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DOCUMENT Citation Only Hilary Leathem.

This is an abstract from the "Checking the Pulse II, Current Research in Oaxaca Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper is a call to expand our definitions of sustainability, troubling what has become the bedrock of community archaeology and heritage projects. In Oaxaca, the question of sustainability is pursued alongside a fixed imagining of how an ideal heritage site operates. A “successful heritage project,” institutional actors...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashley D'Elia. Natalia Miles.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Work by Chronicle Heritage" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Indigenous history has been told through the lens of outsiders claiming authority on the subjects with little credibility given to traditional knowledge of the descendant communities who remain (Bernardini et al. 2021). There is an abundance of Indigenous Knowledge communities can share with archaeologists to help insert Indigenous voices...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chuck Riggs.

Nearly 30 years after the passage of NAGPRA, indigenous perspectives and consultation have led to significant positive changes within the practice of archaeology in the United States. Despite these advances, however, it seems that many archaeologists continue to adhere to the letter of the law while disregarding its spirit, suggesting that the colonial imperatives that gave rise to our discipline remain firmly entrenched. The Eurocentric interpretive frameworks, use of loaded terminology, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alex Barker.

This is an abstract from the "Celebrating Alice: Recognizing the Many Contributions of Alice Beck Kehoe" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Throughout her long career Alice Beck Kehoe has challenged us to recognize, on the one hand, the interconnectedness of past peoples, and to ignore, on the other, the blinders of accepted wisdom and strictures of the moment’s paradigm. This paper briefly discusses alternative ways of understanding the distribution...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Eliza Williamson.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project set out to understand how the paradigm of 'humanized birth' is implemented in Salvador, Brazil, through Rede Cegonha, a government program to improve maternal and infant healthcare in Brazil's public health system. Over the course of twelve-months of multi-sited ethnographic research, the project followed Rede Cegonha from the federal Ministry of Health to the local health...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alyssa Bader. Aimée Carbaugh. Lauren Hosek. Krystiana Krupa.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Conceptions of “care” are increasingly a topic of interest in anthropological archaeology, and often sit at the intersection of discussions around ethics, best practices, and archaeological research, teaching/training, and curation involving the physical remains of human Ancestors. Care may be perceived as related to preserving the physical integrity of an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Frank Tzib. John Walden. James Mesh. Christina Warinner. Jaime Awe.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. New archaeological aDNA approaches have the potential to dramatically change our understanding of the ancient Maya but it is important that living Maya people are aware of the research, provide their thoughts and input, and give their consent given the involvement of ancestral human remains. This poster presents the ongoing interview based consultation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madison McCartin.

This is an abstract from the "Animal Matters: Ethics in Zooarchaeology from Discovery to Display" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As in other disciplines, ethics has become a central topic amongst zooarchaeologists; however, many of these conversations occur between a small handful of individuals. Here, we aim to bring together diverse zooarchaeologists in a large, communal venue to highlight the ethical considerations we face as a discipline. We...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cherra Wyllie.

This is an abstract from the "Celebrating Alice: Recognizing the Many Contributions of Alice Beck Kehoe" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In October 1519, the Santa María de la Concepción arrived in the southern Spanish port of Sanlúcar de Barrameda from Veracruz carrying a letter to the crown from Hernán Cortés, along with an inestimable treasure of gold, silver, and featherwork. The cargo included a retinue of Totonac elites and indigenous...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Allison Densmore.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The inherently destructive nature of archaeological excavations and the massive data output create a complex problem for data management in archaeology. Data are often limited to use by the original researchers or only made accessible to academics through paywalled publications. The archaeological record is a non-renewable resource. Thus, this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Victoria Gum.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent excavations at the First Baptist Church on Nassau Street in Williamsburg, Virginia, have illuminated significant information about the site, most notably the presence of over 60 burials. However, the First Baptist site also provides an opportunity to literally excavate the history of our own discipline. Following the concept of an “anthropology of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patricia Richards.

