Ethnography/Ethnoarchaeology (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Seeber.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community Archaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the last four years Historic Mitchelville Freedom Park (HMFP), the site of the first Free Black Town in America (est. 1861), has begun a plan to develop the area into a heritage destination. HMFP aims to reconstruct some of the original buildings, develop educational programs, and have a walking and guided tour, among other things....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabriel Hrynick.

Archaeological studies of the Protohistoric period in Maine and the Maritimes have emphasized cosmology implicitly through their focus on copper kettle burials. Archaeologically, copper kettle burials may be the only truly diagnostic archaeological manifestation of the Protohistoric period in this region. The Wabanaki ethnographic record reveals that seemingly mundane activities—the organization of space, the disposal of animal remains, for instance—were also central to Wabanaki relational...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Billie Follensbee.

This is an abstract from the "The Precolumbian Dotted-Diamond-Grid Pattern: References and Techniques" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As ancient cultures throughout the world developed textiles, knotted and woven fabrics lent themselves to the development of geometric rhombus patterns, first as the diamond-shaped mesh of knotted nets and later as square patterns in twined gauze and plain-weave cloth. Further early experimentation in basketry and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maureen Mahoney. Dave Scheidecker. Paul Backhouse.

This is an abstract from the "Recognizing and Recording Post-1492 Indigenous Sites in North American Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The most recent history of the Seminole Tribe of Florida (STOF) and its settlement on Federal Trust land is little understood. Settling onto the various reservations in the 1930s, community members organized the layout and location of their camps based on sociohistorical beliefs stemming from a distrust...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Briggs Buchanan. Mark Collard.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The migration of Athapaskan (alternatively, Athabaskan or Na-Dene) groups from the Subarctic regions of northwestern Canada and Alaska to the American Southwest is one of the longest and best documented movements of Indigenous peoples in the Americas. The starkly different environment of the Southwest and the subsequent interactions with Southwest peoples...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Hitchcock.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology on the Edge(s): Transitions, Boundaries, Changes, and Causes" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper examines the oscillations between foraging and farming among the Ju/’hoansi San of Nyae Nyae, Namibia from both ethnoarchaeological and ethnographic perspectives. In addition to a certain amount of foraging, some of the important economic activities of the Ju/’hoansi San Nyae Nyae region are agriculture...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Collard. Jonathan Harding. Dennis Sandgathe.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Clothing is ubiquitous among living humans, and there is reason to believe it has been important for hominins for tens of thousands of years. Despite this, clothing has received little attention from scientific anthropologists. Consequently, there are some important questions about clothing use that have yet to be adequately addressed. One of these is,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michelle Slaughter.

This is an abstract from the "Democratizing Heritage Creation: How-To and When" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Dry, an early twentieth-century Black homesteading community, offers a long-lasting example of collaborative public archaeology. Thanks to generous grant funding, we practiced inclusive teaming with the descendant population, from project conception through every stage of our work, even beyond completion of the project. The extent and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Catherine Hernandez.

This is an abstract from the "Finding Community in the Past and Present through the 2022 PARCC Field School at Buen Suceso, Ecuador" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The lands of the Comuna Dos Mangas are replete with archaeological material, including the Buen Suceso Archaeological site. Over the Comuna’s history, generations of its residents have encountered thousands of artifacts from the Valdivia, Machalilla, Chorrera, Guangala, and Manteño...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandra Biar.

This is an abstract from the "What’s Canoe? Recent Research on Dugouts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In a cultural area where geography conspires against ease of exchange, Mesoamerican societies discovered technical answers adapted to their needs. At a time when the exchange of merchandise and goods relied mainly on human transport, some civilizations such as the Olmecs, Mayas, and Mexicas turned to accessible, high-performance waterways....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Diane Slocum. Patricia McAnany. Iván Batún-Alpuche.

This is an abstract from the "Democratizing Heritage Creation: How-To and When" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The focus of archaeological work has shifted in recent decades to collaborative frameworks that allow for sharing of knowledge production among local and descendent communities. Drawing on the work of Laurajane Smith, we argue that recognizing heritage as a dynamic social process rather than exclusively an artifact or archaeological site...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Wade Campbell.

This is an abstract from the "Multispecies Frameworks in Archaeological Interpretation: Human-Nonhuman Interactions in the Past, Part I" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Early Navajo Pastoral Landscape Project is an ongoing study that explores the potential ways that incipient Indigenous pastoralism influenced early Navajo community life circa AD 1750. The recent dung-based identification of potential livestock enclosure features at four...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Vasiliki Koutrafouri. Scott Van Keuren. Jonah Steinberg.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Roma people, whose ancestors and language come from India, form a major community in all countries of Europe and are often referred to as “Europe’s largest minority.” Greece is distinctly central in Romani history, as Greek profoundly impacted the Romani language, and it was in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries that settlements in the Peloponnese,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kurt F. Anschuetz. Richard I. Ford.

