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This is an abstract from the "Chicanx Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper describes the pedagogical and scientific results of the construction and testing of several miniature scale Mexican-style adobe ovens (hornos) by faculty and students in Anthropology at California State University, East Bay (CSUEB). Findings are divided into three sections: Adobe as Teaching Technology, Adobe as Construction Technology, and Adobe and...
From The Leaves On The Trees In The Forest To The Stones And Sands Of The River: Archaeobotanical Investigations Of Spanish New Mexican Land Use (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "New Avenues in the Study of Plant Remains from Historical Sites" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 17th-century New Mexico, subsistence activities were the major ways Spanish colonists engaged plants and created landscapes. Colonists’ relationships with plants were developed through a combination of existing notions of human-environment interactions and the creation of new practices that suited the social...
Nuestras Voces: Representation and Visibility of Latinx Women Archaeologists in the United States (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In recent years, there has been an increase in social justice movements, from Black Lives Matter to #metoo. As Maria Franklin and colleagues have stated, when these movements took center stage in our nation, they forced us to reflect on our very discipline and the inequalities present within, which in turn has led to several collaborations and research...