The 1987 Wisconsin Burial Site Preservation Statute (WisStats 157.70) serves as the basis for the protection of all burial sites in the State of Wisconsin and assures that all human burial sites be accorded equal treatment under the law regardless of age or affiliation. A burial site, under the law, refers to any place where human remains are buried and includes marked and unmarked cemeteries, Native American mounds, small family cemeteries, and other less obvious locations that are reported to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kate Compton-Gore.

This is an abstract from the "Four Decades of NAGPRA, Part 1: Accomplishments and Challenges" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Despite the decades old regulatory requirement under NAGPRA for museums and institutions to report known hazards such as pesticides, very few policies or procedures exist that address hazards, or ensure that potential or remaining toxins not escape notice. Although guidelines and recommendations addressed the issue in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Abigail Musch.

This is an abstract from the "Four Decades of NAGPRA, Part 1: Accomplishments and Challenges" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology greatly contributed to the presence of Native American ancestral remains held in museum and university collections, and recently has been engaged in discussions about the ethical engagement with these collections. An important step in this discussion is to consider how the NAGPRA law, which has been in effect...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alia Moran.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The goal of this project is to document the Thai American immigrant experience, in order to empower Thai American teens today through participation in oral history collection and to educate the public about Thai American culture and language through a moving museum and learning curriculum. To this end, we have conducted ethnographic field work, literature...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karin Larkin. Fawn-Amber Montoya. Robert Butero.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Congress: Multivocal Conversations Furthering the World Archaeological Congress Agenda" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The 1913–1914 southern Colorado coalfield strike and Ludlow Massacre had lasting impacts on labor law reforms that occurred in Colorado and the United States over the subsequent decades. The Colorado Coalfield War Archaeological Project (CCWAP) worked with the United Mine Workers of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandria Mitchem.

This is an abstract from the "Reckoning with Legacy Exhibits, Data, and Collections" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1977, historic preservation specialists working at Bartram’s Garden (Philadelphia, PA) uncovered a surprising find under the floorboards of the attic of the family home. Over five kilograms of material had been cached by rodents over the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Established in 1728 by botanist John Bartram, the garden...

DOCUMENT Citation Only George Nicholas.

All archaeology is ultimately autobiographical; our interests and intentions are intimately shaped by both people and circumstances, which sometimes are not recognized until later. An unexpected change in my own career path in the 1990s brought me into Larry Zimmerman’s orbit. His work with and for marginalized peoples, his activism, and his strong ethical stance have grounded me ever since. In this presentation I take a personal approach to discussing Larry’s influence on Archaeology in general...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Errett Callahan. David Wescott.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only David Mennear.

This presentation will discuss the public perception and communication of the Bioarchaeology of Care approach and the accompanying Index of Care program. The ethical considerations of the methodology, as an integral feature of working with human skeletal remains, will also be considered and discussed within a consideration of who ‘owns’ the past and, more specifically, who (if anyone) owns the remains of individuals. In particular it will focus on individuals who are described as disabled, or...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles R. III McGimsey. Hester A. Davis.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Heidi Bauer-Clapp.

Tourism centered on archaeological sites or associated material culture can benefit local communities, financially or otherwise. Yet when the site in question involves "difficult" heritage such as violence, communities often must grapple with tensions regarding how to balance memorialization or education with profitability. Such tensions can be heightened when the site involves human remains. This paper presents a case study of St Helena, a small British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Esteban Miron Marvan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The practice of Mexican and Maya archaeology is yet to be affected by the postcolonial dialogues in the anglophone world that have discussed the terms of engagement between archaeologists and indigenous communities. Mexico is constitutionally conceived of as a multicultural nation, but the collective rights of indigenous communities are obscured under the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amy Hair. Gabriel Wrobel. Jack Biggs.

This is an abstract from the "Towards a Standardization of Photogrammetric Methods in Archaeology: A Conversation about 'Best Practices' in An Emerging Methodology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Maya Cranial Photogrammetry Project consists of a database of digitized crania that can be used to investigate questions related to biological and cultural histories. The shape of human remains reflects a complex interplay between the environment and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas J Elpel. David Wescott.

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