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Interpersonal violence among the prehistoric hunter-gatherers of Cis-Baikal, southern Siberia (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Rick Schulting. Angela Lieverse. Vladimir Bazaliiskii. Andrzej Weber.

The large number of mid-Holocene cemeteries from Lake Baikal and its surrounding river valleys provide an unrivalled archaeological resource for the study of northern Eurasian hunter-gatherers. In this paper we present an overview of the skeletal evidence for interpersonal violence, comparing the Early Neolithic (7550–6800 cal BP) and Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age (5700–3700 cal BP), two broad periods exhibiting different mortuary traditions and subsistence practices. Despite the nomenclature,...


Interpreting Communities in Conflict: Utilizing Captain Johann Ewald’s Journal as a Lens to Analyze the Paoli Battlefield (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew A. Kalos.

Upon arriving at Head of Elk, Maryland, General William Howe led his British and Hessian forces on a march through the Mid-Atlantic colonies on a quest to capture Philadelphia.  Hessian jaeger Captain Johann Ewald documented the march, the engagements, and the litany of individuals he encountered during the Philadelphia Campaign.  Utilizing his journal as a unit of analysis, this paper seeks to understand the diversity of individuals and groups that played a role in the Philadelphia Campaign. ...


Landscape of Conflict/Landscape of Freedom: The Battle of Island Mound and the Missouri-Kansas Border War (2022)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Ann M. Raab.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. On October 29th, 1862 the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry became the first African American regiment to see combat in the Civil War, over 2 months before the Emancipation Proclamation. While this event initially gained national attention, it eventually faded from popular memory until recently. In 2012 the Battle of Island...


The memorialisation of ‘excluded’ groups in Washington D.C (2013)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Emma L Login.

Growing multiculturalism in many cities has resulted in rising concerns over the shared historical narratives of their inhabitants; particularly in relation to past conflicts. Increasingly groups have spoken out against perceived exclusion from dominant conflict narratives. This paper seeks to understand the ways in which groups exert their claim on past conflicts through the urban environment, specifically through processes of war memorialisation. Examples in Washington D.C. comprise both new...


The Memory of Paoli: The Intersections Among Conflict, Memory, Memorial, and Archaeology (2022)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Kalos.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond Battlefields: Culture and Conflict through the Philadelphia Campaign" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. On the night of September 20, 1777, British General Charles Grey led an elite group of his soldiers on a bayonet raid against American General Anthony Wayne and his encamped Pennsylvania Regulars.  The British burned the camp, injuring many, and killing fifty-two.  The battle quickly became...


Narratives of Bravery in Fields of Fire at Wood Lake Battlefield (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Sigrid Arnott. David Maki. Franky Jackson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Memory, Archaeology, And The Social Experience Of Conflict and Battlefields" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The last battle in the Dakota- U.S. war took place near Yellow Medicine, Minnesota in 1862. The dominant narrative, initiated by memorialization events held by U.S. veterans at the site, is of a brave last charge by U.S. soldiers using shoulder arms, under the support of artillery, to...


The past is changing – archeology, university, and the town of Oulu, Northern Finland (2022)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Timo Ylimaunu. Marika Hyttinen. Tuuli Matila. Tiina Äikäs. Paul R. Mullins.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond the Classroom: Campus Archaeology and Community Collaboration" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In this paper we will examine the community role of the archaeology in Oulu University has changed during the last decades. The Oulu University archaeology program used to organize fieldworks in several, mainly, prehistoric sites in northern Finland, however, these were not community-based projects. Today,...


Patterns of cranial trauma in the Late Intermediate Period Colca Valley, Peru (A.D. 1000-1450) (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Velasco.

Cranial trauma studies of Late Intermediate Period populations (LIP, A.D. 1000-1450) suggest that conflict and social stress were endemic across the south-central Andes, although the nature of interpersonal violence was strongly mediated by local political and social structures. This study explores how individuals buried in elaborate cliffside tombs from the Colca valley of southern Peru experienced violence across the 400-year period preceding Inka imperialism. Cranial trauma rates show high...


Persistent, Multiscalar Disentanglement: Native-Spanish Trajectories in Early Historic New Mexico (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Clay Mathers.

This is an abstract from the "Disentanglement: Reimagining Early Colonial Trajectories in the Americas" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. What began in 1540 with sustained, lethal confrontations between Southern Tiwa pueblo communities and the conquista campaign of Vázquez de Coronado, set in motion a history of relations in New Mexico regularly punctuated by acts of Native independence and disengagement, and by Spanish policies and countermeasures...


Post-Tiwanaku Settlement Patterns in the Peaceful Coastal Osmore Valley and the Tense Upper Valleys (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Bruce Owen.

Some refugees from the collapsing Tiwanaku province in Moquegua settled in the coastal Osmore valley, where they appear to have integrated peacefully with the Chiribaya population, living in seemingly undefended settlements closely intermixed with their ethnically distinct neighbors. Others moved into the upper valleys of the Osmore drainage, where they apparently experienced a competitive, fearful social environment, living on defensible high points, some with vestiges of what may have been...


Rainfall and conflict among the Lowland Classic Maya (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only William Carleton. Mark Collard. Dave Campbell.

Determining the causes of conflict in the Maya region during the Classic Period is an important undertaking. Conflict was a prominent feature of relationships among Classic Maya polities and has been implicated in the collapse of Classic Maya society. Recently, Kennett et al. (2012) have argued that reduced rainfall led to increased conflict in the Lowland Maya region between ca. 300 and 900 CE. They arrived at this conclusion after comparing epigraphic records of conflict and variation in δ18O,...


