AD 1150 to the Present: Ancient Political Economy to Contemporary Materiality—Archaeological Anthropology in Honor of Jeanne E. Arnold

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 "AD 1150 to the Present: Ancient Political Economy to Contemporary Materiality—Archaeological Anthropology in Honor of Jeanne E. Arnold" at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This symposium honors the legacy of Jeanne E. Arnold, a leading voice in California archaeology and a remarkably impactful mentor who made an indelible impact on the field of archaeological anthropology. On the whole, Jeanne’s scholarship reframed complex hunter-gatherer-fisher societies as not mere exceptions to normative cultural evolutionary patterns but rather exemplars of creative social, political, and economic strategies that defy easy generalization and complicate expectations of agriculture as requisite to the emergence of institutionalized power differentials in and among human societies. Jeanne wrote and published prolifically, contributing seven books and 70 articles and book chapters to myriad theory-imbued discussions—technological innovation, craft specialization, the evolution of leadership, the organization of household labor, apprenticeship, consumption and leisure, and contemporary materializations of meaning and identity, among others. This impressive record of scholarship includes numerous publications with her students as well as with scholars from a wide swath of disciplines, demonstrating a remarkable commitment to collaborative, interdisciplinary approaches to studying the human condition. This symposium brings together an ensemble of scholars whose collective work exemplifies the dispositions, methodological rigor, analytic approaches, and theoretical foci pursued and championed by Jeanne E. Arnold.

Other Keywords
Zooarchaeology • Craft Production • Household Archaeology • contact period • Ethnohistory/History • Coastal and Island Archaeology  • Ethnography/Ethnoarchaeology • Lithic Analysis • Migration • Mortuary Analysis

Geographic Keywords
United States of America (Country) • North America (Continent) • Arizona (State / Territory) • Utah (State / Territory) • Nevada (State / Territory) • California (State / Territory) • USA (Country) • North America: California and Great Basin • North America • New Mexico (State / Territory)

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  • Bone Tool Production and Use in Southern Coastal California: Examining a Process that Demanded the Use of Large Terrestrial Mammal Tool-Quality Raw Material (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Wake.

    This is an abstract from the "AD 1150 to the Present: Ancient Political Economy to Contemporary Materiality—Archaeological Anthropology in Honor of Jeanne E. Arnold" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fragmented bits of worked bone are relatively common in coastal California habitation refuse—or shell middens. I examine collections of worked bone from various mainland and Channel Island archaeological sites with a focus on understanding the role of...

  • Chumash Watercraft, Maritime Exchange, and Sociopolitical Complexity (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only John Johnson.

    This is an abstract from the "AD 1150 to the Present: Ancient Political Economy to Contemporary Materiality—Archaeological Anthropology in Honor of Jeanne E. Arnold" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Jeanne Arnold explored the relationship between advanced boat technology and sociopolitical complexity in her research and in many publications. She investigated the origins of the Chumash tomol (plank canoe) and emphasized its key role in facilitating...

  • Erasure, Disappearance, and Accountability: Rethinking Taphonomy and Site Formation Processes in the Sonoran Desert (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jason De Leon. Nicole Smith.

    This is an abstract from the "AD 1150 to the Present: Ancient Political Economy to Contemporary Materiality—Archaeological Anthropology in Honor of Jeanne E. Arnold" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1994, the US Border Patrol formalized a boundary enforcement strategy known as “Prevention Through Deterrence” (PTD) that employs the natural environment as a weapon to impede the movement of undocumented border crossers. PTD has subsequently been...

  • Exploring Temporal and Geographical Aspects of Chumash Mortuary Practice and Ceremonial Integration (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ray Corbett.

    This is an abstract from the "AD 1150 to the Present: Ancient Political Economy to Contemporary Materiality—Archaeological Anthropology in Honor of Jeanne E. Arnold" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ethnographic and ethnohistoric evidence indicate that certain ceremonial objects were exclusively associated with 'Antap ritual specialists and were used in multi-community Chumash religious ceremonies. Analyses of the evolution of the form of these...

  • Household Craft Production at San Gabriel Mission, California (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only John Dietler.

    This is an abstract from the "AD 1150 to the Present: Ancient Political Economy to Contemporary Materiality—Archaeological Anthropology in Honor of Jeanne E. Arnold" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over a decade of research, archaeologists working at San Gabriel Mission (active from 1771 to 1834) explored contexts outside of the mission quadrangle that revealed evidence of the numerous ways in which native residents navigated their colonial world,...

