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Publications—Occasional Papers
Occasional Papers are synthetic works with a topical focus. This series contains the publications that result from the annual Visiting Scholar Conference as well as other thematic volumes. There have been 30 Occasional Papers published to date. Some volumes are out-of-print, but remain available to individuals for a fee that covers photocopying charges. Out-of-print volumes are designated by an asterisk (*) after the volume title.
You may access ordering information and a price list online.
Please contact Kathy Lundeen via phone (618-453-5031) or e-mail (tktdc@siu.edu) with questions.
The following list of Occasional Papers provides the volume number, title,
author/editor, and date of publication followed by publication specifics
(number of pages, illustrations, tables, and the ISBN) and a brief description
of the volume contents.
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The Durable House: House Society Models in Archaeology
This volume highlights the economic, ritual, and political organization of the social house, as originally defined by Claude Lévi-Strauss. Given its emphasis on the material conditions of social life, the house concept offers archaeologists a fertile ground for understanding change in complex societies, especially with respect to relations of status, hierarchy, and identity. One of the primary goals of this volume, then, is to foreground the materiality of the house, and to demonstrate that archaeology is uniquely positioned to inform anthropological perspectives on the concept. By drawing together a diverse group of scholars, case studies, and theoretical approaches that span a range of complex societies across the Old World and the Americas, this volume offers a timely and comparative collection of archaeological insights on the social house. |
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The Archaeology of Food and Identity |
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Leadership and Polity in Mississippian Society The late prehistoric societies of the eastern United States that are loosely termed Mississippian are thought to have been led by chiefs. Though great variation in the scale and longevity of those societies has long been recognized, variation in the structure of leadership in them has usually been dichotomized into “simple” vs. “complex” chiefdoms. The contributors to this volume argue for a much richer view of variation in Mississippian leadership structures, including variation in gender relations, economic structure, political institutions, and religious organization. |
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Biomolecular Archaeology: Genetic Approaches to the Past The application of molecular genetics to the study of the human past has grown in sophistication and in the range of topics influenced. The projects presented in this volume are aimed at understanding the population histories of the Americas, Africa, Europe, and the Pacific at local, regional, and continental scales. Samples of analysis that are discussed come from living humans, plants, animals, and skeletal remains. Anthropological genetics holds great potential for exploring prehistory. These essays demonstrate that recent advances and improvements in the laboratory, analytic methods, and a more comprehensive understanding of human genetics provide new avenues for revealing who we are, where we came from, how we organize ourselves, how we are related to each other, and how we have changed over time.
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31. Hunters
and Gatherers in Theory and Archaeology The contributions in this volume reflect the diverse and anthropologically current debate flourishing in prehistoric hunter and gatherer research. Highlighting research in Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, and the Subarctic, theoretical approaches range from the ecological to the sociological. Methodological topics include optimal foraging, settlement models, population dynamics, lithic and faunal studies, ethnoarchaeology, and oral history. These essays show that the study of prehistoric hunters and gatherers is making great strides to integrate the social, economic, and political dimensions of forager behavior. |
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30. The
Dynamics of Power This volume focuses on social power and power relations based on gender, kinship, class, and other social criteria within a multiscalar framework. Contributions address theoretical and methodological issues of archaeological approaches to power at the levels of household, community, and region, or landscape, and consider how power relations interact between these levels. The essays offer new insights into the relationships between power, agency, and scale within diverse contexts that range from prehistoric societies to early-twentieth-century coal mining towns. |
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28. Fleeting Identities: Perishable
Material Culture in Archaeological Research By one estimate, artifacts fashioned from organic and other fragile materials make up as much as 90%-95% of original material culture remains, yet at most archaeological sites, less than 20% of recovered material culture is organic. This volume focuses on insights difficult to obtain without the consideration of such perishable evidence. Contributions from archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, ethnohistorians, linguists, paleoethnobotanists, and conservators address broad theoretical and methodological concerns and investigate a wide variety of anthropologically oriented research questions. |
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27. Hierarchies in Action: Cui Bono? The contributors to this volume challenge normative models and assumptions about the evolution of hierarchical social, economic, and political structures. The volume includes archaeological, ethnological, and primatological case studies that address the thematic question, who benefits, and how, from the operation of hierarchies? The chapters in this volume are diverse. They include (1) compelling challenges to the assumption that "egalitarian" human societies have ever existed, (2) explorations of the importance of individual self-interest in the promotion and maintenance of hierarchies, and (3) archaelogical studies of the visibility and operation of hierarchies in prehistoric contexts. |
