Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/19442890.2023.2184909
Ramón Folch González
knowing. He provides a model to decolonize the understanding of the site using a Shonacentric perspective and terminology. A shortcoming of the work is that there are very few voices of ordinary local people. Chirikure is Shona and a scholar, and he mainly cites Shona philosophers, ethnographers, archaeologists, local chiefs, and historians. This is valuable information but from experts. What do ordinary people want in terms of a usable past? What are their oral histories and remembrances? Since this review was requested by the journal Ethnoarchaeology, it should bemade clear that Chirikure is critical of ethnoarchaeology (280). This is curious because in the introduction he claims to provide an unrivaled Afro-centered interpretation framework using the approach of combining illustrative and comparative analogies sensu the works of Wylie (1985) and Stahl (1993). Their approach is a method that compares and evaluates the relevance of the ethnographic source to interpret the material evidence of the archaeological subject, and to discern change and continuity in practices over time. In this approach, Wylie and Stahl recognize the role of ethnoarchaeology in rigorously investigating source sides of analogies, and there is no reason why this could not be useful in decolonizing Africa’s past.
{"title":"Aquatic Adaptations in Mesoamerica: Subsistence Activities in Ethnoarchaeological Perspective","authors":"Ramón Folch González","doi":"10.1080/19442890.2023.2184909","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19442890.2023.2184909","url":null,"abstract":"knowing. He provides a model to decolonize the understanding of the site using a Shonacentric perspective and terminology. A shortcoming of the work is that there are very few voices of ordinary local people. Chirikure is Shona and a scholar, and he mainly cites Shona philosophers, ethnographers, archaeologists, local chiefs, and historians. This is valuable information but from experts. What do ordinary people want in terms of a usable past? What are their oral histories and remembrances? Since this review was requested by the journal Ethnoarchaeology, it should bemade clear that Chirikure is critical of ethnoarchaeology (280). This is curious because in the introduction he claims to provide an unrivaled Afro-centered interpretation framework using the approach of combining illustrative and comparative analogies sensu the works of Wylie (1985) and Stahl (1993). Their approach is a method that compares and evaluates the relevance of the ethnographic source to interpret the material evidence of the archaeological subject, and to discern change and continuity in practices over time. In this approach, Wylie and Stahl recognize the role of ethnoarchaeology in rigorously investigating source sides of analogies, and there is no reason why this could not be useful in decolonizing Africa’s past.","PeriodicalId":42668,"journal":{"name":"Ethnoarchaeology","volume":"75 1 1","pages":"81 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87823563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/19442890.2022.2127269
Worku Derara-Megenassa
ABSTRACT Coffea arabica, the most widely consumed variety of coffee globally, is the Ethiopian domesticate par excellence. Ironically, archaeological research on the early cultivation and consumption of this plant in its place of origin is sparse. This ethnoarchaeological study among Kafecho, Majangir, and Oromo coffee-producing communities in southwest Ethiopia examines the processes by which coffee-related pottery moves from systemic to archaeological contexts. Two traditions of brewing coffee are associated with two different pottery assemblages. Variation in the life history of coffee-related pottery across households is attributed to (1) differences in breakage patterns that either enable or inhibit secondary use and (2) household economic status, which determines when pottery is replaced. The use, reuse, and discard of coffee-related pottery is high in coffee-producing communities, and the possibility of recovering such remains archaeologically is high in midden sites where secondary refuse is discarded and in abandoned settlements as primary refuse where breakage occurs.
