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The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 2018
Society for Historical Archaeology, 2016
American Antiquity
The construction of great houses during the Bonito Phase (ca. AD 850–1200) in Chaco Canyon, New M... more The construction of great houses during the Bonito Phase (ca. AD 850–1200) in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, required massive amounts of building material and efficient mobilization and coordination of large labor pools. We employ least cost path analysis (LCA) to explore the potential communication network among great house communities in the Chaco “core” area and its relevance in managing sustained labor for constructing great houses. The results suggest that that the primary sources of labor for communal building projects were agricultural communities located within one to three hours of the largest buildings in the canyon.
Birds are commonly depicted in Mimbres pottery. Some, such as macaws, can be identified based on ... more Birds are commonly depicted in Mimbres pottery. Some, such as macaws, can be identified based on physical details. Many are more generic, some are metaphoric, and still others are mythological. We discuss levels of identification, analysis, and interpretation of painted motifs and present two examples from Classic Mimbres bowls. Additionally, we briefly examine the perceived distinctions between representative, figurative, and geometric Mimbres motifs.
The late 19th century represents a turning point in Western beliefs about childhood. These new cu... more The late 19th century represents a turning point in Western beliefs about childhood. These new cultural beliefs redefined childhood as an innocent stage in the human life cycle and encouraged particular environments for raising children. Rural areas encouraged learning and exercise, sheltering children from the dangers of the polluted urban environment. However, this ideology contradicted the economic realities of the late 19th century. Other archaeologists have examined this tension between the ideology and reality of childhood during this time by examining artifacts excavated from household contexts. Interestingly, children’s homes, which increased in use during this time and cared for children whose parents could not, have rarely been investigated. This poster examines how closely children’s homes were able to adhere to this new concept of childhood by using landscape archaeology theory, GIS, and remote sensing to investigate America’s historical children’s homes within their environmental and anthropogenic context. Since humans alter their landscape to reflect their culture, I hypothesize that institutions built earlier will be placed in environments that embodied the practical nature of children’s homes, while later children’s homes will choose landscapes that reflect this new ideology of childhood.
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2020
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2020
19th Century Childhoods in Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives, 2018
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
KIVA, 2020
This work discusses the archaeological investigation of Native American boarding schools in the A... more This work discusses the archaeological investigation of Native American boarding schools in the American Southwest. It begins by outlining a brief history of the federal Native American boarding schools system in the region then introduces major theoretical frameworks utilized by historical archaeologists to interpret these sites. Lastly, it traces the history of archaeological approaches to these sites types in the Southwest, summarizing foundational and ongoing historical archaeological research on these institutions.
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2020
Quaternary Australasia, Jul 1, 2012
The Olympic Dam archaeological salvage program covers an area of 600 km 2 and contains more than ... more The Olympic Dam archaeological salvage program covers an area of 600 km 2 and contains more than 16,500 archaeological sites, most of which are open scatters of stone artefacts on linear sand dunes. Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating offers an opportunity to date recent phases of dune movement and stability, and to provide a chronology for archaeological material on and in the sand bodies.
Other by Paulina F Przystupa
The late 19th century represents a turning point in Western beliefs about childhood. These new cu... more The late 19th century represents a turning point in Western beliefs about childhood. These new cultural beliefs redefined childhood as an innocent stage in the human life cycle and encouraged particular environments for raising children. Rural areas encouraged learning and exercise, sheltering children from the dangers of the polluted urban environment. However, this ideology contradicted the economic realities of the late 19th century. Other archaeologists have examined this tension between the ideology and reality of childhood during this time by examining artifacts excavated from household contexts. Interestingly, children’s homes, which increased in use during this time and cared for children whose parents could not, have rarely been investigated. This poster examines how closely children’s homes were able to adhere to this new concept of childhood by using landscape archaeology theory, GIS, and remote sensing to investigate America’s historical children’s homes within their environmental and anthropogenic context. Since humans alter their landscape to reflect their culture, I hypothesize that institutions built earlier will be placed in environments that embodied the practical nature of children’s homes, while later children’s homes will choose landscapes that reflect this new ideology of childhood.
