5-0320 PRESERVING TRACES, REVEALING TIDEMARKS, EXPLORING LEGACIES: THE PERSISTENT DIFFERENCE(S) OF SHELL MIDDEN ARCHAEOLOGY

Saturday, November 19, 2011: 10:15-12:00

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Students, Those involved in mentoring activities

Organizers: Michelle A Lelievre (Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago)

Chairs: Alan F Greene (Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago)

10:15

Session Introduction: Preserving Traces, Revealing Tidemarks, Exploring Legacies: Shell Middens and Anthropological Archaeology

Michelle A Lelievre (Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago)

10:30

Jomon Shell-Middens and Politics of Ethnic Identity: The Japanese, the Ainu, or Someone Else?

Fumiko Ikawa-Smith (Department of Anthropology, McGill University)

10:45

Tracing Archaeological Histories Through the (Dis)Continuities of Shell Midden Formation

Aubrey Cannon (Department of Anthropology, McMaster University)

11:00

Scaling Shell Midden Seasonality Across the Millennia Years

Meghan Burchell (Department of Anthropology, McMaster University) and Aubrey Cannon (Department of Anthropology McMaster University)

11:15

A Legacy of Season of Harvest and Paleoclimate Reconstruction From Shells of the Variable Coquina Clam (Donax variabilis)

Irvy R Quitmyer (Department of Natural History, Florida Museum of Natural History) and Douglas S Jones (Florida Museum of Natural History)

11:30

Curious Monuments of the Simplest Kind: Shell Midden Discourse From the 19^th to 21^st Centuries

Katie Vickers Kirakosian (UMass Amherst)

11:45

Shell Midden Legacies In Coastal Maine: Connecting Past and Present Native Traditions

Lisa K Neuman (Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and Native American Programs, University of Maine) and Brian Robinson (Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and Climate Change Institute, University of Maine)

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