Katherine Spielmann
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 230043 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Katherine Spielmann |
| NOMBRES | Katherine |
| APELLIDO | Spielmann |
| FIRMA | SPIELMANN K |
| AFILIACIONES | Arizona State University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 773 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1983 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
A Landscape Perspective on Climate-Driven Risks to Food Security
Spatially and temporally unpredictable rainfall patterns presented food production challenges to small-scale agricultural communities, requiring multiple risk-mitigating strategies to increase food security. Although site-based investigations of the relationship between climate and agricultural production offer insights into how individual communities may have created long-term adaptations to manage risk, the inherent spatial variability of clima…
Farmers, Hunters, and Colonists
Eight contributors discuss early trade relations between Plains and Pueblo farmers, the evolution of interdependence between Plains hunter-gatherers and Pueblo farmers between 1450 and 1700, and the later comanchero trade between Hispanic New Mexicans and the Plains Comanche
Data Integration in the Service of Synthetic Research
Addressing archaeology's most compelling substantive challenges requires synthetic research that exploits the large and rapidly expanding corpus of systematically collected archaeological data. That, in turn, requires a means of combining datasets that employ different systematics in their recording while at the same time preserving the semantics of the data. To that end, we have developed a general procedure that we call query-driven, on-the-fly…
Climate challenges, vulnerabilities, and food security
Significance Climate-induced disasters are impacting human well-being in ever-increasing ways. Disaster research and management recognize and emphasize the need to reduce vulnerabilities, although extant policy is not in line with this realization. This paper assesses the extent to which vulnerability to food shortage, as a result of social, demographic, and resource conditions at times of climatic challenge, correlates with subsequent declines i…
Eolian Deposition and Soil Fertility in a Prehistoric Agricultural Complex in Central Arizona, USA
Prehistoric farmers in arid and semiarid ecosystems commonly used rock alignments to concentrate water and sediments on their fields. Previous research has emphasized the importance of runoff from organic matter‐rich uplands as a mechanism for soil nutrient replenishment. However, eolian inputs to these dryland ecosystems might also contribute substantially to mineral‐derived nutrient pools. We explored the relative importance of eolian depositio…
The materiality of spiritual engagement
This paper addresses the question, ‘If art makes society, under what conditions does society cease to make art?’ The answer, I suggest, lies in art's loss of social efficacy. The case I use to explore the cessation of art is that of the Ohio Hopewell. In southern Ohio, between AD 1–400, a ceremonial system known as Ohio Hopewell developed, flourished, and was then entirely abandoned. This ceremonial system was characterized by elaborate material …
Toward Common Ground
Throughout the Southwestern United States and Mesoamerica, indigenous peoples have used running and racing as means of religious expression, environmental control, personal sacrifice, and community cohesion. In such contexts, the physical location of racing was often unimportant, and manufactured facilities were relatively rare. In the Perry Mesa region of Central Arizona, however, constructed racetracks were highly formalized and elaborated. Alo…
Sustainable Small-Scale Agriculture in Semi-Arid Environments
For at least the past 8000 years, small-scale farmers in semi-arid environments have had to mitigate shortfalls in crop production due to variation in precipitation and stream flow. To reduce their vulnerability to a shortfall in their food supply, small-scale farmers developed short-term strategies, including storage and community-scale sharing, to mitigate inter-annual variation in crop production, and long-term strategies, such as migration, t…
Crafting the sacred
The archaeological record of small-scale societies is replete with examples of people expending considerable labor to craft both places and objects for communal rituals. Archaeologists often infer these efforts to have been the product of aspiring elites. This chapter focuses instead on the larger community responsible for the construction of places and objects, through a ritual economy analysis of the social logic people use to organize the prod…
Being Weary, They Had Rebelled
Local recipes or distant commodities? Lead isotope and chemical compositional analysis of glaze paints from the Salinas pueblos, New Mexico
Style and Resistance in the Seventeenth Century Salinas Province
