Learning by Doing: Past Foodways, Experimental Archaeology, and Collaborative Research

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Our broad goal is to share on-going research with diverse communities and learn more together about past foodways and food-related technologies. To achieve this, we facilitated several research and training workshops alongside Tribal, Alaska Native, and agency partners from Oregon and Alaska. Our intention was to pair Indigenous and archaeological knowledge and ontologies in an education style that provides a sense of connection to land and place for both facilitators and participants. We co-hosted a workshop on acorn processing and landscape management with archaeologists from the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde; a workshop with Alaska Native partners that centered around processing and utilizing the Arctic cooking vessel; and a third workshop focusing on the tactile experience of creating ceramic cooking vessels with an emphasis on cultural significance. These experiences provide a useful road map for future collaborative training and research between archaeologists and Indigenous groups.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37037.0