Pub Date : 2021-10-23DOI: 10.1177/01976931211048205
Laura Kozuch
Shell beads were important to Mississippians, and thousands of beads were found mostly associated with burials. Here I synthesize data on shell bead workshops from Greater Cahokia, along with crafting techniques. Different bead types required different tools, which, in conjunction with shell remains, allow the differentiation of columella versus disk bead workshops. Perishable drill tips were probably used. Bead size standardization is distinguished from craft specialization, and time spent on crafting indicates full-time specialists. Expeditions to get lightning whelk shells from the Gulf of Mexico were a part of the operational chain. The resources spent traveling to obtain shells, large workshop areas, time spent crafting beads, ethnohistoric accounts of shell barter, and the roles lightning whelk artifacts had/have in helping souls travel during liminal situations such as transitioning to death, all underscore the importance of Mississippian shell beads.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-11DOI: 10.1177/01976931211048208
Mark R. Barnes, PhD.
In 1976, I co-authored an article on the Guevaví Mission site, founded in 1701, as one of the northernmost Jesuit missions in the American Southwest (Robinson and Barnes, 1976). My contribution to this article was the description and analysis of the material culture recovered in archaeological investigations (1964–1966). Like many other southwestern Spanish colonial mission sites, Guevaví had been the target of “treasure hunting,” casual surface collecting of artifacts, and post-Jesuit occupation disturbance, so “only broken, worn, or lost items remained” (Robinson and Barnes, 1976). Slightly more than 5,000 pieces of Native American pottery were recovered in excavations, but how much of this material preor post-dated this eighteenth century Jesuit mission was unknown. All of the imported ceramics (Mexico, Spain, and China), broken glass and beads, and metal fragments fit neatly into three archival drawers in the Arizona State Museum and did not exceed 100 items, or one half of one percent of the total number of recovered artifacts. As an archaeologist who has specialized in the research of Spanish colonial material culture, I was most interested in reviewing Jeffrey Quilter’s work on the colonial town and church of Magdalena de Cao along the Pacific coast of Peru to see how artifacts recovered from South America missions compared to those of North America. The differences between Magdalena de Cao and Guevaví were readily apparent in terms of size of occupation, environment, and the amount and variety of artifacts. Magdalena de Cao was originally the site of a major prehistoric Moche town and monumental huaca or earthen mound complex, located on the El Brujo Terrace adjacent to the Pacific Ocean. Decades of archaeological investigations on sites on this terrace was the basis for the development of a tourist facility, as this area appears to have been continuously occupied for as long as 14,000 years, and where in the last Book Review
1976年，我与人合作撰写了一篇关于Guevaví传教网站的文章，该网站成立于1701年，是美国西南部最北的耶稣会传教会之一(Robinson and Barnes, 1976)。我对这篇文章的贡献是对考古调查中发现的物质文化(1964-1966)的描述和分析。像许多其他西南西班牙殖民传教地点一样，Guevaví曾经是“寻宝”的目标，偶尔在地面收集文物，以及耶稣会占领后的骚乱，所以“只有破碎，磨损或丢失的物品留下来”(Robinson和Barnes, 1976)。在挖掘中发现了5000多件美洲原住民陶器，但这些材料在18世纪耶稣会传教之前或之后有多少是未知的。所有进口的陶瓷(墨西哥、西班牙和中国)、破碎的玻璃和珠子以及金属碎片整齐地放在亚利桑那州立博物馆的三个档案抽屉里，不超过100件，占回收文物总数的0.5%。作为一名专门研究西班牙殖民物质文化的考古学家，我最感兴趣的是回顾杰弗里·奎尔特(Jeffrey Quilter)关于秘鲁太平洋沿岸马格达莱纳河(Magdalena de Cao)殖民城镇和教堂的工作，看看从南美任务中恢复的文物与北美任务相比如何。Magdalena de Cao和Guevaví之间的差异在职业规模、环境以及人工制品的数量和种类方面很明显。Magdalena de Cao最初是一个主要的史前莫切镇和巨大的瓦卡或土丘建筑群的所在地，位于毗邻太平洋的El Brujo露台上。数十年的考古调查是开发旅游设施的基础，因为这个地区似乎已经连续被占领了长达14,000年，在最近的书评中
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Pub Date : 2021-10-09DOI: 10.1177/01976931211048204
Rachael Kiddey
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.1177/01976931211043367
P. Raber
This collection of papers, published in numbers 3 and 4 of this volume of North American Archaeologist, reflects recent research into the development of pre-contact period quarries in Pennsylvania and the surrounding Middle Atlantic region.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-21DOI: 10.1177/01976931211033998
Alexis Widdifield, David Palmer, C. Dillian
This study used data collected using a portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometer to examine ceramic artifacts found during the excavation of historic Brook Green Plantation, in Georgetown County, South Carolina. Excavations at this site yielded culturally significant artifacts associated with African and African American people held in bondage during the 19th century. The geochemical composition of Colonoware and brick artifacts was compared to clay samples that were taken from six locations on the grounds of Brookgreen Gardens. Some Colonoware sherds were found to be consistent with a clay source close to the excavation site. This research is part of a larger goal to demonstrate the applicability of portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry in the analysis and interpretation of archaeological ceramics.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-14DOI: 10.1177/01976931211008269
Mark R Barnes
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Pub Date : 2021-04-07DOI: 10.1177/01976931211008270
Mark R Barnes
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Pub Date : 2021-04-01DOI: 10.1177/0197693120968710
W. Andrefsky
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Pub Date : 2021-02-27DOI: 10.1177/0197693121996728
B. Lepper, R. Boszhardt, J. Duncan, Carol Diaz-Granados
The effigy mounds of the Upper Midwest and the Ohio Valley long have been regarded as distinct and independent cultural developments. A review of effigy mound iconography in both regions reveals similarities suggesting that they are elements of a shared cultural tradition. Comparisons with rock art imagery from the Upper Midwest and Missouri, the inferred centers of this artistic and ceremonial florescence, reveal co-occurrences of specific motifs and provide additional evidence of cultural connections among the Late Woodland to early Late Precontact societies inhabiting the lower Missouri, Mississippi, and Ohio river valleys. Oral traditions of Native American groups with documented connections to these regions allow this rich corpus of imagery to be understood as key episodes in their genesis stories.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-20DOI: 10.1177/0197693121995615
T. Murtha, B. Scheetz
The construction of a road extension of Park Avenue through the Pennsylvania State University’s agricultural fields offered an opportunity to reinvestigate, in more detail, the Tudek jasper quarry site (36CE238). The original investigation was led by Dr. James Hatch and graduate students from the University’s Department of Anthropology. Initial studies yielded in excess of 27,000 artifacts that were used in this analysis. Our reinvestigation resulted in the construction of a detailed outline of the quarry site and the pattern of usage of the materials from the site. Additionally, radiocarbon dating indicated that the site was intensively utilized for a long period of time (3500 BC to 1500 AD) and confirmed that, like many quarry sites, the activities included primary materials collection and testing, reduction of the lithic materials for transport to another location where the final finishing of tools took place. Moreover, the availability of raw material likely changed through time and across the quarry. Observed color changes in the jasper suggest some heat treatment on site, primarily during later time periods.
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