"The 2016 Southwest Symposium explored "engaged archaeology." The Arizona State Museum and the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona, the Department of Anthropology at Northern Arizona University, and the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona collaborated to host this fifteenth biennial conference to promote new ideas and directions in the archaeology of the US Southwest and the Mexican Northwest."--Page 3. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Engaged archaeology today / Sarah A. Herr, Patrick D. Lyons, and Kelley A. Hays-Gilpin -- Research in the service of repatriation in the Southwest / T. J. Ferguson -- Modeling cultural interactions and expanding traditional histories : research and NAGPRA compliance on the Coconino National Forest / Peter J. Pilles, Jr., Kimberly Spurr, and Leigh J. Kuwanwisiwma -- Reassessing the burial assemblages of Nuvakwetaqa, Chavez Pass, Arizona / Arleyn Simon, Christopher Caseldine, Sarah Striker, Christopher Grivas, Neysa Grider-Potter, and Darsita R. North -- Bioarchaeological research resulting from NAGPRA compliance efforts / Debra L. Martin -- Repatriation and the evolution of osteological practice / John A. McClelland -- Identity and cultural affinity in the Alameda-Stone Cemetery, Tucson, Arizona : bioarchaeological, contextual, and archival evidence / Michael Heilen and Teresita Majewski -- Creating a safe space for Western Apache repatriation : working with native communities to better understand published and unpublished documentary sources / Vernelda Grant and Cécile R. Ganteaume -- Why does repatriation matter? / Chip Colwell -- Kiowa-Tanoan kin terms and ancestral Pueblo social organization / Patrick Cruz and Scott Ortman -- Research at the intersection of archaeology and ethnology : reviving the direct historical approach / John A. Ware -- Archaeology as ethnology (and vice versa) : Puebloan variations / Peter M. Whiteley -- Reviving the direct historical approach on the western margins of the Southwest : the evolution of kinship terminologies in the Yuman languages / Jane H. Hill -- Grand ideas : from engaged ethnology to informed archaeology / Kelley Hays-Gilpin -- Connecting with the past through Hopi ethnobotanical collections / Lisa C. Young and Susan Sekaquaptewa -- The landscape of Navajo identities / Kerry F. Thompson -- Experimental replication and technological comparison of turquoise manufacturing techniques in Mesoamerica, northern Mexico, and the southwestern United States / Emiliano Ricardo Melgar Tísoc -- Archaeometric analysis of prehispanic turquoise objects from Chalchihuites, Zacatecas, México / Guillermo Córdova Tello and Estela Martínez Mora.
Summary:
"Organized around the theme of "interdisciplinary perspectives," the authors identify current and near-future trends in archaeological practice in the Southwest US and Northwestern Mexico, including repatriation, community engagement, and cross-disciplinary approaches, and focuses on Native American archaeologists and their communities, research, collaborations, and interests." Provided by publisher.
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