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DOCUMENT Citation Only Queeny Lapeña. Stephen Acabado.

Successful resistance against a colonizing power involves effective martial organization and a complex polity. Due to violence and diseases, established polities in the Americas and the Philippines were devastated following Spanish conquest. Nevertheless, several groups have been documented as actively resisting conquest by establishing settlements in remote mountainous settlements. In the Philippines, scholars have suggested that Spanish conquest of the Magat Valley urged the Ifugao to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Trevor H Gittelhough.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The indigenous Chumash people of the Santa Barbara coast relied heavily upon the wealth of maritime resources that the Santa Barbara Channel provided. In order to access these vast resources, the use of advanced sewn vessels known as tomol, were of inestimable importance to the formation and continuation of their complex society. By synthesizing different lines of evidence,...