Worldwide (Other Keyword)
26-50 (303 Records)
This is an abstract from the "The Value of Rock Art: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Current Rock Art Documentation, Research, and Analysis, Part I" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Fluteplayer is widely recognised within rock art, characterised by a figure holding and/or playing a flute it has been miss-interpreted, appropriated, and widely commodified as the Kachina Kokopelli. As a result of this Fluteplayer imagery is now entangled with...
Biomolecular and zooarchaeological insights into human-turtle interactions in historical New Orleans, Louisiana (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Global Perspectives on Biomolecular Approaches to Human-Animal Interactions Past and Present" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Turtle soup is a dish synonymous with New Orleans’ cuisine, and its deep history is enshrined in historical cookbooks, newspapers, and restaurant menus. However, despite its cultural and historical importance in New Orleans and other areas of the United States, turtle soup, and the...
Bodies, settlements, and monuments: The architectural landscapes of the coast of the Atacama Desert (6500-1200 Cal BP) (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Landscapes of Death: Placemaking and Postmortem Agencies" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The construction of the social landscape of the Atacama Desert coast (northern Chile) was a long and dynamic process in pre-Columbian times, involving different agencies and material strategies. Around 6500 calBP, these fisher-hunter-gatherers started building permanent settlements composed of clustered semi-subterranean...
Breaking the Past to Break from the Past: Could the Construction and Placement of Contexts Containing Dismembered Natural Mummies Have Helped to Legitimize Moche Power? (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Landscapes of Death: Placemaking and Postmortem Agencies" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bioarchaeological studies often focus on who is present in a context, how they got there, and why this might be. Votive contexts are unique because of the circumstances leading to their deposition—however, more attention is placed on the processes that resulted in these deposits, versus the places where this happened (Bradley...
Bridges between the living and the dead: Landscapes of Resistance, (re)Memorialization and Alternative Narratives (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Landscapes of Death: Placemaking and Postmortem Agencies" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For many of us, the final the resting place of our ancestors can anchor us to the landscapes of our families’ histories and to our community. For victims of settler colonialism and creeping genocide, whose homelands were stolen and burial places desecrated or erased, the recovery of their ancestors can offer validation and...
Burying Buildings: Ritual Closure as Mortuary Practice (or not) in the Ancient Andes? (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Ritual Closure: A Global Perspective" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ritual Closures, temple interments, and construction offerings are a common occurrence in the Prehispanic Andes region of South America. This practice became more elaborate overtime, and societies selected a wide range of goods for inclusion as offerings, which in some cases included human sacrifices or were accompanied by ancestral remains. Given...
Burying Houses as a Ritual of Closure and Renewal. Two Cases from Bohemia (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Ritual Closure: A Global Perspective" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology in Central Europe is increasingly aware that finds from prehistoric sites may reflect not only the original functions of settlement features, but also the human activities that followed after their practical use ceased. Deposits resulting from the abandonment and/or destruction of settlement features often contain indications of ritual...
The Canaima Complex: Uncovering New Rock Art Sites and Cultural Insights in Canaima National Park, Venezuela (2025)
This is an abstract from the "The Value of Rock Art: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Current Rock Art Documentation, Research, and Analysis, Part I" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study reveals the discovery of previously unknown rock art sites in Canaima National Park, southeastern Venezuela, some of which are associated with lithic artifacts, and examines their cultural significance. The research places these findings in context by...
Care and Power: Craftsmanship and Wari Elites Dynamics: A Case from Castillo de Huarmey, Peru (2025)
This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of Care and Power" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The recent discovery of the tomb of the Master Basketmaker within the Gallery of Elite Craftsmen, located in the nearest vicinity of the imperial Wari tomb at the site of Castillo de Huarmey, Peru, presents an exceptional opportunity to analyze the interplay between different tiers of elites, particularly in the context of the presence of disabled...
Care in Crisis, Crisis as Care: A Comparative, Multi-scalar Archaeology of Care in Periods of Sociopolitical Disruption (2025)
This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of Care and Power" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. If sites, practitioners, and structures of care are embedded in power dynamics, how are those components of care systems transformed when established power dynamics are radically disrupted? Drawing on the substantial comparative archaeological literature that has been published in recent decades on processes and periods often glossed as...
Case Studies Reveal Material Complexities of Reconstructing Physical Impairment, Disability, and Health-related Caregiving in the Past (2025)
This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of Care and Power" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bioarchaeological approaches to health-related caregiving fundamentally engage with the inequities, differential draws upon community and household resources, and agency and social identities of providers and recipients of care in past populations. Thus, conducting this research in a way that incorporates the cultural, community, spatial, and temporal...
Central Wyoming Rock Art and What it Reveals about the People Who Used this Region (2025)
This is an abstract from the "The Value of Rock Art: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Current Rock Art Documentation, Research and Analysis Part II" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Central Wyoming is surrounded by distinctive rock art styles — Dinwoody to the west, Plains Ceremonial and Biographic to the east, and styles south into Colorado previously attributed to Fremont, Ute, and Comanche. Presence of these distinctive styles locally...
Cerro Colorado and the Necropolis of Wari Kayan: Changes in the significance of the individual, the cemetery and the landscape (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Landscapes of Death: Placemaking and Postmortem Agencies" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Paracas site, on the bay and peninsula of that name, has deep history as a fishing center where ritual linked the Paracas ceramic tradition to the Early Horizon. On Cerro Colorado, Tello and colleagues excavated womb-like, crowded shaft tombs of the Paracas Cavernas mortuary tradition (450 – 250 BCE). On the steep slope of...
