Ethnography/Ethnoarchaeology (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fabiola Silva. Lorena Garcia.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology in the Xingu River Basin: Long-Term Histories, Current Threats, and Future Perspectives" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation deals with the archaeological research carried out in the indigenous land Koatinemo, together with the Asurini do Xingu Indigenous people. From this experience, a reflection on the temporality of the landscapes and on the *longue durée Indigenous stories of the mid-low...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kofi Nutor.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper explores the complex history of Atlantic slavery and European colonization in Peki, a frontier Ewe community in present-day southeastern Ghana. This community played a pivotal role that led the pan-Ewe confederacy– the Krepi– out of Akwamu and Asante domination in the mid-nineteenth century. To consolidate their power, the Peki made two major...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carly Hunter.

This poster will highlight the benefits and drawbacks associated with the establishment of the National Park Service in western North Carolina. Specifically focusing on the Cataloochee Valley of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the implementation of government regulations both culturally and geographically affected the region in ways that did not always align. Some of these programs actually disenfranchised the local population, but simultaneously supplied the federal protection that has...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Binkley.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Through collaboration with modern populations practicing traditional hunting and foraging approaches in Norwegian coastal landscapes of archaeological significance, I present an ethnoarchaeological analogy for Arctic and subarctic Late Mesolithic coastal exploitation. As part of this analogy, I introduce the Accessibility Zones Model, which delineates the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anne Jensen.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology and Landscape Learning for a Climate-Changing World" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper examines landscape learning through the lens of a particular landform near Kilusiktok Lake. The landform has been used by humans for at least 2,000 years, as evidenced by radiocarbon dates on a burnt bone layer, right up to the present, based on coffee cans, meat packages from the local store with expiration...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jay Haviser.

Incipient aspects of syncretic processes among Africans and Europeans had begun on the African continent from the fifteenth century, with a particular reference noted for religious practices. Considering the relatively isolated participation of the two groups within the early interactive sphere of West Africa, as well as the in-situ contexts of the African cultures, some syncretical expressions were evident, yet due to the disproportional ratio of populations, were more subtle on the continent....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jonathan Extract.

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. Ethnoarchaeology is a critical methodology for analyzing prehispanic and early colonial codices. Drawing on the foundational work of John Pohl and Bruce Byland’s In the Realm of 8 Deer, I discuss how ethnography can help decipher, contextualize, and bring to life Indigenous pictographic documents. My...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bram Tucker.

This is an abstract from the "Three Sides of a Career: Papers in Honor of Robert L. Kelly" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One way to view the twentieth-century history of hunter-gatherer studies is as a long attempt to evaluate Victorian notions of foragers as primitive relics with actual data from real foraging peoples. This history came to a fiery climax during the Kalahari history debate of the 1990s, when researchers argued whether...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scotti Norman.

This is an abstract from the "AI-Proof Learning: Food-Centered Experimental Archaeology in the Classroom" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Warren Wilson College is a small school in Asheville, North Carolina that integrates work, study, and community service through the lens of experiential learning. In this talk, I will discuss some of the pedagogical choices in my Archaeology of Food and Feasting course that promoted student engagement apart from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Seeber.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kate Magargal.

This is an abstract from the "Life Is Risky: Human Behavioral Ecological Approaches to Variable Outcomes " session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There are numerous dynamics of risk associated with acquiring any resource. The risk of investing time unsuccessfully, of incurring too great an opportunity cost, and of dangers to life or limb when venturing forth all come into play. How do these different types of risk trade off and how does a human in need of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jonathan Goldner.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeoacoustics: Sound, Hearing, and Experience in Archaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper in cognitive archaeology studies how skilled agents use eco-acoustical features of the environment as mnemonic device. Beginning with the question, What do trees know about canoes?, I excavate how ways of knowing can be deeply sedimented in nature by drawing on the ethnography of Algonquin rock art and fieldwork...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brenda Bowser.

