The Current Issue - Society for American Archaeology

Volume 4: Issue 1 Spring/Summer, 2016
Editor’s Note
Dear ICA Members,
CONTENTS
Editor’s Note .............1
ICA Annual Business
Meeting Report ........2
Meetings,
Announcements &
Calls for Papers .........3
Research
Highlights ..................5
Recent
Publications ........... 12
Submission
Instructions ............ 19
The editorial team of The Current has expanded. My name is
Kristina Douglass, and I am delighted to join Christina Giovas as
the new Co-Editor of The Current. I recently completed my PhD
at Yale University and am now a postdoctoral fellow at the
Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. My work
investigates human-environment interaction along the
southwest coast of Madagascar from the earliest known period
of human settlement in the first millennium BC through to the
recent past. My current projects explore changing patterns of
resource exploitation at different sites through time, including
the exploitation of now-extinct fauna like the island’s giant
elephant birds, and the social processes at play in a region
characterized by frequent human migrations, resource scarcity
and highly variable climatic conditions. I look forward to serving
as Co-Editor of The Current.
As the “Research Highlights” and “Recent Publications” sections
demonstrate, the field of island and coastal archaeology is
thriving all over the world and contributing valuable insights into
people’s engagement with island and coastal landscapes, climatic
and environmental change, and trade and exchange. What is
perhaps most impressive, in addition to the broad geographic
and temporal range of current coastal and island archaeological
research, is the diversity of techniques and approaches, some
new, some old, being applied in innovative ways to the study of
the island and coastal past.
Climate change, both in the past and in the present, was among
the most intensively discussed topics at this year’s SAA’s in
Orlando. Island and coastal archaeologists are working on the
frontlines of climate-related questions because of the acute
vulnerability of coastal populations to changes in climate. Several
excellent papers delved into the urgent need for salvage
archaeology at many important coastal sites around the world
and showcased heroic efforts of island and coastal archaeologists to document and preserve
archaeological remains threatened by sea-level rise and other climate-related changes. We
encourage ICA members to send us reports on how climate change is affecting sites in their
research areas and to think about proposing a climate-related session for the 2017 SAA’s in
Vancouver BC (see the Announcements section for details).
As always we welcome your research updates, announcements for conferences and symposia
relevant to the ICA community and notifications of your new publications for inclusion in the
Newsletter!
Christina M. Giovas
Kristina Douglass
Co-Editors, The Current
Report on the Annual ICA Interest Group Meeting
at the81sth SAA Meeting Orlando, Florida
Reported by Victor Thompson
The ICA Interest Group conducted its annual business meeting in Orlando, Florida during the 81st
meeting of the SAA. The meeting was presided over by interest group committee members, Victor
Thompson (University of Georgia), Christina Giovas (University of Queensland), Scott Fitzpatrick
(University of Oregon) and Todd Ahlman (Texas State University). Approximately 10 – 15 members
were in attendance. The meeting commenced with status updates on past business, following
which were discussions relating to submission procedures for ICA sponsored sessions and future
activities to be undertaken by the Interest Group.
Agenda summary:
1. The creation of a Co-Editor position of The Current to assist Christina Giovas with the production
of our newsletter. The new Co-Editor is Kristina Douglass.
2. Discussion of a field excursion (archaeological site or museum visit) in association with the annual
SAA meeting in Vancouver. The Executive Committee will solicit proposals for this event.
3. The possibility of sponsoring a social event, such as an ICA meet and greet. Discussed was the
possibly using our meeting time to function as this.
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4. The possibility of a co-sponsored session with the SAA Committee on Climate Change that
addresses threats to cultural resources in island and coastal regions (e.g., sea level rise). Also
suggested was the possibility of applying to the Wenner-Gren Foundation to support additional
conference activities associated with this theme.
MEETINGS, ANNOUNCEMENTS, AND CALLS FOR PAPERS
The Island and Coastal Archaeology Group Announces a Call for Submissions
Proposed ICA Sponsored Session at the SAA 2017 Annual Meeting, March 29-April 2,
2016, Vancouver, BC.
