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Engaging Archaeology Chapter No.: 1 Title Name: <TITLENAME> ffirs.indd Comp. by: <USER> Date: 21 Nov 2017 Time: 06:38:41 AM Stage: <STAGE> WorkFlow:<WORKFLOW> Page Number: i Engaging Archaeology 25 Case Studies in Research Practice Edited by Stephen W. Silliman Chapter No.: 1 Title Name: <TITLENAME> ffirs.indd Comp. by: <USER> Date: 21 Nov 2017 Time: 06:38:41 AM Stage: <STAGE> WorkFlow:<WORKFLOW> Page Number: iii This edition first published 2018 © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, except as permitted by law. Advice on how to obtain permission to reuse material from this title is available at http://www.wiley.com/go/permissions. The right of Stephen W. Silliman to be identified as the author of the editorial material in this work has been asserted in accordance with law. 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Neither the publisher nor authors shall be liable for any loss of profit or any other commercial damages, including but not limited to special, incidental, consequential, or other damages. Library of Congress Cataloging‐in‐Publication Data Names: Silliman, Stephen W., 1971– editor. Title: Engaging archaeology : 25 case studies in research practice / edited by Stephen W. Silliman (University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, US). Description: First edition. | Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Identifiers: LCCN 2017030730 (print) | LCCN 2017031283 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119240525 (pdf) | ISBN 9781119240532 (epub) | ISBN 9781119240501 (cloth) | ISBN 9781119240518 (paperback) Subjects: LCSH: Archaeology–Research–Case studies. | Archaeologists–Case studies. | Archaeology–Philosophy–Case studies. | Excavations (Archaeology)–Case studies. | Antiquities–Collection and preservation–Case studies. Classification: LCC CC83 (ebook) | LCC CC83 .E54 2018 (print) | DDC 930.1–dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017030730 Cover image: © LOWELL GEORGIA/Gettyimages Cover design: Wiley Set in 10/12pt Warnock by SPi Global, Pondicherry, India 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Chapter No.: 1 Title Name: <TITLENAME> ffirs.indd Comp. by: <USER> Date: 21 Nov 2017 Time: 06:38:41 AM Stage: <STAGE> WorkFlow:<WORKFLOW> Page Number: iv v Contents List of Figures ix List of Tables xi Notes on Contributors xiii Acknowledgments xix 1 Engaging Archaeology: An Introduction and a Guide 1 Stephen W. Silliman Part I Landscapes, Settlements, and Regions 13 2 Climbing Hillforts and Thinking about Warfare in the Pre‐Columbian Andes 15 Elizabeth Arkush 3 Losing Control in the American Southwest: Collaborative Archaeology in the Service of Descendant Communities 23 Matthew Liebmann 4 Getting It Wrong for All the Right Reasons: Developing an Approach to Systematic Settlement Survey for Viking Age Iceland 31 John M. Steinberg, Douglas J. Bolender, and Brian N. Damiata 5 Archaeological Projects in India: Decolonizing Archaeological Research, Assessing Success, and Valuing Failure 41 Uzma Z. Rizvi 6 Lifeways of the First Australians: Regional Archaeology in the Remote North of Australia 51 Jane Balme 7 The Kuril Biocomplexity Project: Anatomy of an Interdisciplinary Research Program in the North Pacific 61 Ben Fitzhugh 8 Listen for the Echo of Drums Across the Water: Rock Art Sites as Engaged Community Research in Ontario, Canada 71 John William Norder Chapter No.: 1 Title Name: Silliman ftoc.indd Comp. by: R. RAMESH Date: 21 Nov 2017 Time: 06:32:42 AM Stage: Proof WorkFlow:CSW Page Number: v vi Contents 9 The Heart of Lightness: Doing Archaeology in the Brazilian Central Amazon 79 Eduardo G. Neves Part II Sites, Households, and Communities 87 10 Household Archaeology at the Community Scale? Refining Research Design in a Complex Polynesian Chiefdom 89 Jennifer G. Kahn 11 Research Spaces from Borderland Places – Late Woodland Archaeology in Southern Ontario 99 Neal Ferris 12 Ethnoarchaeology of Pottery in Tigray, Ethiopia: Engaging with Marginalized People 109 Diane Lyons 13 Integrating Paleoethnobotany in Investigations of