Ethnohistory/History (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Prince. Jesse Heintz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Excavations in a 19th century housepit revealed a simple stratigraphy allowing distinctions to be made between the artifact assemblages of the roof-fill and those of the house interior. It was found that lithic debitage was most common in interior living spaces, and seemingly still usable trade goods occur in the roof zone. These results are contrary to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Menno Hoogland. Angus Martin. Corinne L. Hofman.

The Lesser Antilles are known as an arena of to- and froing of peoples from different areas of the insular Caribbean and coastal mainland areas of south America during its entire pre-colonial history. Migration, and intensive networks of human mobility and exchange of goods and ideas have created diverse ethnic/cultural communities across these small islands. These, coupled with constantly shifting alliances among the various peoples have resulted in what can only be described as Creole...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin O'Briant.

This is an abstract from the "The Art and Archaeology of the West: Papers in Honor of Lawrence L. Loendorf" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. When confronted with apparently non-representational forms at prehistoric rock art sites, North American researchers tend to categorize such imagery as abstract symbols, shamanic art, or entoptic phenomena. Drawing on research in the field of historical geography and utilizing a direct-historical,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ellen Hsieh.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Evangelization of China and Japan was one of the missions of Spanish colonial projects in Asia, and churches, as critical monuments in colonial landscapes, could be an access to investigate European colonial activities. However, unlike the rich studies of missionary archaeology in the Americas, although some church sites have been excavated or documented...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Davina Two Bears.

This is an abstract from the "Nat’aah Nahane’ Bina’ji O’hoo’ah: Diné Archaeologists & Navajo Archaeology in the 21st Century" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. My research documents the history of the Old Leupp Boarding School (OLBS), a Navajo federal Indian boarding school in operation from 1909-1942, as it explores Diné (Navajo) survivance within the context of this school. Aside from documenting the history of this school, which has never been...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Lewis.

This is an abstract from the "Future Directions for Archaeology and Heritage Research in the Willamette Valley, Oregon" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tribal scholars have worked to restore and revive tribal cultural knowledge, language, and history of the Kalapuyan peoples. Much has been restored and the tribe is working to instill tribal culture in the next generations. But the tribe’s influence has not reached the traditional lands of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tyler Michael.

Revitalization movements have been a topic of particular interest to anthropologists concerned with culture contact and colonialism. As a cultural practice that is present in many historical periods, it stands to reason that revitalization was undertaken in the deep past as well. Archaeology has proven useful in exploring the aftermath of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 from a Native American perspective in the American Southwest, and recently, scholars have begun to look for potential revitalization...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rex Buck.

The tribes and bands of the Columbia Plateau have an inherent responsibility under our religious beliefs and practices to care for the ancestors buried within our homeland. The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, the Nez Perce Tribe, and the Wanapum Band of Priest Rapids (Claimant Tribes) have stood by our knowledge and traditions which told us the Ancient One is our...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Gavette.

Seven years ago the National Park Service rehabilitated several of the oldest remaining buildings at Point San Jose (now Fort Mason) in San Francisco. On October 25, 2010, while monitoring lead remediation efforts around the former Army hospital (1863-1903), archaeologists discovered a pit containing hospital waste which included the commingled human remains of multiple individuals. Diagnostic bottles recovered from the feature support a deposit date of between 1860 and 1890. Historic research...

DOCUMENT Citation Only R. Alan Covey.

It is commonplace to note that the Inca Empire was the most powerful indigenous state in the Americas before the time of European invasions. Retrospective sixteenth-century Inca accounts played up the scale and intensity of imperial social power, but the ethnohistory and archaeology of the Cuzco region of highland Peru--the Inca capital region--indicate more nuanced networks of power across the imperial heartland. Using Michael Mann's typology for social power as a guide, this poster develops...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian Brown.

Stephen Williams had strong interests in the history of archaeology, prehistoric Indian mounds, and historical archaeology. This paper combines aspects of each of these interests. Cemeteries associated with Indian mounds commonly occur in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. Numerous reasons have been put forth over the years as to why early Anglo-American settlers decided to bury their dead on mounds, ranging from flooding issues, to avoidance of valuable farmland, to a preference for burying on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Campbell.

The recent emergence of ontological applications in archaeological theory has developed the idea to "reject representationalism", where present archaeological taxonomic labeling comes into question. By adopting the "local" perspective of an indigenous group through the guise of "Amerindian perspectivism," archaeologists can integrate a holistic view of the Mi’kmaw pluriverse. Through perspectivist approaches of the ontological lens, the author will explore sensory worlds, and how sensory should...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scotti Norman.

