Recent research in the archaeology of architecture: Beyond the foundations

Steadman, Sharon R.

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“…account for 56% of the bird bones from New Ireland. Unlike sites in Remote Oceania with continuous and rich deposition of bird bones (39,40), the New Ireland record is too spotty to determine precisely when various species were lost. Only 2% of the bird bones identified from the five sites are more than 15,000 years old (Table 3), at which time humans already had occupied New Ireland for 20,000 years.…”

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Prehistoric birds from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea: Extinctions on a large Melanesian island

Allen

1999

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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At least 50 species of birds are represented in 241 bird bones from five late Pleistocene and Holocene archaeological sites on New Ireland (Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea). The bones include only two of seabirds and none of migrant shorebirds or introduced species. Of the 50 species, at least 12 (petrel, hawk, megapode, quail, four rails, cockatoo, two owls, and crow) are not part of the current avifauna and have not been recorded previously from New Ireland. Larger samples of bones undoubtedly would indicate more extirpated species and refine the chronology of extinction. Humans have lived on New Ireland for ca. 35,000 years, whereas most of the identified bones are 15,000 to 6,000 years old. It is suspected that most or all of New Ireland's avian extinction was anthropogenic, but this suspicion remains undetermined. Our data show that significant prehistoric losses of birds, which are well documented on Pacific islands more remote than New Ireland, occurred also on large, high, mostly forested islands close to New Guinea.

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Prehistoric birds from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea: Extinctions on a large Melanesian island

Allen

1999

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…Recent examples of this problem from Latin America include LeCount (2001), Sheets (1992Sheets ( , 2000Sheets ( , 2002, Kievit (1994), and Quattrin (2001). Nevertheless, more and more archaeologists have been excavating and studying houses, and, as Steadman (1996) and others point out, household-scale research provides some of the best data on ancient social and economic patterns. (Several topics that are part of "household archaeology" are discussed in other sections of this essay.)…”

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New World States and Empires: Economic and Social Organization

Smith

Schreiber

2005

J Archaeol Res

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We take a critical perspective in discussing recent publications on the archaeological study of the ancient state-level societies of Latin America. For some topics, such as intensive agriculture and exchange, data are far ahead of theory, whereas for others (e.g., gender and ethnicity), theory has outstripped data. Craft production, a topic that has achieved a good balance of data and theory, is one of the success stories of recent Latin American archaeology. After a discussion of sources of data, we review these and other topics (e.g., consumption patterns, household studies, social organization) in terms of both data and theory. In a second review article, we cover the topics of politics, religion, urbanism, and the processes of change.

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“…Como marco general nos encuadramos dentro de la llamada "Archaeology of Architecture" (sensu Steadman 1996), que se aboca al estudio del ambiente construido reconociéndole el papel que puede desarrollar en las relaciones sociales. Uno de sus fines es definir prácticas constructivas y formas de uso del espacio habitacional como un medio de acceder a las conductas cotidianas, modos de vida y organización social de los grupos domésticos en relación a sus marcos históricos de referencia y a una dinámica mutuamente constituida.…”

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Montículos arqueológicos, actividades y modos de habitar. Vivienda y uso del espacio doméstico en Santiago del Estero (tierras bajas de Argentina)

Taboada

2017

Arqueol. Arquitect.

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RESUMENEste artículo aborda la definición del espacio habitacional de las poblaciones indígenas que vivieron en la llanura de Santiago del Estero (Argentina) y su vinculación con los montículos característicos de la región. Parte de trabajos arqueológicos de campo y pone en juego una estrategia teórico-metodológica que apunta a superar las limitaciones de una arquitectura perecedera. Como resultado se identificó un ámbito doméstico techado, con el primer registro para la región de un techo de torta y un piso posiblemente preparado. En articulación con la reinterpretación de datos bibliográficos, se definieron situaciones diferenciadas en cuanto a actividades, construcciones y modos de habitar, que habilitan una nueva lectura sobre la diversidad y características de las poblaciones de la región. Los casos analizados amplían el conocimiento de la diversidad y distribución de las construcciones monticulares de las tierras bajas de Sudamérica, y aportan elementos sobre arquitectura doméstica, poco estudiada para los mismos.Palabras clave: arqueología de unidades domésticas; arquitectura; estratigrafía; prehispánico; colonial; tierras bajas sudamericanas. AbStRActThis paper intends to provide information to a subject which has not been studied yet -the aboriginal domestic dwellings in Santiago del Estero plain, Argentina. For that reason we have tried to relate this issue to that of the typical mounds of the area, based on archaeological studies. We propose a theoretical model and methodological strategies to overcome the limitations imposed by a perishable architecture. This allowed us to identify the first signs of a covered area with a floor. With the reinterpretation of bibliographic data we were able to define different situations about activities, construction and lifestyles that permitted us to have a new look on the population diversity and characteristics. The cases analyzed also broaden the knowledge on diversity and distribution of mound structures in Southamerican lowlands and provide elements on domestic architecture, that has been little analyzed for these structures.

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Recent research in the archaeology of architecture: Beyond the foundations

Cited by 64 publications

References 74 publications

Prehistoric birds from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea: Extinctions on a large Melanesian island

Prehistoric birds from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea: Extinctions on a large Melanesian island

New World States and Empires: Economic and Social Organization

Montículos arqueológicos, actividades y modos de habitar. Vivienda y uso del espacio doméstico en Santiago del Estero (tierras bajas de Argentina)

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