Power Relations and Inequality (Other Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The study of mortuary material in archaeology has always related to subjects of identity, beliefs, and resources. Furthermore, it is one of our prime resources for understanding non-elite individuals in the premodern world, especially in societies where historical sources revolve around the ruling elites. This is certainly the case in the ancient Assyrian...
Diet, Migration and Social Changes: The Preclassic Burials of Ceibal (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Preclassic Maya Social Transformations along the Usumacinta: Views from Ceibal and Aguada Fénix" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Ceibal-Petexbatun Archaeological Project uncovered 43 burials with a minimum number of 58 individuals that date from the Middle Preclassic to the Protoclassic period (ca. 700 BC-AD 200). These remains have the potential to provide valuable insight into the processes of political...
Diferenciación social y económica en la comunidad prehispánica de Moscopán, suroccidente de Colombia (2024)
This is an abstract from the "The Barbacoan World: Recognizing and Preserving the Unique Indigenous Cultural Developments of the Northern Andes" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recientes investigaciones arqueológicas sobre las unidades políticas prehispánicas del suroccidente colombiano resaltan que las desigualdades sociales no fueron el resultado del control diferencial en la producción de ciertos bienes ni en la acumulación de riqueza por parte...
Differential Access and Socioeconomic Inequality at Teotihuacan (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Teotihuacan: Multidisciplinary Research on Mesoamerica's Classic Metropolis" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. I investigate patterns of social and spatial inequality at Teotihuacan, Mexico. Differential access to civic resources is a well-documented mechanism of socioeconomic differentiation in historic cities and can be measured by analyzing movement within the built environment. I measure differential access at...
Digital Approaches for Dissonant Heritage, Examples from Alberta (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The term dissonant heritage addresses the conflicting nature of heritage when different groups or individuals attribute contested meanings to the past. Often these sites have dark histories and are associated with death, trauma, or suffering and conflict arises from a contestation over whose perspectives and experiences surrounding a heritage are most...
Do Women Rule Differently? Lessons from the Ancient Egyptian Patriarchy (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Women of Violence: Warriors, Aggressors, and Perpetrators of Violence" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Historians often make blanket assumptions that female kings of Egypt ruled differently from men. Hatshepsut is often said to have been a pacifist, not leading her country into invasions abroad. Cleopatra’s rule has been characterized as drama-seeking, manipulative, not to mention hormonally imbalanced in the writings...
Doing Context-Specific, Anthropological Bioarchaeology: Hard Times from England to the Andes (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of Debra L. Martin" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The concept and approach of "bioarchaeology as anthropology," wherein bioarchaeology is framed as interdisciplinary, hypothesis-driven, biocultural, cross-cultural, and focused on understanding the adaptation and evolution of social systems, was pioneered by George Armelagos and has been progressively strengthened and amplified...
Economy, Exchange, and Power at Lomas Entierros, Central Pacific Costa Rica (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Advances and New Perspectives in the Isthmo-Colombian Area" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Lomas Entierros is a primary center in Central Pacific Costa Rica, characterized by the presence of monumental architecture on top of a defensible hill, and the circulation of important amounts of imported ceramics. The architectural system combined elevated half-moon terraces with cobblestone walls, foundations, slopes with...
The Emergence of Social Complexity in the Precolumbian Socioceremonial Center of Java in Southern Costa Rica. (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The settlement of Java is a Precolumbian socioceremonial center located on a hilltop in the Coto Brus Valley, in Southern Costa Rica. An intensive survey of the site revealed that the main occupation of the site occurred several centuries earlier than previously thought. Java is one of the largest settlements from the Aguas Buenas period, with an area of...
Emergencia de poder e interacción interregional en la sociedad del Periodo Formativo: Una perspectiva de la Sierra Norte del Perú (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Cuando los senderos divergen: Reconsiderando las interacciones entre los Andes Septentrionales y los Andes Centrales durante el 1ro y 2do milenio AEC / When Paths Diverge: Reconsidering Interactions between the Northern and Central Andes, First–Second Millennium BCE" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El objetivo de esta presentación es analizar la relación entre la sierra norte del Perú y la región ecuatoriana en el...
Equity in the Academy and in Archeology (2018)
Recent national media attention on issues of discrimination and harassment in the academy have generated robust discussion and inquiry into how to develop and sustain an environment that celebrates equity and equality and creates a culture where all can thrive professionally and personally. This presentation will sketch the broad contours of these conversations placing them in a national context and providing a framework to understand both institutional responsibilities and ethical imperatives....
Essential Contributions from African to Global Archaeology: Introduction (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Essential Contributions from African to Global Archaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology throughout the African continent in the last few decades has provided important insights into questions that are relevant to archaeology worldwide. Yet, these new theoretical perspectives and datasets have not been widely incorporated into scholarship elsewhere in the world, perhaps a latent effect of lingering...
