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Strangers in a new land : what archaeology reveals about the first Americans
\"The history of North America, from Christopher Columbus to the present day, is a chaotic struggle for ownership of the land. This text will address questions such as the history of native communities that were displaced or conquered, and even further back to how Native North, Central and South Americans came to these continents in the first place. Historical facts are mainly supported through archaeological findings.\"--Provided by the publisher.
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Exploring Ontologies of the Precontact Americas
Applying social theory and incorporating non-Western
perspectives in the interpretation of bioarchaeological
research
This volume demonstrates how researchers in bioarchaeology and
mortuary archaeology can work to better understand concepts of life
and death in past societies of the Indigenous Americas. Through
case studies that apply the \"ontological turn\" to human funerary
and skeletal remains, contributors set aside Western views of
reality, nature, and personhood to explore how people of various
cultures understood existence and the human body.
Contributors examine mortuary records from Inuit groups in
Labrador and Greenland, Hopewell culture in the Lower Illinois
River Valley, and Weeden Island and Puebloan traditions in the
United States Southeast and Southwest. They look at the Paquimé
community in Mexico, iconography of the Maya civilization, the
demographics of Inka populations, and an ancient village on the
Amazon River in Brazil. With attention to the viewpoints of these
cultures, these essays deconstruct the boundaries between human
remains and other interred artifacts, the living and the dead, and
other binaries rooted deeply in Western science.
Exploring Ontologies of the Precontact Americas reminds
readers that their own ontological perspectives affect how they
interpret the past. By considering diverse, non-Western worldviews
and engaging with novel social theories of the body, this volume
inspires new understandings of precontact societies.
Contributors: Gordon F. M. Rakita | Pamela
Geller | Jason L. King | Sarah Jackson | Jane Buikstra | Robert
Pickering | Peter Whitridge | John Krigbaum | Neill J. Wallis |
Adrianne Offenbecker | Avelino Gambim Júnior | Bethany L. Turner |
Mari Kleist | María Cecilia Lozada | Debra L. Martin | Kyle Waller
| James L. Fitzsimmons | J. Christina Freiberger
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Bioarchaeology of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica : an interdisciplinary approach
This edited volume presents work from both Mesoamerican-based and U.S.-based researchers who use a combination of cultural ethnohistorical, (bio)archaeological, dental, and chemical data in an interdisciplinary approach to research population history in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. The goals for such a project are threefold: 1) to encourage more cross-fertilization of work between fields and subfields, in order to more appropriately address large regional questions of population history; 2) to explicitly address the theoretical and methodological challenges and rewards of interdisciplinary work; and 3) to introduce a larger audience to the state of interdisciplinary work in Mesoamerica.
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Winds from the north : Tewa origins and historical anthropology
The “abandonment” of Mesa Verde and the formation of the Rio Grande Pueblos represent two classic events in North American prehistory. Yet, despite a century of research, no consensus has been reached on precisely how, or even if, these two events were related. In this landmark study, Scott Ortman proposes a novel and compelling solution to this problem through an investigation of the genetic, linguistic, and cultural heritage of the Tewa Pueblo people of New Mexico.
Integrating data and methods from human biology, linguistics, archaeology, and cultural anthropology, Ortman shows that a striking social transformation took place as Mesa Verde people moved to the Rio Grande, such that the resulting ancestral Tewa culture was a unique hybrid of ideas and practices from various sources. While addressing several long-standing questions in American archaeology, Winds from the North also serves as a methodological guidebook, including new approaches to integrating archaeology and language based on cognitive science research. As such, it will be of interest to researchers throughout the social and human sciences.
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Archaeological Theory and the Politics of Cultural Heritage
This controversial book is a survey of how relationships between indigenous peoples and the archaeological establishment have got into difficulty, and a crucial pointer to how to move forward from this point.
With lucid appraisals of key debates such as NAGPRA, Kennewick and the repatriation of Tasmanian artefacts, Laurajane Smith dissects the nature and consequences of this clash of cultures.
Smith explores how indigenous communities in the USA and Australia have confronted the pre-eminence of archaeological theory and discourse in the way the material remains of their past are cared for and controlled, and how this has challenged traditional archaeological thought and practice.