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26. Material Symbols: Culture and Economy
in Prehistory How people work, make things, give or exchange them, and keep them or destroy them derive as much from symbolism as from simple "economic" behavior. The case studies in this volume analyze the economics and symbols of cosmology, power, and prestige in societies around the world from the Paleolithic through recent empires. The resulting works draw new and diverse paths in the understanding of meaning, politics, and material behavior in ancient societies. |
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25. Studies in Culture Contact: Interaction,
Culture Change, and Archaeology This volume builds on the platform erected during the 1992 Columbus Quincentennial but also seeks to redress some of the inadequacies of that platform. It broadens the topic of culture contact to its most appropriate field of inquiry--human world history. Essays by 20 authors explicitly address different frameworks for the study of culture contact and apply those frameworks to the interpretation of archaeological data. |
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24. Integrating Archaeological Demography:
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Prehistoric Population Selected papers from this conference explore the role of population studies in anthropological explanation by examining relationships between population, resources, and culture change and by investigating the data, methods, and theoretical models of prehistoric demography. Settlement archaeologists and biological and demographic anthropologists examine the explanatory potential of integrated approaches to prehistoric demography. |
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23. New Methods, Old Problems: Geographic
Information Systems in Modern Archaeological Research* This volume brings together an international group of scholars seeking to integrate geographic information systems (GIS) technology with modern archaeological method and theory. The book is divided into four groups of papers that use GIS to investigate a broad range of topics including visualization techniques, territoriality, predictive modeling, cognition, and ideology. It is hoped that the volume will go far in advancing the use of GIS technology in archaeology while pursuing a suite of questions of archaeological importance. |
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22. Paleonutrition: The Diet and Health
of Prehistoric Americans Scholars working in all aspects of dietary and health reconstruction present their research and its applications to the study of paleonutrition, the limitations of each dietary assemblage in determining paleonutrition, and how those limitations can be alleviated. The 24 scholars present data on the advances that have been made in understanding the nutrition of prehistoric Americans and how those studies have helped define the integrative basis of such research. |
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21. From Bones to Behavior: Ethnoarchaeological
and Experimental Contributions to the Interpretation of Faunal Remains* Focused on hunter-gatherer subsistence, settlement, and social interaction, as well as taphonomic processes affecting bone, the volume includes 15 research papers and 4 integrative discussions by major North American scholars. Authors use data from Africa, Europe, and North America to address a variety of topics, including hunting strategies, butchering and cooking, utility indexes, site function, food sharing, carnivore damage, and density-mediated attrition. |
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20. Quandaries and Quests: Visions
of Archaeology’s Future* This volume examines the present, projected, and desired states of Americanist archaeology. Archaeological scholars of diverse backgrounds address current quandaries in the field and outline programmatic quests for their resolution. Essays address matters both internal and external to the discipline, as well as practical (e.g., CRM, funding sources, Native American relations) and theoretical issues. |
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16. Archaeological Chronometry: Radiocarbon
and Tree-Ring Models and Applications from Black Mesa, Arizona All archaeologists face chronometric interpretive problems in developing and refining chronology. This volume addresses such problems in terms of radiocarbon and tree rings. The book provides both data sets and models for the interpretation of radiocarbon and tree-ring information. It is designed to serve at various levels as a guide for interpreting chronological data from archaeological contexts. The volume presents the results of almost 20 years of field research on Black Mesa, Arizona,that involved a significant focus on both chronometry and chronology. |
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15. Function and Technology of Anasazi
Ceramics from Black Mesa, Arizona This edited volume emphasizes the functional and technological interpretations of reconstructible vessels from the three-century Anasazi occupation of Black Mesa, Arizona. The most important findings of the ceramic study relate to potential explanations for the dramatic changes in Anasazi settlement on northeastern Black Mesa during roughly the last century of their occupation, A.D.1050-1150. Ceramic evidence suggests that the major florescence of the Anasazi population was supported by an intensification of the subsistence system, presumably agricultural. |
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14. Black Mesa Anasazi Health: Reconstructing