Organizers of symposia with an island or coastal archaeology theme for the 82nd Annual Meeting of
the Society for American Archaeology to be held in Vancouver, BC are invited to apply for ICA
sponsorship. Only one session can be sponsored. The sponsored symposium will be announced in
the fall/winter issue of The Current and noted in the SAA meeting program. To be considered for
sponsorship, session organizers should email a symposium abstract and participant list to the
Meeting Committee. Contact Victor Thompson ([email protected]) with the subject line “ICA
Sponsored Session” no later than July 21, 2016. The award announcement will be made in August.
Southeastern Archaeological Conference to be Held in Athens, Georgia, USA – October 26-29,
2016
The 73rd annual Southeastern Archaeological Conference meeting will be hosted in Athens,
Georgia, known as “The Classic City of the South”. This year the conference will be held at the
Classic Center located in the heart of downtown Athens from October 26-29th, 2016. For more
information about the conference and to register please visit the conference website at
http://www.southeasternarchaeology.org/annual-meeting/details/
As a supplement to the official conference webpage, you can also find us on Facebook at
www.facebook.com/seac1conference
Athens is known for its hip music scene, fantastic bars, distinctive vibe, and good (inexpensive)
food. Check out http://www.visitathensga.com/ for more information on Athens.
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The Paleoecology of Subarctic Seas (PESAS) is a consortium of archaeologists, historians, marine
ecologists, oceanographers and climate modelers. The group operates as a working group of the
Ecosystem Studies of Subarctic and Arctic Seas (ESSAS) subprogram in the Integrated Marine
Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research (IMBER) program. PESAS is also a partner program with
IHOPE Circumpolar Networks. Our goals are to better understand the ecodynamics of humanenvironment processes at various spatial and temporal scales across the subarctic North Pacific and
North Atlantic regions. Three themes guide our work. These include 1) understanding the role of
changing oceans and coasts as platforms for coastal adaptation and migration during the deglacial;
2) characterization of coupled atmospheric, oceanographic and ecological cycles from early to late
Holocene and at millennial to decadal scales as they relate to human maritime adaptations,
dispersal, settlement, and intensification of marine economies; and 3) changes to the marine
ecosystem and sustainability of regional economies as they have transitioned through the
expansion of colonial, commercial, and industrial incorporation over the past centuries to
millennium. Scholars interested in learning more may consult the WGPESAS link on the ESSAS
Working Groups page (http://www.imr.no/essas/working_groups/en) or contact Ben Fitzhugh
([email protected]).
JOHN EVANS DISSERTATION PRIZE
John Evans (1941-2005) was an inspirational environmental archaeologist, responsible for advancing the
discipline and fostering many of today’s top researchers in the field. His many books continue to make a
contribution to practical and theoretical aspects of environmental archaeology. To honour the memory
of John and his achievements within environmental archaeology, the Association for Environmental
Archaeology (AEA) has an annual competition for the best undergraduate and Masters dissertations in
any aspect of environmental archaeology.
2016 competition: A choice of prizes of £75 (please note that international students may be liable for
the transfer costs) or 3-year membership subscriptions to the AEA will be awarded to the best
undergraduate and Masters dissertation, which may be on any aspect of environmental archaeology
worldwide. Abstracts from the winning dissertations will be published in the AEA newsletter (this is a
condition of entry that all entrants will be agreeing to on submission of their dissertation). The John
Evans Dissertation Prize winners will also be encouraged to submit an abridged version of their
dissertation for publication in the Association’s journal, Environmental Archaeology, subject to the usual
review process.
The AEA invites each Department of Archaeology (or other relevant department) to submit the
dissertation of their best candidate by 31st July 2016. Submissions from individual students are not
accepted. English is the preferred technical language of submission although the committee will also
accept submissions in other languages, but these must be accompanied by an English summary (max. 2
pages) to conform to the submission rules. Departments wanting to submit in languages other than
English should contact the prize administrator (Dr. Alex Livarda) to determine whether the submission
can be accommodated. The results will be announced at the AEA autumn meeting in Rome, Italy,
September 29–October 1 2016 (http://www.aea2016rome.com/overview.html). Please note that only
digital copies (pdf) of dissertations will be accepted, and these should be sent to Dr Alex Livarda, who
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should also be contacted for further information at: Alex Livarda, Department of Archaeology, University
of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK; [email protected]
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
Lycoming College Expedition to Idalion, Cyprus
Rebecca Bartusewich
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Email: [email protected]
The Iron Age (c. 1050 – 350BCE), inland polity of Idalion, Cyprus has been actively excavated
since the 1970s (Gaber 2008). In recent excavation seasons we have been investigating the
ways that Idalion is reflective of both local inhabitants and foreign visitors. One area of recent
work is called the City Sanctuary (figure 1), a location where the local population worshipped
Figure 1. City Sanctuary site plan.
