M E Beck

Datos Biográficos

ID9341
NOMBREM E Beck
NOMBRESM E
APELLIDOBeck
FIRMABECK M E
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Iowa
ORCID0000-0002-4591-4557
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS41
TOTAL DE CITAS216
TOTAL COMO AUTOR41
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1998
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H9

  • The Right Red

    Open AccessM E Beck, Matthew E HillARTICLEAdvances in Archaeological Practice2025Citada por: 1

    During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, women from Northern Rio Grande pueblos joined Ndee communities in western Kansas, where they made a local version of unpainted Tewa red ware. We investigate potential slip materials in the eastern High Plains and adjacent Central Plains, using CIELAB color data to graph red hue variation in collected pigments and slipped archaeological ceramics from 14SC1 and 14SC304. Although use of the CIELAB col…

  • Ochre in Sedimentary Rock

    Open AccessM E BeckARTICLEAmerican Antiquity2025Referencias: 39

    Red ochre may be found in igneous, metamorphic, or sedimentary rock, but igneous and metamorphic sources formed in localized geological events are easier to define. In sedimentary landscapes, ochre sources can be thought of as the geologic formations from which ochre is collected. This study provides the first description of red or red-firing ochre sources in the sedimentary Central Great Plains, based on 17 geologic ochre samples from five conte…

  • Slips, films, and material choice

    Open AccessM E Beck, Glen Freimuth et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2024Referencias: 18

  • James M. Skibo and Pottery Function

    M E BeckARTICLEEthnoarchaeology2024Referencias: 33

    James M. Skibo (1960–2023) was an archaeologist with an extraordinarily wide range of interests and experiences, generally united by the themes of technological variation and change, ethnoarchaeolo

  • Movement or Diaspora? Understanding a Multigenerational Puebloan and Ndee Community on the Central Great Plains

    Open AccessTrabert, Matthew E Hill et al.ARTICLEOpen Archaeology2023Citada por: 1Referencias: 43

    Many Indigenous groups in North America have long-held practices of using migration and movement in response to environmental and social changes. Diasporic communities, composed of migrants maintaining significant connections to their former homelands, were likely once common in refuge areas of North America, but not always recognized by archaeologists. Many Puebloan peoples in the Northern Rio Grande region of the US Southwest used movement as a…

  • Pipe forms and regional interaction spheres in the Great Plains and U.S. Southwest

    M E Beck, Trabert et al.ARTICLEPlains Anthropologist2023Citada por: 1Referencias: 46

    We use pipe forms at Scott County Pueblo (14SC1), a seventeenth-century multiethnic community in western Kansas with Ndee (Dismal River) and Puebloan residents, to consider the community’s position within multiple regional interaction spheres. We first present a broad regional overview of Central/Northern Great Plains and Midwest, Northern Rio Grande, and Ndee pipe forms in the AD 1500–1700 period, tabulating the presence and absence of specific …

  • How to Keep the Home Fires Burning

    M E Beck, Matthew E Hill et al.ARTICLEEthnoarchaeology2022

    A hearth is the location of an intentional fire, commonly fueled with organic matter such as wood, charcoal, crop waste, or dried animal dung (biomass, or biofuel). Hearths also implicate gender, regional ecologies, and complex, symbolically rich technologies. This article is about household cooking hearths—specifically, biomass hearths used with ceramic cooking vessels. Insights are drawn from international development projects, ethnoarchaeology…

  • The Gender of Fuelwood

    Open AccessM Khandelwal, Matthew E Hill et al.ARTICLEJournal of South Asian Development2022Citada por: 2Referencias: 12

    Cookstove improvement projects in India have emerged from the longstanding concerns about the nexus of cooking, fuelwood, gender and the environment. Such work, both academic and interventionist, focuses on rural women hauling headloads of firewood from the forests to their kitchens, where they burn it for daily cooking in a mud cookstove [ chulha]. We argue that this focus on village women’s cooking is too narrow if we are to understand and addr…

  • Phipps Site Ceramics

    M E BeckARTICLEPlains Anthropologist2022Citada por: 1

    Phipps Site Ceramics: A Typological, Morphological, and Contextual Analysis of a Mid-twentieth Century Legacy Collection." Plains Anthropologist, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2

  • Red pigment in the Central Plains

    M E Beck, B L Macdonald et al.ARTICLEPlains Anthropologist2022Citada por: 1Referencias: 50

    James Murie, early twentieth century ethnographer and member of the Pawnee Nation, once wrote that the "things that are most acceptable to the Pawnee gods are smoke, fat, paint, and flesh" (Murie 1981:466). Here we describe red paint at Kitkahahki Town, a late eighteenth–early nineteenth-century Kitkahahki Pawnee village in north-central Kansas. Using laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy, we compare a…

