{"title":"Unburied Lives: The Historical Archaeology of Buffalo Soldiers, Fort Davis, Texas, 1869–1875. Laurie A. Wilkie. 2021. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. xxiii + 274 pp. $65.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-8263-6299-5. $65.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-8263-6300-8.","authors":"E. King","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.8","url":null,"abstract":"Laurie A. Wilkie ’ s Unburied Lives is a fascinating and welcome addition to the literature. Although it focuses on a specific group, place, and time — the Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Davis, Texas, in the early 1870s — the book offers insights for other archaeologists investigating those whose lives are unrecorded or suppressed in our histories. “ Buffalo Soldiers ” is a nickname given to African Americans who served in all-Black Army units created after the US Civil War. Among these units was the 25th Infantry, the people at the heart of Unburied Lives .","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"88 1","pages":"446 - 447"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46901997","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":"Indigenous Peoples, Heritage and Landscape in the Asia Pacific: Knowledge Co-production and Empowerment. Stephen Acabado and Da-Wei Kuan, editors. 2021. Routledge, New York. xx + 213 pp. $170.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-367-64871-8. $48.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-367-64872-5. $48.95 (e-book), ISBN 97","authors":"J. Flexner","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.41","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41606981","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":"The Archaeology of the Logging Industry. John G. Franzen. 2020. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. xvi + 242 pp. $85.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-8130-6658-5.","authors":"Tyler Rounds","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.43","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49255731","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":"Comics and Archaeology. Zena Kamash, Katy Soar, and Leen Van Broeck, editors. 2022. Springer, Cham, Switzerland. xiii + 177 pp. $49.99 (hardcover), ISBN 978-3-030-98918-7. $39.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-3-030-98919-4.","authors":"J. Loubser","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.40","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48683103","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":"Indigenous Agave Use in the Ocampo Caves Vicinity, Tamaulipas, Mexico","authors":"J. Hanselka","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.34","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The symbiotic relationship between people and the genus Agave spans millennia and a vast geographical area encompassing Mexico, the southwestern United States, and the Texas borderlands. In the early 1950s, Richard MacNeish's investigations in Tamaulipas yielded evidence of past agave use in the mountains of northeastern Mexico. Excavations in the Ocampo Caves revealed 9,000 years of sporadic occupations by hunter-gatherers, mixed forager-farmers, and finally, periodic visits by residents of nearby agricultural villages. Although these discoveries are incompletely published—and existing publications largely underemphasize the range of utilized wild resources in favor of domesticated maize, beans, and squash—agave is among the wild plant taxa most often mentioned in use throughout the Holocene. Unpublished field notes, curated plant assemblages recovered during MacNeish's excavations, and data from recent archaeological survey complement the published literature to explore the role of this prominent plant in this important archaeological region.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"88 1","pages":"344 - 360"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41392689","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":"Gendered Crafts in the Great Salt Lake Desert: A Comparative Analysis of Late Holocene Cordage and Coiled Basketry","authors":"M. Coe","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.33","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Perishable artifacts are invaluable tools for reconstructing past lifeways of hunter-gatherers, and when preserved in arid settings, they can inform on dynamic interactions between communities and the environment. Many such materials were recovered from early archaeological surveys in Utah and Nevada but were largely excluded from contemporary analyses because of small sample sizes, their fragmentary nature, and insecure proveniences. This synchronic reanalysis of cordage and coiled basketry from 10 late Holocene sites in the Great Salt Lake Desert utilizes newer approaches to perishables analysis so as to collect data more conducive to statistical comparisons of subsistence and craft traditions absent from earlier Great Basin studies. Regional trends of conformity of fine cordage contrasted with a diversity of basketry manufacture suggest contemporaneous social stressors directing the production of materials and two potentially gendered subclasses of utilitarian objects. Feminine and masculine perishable crafts in the Bonneville Basin follow separate manufacturing traditions, observable despite small sample sizes and poor dating of these curated collections.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"88 1","pages":"302 - 325"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41659822","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}
Scott R. Hutson, James Johnson, S. Price, Dorian Record, Marcus Rodriguez, Taylor Snow, Tera Stocking
