Burning Down the House: A Project that Is an Intersection of Tribal and Academic Interests

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This poster reports on a collaborative research project between CSU-Fresno Anthropology Department, UC San Diego, and the Santa Rosa Rancheria (Tachi Yokut). Baked clay or daub is an underappreciated piece of evidence from our past. Archeologists often find pieces or concentrations of daub in old Native American village sites that occur in California’s Central valley and foothills. Shelby Jones-Cervantes is doing her doctoral research at UC-San Diego on archaeomagnetic analysis (direction and field strength) of daub as a dating method. We were able to enhance our understanding of daub with the help of Santa Rosa Rancheria by building a traditional Tachi Yokut structure made of tule and earth covering and then burned it down. This research will be a chapter in Shelby Jones-Cervantes’s dissertation and provided an opportunity for the Tachi to reconnect with their cultural heritage. This is a perfect model of collaboration between Academic institutions and tribal groups.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• SAA 2021: General Sessions

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Abstract Id(s): 32100