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Inferring Use-Life Mean and Distribution: A Pottery Ethnoarchaeological Case Study from Michoacán American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Michael J. Shott
Archaeologists see the value, if not the allure, of formation theory. Before inferring what happened in the past and why, we must know how the material record formed. Pottery is abundant and informative, therefore a common analytical subject. Understanding size and composition of ceramics assemblages requires formation theory, including knowledge of vessel use life. This fundamental quantity has two
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Material Culture Studies in the Age of Big Data: Digital Excavation of Homemade Face-Mask Production during the COVID-19 Pandemic American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Matthew Magnani, Jon Clindaniel, Natalia Magnani
This manuscript presents a novel approach to the study of contemporary material culture using digital data. Scholars interested in the materiality of past and contemporary societies have been limited to information derived from assemblages of excavated, collected, or physically observed materials; they have yet to take full advantage of large or complex digital datasets afforded by the internet. To
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Range Limits: Semiferal Animal Husbandry in Spanish Colonial Arizona American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Nicole M. Mathwich
In North America, the introduction of livestock as part of the Columbian Exchange had profound social and ecological consequences for cultural environments, yet the landscape impacts of these animals have been difficult to identify, particularly in the first decades of sustained contact. Between 1701 and 1775, at a Spanish colonial mission near what is today Nogales, Arizona, O'odham groups and Spanish
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The Early Materialization of Democratic Institutions among the Ancestral Muskogean of the American Southeast American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Victor D. Thompson, Jacob Holland-Lulewicz, RaeLynn A. Butler, Turner W. Hunt, LeeAnne Wendt, James Wettstaed, Mark Williams, Richard Jefferies, Suzanne K. Fish
Democratic cooperation is a particularly complex type of arrangement that requires attendant institutions to ensure that the problems inherent in collective action do not subvert the public good. It is perhaps due to this complexity that historians, political scientists, and others generally associate the birth of democracy with the emergence of so-called states and center it geographically in the
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Comment on Sundstrom and Walker (2021) American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Julie Francis, Lawrence L. Loendorf, Marcel Kornfeld, Mary Lou Larson, James M. Adovasio
The Sheep Mountain juniper bark net, originally thought to be of Paleoindian age, was redated by Sundstrom and Walker (2021) to the Late Prehistoric period. Although the original investigators convincingly argued that the net was intended for use with mountain sheep or deer, Sundstrom and Walker suggest it was used to trap small game such as rabbits or sage grouse. Unfortunately, the authors ignore
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Where's the Mutton? American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-05-16 Linea Sundstrom, Danny N. Walker
Francis et alia (2022) propose that the Sheep Mountain net (48PA1022) was used for large game; however, they present no data to support this proposed function. The size and configuration of the net fall within the range for rabbit nets recorded elsewhere.