{"title":"Gender, Institutional Inequality, and Institutional Diversity in Archaeology Articles in Major Journals and Sapiens","authors":"Scott R. Hutson, James Johnson, S. Price, Dorian Record, Marcus Rodriguez, Taylor Snow, Tera Stocking","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.36","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.36","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Studies in the sociopolitics of archaeology have shown patterns of inequality in publishing. Because this inequality affects the richness of perspectives on the past, the extent of unevenness requires continual documentation. This article explores gendered and institutionally based patterns of authorship in prominent archaeology journals, archaeology papers in general science journals, and Sapiens, a public-facing web magazine, from 2016 to 2021. We find that the representation of women is similar across these two types of journals, for authors both in the United States and abroad. Men still publish significantly more than women though the gap is narrowing due to the publication activity of recent PhDs. Using a large database of PhDs as a baseline for comparison, we find that women publish less in these venues than expected, resulting in an imbalance. Some archaeology programs have a larger presence in journal publishing than others, but this imbalance is not as pervasive as what has been observed in hiring practices. Archaeology journals exhibit healthier measures of diversity, compared to Science, in terms of the institutional affiliation of authors.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"88 1","pages":"326 - 343"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48060584","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":"Diversity in Open-Air Site Structure across the Pleistocene/Holocene Boundary. Kristen A. Carlson and Leland C. Bement, editors. 2022. University Press of Colorado, Louisville. vii + 246 pp. $66.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-64642-225-8. $53.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-64642-226-5.","authors":"Ashley M. Smallwood","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.35","url":null,"abstract":"Open-air sites, especially those dated to the late Pleistocene and early Holocene periods, are notoriously difficult to find. Site formation and taphonomic processes challenge preservation, making identifying discrete activity areas and even site boundaries particularly challenging. In Diversity in Open-Air Site Structure across the Pleistocene/Holocene Boundary , Kristen A. Carlson and Leland C. Bement gather a group of investigators who meet these challenges. In the nine chapters, the authors present case studies analyzing a variety of open-air sites located in Europe and North America to demonstrate that with careful excavation and clever spatial analyses, open-air sites can offer valuable new information about past lifeways","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49297886","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":"Understanding the Rise of Complexity at Cahokia: Evidence of Nonlocal Caddo Ceramic Specialists in the East St. Louis Precinct","authors":"Shawn P. Lambert, Paige A. Ford","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.28","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article investigates the rise of social complexity of Cahokia's multiethnic city through a robust stylistic grammar analysis of early Caddo fine ware vessels at Cahokia's East St. Louis Precinct. We explore ceramic production and distribution to shed light on whether Caddo-like fine wares were produced by Caddo potters who lived and crafted at Cahokia, were produced by local Cahokia potters who copied Caddo motifs, or were imported to Cahokia from the southern Caddo area. This investigation helps us better understand the nature of Caddo connections at the beginning of Cahokia's development and provides a means of identifying and interpreting new levels of social interactions between the Caddo world and Cahokia. The stylistic grammar results show that the majority of the Caddo-like vessels at Cahokia have identical stylistic grammar as vessels from the Caddo world. This strongly suggests that Caddo craft specialists migrated to, lived, and crafted their homeland vessels at Cahokia and thus were key social actors in its development.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"88 1","pages":"361 - 385"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46171740","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}
Nicholas Gala, S. Lycett, Michelle R. Bebber, M. Eren
{"title":"The Injury Costs of Knapping","authors":"Nicholas Gala, S. Lycett, Michelle R. Bebber, M. Eren","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.27","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract For at least three million years, knapping stone has been practiced by hominin societies large and small, past and present. Thus, understanding knapping, knappers, and knapping cultures is fundamental to anthropological research around the world. Although there is a general sense that stone knapping is inherently dangerous and can lead to injury, little is formally, specifically, or systematically known about the frequency, location, or severity of knapping injuries. Toward this end, we conducted a 31-question survey of modern knappers to better understand knapping risks. Responses from 173 survey participants suggest that knapping injuries are a real and persistent hazard, even though a majority of modern knappers use personal protective equipment. A variety of injuries (lacerations, punctures, aches, etc.) can occur on nearly any part of the body. The severity of injury sustained by some of our participants is shocking, and nearly one-quarter of respondents reported having sought or received professional medical attention for a flintknapping-related injury. Overall, the results of this survey suggest that there would have likely been serious, even fatal, costs to knappers in past societies. Such costs may have encouraged the deployment of any social learning capacities possessed by hominins or delayed the learning or exposure of young infants or children to knapping.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"88 1","pages":"283 - 301"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48350259","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}