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Curriculum Vitae, Megan E. Springate
Overseas Chinese Archaeology, Douglas Ross
Resorts And Reform: Archaeology At The Wiawaka Holiday House, Lake George, New York, Megan E. Springate
Resorts And Reform: Archaeology At The Wiawaka Holiday House, Lake George, New York, Megan E. Springate
Megan E. Springate
The Wiawaka Holiday House on Lake George, New York is among the oldest continuously operating women’s holiday retreats in the United States. The Holiday House was founded on the grounds of a failing resort hotel at the turn of the twentieth century by wealthy women largely from industrial families to provide factory “girls” opportunities for healthful vacations in the countryside. Before the Holiday House was established, the property was the site of two resort hotels; their histories, spanning much of the nineteenth century, reflect the rise and transformations in the Adirondack resort hotel business. Presented in the early stages of …
Una Reflexión Entorno A “El Espíritu De La Ilustración” De Tzvetan Todorov., Mariado Hinojosa
Una Reflexión Entorno A “El Espíritu De La Ilustración” De Tzvetan Todorov., Mariado Hinojosa
Mariado Hinojosa
Tomando como referencia la obra de Tzvetan Todorov, el presente artículo reflexiona brevemente sobre algunos de los presupuestos heredados de la Ilustración y que marcaron profundamente el horizonte social, cultural y político del pasado siglo XX.
The Archaeology Of Consumption, Paul Mullins
The Archaeology Of Consumption, Paul Mullins
Paul Mullins
A vast range of archaeological studies could be construed as studies of consumption, so it is perhaps surprising that relatively few archaeologists have defined their scholarly focus as consumption. This review examines how archaeology can produce a distinctive picture of consumption that remains largely unaddressed in the rich interdisciplinary consumer scholarship. Archaeological research provides concrete evidence of everyday materiality that is not available in most documentary records or ethnographic resources, thus offering an exceptionally powerful mechanism to examine complicated consumption tactics. In a broad archaeological and anthropological context, consumption studies reflect the ways consumers negotiate, accept, and resist goods-dominant meanings …
New Experimental Data On The Distance Of Sling Projectiles, Margaret Y. Brown Vega, Nathan M. Craig
New Experimental Data On The Distance Of Sling Projectiles, Margaret Y. Brown Vega, Nathan M. Craig
Nathan M Craig
The range of stones cast by slings used in the past is debated. In the Central Andes, slings are asserted to be important weapons of prehispanic war, and have been recovered archaeologically. Rolled river cobbles and stones presumed to be slingstones found at fortified hilltop archaeological sites are presented as evidence that slings were used at these fortifications. Yet sling use has not been adequately tested at hillforts. Experiments conducted in Europe by a novice slinger have attempted to illuminate the range of sling cast stones at ancient hillforts. Data acquired from native slingers is necessary to more accurately assess …
Contagion And Alterity: Kowoj Maya Appropriations Of European Objects, Timothy W. Pugh
Contagion And Alterity: Kowoj Maya Appropriations Of European Objects, Timothy W. Pugh
Timothy W Pugh
From initial contact with the Europeans until their conquest (C.E. 1525–1697), the Itza and their political rivals, the Kowoj, dominated Pete´ n, Guatemala. Colonial artifacts at Zacpete´ n record the initial appropriations of European objects by the Kowoj. All such objects rested in ceremonial contexts, indicating that the Kowoj considered them positive sources of sacred power. The Kowoj were in contact with the Spaniards and knew they were the source of the valued materials; hence, the materials also signified otherness. Social elites frequently retained objects obtained from long distances, even those of oppressive colonial groups, as positive contagion. I argue …
(Re)Building Çatalhöyük: Changing Virtual Reality In Archaeology, Colleen L. Morgan
(Re)Building Çatalhöyük: Changing Virtual Reality In Archaeology, Colleen L. Morgan
Colleen L Morgan