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Leonard Rockshelter Revisited: Evaluating a 70-Year-Old Claim of a Late Pleistocene Human Occupation in the Western Great Basin American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-05-12 Geoffrey M. Smith, Sara Sturtz, Anna J. Camp, Kenneth D. Adams, Elizabeth Kallenbach, Richard L. Rosencrance, Richard E. Hughes
Robert Heizer excavated Leonard Rockshelter (26Pe14) in western Nevada more than 70 years ago. He described stratified cultural deposits spanning the Holocene. He also reported obsidian flakes purportedly associated with late Pleistocene sediments, suggesting that human use extended even farther back in time. Because Heizer never produced a final report, Leonard Rockshelter faded into obscurity despite
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The View from Jaketown: Considering Variation in the Poverty Point Culture of the Lower Mississippi Valley American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-05-12 Grace M. V. Ward, Seth B. Grooms, Andrew G. Schroll, Tristram R. Kidder
Recent research at Jaketown, a Late Archaic earthwork site in the Lower Mississippi Valley, suggests that the culture-historical framework used to interpret Jaketown and contemporary sites in the region obscures differences in practices across sites. As an alternative, we propose a framework focused on variation in material culture, architecture, and foodways between Jaketown and Poverty Point, the
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The Big Picture versus Minutiae: Geophytes, Plant Foods, and Ancient Human Economies American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Jon M. Erlandson, Kristina M. Gill, Todd J. Braje
In a rejoinder to Gill et alia (2021), Martin (2022) accuses us of perpetuating misconceptions about human nutrition and erroneously describing geophytes as a dietary staple. We provide authoritative definitions for the terms “essential” and “dietary staple” to show that it is Martin who mischaracterizes and misunderstands the foundational role of geophytes and other plant foods to human diets and
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Misunderstandings Regarding Carbohydrates in Human Nutrition American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Steve L. Martin
In a recent issue of American Antiquity, two articles (Gill et al. 2021; Lyons et al. 2021) perpetuate the common misconception that dietary carbohydrates are an essential component of the human diet and that plants—the main source of dietary carbohydrates—must be consumed to promote health. In fact, carbohydrate is a nonessential macronutrient with adequate amounts of energy—the sole function of carbohydrates
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Wapato as an Important Staple Carbohydrate in the Northwest Coast Diet: A Response to Martin American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Tanja Hoffmann, Natasha Lyons, Michael Blake, Andrew Martindale, Debbie Miller, Cynthia Larbey
In response to Steve L. Martin's critique of our recent paper we provide further evidence in support of our central contention: that geophytes were a nutritionally important part of the precontact diet, and that they functioned as dietary, cultural, and economic staple foods for many peoples of the Pacific Northwest.
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Communication in the Chaco World: A Consideration of Time and Labor Mobilization American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-05-05 W. H. Wills, Paulina F. Przystupa, Katharine Williams
The construction of great houses during the Bonito Phase (ca. AD 850–1200) in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, required massive amounts of building material and efficient mobilization and coordination of large labor pools. We employ least cost path analysis (LCA) to explore the potential communication network among great house communities in the Chaco “core” area and its relevance in managing sustained labor
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Bronze Age Worlds: A Social Prehistory of Britain and Ireland. ROBERT JOHNSTON. 2021. Routledge, London. xv + 374 pp. $160.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-13803-787-8. $46.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-13803-788-5. $46.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-31517-763-2. American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Matthew J. Walsh
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British Forts and Their Communities: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives. CHRISTOPHER R. DECORSE and ZACHARY J. M. BEIER, editors. 2018. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. xvi + 314 pp. $84.95 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-8130-5675-3. American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-04-22 Travis Parno
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Early Maize (Zea mays) in the North American Central Plains: The Microbotanical Evidence American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Mary J. Adair, Neil A. Duncan, Danielle N. Young, Steven R. Bozarth, Robert K. Lusteck
