Michael S Nassaney
Biographic Data
| ID | 123150 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael S Nassaney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael S |
| FAMILY NAME | Nassaney |
| SIGNATURE | NASSANEY M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Michigan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3485-6590 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 124 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Reflections on the American Experience in Archaeological Perspective Book Series
The Jesuits at Fort St. Joseph in Southwest Michigan
The site of Fort St. Joseph in southwest Michigan began as a mission in the 1680s when the Jesuits were granted a tract of land by the French crown along the St. Joseph River. For almost eighty years, the Jesuits tended to the souls of the Fort St. Joseph community. The presence of a marriage and baptismal register (1720–61) and archaeological remains testify to their religious activities in the eighteenth century. While it is difficult to measur…
North America During the European Contact Period
Archaeology, Heritage, and Public Participation: Fulfilling the Promise of Authentic Collaboration
Various descendant and community groups have long been involved in aspects of the discovery, investigation, preservation, and interpretation of archaeological remains and associated heritage. No longer content with merely being bystanders and even consultants, many have insisted on fully collaborating, co-creating, and controlling the archaeological and heritage management process. Despite the potential shared interests among archaeologists, loca…
Sustaining an authentic community partnership through the Fort St. Joseph archaeological project
When community partners authorize investigations and interpretations of heritage sites, there is an increased likelihood that the needs and desires of various stakeholders will diverge. Further complications arise when natural forces threaten site integrity, making it incumbent on heritage professionals to reach reasoned decisions in the interest of the public good while balancing research and preservation needs. Community partnerships succeed wh…
Cultural Identity and Materiality at French Fort St. Joseph (20BE23), Niles, Michigan
The Role of the Public in Public Archaeology: Ten Years of Outreach and Collaboration at Fort St. Joseph
Public outreach and community involvement are increasingly common aspects of archaeology, developed to ensure relevancy, support of the discipline, and inclusivity in archaeological interpretations. The Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project (FSJAP) is an example of how active community participation promotes a symbiotic relationship: community members offer knowledge and logistical assistance while professional archaeologists from Western Michig…
The North American Fur Trade in Historical and Archaeological Perspective
The fur trade was a multifaceted, global phenomenon that had a formative influence on the history and cultures of post-contact North America. Archaeological investigations of fur trade-related sites coincide with the inception of historical archaeology. This chapter begins with a brief historical overview of the fur trades and summarizes some of the interpretive frameworks that have been employed to organize this phenomenon spatially and temporal…
Enhancing Public Archaeology Through Community Service Learning
Public archaeologists are turning to community service learning (CSL) as a model for resolving the perceived learning crisis in the field, and to redress the limitations of archaeological pedagogy and practice. Examples drawn from various projects in the United States show how the CSL approach encourages students who practise archaeology to become civically engaged, capable of confronting real-world problems, and empowered to see themselves as ca…
Decolonizing Archaeological Theory at Fort St. Joseph, An Eighteenth-Century Multi-Ethnic Community in the Western Great Lakes Region
Recent archaeologies of colonialism have challenged and significantly revised contemporary imaginings of Indigenous peoples' engagement with Europeans and the impacts of these entanglements on material and social realities. Changes in socio-political climate beginning in the 1970s instigated reconceptualizations that accompanied increasingly audible sounds of Native voices and concerns. Political action outside the discipline has heightened archa…
The Materiality of Individuality at Fort St. Joseph: An Eighteenth-Century Mission-Garrison-Trading Post Complex on the Edge of Empire
Suffering for Jesus: Penitential Practices at Fort St. Joseph (Niles, Michigan) During the French Regime
Scholarship on New France often emphasizes the factors that motivated the establishment of the colony, including the desire to promulgate the spread of Catholicism to Native peoples. However, the place of religion in the lives of the French inhabitants in the far-flung outposts in the North American interior is difficult to assess. Recent excavations at Fort St. Joseph, an eighteenth-century mission-garrison-trading post complex in the western Gr…
Identity Formation at a French Colonial Outpost in the North American Interior
Archaeological Evidence of Economic Activities at an Eighteenth-Century Frontier Outpost in the Western Great Lakes
The Identification of Colonial Fort St.Joseph, Michigan
The Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project was initiated in 1998 to identify, investigate, and interpret material evidence of Fort St. Joseph, a mission-garrison-trading post complex of the 18th century in SW Michigan. An initial survey identified a deposit of 18th-century French and English artifacts associated with a large assemblage of well-preserved animal bones. We returned in 2002 and employed a well-point drainage system followed by a geop…
Native American gender politics and material culture in seventeenth-century southeastern New England
Scholars have long recognized that European contact had a profound impact on native peoples throughout the Americas. However, subaltern men and women are no longer seen as passive victims in their interactions with the dominant culture but rather as active agents who made their own histories, even as they confronted colonialism on a daily basis. In southeastern New England, population decline and increased commodity exchange created new social op…
The Identification of Colonial Fort St. Joseph, Michigan
Michael S. Nassaney, William M. Cremin, Daniel P. Lynch, The Identification of Colonial Fort St. Joseph, Michigan, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 29, No. 3/4 (Autumn, 2002 - Winter, 2004), pp. 309-321
Between Contacts and Colonies: Archaeological Perspectives on the Protohistoric Southeast
The Southwest Michigan Historic Landscape Project: Exploring Class, Gender, and Ethnicity from the Ground Up
The Archaeological Northeast
Despite the advances made in archaeology over the past generation, the Northeast remains the most misunderstood of all the archaeological regions of North America. With a complex environmental history shaped by ice sheets from the last glaciation, and highly acidic soils characteristic of the area, the kinds of organic artifacts found in other areas have been destroyed in the Northeast. The result is a sometimes evasive, particularly complicated,…
Toltec Mounds and Plum Bayou Culture: Mound D Excavations
The Adoption of the Bow and Arrow in Eastern North America: A View from Central Arkansas
North American archaeologists have long been interested in distinguishing between dart and arrow points in order to establish when bow-and-arrow technology was adopted in the Eastern Woodlands. A quantitative analysis of point form and qualitative reconstructions of bifacial reduction trajectories from Plum Bayou culture sites in central Arkansas indicate that arrow points were abruptly adopted and became widespread about A.D. 600. Moreover, arro…
Class, gender, and the built environment: Deriving social relations from cultural landscapes in Southwest Michigan
Native American Interactions: Multiscalar Analyses and Interpretations in the Eastern Woodlands
The political and social contexts of cutlery production in the connecticut valley
Class, gender, and the built environment: Deriving social relations from cultural landscapes in Southwest Michigan
The Adoption of the Bow and Arrow in Eastern North America: A View from Central Arkansas
North American archaeologists have long been interested in distinguishing between dart and arrow points in order to establish when bow-and-arrow technology was adopted in the Eastern Woodlands. A quantitative analysis of point form and qualitative reconstructions of bifacial reduction trajectories from Plum Bayou culture sites in central Arkansas indicate that arrow points were abruptly adopted and became widespread about A.D. 600. Moreover, arro…
Native American gender politics and material culture in seventeenth-century southeastern New England
Scholars have long recognized that European contact had a profound impact on native peoples throughout the Americas. However, subaltern men and women are no longer seen as passive victims in their interactions with the dominant culture but rather as active agents who made their own histories, even as they confronted colonialism on a daily basis. In southeastern New England, population decline and increased commodity exchange created new social op…
Identity Formation at a French Colonial Outpost in the North American Interior
Decolonizing Archaeological Theory at Fort St. Joseph, An Eighteenth-Century Multi-Ethnic Community in the Western Great Lakes Region
Recent archaeologies of colonialism have challenged and significantly revised contemporary imaginings of Indigenous peoples' engagement with Europeans and the impacts of these entanglements on material and social realities. Changes in socio-political climate beginning in the 1970s instigated reconceptualizations that accompanied increasingly audible sounds of Native voices and concerns. Political action outside the discipline has heightened archa…
The Southwest Michigan Historic Landscape Project: Exploring Class, Gender, and Ethnicity from the Ground Up
The Identification of Colonial Fort St.Joseph, Michigan
The Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project was initiated in 1998 to identify, investigate, and interpret material evidence of Fort St. Joseph, a mission-garrison-trading post complex of the 18th century in SW Michigan. An initial survey identified a deposit of 18th-century French and English artifacts associated with a large assemblage of well-preserved animal bones. We returned in 2002 and employed a well-point drainage system followed by a geop…