Conference Presentations by Paulina F Przystupa
Popular culture is important for understanding how archaeology is understood by the public. It al... more Popular culture is important for understanding how archaeology is understood by the public. It allows us to evaluate what aspects of our discipline the public finds interesting and what the public misunderstands, despite a wealth of academic and scientific knowledge. This paper will focus on how archaeology as a discipline and as a source of information or inspiration is explored in comic books written by non-archaeologists. It will draw from comics as source materials themselves, reviews of comics by archaeologists, and personal experiences doing outreach at comic conventions, in the form of panels which combine laypeople with professionals to discuss topics of anthropological and historical significance. These are an important way that archaeologists can both explain more about the discipline, illustrate the past, and correct misconceptions about the field, as a science, and about our knowledge of what the past was like. Additionally, the work will demonstrate the importance of collaborations between creators and archaeologists that can work to create accurate and fun pieces of entertainment. Establishing a good balance of fact to fiction is difficult but can create a rewarding and worthwhile product that works to promote modern ideas about archaeology and an accurate knowledge of the past.
Institutions played an important part in American culture during the late 19th and early 20th cen... more Institutions played an important part in American culture during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, serving segments of society that could not take care of themselves. While asylums, orphanages, and boarding schools have come to have a negative connotation in modern American culture, these places played a formative role in the enculturation and care for multiple generations and ethnicities in the United States. Particularly, children’s homes or orphanages and Native American Boarding Schools served to educate and raise underprivileged American children and were subject to different ideological constraints because of the different ethnicities that they served. This paper investigates a sample of Euro-American Orphanages and Native American Boarding schools to examine how landscape choices reflected cultural beliefs about childhood and Native Americans at the time by using landscape archaeology theory, geographic information systems, and archival archaeology.
The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 2018
Society for Historical Archaeology, 2016
American Antiquity
The construction of great houses during the Bonito Phase (ca. AD 850–1200) in Chaco Canyon, New M... more The construction of great houses during the Bonito Phase (ca. AD 850–1200) in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, required massive amounts of building material and efficient mobilization and coordination of large labor pools. We employ least cost path analysis (LCA) to explore the potential communication network among great house communities in the Chaco “core” area and its relevance in managing sustained labor for constructing great houses. The results suggest that that the primary sources of labor for communal building projects were agricultural communities located within one to three hours of the largest buildings in the canyon.
Birds are commonly depicted in Mimbres pottery. Some, such as macaws, can be identified based on ... more Birds are commonly depicted in Mimbres pottery. Some, such as macaws, can be identified based on physical details. Many are more generic, some are metaphoric, and still others are mythological. We discuss levels of identification, analysis, and interpretation of painted motifs and present two examples from Classic Mimbres bowls. Additionally, we briefly examine the perceived distinctions between representative, figurative, and geometric Mimbres motifs.
The late 19th century represents a turning point in Western beliefs about childhood. These new cu... more The late 19th century represents a turning point in Western beliefs about childhood. These new cultural beliefs redefined childhood as an innocent stage in the human life cycle and encouraged particular environments for raising children. Rural areas encouraged learning and exercise, sheltering children from the dangers of the polluted urban environment. However, this ideology contradicted the economic realities of the late 19th century. Other archaeologists have examined this tension between the ideology and reality of childhood during this time by examining artifacts excavated from household contexts. Interestingly, children’s homes, which increased in use during this time and cared for children whose parents could not, have rarely been investigated. This poster examines how closely children’s homes were able to adhere to this new concept of childhood by using landscape archaeology theory, GIS, and remote sensing to investigate America’s historical children’s homes within their environmental and anthropogenic context. Since humans alter their landscape to reflect their culture, I hypothesize that institutions built earlier will be placed in environments that embodied the practical nature of children’s homes, while later children’s homes will choose landscapes that reflect this new ideology of childhood.
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2020
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2020
19th Century Childhoods in Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives, 2018
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
KIVA, 2020
This work discusses the archaeological investigation of Native American boarding schools in the A... more This work discusses the archaeological investigation of Native American boarding schools in the American Southwest. It begins by outlining a brief history of the federal Native American boarding schools system in the region then introduces major theoretical frameworks utilized by historical archaeologists to interpret these sites. Lastly, it traces the history of archaeological approaches to these sites types in the Southwest, summarizing foundational and ongoing historical archaeological research on these institutions.
