Archaeological field methods, including excavation and regional survey, are well suited to telling detailed, place-based stories, but they have significant drawbacks as means for characterizing the diversity of (and drivers of variation within) large, interregional systems. Even when data from multiple regional...
With multispecies ethnography, the ontological turn, and Indigenous knowledge combined with ecological and ethological empirical findings on species interconnectivity and sociality, this project questions the dichotomous categories “wild” or “domesticated” and “hunting” or “herding” that are typically employed...
Long thought of as simple communities that defy complex social organization by way of constant movement, the nomadic lifeway was often considered at odds with large and complex agglomerations of people. Recent archaeological research in the Eurasian steppe has now shown that quite...
Discussants: Jada Ko E. Dalyn Grindle Veronica Peterson Kristen Pearson
Topic: Archaeologists Doing Ethnography: Adventures with the IRB (Institutional Review Board) Process Time: Oct 8, 2020 08:30 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Mary C. Stiner, Regents Professor, School of Anthropology, University of Arizona
Humans are the only animal species that bury their dead, and this practice is preserved in Paleolithic sites as early as 120,000 years ago. The emergence of burial traditions in this time period implies that both Neanderthals and early humans had already begun to conceive of the individual as unique and irreplaceable. Mary Stiner will discuss the archaeological evidence for burial practices in the Paleolithic, the earliest-known ritualized bridge...