substation, Lake Arrowhead Vicinity, San Bernardino County, California (1991)
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Reconsidering the Role of Archaeology in Shaping “Affective Places”: Case Scenarios from Hawai'i and Yucatán (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Rethinking Persistent Places: Relationships, Atmospheres, and Affects" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Western-trained scholars like to take for granted that the discipline of archaeology plays a foundational role in providing data from ancient sites from which scientists reconstruct histories, social organization, and what drew people to such places. Government institutions use such information to assign values to...
Reconstrucción de rutas acuáticas en Nueva España a través del análisis geográfico de textos (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Underwater and Coastal Archaeology in Latin America" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. En esta ponencia se presentará la metodología refinada del análisis geográfico de textos que permite relacionar nociones espaciales concretas con expresiones lingüísticas con distintos niveles de precisión. En particular, me concentraré en el problema de las rutas acuáticas que aparecen dispersas en numerosas fuentes escritas del...
Reconstructing Glass Manufacturing Patterns in India through Raw Materials Sourcing and Ethnoarchaeological Investigations (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Current Research on Ancient Glass around the Indian Ocean" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Despite the widespread distribution of Indian-made glass beads around the Indian Ocean and beyond, not much is known about South Asia’s early glass industries from the first centuries BCE through the second millennium CE. This paper will present an overview of an ongoing project designed to use elemental and isotopic...
Reconstructing the Childhood Diet of an Eighteenth- to Nineteenth-Century North Carolina Land-Owning Family (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Breastfeeding and weaning practices can impact a child’s immune system development and nutritional status and cause long-term health effects. Here we explore the potential relationship between the weaning process and childhood frailty in a late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century land-owning family in coastal North Carolina. The 10 individuals recovered...
Reconstructing the Life Use of a Medieval Friary from Its Fragmentary Remains (2024)
This is an abstract from the "New Work in Medieval Archaeology, Part 1: Landscapes, Food, and Health" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Dominican friary in Trim, Co. Meath, Ireland was established in AD 1263 by Geoffrey de Geneville, then Lord of Trim. Located just outside the town wall, the Black Friary was an important institution during the late medieval period, as indicated by its large size and double cloister as well as its use for...
Reconstructing the Social Life of Death at Ancient Aksum through Micro-CT Imaging (AD 50–400) (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents micro-CT histological data on bone samples from Aksum’s Stelae Park cemetery (AD 50–400). Aksum was the capital of an ancient polity (AD 50–800) that spread across the northern Horn of Africa and was a major global power in the Indian Ocean trade. The most notable lasting remains of the ancient capital are its towering funerary...
Reconstructing “Negro Fort”: A Geophysical Investigation of the Citadel at Prospect Bluff (8FR64) (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Seeking Freedom in the Borderlands: Archaeological Perspectives on Maroon Societies in Florida" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1814, the British began construction of a large fort on a site known as Prospect Bluff on the Apalachicola River. There they trained a corps of Colonial Marines made up primarily of freedom seekers and maroons of African descent who fought in the War of 1812. The heart of the fort was a...
Recovering "Los Antepasados": Bioarchaeology of a Historic Genízaro Community in Colonial New Mexico (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of Debra L. Martin" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Nuestra Señora de Belén Archaeological Project explores a colonial mission church and plaza site dating to the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Belén, New Mexico. The colonial village of Belén was populated by a diverse community of Spanish and mixed-heritage individuals, including a number of Native American...
Recovery Efforts at a Second World War Aircraft Crash Site on the Island of Luzon, Republic of the Philippines (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Fulfilling a Nation’s Promise: The Search, Recovery, and Accounting Efforts of DPAA and Its Partners" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency’s (DPAA) mission is to provide the fullest possible accounting of missing service members from past conflicts. More than 81,000 service members remain missing, and almost 50% of those losses are attributed to America’s efforts during the Second World...
Recycling Woodlands: Timber Use and Reuse in Timber Framed Buildings in West Suffolk, England (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Human-environmental relations, mediated by builders and householders, are visible in the framework of vernacular buildings. The builder’s selection in material is mediated by geography and ecology, as well as land management practices, law, and social custom. In West Suffolk, England, there are hundreds of timber-framed buildings constructed between 1450...
Rediscovering the Revolutionary War on the Francis Marion and Sumter National Forests (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Francis Marion and Sumter National Forests in South Carolina include over 11,000 archaeological sites spanning major events throughout history. The Revolutionary War is no exception but represents an understudied portion of the Forest’s history despite its namesakes. As part of the Forests’ efforts to further site stewardship and a better understanding...
Reframing Heritage: Indigenous Views in the Forefront (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Politics of Heritage Values: How Archaeologists Deal with Place, Social Memories, Identities, and Socioeconomics" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In many parts of the world, it is assumed that the most important heritage are the ancient sites that are visible on the landscape. This is certainly true within the Maya region of Central America. Projects often start out with the assumption that contemporary Maya...
Refugees as a Productive Force, National Belonging as Mutable: The Case of 1947 Partition Refugee Resettlement in Delhi, India (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of Immigration and Refugee Resettlement" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Many archaeologists have focused on the material ramifications of nationalist exclusion. Such works have documented how discriminatory policies impact the ability of immigrants and refugees to build new lives post-migration, and in some cases, even endanger their lives. In this paper, I explore the opposite question: what happens...
Region of Origin Predictions of Human Remains from a Late 19th Century Medical Waste Pit: Oxygen and Strontium Isotope Evidence from the Point San Jose Hospital, San Francisco (2018)
In 2010, human remains were discovered in a medical waste pit behind the Civil War-era hospital at Point San Jose, San Francisco by National Park Service archaeologists. The commingled assemblage consisted of thousands of human bones, including cranial and dental remains. Extensive cut marks on these remains indicated they were used for anatomical dissection. Assessment of biological characteristics suggested that some of the individuals targeted for dissection are of non-European ancestry. In...
Regional Historic Preservation Study (1980)
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Regionalization of Chinese Buddhist Carving in the Fifth through Seventh Centuries: Localization of Practice in the Place and Face of the Buddha (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Populations of Early Medieval China: Developing Anthropological Approaches to Historical Archaeology in China" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the course of the last two decades there have been a number of hoards of Buddhist statues excavated in Northern China. Each of these hoards contains several hundred statues of varying forms and quality. This study examines both the form and the tool marks on the statues to...
Regular Irregularity: Archaeological Evidence at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest for Intersecting Garden Traditions (2018)
The geometric structure of 17th through 19th century designed landscapes in Virginia has been well documented archaeologically. The composition of elements in these landscapes shows how their designers manipulated geometric forms, architectural conventions, and standardized measurements to impose order in the garden. By the end of the 18th century fashionable American gardens tended towards irregular picturesque compositions, however the arrangement of individual garden elements to achieve that...
Reimagining the Castleton Medical College through 3D Imaging and Visualization (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Capturing and Sharing Vermont’s Past: 3D Imaging as a Tool for Undergraduate Research and Community Engagement" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Castleton campus of the new Vermont State University is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the country, first opening its doors to students in 1787 and serving as one of New England’s leading medical colleges from 1818 to 1867. Today, the few reminders of...
Reimagining “Archaeological Field Methods”: Insights on Integrating Campus Excavation, Classroom Instruction, and Critical Discussion (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Pedagogy in the Undergraduate Archaeology Classroom" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper reflects on an archaeological field methods course designed for Gettysburg College and taught in fall 2021. This course, which we will continue to teach in coming years, represents a new offering at the college and meets a growing need to train anthropology majors who wish to focus on archaeology as a career. Students...