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Not “Fitting the Mold”: Latina Archaeologists Confront Intersecting Inequalities 不“符合模式”：拉丁考古学家面对交叉的不平等

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American Antiquity Pub Date : 2025-09-25 DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2025.20

Milsy Westendorff, Dana N. Bardolph, Mark Schuller

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Characterizing the Erosion of Coastal Archaeological Sites on the Maritime Peninsula Using Survey, Collection Analysis, Excavation, and Modeling 利用调查、收集分析、挖掘和模型表征海洋半岛海岸考古遗址的侵蚀

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American Antiquity Pub Date : 2025-09-22 DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2025.25

M. Gabriel Hrynick, Arthur W. Anderson, Katelyn DeWater, William Kochtitzky, Arthur E. Spiess

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Questions Worth Asking: Un-disciplining Archaeology, Reclaiming Pasts for Better Futures 值得一问的问题：不守纪律的考古学，为了更美好的未来而收复过去

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American Antiquity Pub Date : 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2024.88

Nathan P. Acebo, Wade Campbell, Edward González-Tennant, Alicia Odewale, Emily Van Alst, William A. White, Stephen A. Mrozowski, Lindsay M. Montgomery, Craig N. Cipolla, Anna S. Agbe-Davies

{"title":"Questions Worth Asking: Un-disciplining Archaeology, Reclaiming Pasts for Better Futures","authors":"Nathan P. Acebo, Wade Campbell, Edward González-Tennant, Alicia Odewale, Emily Van Alst, William A. White, Stephen A. Mrozowski, Lindsay M. Montgomery, Craig N. Cipolla, Anna S. Agbe-Davies","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2024.88","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2024.88","url":null,"abstract":"This forum engages an emerging discourse around historical reckoning, truth, and reconciliation, asking how these frameworks inform American archaeology and its future. A growing number of archaeologists are now demanding systemic disciplinary transformations that directly address how white supremacy and settler colonialism enact Indigenous dispossession and erasure as well as anti-Blackness, gender discrimination, and ableism. This forum, featuring 10 archaeologists—including a mixture of junior- and senior-level scholars—is organized into thematic dialogues that highlight their different perspectives and experiences within North American cultural heritage management. First, the dialogue interrogates American archaeology’s embeddedness in ethnocentrism and racism. It then looks at different forms of collaboration that actualize anti-colonial critiques and corrections. Next, it compares collaborative methods with broader calls for “un-disciplining” through incorporating non-Western expertise, sensibilities, needs, and interests. In response to systemic forms of racism, colonialism, and neoliberalism within archaeology, the authors discuss how individuals and institutions can work for and with Indigenous and descendant communities to achieve “reclamation,” defined as the assertion of community control over their significant places, ancestors, belongings, and historical narratives. The article concludes with a consideration of how archaeology can be used by communities to ensure their collective futures.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"130 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145017528","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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Living Archaeological Sites: Documenting and Uplifting 2,700 Years of Cultural-Ecological Heritage in Sts’ailes Territory, SW British Columbia 活生生的考古遗址：记录和提升不列颠哥伦比亚省西南部圣艾尔地区2700年的文化生态遗产

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American Antiquity Pub Date : 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2025.7

Sage Vanier, Patrick Morgan Ritchie, Chelsey Geralda Armstrong, Dana Lepofsky

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Confronting Archaeology’s “Gray Zones” 直面考古学的“灰色地带”

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American Antiquity Pub Date : 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2024.81

Patricia G. Markert, Lisa Hodgetts, Marie-Pier Cantin, Solène Mallet Gauthier, Natasha Lyons, Kisha Supernant, John R. Welch, Adrianna Wiley, Joshua Dent

{"title":"Confronting Archaeology’s “Gray Zones”","authors":"Patricia G. Markert, Lisa Hodgetts, Marie-Pier Cantin, Solène Mallet Gauthier, Natasha Lyons, Kisha Supernant, John R. Welch, Adrianna Wiley, Joshua Dent","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2024.81","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2024.81","url":null,"abstract":"Drinking culture. What happens in the field. It was just a joke. Don’t rock the boat. Archaeology staggers under the weight of its many “gray zones,” contexts of disciplinary culture where boundaries, relationships, ethical responsibilities, and expectations of behavior are rendered “blurry.” Gray zones rely on an ethos of silence and tacit cooperation rooted in structures of white supremacy, colonialism, heteropatriarchy, and ableism. In the gray zone, subtle and overt forms of abuse become coded as normal, inevitable, impossible, or the unfortunate cost of entry to the discipline. Drawing on narrative survey responses and interviews collected by the Working Group on Equity and Diversity in Canadian Archaeology in 2019 and 2020, we examine the concept of the gray zone in three intersecting contexts: the field, archaeology’s drinking culture, and relationships. The work of making archaeology more equitable relies on our ability to confront gray zones directly and collectively. We offer several practical recommendations while recognizing that bureaucratic solutions alone will not be sufficient. Change will require a shift in archaeological culture—a collective project that pulls gray zones into the open and prioritizes principles of care.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145017531","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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Extraordinary Claims, Extraordinary Evidence: The Coronado Expedition’s 1541 Suya Settlement 非凡的主张，非凡的证据：1541年科罗纳多探险队的苏亚定居点

