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DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan E. Springate.

Marginalized groups have long struggled to have their histories acknowledged, much less more permanently marked on the landscape through monuments and other means of acknowledgement. This is especially true of those with intersecting marginalized identities. This paper examines the representation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other gender and sexual minority (LGBTQ+) women’s histories internationally. Many factors complicate this work; perhaps most prominent is the fluid,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maxwell R Dickson.

Monuments function as archives of histories allowing us to remember and keep alive past events, stories, and loss, but only recently are LGBTQ+ histories being honored in public landscapes. For many communities, place and identity are entangled realities. For LGBTQ+ communities, having physical sites of remembrance that echo histories into the landscape is incredibly important. Such sites help individuals connect with their own identity, reinforce a sense of belonging, and proudly acknowledge...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erin C. Rodriguez.

A queer theory inspired perspective is valuable not only for broadening the scope of archaeological interpretation and our understanding of past lived experiences, but also for informing an archaeological pedagogy which expands the diversity of authoritative viewpoints in the discipline. Field schools, as one of the most central aspects of archaeological training, have the potential to either reaffirm heteronormative structures which obscure non-conforming persons and viewpoints or to promote...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul King. Franz Manni.

This is an abstract from the "Body Modification: Examples and Explanations" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Across continents, material evidence of body piercing jewelry abounds in the archaeological record. However, the varying procedures and processes of piercing, healing, and stretching these wounds for adornment remains unfamiliar to most archaeologists. This PowerPoint presentation discusses the early self-experimentations that led to the...