Living on the Northern Rio Grande Frontier, Vols 1 and 2 (OAS Archaeology Notes 315) (original) (raw)

Along the Border. TAS 2023 Spring Issue

Texas Archeological Society, 2023

Along the Border Borderland studies and situations along the Rio Grande and beyond seem to be in the news media almost every day. Lately, the U.S-Mexico border in Texas has seen large amounts of archeological work being completed by state, contractor, and federal archeologists. In the last year many projects have been going on either up north in El Paso or down near Brownsville pertaining to International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC) cultural resources. In April 2022 and again in late January 2023, I was conducting an archeological survey at Falcon Reservoir and Dam Project near Zapata, located south of Laredo, as part of the IBWC Falcon Grazing Leases Environmental Assessment (EA) for impacts of grazing on the cultural resources of the area.

Andean Past Andean Past Volume 13 Andean Past 13 Article 11

THE SETTLEMENT HISTORY OF THE LUCRE BASIN (CUSCO, PERU), 2022

Bauer, Brian S.; Silva, Miriam Araoz; and Hardy, Thomas John (2022) "The Settlement History of the Lucre Basin (Cusco, Peru)," Andean Past: Vol. 13, Article 11. Available at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/andean\_past/vol13/iss1/11

A Journal for Linear Monuments, Frontiers & Borderlands Research Volume 5 Edited by Howard Williams

Offa's Dyke Journal, 2023

This article explores the complexity and nuance of borderlands and border relations focusing on Mercia. Identifying a host of border maintenance strategies negotiating control over people, places and resources, mitigation of risk and maximisation of opportunity, but also strategic escalation and de-escalation of tensions, the study re-evaluates how Mercian border traditions supported expanded hegemony between the seventh and ninth centuries. The significant departures of the approach presented here are (i) rethinking the traditional focus on military, religious and ethnic identities to integrate these among other activities and experiences defining early medieval frontiers and borderlands and (ii) considering the reimagining not only Mercia’s frontiers and borderlands during its emergence and heyday as a kingdom but also reflecting on how Mercian territory itself became a borderland under the rule of Aethelred and Aethelflaed during the Viking Age, and as such how it was formative in the creation of the Danelaw and of England. The Alfred/Guthrum Treaty and Ordinance of the Dunsaete are here contextualised against other strategies and scales of negotiation and activity framing Mercian/Anglo-Welsh and Anglo-Danish borderlands. Different ‘Mercian borderlands’ are compared in this study and analysed as complex zones of interaction, responsive to geographical factors, but also criss-crossed by multi-stranded pathways of daily life. Mercian borderlands were understood and maintained militarily, physically, spiritually, and ideologically. The article considers how these zones were shaped by convenience but also need and were reinforced or permeable at locality, community and kingdom levels. http://revistas.jasarqueologia.es/index.php/odjournal/article/view/7735