In the 16th century Andes (1532-1570s), conquest was not a rapid event, but rather an asymmetrical process in which Spanish authorities negotiated governance and conversion with indigenous and Inka established orders. New Spanish dictates were initially met with a variety of responses from local groups: alliance, manipulation of Spanish policies, and even violent rebellion by Inka holdouts. In the central highlands of Peru, local groups developed and participated in a revitalization movement...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zoë Crossland.

This is an abstract from the "Crafting Culture: Thingselves, Contexts, Meanings" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 19th century oral histories from the highlands of Madagascar traced a history of sovereignty and governance through a narrative of major landscape transformation. The construction of dikes, canals and rice fields around the capital city was figured as part of the work of building the kingdom. This was an expansive and expanding craftwork...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Acabado. Marlon Martin.

The shift to wet-rice cultivation and construction of rice terraces in Ifugao, Philippines has recently been associated with Spanish colonization. Previously thought to be at least 2,000 years old, investigations in the region have now established that wet-rice cultivation was a response of highland populations to the Spanish conquest at ca. 1650 CE. The shift to an intensive cultivation drastically changed Ifugao social organization that allowed them to successfully resist multiple attempts of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eugenia Ibarra.

This is an abstract from the "Coastal Connections: Pacific Coastal Links from Mexico to Ecuador" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper will explore the relationship between "rich" men and trade and exchange, particularly in polyglottal Costa Rica and Panama in the sixteenth century. It will focus on these caciques's social organizations, their representatives, their political responsibilities, their power exertions, and their rivalries and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Whitley.

This is an abstract from the "The Art and Archaeology of the West: Papers in Honor of Lawrence L. Loendorf" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Larry Loendorf has always emphasized that rock art research is nothing if it is not also archaeology. Much of his research has accordingly considered the importance of the (dirt) archaeological context of rock art sites, and what this can tell us about the art. In the spirit of this concern, the archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gavin Davies.

Combining archaeological, ethnohistoric and ethnographic data with an analysis of least cost routes, the current paper examines the network connections and craft industries that fueled Lake Atitlan’s prehispanic economy and connected it to the wider Mesoamerican World. The documentary evidence, which I synthesize here, indicates that the lake’s principle exports were perishable goods such as textiles, mats, rope products and foodstuffs. While insufficient to produce significant wealth, I argue...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sam Challis. Brent Sinclair-Thomson.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Approaches to Slavery and Unfree Labour in Africa" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The protracted colonisation of southern Africa's Cape created conditions of extreme prejudice and violence. Like the Caribbean equivalent, however, the Cape conditions presented opportunities for the colonised to escape. Slaves, the unwilling migrants to the Cape comprised of all sorts from the Dutch and British colonies:...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alice Kehoe.

This is an abstract from the "Paleo Lithics to Legacy Management: Ruthann Knudson—Inawa’sioskitsipaki" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Blackfoot, in whose territories Ruthann Knudson worked, recognize some women as inawa’sioskitsipaki, a “leader-hearted woman.” Such a woman is strong, intelligent, highly moral, outstandingly capable in the tasks she carries out, kind, and generous. She is deeply respected and listened to. Oscar Lewis, in a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeanne Gillespie.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Puebla/Tlaxcala Archaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the “Historia de Tlaxcala,” mestizo chronicler Diego Muñoz de Camargo commemorates the first significant military endeavor between Tlaxcalan forces and the European soldiers under the command of Hernán Cortés. This study analyzes how Muñoz Camargo constructed the narrative of the siege and battle, and how he framed the Tlaxcalan victory as a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Francisco Montoya Mar. Maby Medrano Enríquez.

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. Festivals and religious beliefs in contemporary Mexico are the product of a cultural synthesis between the Mesoamerican religion and Christianity. In this presentation we expose the survival of a battle scene between Spaniards and indigenous tribes represented in a patronal feast known as Los Tastoanes, in which one of the main...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna Prentiss. Alysha Edwards.

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. Public sharing of food and gifts remains important to St’át’imc communities of interior British Columbia today despite decades of prohibition by Canadian authorities. The archaeological record offers evidence that public events involving large scale food preparation and sharing were commonly practiced at least since ca. 1300...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Don Hann.

This is an abstract from the "From the Plains to the Plateau: Papers in Honor of James D. Keyser" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. American Indian peoples of the Columbia Plateau have engaged with numerous scholars and others since the mid-nineteenth century to document many aspects of their traditional lifeways. The resulting documentary record has provided a gold mine for researchers studying the rock art of the region. Jim Keyser has been a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matt Liebmann.

The enigmatic first contacts between the Zuni people and Esteban Dorantes, an enslaved Moor, has provided fodder for historical and anthropological speculation for more than 475 years. Conjecture regarding what really happened between Esteban and the Zuni began within a few days of this initial encounter in 1539, and continues down to the present day. Despite centuries of debate, supposition, and guesswork based on scanty historical records, archaeological evidence has yet to be brought to bear...