To Feed a Tree in Zion: Osteological Analysis of the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre

Novak, Shannon A.; Kopp, Derinna

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“…The author mentions two other cases in Eastern Europe and Sicily. Other examples derive from eighteenthcentury Canada, where mutilations were detectable in skeletons of prisoners of war found at a fort site (Liston and Baker, 1996), and also on the skeletons of a group nineteenth-century American settlers killed in an episode known as "The Mountain Meadows Massacre" (Novak and Kopp, 2003).…”

Section: An Army Of Torturementioning

confidence: 99%

The Archaeology of the Gaucho “Vago y Mal Entretenido”

Romero

2005

Int J Histor Archaeol

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The purpose of this article is to explain and discuss the essential operational characteristics of the technology of power (sensu Foucault) perpetrated on the internal frontiers with the Indians in nineteenth-century Argentina. The conquest and colonization of the Pampas took shape in the establishment of military camp structures placed to create a defensive cordon, known as "the Indian frontier line." These constructions were fortlets defended by gaucho cavalry squadrons (know as Blandengues during the Spanish period, and then Guardias Nacionales after Argentinean Independence). This process is known in Argentinean historiography as "the conquest of the desert." This particular technology of power existed in this historical context and operated at every social level, impacting strongly on the lower classes that inhabited the incorrectly named "desert." Its implementation in the military field enabled the existence of an array of micro-powers that surrounded the gaucho, called vago y malentretenido-"a vagrant and lingerer"-and their women's lives. The army as institution was the locus of various forms of coercion and old forms of punishment (such as the stakes, whipping, and public executions) most of which affected peasants, nonresidents, itinerant workers, and the rural youth. This schema was adopted in different areas: in the enrolment and discipline of the gaucho soldiers, in life in the fortlet-prisons, and in the ritualism of power. The alternative chosen by soldiers to evade this technology of power and the fortlet-panopticons was escape through desertion. The utility of those observations is demonstrated, because an important part of the area of research of historical archaeology that has developed with the greatest impetus in Argentina has taken fortlets as its subject of study.

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Section: An Army Of Torturementioning

confidence: 99%

The Archaeology of the Gaucho “Vago y Mal Entretenido”

Romero

2005

Int J Histor Archaeol

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“…Published historical archaeological studies of overland emigration ''sites'' are relatively few considering the impacts this process had on the American West (Buck 1994;Hardesty 1997;Hawkins and Madsen 1990;Lingenfelter 1986;Morgan 1963). A small number of emigration events ended in tragedy, such as the Donner Party's ordeal with survival cannibalism Grayson 1990;Hardesty 1997Hardesty , 2011bJohnson 1996;Willey and Hardesty 2000;see also Goodyear 2006) or the Mountain Meadows Massacre (Novak 2008;Novak and Kopp 2003). These unfortunate episodes endure as popular tales of the risks taken by settlers traveling overland, adding fuel to the ''mythic aura'' of the region (Malone 1989;Wylie 1993).…”

Section: Migration and Diaspora: Transnationalism Identity And Ethnmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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“…The victims were members often or more extended families, including the Bakers and the Fanchers, who had departed five months earlier from their homes in northwestern Arkansas. The men of the company were shot, while the women and children were bludgeoned to death (Novak and Kopp 2003). The 17 survivors were all toddlers or infants, whose lives had been spared because they were deemed not "old enough to talk" (Brooks 1962(Brooks [1950:81).…”

Section: Journal Of Anthropological Research the Mountain Meadows Masmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The credibility of a given trace is largely a matter of how it was made. Censuses and monuments are left in the record quite deliberately, while diaries and dead bodies may be just as deliberately concealed or destroyed (Novak and Kopp 2003). Some traces leave no "ready-made statements" (Connerton 1989:14).…”

Section: Journal Of Anthropological Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%