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Potters On The Penobscot: An Archaeological Case Study Exploring Human Agency, Identity, And Technological Choice, Bonnie D. Newsom Nov 2017

Potters On The Penobscot: An Archaeological Case Study Exploring Human Agency, Identity, And Technological Choice, Bonnie D. Newsom

Doctoral Dissertations

Archaeology has a long history of dehumanizing the past by placing artifacts at the center of archaeological inquiry while neglecting human agency and the dynamic relationship between humans and their material culture. This is due, in part, to an over-reliance on normative approaches to archaeology such as typologies, culture histories, and artifact-centered research designs that disengage people from their technologies and erase them from archaeological interpretations of the past. This study humanizes past peoples by applying theories of agency, technological choice, and Indigenous archaeologies to an archaeological case study from Maine, U.S.A. With these theoretical principles as a framework, I …


Concepts Of Place And Identity In The Iron Age Of Idalion, Cyprus: An Analysis Of Architectural Repetition, Rebecca M. Bartusewich Jan 2013

Concepts Of Place And Identity In The Iron Age Of Idalion, Cyprus: An Analysis Of Architectural Repetition, Rebecca M. Bartusewich

Rebecca M Bartusewich

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Giving Voice To Choice: Integrating Scientific, Ethnographic, And Historical Analysis To Understand 17th Century Native Pottery From Western New England, Julie A. Woods, Matthew T. Boulanger, Elizabeth S. Chilton, David V. Hill, Michael D. Glascock Jan 2010

Giving Voice To Choice: Integrating Scientific, Ethnographic, And Historical Analysis To Understand 17th Century Native Pottery From Western New England, Julie A. Woods, Matthew T. Boulanger, Elizabeth S. Chilton, David V. Hill, Michael D. Glascock

Julie Woods

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