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Homosexuality’s place within the church has been a topic of considerable debate among modern theologians. However, most theologians have only focused on homosexuality, disregarding the presence of all other alternative sexual identities and have used only Biblical textual evidence to justify their views on homosexuality. This text contributes a broader scope to the sexuality debate. It considers all queer sexualities, archaeological artifacts, and uses a queer theoretical lens to deconstruct the...
How Advances in Archaeobotany Benefit Us All: Perspectives from Zooarchaeology, Bioarchaeology, and Isotope Research (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Fryxell Symposium in Honor of Dolores Piperno" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The origin of agriculture in the American tropics drastically altered human societies and their environmental settings. Through the domestication of various plants for subsistence, medicine, and technological purposes, human populations grew and expanded at an unprecedented rate across the landscape from the Middle Holocene onward, spreading...
Memories of Down the Bay: Bridging Archaeology and Oral History (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. Two recent concurrent projects, the I-10 Mobile River Bridge Archaeology Project and the Down the Bay Oral History Project, created complementary datasets about the history of the Down the Bay neighborhood in Mobile, Alabama. The archaeological and oral historical work enrich one another; interviews with community members and...
Memories of Mary Beaudry: Creating an Interdisciplinary Historical Archaeology (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "“Historical Archaeology with Canon on the Side, Please”: In Honor of Mary C. Beaudry (1950-2020)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. I first met Mary Beaudry in 1977 when she was a graduate student at Brown University, and I was a staff archaeologist for the Public Archaeology Laboratory at Brown. We would later share responsibility for the Lowell Archaeological Survey – she has the Boston University of...