Coastal and Island Archaeology (Other Keyword)
176-200 (366 Records)
This is an abstract from the "Social and Environmental Interactions on Coasts and Islands in Korea" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ulleung Island, a volcanic island located in the middle of the East Sea, is 130 km away from the Korean peninsula. Created 1.4 million years ago, Ulleung is narrow and has limited flat land, yet humans lived intensively on this island from AD 600 to 950. During this period, monumental megalithic tombs were built...
Islands in the Stream: Fort Pulaski’s Shifting Shorelines and Rising Groundwater (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Putting Archaeology to Work: Expanding Climate and Environmental Studies with the Archaeological Record" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Excavations at Fort Pulaski’s Workers’ Village have uncovered evidence of how the fort’s builders adapted to their barrier island environment and coped with hurricanes. Past fort personnel had their own version of the National Park Service’s Resist-Accept-Direct Framework: resisting...
I‘a, Loko, and Loko I‘a Kalo: The Riches of Pu‘uloa Lagoon and How They Came to Be (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Supporting Practical Inquiry: The Past, Present, and Future Contributions of Thomas Dye" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. I‘a (fish), loko (fishponds), and loko i‘a kalo (taro fishponds) represent the traditional riches of Pu‘uloa Lagoon, now called Pearl Harbor. With a single narrow entrance, the deeply indented and multi-lobed embayment cut 8 km deep into the central southern O‘ahu coastline, creating a calm,...
Junius and Margaret Bird at Chiloé: A Review of the First Archaeological Work in the Northwestern Patagonian coast (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Junius and Margaret Bird's expedition to southern Patagonia is primarily renowned for its discovery of Late Pleistocene occupations within the Magellanic steppe. However, their voyage included two lesser-known stays at the northern margin of the Patagonian archipelagos. During those periods, Junius conducted the first archaeological work at the shell...
Junius Bouton Bird, Archaeologist and Explorer (2019)
This is an abstract from the "The Legacies of Archaeologists in the Andes: Second Symposium, the Institutionalization and Internationalization of Andean Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Junius Bird’s legacy to Andean Archaeology is reflected in several fields. Bird’s fieldwork, commonly known as "dirty archaeology" was decisive in establishing the first stratigraphic sequences in the three areas where he did work: Patagonia, Northern...
Kanči: Indigenous Seafaring, Watercraft Diversity, and Cultural Contact in Southern Patagonia (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Negotiating Watery Worlds: Impacts and Implications of the Use of Watercraft in Small-Scale Societies" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Human adaptation to (and building of) watery environments is a phenomenon of growing interest for archaeology and anthropology. It is an aspect that has been related to forms of economic production and the derivations of the evolution of forms of transportation and mobility in past...
La ocupación de los grupos canoeros y europeos criollos en tiempos coloniales y republicanos en torno a la barrera biogeográfica de península de Taitao/golfo de Penas (~46°-48°S), Patagonia occidental, Chile (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Current Perspectives on Historical and Contemporary Archaeology of the Southern Cone" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Las prospecciones arqueológicas realizadas en las áreas costeras insulares y continentales en torno a la extensa barrera biogeográfica conformada por península de Taitao y golfo de Penas (~46°-48°S) en el borde Pacífico nos revelan una importante evidencia de registros materiales de tiempos coloniales y...
Lake Superior’s Relic Shorelines: Geochronological Dating of Archaic Sites in the Northern Lake Superior Basin (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the end of the last major glaciation over 10,000 years ago, lake levels in the Lake Superior Basin have varied considerably. This variation caused the formation of relict shorelines that were left behind as water levels dropped. At around 6,600 years ago, the lake level began to rise in an event that took place over the next 700 years. This event...
Lake Titicaca Underwater Offerings and the Ritualization of Bodies of Water during the Inca Period (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As the Inca Empire expanded across the South American Andes during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries CE, Lake Titicaca became its mythical place of origin and a major pilgrimage complex was built on the Island of the Sun. Nevertheless, before the Inca conquest Lake Titicaca was an inland sea that offered enormous socio-economic opportunities for...
Land Use and Settlement Pattern Change in Mauka Kawaihae, Hawai‘i Island, 1790-1930 (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pre-1778 land use in Hawai‘i Island’s leeward Kohala uplands has been extensively documented by archaeologists, particularly those studying the ancient mauka (upland) Leeward Kohala Field System. However, “historic” (post-1778) land use – particularly in the uplands – is not as well understood. In this poster, I provide a review of the documentary and oral...
Late Holocene Spread of Pastoralism Coincides with Endemic Megafaunal Extinction on Madagascar (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recently expanded estimates for when humans arrived on Madagascar (up to ~10,000 years ago) are based on limited data yet highlight questions on the causes of the island’s relatively late megafaunal extinctions (~2000–500 years ago). Introduced domesticated animals could have contributed to extinctions through competition, but the arrival times and past diets...
Learning to Squeeze the Data: Fifteen Years of Archaeological Research within the Grand Island National Recreation Area (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Method and Theory: Papers in Honor of James M. Skibo, Part II" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From 2001 until 2015, the Hiawatha National Forest partnered with Illinois State University (ISU) to host a public archaeology program named the Grand Island Archaeological Project. The project involved an archaeological field school operated through ISU, a Youth Archaeology Workshop, and public interpretation...
Leukoma Seasonality and Maturity at WH-55, Implications for the Lacarno Beach Phase in the Pacific Northwest (2018)
In addition to other sites in the middle Salish Sea, Western Washington University field schools have conducted several years of test excavation at 45WH55, resulting in an extensive collection from several spatially distinct areas of the site. Leukoma seasonality and maturity from samples in each area are used to address questions of site integrity and season of occupation. Comparable data from other sites in the region allows preliminary assessment of larger scale movement and seasonality...
