C. Trevor Duke, David M. Markus, Joshua Casmir Catalano
Many anthropologists have now adopted a relational view of the culture concept. Much research has shown that, far from being bounded or self-replicating, cultures emerge through interactions between social Others. These findings are particularly important to research on borderlands and peripheries, where communities routinely encounter wide-ranging social and political diversity. We present ceramic frequencies alongside petrographic analysis from the Late Woodland component at Esseneca (38OC20) to illustrate two main points: (1) pottery types previously understood as culture historical isolates co-occur in parts of Upstate South Carolina, and (2) potters collected clays from two main geologic formations near the site. This research shows that communities in the region traveled freely, crossing cultural boundaries while acquiring potting clays. We suggest that this level of interaction between disparate social groups laid the foundation for some aspects of Mississippianization in the region.
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{"title":"The Archaeology of Race and Class at Timbuctoo: A Black Community in New Jersey. Christopher P. Barton. 2022. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. xvi + 134 pp. $80.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-8130-6927-2.","authors":"Tara Skipton","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.100","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138979393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Large-Scale Traps of the Great Basin. Bryan Hockett and Eric Dillingham, with contributions by Clifford Alpheus Shaw and Mark O'Brien. 2023. Texas A&M University Press, College Station. vii + 148 pp. $85.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-64843-108-1. $37.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-64843-109-8.","authors":"Brooke S Arkush","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.96","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.96","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138981850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
We developed a new approach to identify vulnerabilities to water insecurity across entire archaeological culture areas by combining a paleohydrological model of the sensitivites of hydrological systems to droughts with least-cost analyses of the costs to acquire domestic water. Using a custom Python script integrated into ArcGIS Pro software, we calculated the pairwise one-way cost in time for walking between 225 water sources and 5,446 Ancestral Pueblo cultural sites across the Jemez and Pajarito Plateaus of the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico. This allowed us to identify whether periodic hydrological droughts occurring between AD 1100 and 1700 increased water acquisition costs across these regions. We found that hydrological droughts increased travel times in both regions to durations exceeding modern standards for water insecurity. Beginning in the fourteenth century, greater underlying hydrogeological sensitivities to droughts and the decline of a dual-residence pattern caused by population losses made the remaining aggregated communities of the Pajarito Plateau much more vulnerable to water insecurity than those on the Jemez Plateau. This would have upended long-standing relationships between communities and water on the Pajarito Plateau during a time when socioeconomic integration across the northern Rio Grande Valley pulled people toward valley bottoms.
{"title":"Combining Paleohydrology and Least-Cost Analyses to Assess the Vulnerabilities of Ancestral Pueblo Communities to Water Insecurity in the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico","authors":"Michael J. Aiuvalasit, Ian A. Jorgeson","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.67","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.67","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We developed a new approach to identify vulnerabilities to water insecurity across entire archaeological culture areas by combining a paleohydrological model of the sensitivites of hydrological systems to droughts with least-cost analyses of the costs to acquire domestic water. Using a custom Python script integrated into ArcGIS Pro software, we calculated the pairwise one-way cost in time for walking between 225 water sources and 5,446 Ancestral Pueblo cultural sites across the Jemez and Pajarito Plateaus of the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico. This allowed us to identify whether periodic hydrological droughts occurring between AD 1100 and 1700 increased water acquisition costs across these regions. We found that hydrological droughts increased travel times in both regions to durations exceeding modern standards for water insecurity. Beginning in the fourteenth century, greater underlying hydrogeological sensitivities to droughts and the decline of a dual-residence pattern caused by population losses made the remaining aggregated communities of the Pajarito Plateau much more vulnerable to water insecurity than those on the Jemez Plateau. This would have upended long-standing relationships between communities and water on the Pajarito Plateau during a time when socioeconomic integration across the northern Rio Grande Valley pulled people toward valley bottoms.</p>","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138475777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract This study explores the pig-raising practices of Chinese migrants in Los Angeles Chinatown during the Chinese Exclusion Era. Chinese butcher shops sold pork meat, and previous research indicates that they likely sold the more profitable parts outside of Chinatown for additional income while consuming cheaper cuts themselves. Using dental calculus analysis and archival research, this study further explores how Chinatown residents relied on pork to thrive in an anti-Chinese environment. Dental calculus results suggest that Chinese migrants raised their own pigs with food waste and by-products from rice fields; this pork was then sold to meat markets or consumed within the community. The analysis of immigration records indicates that Chinese butcher shops provided employment opportunities as well as housing, banking, and immigration support for Chinese migrants. Pig raising, therefore, not only supplied a source of meat for Chinese migrants but also supported a range of social and financial services for a marginalized group that faced everyday discrimination from dominant society. Overall, this study traces the labor and networks that small businesses in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries needed to source and distribute pork, and it highlights how a Chinese diasporic community developed a pork production system to resist racism.