  • Human-Object Severance: Archaeological Interventions in Contemporary Material Flows and Massive Discard (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Anthony Graesch.

    This is an abstract from the "AD 1150 to the Present: Ancient Political Economy to Contemporary Materiality—Archaeological Anthropology in Honor of Jeanne E. Arnold" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. After decades of aspirational spending, and in houses brimming with tens to hundreds of thousands of objects, North Americans have amassed inventories of belongings that are extraordinary for their scale and complexity. In a process largely devoid of...

  • Interior Chumash Faunal Exploitation: The View from SBA-2464 (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Roger Colten.

    This is an abstract from the "AD 1150 to the Present: Ancient Political Economy to Contemporary Materiality—Archaeological Anthropology in Honor of Jeanne E. Arnold" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Late prehistoric and early contact era Chumash society included wide-ranging exchange and social networks that integrated people among a diversity of ecological zones. Several of these models suggest three of the major ecological zones were the Northern...

  • Jeanne Arnold’s Legacy on California’s Channel Islands (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Perry.

    This is an abstract from the "AD 1150 to the Present: Ancient Political Economy to Contemporary Materiality—Archaeological Anthropology in Honor of Jeanne E. Arnold" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In honor of Jeanne Arnold, I discuss major theoretical and methodological themes in her research on the northern California’s Channel Islands including 1) her focus on Late Holocene households as relevant units of past decision-making and current...

  • Jeanne’s Legacy and Indigenous Archaeology at Tlaqayam̓u (CA-SCRI-330) (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Sunell.

    This is an abstract from the "AD 1150 to the Present: Ancient Political Economy to Contemporary Materiality—Archaeological Anthropology in Honor of Jeanne E. Arnold" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Jeanne’s excavations at tlaqayam̓u (CA-SCRI-330) yielded detailed information about bead-making on limuw (Santa Cruz Island, CA) in the centuries before Spanish colonization. Two of the important classes of artifacts that underpinned the conclusions she...

  • Late Holocene Nearshore Marine Productivity, Climate Change, and Changing Sociopolitical Dynamics on California’s Northern Channel Islands (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Torben Rick. Natasha Vokhshoori. Todd Braje. Christine France. Matthew McCarthy.

    This is an abstract from the "AD 1150 to the Present: Ancient Political Economy to Contemporary Materiality—Archaeological Anthropology in Honor of Jeanne E. Arnold" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Understanding the social, political, and economic dynamics of coastal hunter-gatherer-fishers was a hallmark of Jeanne Arnold’s multi-decade archaeological research. Arnold integrated marine climate records and archaeological data to develop hypotheses...

  • The Sampling Was Done in the Field: JEA as Scholar and Mentor in Context (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Julienne Bernard.

    This is an abstract from the "AD 1150 to the Present: Ancient Political Economy to Contemporary Materiality—Archaeological Anthropology in Honor of Jeanne E. Arnold" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper examines and celebrates the scholarship of Jeanne Arnold within her life as a friend, colleague, and mentor. Coming of age in a decidedly masculine and sometimes antagonistic era of California archaeology, Jeanne emerged as a leading and...

  • Variation in Household Kitchen Activities at Housepit 54, British Columbia: Reflections on Jeanne Arnold’s Legacy (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna Prentiss. Ashley Hampton. Matthew Walsh. Megan Denis. Haley O'Brien.

    This is an abstract from the "AD 1150 to the Present: Ancient Political Economy to Contemporary Materiality—Archaeological Anthropology in Honor of Jeanne E. Arnold" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Jeanne Arnold left us with a legacy of archaeological research into households, social change, and technological variation in the various contexts across the North American west coast. Her work was always characterized by attention to multiple sources of...

  • Women's Leadership and Ritual Specialization in Coast Miwok and Kashia Pomo Cultures (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Sandra Hollimon.

    This is an abstract from the "AD 1150 to the Present: Ancient Political Economy to Contemporary Materiality—Archaeological Anthropology in Honor of Jeanne E. Arnold" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Employing theoretical and interpretive frameworks influenced by the research of Jeanne E. Arnold, I examine the roles of women in the ritual organizations of these two Native California cultures. I address the antiquity of these ritual systems and the...