Ethnography/Ethnoarchaeology (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amy Brown.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Along the base of Muliwai Pali in Waipio Valley, Hawaii the King’s Trail gently travels through a traditional cultural landscape rich in moʻolelo (story) and genealogy. During the summer of 2020 descendants of Waipio, Muliwai and Waimanu participated in the documentation and mapping of select portions within a 1.5 mile corridor of this kuamoʻo (trail) from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cameron Turley. Aká Bendtsen.

This is an abstract from the "Celebrating Anna Kerttula's Contributions to Northern Research" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists are increasingly engaging in community-based and collaborative approaches to develop frameworks for co-production of knowledge and its dissemination. Encouraging collaborative frameworks and community engagement has been a key element of the NSF Arctic Social Sciences Program under Anna Kerttula's leadership....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hetty Jo Brumbach. Robert Jarvenpa.

The sexual division of labor in many societies situates women and men in livelihood activities which differ markedly in their locations, facilities, and relationship to other features in both the built and non-built environment. The repeated juxtaposition of these behaviors and elements over time result in rather distinctive female and male viewsheds or vistas and, ultimately, gendered perceptions and interpretations of the landscape. Consider the perceptual field of a woman scraping hides on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leah Koch-Michael.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Background: Pacific Northwest ethnographic information about canoe usage and building techniques can be compared to the many Danish mesolithic logboats currently in the archaeological record. Both maritime cultures created watercraft from single tree trunks. There are no surviving precontact Pacific Northwest canoes, and many Danish mesolithic logboats....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elena Sesma.

This is an abstract from the "Reinvent, Reclaim, Redefine: Considerations of "Reuse" in Archaeological Contexts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Farmers and gardeners in the Bahamas have long practiced swidden agriculture to replenish the thin soil layers sitting atop limestone bedrock. These methods recycle the organic materials of the landscape to produce something new and generative. In similar fashion, the historical materials that dot the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rubén Mendoza.

This is an abstract from the "Chicanx Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. With a pedigree firmly rooted in the evolution of the American automobile, lowriders trace their origins to the low-slung custom cruisers and social clubs of the 1930s and 40s. In effect, Mexican immigrants of that time were drawn to mutual aid societies in their quest for identity, kinship, camaraderie, and support. This thereby fueled the rise of lowriders and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erin Smith. Colin Grier.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Salish Sea is a region speckled with coastal shell mounds. Often these places are the remnants of winter villages occupied over generations. Mounds were built with intention and foresight to leach nutrients into the surrounding ecosystem, sustaining the environment for generations. Millennia ago, Indigenous peoples understood through transgenerational...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sharyn Jones.

This is an abstract from the "Thinking about Eating: Theorizing Foodways in Archaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Taking inspiration from post-humanist theory, I frame my work about human life both past and present in a way that attempts to avoid traditional concretized definitions of humanity and culture that envision these subjects as separate from nature or the environment. Post-humanists view humanity as only part of a much bigger and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elspeth Geiger.

There has been a growing recognition within studies from across the US that the dynamics of contact-period interactions are not a homogenous process. Instead, the diversity inherent in these interactions points to the need for further research on local manifestations of these European and Native contact situations. In this paper, I analyze material recovered from the Summer Island Site off the coast of Garden Peninsula in MI. The Anishinaabeg communities within Northern Michigan were connected...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Magnani.

This presentation critically evaluates both the historic and present trajectories of the field of ethnoarchaeology and its outgrowths as practiced in indigenous communities today. This paper draws on long-term fieldwork conducted amongst two distinct communities who inhabit Arctic Europe and east Africa. I reflect upon the development and current state of ethnoarchaeology— often used as a tool to interpret archaeological remains of the deep past— and suggest new potential functions and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ronald Nigh.

This is an abstract from the "Landscapes: Archaeological, Historic, and Ethnographic Perspectives from the New World / Paisajes: Perspectivas arqueológicas, históricas y etnográficas desde el Nuevo Mundo" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper I explore the complex regional agroecological history of interaction of global and local social and biophysical forces that shape the landscape of an important tropical forest region of Mexico. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Coburn.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Korean Peninsula and Japanese Archipelago have been intimately connected in many ways since the beginning of the peopling of both regions. However, the Mumun (Bronze age) period of the Korean Peninsula witnessed the most impactful interactions between the two groups. During this period the Jomon people of Japan and Samhan people of Korea started...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gloria Lara-Pinto.

