Cultural Heritage and Preservation (Other Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the "Leveling Up: Gaming and Game Design in Archaeological Education and Outreach" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Two goals of the North Brentwood Digital Heritage and Archaeology Project are educational outreach and restorative justice. Digital documentation and gaming are an increasingly important part of those efforts. Multiple classes of students have taken an active role in engaging with the community to provide...
Protecting Ancestral Pojoaque Places (2019)
This is an abstract from the "From Collaboration to Partnership in Pojoaque, New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Protecting Pueblo of Pojoaque ancestral sites is a challenge. Inside our exterior boundaries are non-native encroachments. Cultural properties are often located within these checker board properties and more often than not have significant cultural meaning to the Pueblo’s culture and history. Tangible and intangible cultural...
Protecting Cultural Landscapes, Famous and Not, as the Threats Increase (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Transcending Modern Boundaries: Recent Investigations of Cultural Landscapes in Southeastern Utah" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Far beyond the "Instagram ready" cliff dwellings of Bears Ears, southeastern Utah holds cultural landscapes of immense value for Native American tribes, scientific study, and heritage tourism. The sheer number of archaeological sites, combined with an incredible degree of preservation,...
Proyecto Arqueológico Cuenca del Río el Maíz: investigación científica y trabajo comunitario en Santos Reyes Nopala, Juquila, Oaxaca (2018)
Se muestra el trabajo realizado por el Proyecto Arqueológico Cuenca del Río el Maíz en coparticipación con las autoridades municipales y la comunidad de Santos Reyes Nopala, la Fundación Mexicana para la Educación Ambiental y el Departamento de Mecatrónica de la Universidad Tecnológica de los Valles Centrales de Oaxaca, como una contribución al estudio científico de la arqueología de la región, cuyo objetivo principal consistió en la investigación, salvaguarda, rescate y difusión consciente...
Public Policies and Rock Art in México (2018)
This paper aims to present an overview of the public policies applied to rock art in Mexico in the last years. This cultural resource is perhaps little known in its entirety, yet presents an invaluable variety for its study. Its registration, conservation, and study have allowed in recent years to know more about the vast heritage which the country has it. One of the goals is also to comment on the public steps that have been implemented in this area in different regions.
Putting Archaeology Southwest’s Indigenous Collaboration Model into Practice: A New Mexico Example (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology Southwest is undertaking an Indigenous Cultural Landscape Report for Petroglyph National Monument, just west of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The work at Petroglyphs involves a number of goals, including tracking and documenting the physical, natural, and cultural history of the 7,200 acres comprising the monument. A large component of the research...
Querencia: Community Reciprocity in Management of the Cultural Landscape by East Sandia and Manzano Land Grant Communities (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Hill People: New Research on Tijeras Canyon and the East Mountains" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Querencia, the vernacular term for love of homeland, can be conceptually deployed as a historical organizing framework for traditional Indo-Hispano land-based communities in northern New Mexico. Querencia can be described through the historical function, form, and relationship of these systems, sustained by community...
Re-Contextualizing Pre-Columbian Gold and Resin Artifacts from Panama in the National Museum of the American Indian (2018)
Until recent years the study of Pre-Columbian gold and resin objects from Panama was slow to progress due to the relative scarcity of archaeological projects excavating these materials. While the original contexts of many museum objects have been lost, the collection of Panamanian gold and resin in the National Museum of the American Indian was re-evaluated for its potential to answer key questions about the ancient craftspeople of this region. To ensure accurate provenience information was...
Recent Geochemical Analysis of Ceramics from the Upper Basin Region of the Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster presents the results of recent geochemical analysis of ceramics and other clay artifacts in the Upper Basin Region of the Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument. We will compare the geochemical composition of Tusayan Grayware and San Francisco Mountain Grayware sherds, acquired by portable x-ray fluorescence (pXRF), to the...
Recent Investigations at the 18th Century Fort Frederik Archaeological Site and Cemetery, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands (2018)
In 2010, a tropical storm disturbed human remains and archaeological deposits at the Fort Frederik Archaeological Site, a multicomponent site consisting of dense 18th-19th century midden deposits associated with Fort Frederik, a two-story fortification (est. 1760) dating to the colonial development of St. Croix, then a part of the Danish West Indies. Subsequent investigations, including a geophysical survey, subsurface testing, and osteological analysis, have identified a cemetery within the...
Recuperando la memoria hidrosocial y arqueológica de la Meseta de Marcahuasi: Un enfoque hacia el desarrollo sostenible en la Sierra de Lima (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Arqueología colaborativa en los Andes: Casos de estudios y reflexiones" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. En tiempos prehispánicos, las comunidades ubicadas en la Meseta de Marcahuasi (San Pedro de Casta, provincia de Huarochirí, Lima) manejaron las estaciones lluviosas y secas de su territorio mediante el uso de sistemas de siembra y cosecha de agua para el abastecimiento de una sostenible economía agrícola. Con el...
Registro y Documentación 3D de la colección de Piedras Grabadas de Monte Albán, una experiencia participativa entre la sociedad civil e instituciones (2018)
Las estelas grabadas de Monte Albán, que forman parte del sistema de escritura más antiguo de América, se han enfrentado a serios peligros de deterioros a lo largo de su historia pasada y reciente. Elaboradas desde 500 a.C., se encuentran entre las más importantes de la escritura prehispánica de las culturas mesoamericanas. En 1994, se tomó la decisión de reunir la mayoría de estelas sueltas de los contextos no originales en una bodega provisional que causó resultados adversos. A partir de 2006...
