Ethnohistory/History (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emilie Carreón Blaine.

This is an abstract from the "New Perspectives on Ritual Violence and Related Human Body Treatments in Ancient Mesoamerica" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The purpose of this collaboration is to present the results of the analysis of a human skull located at the center of the ball court of Santa Rosa, Chiapas, and to review the implications it presents for the study of the Mesoamerican ball game and its relationship to human sacrifice. It is a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen Bell.

This is an abstract from the "Gender in Archaeology over the Last 30+ Years" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper builds on the author’s earlier research that documents previously unrecognized female rulers among the Aztec. Over the last 50 years, interest in elite women in other areas of Mesoamerica has grown, and the author presents the outcome of some of that research. Woman rulers from not only the Aztec area but also from the Valley of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hans Roskamp.

This is an abstract from the "Technological Transitions in Prehispanic and Colonial Metallurgy: Recent and Ongoing Research at the Archaeological Site of Jicalán Viejo, in Central Michoacán, West Mexico" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A thorough exploration of the available historical documents from the colonial period demonstrates that Jicalán was one of many prehispanic settlements inhabited by copper mining, smelting, and smithing specialists...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Maffie.

This is an abstract from the "Embodied Essence: Anthropological, Historical, and Archaeological Perspectives on the Use of Body Parts and Bodily Substances in Religious Beliefs and Practices" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Mexica tzompantli (“skull rack”) consisted of multiple, agricultural-style ordered rows of human skull-seeds. As such it constituted an enormous “battery pack,” or milpa, that contained, stored, and radiated the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jenail Marshall. Michele Buzon.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Approximately 60 percent of all our antibiotics come from streptomycetes, a filamentous soil bacterium. Over 30 years ago, the first evidence of deliberate antibiotic use was among Sudanese Nubian agriculturalists through the consumption of beer that contained tetracycline. The range of archaeological research since the Nubian findings show the profound role...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ruth Van Dyke.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of Immigration and Refugee Resettlement" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. I direct a historical archaeological project in the Alsatian community of Castroville, Texas. Members of the local heritage society, who sponsor the project, are descendants of economic migrants brought from Alsace to Texas in the 1840s during the aftermath of Texas’ break from Mexico. Today, Castroville residents seek to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Kennedy. Maria Smith. Di Hu.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of Surveillance: Seeing and Power in the Material World" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Spanish Empire drew on multiple forms of forced Indigenous labor in their American colonies during the sixteenth–eighteenth centuries. In the Andes, forced Indigenous labor was used to mine silver, craft textiles, grow sugar cane, and produce wine, among many other tasks critical to the colonial economy. Crucial...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katrina Eichner.

This is an abstract from the "The Future Is Fluid...and So Was the Past: Challenging the 'Normative' in Archaeological Interpretations" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As archaeologists we link patterns of performance and daily practice to identity categories. Theses classifications depend on normalized understandings of idealized behaviors. However, the groupings we use to discuss past actors rarely fully encompass the extent of behaviors in which...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas Bolender. Elizabeth Sweet.

This is an abstract from the "Mind the Gap: Exploring Uncharted Territories in Medieval European Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological research in the North Atlantic has overwhelmingly focused on the long-term political and environmental impacts of the Viking Age colonization of these remote, marginal islands. In places like Iceland, these impacts were profound and resulted in the radical transformation of the previously...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Dye.

This is an abstract from the "Warfare and the Origins of Political Control " session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Within a hundred years of Cahokia’s Big Bang around AD 1050, warfare becomes evident in the construction of defensive structures, especially massive, bastioned palisades. The first of these palisades at Cahokia dates to ca. AD 1135 and stands as the earliest Mississippian fortified community. This signaling of intensive and organized...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Javier I. Alcalde Gonzales.

Las formaciones sociales de carácter imperial se articulan desde sus propias dinámicas, reproducidas desde sus relaciones y su territorio. Estos mecanismos deben ir reformulándose en el proceso de expansión, integrando las dinámicas sometidas políticamente, desarrollándolas y transformándolas, originando nuevas formas políticas dentro los antiguos procesos regionales y en el propio centro imperial. El caso particular del Tawantinsuyu parece generar tres tradiciones integradoras diferenciadas, y...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Clay Mathers.

For more than 170 years, archaeologists and historians have offered a range of arguments in an attempt to locate the site of the 1541 siege of Moho. Although historical records of the Vázquez de Coronado entrada provide tantalizing clues about the whereabouts of this major battle, generations of scholars have often used an odd amalgam of description, assertion, and evidence to postulate the geographic location of this significant historical site. Carroll Riley’s interest in the deep history of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan Hechler.

This is an abstract from the "The Barbacoan World: Recognizing and Preserving the Unique Indigenous Cultural Developments of the Northern Andes" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tawantinsuyu’s consolidation of northern Ecuador was characterized by unique moments of conquest, and reconquest, of the incredibly resistant Cara people. The principal Cara polities were the Cochasquí, Cayambe, Caranquí, Otavalo, and Quinche, each with monumental ritual...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Taylor Peacock.

