{"title":"The Heterogeneity of Social Network and Institutional Covariance in the American Southeast","authors":"Jacob Holland-Lulewicz","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.52","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Social, political, and economic institutions covary with one another in heterogenous ways across space and time. Social Network Analysis (SNA) offers a set of analytical tools and conceptual frameworks that have allowed for formal comparisons of interactions, affiliations, and relationships in reconstructing historical trajectories of institutional change. Although archaeologists have made full use of a range of metrics that describe the structural variation of social networks, formal approaches to analyzing the covariance of networks, and the institutions that structured networks in the past, remain undertheorized. In most cases, descriptive metrics are compared between networks built from different datasets or networks separated in time. Using quadratic assignment procedure (QAP) correlations to compare matrices of archaeological data, I draw on a ceramic dataset of approximately 350,000 sherds from the Southern Appalachian region to investigate how decisions related to manufacture choice and to stylistic design covaried with one another between roughly AD 800 and 1650. I explore how material attributes may or may not vary independently of one another and what that means for our analyses of the institutions they reflect. The results contribute to broader comparative analyses of institutional change and perennial discussions of social evolution.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48074947","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":"An Inventory of Precontact Burial Mounds of Iowa","authors":"William E. Whittaker","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.49","url":null,"abstract":"A long-term project to map and catalog all precontact Native American burial mounds in Iowa provides information about the number, location, form, survivorship, and rate of loss of mounds. This analysis reveals previously undocumented mound manifestations, including a large cluster of 200 linear mounds along the central Des Moines River valley. Historical records reveal that at least 7,762 mounds were identified at 1,551 sites in Iowa between 1840 and the present. About 47% of the mounds from these sites can be possibly seen in lidar, with 33% of the total clearly seen in lidar. Data show that mound loss over time is linear. Extrapolation of data suggests that at least 15,000–17,000 mounds stood in Iowa in the nineteenth century, but the actual number was likely higher.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41914925","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":"Osteobiographies: The Discovery, Interpretation, and Repatriation of Human Remains. Susan Pfeiffer. 2022. Academic Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. xiii + 213 pp. $130.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-12823-880-6. $130.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-128-23881-3.","authors":"Lauren Hosek","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.57","url":null,"abstract":"Osteobiographies: The Discovery, Interpretation, and Repatriation of Human Remains. Susan Pfeiffer. 2022. Academic Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. xiii + 213 pp. 130.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-128-23881-3. - Volume 88 Issue 4","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135099012","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 Nine Lives of Florida's Famous Key Marco Cat. Austin J. Bell. 2021. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. xi + 241 pp. $26.95 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-8130-6699-8.","authors":"Christina Perry Sampson","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.61","url":null,"abstract":"This book is an exuberant account of one remarkable artifact. The 6-inch-tall carved wooden panther that is the star of the tale has attracted the kind of attention that builds on itself and makes the object ever more captivating. The Nine Lives of Florida ’ s Famous Key Marco Cat explores how this Native American sculpture has become a “ truly transcendent ” object in North American archaeology.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44081327","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 Mediterranean Iron Age. Tamar Hodos. 2020. Cambridge University Press, New York. xii + 318 pp. $110.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-521-19957-5. $36.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-521-14806-1. $30.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-108-90770-5.","authors":"Paul D. Scotton","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.42","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45599682","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":"Mobility, Lineage, and Land Tenure: Interpreting House Groups at Early Agricultural Settlements in the Tucson Basin, Southern Arizona","authors":"Erina P. Gruner","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.39","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 During the Early Agricultural period (2100 BC–AD 50), preceramic farmers in the Sonoran Desert invested considerable labor in canal-irrigated field systems while remaining very residentially mobile. The degree to which they exercised formal systems of land tenure, or organized their communities above the household level, remains contested. This article discusses the spatial and social organization of Early Cienega–phase settlements in the Los Pozos site group, an Early Agricultural site complex located along the Santa Cruz River in southern Arizona. At Los Pozos, the formal spatial organization of seasonal farmsteads suggests that despite continued residential mobility, multihousehold lineages maintained distinct territories. Enduring “house groups”—likely lineal groups—are associated with disproportionately large cemeteries, suggesting the revisitation of ancestral territory through occupational hiatuses. However, variability in the formality and permanence of Early Cienega–phase settlements throughout the region indicates a flexible continuum of occupational mobility. These higher-order affiliations were only expressed in persistent settlements near highly productive farmland, where the relative priority of households over improved land might be contested.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42462615","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":"Household Archaeology at the Bridge River Site (EeRl4), British Columbia: Spatial Distributions of Features, Lithic Artifacts, and Faunal Remains on Fifteen Anthropogenic Floors from Housepit 54. Anna Marie Prentiss, Ethan Ryan, Ashley Hampton, Kathryn Bobolinski, Pei-Lin Yu, Matthew Schmader, and Alysha Edwards. 2022. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. xiv + 216 pp. $65.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-1-64769-051-9. $52.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-64769-052-6.","authors":"Molly Carney","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.60","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.60","url":null,"abstract":"Household Archaeology at the Bridge River Site (EeRl4), British Columbia: Spatial Distributions of Features, Lithic Artifacts, and Faunal Remains on Fifteen Anthropogenic Floors from Housepit 54. Anna Marie Prentiss, Ethan Ryan, Ashley Hampton, Kathryn Bobolinski, Pei-Lin Yu, Matthew Schmader, and Alysha Edwards. 2022. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. xiv + 216 pp. 52.00 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-64769-052-6.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135891430","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":"More than Shelter from the Storm: Hunter-Gatherer Houses and the Built Environment. Brian N. Andrews and Danielle A. Macdonald, editors. 2022. xi + 283 pp. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. $90.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-8130-6937-1.","authors":"Raven Garvey","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.62","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.62","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45050929","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":"Forensic Archaeology: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Kimberlee Sue Moran and Claire L. Gold, editors. 2019. Springer, Cham, Switzerland. xi + 333 pp. $159.99 (hardcover), ISBN 978-3-030-03289-0. $119.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-3-030-03291-3.","authors":"John W. Verano","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.51","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.51","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46679065","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":"Editor's Corner","authors":"Debra L. Martin","doi":"10.1017/aaq.2023.50","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2023.50","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button.","PeriodicalId":7424,"journal":{"name":"American Antiquity","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135763101","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}