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Ancient Burial Practices in the American Southwest
Prehistoric burial practices provide an unparalleled opportunity for understanding and reconstructing ancient civilizations and for identifying the influences that helped shape them.
The Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange
Abnormal burial practices have long been a source of fascination and debate within the fields of mortuary archaeology and bioarchaeology. The Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange investigates an unparalleled geographic and temporal range of burials that differ from the usual customs of their broader societies, emphasizing the importance of a holistic, context-driven approach to these intriguing cases. From an Andean burial dating to 3500 BC to mummified bodies interred in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily, during the twentieth century, the studies in this volume cross the globe and span millennia. The unusual cases explored here include Native American cemeteries in Illinois, “vampire...
Chaco Revisited
Chaco Canyon, the great Ancestral Pueblo site of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, has inspired excavations and research for more than one hundred years. Chaco Revisited brings together an A-team of Chaco scholars to provide an updated, refreshing analysis of over a century of scholarship. In each of the twelve chapters, luminaries from the field of archaeology and anthropology, such as R. Gwinn Vivian, Peter Whiteley, and Paul E. Minnis, address some of the most fundamental questions surrounding Chaco, from agriculture and craft production, to social organization and skeletal analyses. Though varied in their key questions about Chaco, each author uses previous research or new studies to ultimately blaze a trail for future research and discoveries about the canyon. Written by both up-and-coming and well-seasoned scholars of Chaco Canyon, Chaco Revisited provides readers with a perspective that is both varied and balanced. Though a singular theory for the Chaco Canyon phenomenon is yet to be reached, Chaco Revisited brings a new understanding to scholars: that Chaco was perhaps even more productive and socially complex than previous analyses would suggest.
Practicing Materiality
Practicing Materiality focuses on the job of applying materiality to anthropological investigations. It demonstrates a practical way to focus on the entangled lives of things without losing sight of their political and social implications.
Ten Thousand Years of Inequality
Is wealth inequality a universal feature of human societies, or did early peoples live an egalitarian existence? How did inequality develop before the modern era? Did inequalities in wealth increase as people settled into a way of life dominated by farming and herding? Why in general do such disparities increase, and how recent are the high levels of wealth inequality now experienced in many developed nations? How can archaeologists tell? Ten Thousand Years of Inequality addresses these and other questions by presenting the first set of consistent quantitative measurements of ancient wealth inequality. The authors are archaeologists who have adapted the Gini index, a statistical measure of w...
Centuries of Decline During the Hohokam Classic Period at Pueblo Grande
Presents findings based on new data from major excavations in Phoenix suggesting that the Classic Period at Pueblo Grande was a time of decline for the Hohokam, marked by overpopulation, environmental degradation, resource shortage, poor health, and social disintegration.
Burial Terminology
Reference guide establishing a standard terminology for archaeologists to use to describe burials and grave goods. Visit our website for sample chapters!
The Scioto Hopewell and Their Neighbors
Bioarchaeological Documentation and Cultural Understanding
The Archaeology of Slavery
Develops an interregional and cross-temporal framework for the interpretation of slavery. Essays cover the potential material representations of slavery, slave owners' strategies of coercion and enslaved people's methods of resisting this coercion, and the legacies of slavery as confronted by formerly enslaved people and their descendants.
Journal of Northwest Anthropology
Journal of Northwest Anthropology Volume 50, Number 2 Fall 2016 Aboriginal Economy and Polity of the Lakes (Senijextee) Indians - Verne F. Ray, with endnote by Madilane Perry Berkeley Rockshelter Lithics: Understanding the Late Holocene Use of the Mount Rainier Area - Bradford W. Andrews, Kipp O. Godfrey, and Greg C. Burtchard Eagle Gorge Terrace (45-KI-1083) an Upland Hunting Camp and Its Place in the Economic Lives of the Precontact Puget Salish - James C. Chatters and Jason B. Cooper Chemical Analysis of Pharmaceutical Materials Recovered from a Historical Dump in Nampa, Idaho - Ray von Wandruszka, David Valentine, Mark Warner, Vaughn Kimball, Tara Summer, Alicia Fink, and Sidney Hunter Skeletal Evidence of Pre-contact Conflict Among Native Groups in the Columbia Plateau of the Pacific Northwest - Ryan P. Harrod and Donald E. Tyler The Holocene Exploitation and Occurrence of Artiodactyls in the Clearwater and Lower Snake River Regions of Idaho - Jenifer C. Chadez Abstracts of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Northwest Anthropological Conference, Eugene, Oregon 26–28 March 2015