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their deities and worked in their honor. Other ritual areas at Idalion have material culture that
is identified with other localities on the island and Cyprus’s Mediterranean neighbors. This
information has inspired the team to determine why one area of the site is locally based while
others have a larger national and international presence. The answer may lie in the purpose of
the City Sanctuary. We have found that the pottery and inscriptions at this sanctuary are
reflective of the local group inhabiting the domestic area, excavated in previous seasons,
several hundred meters away. This domestic area has evidence of pottery processing, among
other home-industry activities such as olive oil production. We are currently suggesting that the
majority of pottery excavated in the City Sanctuary is made predominantly on site and
represents local traditions. Conversely, other areas of Idalion reflect more imported goods
brought by visitors. Petrographic analysis of wares to determine the validity of this statement
has begun. Current research at Idalion also supports recent discussions of inter-island
interactions and cultural development on Cyprus, with an expanding research agenda
investigating the interactions between Idalion and the nearby coastal polity of Kition.
References Cited
Gaber, Pamela
2008
The History of History: Excavations at Idalion and the Changing History of a City-Kingdom. Near Eastern
Archaeology 71(1-2): 52-63.
Human-Plant Interactions on Barbuda, Lesser Antilles
Anne-Marie Faucher
Laboratoires d’archéologie, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
Email: [email protected]
Since 2010, long-term humanplant interactions are under
study on the island of Barbuda,
Lesser Antilles, as part of a
doctoral project by Anne-Marie
Faucher,
Université
Laval
(Quebec). This project is part of
the larger Barbuda Historical
Ecology Project at the Barbuda
Research Center, directed by Dr.
Sophia
Perdikaris
(CUNYBrooklyn College), and is
possible
through
National
Science Foundation and SSHRC
(Canada) grants.
Figure 1. Interior of the kitchen structure, Highland House
archaeological site.
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Using data from four archaeological sites dating from the prehistoric to the post-colonial British
occupations, this project aims to examine the evolution of food and wood procurement,
utilisation and management on this island from the Ceramic Age until the 19th century. Four
different archaeobotanical methods of analysis (seeds, charcoal, phytoliths and starch grains)
have been used and results confirmed that maize and manioc (cassava) were not present on
any of the samples examined, though griddles have been found at the Indian Town Trail site.
However, griddles might have been use for native Guinea corn, which was exported to Antigua
under the Codrington family’s management of the island (1684 – 1870).
Charcoal data used to estimate tree size and species composition documents the island’s
deforestation. Today, only secondary-growth forest is present, and this has certainly affected
soil properties, and currently affects the preservation of archaeological sites. Small-scale
cultivation was successful during the 17th through 19th century, while timber was also
exported to other neighboring islands along with charcoal. Food was also imported from
Europe, as confirmed by the presence of two barley grains from The Castle and Highland House
kitchen structure.
Proyecto Costa Escondida, Quintana
Mexico: Winter-Spring 2016 Field Season
Roo,
Jeffrey B. Glover
Georgia State University
Email: [email protected]
Dominique Rissolo
University of California, San Diego
Email: [email protected]
Since 2006, the Costa Escondida Project has Figure 1. Dominique Rissolo examines coastal
focused on the interrelationships between the sediments during a sub-bottom profiling sonar
ancient Maya and their dynamic coastal survey led by Rohi Jaijel. Photo by Jeffrey B.
environment along the shores of the Laguna Glover.