Agriculture among the northern Southwest’s Pueblo communities traditionally and historically was more than merely an economic activity through which the people "made their living." Steeped in ritual and informed by principles of stewardship, spiritual ecology, and ensoulment that explicate their orientation within the Natural World and their obligations to the Supernatural World, indigenous agricultural practice was literally and figuratively a key element in each individual’s everyday...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Henny Piezonka. Olga Poshekhonova. Vladimir Adaev. Aleksey Rud.

This is an abstract from the "Empirical Approaches to Mobile Pastoralist Households" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Taz Selkup are a Siberian indigenous group of hunters, fishers and reindeer herders in the northern taiga between Ob' and Yenisei. In the 17th and 18th centuries they have migrated north from Tomsk region, and in the new territory have preserved their nomadic ways until today. The adaptation to the new environment and its effects...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alex Ruuska.

This is an abstract from the "Technique and Interpretation in the Archaeology of Rock Art" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Polly and Curtis Schaafma have been instrumental in identifying primary archaeological tenets associated with the origin of the Pueblo Kachina Cult. In this paper I revisit key ethnohistorical and archaeological findings of the origins of the Pueblo Kachina Cult and "Snake Dance" (Tsu’tiki or Tsu’tiva). Utilizing a comparative...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kate Magargal.

Cooking food conferred an energetic advantage to our pre-human ancestors and became one of the hallmark characteristics of the human strategy set. Accessing fuel remains a common problem for many human societies. Yet anthropologists do not often take the costs of gathering fuel into account when modeling subsistence and settlement. This paper presents a model that incorporates firewood tradeoffs into human choices about what to eat and where to live, and examines a hypothetical case for the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aaron Wright. Nathalie Brusgaard.

This is an abstract from the "Sacred Southwestern Landscapes: Archaeologies of Religious Ecology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The far-western Southwest presents a landscape of wide, once-perennial rivers cutting through a xeric terrain of lava plains and mountain peaks. For the Yuman-speaking tribes tethered to the waterways, this landscape is both physical and metaphysical, in that it is simultaneously the place where people, animals, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey Jones. Tyson Hughes.

This is an abstract from the "Research, Education, and American Indian Partnerships at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Crow Canyon Archaeological Center (CCAC) has a strong and lasting tradition of enjoining participants in the study of cultural continuity, change, and environmental adaptation in the desert Southwest, and serves as an innovative model for experiential learning through public archaeology. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Luis Pacheco-Cobos. Amy E. Thompson. Carmen Cortez. Bruce Winterhalder. Keith M. Prufer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cooperation is essential to labor networks in low-density agricultural societies. Household or neighborhood heads must learn to identify, select, and monitor raw materials, and estimate harvest times and transport costs. In addition, kin related groups must nurture allegiances to attract and reciprocate for labor to build houses, farm, and for other communal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Virginia Arieta Baizabal.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Antonio Plaza, Veracruz, ubicado en una isla al margen del río Uxpanapa –en medio de las capitales olmecas de San Lorenzo, Veracruz y La Venta, Tabasco- es conocido y señalado como el lugar de origen de uno de los hallazgos más polémicos de la arqueología de la costa del Golfo. Hacemos referencia a la extraordinaria escultura conocida como "El Luchador". No...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Estanislao Pazmiño.

This is an abstract from the "Working with the Community in Ecuador" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. En las últimas décadas se ha incrementado el interés de los arqueólogos por estrechar los vínculos con las comunidades locales. La participación de la comunidad adquiere cada vez más fuerza, y su voz empieza a tener un mayor espacio crítico sobre el rol que la arqueología juega en la sociedad. A pesar de ello, cabe también resaltar que, en los...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dalyn Grindle.

This is an abstract from the "A Further Discussion on the Role of Archaeology in Resource and Public Land Management" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Modern land management in the North American West, including issues like species conservation and cultural resource preservation, is difficult to navigate. Even though both are pillars of land management, the worlds of species conservation and archaeology do not often overlap—though both fields could...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katharine Fernstrom.

Two- and three-dimensional human figures, and disembodied parts of figures, are commonly found across North America, and are considered important dimensions of Native American art. Figures appear in diverse media and sizes including stone, copper, shell, earthen effigy mounds, and petroglyphs/petrographs. In the literature, they are most frequently addressed as examples of art for the regions in which they are found, but rarely as pan-North American phenomena. A solely regional perspective...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Henny Piezonka.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology of Medieval Eurasian Steppe Urbanism" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In Mongolia, the relation between sedentary urban and mobile herder lifeways has constituted a key socioeconomic and political factor for more than a millennium. This history is most prominently present in the Orkhon valley, preserving traces of various urban centers including the Medieval capital of Karakorum. Much less is known about...