History Of Archaeology (Other Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The vast majority of baskets in Californian collections were woven in the past 150 years and yet they are often displayed as separate from their contemporary histories; posed as ahistorical relics of a static imagined past. Rather, basket collections as social beings contain a contemporary past that is fraught with the realities of settler colonialism,...
Cerros, Keros, Cuerpos, y Mas! 37 Years of Programa Contisuyo Research in Southern Peru (2019)
This is an abstract from the "The Legacies of Archaeologists in the Andes: Second Symposium, the Institutionalization and Internationalization of Andean Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1980 the Pritzker family, major shareholders in Southern Peru Copper Corporation (SPCC), contacted Michael Moseley then a Curator at the Field Museum of Natural History inquiring about establishing a research program in the Moquegua region of southern...
Changing Paradigms in Oaxaca Archaeology: Examining the Past to Understand Our Future (2021)
This is an abstract from the "A Construir Puentes / Building Bridges: Diálogos en Oaxaca Archaeology a través de las Fronteras" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the past century, archaeology in Oaxaca had gained a reputation among American researchers as a space rife with contentious debates. On the other side of the border, Mexican researchers remained disconnected from these scholarly debates, in part because little effort was made to build a...
Changing Perspectives for the Palaeolithic Research of the Japanese Archipelago (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Current Issues in Japanese Archaeology (2019 Archaeological Research in Asia Symposium)" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Apart from sporadic finds of human bones and artifacts, systematic research on the Palaeolithic began in Japan with the Iwajuku excavation in 1949. In spite of the relatively short history of 70 years, and the negative impact of the "Fujimura Scandal" of 2000, which resulted in nullification of...
Charles Conrad Abbott and the Evolution of Humankind (2016)
Charles Conrad Abbott is most well known for his participation in the "Great Paleolithic Debate" of the late 19th century, in which he used archaeological evidence to propose an independent evolution of humans in the New World and the Old World. His theories were soon dismissed as incorrect, but for a brief time, he gained scientific renown for his scholarly publications. However, his theories must be examined within the framework of scientific thought during this time. In 1859, Charles Darwin...
Charred wood, photoliths, starch grains, and pollen tell the story of Early Tropical Forest Agriculture at Real Alto (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Reflections and Ripples of the Caiman: Papers in the Spirit of Don Lathrap" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Southwest coastal Ecuador was a hearth of innovation in the prehistoric New World. By 4400 BC life in SW Ecuador was transformed as sedentary village life, ceramic production, and agriculture came together in the Early Formative Valdivia culture. By middle Valdivia (3000-2400 BC), one village, Real Alto, was...
The Citation Process in Archaeology (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Citation counts are a significant source of data for the evaluation of research by institutional managers and research grant providers when looking at projects and individual scholars. Raw citation counts, however, are inappropriate for this purpose except when seen in the context of comparative publications. This is usually accomplished by the...
Collectors, Public Archaeology, and Regional Surveys: Contributions of Stuart Struever (2024)
This is an abstract from the "The Village, the Region, and Beyond: Stuart Struever (1931–2022) and the Lower Illinois River Valley Research Program" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Stuart Struever developed several important and innovative approaches during his time in Illinois. I use my own Lower Illinois Valley research to focus on Struever’s contributions in three areas: 1) working with collectors and amateur archaeologists, 2) focusing on...
Communities of Archaeological Inquiry: Documenting a German Neolithic Landscape in Cooperation with Avocational Archaeologists (2015)
This poster explores the history, methods, motivations, and contributions of three avocational archaeologists whose lifelong legacies helped to shape an international research project on the Neolithic settlement of the southeastern Swabian Alb in Germany. Their efforts to document site locations and build significant private collections span three generations, from the 1920s to today, and led to the discovery of a rich archaeological landscape previously unrecognized by professional...
The Complexity of Archaeological Site Revisits: A Case Study from Labrador (2018)
The five sites recorded in Junius Bird’s 1934 survey of the Hopedale area are both culturally important to the local Inuit community and to the history of the creation of archaeological narratives about the Labrador Inuit. Recently, the Hopedale and Nunatsiavut governments have stated a desire for additional archaeological research prompting Memorial University to revisit the Avertok and Karmakulluk sites to conduct additional excavations. In the 83 years that have passed since Bird’s work, many...
"A Connecting Link": An Archaeometric Reinvestigation of Ceramic Artifacts from the Cave of the Owls and their Relationship with Upper Amazonian Ceramic Assemblages (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Reflections and Ripples of the Caiman: Papers in the Spirit of Don Lathrap" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Stylistic similarities between ceramics from the Central Andean Highlands and the Upper Amazon were central to Don Lathrap’s argument that Tropical Forest Culture contributed crucial components of Andean highland civilization. Artifacts from the Cave of the Owls provide “a possible connecting link” between...
Conquistadors without Swords: Archaeologists in the Americas (1967)
This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.