Artifacts, including ceramics, ground stone, and soil samples, as well as dental calculus, recovered from sites in the eastern North American central Plains were submitted to multiple laboratories for analysis of microbotanical remains. Direct accelerator mass spectrometer (AMS) dates of 361–197 cal BC provide evidence for the earliest use of maize (Zea mays ssp. mays) in this region. Squash (Cucurbita
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The Archaeology of the Atlantic Northeast. MATTHEW W. BETTS and M. GABRIEL HRYNICK. 2021. University of Toronto Press, Toronto. xix + 383 pp. $125.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-4875-8795-6. $59.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-4875-8794-9. $47.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4875-8796-3. $47.95 (PDF), ISBN 978-1-4875-8797-0. American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Bonnie Newsom
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A Future in Ruins: UNESCO, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace. LYNN MESKELL. 2018. Oxford University Press, New York. xxiii + 372 pp. $33.99 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-19064-834-3. American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Angela M. Labrador
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Agent-Based Modeling for Archaeology: Simulating the Complexity of Societies. IZA ROMANOWSKA, COLIN D. WREN, and STEFANI A. CRABTREE. 2021. Santa Fe Institute Press, Santa Fe, New Mexico. xiii + 429 pp. $10.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-947864-25-2. $0.00 (PDF), ISBN 978-1-947864-25-2. American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Wendy H. Cegielski
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Change and Archaeology. RACHEL J. CRELLIN. 2020. Routledge, New York. xvi + 250 pp. $160.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-13829-254-3. American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Benjamin Alberti
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“This Place Belongs to Us”: Historic Contexts as a Mechanism for Multivocality in the National Register American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Kelsey E. Hanson, Steve Baumann, Theresa Pasqual, Octavius Seowtewa, T. J. Ferguson
Since the creation of the National Register of Historic Places, determining eligibility for listing on it has become the fundamental process driving archaeology in the United States. This process affects how archaeological sites are identified, recorded, evaluated, and ultimately how they are protected. Yet less than 6% of properties on the National Register are archaeological sites. Although scholars
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Using 3D Models to Understand the Changing Role of Fluting in Paleoindian Point Technology from Clovis to Dalton American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Ashley M. Smallwood, Thomas A. Jennings, Heather L. Smith, Charlotte D. Pevny, Michael R. Waters, Thomas J. Loebel, John Lambert, Jacob Ray, Devin Stephens
Fluting is a technological and morphological hallmark of some of the most iconic North American Paleoindian stone points. Through decades of detailed artifact analyses and replication experiments, archaeologists have spent considerable effort reconstructing how flute removals were achieved, and they have explored possible explanations of why fluting was such an important aspect of early point technologies
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Why Those Who Shovel Are Silent: A History of Local Archaeological Knowledge and Labor. ALLISON MICKEL. 2021. University Press of Colorado, Louisville. xiii + 203 pp. $75.00 (hardcover) ISBN 978-1-64642-114-5. $26.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-64642-126-8. $21.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-64642-115-2. American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Uzma Z. Rizvi
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The Archaeology of Caribbean and Circum-Caribbean Farmers (6000 BC–AD 1500). BASIL A. REID, editor. 2018. Routledge, New York. xxvii + 453 pp. $160.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-81534-738-5. $46.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-81534-740-8. $42.25 (e-book), ISBN 978-1- 35116-920-2. American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-04-19 L. Antonio Curet
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Unearthing St. Mary's City: Fifty Years of Archaeology at Maryland's First Capital. HENRY M. MILLER and TRAVIS G. PARNO, editors. 2021. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. xvi + 348 pp. $90.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-8130-6683-7. American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Barry Gaulton
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Finding Solace in the Soil: An Archaeology of Gardens and Gardeners at Amache. BONNIE J. CLARK. 2020. University Press of Colorado, Louisville. xvi + 207 pp. $58.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-64642-092-6. $46.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-64642-093-3. The Coming Man from Canton: Chinese Experience in Montana, 1862–1943. CHRISTOPHER W. MERRITT. 2017. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln. xx + 264 pp. $65.00 American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Douglas E. Ross
