Defining Perishables: The How, What, and Why of Perishables and Their Importance in Understanding the Past
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 "Defining Perishables: The How, What, and Why of Perishables and Their Importance in Understanding the Past" at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
This poster session will delve into the importance of perishables in the everyday lives of people in the past and present. Innovations in this area have been important in the sociocultural development and success of past civilizations, and the preservation of traditions today. Participants will demonstrate how new technologies, ethnographies, and experimental archaeology help researchers better understand perishables and their role in interpreting the archaeological record. Organized with the Fiber/Perishables Interest Group (FPIG).
Other Keywords
Experimental Archaeology •
Caves and Rockshelters •
Textile Production •
Warfare •
Social Memory •
Violence •
Historic •
Materiality •
entanglement •
contact period
Geographic Keywords
North America (Continent) •
Arizona (State / Territory) •
United States of America (Country) •
United Mexican States (Country) •
Belize (Country) •
USA (Country) •
Mesoamerica •
New Mexico (State / Territory) •
Oklahoma (State / Territory) •
Texas (State / Territory)
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Archaeological Evidence for the Use of Maize in Cave Ritual (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "Defining Perishables: The How, What, and Why of Perishables and Their Importance in Understanding the Past" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Variations in the deposition of maize remains have been noted in different Maya caves. These vary from the discovery of small immature cobbs, 3 to 5 cm in length, which appear to represent first fruit rituals to large deposits of mature cobbs in ritual contexts that appear to have...
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Generationally Linked Archaeology: A New Line on Ancient Northwest Coast Cordage (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "Defining Perishables: The How, What, and Why of Perishables and Their Importance in Understanding the Past" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ed Carriere, Suquamish Elder (88) and Master Basketmaker, has had a lifetime goal of practicing the art of making early indigenous cordage, nets, and basketry. Teaming up with Dr. Dale Croes (WSU), Ed and Dale have published their “Generationally Linked Archaeology” approach, using...
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How to Find the Unfindable: A New Method for Replicating Perishable Indigenous Technologies of Conflict (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "Defining Perishables: The How, What, and Why of Perishables and Their Importance in Understanding the Past" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study provides an innovative multidisciplinary model operationalizing the study of perishable weaponry through experimental archaeology. In this model, I focus on war clubs, a type of Indigenous weapon commonly found across North America. Most of these weapons were made wholly...
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Lives of Baskets, Lives of Weavers: Using Digital Heritage and Interdisciplinary Research to Restore Social Memory (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "Defining Perishables: The How, What, and Why of Perishables and Their Importance in Understanding the Past" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In “Entangled,” his landmark theoretical work on the relationship between human beings and material culture, Ian Hodder emphasized the importance of understanding how things endure differently than people. Thus longer-lived objects can bridge gaps and carry meaning between multiple...
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Microscopic Fibers and Dental Calculus from Midnight Terror Cave, Belize (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "Defining Perishables: The How, What, and Why of Perishables and Their Importance in Understanding the Past" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Midnight Terror Cave human remains collection consists of over 10,000 commingled bone fragments from at least 118 Maya sacrificial victims from the Classic period (250 CE–925 CE). Microscopic examination of dental calculus was carried out on a selection of teeth as part of a...
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Textiles, Tools, and Trepidation: Experiments in Creating Bone and Antler Tools Used in the Production of Textiles (2023)
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This is an abstract from the "Defining Perishables: The How, What, and Why of Perishables and Their Importance in Understanding the Past" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tools used in the creation of textiles can be made of numerous materials, including stone, clay, metal, wood, bone, and anther, just to name a few. Numerous experiments in creating tools, such as spindle whorls, loom weights, needles, combs, and weaving battens have been carried...