Contextualizing or Cancelling Aleš Hrdlička: Lessons from the Past (2025)
This is an abstract from the "2025 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of David J. Meltzer Part II" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In his carefully researched tome, The Great Paleolithic War (2015), David Meltzer demonstrates a remarkable depth of scholarship, carefully reading and evaluating 66 reference pages of primary sources. Included were 15 scholarly works by Aleš Hrdlička. Meltzer has thus critically engaged with the research...
Contribution of Stephan F. de Borhegyi to the Archaeology in Guatemala: Investigation in the Borhegyi’s Archives at the Milwaukee Public Museum (2018)
Archaeologist Stephan Borhegyi contributed significantly to the development of archeology in Guatemala in the late 1950s and early 1960s with his investigations both in the highlands and on the Pacific Coast. He was a pioneer in underwater archeology at Lake Amatitlán and carried out studies at other sites around the lake. He also made important entries on different archaeological sites in the Highlands and on the Pacific Coast, particularly on the Bilbao site. In Guatemala, his works were...
The Critical and Chronological Evolution of Donald Lathrap's Archaeological Worldview (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Reflections and Ripples of the Caiman: Papers in the Spirit of Don Lathrap" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper explores the critical and chronological evolution of Donald W. Lathrap’s archaeological worldview, focusing on his contributions to the study of the American tropics. This study traces the development of Lathrap’s theoretical framework from 1955 to 1987, highlighting the ways in which his intellectual...
Crystal Bennett and the 1965 American Embassy Medain Saleh Expedition in Saudi Arabia (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Female Firsts: Celebrating Archaeology’s Pioneering Women on the 101st Anniversary of the 19th Amendment " session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. British archaeologist Crystal Bennett (1918–1987) is considered one of the formidable British female archaeologists of the Middle East, conducting investigations across Jordan and beyond from 1957 to 1983. As Dame Kathleen Kenyon’s student at the University of London in the early...
Cueva de las Pirámides: New evidence of early occupation in the Upper Amazon (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Reflections and Ripples of the Caiman: Papers in the Spirit of Don Lathrap" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation outlines the findings from archaeological research conducted in the Upper Amazon region of the Upper Huallaga Basin. Interregional exchanges between the Andes and the Amazon are widely recognized as pivotal in shaping Andean civilization. In the mountainous regions of the Upper Huallaga Basin,...
Current Research on Islamic Glass Bangles of the Arabian Peninsula (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Current Research on Ancient Glass around the Indian Ocean" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The study of Islamic glass bangles has been undertaken on a localized or regional level by a number of authors. However, with advances in archaeochemistry the analysis of the primary production glass is offering new insights and contextualization to their typological and coloration differences. The presence of Islamic glass...
¿Cuáles son los monumentos olmecas del sitio Estero Rabón? (2018)
Uno de los grandes problemas de los monumentos escultóricos olmecas es que, para identificar la cronología y la cultura pertinente, la mayoría de ellos se ha perdido el contexto arqueológico. Por ello, existen algunos monumentos dudosos por su estilo y los de la procedencia desconocida en el corpus total de ellos. El sitio Estero Rabón es conocido como uno de los centros secundarios de San Lorenzo y fue reportado con la presencia de varios monumentos escultóricos olmecas. Sin embargo, casi todos...
David L. DeJarnette (1978)
This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.
David Meltzer and the Bureau of (American) Ethnology (2025)
This is an abstract from the "2025 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of David J. Meltzer Part II" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. It is difficult, if not downright impossible, to even begin to summarize the contributions Dave Meltzer has made to archaeology. I’ve long regarded him as the twenty-first-century heir to William Henry Holmes’s mantle. Few people have been as successful in pulling together truly interdisciplinary, as opposed to...
The Deep-Site Excavation Strategy at the Koster Site (2024)
This is an abstract from the "The Village, the Region, and Beyond: Stuart Struever (1931–2022) and the Lower Illinois River Valley Research Program" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. By 1972 the exposure of deeply buried occupation surfaces was a novelty in the Midwest. In Illinois, deep-site excavation experience was limited to the Modoc Rock Shelter exploration. Koster offered a new opportunity for a deep-site exposure, but one that raised...
Dena Dincauze: The Matriarch of New England Archaeology (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Female Firsts: Celebrating Archaeology’s Pioneering Women on the 101st Anniversary of the 19th Amendment " session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dena Dincauze (1934–2016) made a great impact throughout her archaeological career, not only in New England, but also throughout North America more broadly. As one of the first women to receive her PhD from Harvard University, Dena was also one of the first tenured female...
Department of the Interior Views Relative to the Role of Archeology in Federal Historic Preservation Programs (1978)
This presentation by Jerry L. Rogers, at the time the Chief, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation, Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service, was made at the at the first meeting of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) Task Force on Archeology,on July 17, 1978, in Washington, DC. Rogers first thanked the committee members and the ACHP for the interest and concern their respective agencies and the ACHP for engaging, as members of the task force in the challenging...
The Development of Archaeology as an Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Discipline 1960–2022 (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology as a research activity has changed dramatically over the past 70 years. Where once archaeology might have been seen as a discipline closely related to history and classics, the introduction of new techniques from other disciplines in the sciences, social sciences, and the arts has created a discipline that now thinks of itself and its research...