Holbox, northern Quintana Roo, Mexico. A recent grant from the National Science Foundation
has enabled the interdisciplinary team – involving faculty, students, and staff from six
universities in the US, Mexico, and Israel – to expand its paleoenvironmental and
paleoecological reconstruction efforts at the ancient Maya port of Vista Alegre, as well as
initiate a series of on- and off-structure excavations at the site and its neighbor, Conil. The
University of Haifa team, led by Beverly Goodman and Rohi Jaijel, completed the second phase
of a marine sediment coring program and initiated a sub-bottom profiling sonar survey of the
waters surrounding Vista Alegre. Patricia Beddows (Northwestern University) expanded
hydrogeochemical sampling efforts across the diverse coastal ecosystems surrounding the site.
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Figure 2. Jeffrey Glover (with Chrissy Phillips)
tracks the progress of excavations at the site of
Vista Alegre. Photo by Dominique Rissolo.
Dominique Rissolo examines coastal sediments
during a sub-bottom profiling sonar survey led by
Rohi Jaijel. Photo by Jeffrey B. Glover.
Geoarchaeological field methods enable the
team to better understand sea-level fluctuations
and the morphology of the shoreline and
harboring locations over time, as well as changes
in ecosystem biodiversity. Excavations, led by
Nelda Issa and Ashuni Romero, have revealed a
remarkable density and diversity of material
culture – characteristic of a relatively small, but
once-bustling port connected to coastal trade
networks into the Postclassic Period. The
excavation team has also encountered numerous
human skeletal remains, which are being
recovered and analyzed by Vera Tiesler, Andrea
Cucina, and Julio Chi Keb from the Universidad
Autónoma de Yucatan.
Contact: Dominique Rissolo, [email protected]
The Puerto Peñasco Archaeology and Paleoenvironment Project
Douglas R. Mitchell
Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd.
Email: [email protected]
Jonathan Mabry
City of Tucson Historic Preservation Office
Email: [email protected]
Gary Huckleberry
Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona
Email: [email protected]
The Puerto Peñasco Archaeology and Paleoenvironment Project includes survey, mapping, and
test excavations at prehistoric shell middens on the edges of Estero Morúa and Bahía Adair
near the northern Gulf of California Mexican community of Puerto Peñasco. This project began
with reconnaissance surveys in the late 1990s. Recent work has included test excavations at
four sites, La Morua, Otolith Hill, Ojo de Agua, and Los Tabanos. Midden shell at these sites is
dominated by a few species of clams and oysters, and localities with pottery include Trincheras,
Lowland Patayan, and Hohokam wares.
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La Morua has extensive middens along an extinct channel of the Rio Sonoyta that entered
Estero Morua. Surface artifacts include ground stone; obsidian flakes and points; pottery; shell
tools; shell jewelry manufacturing debris; and animal bone (including sea turtle). Fish bones,
Figure 1. Geological setting of investigated sites at Bahia Adair. Arrows indicate
northward expanding longitudinal dune field that extends several kilometers inland from
the coast.
crab claws, charcoal, and human bones are
also present subsurface. Buried hearths
yielded radiocarbon dates between AD 30 –
200 and AD 630 – 680 (1 sigma).
The other three sites are in Bahía Adair,
which contains a series of dunes, tidal flats,
and salinas. Otolith Hill is on a high dune at
the edge of a tidal flat, and lacks pottery. In
addition to shell, it contains abundant
otoliths. Radiocarbon dates on otoliths
Figure 2. A buried shell and charcoal lens (below Dr.
center around 3800 BC. Ojo de Agua and Los
Mabry’s trowel) at Los Tabanos.
Tabanos are on dunes above a salina near a
former freshwater spring (Figure 1). Both sites have surface pottery. Buried deposits at Los
Tabanos (Figure 2) likely represent earlier use of the area, similar to Otolith Hill.
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Indian Town Trail a Pre-Columbian Site. Antigua and Barbuda, West Indies
Reaksha Persaud
The Graduate Center, CUNY
[email protected]
Archaeological research by Brooklyn College CUNY since 2006 on the island of Barbuda focuses
on examining the long term human ecodynamics from first peopling to today. The Indian Town
Trail project is the core of doctoral dissertation research carried out by Reaksha Persaud, Dept.
of Anthropology, The Graduate Center, CUNY. This project is a part of The Barbuda Historical
Ecology project directed by Dr. Sophia Perdikaris (Brooklyn College, and Graduate Center,
CUNY).