While artifacts and grave goods remain an archaeologist’s primary tools for gathering information on past populations, document and historical archaeology increasingly look to census records, obituaries, and family records, not just to confirm information about recovered artifacts, but as artifacts themselves. This study analyzed census data, birth records, and obituaries associated with three missing individuals assumed to be buried in Victoria’s Congregation Emanu-El Jewish cemetery to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen Herrera Valencia.

This is an abstract from the "Primary Sources and the Design of Research Projects" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The slum of "La Playa" in the municipality of Arecibo, northern coast of Puerto Rico, existed from the late 19th century to the mid 20th century. This study presents the results of researching this type of site using documentary sources that include maps, plans, photographs, population data and newspaper articles. The objectives of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Rodning. Michelle Pigott.

As it did elsewhere around the world, early Spanish exploration and colonization of the American South led to diverse forms of engagement, entanglement, diplomacy, and resistance by Native American groups. Community identity persisted in some places and in some instances, and it was transformed in others. Geopolitical relationships among towns and chiefdoms were altered in diverse ways, both because of colonial exploration, trade, settlement, and missionization, and because of Native American...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Schurr. Madeleine McLeester.

This is an abstract from the "Silenced Rituals in Indigenous North American Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this session, we seek to reveal rituals that have been silenced and broaden our understandings of indigenous rituals in North American archaeology. The treatment of this topic requires a diverse set of perspectives due to its complexity as well as the ways that past rituals continue to reverberate in the present. Central to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kirby Farah.

Immediately after the consolidation of the Aztec Empire, Itzcoatl, the king of Tenochtitlan, ordered the destruction of the ancient codices from newly incorporated territories. By erasing these alternative histories, Itzcoatl paved the way for the construction of an official imperial history that bolstered the political aims of Aztec leaders. Nearly a century later, a second wave of erasures occurred when Spanish conquerors destroyed indigenous books and idols in an effort to eradicate...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madeleine Yakal. Iman Nagy.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology as a discipline emerged as an extension of colonialism, and although recent efforts over the last several decades have worked to "decolonize" the field, non-local perspectives continue to be prioritized by Western institutions. This paper seeks to address perpetual inequality within the field of archeology by highlighting normalized practices...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin McBride.

Supported by the U.S. National Park Service's Historic Preservation Fund program to identify coastal archaeological sites damaged by 2012's Hurricane Sandy in Rhode Island, archaeological surveys of Block Island were conducted in 2014 and 2015. The survey identified 163 archaeological sites of which 33 were tested and partially excavated. Previous archaeological surveys of Block Island concluded that a high frequency, density, and complexity of Woodland (2700 – 400 years before present (B.P.)...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gary Crawford. John Whitman.

This is an abstract from the "Current Issues in Japanese Archaeology (2019 Archaeological Research in Asia Symposium)" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Research in Hokkaido since the 1980s has amassed a body of data related to ancestral Ainu material culture, settlement, chronology, and subsistence. Palaeoethnobotanical data have been instrumental in conceptualizing the Satsumon and Ainu as populations with a complex history that included dry-field...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Toby Evans.

This is an abstract from the "After Dark: The Nocturnal Urban Landscape & Lightscape of Ancient Cities" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cortes escaped from Tenochtitlan on "La Noche Triste" in the summer of 1520, but many in his entourage did not – a Mexican woman awake in the night saw them heading across the causeway to the mainland and roused the city to pursue them. The intruders had been under siege by the Tenochca, whose daytime prowess as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samuel Duwe.

In the 1500s the settlement patterns of the Tewa Pueblo world fundamentally shifted. The Rio Chama valley was a population center with 12 villages housing thousands of people at the beginning of the fifteenth century. By century’s end it was nearly devoid of full-time habitation. The timing and causes of the protohistoric ‘abandonment’ of the Chama has sparked interest from archaeologists and historians. Was this movement out of the Chama the continuation of a centuries-long process of Pueblo...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Flint.

This is an abstract from the "Ann F. Ramenofsky: Papers in Honor of a Non-Normative Career" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Coronado expedition to Tierra Nueva of 1539-1542 was an enterprise of reconnaissance and conquest, traveled from home locales to one exotic target locale. But before anyone who eventually made the trip had ever heard the name Cíbola, the future expeditionaries were already certain where and what that place was. They were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Curry. Heather Atherton. Scott Baxter.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Brought to California’s Central Valley by the opportunity to mine for gold and the construction of the railroad, Chinese immigrants created a fast-growing and prosperous Chinatown in Fresno. So infamous was this neighborhood in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that journalist and researcher Schyler Rehart stated "[t]he Chinese gambling dens of West...