All Roads Lead to Winnemucca: Local Road Systems and Community Material Culture in Nineteenth-Century Nevada

Purser, Margaret

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“…In terms of transportation, roads and trails can be interpreted as material expressions of regional connections that span economic, political, and social relationships and boundaries (Purser 1989(Purser , 1992; see also Brooks and Prine 1996). Rivers provided another means of access into the region.…”

Section: Industrial Capitalism: An Intersection Of Transportation Exmentioning

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Historical Archaeologies of the American West

Dixon

2014

J Archaeol Res

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Historical archaeology in western North America includes a vast collection of research that underscores the region's dynamic cultural heritage. Here, I review a sample of the literature related to this research and organize them into four conceptual themes: colonialism and postcolonialism, landscape transformation, migration and diaspora, and industrial capitalism. I conclude that the future of historical archaeology in the West will be grounded in research that integrates these themes. As the region continues to experience human dilemmas related to issues such as balancing resource extraction with sustainable conservation and lingering issues of colonialism, these archaeologies have value for transcending the natureculture divide and for understanding the ways in which humanity can navigate pressing issues relevant to our modern world, including vulnerability, risks, adaptation, resilience, and sustainability.

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Section: Industrial Capitalism: An Intersection Of Transportation Exmentioning

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Historical Archaeologies of the American West

Dixon

2014

J Archaeol Res

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“…But landscapes have to be considered as the key to understanding the material expression of culture in the American West. Margaret Purser's (1989) Basin. In the most general way landscapes reflect the "transformation of Nature into Culture" in the American West.…”

Section: The Regional Culture Of the American Westmentioning

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Historical archaeology in the American West

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Hist Arch

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Geographic Information System Modeling of De Soto’s Route from Joara to Chiaha: Archaeology and Anthropology of Southeastern Road Networks in the Sixteenth Century

Sampeck¹,

Thayn²,

Earnest³

2015

Am. antiq.

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This research revisits the question of the most likely paths traveled during the 1540 entrada of Hernando de Soto and colonizing efforts of Juan Pardo about 20 years later by utilizing the spatial modeling method of geographic information system (GIS) analysis to evaluate the favorability of different paths and place them within the context of recent archaeological and ethnohistoric research. Analysis results make the larger anthropological point that GIS route modeling should explicitly take into account the size of the party traveling. Routes for small parties are not the same as optimal routes for large armies such as de Soto’s, which included hundreds of people, pieces of equipment, and livestock. The GIS-modeled routes correlate with the distribution of contact-period archaeological sites and attested eighteenth-century routes. More accurate estimation of Spanish routes allows us to better model the Native American social, economic, and political nexus of this period, showing that the residents in far eastern Tennessee were probably part of a dynamic borderlands between the chiefdom of Coosa to the west and the ancestral Cherokee heartland to the east. This anthropological refinement in GIS modeling will be useful in investigating ancient paths of interaction in many parts of the world.

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All Roads Lead to Winnemucca: Local Road Systems and Community Material Culture in Nineteenth-Century Nevada

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Historical Archaeologies of the American West

Historical Archaeologies of the American West

Historical archaeology in the American West

Geographic Information System Modeling of De Soto’s Route from Joara to Chiaha: Archaeology and Anthropology of Southeastern Road Networks in the Sixteenth Century

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