Ethnohistorical Approaches to Panamanian Archaeology: Toward an Enhanced Conversation (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Unraveling the Mysteries of the Isthmo-Colombian Area’s Past: A Symposium in Honor of Archaeologist Richard Cooke and His Contributions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A significant, yet not fully recognized contribution of Richard Cooke’s to the understanding of Panamanian archaeology were his erudite analyses of contact time chronicles and documentation. Through systematic contrast and comparison of documents,...
Exploring Biological Sex Inequality through Mortuary Practices at Teotihuacan: A Machine Learning Approach (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Individualities have been difficult to identify in Classic Period Teotihuacan, as this multiethnic urban culture presents itself as a faceless society where inequality must be addressed with new perspectives and methodologies. In this poster, we explore whether this inequality is perceptible through biological sex differentiation in mortuary evidence,...
Exploring the Question of Heterarchy vs Hierarchy at Urcuquí, Ecuador (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Heterarchical and hierarchical power distributions in a society affect the distribution of labor within that society. In a heterarchical society, the labor is generally reciprocal community labor used to maintain a cooperative relationship despite distance between lived settlements (Scaffidi 2020), whereas hierarchical societies will have labor distributed...
Exposing Our Roots: Trinity University’s Legacy of Slavery (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Following the lead of other institutions, a group of faculty and students of the Roots Commission at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, have been researching racism and inequity in the university’s history. Since 2018, the research goal has been to uncover ways in which the institution and its founders benefitted from slavery. Student researchers used...
From Critical to Substantive Heritage Practice (2021)
This is an abstract from the "The Conceptual and Ethical Limits of Heritage in Archaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the past two decades, the Critical Heritage Studies Movement (CHSM) has spurred a sea change in archaeological, anthropological, and historical approaches to the study of heritage. CHSM scholars interrogated the underlying assumptions of the growing heritage industry, including how places and objects designated as...
From Person to Specimen: Exploring the Necroviolence of Medical “Progress” from Charity Hospital Cemetery #2, New Orleans, LA (1847–1929) (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Charity Hospital, which operated from the eighteenth century until Hurricane Katrina in 2005, served New Orleans’s poorest citizens. During the nineteenth and early twentieth century, the remains of many individuals who died at the hospital were used for medical dissection and autopsy. A collection of commingled skeletal remains associated with one of the...
From Polity to Regimes: Toward Recognizing Diversity in Ancient Maya Political Communities (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Regimes of the Ancient Maya" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, we introduce the notion of “regime” to model and interpret ancient Maya political organization. We have long relied on “the polity” as a primary model to explain ancient Maya politics. However, this largely generalist core concept tends to homogenize—both temporally and geographically—the complex ancient political landscape as one populated by...
Health and Resource Distribution at Tijeras Pueblo (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, and Public Education at Tijeras Pueblo, New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tijeras Pueblo is a Pueblo IV site in Central New Mexico located on a natural travel route between the Western Great Plains and the Rio Grande Valley, which likely facilitated frequent contact between different cultural groups. This study addresses two interconnected research goals: first, to examine...
The Human Experience of Social Transformations in the North Atlantic and US Southwest (2019)
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 and other scholars have long studied the causes of collapse and other major social transformations and debated how they can be understood. This paper instead focuses on the human experience of living through those transformations, analyzing 18 transformation cases from the North Atlantic and the US Southwest....
The Impact of Gendered Mentorship in the Leak between Dissertation Programs and Tenure-Track Jobs (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Beyond Leaky Pipelines: Exploring Gender Inequalities in Archaeological Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The leaky pipeline for women in archaeology has been documented in a number of contexts. This paper begins by measuring the size of the leak in the pipeline from PhD programs to tenure-track positions in US anthropology departments. As an attempt to move toward explaining why gender inequalities persist, we...
Inequality among Ancestral Pueblo Households and Its Impact on Animal Subsistence (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent studies of household inequality in the central Mesa Verde region (CMV) and Chaco Canyon indicate that the degree of wealth inequality among ancestral Pueblo households remained relatively low in the CMV, even as it increased dramatically in Chaco from the mid-800s through the early 1000s, based on Gini coefficients calculated on household floor area as...
Inequality in the Maya Lowlands (2023)
This is an abstract from the "To Have and Have Not: A Progress Report on the Global Dynamics of Wealth Inequality (GINI) Project" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Assessing inequality using the Gini coefficient based on house size provides a standard metric for studying dynamic societal change across vast spatiotemporal contexts. Within a single geographic region, such as the Maya Lowlands, wealth inequities change over time as political systems...
Inequity Critiques: Fit, Prestige, and the Don Quixote Effect (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Beyond Leaky Pipelines: Exploring Gender Inequalities in Archaeological Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the last 35 years, scholars have produced an ever-increasing number of publications critiquing sexism and androcentrism in contemporary archaeological practice. Various studies have considered the relationship between intersectional gender identities and the completion of doctoral degrees, submission...