This is an abstract from the "The Problem of the Monument: Widening Perspectives on Monumentality in the Archaeology of the Isthmo-Colombian Area" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A couple of years ago some good meaning citizens offered to donate complete ceramic pieces along with other objects they had “collected” from their properties to the regional campus of my university in southern Honduras. These same local citizens declared themselves a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Bews.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the post-Brexit era, the impact of EU policies and funding on archaeological and cultural heritage projects has come under renewed scrutiny by those in both the public and private sectors. Academic and commercial institutions alike are now questioning the influence that membership in the EU, and its corresponding funding, has on the ways in which...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lois Martin.

This is an abstract from the "The Ties That Bind: Cordage, Its Sources, and the Artifacts of Its Creation and Use" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent excavations at the Moon Pyramid in Teotihuacan, Mexico, have uncovered fierce predators—including eagles, pumas, wolves, and rattlesnakes—buried inside. Analysis indicates that many were alive at the time of sacrifice: some in cages, and others bound. Some show evidence of long captivity,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Debora Zurro. Ximena Power. Luca Sitzia. Virginia Ahedo.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeophycology: New (Ethno)Archaeological Approaches to Understand the Contribution of Seaweed to the Subsistence and Social Life of Coastal Populations" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Though seaweed consumption has only been exceptionally documented in most archaeological contexts, ethnographic data accounts for the extensive and intensive use of seaweeds and seagrasses. This study uses ethnographic data to propose...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brittany Hundman. Jay Franklin.

Situated at the confluence of the industrial North and the agricultural South, the rural Appalachian Mountains of east Tennessee had unique access to a variety of material and agricultural goods. These resources were key to the practice of homesteading; a type of small-scale subsistence living that was a mechanism not only for survival but of familial and communal pride that continues to this day. Boone Lake, formed from the damming of the Holston and Watauga Rivers, has covered many early...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shiloh Craig.

This is an abstract from the "Local Development and Cross-Cultural Interaction in Pre-Hispanic Southwestern New Mexico and Southeastern Arizona" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Obsidian is a common flaked stone raw material in archaeological sites in the Upper Gila area of southwest New Mexico. Recent excavations at the Cliff phase Salado (AD 1300-1450+) site of Gila River Farm recovered numerous examples of flaked stone tools, projectile points,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julieta Flores-Muñoz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Within the Mesoamerican worldview, maize is synonymous with the body and represents the primary food of the human being, accompanied by a complex planting system known as milpa. Said system, we believe, celebrates the interrelation between the diversity of species, serving, in this way, as a metaphor to understand our social construction. In this metaphor,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James VanderVeen.

This is an abstract from the "Interactions with Pseudoarchaeology: Approaches to the Use of Social Media and the Internet for Correcting Misconceptions of Archaeology in Virtual Spaces" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The various undead or reanimated humans in world folklore (e.g., zombies, vampires) are examples of using supernatural explanations to account for misunderstood or inconceivable phenomena found in the natural world. Such creatures and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James D. Keyser. David Kaiser.

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. Site 24ST560, located northwest of Billings, Montana, contains the most detailed example of a Crow war party tally known in northern Plains rock art. Known from two avocationalist publications, we analyze the site imagery using Crow ledger drawings and Crow ethnographic information, and determine that it represents the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marianne Sallum. Julieta Flores-Muñoz. Francisco Silva Noelli.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Communities of practice are currently the majority of places in Latin America. They include Indigenous people, “quilombolas,” and their descendants with European and Asian people, living predominantly outside the cities, in the most diverse places, such as the agroforestry communities. Decolonized archaeology has an enormous challenge ahead of it, both in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marcela Poirier.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Representations of the past outside of academia are based--to a certain degree--on archaeological or historical investigations; however, they are often outdated and/or manipulated. This has the worrisome ability to disenfranchise Indigenous peoples from their history. As public archaeologists that critique and study knowledge production and consumption from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nataliia Mykhailova.

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. The Deer Cult was a primary element of the myth-ritual complex of ancient hunter-gatherers. Deer worship included rituals related to natural and economic cycles, including the human life cycle. In the Upper Paleolithic,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karime Castillo. Patricia Fournier. Roberto Junco.

In the viceregal society of New Spain, Chinese porcelain objects were expensive objects consumed primarily by people of high status. The white porcelain objects produced in Dehua, located in the Fujian province of China, were incorporated into the household items of palaces and mansions, as indicated by archaeological evidence from Mexico City, Acapulco, Sinaloa, and some rural sites in the Otumba Valley. The production of this fine porcelain, also known as Blanc de Chine, involved complex...