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SAA Archaeological Record (ISSN 1532-7299) Is Published five Anna Marie Prentiss Times a Year and Is Edited by Anna Marie Prentiss SPECIAL SECTION: TEACHING ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY the archaeol ogica l reco rd SAA JANUARY 2014 • V OLUME 14 • N UMBER 1 SOCIETY FOR AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY the SAAarchaeol ogica l reco rd The Magazine of the Society for American Archaeology Volume 14, No. 1 January 2014 Editor’s Corner 2 Anna Marie Prentiss Letters to the Editor 3 In Brief 4 Tobi A. Brimsek Austin 2014 5 Christopher B. Rodning 2014 Annual Meeting in the Lone Star State 7 Patricia A. Mercado-Allinger Volunteer Profile: Melinda Zeder 8 Current Research Online: 9 E. Christian Wells A Powerful New Tool for Archaeological Research Student-Initiated Projects, the Flipped Classroom, 14 Matthew Sayre and Crowdfunding Navigating the Interdisciplinary 18 John M. Marston Academic Job Market in Archaeology Fiftieth Anniversary of the 22 Y.B. Tsetlin History of Ceramics Laboratory An Anthropocene without Archaeology— 26 Todd J. Braje, Jon M. Erlandson, C. Melvin Aikens, Should We Care? Tim Beach, Scott Fitzpatrick, Sara Gonzalez, Douglas J. Kennett, Patrick V. Kirch, Gyoung-Ah Lee, Kent G. Lightfoot, Sarah B. McClure, Lee M. Panich, Torben C. Rick, Anna C. Roosevelt, Tsim D. Schneider, Bruce Smith, and Melinda A. Zeder SPECIAL SECTION : TEACHING ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Teaching Archaeology in the 30 Kathryn Kamp First Part of the Twenty-First Century Teaching Students about Stewardship: 33 Kelly L. Jenks Current Concerns and Approaches Integrating the Concept of Diverse Interest Groups 36 Tammy Stone into Undergraduate Curriculum in Archaeology In Memoriam: Barbara Thiel 41 Sharon Jones and Gail Wells Calendar 42 On the cover: Cornell University Field School participants at work, White Springs Site, 2008 (Jordan 2013:2; photo repro- duced by permission of Michael Rogers). the SAAarchaeol ogica l reco rd The Magazine of the Society for American Archaeology Volume 14, No. 1 January 2014 EDITOR’S CORNER The SAA Archaeological Record (ISSN 1532-7299) is published five Anna Marie Prentiss times a year and is edited by Anna Marie Prentiss . Submis sions should be sent to Anna Marie Prentiss, anna Anna Marie Prentiss is Professor of Anthropology at The University of Montana. [email protected], Depart - ment of Anthropology, The Universi - ty of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812. Deadlines for submissions are: December 1 (January), February 1 (March), April 1 (May), August 1 n an age of global climate change, social unrest in many parts of the world, and a (September), and October 1 (Novem - myriad of associated challenges here at home, it is clear that our next generation of ber). Advertising and placement ads I should be sent to SAA headquarters, professional archaeologists must be trained to truly “think globally and act locally!” 1111 14th St. NW, Suite 800, Wash - Archaeological research presented in this magazine and in the Society for American ington, DC 20005. Archaeology’s flagship journals, American Antiquity, Latin American Antiquity , and The SAA Archaeological Record is Advances in Archaeological Practice , clearly offers many local contributions, while simul - provided free to members and sub - taneously demonstrating extraordinary global implications. Discussions concerning scribers to American Antiquity and the “Anthropocene,” as highlighted by Braje et al. in this issue clearly illustrate this fact. Latin American Antiquity worldwide. If the concept of an Anthropocene is truly concerned with the impacts of human activ - The SAA Archaeological Record can ities on the Earth’s systems, then who better than archaeologists to lead the discussion? be found on the Web in PDF format at www.saa.org. Braje et al.’s Figure 1 really says it all, as it encapsulates local events such as forest clear - ing and mound-building within a structure of global climate impacts. SAA publishes The SAA Archaeolog - ical Record as a service to its mem - bers and constituencies. SAA, its Articles by Sayre, Kamp, Jenks, and Stone offer a range of exciting new ideas on edu - editors, and staff are not responsi - cation and career paths. One emergent theme in these contributions concerns archae - ble for the content, opinions, and ological pedagogy and the fact that archaeological education, while always evolving, has information contained in The SAA often been ahead of the curve in educational circles. Teaching to student needs? Check! Archaeological Record . SAA, its edi - Experience in “real” research activities? Check! Flipped classrooms? Check! Yet, it is tors, and staff disclaim all war - also clear that we can do more. Instilling a concern for our fragile heritage is one area. ranties with regard to such content, opinions, and information pub - Another is developing student consciousness concerning descendant groups and their lished in The SAA Archaeological essential attachments to their ancient cultural places. Archaeological research and her - Record by any individual or organi - itage management today and in the future is inextricably bound to the interests, con - zation; this