Reinventing the Tradition: Archaeological Heritage and Contemporary Local Counternarratives in Huaca Fortaleza de Campoy (Lima, Peru) (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Throughout Peru's consolidation as a modern nation-state, the role of ancient monuments of the prehispanic past has been intertwined with politics, grounded in narratives of glory and grandeur while mostly stressed in nation-building contexts and the pursuits of nation-ness and national identity. This paper develops a critical and reflexive approach to the...
Reinvigorating the National Register: Toward Multivocality in the Production of National Histories (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community Archaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Most American archaeology is driven by the proverbial goal of listing properties on the National Register of Historic Places. As the comprehensive “list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of protection,” the National Register is a prestigious means of creating and memorializing our national history. After almost 55 years of implementation,...
The Relentless Tide: Swandro, a Multi-period Settlement Being Lost to the Sea (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Climate and Heritage in the North Atlantic: Burning Libraries" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Knowe of Swandro, (Orkney Islands, Scotland) was a large settlement occupied from around 800 BCE to CE 1200 and consists of Iron Age roundhouses, Pictish buildings, and a Viking/Norse settlement, much of which has already been lost to the sea. A substantial Iron Age roundhouse that had been occupied for many generations...
Rennes-le-Château, history and myth in competition (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In a small French village, discussions of medieval heretics and history have become combined by modern tourists. Popular literature has only added to the issue. Since the publication of pieces like Holy Blood, Holy Grail and the Da Vinci Code, the line between fact and fiction has grown thin. In 1965, excavations in Rennes-le-Château, the village which...
Rescuing Collections from Us: The Tijeras Pueblo Story (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. Most of the archaeological collections from Tijeras Pueblo were submitted to the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico. As was typical at the time, the collections were stored in a warehouse, using non-archival materials, with only minimal records about what was stored where. Beginning...
Research and Heritage Management in the Southern Caucasus: Future Perspectives in Post-Soviet Scenarios (2019)
This is an abstract from the "The South Caucasus Region: Crossroads of Societies & Polities. An Assessment of Research Perspectives in Post-Soviet Times" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The inheritance of Soviet-molded approaches to cultural heritage has seen slow changes in the last three decades in the ex-Soviet South Caucasian countries of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. The creation of new models of research and management has been...
Research and/or Stewardship of Tribal Collections? (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Ideas, Ethical Ideals, and Museum Practice in North American Archaeological Collections" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Research and/or stewardship? Native American cultural materials excavated or collected by archaeologists, particularly at research universities, have focused on Western-defined “scientific” and educational values of these collections. Tribal members increasingly are challenging such ideas. They...
Research Protocols for Documenting Hopi Traditional Properties (2018)
Over millennia, Hopi people have established a rich landscape of significant places throughout the American Southwest and beyond. The significance of many of these places is rooted in Hopi traditional beliefs and practices and they are vital components to the cultural identity of the tribe. The Hopi Cultural Preservation Office (HCPO) and their research partners have established protocols for documenting Hopi traditional cultural places and incorporating this information into the regulatory...
Resources, Goals, and Standards: The Basics of Digitizing Archaeological Collections and Legacy Materials (2018)
Digitization, the conversion of an analog item and creation a digital surrogate, is an important collections management tool. Digitizing collection materials can provide engaging images for public outreach and education, improve knowledge of the collection and access. It also aids in the preservation of materials by creating digital surrogates of content. Digitizing material can rescue content from obsolete media, provide a way for researchers to view content while protecting fragile, physical...
Responsibilities to the Ancient One (2018)
The tribes and bands of the Columbia Plateau have an inherent responsibility under our religious beliefs and practices to care for the ancestors buried within our homeland. The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation, the Nez Perce Tribe, and the Wanapum Band of Priest Rapids (Claimant Tribes) have stood by our knowledge and traditions which told us the Ancient One is our...
Restoring the Culture History of the suq̓ʷabš through Education and Outreach (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Outreach and Education: Examples of Approaches and Strategies from the Pacific Northwest" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In spite of important Suquamish leaders in the historic period, the culture history of the Suquamish People has not been documented accurately in historic and ethnographic records. Suquamish Tribe Archaeology and Historic Preservation Department personnel approach historic preservation in the...
Retracing Reconstruction: America’s Second Founding in Archaeological Perspective (2018)
The National Park Service’s release of a theme study on Reconstruction and the creation of Reconstruction National Monument in Beaufort, SC, mark the agency’s commitment to scholarly and public engagement with the complex and continuing legacies of the post-Civil War period. The National Capital Region and the Organization of American Historians are conducting a historic resource study of Reconstruction sites in the region, including urban sites in Washington, DC, and small town and rural sites...
Riparian Protection and Restoration as a Necessary Mitigation Practice (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Work by Chronicle Heritage" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. When looking at the cultural landscape archaeological surveys often only consider the direct effects that construction projects have on observed cultural resources. Secondary effects such as erosion from construction activity, building usage, and waste deposition are often ignored. Disturbances to the seven aspects of site integrity often...