Living Landscapes: Disaster, Memory, and Change in Dynamic Environments

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kellam Throgmorton.

This is an abstract from the "Living Landscapes: Disaster, Memory, and Change in Dynamic Environments " session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Chaco Canyon is the center of one of the best known archaeological cultures in North America, and its influence spread widely across the northern US Southwest between AD 850 and 1150. Because of the well-preserved road segments, shrine networks, earthworks, and petroglyph panels associated with the Chacoan culture,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sophia Perdikaris. Edith Gonzalez.

This is an abstract from the "Living Landscapes: Disaster, Memory, and Change in Dynamic Environments " session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this presentation, we will examine Barbuda’s landscape from a diachronic perspective. The ongoing tension between multiple man-made and natural disasters and a resilient people have successively modified Barbuda’s environment from the earliest peopling at 5000 BP extending to the present day. Big weather events,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amy Cromartie. Sébastien Joannin.

This is an abstract from the "Living Landscapes: Disaster, Memory, and Change in Dynamic Environments " session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper we investigate the entanglement of agro-pastoral and ecological processes on the creation and maintenance of vegetation biodiversity in the mountain steppe of Armenia, an area that has been a steppe for the entire Holocene (Cromartie et al. 2020). Focusing on the Bronze and Iron Age we discuss how...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Howe.

This is an abstract from the "Living Landscapes: Disaster, Memory, and Change in Dynamic Environments " session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Falcon dam and reservoir near Zapata, Texas, was completed in 1954 as a binational project for flood control of the Rio Grande by Mexico and the United States. Some archaeological projects were completed before the area was flooded, cemeteries were exhumed and moved to new areas outside of the high flood waters,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Birge.

This is an abstract from the "Living Landscapes: Disaster, Memory, and Change in Dynamic Environments " session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Landscapes are haunted, cyborg stories. They are haunted by pasts that could have been and emergent futures. They are cyborgs as they are assemblages of human and nonhuman entities in emplaced relationships. They are stories because we curate and present a version of a landscape where certain places, voices, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Junko Habu.

This is an abstract from the "Living Landscapes: Disaster, Memory, and Change in Dynamic Environments " session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation argues that the resilience of the food systems during and after the Jomon period (ca. 16,000–2500 cal BP) in prehistoric Japan must have been closely related to the diversity of staple foods, settlement locations, and methods of landscape management including the use of fire. Despite an abundance...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Christie.

This is an abstract from the "Living Landscapes: Disaster, Memory, and Change in Dynamic Environments " session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper analyzes the ahupua`a Kahalu`u and Keauhou on the west coast of Hawai`i Island as living, dynamic landscapes applying methodologies from archaeology, ethnohistory, and heritage studies as well as the framework of memory. Kahalu’u and Keauhou appear to be an incredibly interesting archaeological landscape...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Witt. Catherine Landis. Neil Patterson, Jr..

This is an abstract from the "Living Landscapes: Disaster, Memory, and Change in Dynamic Environments " session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological landscapes embody shifting conceptualizations of the individuals who live, work, and play at those locations, both in the past and present. While other papers in this session address such changes in the context of the archaeological past, we bring the discussion to the present. We explore these...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda Brock Morales.

This is an abstract from the "Living Landscapes: Disaster, Memory, and Change in Dynamic Environments " session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1970, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake destroyed numerous towns and displaced many families throughout the Callejon de Huaylas, Peru. In the search for new land and new lives, many of the displaced families began to settle on elevated archaeological sites of monumental architecture located in alluvial plains and near...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Josefina Vasquez Pazmino.

This is an abstract from the "Living Landscapes: Disaster, Memory, and Change in Dynamic Environments " session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The oral tradition of the Chilla landscape distinguishes two main stories: the first one portrays the apparition of the Virgin Mary, and the second one narrates the Mayan origins of its inhabitants. However, Chilla is in El Oro province, where a monumental pyramid and other neighboring sites correspond to the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carla Klehm. Camille Westmont. Kaitlyn Davis.

This is an abstract from the "Living Landscapes: Disaster, Memory, and Change in Dynamic Environments " session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Remote sensing has been fundamental since the establishment of landscape archaeology, from capturing site layout to aiding in the synthesis of human-environmental relationships. Geospatial technology and its analytical software continue to advance at an accelerated pace and are considered almost integral to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristina Douglass. Tanambelo Rasolondrainy.

This is an abstract from the "Living Landscapes: Disaster, Memory, and Change in Dynamic Environments " session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We explore the role of social memory in facilitating human survival within the dynamic landscape of southwest Madagascar. By analyzing an oral history archive compiled through interviews with over 100 knowledge holders in the Velondriake Marine Protected Area, we address questions about human adaptation to climate...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan LeBlanc.

This is an abstract from the "Living Landscapes: Disaster, Memory, and Change in Dynamic Environments " session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Tacahuay Quebrada has a long geologic history of flood events, as well as human occupation. Around 12,000 years ago, early inhabitants lived along the coastline of this landscape. Through time, people moved away from the ocean to settle along the channel, floodplain, and elevated terraces of the quebrada. In...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Isabel Rivera-Collazo.

This is an abstract from the "Living Landscapes: Disaster, Memory, and Change in Dynamic Environments " session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As one of the oldest colonies in the world, Puerto Rico has developed diverse strategies to transfer knowledge about disasters and to stimulate community ties for social resilience. The impact of disasters and the memory of response are present in intangible heritage. An example of this is the song “Temporal”...