Figure 1. Indian Town Trail excvation, Unit D, 2016.
The data and dates collected from the archaeological site of Indian Town Trail (ITT) shows that
ITT is the only site on the island connecting the Amerindian cultures to the colonial time period.
The questions surrounding the site are not only about understanding the people, time and
place connections, but also whether there is a link between the Troumassoid inhabitants of ITT
and the Barbudans of today. Preliminary analysis of the existing zooarchaeological material
from excavated units (Figure 1) provides a unique look into the varied marine resource
exploitation (inshore, off shore, and mangrove) that is atypical for Barbuda in both preceding
and subsequent periods to ITT. The faunal data is indicative of wetter conditions during 1200 –
1300 AD pointing to a climatic change. Additional work will add to the chronological framework
already established and will provide a deeper understanding of the island’s past occupation and
resource exploitation by groups of different people.
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FRAGSUS Project, Gozo, Malta
Dr. Simon Stoddart
University of Cambridge
Email: [email protected]
The third, fourth and fifth field seasons of the FRAGSUS project on fragility and sustainability in
the Maltese islands during the fourth and third millennia BC took place in Spring and Summer
2015 and Spring 2016, supported by the European Research Council. The Spring 2015 season
examined the Neolithic temples of Santa Verna and Ggantija and the Bronze Age site of In
Nuffara. Work at Santa Verna established the size and orientation of the temple and the timing
of initial occupation, which began in the sixth millennium BC. One of the two “grain silos”
excavated on In Nuffara revealed an interesting sequence from the Bronze Age until Classical
Times (Figure 1). In the Summer 2015 season, work focused on the Neolithic temple of Kordin.
The final season of Spring 2016 reopened a very small section of the temple of Skorba, reaching
the earliest phase of occupation of the islands. In all this work, the aim has been to extract
precise chronology, economic and environmental evidence through very extensive flotation of
sediments. In parallel, work continued on the analysis of the pollen and snail cores, the
Brochtorff Xaghra human remains,
and the study of soils in the
landscape. The research is led by
Prof. Caroline Malone at Queen’s
Belfast, and the current phase of
research is coordinated by Prof.
French (Geoarchaeology), Dr.
Pace, Dr. Stock and Dr. Power
(osteology),
Dr
Stoddart
(Landscapes), Ms. Stroud and Dr.
Vella from the Universities of
Cambridge and Malta, Heritage
Malta and the Superintendence
of Malta.
Figure 1. Stratigraphy in grain silo, In Nuffara
For further details:
http://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/FRAGSUS/
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Recent Publications
Angelbeck, Bill
2016 The Balance of Autonomy and Alliance
in Anarchic Societies: The Organization of
Defences in the Coast Salish Past. World
Archaeology 48(1):51-69.
Colonization Strategies in Central Norway
between 9500 and 8000 Cal Bc. European
Journal of Archaeology:1-25.
Burns, Stephen J., Laurie R. Godfrey, Peterson
Faina, David McGee, Ben Hardt, Lovasoa
Ranivoharimanana and Jeannot Randrianasy
2016 Rapid Human-Induced Landscape
Transformation in Madagascar at the End of the
First Millennium of the Common Era.
Quaternary Science Reviews 134:92-99.
Antonis, Kotsonas
2016 Politics of Periodization and the
Archaeology of Early Greece. American Journal
of Archaeology 120(2):239.
Baeye, M., R. Quinn, S. Deleu and M. Fettweis
2016 Detection of Shipwrecks in Ocean
Colour Satellite Imagery. Journal of
Archaeological Science 66:1-6.
Cardillo, Marcelo and Federico Scartascini
2016 Possible Fishing Structures on the West
Coast of San Matías Gulf, Río Negro, Patagonia
Argentina. The Journal of Island and Coastal
Archaeology 11(1):133-137.
Bayliss-Smith, Tim P. and Edvard Hviding
2015 Landesque Capital as an
Alternative to Food Storage in Melanesia:
Irrigated Taro Terraces in New Georgia,
Solomon Islands. Environmental Archaeology
20(4):425-436.
Catherine, E. Pratt
2016 The Rise and Fall of the Transport
Stirrup Jar in the Late Bronze Age Aegean.
