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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Like individual people, no two communities are alike. Successful public history museums focus on building trust with and reaching out to the communities whose stories they share. But conflicts still arise, especially when an institution has in the past played a role in that community's historical erasure. This paper explores...
Beyond Kinship Trees: Capturing the Social Tapestry in European Prehistory (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While kinship studies based on ancient DNA (aDNA) data have been instrumental in reconstructing biological relationships in European prehistory, they often overlook the complex web of social interactions that shaped prehistoric communities. This interdisciplinary investigation delves into the rich tapestry of social dynamics that characterized European...
Buried Museum Textiles from the Prehistoric Americas (2016)
The Arizona Museum of Natural History (AzMNH) has previously unexplored perishable materials, including fifteen textile fragments of Peruvian, Mexican, and Southwestern origin. I present the results of a technological analysis and description of the manufacture of these fragmentary remains. Although this is a small sample for statistical research, it is sufficient for descriptive purposes. As these textiles have not received prior exposure, they should be described and presented. Taken together...
A Comparative Approach In Iberian Shipbuilding Design: Preliminary Results (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the 16th and 17th centuries the classic Iberian ship concept was characterized by the nao (carrack) and galleon. These types of vessels eventually became popular throughout Europe since they were essential for the transatlantic journeys because of the exploration, commerce, and conquest of the New World. After decades of...
A Distant Diaspora: Comparative Perspectives on the Archaeology of Roman Slavery. (2013)
More than 100 million people were enslaved in the millennium during which the Roman Empire rose and was eclipsed, yet the lives of Roman slaves are still generally assumed to be archaeologically inaccessible. Classical archaeologists view slavery almost entirely through the lens of the Roman literary tradition, and through the work of ancient historians who have drawn on that tradition. This paper will suggest that whilst the material strategies of Roman slaves might be hard to isolate, they are...
From Colony to Empire: Fifty Years of Conceptualizing the Relationship between Britain and its New World Colonies through Archaeology (2017)
Through a series of brief case studies drawn from archaeological research in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, Williamsburg, Virginia, St. George's, Bermuda, and Bridgetown, Barbados, this paper examines how American historical archaeology has developed its understanding of Britain's establishment of its colonies throughout the New World. It is argued that the gradual but significant shift in geographic scale from regional specialization to frameworks like the Atlantic World,...
I Am a Rock: A Comparison of Lithic Art and Artifacts from the Inca and Ychsma Cultures (2016)
After the finding of many different shaped and worked carved stones from Panquilma’s excavations, in this paper, I compare the lithic artwork and artifacts from both the Ychsma and Inca cultures and I noticed many different types of Inca stone art and artifacts, by comparison with these. The stones that were carved in a particular shape from Panquilma can be related to either the Inca or the Ychsma. In this presentation, I explore the significance of the carved stones in order to...
Maroon Archaeology beyond the Americas: A View from Kenya (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of Enslavement" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeological research on Maroons—that is, runaway slaves—has been largely confined to the Americas. This paper advocates a more global approach. It specifically uses two runaway slave communities in 19th-century coastal Kenya to rethink prominent interpretive themes in the field, including "Africanisms," Maroons’ connections to indigenous groups, and...