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

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.