American Journal of Archaeology 120(1):27.
Benvenuti, M., A. Orlando, D. Borrini, L.
Chiarantini, P. Costagliola, C. Mazzotta and V.
Rimondi
2016 Experimental Smelting of Iron Ores
from Elba Island (Tuscany, Italy): Results and
Implications for the Reconstruction of Ancient
Metallurgical Processes and Iron Provenance.
Journal of Archaeological Science 70:1-14.
Cooper, Victoria and Peta Knott
2016 The Iona Ii Dive Trail, Building
Relationships through the Protection and
Management of Marine Heritage. Journal of
Community Archaeology & Heritage 3(1):5-21.
Crowther, Alison, Leilani Lucas, Richard Helm,
Mark Horton, Ceri Shipton, Henry T. Wright,
Sarah Walshaw, Matthew Pawlowicz, Chantal
Radimilahy, Katerina Douka, Llorenç PicornellGelabert, Dorian Q. Fuller and Nicole L. Boivin
2016 Ancient crops provide first
archaeological signature of the westward
Austronesian expansion. PNAS 113(24): 66356640.
Bovy, Kristine M., Jessica E. Watson, Jane
Dolliver and Julia K. Parrish
2016 Distinguishing Offshore Bird Hunting
from Beach Scavenging in Archaeological
Contexts: The Value of Modern Beach Surveys.
Journal of Archaeological Science 70:35-47.
Davies, N., D. Field, D. Gavaghan, S. J. Holbrook,
S. Planes, M. Troyer, M. Bonsall, J. Claudet, G.
Roderick, R. J. Schmitt, L. A. Zettler, V. Berteaux,
H. C. Bossin, C. Cabasse, A. Collin, J. Deck, T.
Breivik, Heidi M. and Martin Callanan
2016 Hunting High and Low: Postglacial
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Dell, J. Dunne, R. Gates, M. Harfoot, J. L. Hench,
M. Hopuare, P. Kirch, G. Kotoulas, A. Kosenkov,
A. Kusenko, J. J. Leichter, H. Lenihan, A.
Magoulas, N. Martinez, C. Meyer, B. Stoll, B.
Swalla, D. M. Tartakovsky, H. T. Murphy, S.
Turyshev, F. Valdvinos, R. Williams, S. Wood and
Idea Consortium
2016 Simulating Social-Ecological Systems:
The Island Digital Ecosystem Avatars (Idea)
Consortium. Gigascience 5:14.
2015 Middle Holocene Production of Mussel
Shell Fishing Artifacts on the Coast of Taltal (25°
Lat South), Atacama Desert, Chile. The Journal
of Island and Coastal Archaeology DOI:
10.1080/15564894.2015.1105884
Freeland, Travis, Brandon Heung, David V.
Burley, Geoffrey Clark and Anders Knudby
2016 Automated Feature Extraction for
Prospection and Analysis of Monumental
Earthworks from Aerial Lidar in the Kingdom of
Tonga. Journal of Archaeological Science 69:64
74.
Dettman, David L., Douglas R. Mitchell, Gary
Huckleberry and Michael S. Foster
2015 14C and Marine Reservoir Effect in
Archaeological Samples from the Northeast Gulf
of California. Radiocarbon 57(5):785-793.
Gaffney, D., G. R. Summerhayes, A. Ford, J. M.
Scott, T. Denham, J. Field and W. R. Dickinson
2015 Earliest Pottery on New Guinea
Mainland Reveals Austronesian Influences in
Highland Environments 3000 Years Ago. PLoS
One 10(9):e0134497.
Dye, Thomas S.
2016 Long-term rhythms in the development
of Hawaiian social stratification. Journal of
Archaeological Science 71: 1-9.
Giovas, Christina M.
2016 Though She Be But Little: Resource
Resilience, Amerindian Foraging, and Long-Term
Adaptive Strategies in The Grenadines, West
Indies. Journal of Island and Coastal
Archaeology (in press).
Erlandson, Jon M.
2015 Coastal Versus Interior: Some Thoughts
on the Archaeology of California's Channel
Islands. The Journal of Island and Coastal
Archaeology:1-4.
