Archaeological Method and Theory: Papers in Honor of James M. Skibo, Part II

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Archaeological Method and Theory: Papers in Honor of James M. Skibo, Part II," at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

James M. Skibo has made significant contributions to the discipline of archaeology since the 1980s and has been recognized for his work through a number of awards and honors, including Distinguished Professor at Illinois State University and the SAA’s Excellence in Archaeological Analysis. Jim has also published a number of books and has made substantial contributions to archaeology as the co-editor of the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory for over two decades. His research and publications have included a number of topics and regions of study, particularly the Philippines, U.S. Midwest, Great Lakes, and American Southwest. The papers assembled in this session, presented by students and colleagues, reflect the broad impact of Jim’s career with an emphasis on his teaching and mentorship, and his legacy in the study of archaeological method and theory, including pottery use-alteration, behavioral archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, and experimental archaeology.

Other Keywords
Woodland • Material Culture and Technology • Theory • Use-Wear Analysis • Ceramic Analysis • Ancestral Pueblo • Coastal and Island Archaeology  • Cultural Resources and Heritage Management • Publishing archaeology

Geographic Keywords
United States of America (Country) • Kansas (State / Territory) • North America (Continent) • USA (Country) • Missouri (State / Territory) • Kentucky (State / Territory) • Illinois (State / Territory) • Wisconsin (State / Territory) • Indiana (State / Territory) • Michigan (State / Territory)

Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-6 of 6)

  • Documents (6)
Documents
  • Driving Us Nuts: Acorn Processing Experiments and the Impact of Mentorship and Yooper Wisdom (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelsey Hanson.

    This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Method and Theory: Papers in Honor of James M. Skibo, Part II" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Jim Skibo has undeniably had a profound impact in archaeological method and theory, but he has had an even greater role in teaching and student mentorship, providing his students with a robust foundation infused with Yooper wisdom. In an homage to the theoretical and methodological foundations provided by Jim,...

  • Got Collars?: Braced Rim Jars in the Late Woodland Western Great Lakes (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only John Richards.

    This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Method and Theory: Papers in Honor of James M. Skibo, Part II" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pots with rims formed into distinct collars appear in the western Great Lakes during the early eleventh century A.D. and appear to have been produced well into the fourteenth century A.D. Such "collared ware" has a wide, though uneven distribution in the region and includes at least three types of true collared...

  • Jim Skibo: Éditeur Extraordinaire (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Catherine Cameron.

    This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Method and Theory: Papers in Honor of James M. Skibo, Part II" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Jim Skibo is a prolific scholar, but this paper addresses not Jim’s research, but his multifaceted involvement with the publication of archaeological research. As a book series editor and a journal editor (as well as in a variety of other roles) Jim has encouraged the work of scholars young and old, but...

  • Learning to Squeeze the Data: Fifteen Years of Archaeological Research within the Grand Island National Recreation Area (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric Drake.

    This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Method and Theory: Papers in Honor of James M. Skibo, Part II" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From 2001 until 2015, the Hiawatha National Forest partnered with Illinois State University (ISU) to host a public archaeology program named the Grand Island Archaeological Project. The project involved an archaeological field school operated through ISU, a Youth Archaeology Workshop, and public interpretation...

  • Life Histories Thick and Thin: Scaling and Four Dimensions of Artifact Variability (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only William Walker.

    This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Method and Theory: Papers in Honor of James M. Skibo, Part II" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Life history analysis offers a means for organizing activities through time that tracks the interactions of one or more objects. These objects both human and nonhuman make up the stuff of ongoing cultures and their archaeological remains. We record these lives using four types of measures: object frequencies,...

  • Pottery and Fire-Cracked Rock Use-Alteration: Assessing the Impact of James M. Skibo (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Fernanda Neubauer. Michael J. Schaefer.

    This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Method and Theory: Papers in Honor of James M. Skibo, Part II" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. James M. Skibo’s pioneering work developing the methods and theory of ceramic use-alteration analysis has allowed archaeologists to make new range of inferences from one of the most broadly available classes of artifacts, utilitarian ceramics. His ethnoarchaeological and experimental work has brought about a...