Cultivating Food, Land, and Communities

DOCUMENT Citation Only Molly Carney. Naomi Scher. Shannon Tushingham.

This is an abstract from the "Cultivating Food, Land, and Communities" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Food security is fundamental to strong, resilient food systems, and healthy communities. It exists when all people have consistent access to nutritious and culturally appropriate foods, gathered and distributed in socially acceptable ways. Archaeology offers a means of documenting and understanding deep time histories and legacies of food...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shelly Davis-King.

This is an abstract from the "Cultivating Food, Land, and Communities" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. America’s first people have been extremely knowledgeable about animals, plants, and fungi they ingest and/or breathe in for medicinal purposes. Medicine, from a Native perspective, is something honored, taken in for healing and well-being, to be used with respect and knowledge, with spiritual reverence and recognition of cultural continuity....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tiffany Fulkerson. Shannon Tushingham.

This is an abstract from the "Cultivating Food, Land, and Communities" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Growth in cultural and environmental compliance industries highlights a need to train early career professionals in collaborative approaches to heritage management that consider both the interrelatedness of cultural and natural resources across diverse habitats, and the expressed interests and goals of the communities who maintain long-standing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Lewis.

This is an abstract from the "Cultivating Food, Land, and Communities" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, I present case studies in reconstructing traditional Indigenous landscapes of the Willamette Valley, involving the removal of Indigenous stewardship, imposing settler agriculture, and draining wetlands in the valley. The environmental reconstruction of settler changes made to these land and water systems provides information about...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas Jacobs. Hope Loiselle. Alexandra Fraik. Ross Salerno. Molly Carney.

This is an abstract from the "Cultivating Food, Land, and Communities" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recovery plans and goals for Pacific northwest salmon, trout, and char (Oncorhynchus spp., Salmonidae) seek to conserve and restore these keystone species throughout the Salish Sea and its watersheds. Archaeological data offer a window into past Salmonidae life-histories and can provide a long-term record of the species and their relative...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Arianna Garvin Suero. Aleksalía Isla Alayo.

This is an abstract from the "Cultivating Food, Land, and Communities" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We embrace community archaeology to explore ancient subsistence strategies and societal resilience to El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events at Puerto Malabrigo, Chicama Valley, Peru. Since the Middle Holocene, Andean societies have experienced ENSOs that, when most powerful, prompt heavy rainfall and flooding in some locations and severe...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meaghan Efford. Michelle George. Spencer Taft. Jesse Morin. Villy Christensen.

This is an abstract from the "Cultivating Food, Land, and Communities" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Food is more than simply fuel; it is one of the most significant ways in which humans connect with each other, within and across communities, and to their environments and homelands. This research is grounded at təmtəmíxʷtən, a large ancestral village site in what is now known as Burrard Inlet, British Columbia, Canada, in the traditional,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shalen Prado. Adrianne Lickers Xavier. Andrew Roddick. Scott Martin.

This is an abstract from the "Cultivating Food, Land, and Communities" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. How can archaeological data contribute to Indigenous food sovereignty efforts and biocultural restoration of Indigenous landscapes? We present two projects from northern Turtle Island from vastly different ecologies (Saskatchewan and Ontario), where paleoethnobotanical research has been effective for connecting archaeologists, Indigenous scholars,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fernanda Neubauer.

This is an abstract from the "Cultivating Food, Land, and Communities" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation explores my ethnoarchaeological research on a long-term interdisciplinary project in collaboration with Guarani communities toward Indigenous land repatriation in Brazil and offers a case study of a collaboration designed within the framework of Indigenous archaeological approaches. The project’s planning and fieldwork were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bailey Raab. Dana Bardolph.

This is an abstract from the "Cultivating Food, Land, and Communities" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Paleoethnobotanical analyses over the past several decades have shed light on the subsistence practices, agricultural strategies, and environmental interactions of members of the Fort Ancient culture, an Indigenous society that thrived in the Ohio Valley from the eleventh to the eighteenth centuries. Largely absent from these conversations,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carla Lancelotti.

This is an abstract from the "Cultivating Food, Land, and Communities" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The incorporation of time-tested practices, encompassing Traditional Knowledge (TK), Local Knowledge (LK), and Indigenous Knowledge (IK), into sustainable agrifood system development has gained substantial traction. These practices are designed to address challenges such as food sustainability, food sovereignty, and enhancements to agrosystems. TK...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katelyn McDonough. Perry Chocktoot. Geoffrey Smith. Dennis Jenkins. Richard Rosencrance.

This is an abstract from the "Cultivating Food, Land, and Communities" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Foodways, culture, and health are closely intertwined. As such, food is a central aspect of Indigenous identity and the subject of much anthropological research. Traditional knowledge and archaeological records show that plants have always played important roles within Indigenous foodways in the Great Basin, yet nutritional information for those...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen Capuder.

This is an abstract from the "Cultivating Food, Land, and Communities" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. On September 7, 2020, the Cold Springs Fire ignited on the Colville Indian Reservation during a significant wind event, with flames racing southward 50 miles overnight, crossing the Columbia River and igniting the Pearl Hill Fire. These fires eventually charred a combined 413,673 acres, including some of the last vestiges of Washington’s fragile...