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Garden Offerings in the Kona Field System, Hawai'i Island: A Fine-Grained Chronology and Its Implications American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Mark D. McCoy, Hai Cheng, Mara A. Mulrooney, Thegn N. Ladefoged
Identifying and explaining the end of long-lived practices is a major challenge for anthropological archaeology. We present a high-precision uranium series dating (230Th/U) chronology of an undocumented aspect of Hawaiian religion: the use of corals as offerings in gardens. Our results from the upland gardens of Kealakekua (Kona District, Hawai`i Island) document the onset of religious offerings at
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Prismatic Blade Production at the Sinclair Site, Tennessee: Implications for Understanding Clovis Technological Organization American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-04-04 Jesse W. Tune, Thomas A. Jennings, Aaron Deter-Wolf
The Tennessee Division of Archaeology documented an extensive Paleoindian lithic quarry and workshop at the Sinclair site in Tennessee in 2008. We present the first detailed description of the lithic assemblage here, which focuses on aspects of its prismatic blade technology. Quantitative and qualitative attributes of 117 blades are assessed to characterize the assemblage and investigate human behaviors
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Optimal Linear Estimation (OLE) Modeling Supports Early Holocene (9000–8000 RCYBP) Copper Tool Production in North America – CORRIGENDUM American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Michelle R. Bebber,Alastair J. M. Key
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Clovis Stone Tools from El Fin del Mundo, Sonora, Mexico: Site Use and Associations between Localities American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Ismael Sánchez-Morales, Guadalupe Sanchez, Vance T. Holliday
El Fin del Mundo is an archaeological site in Sonora, northwest Mexico, that contains a buried Clovis megafauna kill in a lowland area and concentrations of Clovis and later lithic materials scattered on the deflated surface of the surrounding uplands. The Clovis lithic assemblage from the site, identified by its technological and typological features, has been classified into three modes: bifaces
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Postcontact Cultural Perseverance on the Central California Coast: Sedentism and Maritime Intensification American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Terry L. Jones, William R. Hildebrandt, Eric Wohlgemuth, Brian F. Codding
Indigenous people throughout North America were dramatically affected by the invasion of European colonizers. Growing evidence suggests that, among many strategies for survival and perseverance, increased sedentism was common; it often resulted from either forced resettlement or attempts to access European resources. We present artifactual, paleoethnobotanical, and faunal findings from the yak tichu
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The Mound Builders: Ancient Societies of Eastern North America. 2nd ed. GEORGE R. MILNER. 2021. Thames & Hudson, New York. 224 pp. $29.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-500-29511-3. American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-03-25 Edward R. Henry
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Societies in Transition in Early Greece: An Archaeological History. ALEX R. KNODELL. 2021. University of California Press, Berkeley. xv + 363 pp. $34.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-520-38053-0. $0.00 (open access e-book), ISBN 978-0-520-38054-7, https://luminosoa.org/site/books/m/10.1525/luminos.101/. American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-03-25 Christopher Witmore
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The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Nubia. GEOFF EMBERLING and BRUCE BEYER WILLIAMS, editors. 2021. Oxford University Press, New York. xiv + 1,201 pp. $230.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-19049-627-2. American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Robert James Stark
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Strategies for Quantitative Research: Archaeology by the Numbers. GRANT S. MCCALL. 2018. Routledge, London and New York. xx + 224 pp. $160.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-138-63253-0. $44.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-138-63252-3. $44.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-315-20820-6. American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-03-14 Keith W. Kintigh
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Cultural Keystone Places and the Chumash Landscapes of Kumqaq’, Point Conception, California American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Torben C. Rick, Todd J. Braje, Lain Graham, Kelly Easterday, Courtney A. Hofman, Brian E. Holguin, Alexis M. Mychajliw, Leslie A. Reeder-Myers, Mark D. Reynolds
The places in which people live and spend time are steeped in history, memory, and meaning from the intersection of daily life, environmental interactions, cultural practices, and ritual. Geologic features, plants, animals, and ecosystems merge with these cultural histories, forming critical parts of the landscape and areas of “high cultural salience,” or “cultural keystone places” (CKPs). We identify
