Ways to Do, Ways to Inhabit, Ways to Interact: An Archaeological View of Communities and Daily Life

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Ways to Do, Ways to Inhabit, Ways to Interact: An Archaeological View of Communities and Daily Life" at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Archaeology reconstructs ancient daily life thought material culture. The objects, spaces, and evidence of social interaction make the history of the people and community and are appreciable sources for the reconstruction of social history. The study of daily life refers to the transformation of cultural forms (objects, architecture, landscape, language, interactions) created by humans in society to satisfy their material, emotional, and spiritual needs. The study of objects through a technological perspective provides information about the persons, their needs, traditions, identity, and ritual economy. The study of urbanism and landscape looks at people’s interactions in urban space and how the space is conceived, built, and inhabited by people. Interactions are essentially communication processes involving the movement of information, people, and even objects. In a dynamic of interaction, the cultural and information transmission process (which, in its broadest sense, includes technological knowledge, rituals, and symbolic concepts) becomes quite complex. In this round table we will discuss technology, language, people, landscape, urbanism, and local and long-distance interactions from different theoretical perspectives in West Mexico. The objective is to open a space for young researchers to present new proposals to get closer to the knowledge and understanding the past.

Other Keywords
Highland Mesoamerica: Postclassic • Trade and exchange • Archaeometry & Materials Analysis • Highland Mesoamerica: Classic • Political economy • Architecture • Collections • Museums • Urbanism • Craft Production

Geographic Keywords
United Mexican States (Country) • North America (Continent) • Colima (State / Territory) • Michoacan (State / Territory) • Jalisco (State / Territory) • Nayarit (State / Territory) • Aguascalientes (State / Territory) • Guanajuato (State / Territory) • Mesoamerica: Western • Mesoamerica

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  • The Children of the Fire (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Mónica Sosa Ruiz.

    This is an abstract from the "Ways to Do, Ways to Inhabit, Ways to Interact: An Archaeological View of Communities and Daily Life" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fire is an important part of ceramic production; nevertheless, it is usually taken for granted when studying and analyzing ceramics. Ethnoarchaeology, experimentation, and sensory archaeology allowed us to grasp a better understanding of the relationships entangled between fire-using...

  • Habitar en el Irechequa Tzintzuntzani: Resultados preliminares del análisis lidar (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Fernanda Navarro Sandoval. José Luis Punzo Díaz.

    This is an abstract from the "Ways to Do, Ways to Inhabit, Ways to Interact: An Archaeological View of Communities and Daily Life" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Como parte del proyecto “Prospección Arqueológica de Tzintzuntzan, Antigua Ciudad de Michoacán”, se analizó el paisaje norte de la cuenca del lago de Pátzcuaro para identificar la extensión de las modificaciones hechas en las laderas de los cerros, mediante la construcción de terrazas. A...

  • Interaction and Exchange between Tingambato and the Central Michoacan Area in West Mexico (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Mijaely Castañón-Suárez.

    This is an abstract from the "Ways to Do, Ways to Inhabit, Ways to Interact: An Archaeological View of Communities and Daily Life" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Long-distance interactions and exchange of goods should leave marks in the material record. Because of the movement of objects or goods, such exchange will be reflected in the presence of foreign objects or technologies. Interactions are themselves a communication process in which ideas...

  • Lapidary Objects from a Funerary Context: The Origin to the Last Abode (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniela Rodriguez Obregon. Emiliano Melgar Tísoc.

    This is an abstract from the "Ways to Do, Ways to Inhabit, Ways to Interact: An Archaeological View of Communities and Daily Life" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Within of the daily activities of a population, there were the events of the death of community members. These practices led the population to look for certain objects that needed to be placed next to the deceased people in the burial process with different functions and meanings. But...

  • Political Economy in Neighborhood Public Space at Angamuco, Michoacan (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kyle Urquhart.

    This is an abstract from the "Ways to Do, Ways to Inhabit, Ways to Interact: An Archaeological View of Communities and Daily Life" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper looks at changes in the relationships between elites and commoners in neighborhood public spaces at the site of Angamuco, Michoacan, Mexico, drawing from a combination of Marxian political economy and collective action theory. The study uses a combination of viewshed analysis,...

  • Trabajo arqueológico desde la bodega: Una revisión de los objetos funerarios asociados a las tumbas de La Nopalera (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ramiro Aguayo Haro. Mijaely Castañón-Suárez.

    This is an abstract from the "Ways to Do, Ways to Inhabit, Ways to Interact: An Archaeological View of Communities and Daily Life" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A partir de un nuevo análisis de los ajuares funerarios excavados en la década de los ochenta en el sitio de La Nopalera, se lleva a cabo un replanteamiento tanto de la temporalidad como los alcances sociales de este tipo de contextos funerarios en la región de la cuenca de Cuitzeo. Se...

  • Tzintzuntzan Archaeological Site: An Approximation to Its Astronomical Orientations (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ricardo García Reyna.

    This is an abstract from the "Ways to Do, Ways to Inhabit, Ways to Interact: An Archaeological View of Communities and Daily Life" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation focuses on the astronomical orientations at the Tzintzuntzan archaeological site. This research progress presents our data from fieldwork: firstly, the measurements of azimuth and elevation from architecture alignments; second, the process of date calculation; and third,...