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Conversations Between Communities: Umass Boston Archaeology For And With The Nipmuc Nation & The Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation, Stephen A. Mrozowski, Stephen W. Silliman

Office of Community Partnerships Posters

Community-engaged scholarship, learning, and service are becoming important parts of university missions, ensuring that academic projects do not just “take” but also give back in meaningful ways. For Native American communities and archaeologists who come from and work with them, this kind of research sensitivity and community accountability is fundamentally important. Archaeological projects with, by, and for Native American communities vary as much in their structures and goals as the communities themselves. In order to meet the desires and needs of each community, two archaeological field schools at UMass Boston – Hassanamesit Woods (Grafton, Massachusetts) and Eastern Pequot (North Stonington, …

Conceptualizing Community Identity Through Ancient Textiles: Technology And The Uniformity Of Practice At Hualcayán, Peru, Marie Elizabeth Gravalos

Open Access Theses

The goal of this thesis is to investigate a single textile assemblage from on site is homogeneously produced. In order to evaluate this, I looked at a sample of textiles and cordage recovered at the site of Hualcayán in the north-central highlands of Peru (ca. 1-1000 CE). Through a technical attribute analysis of metric traits I evaluate the degree of variability present in the overall sample. Making use of a "community of practice" approach, in which a group of individuals are engaged in participatory learning and share a common enterprise, I argue that homogeneous textiles represent a uniformity of practice. …

Issue 64, Spring 2014, Society Of Bead Researchers

The Bead Forum: Newsletter of the Society of Bead Researchers

Mightier than the Sword: The Allure, Beauty, and Enduring Power of Beads, by Barbara Cade Pringle.

An Appraisal Of Quality Basic Education In Ashanti Farming Communities Of Ghana, Sophia Larsen

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Methodology: I lived in two Ashanti farming villages, Senchi and Okaikrom, for a total of eight days with four additional day trips. I also commuted to two other rural communities in the Sekyere East district. In these villages I conducted a total of 28 formal interviews of three headmasters, four primary teachers, 10 JHS teachers, nine JHS students, and two nurses. Within the schools I conducted a few group interviews and polls to gain quantitative data about student interest and education aspiration. I visited the regional and district offices of education where I spoke with five administration officials within various …

Thin Section Petrography Of Pottery From Ambergris Caye, Belize, Elizabeth Haussner

Anthropology

Petrography is a valuable tool in which ceramics are studied at a microscopic level, revealing structures, features, and compositional information undiscernible at the macroscopic level. This study uses petrography to investigate Coconut Walk Unslipped (CWU), a pottery type prominent at Late Terminal Classic Mayan archaeological sites on Ambergris Caye, Belize. All CWU sherds in this study are tempered primarily with quartz sand grains although the grains vary in roundness. They also contain small amounts of microcrystalline sparry calcite features. These findings are similar to those of the 1999 study by Iceland and Goldberg on ceramic sherds of a similar age …

Fort Gaddis: Fact Or Misnomer, Ronald L. Michael

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract is available at this time.

Camp Reading: Logistics Of A Revolutionary War Winter Encampment, David A. Poirier

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract is available at this time.

The Metallurgical Study Of Fort Ligonier Bayonet Sections, Hand Forged Spikes, And Copper Powder Keg Hoop Sections, J. Alfred Berger, Catherine A. Hawks, Jacob L. Grimm

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract is available at this time.

Excavations At The Bull-Jackson Farmstead, Orange County, New York, Thomas J. Riley

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract is available at this time.

Reed Stem Tobacco Pipes From Point Pleasant, Clermont County, Ohio, James L. Murphy

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract is available at this time.

Clay Pipes In The Upper Great Lakes: The Ermatinger Assemblage, C. S. "Paddy" Reid

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract is available at this time.

Ringoes: An Eighteenth Century Pottery Site, Brenda Lockhart Springsted

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract is available at this time.

Groundhog Kilns-Rectangular American Kilns Of The Nineteenth And Early Twentieth Centuries, Georgeanna H. Greer

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract is available at this time.

Stoneware From Fayette, Greene, And Washington Counties, Pennsylvania, Ronald L. Michael

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract is available at this time.

The Yorktown Pottery Industry, Yorktown, Virginia, Norman F. Barka, Chris Sheridan

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract is available at this time.

Industrial Pottery Of The United States, James R. Mitchell

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract is available at this time.

A Survey Of Traditional Pottery Manufacture In The Mid-Atlantic And Northeastern United States, Susan H. Myers

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract is available at this time.

Preface, Diana Stradling, J. Garrison Stradling

Northeast Historical Archaeology

Introduction to the volume.

Building And Maintaining Plankhouses At Two Villages On The Southern Northwest Coast Of North America, Emily Evelyn Shepard

Dissertations and Theses

Plankhouses were functionally and symbolically integral to Northwest Coast societies, as much of economic and social life was predicated on these dwellings. This thesis investigates both plankhouse architecture and the production of these dwellings. Studying plankhouse construction and maintenance provides information regarding everyday labor, landscape use outside of villages, organization of complex tasks, and resource management.

This thesis investigates three plankhouse structures at two sites, Meier and Cathlapotle, in the Lower Columbia River Region of the southern Northwest Coast of North America. Methods consisted of digitizing over 1,100 architectural features, creating detailed maps of architectural features, and conducting statistical and …

The Sewer Tile Clay Pottery Of Grand Ledge, Michigan, Marsha Macdowell, Kurt Dewhurst

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract is available at this time.

The Living Tradition: A Comparison Of Three Southern Folk Potters, John A. Burrison

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract is available at this time.

The Kirkpatricks' Pottery, Anna, Illinois, Ellen Paul Denker

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract is available at this time.

The Kiln And Red Earthenware Pottery Of The Jordan Pottery Site: A Preliminary Overview, David W. Rupp

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract is available at this time.

The Alkaline-Glazed Stoneware Of North Carolina, Charles G. Zug Iii

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract is available at this time.

Earthenwares And Salt-Glazed Stonewares Of The Rochester-Genesee-Valley Region: An Overview, George R. Hamell

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract is available at this time.

Pentagoet: A First Look At Seventeenth Century Acadian Maine, Alaric Faulkner

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract is available at this time.

The Development Of An Urban Socio-Economic Model For Archaeological Testing, Suzanne Spencer-Wood, Richard J. Riley

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract is available at this time.

Occupational Differences Reflected In Material Culture, Kathleen Joan Bragdon

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract is available at this time.

Philadelphia Gravestones 1760-1820, Elizabeth A. Crowell

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract is available at this time.

Filling In Round Pond: Refuse Disposal In Post-Revolutionary Boston, Mary Beaudry, Tamara Blosser

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract is available at this time.