Santos-Graneros writes about persistent places in Amazonia, places that have been used by generation after generation of people, because of their special qualities—waterfalls, mountains, caves. The current interest in the ontology of objects, inspired by the work of Ingold, Latour, Gell, and others has opened the door for archaeologists to consider how we can investigate the meanings of places and objects in these ways, as living things. Like objects, places are alive. The headwaters of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mathieu Picas. Margarita Díaz-Andreu.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cultural heritage is a social construction that allows groups of different character to appropriate culturally or politically ancient sites by attaching symbolism to them. In Mexico, the use by the state of archaeological remains for the construction of a homogeneous national identity has been marked by the management of many sites since the late 1930s. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Junko Habu.

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. This paper argues that the examination of rich archaeological data from the Jomon period of prehistoric Japan can contribute to the recent discussion of the resilience of food and socioeconomic systems. Theories of resilience which consider the importance of adaptive cycles and panarchical...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melissa Darby.

This is an abstract from the "Pacific Maritime History: Ships and Shipwrecks" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1579 Francis Drake and his crew likely careened the Golden Hind in a “fair and good bay” somewhere on the Northwest Coast, rather than the often-cited California shore. This paper will explore and discuss some of the ethnographic evidence, the strong manuscript evidence, and a few artifacts found in the region that may have been from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marijke Stoll.

This is an abstract from the "Checking the Pulse: Current Research in Oaxaca Part II" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. People living in the Sierra Madre del Sur mountains still travel largely on foot, especially where cars are impossible or when they are moving their livestock from one place to another. Prior to the widespread ownership of cars today, travel by foot was even more common and was the only mode of transportation in the prehispanic era....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Itzel Chagoya Ayala.

This is an abstract from the "Checking the Pulse: Current Research in Oaxaca Part I" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Al temazcal o baño de vapor de tradición prehispánica se le ha asignado connotaciones religiosas y medicinales, en algunos sitios mesoamericanos ha sido localizado en centros ceremoniales asociados a juegos de pelota, basados en construcciones significativas y representaciones pictográficas que dan muestra de su forma y uso. Pero...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Polly Schaafsma. William Tsosie.

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. In indigenous America fundamental consideration in addressing "the materiality of religion" is the land itself. In native thinking the land and the people comprise inseparable entities that interact and give definitions to each other. The Navajo, in their migrations into the Southwest, adapted to cultural landscapes...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mairead Doery.

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. Over the past few decades, memory has become a topic of prominence in archaeological research. While iconography has long been seen as revealing social practices of the past, rock art has typically been neglected in memory-related literature, a gap in scholarship that is particularly notable in the American...

DOCUMENT Citation Only April Beisaw.

Hauntings rely on an ability to envision someone from the past retaining agency in the present, a ghost. Often barely perceptible, the ghost’s actions tend to be routine (walking, sitting, etc.) but their message is profound (I was like you, until something happened). Archaeology relies on an ability to envision the past, present, and future as intruding into each other at a defined place, a site. Often missed by those without proper training, archaeologists recover mundane objects (plates,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Philip De Barros.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Science and African Archaeology: Appreciating the Impact of David Killick" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2013 and 2017 three major smithing sites in the Bitchabe zone of the Bassar region of northern Togo were mapped with GPS: former Bitchabe, Upper Bidjomambe, and Old Bitchobebe, covering 20.3, 14.5, and 5.4 ha, respectively. The sites were variously occupied from the late seventeenth to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melanie Cootsona.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster explores resilience and survivance of important animal-human economic, spiritual, and cultural traditions through the geospatial lens by mapping and describing ethnographic and archaeological interactions with Bison bison and Picuris Pueblo in the long term. In the Puebloan world, bison-human interactions are constrained by geographic and later...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anastasia Walhovd.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Pageant Tavern and Hotel operated during the 1920s and 1930s on the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Reservation in Northern Wisconsin. The Pageant Tavern was owned by non-Native and non-local businessmen, but the hotel staff and caretakers were Indigenous (Ojibwe) residents of Red Cliff. A recorded interview indicates the staff lived at or...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Claire Smith. Jordan Ralph. Jasmine Willika. Guy Rankin. Gary Jackson.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology as a Public Good: Why Studying Archaeology Creates Good Careers and Good Citizens" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation outlines the public good that is being produced by a project being undertaken at the request of the Elders from the remote Aboriginal community of Barunga, Northern Territory. It may be hard to believe, but in 2018 the vast majority of graves of Aboriginal people in remote...