Life from Patterns of Death and Disease* This volume applies a biocultural approach for reconstructing the health of past peoples. Remains of prehistoric Anasazi from the American Southwest in conjunction with archaeological data provide an account of Anasazi adaptation. Despite evidence of nutritional and infectious diseases, this precontact Native American group demonstrates biological adaptation and cultural resiliency over several hundred years. |
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13. Anasazi Faunal Exploitation: Prehistoric
Subsistence on Northern Black Mesa, Arizona* Natural, cultural, and archaeological processes have shaped faunal assemblages on northern Black Mesa sites. Using archaeofaunal materials recovered from Black Mesa and botanical materials from the northern Southwest, the author provides information pertinent to agricultural development and to the prehistoric subsistence practices of inhabitants. |
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12. Prehistoric Stone Technology on
Northern Black Mesa, Arizona This volume summarizes several analyses of stone artifacts from Anasazi sites on Black Mesa. Topics covered include the sources of stone used for toolmaking, the composition of the prehistoric tool kit, the morphology of retouched tools, and the technology of stone manufacture. Particular emphasis is placed on describing changes in stone artifacts over time from 6000 B.C. to A.D. 1150. |
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11. Chipped Stone Raw Materials and
the Study of Interaction on Black Mesa, Arizona This volume documents changes in interaction over time on Black Mesa. Green tests several models of culture change and provides descriptions of raw materials and maps of source areas. |
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10. Processual and Postprocessual Archaeologies:
Multiple Ways of Knowing the Past Selected papers from the 1989 Visiting Scholar Conference evaluate the current status of multiple archaeological research programs. By situating processual and postprocessual research programs critically against one another, these papers go beyond polemics to examine the central issues that structure the current debate in archaeology and explore their areas of agreement and dispute. |
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9. Between Bands and States* Selected papers from the 1988 Visiting Scholar Conference examine diversity and interaction among sedentary, small-scale, nonhierarchical societies. Sedentism, subsistence, population interaction, and maintenance of autonomy in the face of long-term interaction with complex systems are considered for Old and New World contexts, drawing from archaeological and ethnographic examples. |
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8. Archaeological Investigations on
the North Coast of Rota, Mariana Islands Four sites located on coastal sand ridges on the north coast of
Rota in the Mariana Islands contain materials dating from ca. 800
B.C. to the collapse of traditional Chamorro culture under Spanish
domination in the late seventeenth century. Although disturbed by
major storm events, these deposits provide information for over
2,000 years of Marianas prehistory. This report emphasizes the emergence
of the late prehistoric Latte phase, analysis of the substantial
fishbone and shellfish remains, and a human skeletal series of 27
individuals. |
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7. Emergent Horticultural Economies
of the Eastern Woodlands* Selected papers from the 1986 Visiting Scholar Conference address
a broad range of issues regarding early horticulture in the eastern
Woodlands. Specific topics include the origins of indigenous seed-bearing
cultigens, the evolution of horticultural production, and the adoption
and intensification of tropical cultigens leading to the maize-dominated
agricultural system of the Mississippian period. |
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6. Foraging, Collecting, and Harvesting:
Archaic Period Subsistence and Settlement in the Eastern Woodlands* Selected papers from the 1985 Visiting Scholar Conference offer a cross section of leading research on Archaic hunter-gatherer subsistence. The volume includes both theoretical and case studies drawn from the Midwest and Southeast. |
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5. Prehistoric Cultural Development
in Central Arizona: Archaeology of the Upper New River Region* Investigations by the Central Arizona Ecotone Project in the vicinity
of New River, Arizona, involved transect and block surveys and excavations
at pithouse, masonry, and hilltop “defensive” sites.
Patterns of subsistence, exchange, and warfare are examined in this
little-explored ecological and cultural transitional region. |
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4. Lithic Resource Procurement: Proceedings
from the Second Conference on Prehistoric Chert Exploitation* Papers from the 1984 conference on prehistoric chert exploitation
include studies from both the Old and New World. They address the
social organization of lithic procurement and processing, techno-functional
variation and material exploitation strategies, and source-area
definition and methods of identification. |
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3. Pisekin Nóómw Nóón
Tonaachaw: Archeology in the Tonaachaw Historic District, Moen Island,
Truk The volume presents results of archaeological and ethnographic
work conducted for the Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands.
Each chapter includes Trukese language summaries. Events of central
importance in Trukese history and tradition are associated with
the Historic District to conserve an endangered archaeological record.
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2. Prehistoric Chert Exploitation:
Studies from the Midcontinent* Papers from the 1981 conference address exploitation patterns and
source-area identification of chipped-stone materials commonly encountered
in the midcontinent. Specific topics include chert quarrying, local
and regional patterns of chert procurement and utilization, source-area
identification, and trace element analysis. |
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