Using Historic Archaeology To Uncover Previously Ignored Collections
Author(s): Shevan E. Wilkin
Year: 2016
Summary
In 1891 George Dorsey conducted excavations Ancon, Peru, as archaeology was still a fledgeling discipline, and his conclusions reflect his naïveté of modern field methods to come. He assessed that the remains derived from one community, and classified the burials as elite/non-elite. From what we know today, there were two distinct time periods, between which mortuary practices and material culture changed dramatically. The collection has been repeatedly ignored due to the theorized disappearance of Dorsey’s field notes, and the inability to temporally separate the populations from each other has severely hindered comparative questions. After an extensive search, I have located and transcribed the field notes, and from these papers, it is possible to determine which individuals lived during each of the two disparate time periods. Publishing this information will allow future researchers the opportunity to explore the complex differences between the two temporal populations at Ancon.
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Using Historic Archaeology To Uncover Previously Ignored Collections. Shevan E. Wilkin. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Washington, D.C. 2016 ( tDAR id: 434762)
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Keywords
General
Archives
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bioarchaeology
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Museum
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
1981-1893
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 694