Terraforming and Monumentality in Hunter-Gatherer-Fisher Landscapes
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)
Monumental constructions, whether economic, political or symbolic in their origin and use, are integral to how hunter-gatherer-fisher (HGF) peoples have constructed and shaped their worlds over much of the Holocene. For this symposium we bring together studies from various areas of the globe to theorize about these practices, and to account for the complex and varied ways in which large-scale features were constructed and terraforming was practiced in HGF societies. While monumentality has been well-studied in early agricultural and later contexts, the record of HGF monuments is clearly extensive, and attests to a more complex engagement with material production, the construction of place, of identity, and of history than is recognized in the broader discipline. We seek to provide a set of theoretical and methodological tools to address this record.
Other Keywords
Monumentality •
Monument •
Shell Mounds •
Hunter-gatherer-fishers •
Ritual •
Hunter-Gatherers •
Middens •
Mollusks •
Defensive Sites •
Method
Geographic Keywords
North America - NW Coast/Alaska •
North America - Southeast •
South America •
North America - California •
East/Southeast Asia
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From Habitat Exploitation to Monument Construction: Exploring the Nature of Shell Deposits at Crystal River and Roberts Island through Stable Isotope Geochemistry (2016)
Monumental Stonework and the Making of Places and History on the Northwest Coast of British Columbia (2016)
Points of revelation and communication: Interpreting Native American "monument" construction in the coastal American Southeast (2016)