February New Archaeology books
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Historical Archaeology and Indigenous Collaboration: Discovering Histories That Have Futures
Historical Archaeology and Indigenous Collaboration: Discovering Histories That Have Futures: CC73 .G68 2020
Author(s): D. Rae Gould, Holly Herbster, Stephen A. Mrozowski, Heather Law Pezzarossi
Gainesville : University Press of Florida [2020]
Highlighting the strong relationship between New England's Nipmuc people and their land from the pre-contact period to the present day, this book helps demonstrate that the history of Native Americans did not end with the arrival of Europeans. This is the rich result of a twenty-year collaboration between indigenous and nonindigenous authors, who use their own example to argue that Native peoples need to be integral to any research project focused on indigenous history and culture. The stories traced in this book center around three Nipmuc archaeological sites in Massachusetts-the seventeenth century town of Magunkaquog, the Sarah Boston Farmstead in Hassanamesit Woods, and the Cisco Homestead on the Hassanamisco Reservation. The authors bring together indigenous oral histories, historical documents, and archaeological evidence to show how the Nipmuc people outlasted armed conflict and Christianization efforts instigated by European colonists. Exploring key issues of continuity, authenticity, and identity, Historical Archaeology and Indigenous Collaboration provides a model for research projects that seek to incorporate indigenous knowledge and scholarship.
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Maritime Communities of the Ancient Andes
Maritime Communities of the Ancient Andes: CC77.U5 M3672 2020
Author(s): Gabriel Prieto, Daniel H. Sandweiss
Gainesville : University Press of Florida [2020]
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The Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange: Bioarchaeological Explorations of Atypical Burials
The Odd, the Unusual, and the Strange: Bioarchaeological Explorations of Atypical Burials: GN486 .O33 2020
Author(s): Tracy K. Betsinger, Amy B. Scott, Anastasia Tsaliki
Gainesville : University of Florida Press 2020.
This volume focuses specifically on non-normative or atypical mortuary practices situated within a contextually-driven understanding of social and cultural norms surrounding the process of interment. Drawing on examples from North and South America, Europe, and Asia, this comprehensive volume stresses the commonality between non-normative or atypical treatments spanning millennia. Additionally, this volume strives to employ a holistic understanding of non-normative burials both in terms of assessing the significance and interpretation of individual cases of atypical interments, as well as to better understand the overall phenomenon of these mortuary practices, which continue to be the source of fascination and debate within mortuary archaeology.