Challenges to Chiefdoms: Māori Leaders in Aotearoa/New Zealand (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Acquiring Status and Power in Transegalitarian and Chiefdom Societies" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The title of this paper reflects two themes. First, the environmental and demographic reality of Polynesian settlement of temperate islands with substantial rainforests and marginal horticultural potential which prevented the development of large complex chiefdoms such as those of Hawai’i or French Polynesia. Māori...
Changing coastlines and persisting links: human / littoral interactions during the Late Glacial around the Mediterranean basin (2025)
This is an abstract from the "<html>Twenty Thousand Leagues (and Years!) under the Sea:<i> </i>Exploring the Place of Seashores in Prehistoric Socio-economic Systems</html>" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Around the Mediterranean basin, marine resources play an important role in both subsistence and the symbolic universe. Here, we focus on the Epigravettian, a Late Glacial culture that spans the northern Mediterranean basin from Provence to the...
Charting the Understudied Landscape: Isotopic Baselines for CAM Plants and Other Native Organisms in Peru’s Tierras Blancas Region (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Stable Isotope Analysis in Global History" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Tierras Blancas Valley in the Nasca region of southern coastal Peru is home to a diverse array of plant and animal species. The Nasca culture, which emerged during the Early Intermediate Period (100-650 C.E.), primarily used ceramics to depict these natural elements in their iconography. While previous isotope studies have investigated...
“Chicken Strips” McGuire and the Development of Indigenous Archaeology (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Praxis Makes Perfect: Celebrating the Academic Life and Times of Randy McGuire" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Randy McGuire’s career in archaeology overlapped several major shifts in the discipline. This paper examines his contributions to Indigenous Archaeology, which developed organically from a discipline unsettled by global cultural processes related to indigenization. By the late 1970s Indigenous demands for...
Collaboration with Industry: The Permian Basin Programmatic Agreement; An Illustrative Example (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. These symposia have showcased various forms of collaborative and community archaeology. Yet, the extent of collaboration with industry has not been explored as deeply as it deserves. In today’s world, archaeological research and historic preservation often rely upon partnerships between industry and archaeological professionals and managers....
Collaborative Approaches to Restoring Agency for Residents of the Sonoma Developmental Center’s “Home Cemetery” (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Landscapes of Death: Placemaking and Postmortem Agencies" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Sonoma Developmental Center served thousands of residents who would today be described as disabled, mentally ill, or deviating from social norms. Many of the ~2000 residents buried in its cemetery from 1892-1960 were placed in the SDC as children. Their gravemarkers featured only their initials and registration number, and...
Collective Action Problems Led to Increased Social Hierarchy in Ancient Samoa: Evidence from Architetural Chronologies and Paleoenvironments (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Acquiring Status and Power in Transegalitarian and Chiefdom Societies" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We have identified the evolutionary-ecological processes that explain the rise of increasingly hierarchical society in Samoa over the last 1000 years. Our lidar, ground survey, and rock-wall chronologies in the Falefa Valley demonstrate that the construction of large boundary walls began 900-600 years ago, shortly...
Colonial Expulsion and Assimilation in the Town of Tequesta, Miami River, Florida (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Many New Worlds: Alternative global histories through material stories" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The indigenous town of Tequesta on the mouth of the Miami River was the site of two attempts of colonization and Christian conversion by the Spanish. The first was in 1567 by Pedro Menendez and the second in 1743 by Jesuits. Both attempts ended largely in failure that included rebellion and the abandoning of the...
Combined 2D and 3D analysis of ceramic sherds for thermal conductivity simulations (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Ceramics and Archaeological Sciences" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Measuring thermal conductivity of archaeological ceramics is useful because it is an important functional performance characteristic of vessels used for cooking or serving food or preparing or drinking hot beverages. The amount, size, and distribution of particles and pores greatly affect thermal conductivity, so this is a property that can be...
Communities of potters, chefs and eaters: a multi-analytical approach to technology and use of archaeological ceramics from Northwestern Argentina (ca. 200 BC-AD 900) (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Ceramics and Archaeological Sciences" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The development of ceramic technology produced substantial transformations in people’s foodways and cuisine, expanding the répertoire of existent ingredients, culinary techniques, storage capacities, among others. Thus, exploring the dimensions of ceramic technology and use amongst early farming societies holds the heuristic potential to explore...
A Community-Inspired (and Energized) Mastodon Excavation in Southern Iowa (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Wayne County is a relatively remote and lower population density (96th of 99) rural county in Iowa but features the vibrant and well-managed Prairie Trails Museum that enjoys strong community support. A 2022 discovery by an area resident of a complete and surprisingly well-preserved mastodon femur in a drainage in the southwest part of the county...
A Comparative Approach to Characterizing Magnetic Geophysical Anomalies on the Pinson Landscape with Regard to Excavated Features (2025)
This is an abstract from the "The Future of Geoarchaeology: Student Research and Insights" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the 1990s, geophysical surveys have played an important role in identifying and surveying, planning excavations at, and interpreting archaeological sites in North America. Magnetic differences in soils and sediments have been one near universal advantage to archaeologists who utilize geophysical surveys for a variety of...