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Amah mutsun tribal band
collaboration with ohlone/costanoan Indians from ano Nuevo state preserve, analysis of fire-scar dendochronology, archaeobotany, flotation, phytoliths
Ano Nuevo state preserve
quiroste valley cultural practices, used multiple lines of evidence including fire scar dendochronology on redwoods, sediment cores from marshlands, all suggests fires, tobacco found
Attributes
observable characteristics that can be isolated or defined in 2 or more states (form = 3d shape and metrics, technological = raw materials and methods employed in manufacture, include how it was made and material used, stylistic = descriptive features
Catal hoyuk
turkey, reed villages, mud mounds, hodder re-excavated and used it as amodel for good post-processual archaeology, reflexive methodology
Coprolite
fossilized feces
Differential deposition
ex. Sea otter bones not found at Alaskan camp even though they were decimated
Debitage
lithic scatters, waste made during production of tools
Roger Echo-Hawk
long-term view about past represented in oral tradition and myths, shouldn’t be dismissed b/c they tell about past (ex. Blamed floods on monsters
Ellis Landing
nels nelson excavation, old collections not written up, were they cemeteries or mounded villages? Challenges of using old collections when you had no hand in the original research
Ethnographic analogy
specific = how material culture was used by a specific group, then apply to another group, general = pick analogy based on similar environment and think about similar needs of people in similar environments
Experimental archaeology
lithic manufacture, lithic use-wear analysis, residue analysis → archaeologist does manufacturing/using of a tool to help with interpretation
Glenn Farris
used oral tradition at fort ross and Hudson’s bay company
Flaked stone technology
produced by chipping off core
Groundstone technology
making tools by grinding rather than percussion force
Interface
between two strata on feature in strata
Ishi
last wild Indian, style of making tools was from many groups, not just his own
Makah cultural research center
ozette site, presents the tribe’s own view of the past, grey whale controversy = hunted whales and wanted to do so again to revive their culture
Market street Chinatown
San Jose, burned in 1887 and creating good preservation, primary context, not enough funding for analysis, collections never written up (Rebecca Allen/Barbara Voss)
Gina Michaels
worked with ceramics from Chinatown, studied distribution and significance
Robert Oswalt
linguistic anthropoligist at UCB, worked with Kashaya elders and transcribed oral tradtions
Amador county farmstead
rural example, small population of Chinese exerting influence of chinese identity
Angel island
immigration station, looking at multi-ethnic groups of CA
Palynology
study of pollen
Percussion
force leaves characteristic attributes, direct = hard/soft hammer, indirect = more delicate, using a chisel
Plan drawing
what we did in ARF
Pressure flaking
having good control, detail work of lithic production, direct/indirect percussion
Pyrodiversity practices
Ano Nuevo state reserve
Residue analysis
analyze residue left in ceramics and on tools to find out what they were eating
Albert Spaulding
used statistics to find discovered types
Steve Shackley
analyzed artifacts produced by Ishi, looked at hunter-gatherer identity and their production of stone tool tenchnology
Taphonomy
study of transformational processes affecting organic ecofacts after death of original organisms, natural/human agents
Types
discovered or arbitrary
Thad Van Buren
Chinese overseas arch: farmstead = example of rural Chinese arch. In CA of Chinese laborers’ inter-ethnic flavor
Elliot Blair
survey work in Mongolia (stone monument structures), east coast, Alaska, Georgia Spanish mission (all Christian burials, shell middens, orientation of site, beads, palimpsest)
Dave David
Klamath reservation, OR, didn’t like CRM, hidden Klamath basin rock art with restricted access
Interpretation at “trowel’s edge”
Catal Hoyuk site in turkey, breaking down barrier b/w lab and field