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Bayesian Modeling of the Clovis and Folsom Radiocarbon Records Indicates a 200-Year Multigenerational Transition American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-02-28 Briggs Buchanan, J. David Kilby, Jason M. LaBelle, Todd A. Surovell, Jacob Holland-Lulewicz, Marcus J. Hamilton
An enduring problem in North American archaeology concerns the nature of the transition between the Clovis and Folsom Paleoindian complexes in the West. Traditional models indicate a temporal hiatus between the two complexes implying that Folsom was a population replacement for Clovis. Alternatively, if Folsom was an innovation that occurred within Clovis populations and subsequently spread, we would
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Hunters of the Mid-Holocene Forest: Old Cordilleran Culture Sites at Granite Falls, Washington. JAMES C. CHATTERS, JASON B. COOPER, and PHILIPPE D. LETOURNEAU. 2020. Utah Anthropological Papers 134. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. xiii + 205 pp. $55.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-64769-006-9. $44.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-64769-007-6. American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Ron L. Adams
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The Case Study in Archaeological Theory American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-02-07 Gavin Lucas, Bjørnar Olsen
The case study is a familiar yet generally taken-for-granted element of archaeological theory. Typically, it is viewed as a kind of “proof of concept,” an essential way to demonstrate the value of a particular theoretical approach, if not theory in general. In this article, we examine the case study as it has been used in archaeology, exploring its different manifestations and situating them within
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A New Radiocarbon Database for the Lower 48 States American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-02-07 Robert L. Kelly, Madeline E. Mackie, Erick Robinson, Jack Meyer, Michael Berry, Matthew Boulanger, Brian F. Codding, Jacob Freeman, Carey James Garland, Joseph Gingerich, Robert Hard, James Haug, Andrew Martindale, Scott Meeks, Myles Miller, Shane Miller, Timothy Perttula, Jim A. Railey, Ken Reid, Ian Scharlotta, Jerry Spangler, David Hurst Thomas, Victor Thompson, Andrew White
From 2014 to 2020, we compiled radiocarbon ages from the lower 48 states, creating a database of more than 100,000 archaeological, geological, and paleontological ages that will be freely available to researchers through the Canadian Archaeological Radiocarbon Database. Here, we discuss the process used to compile ages, general characteristics of the database, and lessons learned from this exercise
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With Grit and Determination: A Century of Change for Women in Great Basin and American Archaeology. SUZANNE ESKENAZI and NICOLE M. HERZOG, editors. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. xxii + 227 pp. $60.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-64769-004-5. $48.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-64769-005-2. American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-01-20 Kathleen L. Hull
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Connecting Continents: Archaeology and History in the Indian Ocean World. KRISH SEETAH, editor. 2018. Ohio University Press, Athens. viii + 419 pp. $90.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-8214-2326-4. American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-01-20 Eréndira M. Quintana Morales
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Food under Duress: Perspectives from the Kitchen, the Body, and the Trenches - The Scarcity Slot: Excavating Histories of Food Security in Ghana. AMANDA L. LOGAN. 2020. University of California Press, Berkeley. xvi + 222 pp. $34.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-520-34375-7. Open access (e-book), ISBN 978-0-520-97514-9, https://luminosoa.org/site/books/m/10.1525/luminos.98/. - Diet, Nutrition, and Foodways American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-01-19 Andrea M. Cuéllar
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Onondaga and Empire: Iroquoian People in an Imperial Era. JAMES W. BRADLEY. 2020. New York State Museum Bulletin 514. State University of New York; State Education Department, Albany. xxviii + 862 pp. $38.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-55557-312-6. $0.00 (PDF), http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/research-collections/archaeology/news/new-publication-onondaga-and-empire. American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-01-19 William E. Engelbrecht
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The Life and Death of Cities: A Natural History. GREG WOOLF. 2020. Oxford University Press, New York. xviii + 512 pp. $34.95 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-19-994612-9. American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-01-19 Ryan Boehm
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Expanding Paleoindian Diet Breadth: Paleoethnobotany of Connley Cave 5, Oregon, USA American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-01-14 Katelyn N. McDonough, Jaime L. Kennedy, Richard L. Rosencrance, Justin A. Holcomb, Dennis L. Jenkins, Kathryn Puseman
