I Love Sherds and Parasites: A Festschrift in Honor of Pat Urban and Ed Schortman
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 "I Love Sherds and Parasites: A Festschrift in Honor of Pat Urban and Ed Schortman," at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Pat Urban and Ed Schortman have dedicated their careers to teaching and scholarship at Kenyon College and have helped pave the way for a large number of former students to become archaeologists. Pat and Ed first took students to Honduras in the mid-1980s as part of the Santa Barbara Archaeological Project (co-directed with Wendy Ashmore), and in 1998, formalized undergraduate participation as the Kenyon Honduras Program with the Naco Valley Project and, subsequently, the Cacaulapa Valley Project. There have been hundreds of students that have gone through the program, and today, some of those who went on to become professional archaeologists, as well as some of their colleagues, are here to offer insight into their education and foundation for their careers.
Other Keywords
Maya: Classic •
Education/Pedagogy •
Architecture •
Theory •
Kiln •
Gender •
Household Archaeology •
network analysis •
Archaeometry & Materials Analysis: XRF/pXRF •
Frontiers and Borderlands
Geographic Keywords
Republic of El Salvador (Country) •
Belize (Country) •
Republic of Guatemala (Country) •
North America (Continent) •
United Mexican States (Country) •
Mesoamerica •
Peten (State / Territory) •
Cayo (State / Territory) •
Stann Creek (State / Territory) •
Toledo (State / Territory)
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"Archaeology is just a more productive form of boring": Learning by Doing on the Kenyon-Honduras Program (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "I Love Sherds and Parasites: A Festschrift in Honor of Pat Urban and Ed Schortman" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Long before terms like "underrepresented," "community engaged learning," and "undergraduate research" were popular in the field of study abroad, Urban and Schortman gave undergraduates an unparalleled field research experience. This paper explores some of the highlights of the student experience, while...
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Crouching (Jade) Monkey, Hidden Lessons: A Formative Period in Honduras (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "I Love Sherds and Parasites: A Festschrift in Honor of Pat Urban and Ed Schortman" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The authors, along with many others, got their first immersion in archaeology thanks to Pat and Ed as part of the Kenyon Honduras Program. Their subsequent trajectories in archaeology took both of them away from Mesoamerica, albeit in very different directions, but both trace their origins to the Naco...
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Field Schools and Gender in Archaeology (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "I Love Sherds and Parasites: A Festschrift in Honor of Pat Urban and Ed Schortman" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper reflects on the singular importance of field school experiences, such as the semester abroad program of Kenyon College, for supporting students as they come to understand the social context of professional life in Latin American Archaeology and their ability to positively contribute to an...
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From Las Brisas to the World: The Genesis of a Periphery-Core Perspective under the Tutelage of Pat Urban and Ed Schortman (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "I Love Sherds and Parasites: A Festschrift in Honor of Pat Urban and Ed Schortman" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper explores the influences of Pat and Ed's methods and theories on two friends who first met and worked together in 1990 at the archaeological site of Las Brisas in the Naco Valley, Honduras. Without the incredible opportunities, methodological grounding, and theoretical approach provided by Pat...
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Ixtepeque Obsidian and the Polity: a Network and Boundary Approach in Southeastern Mesoamerica (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "I Love Sherds and Parasites: A Festschrift in Honor of Pat Urban and Ed Schortman" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Edward Schortman and Patricia Urban (2012) borrow theoretical approaches from Bruno Latour (1996), Giddens (1984), and Bourdieu (1977) to highlight networks of shared inter-elite interaction in southeastern Mesoamerica that interpenetrate ethnic and political boundaries. The following paper builds upon...
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The Kenyon-Honduras Program 1988-2019: Learning from the Past About Ourselves (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "I Love Sherds and Parasites: A Festschrift in Honor of Pat Urban and Ed Schortman" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the 1980s, the Kenyon-Honduras Program, under the leadership of Drs. Patricia Urban and Edward Schortman (P&E to us), has engaged students in the study of archaeology, anthropology, and life. Hundreds of students have been a part of the program over the past several decades. Being in the program...
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Lessons That Can’t Be Taught: Applying Anthropology in Honduras and Beyond (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "I Love Sherds and Parasites: A Festschrift in Honor of Pat Urban and Ed Schortman" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. After participating in the Kenyon-Honduras Program as a volunteer in the spring of 2004, I decided to apply to Master’s programs in anthropology, and I used the word "applied" to describe my experience in Honduras. Pat gently pointed out that their research was not technically "applied archaeology," since...
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The Local Effect of Changing Intra-valley Exchange Networks (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "I Love Sherds and Parasites: A Festschrift in Honor of Pat Urban and Ed Schortman" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the Terminal Classic phase in the southwest Naco Valley, Honduras, a small plaza group, plaza 426, emerged as a regional actor in intra-valley exchange of pottery. The current interpretation of the structure’s reuse is that, as previously documented, a more centralized hub of political and economic...
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Power from the Periphery: 40 Years of Insight on the Maya Lowlands from Southeast Mesoamerica (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "I Love Sherds and Parasites: A Festschrift in Honor of Pat Urban and Ed Schortman" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For more than 40 years, Pat Urban, Ed Schortman, and their student-colleagues have toiled long and hard in the blazing heat of Northwestern Honduras to understand the "non-Maya" populations resident in Southeast Mesoamerica. Their work stretches from the beginnings of complexity in the Middle Preclassic...
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WWPAED? (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "I Love Sherds and Parasites: A Festschrift in Honor of Pat Urban and Ed Schortman" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pat Urban and Ed Schortman instilled in us the inability to think small. Their big picture, long-term approach to research, teaching, and mentoring is the greatest of all the many gifts they have shared with us. In research, it means we dig in. We have chosen our research sites carefully, with the...