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{"title":"Wood in Archaeology. Lee A. Newsom. 2022. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. $110.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-10705-206-2. $29.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-10766-689-5.","authors":"Natalie G. Mueller","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.87","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.87","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135242607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Global Perspectives on Landscapes of Warfare. Hugo C. Ikehara-Tsukayama and Juan Carlos Vargas Ruiz, editors. 2022. University Press of Colorado, Denver; Editorial de la Universidad del Magdalena, Santa Marta, Colombia. vi + 300 pp. $75.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-64642-099-5.
战争景观的全球视角》。Hugo C. Ikehara-Tsukayama 和 Juan Carlos Vargas Ruiz 编辑。2022.科罗拉多大学出版社，丹佛；马格达莱纳大学出版社，哥伦比亚圣玛尔塔。75.00 美元（精装），ISBN 978-1-64642-099-5。
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Feathers addresses the dual challenges of inferring original vessel counts from sherds and inference to use life from reconstructed vessels. His solution assumes the validity of sherd assemblages as units of observation that considerable research invalidates and overlooks methods that estimate original vessels from sherds. Feathers also doubts that use life can be inferred for reconstructed vessels. Although not a focus of my article, the larger study from which it derived addresses this matter in detail that strongly warrants vessel size as use-life measure. Of course we must be pragmatic in quantifying pottery assemblages, but first we must identify valid units of observation, and only then attend to pragmatics.
{"title":"On Sherds, Vessels, and Pragmatics: Reaction to Feathers","authors":"Michael J. Shott","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.56","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.56","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Feathers addresses the dual challenges of inferring original vessel counts from sherds and inference to use life from reconstructed vessels. His solution assumes the validity of sherd assemblages as units of observation that considerable research invalidates and overlooks methods that estimate original vessels from sherds. Feathers also doubts that use life can be inferred for reconstructed vessels. Although not a focus of my article, the larger study from which it derived addresses this matter in detail that strongly warrants vessel size as use-life measure. Of course we must be pragmatic in quantifying pottery assemblages, but first we must identify valid units of observation, and only then attend to pragmatics.</p>","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71435884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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{"title":"The Compensations of Plunder: How China Lost Its Treasures. Justin M. Jacobs. 2020. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. vii + 352 pp. $82.50 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-226-71196-6. $27.50 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-226-71201-7. $27.50 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-226-71215-4","authors":"Robert E. Murowchick","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.81","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.81","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135821322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gods of Thunder: How Climate Change, Travel, and Spirituality Reshaped Precolonial America. Timothy R. Pauketat. 2023. Oxford University Press, New York. xvi + 330 pp. $29.95 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-19764-510-9.
《雷霆之神:气候变化、旅行和灵性如何重塑前殖民时期的美国》Timothy R. Pauketat, 2023。牛津大学出版社，纽约。xvi + 330页，29.95美元(精装)，ISBN 978-0-19764-510-9。
{"title":"Gods of Thunder: How Climate Change, Travel, and Spirituality Reshaped Precolonial America. Timothy R. Pauketat. 2023. Oxford University Press, New York. xvi + 330 pp. $29.95 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-19764-510-9.","authors":"David A. Freidel","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.80","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.80","url":null,"abstract":"Gods of Thunder: How Climate Change, Travel, and Spirituality Reshaped Precolonial America. Timothy R. Pauketat. 2023. Oxford University Press, New York. xvi + 330 pp. $29.95 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-19764-510-9.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135821321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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