A partir de la lectura de documentos escritos en los siglos XVI y XVII, se analizaron en este caso únicamente las menciones a un grupo de especies introducidas: viñas y árboles frutales. Se relevaron ...las etnoespecies de interés y se infirieron las especies taxonómicas, en relación a cuatro ciudades fundadas en el siglo XVI: Santiago del Estero (en Santiago del Estero), Londres de La Nueva Inglaterra (en Catamarca), San Miguel de Tucumán (en Tucumán) y Nuestra Señora de Talavera (en Salta). Se estableció que las viñas y árboles frutales habrían sido introducidos tempranamente y cultivados principalmente en las chacras de las ciudades. Además, se registró la emergencia de nuevos actores vinculados a las prácticas agrícolas, así como menciones a la experimentación, al almacenamiento y la comercialización. Finalmente, se propusieron indicadores arqueológicos sobre la presencia de estas especies en las ciudades coloniales tempranas del NOA.
Nearly three decades of research have identified evidence of commercial institutions and exchange at cities throughout Mesoamerica. This introduction examines three major areas of investigation for ...commercial institutions in ancient Mesoamerican cities: marketplaces and urban geography; currencies, standards and credit; and the social dimensions of urban commerce. It discusses the different ways in which the contributing authors examine different commercial economies of ancient Mesoamerica through the prism of its urban centers, and the potential of this approach for further archaeological research.
En este trabajo se presentan los resultados de las primeras investigaciones arqueológicas realizadas en el interfluvio ubicado entre los cursos medios de los ríos Colorado y Negro (Provincia de Río ...Negro, Argentina). En esta extensa planicie árida se encuentran lagunas temporarias en las que se concentra el material arqueológico, principalmente en superficie. Con el fin de comprender las estrategias humanas de uso del espacio y la intensidad de las ocupaciones se llevaron a cabo estudios distribucionales y, en menor medida, excavaciones arqueológicas. La información generada fue discutida a la luz de las expectativas arqueológicas derivadas del modelo de uso del espacio propuesto por Borrero y colaboradores (2008). Los resultados obtenidos indican que el registro arqueológico localizado en torno a estas lagunas efímeras es principalmente el efecto de un uso del espacio planificado y redundante. Asimismo, algunos sectores de estas lagunas fueron utilizados más intensa y repetidamente, sugiriendo casos de redundancia específica. Si bien no se cuenta con fechados radiocarbónicos, la presencia de cerámica permite vincular las ocupaciones humanas al menos al Holoceno Tardío. La evidencia discutida revela la importancia de este espacio interfluvial en los circuitos de asentamiento y movilidad de las sociedades cazadoras-recolectoras en torno a dos de los principales ríos norpatagónicos.
Living in the Past for a Better Future Wilkie, Laurie A
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This chapter provides a review of the papers focused on developing the ways that Contemporary Archaeologies in Old Places provides a framework for understanding ongoing processes of dispossession, ...displacement, and disenfranchisement historically experienced by marginalized and economically vulnerable populations. At the same time, through community‐engaged praxis, the authors also demonstrate the ways that contemporary archaeological research can contribute to issues of sustainability and social justice, particularly through the use of methodologies that are easily reproduceable by non‐experts. The author tests this assertion by, in the context of recent protests against Anti‐Black police violence, taking a contemporary archaeological perspective to the old place in which she lives, Bushrod, Oakland, where the Black Panther Self‐Defense party was founded and engaged in its early social justice work.
Archaeological research of dismantled homes at the Albany Bulb in the San Francisco Bay, California, prompted me to rethink the category of “homelessness” and the temporal boundaries of ...archaeological research. This paper treats the history of people who called this landfill‐turned‐park home as part of broad processes of redevelopment and displacement in the Bay Area and beyond. Archaeological and artistic research provide a critical methodology through which I reflect on contemporary struggles for homeless rights and conflicts over who needs to be “cleaned up.”
This paper presents the results of a bibliometric analysis undertaken on Joseon gogo yeongu (Joseon Archaeological Research), North Korea's preeminent archaeology journal, providing information on ...the researchers, institutions, and research topics that have come to form the field of archaeological research in North Korea since the mid-1980s. Deviating from previous analyses of Joseon gogo yeongu, this paper focuses on the authors that contributed to Joseon gogo yeongu, identifying the archaeologists that have been most active in publishing articles. This particular method of establishing the key figures of North Korean archaeology reveals the presence of certain archaeologists whose importance has been overlooked within the South Korean discourse on North Korean archaeology. In addition, by tracing the research topics of these key figures over time, a broad understanding of the field of archaeological research in North Korea can be obtained. Information on institutional affiliations and co-authorships present within Joseon gogo yeongu also provide valuable insights into the workings of North Korean academia. Finally, by visualizing the results of the bibliometric analysis using word clouds and networks, the efficacy of Digital Humanities approaches to large data sets is demonstrated.
The application of method and theory from network science to archaeology has dramatically increased over the last decade. In this article, we document this growth over time, discuss several of the ...important concepts that are used in the application of network approaches to archaeology, and introduce the other articles in this special issue on networks in archaeology. We argue that the suitability and contribution of network science techniques within particular archaeological research contexts can be usefully explored by scrutinizing the past phenomena under study, how these are abstracted into concepts, and how these in turn are represented as network data. For this reason, each of the articles in this special issue is discussed in terms of the phenomena that they seek to address, the abstraction in terms of concepts that they use to study connectivity, and the representations of network data that they employ in their analyses. The approaches currently being used are diverse and interdisciplinary, which we think are evidence of a healthy exploratory stage in the application of network science in archaeology. To facilitate further innovation, application, and collaboration, we also provide a glossary of terms that are currently being used in network science and especially those in the applications to archaeological case studies.
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