disclaimer includes all cerns, and ideas of these “local” groups, whether the African American community of implied warranties of mer - New York City or an indigenous population in Peru. Many of our best ideas about the chantability and fitness. In no event past and the future will come from these discussions. shall SAA, its editors, and staff be liable for any special, indirect, or consequential damages, or any All the good ideas imparted to us in our schooling can be endangered if we fail to find damages whatsoever resulting from employment and drift out of the field. Marston offers hard-won advice for graduates of loss of use, data, or profits arising Ph.D. programs seeking academic employment. A critical theme in his article is com - out of or in connection with the use munication. While we have been reminded for many years of the importance of getting or performance of any content, our research into the public eye, Marston emphasizes the personal side, which is equal - opinions, or information included in The SAA Archaeological Record . ly essential for getting a job. As a colleague reminded me several years ago, the days of getting a faculty job with a brand new degree but no publications and little teaching experience are long gone. As in any discipline, archaeology thrives on energetic new Copyright ©2014 by the Society for colleagues with exciting new ideas. This is nowhere more evident than in the incredi - American Archaeology. All Rights Reserved. ble story of the History of Ceramics Laboratory at the Institute of Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences, as told by Y.B. Tsetlin in this issue. Little did young scholar Alexander A. Bobrinsky know in 1963 that his big job offer would allow him to estab - lish the reputation of an internationally recognized research laboratory, an entity that would persist for now more than 50 years. Should we all have such careers! 2 The SAA Archaeological Record • January 2014 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR TEXAS & ARCHAEOLOGY remains must be speedily reburied— have dire consequences when those preferably as close to the original burial remains are of medico-legal signifi - Since the SAA will be meeting in Austin site as possible. There are no emergency cance. Just one unreported forensic case this spring, I think it is important to provisions for removal of skeletal is too many. remains that have been uncovered by educate its members about an unfortu - There is a remedy. Laws in other states, erosion, animal disturbance, or human nate series of events in Texas archaeolo - such as Washington and Arizona, pro - activity. In fact, salvage excavation of an gy. These events revolve around “protec - tect property rights and include Native eroding burial is now a felony. During a tion” for unmarked burials that has American consultation. The burden of 2009 phone conversation with the for - managed to be both anti-scientific and compliance is placed on the state, not mer director of the THC’s Archeology culturally insensitive. Following open- property owners. Scientific study and Division (witnessed by the State Arche - records requests, conversations with leg - reburial of remains should be the result ologist), I raised the issue of burial sal - islative and Texas Historical Commis - of consultation between biological vage. His response was that he preferred sion (THC) staff, it is my opinion that anthropologists and extant Native Amer - these remains simply “melt away.” the THC intentionally misrepresented icans, not the whims of a state bureau - their intentions for the law to secure its Following open records requests, I cracy. Unfortunately, I think there is passage. found no evidence the THC sought more desire in the THC to do what is During the 2009 Legislative Session, the input from professional biological easy, rather than what is right. anthropologists, forensic investigators, THC promulgated changes to the Matthew S. Taylor, Ph.D. or law enforcement. Laws from other Health and Safety Code (Section Department of Anthropology states were not referenced. None of the 711.010; see statutes.legis.state.tx.us) University of Washington federally recognized Native American regarding unmarked burials on private Seattle, WA 98195-3100 land. According to the bill’s digest, wit - tribes indigenous to Texas were consult - nesses, and legislative staff, the bill was ed, or even notified, that the law would to apply to small historic family ceme - apply to prehistoric remains (the AGRICULTURAL YIELDS teries of which there was written or local Comanche NAGPRA committee was unaware of the changes until I notified knowledge of their existence. After it In the article “Agricultural Intensifica - them over one month after passage of passed, the THC used its rule-making tion and Long-term Changes in Human the bill). Under the rules written by the authority to expand the law far beyond Well-being,” Swantek and Freeman THC, Native Americans have no voice its intent. The resulting actions have claim that “people on Hawaii initially on the excavation or final disposition of damaged archaeologist-land owner rela - reaped large yields by farming intensive - affiliated remains and funerary objects.
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