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DOCUMENT Citation Only Melissa Ayling. Marie Hopwood.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A pint of beer is more than a "simple" beverage. The presence of ethanol resulting from the yeast-based fermentation contributes to making beer a unique form of embodied material culture that has fermented alongside humanity since well before written records. It is the most widely used psychoactive substance in the world, and is regularly discussed in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chung Tang. Maya H. Tang.

This is an abstract from the "Two Approaches to Archaeological Jades: Source Characterization and Social Valuation" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As gold is for the West, jade has been one of the finest symbolic vehicles in the East since prehistory. In recent years, a large amount of nephrite accessories have been excavated from early Neolithic-Bronze Age archaeological sites in Northeast China, Cis-Baikal, and the Russian Far East, posing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aylar Abdolahzadeh. George Leader. Tamara Dogandzic. Li Li. Harold Dibble.

Archaeologists have long studied the effects of raw material variation on different aspects of lithic technology, primarily focusing on raw material availability and nodule size and shape. This paper presents the results of a controlled experiment designed to compare different rock types (obsidian, flint, basalt, quartzite, and silcrete) and assess their effects on flake production. The experiment utilizes a mechanical robot that applies force to pre-shaped cores, controlling for known...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dale Croes. Ed Carriere.

Ed Carriere and I have been working with the U.W. Burke Museum to replicate 2,000 year old waterlogged archaeological basketry found in the early 1960s from along the Snoqualmie River near Seattle. Ed learned old style split cedar limb/root clam basket making from his Great Grandmother, Julia Jacobs, who raised him. Ed’s goal has always been to go back as many generations in his family to master their work. As a wet site archaeologist specializing in ancient basketry on the Northwest Coast, I...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dale Croes. Ed Carriere.

I often invited Ed Carriere, Suquamish Master Basketmaker and Elder, to help us recover 700 year old cedar bough pack baskets while excavating the Qwu?gwes wet/waterlogged site, Olympia, Washington. He is the last known Salish Sea weaver still making these cedar clam baskets. While preparing to analyze 2,000 year old Biderbost wet site pack baskets at the U.W. Burke Museum in Seattle, I called Ed and suggested he try to replicate these baskets, fully 100 generations back through his line of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelsey Gruntorad. Chrissina Burke.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologically, the term "pot polish" refers to wear on skeletal elements resulting from cooking in a ceramic vessel. The active mixing, stirring, and rubbing of the materials within and against the vessel's abrasive interior leads to polished fragmented bones. Unfortunately, limited experiments have been conducted on this topic. Despite natural taphonomic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Alberto Santacreu. Jaume García Rosselló.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Alberto Santacreu. Jaume García Rosselló.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas Hlatky. John Fagan.

This is an abstract from the "Debitage Analysis: Case Studies, Successes, and Cautionary Tales" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Debitage analysis can be conducted in a wide range of ways, and no standard approach has been broadly accepted. Over the years many attempts have been made to introduce varying classification systems for debitage analysis. This paper uses experimental archaeology to test different classification systems for accuracy, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ginessa Mahar.

The term “mass-capture” is widely used in archaeological and zooarchaeological discourse to connote any form of capture that results in the simultaneous collection of multiple organisms. However, mass-capture as an umbrella term obscures critical variation among diverse techniques that have implications for anthropological interpretation. Nowhere does this limitation have more of an impact than in coastal settings, where fishes and shellfishes constitute the majority of subsistence prey items. ...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter J. Reynolds.

If ever there was a building boom it has to be in the business of reconstructing the past. In the last decade throughout Britain and Europe more prehistoric houses have been built than at any time since they were built with the serious intent of domestic occupation. It is, of course, a critical element in the process of interpreting the past, in making sense of patterns of post-holes or the waterlogged stumps of posts and stakes. However, the reasons for building all these structures rarely...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Samantha Nadel.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The interdisciplinary study of cochineal production in Mesoamerica has overwhelmingly focused on the written record. These documents, written by Spanish colonizers, European scientists, and modern-day ethnographers, yield insightful information into the material culture of cochineal production, from the cactus farm to the dye vat. Yet thus far, this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only J Hunter.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only J Creed.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather Hopkins.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter J. Reynolds.

In the summer of 1966 an experiment to reconstruct an Iron Age hut took place on Bredon Hill.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter J. Reynolds.

There is little doubt but that Biskupin represents one of the most fascinating archaeological discoveries of this century. Claimed to be the Pompeii of the north, while it does not exactly compete, there is a great degree of truth in the claim that to date it supplies vastly more insight into an early iron Age occupation site than virtually any other. That this is the case, particularly for the structures, is discussed in this contribution.

DOCUMENT Citation Only J Kenny.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only David Wescott. David Wescott.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Dale P. Herbort.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Roeland P Paardekooper.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Jan Pavelka.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Katarzyna Pyżewicz. Piotr Rozbiegalski.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Susanne Rühling.

In 2011 and 2012, organs from Antiquity and the Middle Ages were reconstructed as part of a project between the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum in Mainz and the company Alexander Schuke Potsdam-organ-builder GmbH. The replica of a "Byzantine double-organ" was built, following historical images and written sources, as well as using information obtained from archaeological finds. This musical instrument was already shown at the exhibition "The Golden Byzantium and the Orient" in 2012 at the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Giusi Sorrentino. Alessandro Lo Giudice. Mauro Veronese. Elena Badetti. Laura Longo.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeogastronomy: Grocery Lists as Seen from a Multidimensional Perspective" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Investigating plant processing in the archaeological record is challenging due to the perishable nature of plant materials and their associated technologies, which are rarely preserved. We examine tools used for grinding and pounding, providing insights into the transformation of plant organs before their...