Great Basin Incised Stones and the Shoshonean World

Author(s): David Thomas

Year: 2017

Summary

More than 1500 incised stones have been documented from the Great Basin. By defining object itineraries of individual artifacts, it is possible to animate the archaeology from static to active by emphasizing motion and interaction, fragmentation and accumulation. Tracing both provenience and provenance, we can learn how these objects moved through time and space, intertwining with people and places. It is possible to craft a cartography sufficiently powerful to tease out an underlying, basic, formal structuring of ritual behavior that has epitomized Shoshonean epistemology for more than five thousand years.

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Great Basin Incised Stones and the Shoshonean World. David Thomas. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia. 2017 ( tDAR id: 430516)

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Spatial Coverage

min long: -122.168; min lat: 42.131 ; max long: -113.028; max lat: 49.383 ;

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 17653