  • Regional Conflict, Ceramic Senescence, and Pawnee Raw Material Choice in the Late Contact Era

    Open AccessM E Beck, Richard L Josephs et al.ARTICLEAmerican Antiquity2022Citada por: 1Referencias: 33

    Here, we consider the last decades of ceramic manufacture among the Pawnee in the Central Great Plains, using petrographic analysis to explore raw material availability and use at the Kitkahahki Town site (14RP1). Historical documents reveal tremendous regional pressures and conflicts in the Kitkahahki Town area during its occupation in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries-processes that could have altered or restricted the movement…

  • Site and Artifact Preservation

    Open AccessM E Beck, Margaret BeckCHAPTEREncyclopedia of Global Archaeology2020

  • Middle Mississipian ceramics in the northern hinterlands

    M E Beck, L Adrien HannusARTICLEPlains Anthropologist2020Citada por: 2Referencias: 16

    Red-slipped pottery in the Northern Plains reflects the movements of people and ideas around the edges of the Mississippian world. We consider the spread of the technological knowledge necessary to produce red ware, using petrographic data to evaluate local production in Initial Middle Missouri sites. Samples were drawn from Phipps (13CK21; Mill Creek culture, northwest Iowa) and Mitchell (39DV2; Lower James River area, southeastern South Dakota)…

  • Pawnee vessel function and ceramic persistence

    M E Beck, Margaret BeckARTICLEPlains Anthropologist2020Citada por: 5Referencias: 23

    During the AD 1750–1850 period, Pawnee households in the Central Plains made and used ceramic vessels less frequently than Arikara and Hidatsa households in the Northern Plains. Here I explore Pawnee vessel function and ceramic persistence during the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries through measurements and use-alteration analysis of 15 reconstructed jars from five Pawnee or ancestral Pawnee sites. These data indicate that ancestral Pawne…

  • Integrative Approaches in Ceramic Petrography

    M E BeckARTICLEPlains Anthropologist2019

    Integrative Approaches in Ceramic Petrography originated as a symposium at the 2012 Society for American Archaeology meeting designed to present current applications of ceramic petrography, particu

  • A Hard Time to Date

    Open AccessMatthew E Hill, M E Beck et al.ARTICLEAmerican Antiquity2018Citada por: 8Referencias: 26

    During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Puebloan women (if not entire families) were incorporated into Apache Dismal River communities in western Kansas. In at least one site (14SC1), Puebloan people lived in a small masonry pueblo. We evaluate the timing and nature of the Puebloan occupation at 14SC1 and its relationship to the Dismal River population at the site. We use a Bayesian analytical framework to evaluate different models of th…

  • Replicating Red

    Open AccessJames R McGrath, M E Beck et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2017Citada por: 6Referencias: 5

  • Tewa Red and the Puebloan diaspora

    Open AccessM E Beck, Trabert et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2016Citada por: 9Referencias: 13

  • The Lowland Patayan in the southern U.S. Southwest

    Open AccessM E Beck, Jeffrey R FergusonARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2016Referencias: 14

  • Following A Glittering Trail

    Open AccessTrabert, Sarah Trabert et al.ARTICLEAmerican Antiquity2016Citada por: 8Referencias: 8

    Protohistoric Ancestral Apache Dismal River groups (A.D. 1600–1750) participated in large exchange networks linking them to other peoples on the Plains and U.S. Southwest. Ceramic vessels made from micaceous materials appear at many Dismal River sites, and micaceous pottery recovered from the Central High Plains is typically seen as evidence for interaction with northern Rio Grande pueblos. However, few mineral or chemical characterization analys…

  • Ethnoarchaeology

    Open AccessM E Beck, Margaret BeckCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • Kansas and the Postrevolt Puebloan Diaspora

    Open AccessM E Beck, Trabert et al.ARTICLEAmerican Antiquity2014Citada por: 13Referencias: 45

    Native American communities underwent significant upheaval, ethnic blending, and restructuring in the Spanish colonial period. One archaeological example is the appearance of a seven-room stone and adobe structure in western Kansas, known as the Scott County Pueblo (14SC1). Previous researchers used Spanish documents to attribute the site to Puebloan refugees from Taos or Picuris in the mid- to late 1600s. Here we examine the Smithsonian and Kans…

  • The Archaeology of American Labor and Working‐Class Life. Paul A.Shackel. Gainesville, FL

    Open AccessM E BeckARTICLEAnthropology of Work Review2012

  • Testing the provenance of Patayan pottery at Las Colinas

    Open AccessDavid R Abbott, Sophia E Kelly et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2011Citada por: 7Referencias: 14

  • Geomorphological setting and Native American acquisition of buff-firing ceramic clays in the Lower and Middle Gila River Valley, Arizona

    Open AccessM E Beck, Jill Onken et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2011Citada por: 5Referencias: 12