Collaborative and Indigenous archaeologies call on researchers to recenter theory and practice on descendant peoples' lives and ways of knowing. Extending this project, this article takes story and dance as a site of theory, foregrounding Indigenous modes of embodiment in which bodily and sensory perspectives are cultivated through participation in more-than-human beings. Drawing on research with members of a small, Muskogee-identified community in the US South, it frames the large-scale earthworks at the Poverty Point site in Louisiana as representing a horned owl. This evokes stories about a people who lived in an owl-shaped village and who could move in particularly owlish ways. Critiquing ontological frameworks in which the sensory is universal and mind is removed from body and land, I argue that ancient peoples may have cultivated perspectival embodiments through the everyday activity of living together in the collective form of an owl. Moreover, as contemporary descendants return to Poverty Point, the land animates shared, multispecies sensory fields that enroll descendants into a longue durée of owlish encounters and entanglements, or what my hosts simply call “Owl's teachings.” Here, I call for an archaeology reimagined in the context of Native American and Indigenous studies, asking how mounds might animate resurgent possibilities rooted in (and routed through) deep Indigenous histories of return.

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贫困点的口头传统，土墩，猫头鹰和运动：多物种体现和日常生活的考古人种志

协作和土著考古学呼吁研究人员了解有关后代人的生活和认识方式的最新理论和实践。通过扩展该项目，本文将故事和舞蹈作为理论的场所，并突出了土著人的体现方式，在这种方式中，通过参与超越人类的活动来培养身体和感官的观点。通过与美国南部一个小型的，由马斯科吉（Muskogee）识别的社区的成员进行的研究，该框架将路易斯安那州Poverty Point站点的大型土方工程构图为representing。这唤起了一个人的故事，他们生活在一个猫头鹰形状的村庄里，他们可以以特别轻率的方式行动。批判感官是普遍的，而思想则从身体和土地上移开的本体论框架，我认为，古代民族可能通过以猫头鹰的集体形式生活在一起的日常活动来培养透视能力。此外，当当代后代返回贫困点时，这片土地为共享的，多种物种的感官动画赋予了生气，使后代们陷入了悠长的遭遇和纠缠中，或者我的主人称之为“猫头鹰的教””。在这里，我呼吁在美国原住民和土著研究的背景下重新构想的考古学，询问土墩如何为植根于（并穿越）深厚的土著回归历史的复兴可能性提供生气。多物种的感官领域，使子孙后代陷入了令人难以置信的encounter和纠缠的长寿之中，或者我的主人简单地称其为“猫头鹰的教””。在这里，我呼吁在美国原住民和土著研究的背景下重新构想的考古学，询问土墩如何为植根于（并穿越）深厚的土著回归历史的复兴可能性提供生气。多物种的感官领域，使子孙后代陷入了令人难以置信的encounter和纠缠的长寿之中，或者我的主人简单地称之为“猫头鹰的教””。在这里，我呼吁在美国原住民和土著研究的背景下重新构想的考古学，询问土墩如何为植根于（并穿越）深厚的土著回归历史的复兴可能性提供生气。