Building virtual models of archaeological sites has been seen as a legitimate mode of representing the past, yet these models are too often the end product of a process in which archaeologists have relatively limited engagement. Instead of building static, isolated, uncanny, and authorless reconstructions, I argue for a more active role for archaeologists in virtual reconstruction and address issues of representational accuracy, personal expression in avatars and peopling the virtual past. Interactive virtual worlds such as Second Life provide tools and an environment that archaeologists can use to challenge static modes of representation and increases access to non-expert participants …
Four-Thousand-Year-Old Gold Artifacts From The Lake Titicaca Basin, Southern Peru, Mark Aldenderfer, Nathan M. Craig, Robert J. Speakman, Rachel Popelka-Filcoff
Four-Thousand-Year-Old Gold Artifacts From The Lake Titicaca Basin, Southern Peru, Mark Aldenderfer, Nathan M. Craig, Robert J. Speakman, Rachel Popelka-Filcoff
Nathan M Craig
Artifacts of cold-hammered native gold have been discovered in a secure and undisturbed Terminal Archaic burial context at Jiskairumoko, a multicomponent Late Archaic–Early Formative period site in the southwestern Lake Titicaca basin, Peru. The burial dates to 3776 to 3690 carbon-14 years before the present (2155 to 1936 calendar years B.C.), making this the earliest worked gold recovered to date not only from the Andes, but from the Americas as well. This discovery lends support to the hypothesis that the earliest metalworking in the Andes was experimentation with native gold. The presence of gold in a society of low-level food …
Aproximaciones Arqueológicas Al Ritual En Los Andes: Un Análisis Del Espacio Ritual Durante El Periodo Formativo Medio En El Sitio Chiripa, Bolivia, Andrew P. Roddick
Aproximaciones Arqueológicas Al Ritual En Los Andes: Un Análisis Del Espacio Ritual Durante El Periodo Formativo Medio En El Sitio Chiripa, Bolivia, Andrew P. Roddick
Andrew P Roddick
En esta ponencia presentaré varios datos cerámicos con el fin de examinar la función de dos estructuras pertenecientes al Período Formativo Medio (800-200 a.C.) en el sitio Chiripa, ubicado en la cuenca del lago Titicaca, Bolivia. Se inves- tigan, además, las actividades asociadas con la arquitectura doméstica y ritual, junto con una evaluación de la tradición religiosa Yaya-mama, presentada inicialmente por Chávez y Chávez, y representada por la arquitectura de Chiripa y sus artefactos asociados. Se hace referencia a la posibilidad de presencia tanto de festividades como de intercambio durante el Período Formativo Medio, a partir de un análisis cerámico …
Racializing The Commonplace Landscape: An Archaeology Of Urban Renewal Along The Color Line, Paul Mullins
Racializing The Commonplace Landscape: An Archaeology Of Urban Renewal Along The Color Line, Paul Mullins
Paul Mullins
In the 1960’s Indianapolis, Indiana’s near-Westside was transformed by urban renewal projects that carved space for the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) campus out of a predominately African-American neighborhood. Within two decades that longstanding community was totally displaced, and today the former neighborhood covering 300 acres is completely effaced and the community is largely forgotten. This paper examines how archaeology on the University campus provides a mechanism to illuminate the processes that remade the near-Westside. Archaeological research conducted along with the displaced community and its descendants provides a powerful tool to rethink the otherwise prosaic campus landscape as a space …
Activity Areas, Form, And Social Inequality In Residences At Late Postclassic, Timothy W. Pugh
Activity Areas, Form, And Social Inequality In Residences At Late Postclassic, Timothy W. Pugh
Timothy W Pugh
No abstract provided.
A Cluster And Spatial Analysis Of Ceremonial Architecture At Late Postclassic Mayapan, Timothy W. Pugh
A Cluster And Spatial Analysis Of Ceremonial Architecture At Late Postclassic Mayapan, Timothy W. Pugh
Timothy W Pugh
No abstract provided.
The Exemplary Center Of The Late Postclassic Kowoj Maya, Timothy W. Pugh
The Exemplary Center Of The Late Postclassic Kowoj Maya, Timothy W. Pugh
Timothy W Pugh
No abstract provided.
Domesticating Barbie: An Archaeology Of Barbie Material Culture And Domestic Ideology, Paul Mullins, Marlys Pearson
Domesticating Barbie: An Archaeology Of Barbie Material Culture And Domestic Ideology, Paul Mullins, Marlys Pearson
Paul Mullins
No abstract provided.