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2020
Quaternary Australasia, Jul 1, 2012
The Olympic Dam archaeological salvage program covers an area of 600 km 2 and contains more than ... more The Olympic Dam archaeological salvage program covers an area of 600 km 2 and contains more than 16,500 archaeological sites, most of which are open scatters of stone artefacts on linear sand dunes. Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating offers an opportunity to date recent phases of dune movement and stability, and to provide a chronology for archaeological material on and in the sand bodies.
The late 19th century represents a turning point in Western beliefs about childhood. These new cu... more The late 19th century represents a turning point in Western beliefs about childhood. These new cultural beliefs redefined childhood as an innocent stage in the human life cycle and encouraged particular environments for raising children. Rural areas encouraged learning and exercise, sheltering children from the dangers of the polluted urban environment. However, this ideology contradicted the economic realities of the late 19th century. Other archaeologists have examined this tension between the ideology and reality of childhood during this time by examining artifacts excavated from household contexts. Interestingly, children’s homes, which increased in use during this time and cared for children whose parents could not, have rarely been investigated. This poster examines how closely children’s homes were able to adhere to this new concept of childhood by using landscape archaeology theory, GIS, and remote sensing to investigate America’s historical children’s homes within their environmental and anthropogenic context. Since humans alter their landscape to reflect their culture, I hypothesize that institutions built earlier will be placed in environments that embodied the practical nature of children’s homes, while later children’s homes will choose landscapes that reflect this new ideology of childhood.
Popular culture is important for understanding how archaeology is understood by the public. It al... more Popular culture is important for understanding how archaeology is understood by the public. It allows us to evaluate what aspects of our discipline the public finds interesting and what the public misunderstands, despite a wealth of academic and scientific knowledge. This paper will focus on how archaeology as a discipline and as a source of information or inspiration is explored in comic books written by non-archaeologists. It will draw from comics as source materials themselves, reviews of comics by archaeologists, and personal experiences doing outreach at comic conventions, in the form of panels which combine laypeople with professionals to discuss topics of anthropological and historical significance. These are an important way that archaeologists can both explain more about the discipline, illustrate the past, and correct misconceptions about the field, as a science, and about our knowledge of what the past was like. Additionally, the work will demonstrate the importance of collaborations between creators and archaeologists that can work to create accurate and fun pieces of entertainment. Establishing a good balance of fact to fiction is difficult but can create a rewarding and worthwhile product that works to promote modern ideas about archaeology and an accurate knowledge of the past.
Institutions played an important part in American culture during the late 19th and early 20th cen... more Institutions played an important part in American culture during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, serving segments of society that could not take care of themselves. While asylums, orphanages, and boarding schools have come to have a negative connotation in modern American culture, these places played a formative role in the enculturation and care for multiple generations and ethnicities in the United States. Particularly, children’s homes or orphanages and Native American Boarding Schools served to educate and raise underprivileged American children and were subject to different ideological constraints because of the different ethnicities that they served. This paper investigates a sample of Euro-American Orphanages and Native American Boarding schools to examine how landscape choices reflected cultural beliefs about childhood and Native Americans at the time by using landscape archaeology theory, geographic information systems, and archival archaeology.
Between 1865 and 1935, American orphanages cared for children whose parents could not. They serve... more Between 1865 and 1935, American orphanages cared for children whose parents could not. They served the lower class but were subject to middle class ideologies because of who financed and founded these institutions. During the late 19th century, new cultural beliefs redefining childhood as an innocent and natural stage of life requiring rural environments, a natural nuclear family structure, and more involved parenting entered into middle-class American ideologies. However, these ideals contradicted the realities of the time. The communities that orphanages served were located within urban environments and could not afford a stay at home parent dedicated to raising their children. Additionally, most orphanages had communal rather than nuclear organization. This presentation examines if orphanages were able to adhere to this new idealized, supposedly “natural,” childhood. I hypothesize that through time orphanages were built further from urban environments, to provide rural landscapes for children, with more buildings replicating family or house-like structures to try to adhere to these ideas. While selecting a rural location could be an economic choice, I hypothesize that to conform to this idyllic childhood the cost of building these institutions will increase as a proxy for investing more “parenting” time and resources in orphaned children.