Building Bridges: Papers in Honor of Teresita Majewski

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Walker.

This is an abstract from the "Building Bridges: Papers in Honor of Teresita Majewski" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. If pottery was animate in past cultures, does this not beg the question how would these powers, central to magical technologies, contribute to creation of archaeological phases? Archaeologists generally struggle to explain rise and fall in the popularity of artifacts. Indeed the behavioral archaeologists developed artifact...

DOCUMENT Citation Only S. Terry Childs.

This is an abstract from the "Building Bridges: Papers in Honor of Teresita Majewski" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. How are managing and preserving archaeological collections and volunteerism related? I have known Dr. Majewski for about 25 years. Almost all of that time has been when she volunteered to be on various Society for American Archaeology committees that I was also on, wrote articles for journal theme issues I edited, and other...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sandra Lopez Varela.

This is an abstract from the "Building Bridges: Papers in Honor of Teresita Majewski" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2014, I had the honor of interviewing Terry Majewski, one of the most influential women in the CRM industry. The insightful dialogue was facilitated through meticulously crafted questions curated by female students participating in my BA course on Heritage Business and Marketing. This conversation delved into her transformative...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelly Jenks. Lauren Jelinek.

This is an abstract from the "Building Bridges: Papers in Honor of Teresita Majewski" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Preparing students to work in heritage management is a difficult and increasingly urgent task. Some of the biggest challenges faced by educators include large student-to-teacher ratios, the logistical demands of transporting students to and from project areas, the expense of purchasing and maintaining appropriate equipment and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Krista Eschbach.

This is an abstract from the "Building Bridges: Papers in Honor of Teresita Majewski" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Native groups developed great diversity in food recipes, preparation techniques, and approaches to commensality. In some regions, such as in the Borderlands East, commensality tended toward communal-style serving vessels and related eating practices. Those practices contrasted with individual-style plates, bowls, and cups that were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Cowie.

This is an abstract from the "Building Bridges: Papers in Honor of Teresita Majewski" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Teresita Majewski has influenced archaeology and heritage management in extensive and diverse ways. To my mind, her contributions all have one idea in common: humanizing the field. Here I present three examples of her influence on my own work, especially regarding ceramic analysis and work with stakeholders, research partners, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren Jelinek. Kelly Jenks.

This is an abstract from the "Building Bridges: Papers in Honor of Teresita Majewski" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mentorship plays a critical role in preparing new archaeologists for their future careers. Often dismissed as trivial compared to other roles such as project management or program development, it constitutes a long-term investment in the future of the individual, their specialty, their organization, and the profession as a whole....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tracie Mayfield.

This is an abstract from the "Building Bridges: Papers in Honor of Teresita Majewski" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The islands of Old Providence and Santa Catalina, located 130 miles of the coast of Nicaragua and around 8.5 square miles in size, have been a center of global trade, resource extraction, and military action since 1629, when the English Puritan venture capitalists of the Providence Island Company—whose shareholders also held stakes...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy Tumberg.

This is an abstract from the "Building Bridges: Papers in Honor of Teresita Majewski" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The historic town-site of Agate Bay, on the north shore of Lake Superior in present-day Two Harbors, was developed in the 1880s in conjunction with and as a consequence of the opening of Minnesota’s first (Vermilion) Iron Range. Popular historic accounts claim that Agate Bay was a rough-and-tumble frontier settlement that became...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathleen Wheeler.

This is an abstract from the "Building Bridges: Papers in Honor of Teresita Majewski" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Northern New England has a rich and lengthy postcontact occupation history. New England archaeologists, historians, and SHPOs long focused on the “First” periods of settlement, such as seventeenth-century forts and eighteenth-century maritime sites, while nineteenth-century resources were dismissed. As Terry’s first PhD student, I...