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American Antiquity Pub Date : 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2025.10

Deni J. Seymour

{"title":"Extraordinary Claims, Extraordinary Evidence: The Coronado Expedition’s 1541 Suya Settlement","authors":"Deni J. Seymour","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2025.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2025.10","url":null,"abstract":"The first Coronado expedition site discovered south of Zuni, in Arizona, represents the first European settlement in the American Southwest—a place called Suya (San Geronimo III). Investigations have revealed an impressive assortment of early sixteenth-century artifacts and features. The structured layout is reflected in concentrations of both household- and battle-related artifacts. Artifacts and substantial adobe-and-stone structures indicate a diversity of residential activities and the presence of a sizable and varied group of people who expected to stay. They brought a range of household goods that are not appropriate for a traveling expedition but that are of the type expected in a settled context where social maneuvering and status display characterized daily life. Suya’s occupants had access to a range of European household goods and weaponry, including the most expensive guns (matchlocks, wheel locks, crossbows, bronze cannon). Weapons and ammunition provide evidence of a battle, as do their fragmentary nature and clustered distribution. Documents convey that this was the first successful Native American uprising in the continental United States. This site exhibited attributes characteristic of a Coronado expedition settlement, so viable alternative explanations were sought, including other entradas. Work has proceeded for five years, revealing the richness, extent, and complexity of the site.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"103 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145017527","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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From Exclusive to Inclusive: The Changing Role of Plaza Spaces in the Ancestral Pueblo World (AD 800–1550) 从排他性到包容性：广场空间在祖先普韦布洛世界中的角色变化（公元800-1550年）

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American Antiquity Pub Date : 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2025.4

Kelsey E. Hanson, Kathleen Barvick, Rebecca Harkness, Evan Giomi, Scott G. Ortman, Barbara J. Mills

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Landscapes, Religion, and Social Change in Pueblo History 普韦布洛历史上的景观、宗教和社会变迁

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American Antiquity Pub Date : 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2025.13

Robert S. Weiner, Scott G. Ortman

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Does Size Matter? What the Projectile Points from Oregon’s Mill Creek Archaeological Complex Tell Us 尺寸重要吗？俄勒冈州米尔克里克考古建筑群的弹丸点告诉我们什么

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American Antiquity Pub Date : 2025-09-09 DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2025.11

Thomas J. Connolly, Paul W. Baxter

{"title":"Does Size Matter? What the Projectile Points from Oregon’s Mill Creek Archaeological Complex Tell Us","authors":"Thomas J. Connolly, Paul W. Baxter","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2025.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2025.11","url":null,"abstract":"A dramatic increase of small (“arrow-sized”) points, typically beginning after about 2,000 years ago (depending on locality), has often been characterized as marking the introduction of the bow and arrow throughout the Americas, eventually replacing earlier dart-and-atlatl weaponry in most areas. We analyze a large point assemblage from sites in the central Willamette Valley of western Oregon with a 6,000-year-long cultural record. We easily sorted the assemblage into small (“arrow-sized”) and large (“dart-sized”) sets using standard metrics, but we noted extreme temporal overlap, suggesting that (1) atlatls and bows continued in regular use as companion weapons; (2) both large and small projectile tips were affixed to arrows, depending on the target; or (3) there was some combination of these factors. Given the range of point forms, it appears that some served specialized functions (e.g., social conflict, hunting conditions, prey type), suggesting that the uses of stone-tipped weaponry may be more nuanced than has generally been acknowledged. Consequently, we find that assigning points to specific weapon systems requires assumptions we cannot support.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145017532","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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Local Responses to a Fourteenth-Century AD Immigration Event on the Georgia Coast 当地对14世纪乔治亚海岸移民事件的反应

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American Antiquity Pub Date : 2025-09-02 DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2025.22

Brandon T. Ritchison

{"title":"Local Responses to a Fourteenth-Century AD Immigration Event on the Georgia Coast","authors":"Brandon T. Ritchison","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2025.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2025.22","url":null,"abstract":"By the end of the fourteenth-century AD, Native peoples throughout the midwestern and southeastern regions of North America had withdrawn from major monumental and political centers established in prior centuries. In this article, I present the results of a community-level examination of settlement transformations on the Georgia Coast that I argue are the outcome of this large-scale movement of Mississippian peoples. Specifically, I examine the consequences of the depopulation of the Savannah River Valley, a case of a rapid, historically contingent Mississippian emigration beginning in the fourteenth century AD. My results establish how a large-scale immigration event affected community spatial and political organization and demonstrate that migrants and coastal locals engaged in the collective cultural construction of new identities and lifeways in response to the challenges of negotiating the use of common pool resources, such as fisheries and suitable farmland. Reconstructing the spatial organization of communities can help explain the demographic, economic, and political processes that undergird the cultural materialization of space. Although much remains to be learned about intra-settlement organization at post-Archaic, precolonial sites along the Georgia Coast, this investigation provides new information about the local, community-level spatial response to the fourteenth-century immigration event.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144927826","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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