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DOCUMENT Citation Only Gwendolyn Jones.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Massachusetts has long been at the center of historic archaeology in the United States, but there is a clear focus on the land and lives of upper class families. Through my research at MacLeish Field Station, an over 200-acre plot of land in Whately, Massachusetts owned by Smith College, I seek to provide a look at the daily lives history has ignored. During...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ben Ford. William Chadwick.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Newport village was founded in circa 1787 to facilitate movement of people and goods from Pennsylvania’s early road system to riverine highways. The town was largely abandoned by 1840, but contained several taverns, blacksmith shops, and infrastructure for loading boats on, and crossing over, the adjacent Conemaugh River. At its height approximately 30...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Wilcox. Christopher Wolff.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. People’s fears can have an impact on decision making, how people interact with their surroundings, and how they design structures. This is something important to consider when analyzing the archaeological record. The current study contributes to understanding how people’s fears impact construction and maintenance of architecture by examining Cold War...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lynda Romero.

This is an abstract from the "From Collaboration to Partnership in Pojoaque, New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As someone who was born and raised in my own Pueblo, it amazed me how much I don’t know of the history of the Pueblo of Pojoaque. I’ve heard bits and pieces, different versions of stories from different people, and I’ve read about our history but none made an impact until I was part of a discussion at the University of Colorado,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eiryn Sheades.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The legacy of memory, and who is entitled to it, is an important conversation within post-Contact archaeology. This research examines the local narrative of segregation within Amityville Cemetery, located in the demographically separated Amityville, New York. While white individuals predominately live in the Village of Amityville, the hamlet of North...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Leight. Brent Woodfill. Alexander Rivas.

Investigations at Cancuen, Sebol, Salinas de los Nueve Cerros, and other sites at the base of the Guatemalan highlands since the late 1990s have shown the importance of the region for importing and refining a variety of highland goods for the lowland market. While most of the emphasis has been placed on the goods for which there is direct evidence of production and exchange—obsidian, jade, iron pyrite, and other lithic commodities present in abundance at these and other sites—Demarest, Dillon,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Polly Schaafsma.

The Tablita Dance, commonly known as the Corn Dance, is a well-known event among the Rio Grande Pueblos where, in connection with saint’s days, it is performed during the growing season. The corn dance may occur at other times as well, but without a linkage to the village patron saint. A number of diverse factors, however, indicate that this dance as known today is a post-Hispanic aspect of Pueblo ceremonialism. In addition to the dance’s obvious link to the Catholic patron saint of each...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Crowell.

The current paper will address the history of public archaeology and outreach in the Middle Atlantic region. It will focus on programs that engage the interested public to participate in archaeology. It will also look at the contributions of local and state jurisdictions and organizations to establish avocational archaeology certification programs.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maria Stapleton. Charles Stapleton.

In the years immediately following the conquest of the Aztec empire by the Spanish crown, there was a period of transition in which acculturation, adaptation, and/or adoption of new configurations of political powers, religion, and social structures ushered in the Colonial period in Mexico. One of the results of the encounter between indigenous and Spanish cultures is the syncretism that developed in the art and religious architecture of this region. Studies of syncretic art in colonial Mexico...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Niklas Schulze. Luis Barba.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In pre-Hispanic Mexico the use and the importance of fire are demonstrated by materials and objects that, without the use of high temperature processes, or pyrotechnology in general terms, would not exist. As examples it will be sufficient to mention ceramics, metals and lime production. The processes that do not qualify as industrial and that employ lower...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elena Mazzetto.

This is an abstract from the "Animal Symbolism in Postclassic Mesoamerica: Papers in Honor of Cecelia Klein" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In documentary sources recording Nahuatl culture of the Late Postclassic period, a bird called zollin, identified as a quail (Cyrtonyx montezumae) is especially prominent. Indeed, these small birds were often chosen to be sacrificed before the divine effigies and, in some cases, to be consumed during ritual...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brenda Arjona. Chelsea Blackmore.

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. Archaeological narratives of colonial contact have dramatically shifted from a focus on colonizer/colonized dichotomies to discussions about plurality, ethnogenesis, and hybridity. However, much of the work in Mesoamerica continues to define the practice of colonization through a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Donald Blakeslee.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Although it was visited by three Spanish expeditions, knowledge of Quivira quickly became enshrouded in myth. Nevertheless, early documentary evidence suggests that the land of the ancestral Wichita was extensive, heavily populated, and an important source of bison products for both the Greater Southwest and the Southeast. At the western end, a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Phillips.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology Out-of-the-Box: Investigating the Edge of the Discipline" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For the past 100 years, an alternative written record has been tied to the underbelly of Los Angeles’ built environment. The urban infrastructure of railroads, bridges, storm drain tunnels, harbors, and paved rivers houses a vernacular history inscribed mostly on concrete with rocks, chalk, charcoal, pencil, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jane Smith.

