Negotiating Watery Worlds: Impacts and Implications of the Use of Watercraft in Small-Scale Societies

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Negotiating Watery Worlds: Impacts and Implications of the Use of Watercraft in Small-Scale Societies" at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This session brings together archaeological case studies and theoretical frameworks that focus on the use and impact of watercraft in small-scale societies around the world. Present research on the role of boats and water transport in maritime societies has stressed the necessity of theorizing watercraft as both a means of transportation and instrument of production, and how these technologies structured social contexts, fueled and curtailed political centralization, and shaped world views. Case studies in this session stress a comparative approach in order to further our understanding of the interplay between aquatic environments, watercraft technology, and social change, ranging from studies focused on seafaring and organizational strategies (settlement and mobility patterns, ways of transport) to those concerned with social and ideological dimensions of society (gender, social complexity, exchange networks, identity, and ontologies).

Other Keywords
Watercraft • Coastal and Island Archaeology  • Digital Archaeology: Simulation and Modeling • Ideology • Mobility • Settlement patterns • Historic • ontology • Ethnohistory/History • and Memory

Geographic Keywords
North America: Pacific Northwest Coast and Plateau • Isle of Man (Country) • North America (Continent) • South America (Continent) • United States of America (Country) • Kingdom of Sweden (Country) • Kingdom of Norway (Country) • French Republic (Country) • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Nort (Country) • Ireland (Country)

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  1. Boat Engravings and Maritime Technologies in the Megalithic Ages 4700–2500 cal BC (2023)
  2. Collective Action, Transport Costs, Watercraft Technologies, and the Engineered Ancestral Landscapes of Southern Florida (2023)
  3. Creating a Fisher’s Body: Using Ethnobioarchaeology to Reveal the Caballito de Totora-Body-Fish-Sea Assemblage in Ancient Huanchaco, Peru (2023)
  4. The Effect of Boats and Watercraft on Archaeological Interpretations of Social/Economic Organization and Population Histories within the Pacific Northwest of North America (2023)
  5. Going By Boat-Being: An Indigenous Ontological Approach to Human-Boat Relationships on the Pacific Northwest Coast (2023)
  6. Improved Representation of Paddled Propulsion in a Deterministic Ocean Voyaging Model: Bronze Age Scandinavian Example (2023)
  7. Kanči: Indigenous Seafaring, Watercraft Diversity, and Cultural Contact in Southern Patagonia (2023)
  8. Mapping Midgard: Reconstructing Mental Geographies of Viking Age Seafarers (2023)
  9. Navigating Paradigms: Site Location and Settlement Patterns in Watery Environments from the Pacific Northwest Coast and Southern Patagonia (2023)
  10. Precontact Inuit Watercraft and the Hunter-Prey Actantial Hinge (2023)
  11. Seascapes and Society on the Forgotten Peninsula: The Watercraft of Baja California, Mexico (2023)
  12. Seascapes of the Unreal: Using Agent-Based Modeling to Examine Traditional Coast Salish Maritime Mobility (2023)
  13. Subsistence Practice as Remote Sensing on the Northwest Coast (2023)
  14. The Transformative Power of Boats: Seafaring and Social Complexity in Indigenous California and Hokkaido (2023)