Engaging Archaeology

Stephen W. Silliman is Professor - and current Department Chair - in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He has conducted fieldwork in the Northeastern USA, the American West Coast, Bermuda, and Japan. His research interests focus on Native American history, colonialism and post-colonialism, identity, social and practice theories, collaborative research, and the politics of heritage.

"Central to the vibrancy of this collection is voice. The chapters are clearly narratives, not academic tomes."—Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d’archéologie 45:98-100 (2021)"This volume is a refreshing read for all archaeological researchers, and a must for those just beginning their archaeological careers. It is a book I wish I had been able to read sooner. The case studies are fascinating in themselves, but, accompanied by the less frequently shared experiences of the researchers—both the highs and lows—their value is increased. Authors offer advice on how to enjoy the process of research, rather than its culmination in print (Anna Agbe-Davies), and the importance of drinking tea and shifting methodologies in dismantling the colonial power structures upon which an archaeologist may stand (Uzma Rizvi). The message that echoes throughout the volume is to remain flexible and learn how to value failure, for the experience of the archaeologist, as Arkush states, 'is always getting it wrong, but a little less wrong than before.'" (Antiquity 2020 Vol. 94 (377): 1387-1394, New Book Chronicle, Claire Nesbitt)

• List of Figures ixList of Tables xiNotes on Contributors xiiiAcknowledgments xix1 Engaging Archaeology: An Introduction and a Guide 1Stephen W. SillimanPart I Landscapes, Settlements, and Regions 132 Climbing Hillforts and Thinking about Warfare in the Pre]Columbian Andes 15Elizabeth Arkush3 Losing Control in the American Southwest: Collaborative Archaeology in the Service of Descendant Communities 23Matthew Liebmann4 Getting It Wrong for All the Right Reasons: Developing an Approach to Systematic Settlement Survey for Viking Age Iceland 31John M. Steinberg, Douglas J. Bolender, and Brian N. Damiata5 Archaeological Projects in India: Decolonizing Archaeological Research, Assessing Success, and Valuing Failure 41Uzma Z. Rizvi6 Lifeways of the First Australians: Regional Archaeology in the Remote North of Australia 51Jane Balme7 The Kuril Biocomplexity Project: Anatomy of an Interdisciplinary Research Program in the North Pacific 61Ben Fitzhugh8 Listen for the Echo of Drums Across the Water: Rock Art Sites as Engaged Community Research in Ontario, Canada 71John William Norder9 The Heart of Lightness: Doing Archaeology in the Brazilian Central Amazon 79Eduardo G. NevesPart II Sites, Households, and Communities 8710 Household Archaeology at the Community Scale? Refining Research Design in a Complex Polynesian Chiefdom 89Jennifer G. Kahn11 Research Spaces from Borderland Places – Late Woodland Archaeology in Southern Ontario 99Neal Ferris12 Ethnoarchaeology of Pottery in Tigray, Ethiopia: Engaging with Marginalized People 109Diane Lyons13 Integrating Paleoethnobotany in Investigations of Spanish Colonialism in the American Southwest 119Heather B. Trigg14 Framing Local History with Global Archaeological Lenses in Osun Grove, Nigeria 127Akinwumi Ogundiran15 Rooting in New England: Archaeologies of Colonialism, Community, and Collaboration 135Stephen W. Silliman16 Accidentally Digging Central America’s Earliest Village 143Rosemary A. Joyce17 Slouching Towards Theory: Implementing Bioarchaeological Research at Petra, Jordan 151Megan A. Perry18 In Archaeology, “You Get What You Get,” and Most of the Time What You Get Is Unexpected: Investigating Paleoindians in Western North America 159Ted Goebel19 Archaeologies of a Medieval Irish Castle: Thinking about Trim 169Tadhg O’KeeffePart III Materials, Collections, and Analyses 17920 Dr. Stage]Love, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love  My Dissertation on Race, Pipes, and Classification in the Chesapeake 181Anna S. Agbe]Davies21 Lessons Learned in Seriating Maya Pottery 189Lisa J. LeCount22 The Bones from the Other Tell: Zooarchaeology at Çatalhöyük West 199David Orton23 Disrupting Fixed Narratives: Researching Colonial Dress and Identity in Museum Collections 209Diana DiPaolo Loren24 Reverse Engineering in Prehistory: The Neolithic Bow of La Draga, Spain 219Juan A. Barceló, Vera Moitinho de Almeida, Oriol López-Bultó, Antoni Palomo, and Xavier Terradas25 Learning about Learning in Ice Age France through Stone Tools: An Intersectional Feminist Approach without Gender 227Kathleen Sterling26 How Not to Write a PhD Thesis: Some Real]Life Lessons from 1990s Michigan and Prehistoric Italy 235John RobbIndex 245