Reconsidering the Ideal Despotic Distribution on Agricultural Frontiers (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Gregory Burns.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For settlement pattern analysis where territorial exclusion is assumed to be at play, Fretwell and Lucas's 1969 model is still the core explanation for IDD. Rather than focus on population density, it would be more in keeping with formal models of behavioral ecology to analyze the dynamic through marginal analysis. Established groups should defend...


Religion, Memory and Materiality: Exploring the Origins and Legacies of Sectarianism in the North of Ireland (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Audrey J Horning.

The early seventeenth-century Plantation of Ulster, in which the English Crown sought to plant loyal British colonists in the north of Ireland, is commonly understood as overtly religious in intent and action, and is viewed as the foundation for today’s dichotomous divide between Protestant and Catholic communities in Northern Ireland. However, archaeological and documentary evidence complicates this straightforward narrative by demonstrating considerable cultural exchange and the emergence of...


Rending the Social Fabric: Revolution in Gloucester County, New Jersey, 1774-1779 (2022)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Garry Wheeler Stone.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond Battlefields: Culture and Conflict through the Philadelphia Campaign" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1774, New Jerseyans agreed: No taxation without representation. This unity disintegrated when a New Jersey Provincial Congress prepared for armed resistance to Great Britain. The population split between those that wanted to remain part of the British empire (Tories or Loyalists), those that...


Reversals of Fortune: Understanding Shifts in Political Power from Above and Below (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only T. L. Thurston.

Current social theories from a variety of disciplines offer ways through which we may understand when and why citizens of a polity or subjects a ruler are likely to protest or rise in response to problems in the relationship between governments and those they govern. Some forms of asymmetry and inequality serve as good general predictors of when protest, rebellion, or civil war are most likely to occur, while the ways in which these issues are framed and resolved vary from society to society. ...


The Siege Of Petersburg: Reading Between The Lines (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Julia Steele. David Lowe. Philip Shiman. Alexis Morris.

When the Confederate transportation center of Petersburg fell after a 9.5 month siege, the combatants faced each other across lines of major earthworks in a more than 35 mile long arc.  The territory between these lines contains a fertile archeological record of  U.S. attempts to advance and C.S.A. counter-moves and their skillful yet desperate efforts to defend vital supply lines to Richmond.  We explore the physical record of the campaign from the interim lines to both armies’ picket lines and...


A Simple Fiscal-Demographic Model of the Classic Maya Collapse (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Dragan Filipovich.

The Classic Maya civilization flourished from approximately 200 A.D. to 800 A.D. in the southern reaches of the Yucatan Peninsula. Population increased throughout the period, accelerating towards the end, finally falling to a small fraction of its former peak level (10% or less) in a relatively short span of time (50-100 years). Even though Maya civilization continued in the northern end of Yucatan Peninsula, the holy kings who had been the protagonists of Classic Maya civilization disappeared...


Territoriality, Intertribal Boundaries, and Large Game Exploitation: Empirical Evaluation of a Spatial Bioeconomic Model of Conflict in the Western U.S. (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Frank Bayham. Kasey Cole.

Being a high-ranking prey item, large game are often desired for their economic and prestige values, both of which may be converted to an individual’s status. As such, big game can serve as a potential axis for competition between linguistic or ethnically distinct groups particularly under conditions of population stress leading to resource depression. This dynamic has been modeled using an evolutionary ecological approach that combines an amalgam of standard foraging models with the added cost...


"This law is no good": Excavating the Appeal of Right-Wing Populism in Rural New York (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Hadley F. Kruczek-Aaron.

Polls conducted by Reuters-Ipsos after the 2016 election revealed that 75% of American voters wanted "a strong leader to take the country back from the rich and powerful," and 68% agreed that "traditional parties and politicians don’t care about people like [them]." A brand of right-wing populism emerged to speak to these concerns, and ultimately it helped deliver Trump to power. In this paper, I explore the roots of the appeal of this political movement in one rural region that voted...


"To Drain This Country": Historical Archeology And The Demands Of The War For Independence In The Route 301 Corridor (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Wade Catts.

  The Upper Delmarva Peninsula was a region on the periphery of military activity during the American Revolution. For a short time in 1777 the area witnessed some troop movements and experienced the effects of invasion and war. The longer lasting impact on the region was the constant need for foodstuffs and materiél required of the fledging American nation. With no strong logistical system, state and national governments called on their civilian population to fill the void. While the 1777...


"We Commenced Replying to a Battery of the Enemy": Locating Turner’s (C.S.A.) Artillery at the Battle of Perryville, Kentucky, 8 October 1862 (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian Mabelitini. Scott Clark.

The October 1862 Battle of Perryville was the largest engagement fought in the state of Kentucky during the American Civil War. Although inconclusive, the battle was largely considered to be both a tactical victory for the Confederacy and a strategic victory for the Union. Smith’s Mississippi Battery (C.S.A.), under the command of Lieut. William B. Turner, would play a crucial role in the Confederate advance. Historical documents indicate that Smith’s (Turner’s) battery engaged Union forces from...


The Wheel of Conflict: Physical and Spiritual Permanence of Mississippian Violence (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only David Dye. Keith Jacobi. William DeVore.

Violence in the daily lives of individuals in late prehistoric eastern North America took many forms. Exposure to violence was pervasive and persistent. From the time you were born until the time you died you were a witness, a participant, and possibly a victim. In some instances death was a not release. In the Tennessee Valley of northern Alabama two Mississippian sites, Kogers Island (1LU92) and Perry (1LU25), demonstrate a range of evidence for interpolity violence. Familiar examples of...