Material Culture (Other Keyword)

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Cookbooks as Documentary Sources: The Material Culture of Kitchens and Tables from 19th-Century Puerto Rican Households (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lyrsa María Torres-Vélez.

Puerto Rico’s culinary history is characterized by a blend of the different ethnicities that settled in the island after the Spanish Conquest, as well as the incorporation of pre-Columbian food ways. This ethnogenesis can be studied through the culinary traditions that conform what we now refer to as criollo. This presentation uses El Cocinero Puerto-Riqueño, the only cookbook available from the 19th century in Puerto Rico, as a primary source to address the material culture associated to...


Copper (1907)
DOCUMENT Citation Only William H. Holmes.

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Coxoh Colonial Project and Coneta, Chiapas Mexico: a Provincial Maya Village Under the Spanish Conquest (1977)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas A. Lee, Jr.. Sidney D. Markman.

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The "Cracking the Code" Project: Markers of Culture and Networks in Early Iron Age Stamna, Greece (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Eleni Simoni. Olga Christakopoulou.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In Stamna, Greece, ceramic art is the focal point of investigation. This research reveals questions about the symbolism on the decorated surfaces of 709 Protogeometric funerary vessels discovered in 500 graves excavated in the 1990s. Our objective is to show how different theoretical perspectives on ceramic interpretation can be explored through both...


The Creek Indians of Taskigi town (1907)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Frank Gouldsmith Speck.

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Cultural Resources on Mejatto Islands, Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands; Observations During a Series of Exhumations in January (1992)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Dirk H. R. Spennemann.

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Cultural Sequences at the Dalles, Oregon: a Contribution To Pacific Northwest Prehistory (1960)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Luther S. Cressman. D. L. Cole. W. A. Davis. T. M. Newman. D. J. Scheans.

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Culture, Class & Consumption: Ireland in the Early Modern Atlantic World (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Tracey.

Archaeological investigations throughout the northern Irish port town of Carrickfergus have generated a vast collection of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century material culture, reflecting the role of the town as an entrepôt of early-modern Atlantic goods.  Carrickfergus was a heterogeneous settlement, with a mixture of Gaelic Irish, Scots, and English identities amongst a network of merchants, sailors, soldiers, and tradesmen.  The material culture is illustrative of the changes in attitudes...


Dating Key for Post-Eighteenth Century Bottles (1970)
DOCUMENT Citation Only T. Stell Newman.

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De la Sartén al Fuego - Connecting The Documentary And Material Records of Kitchens In Alta California (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Russell K. Skowronek. Margaret A. Graham.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. One of the most vexing problems in historical archaeology is connecting historic folk taxonomies to the material record. Language and classifications evolve often leaving a disconnect that hinders accurate interpretation of the material record. This is further compounded with translation and contemporary cognitive templates. Our...


Decorate Leister Point from the Ichetucknee River (1971)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Gary Allen.

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Deep History and Material Culture of the Spanish Invasion of Mesoamerica (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only David Carballo.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Plus Ultra: An examination of current research in Spanish Colonial/Iberian Underwater and Terrestrial Archaeology in the Western Hemisphere." , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Through its focus on changes in human societies over the longue durée and the materiality of our existence, archaeology offers a valuable perspective on historic cross-cultural encounters viewed as deep history with tangible...


Deep Weft: Hand-Made Textile Making in Oaxaca (WGF - Dissertation Fieldwork Grant) (2022)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Bianca Chizzolini.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This ethnographic project investigates the role that artisanal objects and ornamentation play in the constitution of gendered daily practices and ways of life in Oaxaca de Juárez (Mexico). Hand-made textile production is at the center of the social life of several rural Mexican communities. In this plural cultural context, servilletas are ordinary and richly adorned pieces produced by women...


Desert Side-Notched Points As a Time Marker in California (1959)
DOCUMENT Citation Only M. A. Baumhoff. J. S. Byrne.

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Dhegiha Origins and Plains Archaeology (1993)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan C. Vehik.

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Diaz Collection, Material Culture and Social Change in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Monterey (California Department of Parks and Recreation) (1983)
DOCUMENT Citation Only David L. Felton. Peter D. Schulz.

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Diffusion of Material Culture Traits As Seen in the Archaeological Record at Lake Minchumina (1974)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles E. Holmes.

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Digitizing Archaeological Data from the Dos Hombres to Gran Cacao Archaeology Project (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda Zetz. Marisol Cortes-Rincon Ph.D.. Kristen Harrison. Raylene Borrego. Hannah Vizcarra.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A wealth of digital data is produced during an archaeological excavation and because so much of the fieldwork is unrepeatable, once the site is fully excavated, the digital records must be archived in a manner that best facilitates reuse. This paper presents the ongoing undertaking of digitizing data for the Dos Hombres to Gran Cacao Archaeology Project...


Dolores Archaeological Program Technical Reports, DAP-082: Excavations at Prince Hamlet (Site 5MT2161), a Pueblo I habitation site (1983)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Lynne Sebastian.

Prince Hamlet, Site 5MT2161, is a Pueblo I habitation site that was investigated by the Dolores Archaeological program during the 1979 and 1980 field seasons. Evidence of three separate periods of occupation was encountered. The first occupation appears to- have begun sometime after A.D. 720 and to have ended prior to A.D. 840. The exact nature and areal extent of this occupation is uncertain, but it definitely included at least one substantial surface structure and probably one pitstructure....


Drinking Buddies: Wine Bottle Seals as a Window on Williamsburg’s Social Scene. (2022)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Meredith Poole.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As individual artifacts, wine bottle seals are valued for the names and dates they that they deliver, for their utility as status markers, and for their unique beauty. Considered in large numbers across a broader spatial context, personalized bottle seals hold additional potential to reveal social interaction. Colonial...


Dutch Treats: Archaeological Evidence of the Dutch Trade with Seventeenth-Century Virginians (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Bly Straube.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "From Maryland’s Ancient [Seat] and Chief of Government: Papers in Honor of Henry M. Miller" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Through the years, scholars have acknowledged that, aside from the English, no Europeans were more involved in the commercial and political affairs of the seventeenth-century Chesapeake than the Dutch. Dr. Henry Miller’s archaeological research in Historic St. Mary’s City has indicated...


Dynamics of Adaption and Diversity: A Phylogenetic Analysis of Material Culture from Fremont Archaeological Sites. (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lorena Craig.

This study is uses phylogenetic analysis to examine the dynamics of cultural evolution on material culture. The hypotheses assert that variation in material culture is significantly influenced from nearness and interactions with neighbors, impacts of local environments, and adaptation through distance in time and geographic space. However, cultural transmission processes occur differently for various types of cultural material and/or traditions. By using phylogenetic analysis of several types of...


The Dynamics of Small Things Remembered: Giving Voice to A Silenced Past (2022)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen A Brighton.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“Historical Archaeology with Canon on the Side, Please”: In Honor of Mary C. Beaudry (1950-2020)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Mary Beaudry’s impact on archaeology is immense and reaches all corners of the discipline. More than anything, it was her commitment to the individual and their ability to make meaningful choices throughout the course of everyday life. Ultimately, she created a dynamic landscape...


Early Man On Soda Mountain (1982)
DOCUMENT Citation Only David M. Elder.

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Early Modern Nordic Glass Finds as Indicators of Poverty and Plenty (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Georg Haggren.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Poverty And Plenty In The North", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Glass vessels were hardly vital items for people living in the Northern Europe during the early modern era. Everybody could easily live without glass vessels. The old museum collections consisting exclusive items support this picture. However, there is a sharp contrast between the old museum collections and the archaeological record. The...