Mea Culpa

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

As I have done no comparative study on the subject, I assume that it is relatively unusual to amend one’s dissertation research let alone to point out its flaws. Nevertheless, this is precisely what I am doing in this presentation. While the salient points of my dissertation (The Origin, Development, and Distributions of Western Archaic Textiles, 1970) remain unchanged, it is clear that I was dead wrong on a number of issues. Clarification of these issues is the focal point of this paper. I was wrong about the dating of the earliest perishable industries in the world and also mistaken about the antiquity of decorated basketry. I still maintain, however, that basketry and its sister crafts have a unique ability to illumine the past.

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• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 37820.0