This paper draws upon James Scott's insights concerning the 'public' and 'hidden' transcripts of subjugated peoples to investigate Pueblo responses to Spanish colonization in the seventeenth century. We focus on the marked changes that occurred in the decoration of two ceramic wares produced in the Salinas Pueblo region of central New Mexico, and suggest that these changes express one aspect of native resistance to Spanish missionary efforts to e…
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Energy source, protein metabolism, and hunter-gatherer subsistence strategies
Feasting, Craft Specialization, and the Ritual Mode of Production in Small-Scale Societies
Economic intensification has been documented in a diversity of small-scale societies. The existing archaeological theory concerning such intensification has tended to privilege economic and political explanations and largely ignores social action and ritual performance as motivations for economic change. In this article, 1 use both ethnographic and archaeological data to argue that ceremonial feasting and the need for socially valued goods, which…
Being Weary, They Had Rebelled
Plains-Pueblo Interdependence and Human Diet at Pecos Pueblo, New Mexico
Using bone-chemistry data, this project sought to assess the degree of dietary change that occurred among eastern border Pueblo populations due to prehistoric food exchange with hunter-gatherers on the Plains and to the arrival of Spanish colonists. In so doing we introduce a technique for dietary reconstruction that determines the range of diets compatible with bone-chemistry data from a particular population. The data are derived from samples o…
Late Prehistoric Exchange Between the Southwest and Southern Plains
A system of interdependence, or mutualism, between Puebloan horticulturalists in New Mexico and Southern Plains hunter-gatherers was documented by the first Europeans to enter the Southwest. This interdependence involved the exchange of subsistence resources, primarily corn and bison meat, as well as durable goods such as ceramics, lithics, and turquoise. Analyses of the forms and distributions of the archaeological remains of this exchange syste…
Farmers, Hunters, and Colonists
A review
Local recipes or distant commodities? Lead isotope and chemical compositional analysis of glaze paints from the Salinas pueblos, New Mexico
Style and Resistance in the Seventeenth Century Salinas Province
This paper draws upon James Scott's insights concerning the 'public' and 'hidden' transcripts of subjugated peoples to investigate Pueblo responses to Spanish colonization in the seventeenth century. We focus on the marked changes that occurred in the decoration of two ceramic wares produced in the Salinas Pueblo region of central New Mexico, and suggest that these changes express one aspect of native resistance to Spanish missionary efforts to e…
Sustainable Small-Scale Agriculture in Semi-Arid Environments
For at least the past 8000 years, small-scale farmers in semi-arid environments have had to mitigate shortfalls in crop production due to variation in precipitation and stream flow. To reduce their vulnerability to a shortfall in their food supply, small-scale farmers developed short-term strategies, including storage and community-scale sharing, to mitigate inter-annual variation in crop production, and long-term strategies, such as migration, t…
Ritual Craft Specialists in Middle Range Societies
This chapter focuses on the social identity of specialists who produced items used in ritual contexts in prehistoric middle range societies. After introducing two prehistoric case studies (Mimbres and Ohio Hopewell) that illustrate the range of productive scale for ritual crafts, ethnographic case studies (Iroquois and Northwest Coast) are discussed to provide more detail on the social identities of ritual craft specialists. It is concluded that …
Data Integration in the Service of Synthetic Research
Addressing archaeology's most compelling substantive challenges requires synthetic research that exploits the large and rapidly expanding corpus of systematically collected archaeological data. That, in turn, requires a means of combining datasets that employ different systematics in their recording while at the same time preserving the semantics of the data. To that end, we have developed a general procedure that we call query-driven, on-the-fly…
The materiality of spiritual engagement
This paper addresses the question, ‘If art makes society, under what conditions does society cease to make art?’ The answer, I suggest, lies in art's loss of social efficacy. The case I use to explore the cessation of art is that of the Ohio Hopewell. In southern Ohio, between AD 1–400, a ceremonial system known as Ohio Hopewell developed, flourished, and was then entirely abandoned. This ceremonial system was characterized by elaborate material …
Glimpses of Gender in the Prehistoric Southwest
