Identity/Ethnicity (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn Baustian. Danielle M. Romero. Barbara Roth. Darrell Creel.

Three seasons of excavation at the Elk Ridge site in the Upper Mimbres Valley suggest close familial social structures within this Classic period community. As a part of this preservation project, excavation of endangered burials has revealed mortuary and biological patterns that renew thinking of community dynamics in the region. Previous research by Harry Shafer has proposed that Mimbres communities organized around the family unit and lineage groups. Data from Elk Ridge thus far support this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alyssa Scott.

This paper examines the archaeology of the Weimar Joint Sanatorium, an institution which functioned as the county tuberculosis hospital for fifteen counties in California during the early twentieth-century. Field data from topographical survey, historic structures recording, geophysical survey, and surface collection are interpreted along with historical information in order to understand how the institution and people connected to it were situated within the larger landscape. Within the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Levi Romero.

This is an abstract from the "Collaborative Archaeology at Picuris Pueblo: The New History" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation seeks to capture the rewards of a neighboring progression that moves away from past conflicts toward reconciliation forming a new history between the Pueblo and Indio-Hispano people. Inter-communal exchanges between the Spanish and Pueblos helped them to endure droughts, famines, diseases, and the eventual...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Valerie Bondura.

This is an abstract from the "Chicanx Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper is an introduction to an organized session on Chicanx Archaeology. It argues for the ethical and intellectual imperative of drawing Chicanx Studies scholarship in to archaeological method and theory. Archaeological frameworks for studying culture contact, ethnogenesis, and identity have tended to bypass theory that falls under the umbrella of Chicanx...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elise Alonzi. Barra O'Donnabhain.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Diet, mobility, and trauma are key factors in the performance of social identities and the maintenance of social boundaries between groups. In medieval Ireland, burial at monasteries also provided an opportunity for both lay and ecclesiastical communities to represent the religious identities of deceased individuals. In this study, mobility, trauma, and diet...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hubert Quispe-Bustamante.

This is an abstract from the "New Advances in Cusco Archaeology: From the Formative to the Late Horizon" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the Middle Horizon, two expansionist states dominated the Andes: the Wari and the Tiwanaku. So far, only Moquegua has evidence of direct interaction betweensettlers from those two states. In the Cusco region, the presence of large Wari installations have been interpreted as evidence of strong Wari...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Veronique Belisle.

This is an abstract from the "New Advances in Cusco Archaeology: From the Formative to the Late Horizon" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Many scholars have suggested that Wari architecture outside the Ayacucho heartland was a sign of direct imperial administration. This view assumes deep political impact on local populations, with shifting allegiances, a profound reorganization of how groups interacted with one another, and changing values about...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Christie.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. At the foot of Yanakauri Hill in the community of Koyoktor lies a stone water temple attached to a series of quadrangular Inka-style rock sculptures. Water appears to have been channeled down this mountain referred to by its Inka- Kañari toponym, to fill the carved canals and basins of the temple. This site and mountain are again being used for ceremonial...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bradley Ensor.

The Mesoamerican Gulf Coast figures prominently in grand schemes of interregional population interactions from Olmec to contact eras. However, most models of exchange, migrations, or identities rely on samples from Southern Veracruz, the Usumacinta, and the southern Isthmus without considering the vast Chontalpa in-between. This paper synthesizes new and old data on sites, intrasite spatial organization, and material culture from the Mezcalapa Delta for a synopsis on prehispanic settlement...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick Rivera.

Given the impressive variety of objects produced and used by most ethnic groups, why do some forms of material culture--but not others--come to be identified as signs of ethnic identity? Who makes these identifications, and what sort of work do they do? This paper examines how particular historic artifacts (or representations of them) have come to signify an Irish or Mexican ethnic identity in the contemporary imagination, what role archaeologists have played in this process, and what this might...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nathan Klembara.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There have numerous discussions about the role of social values and politics in archaeological method, theory, and interpretation, especially regarding the so-called “critical theories” of feminism, queer theory, indigeneity, critical race theory, and disability theory (among many others). What remains under-researched in this literature is a more nuanced...