"Life is Better in Flip Flops": Erasure of Coastal Indigenous and Gullah Geechee History and Communities by the Beach Vacation Industry (2019)
This is an abstract from the "From Tomb Raider to Indiana Jones: Pitfalls and Potential Promise of Archaeology in Pop Culture" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Beaches have long attracted day-trippers and vacation goers who come to soak up the sun, splash in the ocean, and collect shells along their expanse. Nearly all coastal areas have their beach attractions and accompanying tourist industries. But the beaches along the American Southeastern...
Limuw as a Cultural Landscape: Precontact Sites on Eastern Santa Cruz Island (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Eastern Santa Cruz Island has a high density of archeological sites dating from 10,000 BP through historic contact, and at least seven associated Chumash place names. The area has freshwater seeps, abundant chert toolstone, and access to rich marine resources, including boat anchorages. At the time of historic contact, the largest Chumash village on the...
Lipid Biomarkers Analysis in Cueva Pintada de Gáldar (Gran Canaria, Spain): A Study of Possibly Charred Organic Sediments (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Charred Organic Matter in the Archaeological Sedimentary Record" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cueva Pintada de Gáldar is a pre-european archaeological complex in Gran Canaria that was discovered in 1873 and nowadays is an Archaeological Park and Museum. It comprises a hillslope with numerous dwellings, some of them partially carved into the hill, and "Cueva Pintada", a ritual cave at the core of the settlement. The...
Living and Dying on the Fringes of the Sea. The Bioarchaeology and Archaeothanatology of the People of Vista Alegre, Quintana Roo, Mexico (2018)
In this paper, we provide a sinopsis of the two dozen burial findings from the archaeological site of Vista Alegre, Quintana Roo, recovered during a decade (2008 to 2017). Most of the mortuary contexts from Vista Alegre were documented using detailed in situ recording (archaeothanatology), followed by macroscopic and isotopic research in a collaborative effort between the Georgia State University and the Bioarchaeology Lab of the University of Yucatan. Put in context with other burial series...
Living on the Edge: Dogs and People in Early New Zealand (2018)
New Zealand is situated on the southern margins of the Polynesian triangle in the Pacific Ocean. Its temperate climate and environment differs greatly from the tropical central East Polynesian islands, from where its first human colonists originated. Although possessing plentiful bird life, sea mammals and other marine taxa, people faced challenges adapting their tropical horticultural practices to this new land. This paper explores the changing fortunes of people and dogs during the settlement...
Local Trajectories, Regional Patterns, and Human Ecodynamics in Northern Māori Fisheries (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological fishbone assemblages are the product of dynamic interactions between human fishers and fish stocks, both of which are enmeshed in broader, dynamic socioenvironmental contexts which are continually transformed and sustained by people and non-human entities. Understanding the history of fisheries therefore depends on careful consideration of...
The Longwood Vulnerability, Potential, & Condition (VPC) Assessment Method: A Case Study from a Hurricane Sandy Project in Virginia (2018)
Where cultural resources are increasingly threatened by the effects of a changing climate, the old model of preservation in place is no longer sustainable. For resource managers charged with the preservation of our cultural heritage, effective stewardship demands that managers are in a position to make data-driven decisions to prioritize the deployment of scarce financial resources to the most vulnerable cultural resources. Nowhere in Virginia are the effects of climate change more apparent than...
Los que viven donde sopla el verdadero viento: Bahía Tepoca, Sonora, Archaeology of the Coast in the Gulf of California (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Transcending Boundaries and Exploring Pasts: Current Archaeological Investigations of the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeology of the middle coast of the Gulf of California offers an opportunity to document and investigate processes of human mobility that highlight a deep relationship between humans, sea and desert. The area defined as Bahía Tepoca confirms a cultural significance...
Lucayan Paleoethnobotany: Dynamism and Stability in the Bahama Archipelago (2018)
Since the first overviews of Lucayan paleoethnobotany were published, the means and sites of archaeological recovery have expanded and the body of finds has increased. In this presentation, we summarize these findings, evaluate the current body of knowledge, discuss the contexts in which they were recovered, analyze their recovery methods, and examine their economic and social uses. We discuss the evidence for "transported landscapes," cultivation management systems, wild plant collection...
The Lucayans and Their Rodents: Pre-Columbian Hutia Management in the Bahama Archipelago (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Lucayan Taino of the Bahama archipelago actively bred and managed the hutia rodent (genus Geocapromys) for centuries before the arrival of Europeans. Seven field seasons of excavations at the pre-Columbian Lucayan site of Palmetto Junction on Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands have produced exponentially more hutia skeletal material than has been...
Manihiki & Rakahanga: Archaeological Research on a Dual-Atoll Cluster in East Polynesia (2018)
Archaeological fieldwork was completed on the atolls of Manihiki and Rakahanga, in the northern Cook Islands, from May to July of 2015 and from July to November of 2017. This includes survey and mapping on six islets, the documentation of extant and past fish traps and fishponds, lagoon to ocean shovel test sampling, and the excavation of habitation and resource production sites. This work identified village centers on each atoll and preliminary analyses indicate that the coral-cluster landscape...
Manufacture Marks on Shell Fishhooks: Technological Knowledge and Tradition of Coastal and Maritime Societies along the Pacific Coast of Chile (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fishhooks on Choromytilus chorus shells (mussel) can be found along the northern coast Chile (18° to 30° Lat. S) and were manufactured between 7500 and 4000 yrs cal BP. Manufacture marks on these artefacts are prominent features to observed, describe, and compare. In this way, the study of shell fishhooks’ manufacture techniques allows us not only to...