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Archaeology on the north coast of British Columbia has focussed on three zones of attention: Namu, Haida Gwaii, and Prince Rupert Harbour. These loci have created a kind of orthodoxy that, while reasonable in certain aspects, has unduly shaped contemporary political interactions between First Nations and the state. This paper draws from an Indigenous intellectual framework (that has appropriated the tools and techniques of anthropological archaeology) to challenge and redefine the orthodox...
Rock Art: A Biographical Perspective from Western Arnhem Land, Australia (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Painting the Past: Interpretive Approaches in Global Rock Art Research" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In recent decades, studies of contact rock art have significantly contributed to rock art research globally. A key reason for this is that such artworks can represent a reverse gaze across cross-cultural encounters. Another reason is that contact rock art affords us neatly chronological points of time, before and...