Research on gender in the prehistoric Southwest, although in its infancy, has tackled several issues of interest to archaeologists who study middle-range societies worldwide. The articles in this volume focus on agricultural production, craft specialization, social hierarchies, and leadership. This article focuses in particular on agricultural production. Combining information from bone chemistry, osteological, and mealing bin analyses, a link is…
A Landscape Perspective on Climate-Driven Risks to Food Security
Spatially and temporally unpredictable rainfall patterns presented food production challenges to small-scale agricultural communities, requiring multiple risk-mitigating strategies to increase food security. Although site-based investigations of the relationship between climate and agricultural production offer insights into how individual communities may have created long-term adaptations to manage risk, the inherent spatial variability of clima…
Farmers, Hunters, and Colonists
Eight contributors discuss early trade relations between Plains and Pueblo farmers, the evolution of interdependence between Plains hunter-gatherers and Pueblo farmers between 1450 and 1700, and the later comanchero trade between Hispanic New Mexicans and the Plains Comanche
Eolian Deposition and Soil Fertility in a Prehistoric Agricultural Complex in Central Arizona, USA
Prehistoric farmers in arid and semiarid ecosystems commonly used rock alignments to concentrate water and sediments on their fields. Previous research has emphasized the importance of runoff from organic matter‐rich uplands as a mechanism for soil nutrient replenishment. However, eolian inputs to these dryland ecosystems might also contribute substantially to mineral‐derived nutrient pools. We explored the relative importance of eolian depositio…
Toward Common Ground
Throughout the Southwestern United States and Mesoamerica, indigenous peoples have used running and racing as means of religious expression, environmental control, personal sacrifice, and community cohesion. In such contexts, the physical location of racing was often unimportant, and manufactured facilities were relatively rare. In the Perry Mesa region of Central Arizona, however, constructed racetracks were highly formalized and elaborated. Alo…
Late Prehistoric Exchange Between the Southwest and Southern Plains
A system of interdependence, or mutualism, between Puebloan horticulturalists in New Mexico and Southern Plains hunter-gatherers was documented by the first Europeans to enter the Southwest. This interdependence involved the exchange of subsistence resources, primarily corn and bison meat, as well as durable goods such as ceramics, lithics, and turquoise. Analyses of the forms and distributions of the archaeological remains of this exchange syste…
Energy source, protein metabolism, and hunter-gatherer subsistence strategies
Interdependence among egalitarian societies
A review
Plains-Pueblo Interdependence and Human Diet at Pecos Pueblo, New Mexico
Using bone-chemistry data, this project sought to assess the degree of dietary change that occurred among eastern border Pueblo populations due to prehistoric food exchange with hunter-gatherers on the Plains and to the arrival of Spanish colonists. In so doing we introduce a technique for dietary reconstruction that determines the range of diets compatible with bone-chemistry data from a particular population. The data are derived from samples o…
Farmers, Hunters, and Colonists
Farmers, Hunters, and Colonists
People follow the cows {bison/, hunting them and tanning
Hunters and Farmers
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Glimpses of Gender in the Prehistoric Southwest
Research on gender in the prehistoric Southwest, although in its infancy, has tackled several issues of interest to archaeologists who study middle-range societies worldwide. The articles in this volume focus on agricultural production, craft specialization, social hierarchies, and leadership. This article focuses in particular on agricultural production. Combining information from bone chemistry, osteological, and mealing bin analyses, a link is…
Ritual Craft Specialists in Middle Range Societies
This chapter focuses on the social identity of specialists who produced items used in ritual contexts in prehistoric middle range societies. After introducing two prehistoric case studies (Mimbres and Ohio Hopewell) that illustrate the range of productive scale for ritual crafts, ethnographic case studies (Iroquois and Northwest Coast) are discussed to provide more detail on the social identities of ritual craft specialists. It is concluded that …
Feasting, Craft Specialization, and the Ritual Mode of Production in Small-Scale Societies
Economic intensification has been documented in a diversity of small-scale societies. The existing archaeological theory concerning such intensification has tended to privilege economic and political explanations and largely ignores social action and ritual performance as motivations for economic change. In this article, 1 use both ethnographic and archaeological data to argue that ceremonial feasting and the need for socially valued goods, which…
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