Paleoethnobotanical perspectives are essential for understanding past lifeways yet continue to be underrepresented in Paleoindian research. We present new archaeobotanical and radiocarbon data from combustion features within stratified cultural components at Connley Caves, Oregon, that reaffirm the inclusion of plants in the diet of Paleoindian groups. Botanical remains from three features in Connley
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Rock Art in an Indigenous Landscape: From Atlantic Canada to Chesapeake Bay. EDWARD J. LENIK with NANCY L. GIBBS. 2021. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. xvi + 176 pp. $49.95 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-8173-2096-6. $49.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-8173-9362-5. American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-01-10 Jay I. Levy
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Optimal Linear Estimation (OLE) Modeling Supports Early Holocene (9000–8000 RCYBP) Copper Tool Production in North America American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2022-01-07 Michelle R. Bebber, Alastair J. M. Key
The discovery and development of metal as a tool medium is a topic of global interest. A fundamental research goal involves establishing the timing of human experimentation with naturally occurring copper ore, which is commonly associated with sedentary, agrarian-based societies. However, in North America, there is well-documented millennia-scale exploitation of copper as tool media by small, seasonally
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Climate-Driven Dietary Change on the Colorado Plateau, USA, and Implications for Gender-Specific Foraging Patterns American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2021-12-09 Lisbeth A. Louderback
Complementary archaeological and paleoenvironmental datasets from North Creek Shelter (Colorado Plateau, Utah, USA) are analyzed using the diet breadth model, revealing human dietary patterns during the early and middle Holocene. Abundance indices are derived from botanical and faunal datasets and, along with stone tools, are used to test the prediction that increasing aridity caused the decline of
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Turkeys Befriend a Girl: Turkey Husbandry, Ceremonialism, and Tales of Resistance during the Pueblo Revolt Era American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2021-11-08 Lynda D. McNeil
From Basketmaker II to Pueblo II (200 BC–AD 1150), turkey husbandry flourished among Ancestral Pueblos inhabiting the northern and southern San Juan areas (300 BC–AD 1250) and the Rio Grande Valley (AD 1250– 1700) due to the ritual-symbolic importance of turkey feathers to rainmaking ideology. As primary caregivers, Ancestral Puebloan women's long-lasting social bond with domesticated turkeys was disrupted
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Community Landscapes, Identity, and Practice: Ancestral Pueblos of the Lion Mountain Area, Central New Mexico, USA American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2021-10-28 Suzanne L. Eckert, Deborah L. Huntley
Landscape archaeology has been widely used as a framework for understanding the myriad ways in which people lived in their natural and built environments. In this study, we use systematic survey data in conjunction with ceramic chronology building to explore how residents of the Lion Mountain area in Central New Mexico created and sustained community landscapes over time as memories and stories became
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Documenting 6,000 Years of Indigenous Fisheries and Settlement as Seen through Vibracore Sampling on the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2021-11-08 Seonaid Duffield, Jennifer Walkus, Elroy White, Iain McKechnie, Quentin Mackie, Duncan McLaren
This article highlights the utility of vibracore technology to sample deep shell midden deposits on the Central Pacific Coast of British Columbia, Canada. Analysis of six core samples and 21 radiocarbon dates revealed that the archaeological deposits extended to a depth of 544 cm below surface and that occupation began approximately 6,000 years ago, continuing into the sixteenth century AD. Zooarchaeological
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Turkeys Befriend a Girl: Turkey Husbandry, Ceremonialism, and Tales of Resistance during the Pueblo Revolt Era – Addendum American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Lynda D. McNeil
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Household Economy at Wall Ridge: A Fourteenth-Century Central Plains Farmstead in the Missouri Valley. STEPHEN C. LENSINK, JOSEPH A. TIFFANY, and SHIRLEY J. SCHERMER, editors. 2020. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. xvi + 251 pp. $70.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-060781-773-4. American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2021-12-23 Susan C. Vehik
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Agent of Change: The Deposition and Manipulation of Ash in the Past. BARBARA J. ROTH and E. CHARLES ADAMS, editors. 2021. Berghahn Books, New York. xi + 242 pp. $120.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-80073-036-6. $29.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-80073-037-3. American Antiquity (IF 3.129) Pub Date : 2021-12-23 Ruth M. Van Dyke