Frontiers and Borderlands Phenomena, what would Bradley say?: Comparative Case Studies from the Levant and Andes

Summary

This is an abstract from the "From Households to Empires: Papers Presented in Honor of Bradley J. Parker" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In this paper we seek to emulate two different aspects of Bradley J. Parker’s career: his transition from the Near East to the Andes and his interest in the theoretical underpinnings of frontier communities. We are inspired by his work on frontiers and borderlands in our own work in these regions and use his theoretical writings on frontiers and borderland processes to enable greater interdisciplinary dialogue and comparative studies. We build on Parker’s work on defining the "continuum of boundary dynamics" (2002, 2006) by adding the dimension of time to discuss what we call "dynamic frontiers" in two case studies from the Levant and the Andes. The Levantine example focuses on the frontier processes described by Parker at the site Khirbat Hamra Ifdan in southern Jordan to highlight the value of studying frontiers over the longue durée. The Andean example from Collambay in the Moche valley introduces what we call an "enclosed" frontier which is only recognizable through diachronic study.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• From Households to Empires: Papers Presented in Honor of Bradley J. Parker   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 23202