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)