Spanish Colonialism in the American Southwest 119 Heather B. Trigg 14 Framing Local History with Global Archaeological Lenses in Osun Grove, Nigeria 127 Akinwumi Ogundiran 15 Rooting in New England: Archaeologies of Colonialism, Community, and Collaboration 135 Stephen W. Silliman 16 Accidentally Digging Central America’s Earliest Village 143 Rosemary A. Joyce 17 Slouching Towards Theory: Implementing Bioarchaeological Research at Petra, Jordan 151 Megan A. Perry 18 In Archaeology, “You Get What You Get,” and Most of the Time What You Get Is Unexpected: Investigating Paleoindians in Western North America 159 Ted Goebel 19 Archaeologies of a Medieval Irish Castle: Thinking about Trim 169 Tadhg O’Keeffe Part III Materials, Collections, and Analyses 179 20 Dr. Stage‐Love, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Dissertation on Race, Pipes, and Classification in the Chesapeake 181 Anna S. Agbe‐Davies Contents vii 21 Lessons Learned in Seriating Maya Pottery 189 Lisa J. LeCount 22 The Bones from the Other Tell: Zooarchaeology at Çatalhöyük West 199 David Orton 23 Disrupting Fixed Narratives: Researching Colonial Dress and Identity in Museum Collections 209 Diana DiPaolo Loren 24 Reverse Engineering in Prehistory: The Neolithic Bow of La Draga, Spain 219 Juan A. Barceló, Vera Moitinho de Almeida, Oriol López-Bultó, Antoni Palomo, and Xavier Terradas 25 Learning about Learning in Ice Age France through Stone Tools: An Intersectional Feminist Approach without Gender 227 Kathleen Sterling 26 How Not to Write a PhD Thesis: Some Real‐Life Lessons from 1990s Michigan and Prehistoric Italy 235 John Robb Index 245 ix List of Figures Figure 1.1 World map showing locations of research projects discussed in the volume, marked by chapter number. 9 Figure 2.1 The western walls at Pucarani, the biggest hillfort in the northwestern Titicaca basin. 16 Figure 3.1 The ancestral Jemez province and Jemez Mountains obsidian sources. 26 Figure 4.1 Fieldwork in Glaumbær and Meðalheimur, Iceland. 37 Figure 5.1 Map of Ganeshwar Jodhpura Cultural Complex survey sites based on 2003 survey. 44 Figure 6.1 Section of Riwi, Square 1, East and South Walls, Kimberley, Australia. 56 Figure 7.1 Maps and human population trends for the Kuril Islands. 62 Figure 8.1 Cliff face with pictograph, northwestern Ontario. 72 Figure 9.1 Photograph of fieldwork during the Central Amazon Project. 83 Figure 11.1 Arkona Site Cluster, southern Ontario. This map depicts the cluster of Late Woodland sites excavated in the Arkona area by CRM archaeologists, and the focus of the research program discussed in this chapter. Inset are settlement plans for the two larger sites excavated from this cluster. Map courtesy of Chris Watts. 102 Figure 12.1 Map of Tigray, Ethiopia. 111 Figure 14.1 Aerial view and map of Osun Grove, Nigeria. 130 Figure 15.1 Phot ograph of collaboration in the Eastern Pequot Archaeological Field School, Connecticut. 141 Figure 16.1 Map of northwestern Honduras showing places mentioned. 144 Figure 17.1 Lo cation of the excavation areas of the Petra North Ridge Project. 152 Figure 18.1 Map, photograph, and artifacts of Bonneville Estates Rockshelter in the Great Basin. 161 Figure 19.1 Tr im Castle, Co. Meath (Ireland). 170 Figure 20.1 Diag rams of classificatory systems. 185 Figure 21.1 For d Diagram of 36 lots of Actuncan pottery generated by Tim Hunt and Carl Lipo’s Frequency Seriation Tool 3.0. 195 Chapter No.: 1 Title Name: <TITLENAME> flast.indd Comp. by: <USER> Date: 21 Nov 2017 Time: 06:39:29 AM Stage: <STAGE> WorkFlow:<WORKFLOW> Page Number: ix x List of Figures Figure 22.1 Plan of Çatalhöyük East and West, showing excavation areas. 200 Figure 23.1 Both sides of a slate mold from Lincoln, Massachusetts, and exhibition label. 214 Figure 24.1 Simulation results for the La Draga bow. 224 Figure 26.1 Diagramming a research question. 238 Chapter No.: 1 Title Name: <TITLENAME> flast.indd Comp. by: <USER> Date: 21 Nov 2017 Time: 06:39:29 AM Stage: <STAGE> WorkFlow:<WORKFLOW> Page Number: x xi List of Tables Table 1.1 Chart of major topics (other than regions – see Figure 1.1) covered by all chapters.