Object itineraries of metal artifacts from the Stark Farm Site Complex (22OK778)

Summary

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

Object itineraries allow archaeologists to analyze material culture with less bias, while acknowledging both Native and archaeological perspectives, by considering the many different contexts through which an object moves in time and space. In this paper, I focus on creating a deeper understanding of European-made metal objects uncovered at Stark Farm (22OK778), a site occupied from the Late Mississippian period through the Early Contact period in northeastern Mississippi, by using an object itinerary theoretical framework. I examine how European-made metal objects were transformed and used by the Chicasa as a way to introduce a more collaborative and holistic approach to the other analytical methods being used at Stark Farm. This process was completed using robust statistical analysis and contextual analysis to investigate how the agency and movement of these European-made objects were transformed as they entered Indigenous contexts and interacted with different people, places, and things.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

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

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Abstract Id(s): 39627.0