Fitzhugh, Ben, Erik Gjesfjeld, Will Brown, Mark
Hudson and Jennie Shaw
2016 (online) Resilience and the
Population History of the Kuril Islands,
Northwest Pacific: A Study in Complex
Human Ecodynamics. Quaternary
International.
doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2016.02.003
Giovas, Christina M., George D. Kamenov, Scott
M. Fitzpatrick and John Krigbaum
2016 Sr and Pb Isotopic Investigation of
Mammal Introductions: Pre-Columbian
Zoogeographic Records from the Lesser Antilles,
West indies. Journal of Archaeological Science
69:39-53.
Guillaud, Emilie, Raphaël Cornette and Philippe
Béarez
2016 Is Vertebral Form a Valid Species
Specific Indicator for Salmonids? The
Discrimination Rate of Trout and Atlantic
Salmon from Archaeological to Modern Times.
Journal of Archaeological Science 65:84-92.
Flexner, James L. and Andrew C. Ball
2016 Sherds of Paradise: Domestic
Archaeology and Ceramic Artefacts
from a Protestant Mission in the South
Pacific. European Journal of
Archaeology DOI:
10.1080/14619571.2016.1147319
Hardy, Karen
2015 Variable Use of Coastal Resources in
Flores, Carola, Valentina Figueroa and Diego
Salazar
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Prehistoric and Historic Periods in Western
Scotland. The Journal of Island and Coastal
Archaeology:1-21.
Knapp, A. Bernard and W. Manning Sturt
2016 Crisis in Context: The End of the Late
Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean.
American Journal of Archaeology 120(1):99.
Harris, Matthew and Marshall Weisler
2016 Intertidal Foraging on Atolls: Prehistoric
Forager Decision-Making at Ebon Atoll, Marshall
Islands. The Journal of Island and Coastal
Archaeology:1-24.
Llamas, Bastien , Lars Valverde Fehren-Schmitz,
Guido, Julien Soubrier, Swapan Mallick, Nadin
Nordenfelt Rohland, Susanne, Valdiosera,
Stephen M. Richards, Adam Rohrlach, Cristina
Maria Inés Barreto Romero, Isabel Flores
Espinoza, Elsa Tomasto Cagigao, Luci ́a Watson
Jiménez, Krzysztof Makowski, Ilán Santiago
Leboreiro Reyna, Josefina Mansilla Lory, Julio
Alejandro Ballivián Torrez, Mario A. Rivera,
Richard L. Burger, Maria Constanza Ceruti,
Johan Reinhard, R. Spencer Wells, Gustavo
Politis, Calogero M. Santoro, Vivien G. Standen,
Colin Smith, David Reich, Simon Y. W. Ho, Alan
Cooper and Wolfgang Haak
2016 Ancient Mitochondrial DNA Provides
High-Resolution Time Scale of the Peopling of
the Americas. Science Advances 2:10.
Haukaas, Colleen and Lisa M. Hodgetts
2016 The Untapped Potential of Low-Cost
Photogrammetry in Community-Based
Archaeology: A Case Study from Banks Island,
Arctic Canada. Journal of Community
Archaeology & Heritage 3(1):40-56.
Ikehara, Hugo C.
2016 The Final Formative Period in the North
Coast of Peru: Cooperation During Violent
Times. World Archaeology 48(1):70-86.
Ingraham, Robert C., Brian S. Robinson, Kristin
D. Sobolik and A. Sky Heller
2016 “Left for the Tide to Take Back”:
Specialized Processing of Seals on Machias Bay,
Maine. The Journal of Island and Coastal
Archaeology 11(1):89-106.
Mantellini, S.
2015 The Implications of Water Storage for
Human Settlement in Mediterranean Waterless
Islands: The Example of Pantelleria.
Environmental Archaeology 20(4):406-424.
Jerardino, Antonieta
2016 On the Origins and Significance of
Pleistocene Coastal Resource Use in Southern
Africa with Particular Reference to Shellfish
Gathering. Journal of Anthropological
Archaeology 41:213-230.
Martínez, Gustavo, Florencia Santos Valero,
Gustavo Flensborg, Natalia Carden, Luciana
Stoessel, Ana Paula Alcaraz and Erika Borges Vaz
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