{"title":"The Life History of Coffee-Related Pottery Traditions in Ethiopia: Ethnoarchaeology and Formation Processes of the Archaeological Record","authors":"Worku Derara-Megenassa","doi":"10.1080/19442890.2022.2127269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19442890.2022.2127269","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Coffea arabica, the most widely consumed variety of coffee globally, is the Ethiopian domesticate par excellence. Ironically, archaeological research on the early cultivation and consumption of this plant in its place of origin is sparse. This ethnoarchaeological study among Kafecho, Majangir, and Oromo coffee-producing communities in southwest Ethiopia examines the processes by which coffee-related pottery moves from systemic to archaeological contexts. Two traditions of brewing coffee are associated with two different pottery assemblages. Variation in the life history of coffee-related pottery across households is attributed to (1) differences in breakage patterns that either enable or inhibit secondary use and (2) household economic status, which determines when pottery is replaced. The use, reuse, and discard of coffee-related pottery is high in coffee-producing communities, and the possibility of recovering such remains archaeologically is high in midden sites where secondary refuse is discarded and in abandoned settlements as primary refuse where breakage occurs.","PeriodicalId":42668,"journal":{"name":"Ethnoarchaeology","volume":"17 1","pages":"81 - 107"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90711800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/19442890.2022.2110755
P. Day
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/19442890.2022.2136879
D. Wilcox, R. Meindl, Linda B. Spurlock, M. Eren, Michelle R. Bebber
ABSTRACT During the North American Late Archaic Period, people produced ceramic vessels from clay and stone vessels from soapstone. While both ceramic and soapstone vessels proliferated across eastern North America, the former evolved and endured into the subsequent periods, while the latter declined. Here, we conducted an experiment to assess heating effectiveness between soapstone and ceramic vessels. We examined heating rate, ability to boil, heat retention, and thermal shock resistance. We predicted that if cooking performance contributed to the decline of soapstone vessels, then they would perform poorly relative to ceramic vessels. Our results did not support that hypothesis and revealed soapstone vessels were significantly more likely to reach a boil. We consider three other related factors: (1) sourcing and production costs; (2) subsistence change; and (3) exchange and mobility, which may have contributed to the decline of the soapstone cooking vessel and the continued investment in ceramic technology.
{"title":"Relative Heating Effectiveness and the Decline of the Soapstone Cooking Vessel in Eastern North America","authors":"D. Wilcox, R. Meindl, Linda B. Spurlock, M. Eren, Michelle R. Bebber","doi":"10.1080/19442890.2022.2136879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19442890.2022.2136879","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT During the North American Late Archaic Period, people produced ceramic vessels from clay and stone vessels from soapstone. While both ceramic and soapstone vessels proliferated across eastern North America, the former evolved and endured into the subsequent periods, while the latter declined. Here, we conducted an experiment to assess heating effectiveness between soapstone and ceramic vessels. We examined heating rate, ability to boil, heat retention, and thermal shock resistance. We predicted that if cooking performance contributed to the decline of soapstone vessels, then they would perform poorly relative to ceramic vessels. Our results did not support that hypothesis and revealed soapstone vessels were significantly more likely to reach a boil. We consider three other related factors: (1) sourcing and production costs; (2) subsistence change; and (3) exchange and mobility, which may have contributed to the decline of the soapstone cooking vessel and the continued investment in ceramic technology.","PeriodicalId":42668,"journal":{"name":"Ethnoarchaeology","volume":"13 1","pages":"108 - 135"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74418570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/19442890.2022.2065756
D. Hu
Retracing Inca Steps is an autobiographical retrospective about Dean Arnold ’ s early and impactful ethnoarchaeological ceramics research in Ayacucho, Peru in the 1960s and 70s. Arnold writes from an accessible, fi rst-person perspective with anthropological sensitivity and self-e ff acing humor. The book is a combination of a behind-the-scenes look at how his research design changed over the course of the fi eld season and a “ how-to ” for navigating di ff erent cultural perspectives, ethical quandaries, and di ffi cult fi eld situations, especially regarding food and digestion. Arnold chronicles how anthropology his limited social and and how his early was innovative for ceramic ethnoarchaeology. Arnold
{"title":"Retracing Inca Steps: Adventures in Andean Ethnoarchaeology","authors":"D. Hu","doi":"10.1080/19442890.2022.2065756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19442890.2022.2065756","url":null,"abstract":"Retracing Inca Steps is an autobiographical retrospective about Dean Arnold ’ s early and impactful ethnoarchaeological ceramics research in Ayacucho, Peru in the 1960s and 70s. Arnold writes from an accessible, fi rst-person perspective with anthropological sensitivity and self-e ff acing humor. The book is a combination of a behind-the-scenes look at how his research design changed over the course of the fi eld season and a “ how-to ” for navigating di ff erent cultural perspectives, ethical quandaries, and di ffi cult fi eld situations, especially regarding food and digestion. Arnold chronicles how anthropology his limited social and and how his early was innovative for ceramic ethnoarchaeology. Arnold","PeriodicalId":42668,"journal":{"name":"Ethnoarchaeology","volume":"6 1","pages":"76 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85862632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/19442890.2022.2088180
Julieta Flores Muñoz, P. M. Flores
ABSTRACT Mapping is an established practice by which people represent, explore, and share their understandings of geography. While cartographic products have become the dominant medium for this, there are many ways of expressing spatial knowledge, providing a rich opportunity to understand different forms in which people recreate, navigate, and understand their landscape. This research explores how Nahuas in Mixtla de Altamirano, Veracruz, Mexico, build tochan, their space called “house,” and how this knowledge is transmitted orally over time. This shows the potential that oral narratives have to inform and decolonize historical and archaeological knowledge and to lead us to revaluate our own spatial thinking.