Essential reading for all those concerned with developing a just and equal dialogue between the two parties, and the role of archaeology in the research and management of their heritage.
1. Introduction 2 . The Cultural Politics of Identity: Defining the Problem 3. Archaeological Theory and the 'Politics' of the Past 4. Archaeology and the Context of Governance: Expertise and the State 5. Archaeological Stewardship: The Rise of Cultural Resource Management and the 'Scientific Professional' arcHaeologist 6. Significance Concepts and the Embedding of Processual Discourse in Cultural Resource Management 7. The Role of Legislation in the Governance of Material Culture in America and Australia 8. NAGPRA and Kennewick: Contesting Archaeological Govrnance in America 9. The 'Death of Archaeology': Contesting Archaeological Covernance in Australia 10. Conclusion
Laurajane Smith is Lecturer in cultural heritage studies and archaeology at the University of York, UK. She previously taught Indigenous Studies at the University of New South Wales, Sydney and worked as a cultural heritage consultant for many years. Her research interests include heritage and the construction and negotiation of cultural and social identities, and public policy and heritage management, archaeological theory and politics, feminist archaeology.
'Essential reading ... Well-written [and] easy to follow ... a useful companion volume.' - Rodney Harrison, The Australian National University
'Laurajane Smith has produced a significant work that will hopefully stimulate archaeological departments in South African universities to pay more attention to educating future CRM practitioners. This book is compulsory reading for CRM practitioners, archaeology students and their professors alike.' – South African Archaeological Bulletin
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Foragers and Farmers of the Northern Kayenta Region
Foragers and Farmers of the Northern Kayenta Region presents the results of a major archaeological excavation project on Navajo tribal land in the Four Corners area and integrates this new information with existing knowledge of the archaeology of the northern Kayenta region. The excavation of thirty-three sites provides a cross section of prehistory from which Navajo Nation archaeologists retrieved a wealth of information about subsistence, settlement, architecture, and other aspects of past lifeways. The project’s most important contributions involve the Basketmaker and Archaic periods, and include a large number of radiocarbon dates on high-quality samples. Dating back to the early Archaic period (ca. 7000 BC) and ranging forward through the Basketmaker components to the Puebloan period, this volume is a powerful record of ancient peoples and their cultures. Detailed supplementary data will be available on the University of Utah Press Web site upon publication of this summary volume.
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Center Places and Cherokee Towns
Examines how architecture and other aspects of the built
environment, such as hearths, burials, and earthen mounds, formed
center places within the Cherokee cultural landscape In
Center Places and Cherokee Towns , Christopher B. Rodning
opens a panoramic vista onto protohistoric Cherokee culture. He
posits that Cherokee households and towns were anchored within
their cultural and natural landscapes by built features that
acted as “center places.” Rodning investigates the
period from just before the first Spanish contact with
sixteenth-century Native American chiefdoms in La Florida through
the development of formal trade relations between Native American
societies and English and French colonial provinces in the
American South during the late 1600s and 1700s. Rodning focuses
particularly on the Coweeta Creek archaeological site in the
upper Little Tennessee Valley in southwestern North Carolina and
describes the ways in which elements of the built environment
were manifestations of Cherokee senses of place. Drawing on
archaeological data, delving into primary documentary sources
dating from the eighteenth century, and considering Cherokee
myths and legends remembered and recorded during the nineteenth
century, Rodning shows how the arrangement of public structures
and household dwellings in Cherokee towns both shaped and were
shaped by Cherokee culture. Center places at different scales
served as points of attachment between Cherokee individuals and
their communities as well as between their present and past.
Rodning explores the ways in which Cherokee architecture and the
built environment were sources of cultural stability in the
aftermath of European contact, and how the course of European
contact altered the landscape of Cherokee towns in the long run.
In this multi-faceted consideration of archaeology, ethnohistory,
and recorded oral tradition, Rodning adeptly demonstrates the
distinct ways that Cherokee identity was constructed through
architecture and other material forms.
Center Places and Cherokee Towns will have a broad
appeal to students and scholars of southeastern archaeology,
anthropology, Native American studies, prehistoric and
protohistoric Cherokee culture, landscape archaeology, and
ethnohistory.
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