Suffering for Jesus: Penitential Practices at Fort St. Joseph (Niles, Michigan) During the French Regime
Scholarship on New France often emphasizes the factors that motivated the establishment of the colony, including the desire to promulgate the spread of Catholicism to Native peoples. However, the place of religion in the lives of the French inhabitants in the far-flung outposts in the North American interior is difficult to assess. Recent excavations at Fort St. Joseph, an eighteenth-century mission-garrison-trading post complex in the western Gr…
Archaeological Evidence of Economic Activities at an Eighteenth-Century Frontier Outpost in the Western Great Lakes
Communal Societies and the Emergence of Elites in the Prehistoric American Southeast
The emergence of elites in the prehistoric American Southeast takes place within the context of communal societies. Incipient elites exacerbate contradictions that appear under conditions of population growth, subsistence intensification, decreased mobility, and technological reorganization within the communal mode of production to undermine egalitarianism and consolidate their positions of status. Archaeological data from the Plum Bayou culture …
Archaeology, Heritage, and Public Participation: Fulfilling the Promise of Authentic Collaboration
Various descendant and community groups have long been involved in aspects of the discovery, investigation, preservation, and interpretation of archaeological remains and associated heritage. No longer content with merely being bystanders and even consultants, many have insisted on fully collaborating, co-creating, and controlling the archaeological and heritage management process. Despite the potential shared interests among archaeologists, loca…
The Role of the Public in Public Archaeology: Ten Years of Outreach and Collaboration at Fort St. Joseph
Public outreach and community involvement are increasingly common aspects of archaeology, developed to ensure relevancy, support of the discipline, and inclusivity in archaeological interpretations. The Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project (FSJAP) is an example of how active community participation promotes a symbiotic relationship: community members offer knowledge and logistical assistance while professional archaeologists from Western Michig…
Sustaining an authentic community partnership through the Fort St. Joseph archaeological project
When community partners authorize investigations and interpretations of heritage sites, there is an increased likelihood that the needs and desires of various stakeholders will diverge. Further complications arise when natural forces threaten site integrity, making it incumbent on heritage professionals to reach reasoned decisions in the interest of the public good while balancing research and preservation needs. Community partnerships succeed wh…
Communal Societies and the Emergence of Elites in the Prehistoric American Southeast
The emergence of elites in the prehistoric American Southeast takes place within the context of communal societies. Incipient elites exacerbate contradictions that appear under conditions of population growth, subsistence intensification, decreased mobility, and technological reorganization within the communal mode of production to undermine egalitarianism and consolidate their positions of status. Archaeological data from the Plum Bayou culture …
The political and social contexts of cutlery production in the connecticut valley
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Chiefdoms: Power, Economy, and Ideology. Timothy Earle
Class, gender, and the built environment: Deriving social relations from cultural landscapes in Southwest Michigan
Native American Interactions: Multiscalar Analyses and Interpretations in the Eastern Woodlands
Toltec Mounds and Plum Bayou Culture: Mound D Excavations
The Adoption of the Bow and Arrow in Eastern North America: A View from Central Arkansas
North American archaeologists have long been interested in distinguishing between dart and arrow points in order to establish when bow-and-arrow technology was adopted in the Eastern Woodlands. A quantitative analysis of point form and qualitative reconstructions of bifacial reduction trajectories from Plum Bayou culture sites in central Arkansas indicate that arrow points were abruptly adopted and became widespread about A.D. 600. Moreover, arro…
The Archaeological Northeast
Despite the advances made in archaeology over the past generation, the Northeast remains the most misunderstood of all the archaeological regions of North America. With a complex environmental history shaped by ice sheets from the last glaciation, and highly acidic soils characteristic of the area, the kinds of organic artifacts found in other areas have been destroyed in the Northeast. The result is a sometimes evasive, particularly complicated,…
The Southwest Michigan Historic Landscape Project: Exploring Class, Gender, and Ethnicity from the Ground Up
The Identification of Colonial Fort St. Joseph, Michigan
Michael S. Nassaney, William M. Cremin, Daniel P. Lynch, The Identification of Colonial Fort St. Joseph, Michigan, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 29, No. 3/4 (Autumn, 2002 - Winter, 2004), pp. 309-321
Between Contacts and Colonies: Archaeological Perspectives on the Protohistoric Southeast
The Identification of Colonial Fort St.Joseph, Michigan
The Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project was initiated in 1998 to identify, investigate, and interpret material evidence of Fort St. Joseph, a mission-garrison-trading post complex of the 18th century in SW Michigan. An initial survey identified a deposit of 18th-century French and English artifacts associated with a large assemblage of well-preserved animal bones. We returned in 2002 and employed a well-point drainage system followed by a geop…
Native American gender politics and material culture in seventeenth-century southeastern New England
Scholars have long recognized that European contact had a profound impact on native peoples throughout the Americas. However, subaltern men and women are no longer seen as passive victims in their interactions with the dominant culture but rather as active agents who made their own histories, even as they confronted colonialism on a daily basis. In southeastern New England, population decline and increased commodity exchange created new social op…
Archaeological Evidence of Economic Activities at an Eighteenth-Century Frontier Outpost in the Western Great Lakes
Suffering for Jesus: Penitential Practices at Fort St. Joseph (Niles, Michigan) During the French Regime
Scholarship on New France often emphasizes the factors that motivated the establishment of the colony, including the desire to promulgate the spread of Catholicism to Native peoples. However, the place of religion in the lives of the French inhabitants in the far-flung outposts in the North American interior is difficult to assess. Recent excavations at Fort St. Joseph, an eighteenth-century mission-garrison-trading post complex in the western Gr…
Identity Formation at a French Colonial Outpost in the North American Interior
The Materiality of Individuality at Fort St. Joseph: An Eighteenth-Century Mission-Garrison-Trading Post Complex on the Edge of Empire
Enhancing Public Archaeology Through Community Service Learning
Public archaeologists are turning to community service learning (CSL) as a model for resolving the perceived learning crisis in the field, and to redress the limitations of archaeological pedagogy and practice. Examples drawn from various projects in the United States show how the CSL approach encourages students who practise archaeology to become civically engaged, capable of confronting real-world problems, and empowered to see themselves as ca…
Decolonizing Archaeological Theory at Fort St. Joseph, An Eighteenth-Century Multi-Ethnic Community in the Western Great Lakes Region
Recent archaeologies of colonialism have challenged and significantly revised contemporary imaginings of Indigenous peoples' engagement with Europeans and the impacts of these entanglements on material and social realities. Changes in socio-political climate beginning in the 1970s instigated reconceptualizations that accompanied increasingly audible sounds of Native voices and concerns. Political action outside the discipline has heightened archa…
The North American Fur Trade in Historical and Archaeological Perspective
The fur trade was a multifaceted, global phenomenon that had a formative influence on the history and cultures of post-contact North America. Archaeological investigations of fur trade-related sites coincide with the inception of historical archaeology. This chapter begins with a brief historical overview of the fur trades and summarizes some of the interpretive frameworks that have been employed to organize this phenomenon spatially and temporal…
The Role of the Public in Public Archaeology: Ten Years of Outreach and Collaboration at Fort St. Joseph
Public outreach and community involvement are increasingly common aspects of archaeology, developed to ensure relevancy, support of the discipline, and inclusivity in archaeological interpretations. The Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project (FSJAP) is an example of how active community participation promotes a symbiotic relationship: community members offer knowledge and logistical assistance while professional archaeologists from Western Michig…
Cultural Identity and Materiality at French Fort St. Joseph (20BE23), Niles, Michigan
North America During the European Contact Period
Archaeology, Heritage, and Public Participation: Fulfilling the Promise of Authentic Collaboration
Various descendant and community groups have long been involved in aspects of the discovery, investigation, preservation, and interpretation of archaeological remains and associated heritage. No longer content with merely being bystanders and even consultants, many have insisted on fully collaborating, co-creating, and controlling the archaeological and heritage management process. Despite the potential shared interests among archaeologists, loca…
Sustaining an authentic community partnership through the Fort St. Joseph archaeological project
When community partners authorize investigations and interpretations of heritage sites, there is an increased likelihood that the needs and desires of various stakeholders will diverge. Further complications arise when natural forces threaten site integrity, making it incumbent on heritage professionals to reach reasoned decisions in the interest of the public good while balancing research and preservation needs. Community partnerships succeed wh…
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