{"title":"Tochan, “The House of All of Us”: Decolonizing Space through Nahua Oral Narratives","authors":"Julieta Flores Muñoz, P. M. Flores","doi":"10.1080/19442890.2022.2088180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19442890.2022.2088180","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Mapping is an established practice by which people represent, explore, and share their understandings of geography. While cartographic products have become the dominant medium for this, there are many ways of expressing spatial knowledge, providing a rich opportunity to understand different forms in which people recreate, navigate, and understand their landscape. This research explores how Nahuas in Mixtla de Altamirano, Veracruz, Mexico, build tochan, their space called “house,” and how this knowledge is transmitted orally over time. This shows the potential that oral narratives have to inform and decolonize historical and archaeological knowledge and to lead us to revaluate our own spatial thinking.","PeriodicalId":42668,"journal":{"name":"Ethnoarchaeology","volume":"74 1","pages":"30 - 50"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82718884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/19442890.2022.2095843
J. Moreno, Bruce Bradley, M. Okumura, Thomas J. Williams
ABSTRACT To accurately replicate highly complex, flaked stone artifacts using the same raw materials as the original artifacts is a challenge for any present-day flintknapper. Replication of individual bifacial points from a Bronze Age burial mound in Wales led to further study of the artifacts. Integrating experimental replication, technological analysis, x-ray fluorescence, and geometric morphometry, we conducted a study of the bifacial points from the Breach Farm site. Results revealed two technological traditions; the technological details of the production sequences; possible use of a source of Greensand chert in France as raw material on both shores of the English Channel; no evidence of practical use or post-depositional damage; and the considerable expertise of the flintknapper(s). This study suggests contact across the English Channel involving people from Armorica (France) by trade or tribute, and it supports interpretations of production of these artifacts for mortuary contexts rather than functional use as arrowpoints.
{"title":"Two Technological Traditions of Bifacial Points from the Breach Farm Site, Wales: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Lithic Technology Integrating Experimental Replication, X-Ray Fluorescence, and Geometric Morphometry","authors":"J. Moreno, Bruce Bradley, M. Okumura, Thomas J. Williams","doi":"10.1080/19442890.2022.2095843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19442890.2022.2095843","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT To accurately replicate highly complex, flaked stone artifacts using the same raw materials as the original artifacts is a challenge for any present-day flintknapper. Replication of individual bifacial points from a Bronze Age burial mound in Wales led to further study of the artifacts. Integrating experimental replication, technological analysis, x-ray fluorescence, and geometric morphometry, we conducted a study of the bifacial points from the Breach Farm site. Results revealed two technological traditions; the technological details of the production sequences; possible use of a source of Greensand chert in France as raw material on both shores of the English Channel; no evidence of practical use or post-depositional damage; and the considerable expertise of the flintknapper(s). This study suggests contact across the English Channel involving people from Armorica (France) by trade or tribute, and it supports interpretations of production of these artifacts for mortuary contexts rather than functional use as arrowpoints.","PeriodicalId":42668,"journal":{"name":"Ethnoarchaeology","volume":"495 1","pages":"51 - 75"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87121632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/19442890.2022.2084236
Margaret E. Beck, M. Hill, M. Khandelwal
ABSTRACT A hearth is the location of an intentional fire, commonly fueled with organic matter such as wood, charcoal, crop waste, or dried animal dung (biomass, or biofuel). Hearths also implicate gender, regional ecologies, and complex, symbolically rich technologies. This article is about household cooking hearths—specifically, biomass hearths used with ceramic cooking vessels. Insights are drawn from international development projects, ethnoarchaeology, archaeology, and related fields to define types of hearths. We identify associations between hearth construction and other key attributes of archaeological relevance, including cooking vessel shape, food preparation methods, fuel choice, labor allocation, methods and materials of house construction, and use of indoor and outdoor spaces. Additionally, we discuss these associations based on our ethnoarchaeological study of development in contemporary Rajasthan, India. We argue that broadening the scope of ethnoarchaeology to consider international development efforts that promote change reveals the complicated ways that cooking hearths are embedded within households.
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