This is an abstract from the "Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me: What Have We Learned Over the Past 40 Years and How Do We Address Future Challenges" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Forest Service in Alaska has long relied on marine vessels to access the wild and remote country of the Chugach and Tongass National Forests. The MV Chugach, a ranger boat listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was integral to successful forest administration...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathleen Bragdon.

For more than fifty years, scholars have been debating the role of the shell "currency" known as wampum (wampampeag), which began to circulate among the Native societies of New England in the seventeenth century, stimulated by the Dutch and English fur trade in the region. Following an assessment of current scholarship on the Dutch in New England in the early contact era, this paper further explores the role that wampum played within Native societies as a symbol of wealth, as well as its...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cynthia Radding.

This paper discusses the historical construction of landscapes in the borderlands of northwestern Mexico, with a particular focus on the colonial Province of Ostimuri, bounded by the Yaqui, Mayo, and Fuerte rivers. In honor of Carroll Riley, the paper presents original research in historical archives, analyzed in the context of archaeological, ecological, and ethnographic literatures, to explain the formation of this space as a region and to explore both the vulnerabilities and the resilience of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Post.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeologies of Contact, Colony, and Resistance" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For one hundred years archaeologists and historians have speculated about the location, size, and layout of the Pueblo Revolt village built on top of the Palace of the Governors following the expulsion of Spanish colonists and priests from New Mexico in August 1680. Few researchers have integrated archaeological data into their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Collard. Jayc Sedlmayr.

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. When considering the claim that it has long been common for people to attribute spiritual power to certain body parts and bodily substances of humans and nonhuman animals and incorporate them into their religious beliefs and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Holly Norton. Heather Shotten.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Between 1880 and 1920, Colorado hosted nine institutions that focused on the assimilation of Native youth, including day schools, on-reservation boarding schools, and off-reservation boarding schools. One institution in particular, Fort Lewis Indian Boarding School, became a state college with the intent to serve the Native population. Today Fort...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Antje Gunsenheimer.

This is an abstract from the "Misinformation and Misrepresentation Part 2: Reconsidering “Human Sacrifice,” Religion, Slavery, Modernity, and Other European-Derived Concepts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The contribution deals with the question of how crimes were punished in the Aztec penal system. We know that Aztec society—as many other premodern societies—did not have prisons for long-term punishment of crimes, nor for any forms of preventive...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Markens.

This is an abstract from the "Bringing the Past to Life, Part 1: Papers in Honor of John M. D. Pohl" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Monte Albán’s Tomb 7 is the most famous prehispanic find in Oaxaca owing to its exquisite mortuary offering. Since 1932 when Dr. Alfonso Caso and his colleagues discovered the treasure, archaeologists have routinely ascribed the deposit to Mixtec migrants since the tomb’s objects were rendered in the Mixteca-Puebla...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mariana Favila Vázquez.

This is an abstract from the "Underwater and Coastal Archaeology in Latin America" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. En esta ponencia se presentará la metodología refinada del análisis geográfico de textos que permite relacionar nociones espaciales concretas con expresiones lingüísticas con distintos niveles de precisión. En particular, me concentraré en el problema de las rutas acuáticas que aparecen dispersas en numerosas fuentes escritas del...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Samantha Nadel.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The interdisciplinary study of cochineal production in Mesoamerica has overwhelmingly focused on the written record. These documents, written by Spanish colonizers, European scientists, and modern-day ethnographers, yield insightful information into the material culture of cochineal production, from the cactus farm to the dye vat. Yet thus far, this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lee Ann Monaghan. John Pohl. Manuel Hermann. John Monaghan.

This is an abstract from the "Bringing the Past to Life, Part 2: Papers in Honor of John M. D. Pohl" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Precolumbian manuscripts provide a view of indigenous life that is largely unmediated by Spanish colonialism. The Colombino-Becker is one of the masterpieces of the Mixtec Codices, but poor preservation, missing pages, and an effort to make the manuscript more palatable in a Christian context by erasing not only...