Pub Date : 2023-03-30DOI: 10.1080/1947461x.2023.2174760
T. Jones, Christina Hornbaker, Kathleen A. Knox, Zoe Levit, Sierra Lyman, Jake Wanzenreid, B. Codding
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Pub Date : 2023-02-09DOI: 10.1080/1947461x.2023.2173772
Gregory R. Burns, J. Eerkens, H. Spero, J. Rosenthal
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/1947461X.2022.2137933
Ashley Parker
resent very real disagreements among lithic analysts (see, for example, the extended explication of the weaknesses of the typological approach to flake analysis), but nonetheless provide a comprehensive overview of the salient issues and variables. Similarly, Shott contextualizes the study of the Modena and Tempiute quarries with extended comparisons to sites across the Great Basin, California, other regions of North America, and often other continents. Taken together, the net effect is like having an entire graduate-level lithics seminar between two covers. For that reason alone, this book is worth having on one’s shelf.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/1947461X.2022.2125711
J. Erlandson, T. Braje
ABSTRACT In a recent issue of California Archaeology, Jim Cassidy (2021. “A Technological Assessment of the North Pacific Seafaring Hypothesis: Informed by California Channel Island Research.” California Archaeology 13 (1): 69–92). provided a flawed assessment of the potential role boats and seafaring played in the initial peopling of the Americas, as well as the nature of watercraft used to settle Santarosae and California’s other Channel Islands. His arguments contain numerous errors and inconsistencies and are based primarily on his previously published interpretation of lithic tools from the Early Holocene component at the Eel Point site on San Clemente Island. Here, we point out the most obvious errors and weaknesses in Cassidy’s arguments and present a more realistic view of what we know and do not know about early seafaring and maritime technology in North America and southern California.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/1947461X.2022.2121023
Antonio Porcayo-Michelini
ABSTRACT Archaeological studies conducted in the north of Baja California document a series of peculiar settlements in Yuman territory, as in the case of site MRA 21, given their relative inaccessibility where human life under current climatic conditions is unsustainable. Radiocarbon dating and evidence from the colonial period when invasion of the Yuman territory began (A.D. 1769) show that indeed there was subjugation of indigenous people, but also demonstrate a tenacious resistance from Yumans who took the most marginal areas of the northeast of the peninsula as an impregnable refuge. Was it their will alone that allowed these Yumans to survive the mission period and the colonialization? Or could “geographic isolation” and environmental factors have led to this resistance being successful to a large extent? This issue is analyzed here, arriving at a new vision of how they probably achieved it.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/1947461X.2022.2137929
Edward Gonzalez-Tennant
research exploring broader landscapes, persistent places, and Indigenous people’s resilient traditions” (p. 17). This long-standing paradigm has been reinforced by the narrow time span of most research (initial Spanish colonization), the application of archaeological periodization and associated field and laboratory methods that leaves little theoretical room for researching perspectives and approaches that trace Native persistence and the ways in which these communities were able to do so. The author further stresses that this paradigm has harmed Native people, and that one must “decolonize archaeological discourse, specifically to decenter conventional perspectives on space and time without unconsciously adopting the grammar of colonialism” (p. 10). Moving forward, it is necessary to focus on Native agency, recenter research on the Indigenous hinterland and Native places, recognize the limits of colonial power, and reject narratives of cultural loss or change-as-loss. This powerful, thought-provoking study is a marvelous addition to the University of Arizona Press’s influential Archaeology of Indigenous-Colonial Interactions in the Americas book series. It is also a wakeup call to all researchers in California (including myself) and elsewhere as it explicitly challenges our paradigmatic biases, the way we frame and construct narratives about the past (especially from the sixteenth century onward), our research perspectives, the questions we can be asking about the past, long-held ways of doing fieldwork and analysis of the archaeological record, and how we ultimately organize, present, and interpret our research results. The significant perspective and insights provided in this book are also applicable in any colonial setting, and I have been personally inspired – as a citizen of the Shawnee Tribe – to begin applying the insights offered here to better understand facets of our long colonial history in the eastern U.S.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/1947461X.2022.2137928
Lee M. Panich
history is reliable and used by Native people to make sense of their world, along with history, anthropology, and other methodologies. Authors should consider who they are writing for and why, as well as the ethics behind asserting Native voices without Native people. Some of the authors do this, others do not, making for a volume of mixed success. Native or not, as academics we should ask ourselves, “Who gave you permission to tell these stories?” At the core, fields such as anthropology, history, and archaeology have ignored this question. It is time to put it at the forefront of academic inquiry and this anthol is a step in the right direction toward that.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/1947461X.2022.2137930
Brittani R. Orona
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Pub Date : 2022-07-03DOI: 10.1080/1947461X.2022.2121025
Claire Tatlow, E. Cook, Maddie Noet, J. Webb, Kathleen A. Knox, B. Codding, T. Jones
ABSTRACT Sea mussels and turban snails are among the most abundant mollusks recovered from central California middens. Experimental harvests of these and other shellfish have been conducted to help interpret archaeological findings, but methodological complications have plagued many of the early experiments. Here we report results of harvest experiments of mussels and turban snails completed between 2016 and 2022 on the Pecho coast of San Luis Obispo County. We developed a local formula to convert umbo thickness measurements into whole mussel valve length, and this article reports new return rates, including one of over 1,500 kcal/hour for mussels obtained by an experienced shellfish collector. This rate demonstrates the importance of accumulated knowledge in subsistence experiments, and suggests that mussels have higher dietary potential than previously thought. Archaeological mussel size profiles suggest that a selective (plucking-like) strategy was associated with sustainable harvest for at least the last 5,000 years on the Pecho coast.
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