James M Bayman
Biographic Data
| ID | 170479 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James M Bayman |
| GIVEN NAMES | James M |
| FAMILY NAME | Bayman |
| SIGNATURE | BAYMAN J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hawaii System |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 182 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
States without Archaeological Correlates? A Report from Hawaiʻi
Two recent archaeological narratives of ancient Hawaiian society apply a neo-evolutionary approach to political development to argue that a primary state evolved prior to contact with Europeans in the late 18th century. Our analysis demonstrates that this finding is based on interpretations of indigenous oral traditions and contact-period historical accounts but lacks archaeological warrant. The Hawaiian archaeological record does not yield the c…
Gendered Households and Ceramic Assemblage Formation in the Mariana Islands, Western Pacific
The archaeological investigation of gendered labor is vital for interpreting households in the Mariana Islands because Spanish documentary accounts are largely silent regarding their spatial organization. Preliminary analyses of excavated materials from a household on the island of Guam revealed that it comprised two adjacent buildings (latte) that were economically integrated and within which craft activities by women and men were spatially segr…
Marine shell ornaments and the political economy of gendered power in the Mariana Islands
Documentary accounts by Spanish visitors to the Mariana Islands during the seventeenth century describe the native Chamorro as a stratified society that was organized into ranked matrilineal clans. Such writers note that while men served as the titular heads of households, women exercised significant power in domestic contexts. The recent excavation of an ancient cemetery (ca. 730 BC to AD 1600/1700) and its grave-good assemblage at Naton Beach o…
Afetna Point, Saipan: Archaeological Investigations of a Latte Period Village and Historic Context in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands by Boyd Dixon et al., and: Yellow Beach 2 after 7…
Reviewed by: Afetna Point, Saipan: Archaeological Investigations of a Latte Period Village and Historic Context in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands by Boyd Dixon et al., and: Yellow Beach 2 after 75 Years: The Archaeology of a WWII Invasion Beach on Saipan and its Historic Context in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands by Boyd Dixon et al James M. Bayman Afetna Point, Saipan: Archaeological Investigations of a Latte P…
A pedagogical approach to indigenous community-based archaeology in Hawai‘i: The north shore field school
Because Indigenous community-based archaeology in Hawai‘i is in its infancy, compared to other areas of the world, we decided to develop a pedagogical approach for the North Shore Field School that would foreground local cultural imperatives in tandem with the values of higher education. Engaging the local community in an archaeology that honours Hawaiian history and heritage was a major objective of our field school, as was our effort to train u…
Spanish Colonial History and Archaeology in the Mariana Islands: Echoes from the Western Pacific
Fishhooks and Adzes: The pointed and edgy nexus of culture, technology, and early capitalism in Hawai‘i
The political economy of European contact, emergent colonialism, and the construction of culture are understudied topics of Pacific archaeology. This study examines the dynamic nature of Hawaiian technologies as they were materialized in the persistence of shell fishhooks and stone adzes after the arrival of Europeans in AD 1778. Archaeological site records and documentary accounts reveal that Hawaiians continued to make shell fishhooks and stone…
A Shark Going Inland Is My Chief: The Island Civilization of Ancient Hawai‘i
Household economy and gendered labor in the 17th centurya.d. on Guam
The gendered division of labor in household economies is well known in documentary accounts of many societies, although archaeological evidence for it is often elusive. Our study compares ethnohistorical accounts of household organization with archaeological patterns at a 17th-century village on the island of Guam in the Marianas archipelago to determine if these different sources of evidence provide similar insights. We investigated archaeologic…
Technological Change and the Archaeology of Emergent Colonialism in the Kingdom of Hawai‘i
Property, Identity, and Macroeconomy in the Prehispanic Southwest
Archaeology provides a compelling perspective on the evolution of property rights and macroeconomy in precapitalist societies that lacked systems of writing. Most interpretations of macroeconomy in the Prehispanic Southwest have focused on interaction networks that emanated from "heartlands" where intensive agriculturalists were aggregated in towns along major streams. Although archaeologists are aware of communities in "hinterland" territories, …
Hinterlands and Regional Dynamics in the Ancient Southwest
Ideology, Political Economy, and Technological Change in the Hawaiian Islands After Ad 1778
Interpretations of European and American contact with Oceania often highlight the rapid changes that took place in the technologies and practices of its traditional societies. In the Hawaiian Islands, for example, many scholars have assumed that stone adzes were quickly replaced with metal adzes, and that such change was an inevitable consequence of a more efficient western technology. The timing and pace of this particular change is put into a c…
Plausible Ethnographic Analogies for the Social Organization of Hohokam Canal Irrigation
This paper presents the results of a juxtaposition of archaeological findings on Hohokam irrigation and ethnographic research on the social organization of irrigation. There are no ethnographic or historic records pertaining to the Hohokam, so the comparative ethnographic approach is perhaps more productive than in other situations. Several forms of canal irrigation organization are considered, including politically centralized, acephalous, priva…
The paleoecology and archaeology of long‐term water storage in a Hohokam reservoir, southwestern Arizona, U.S.A
Water storage reservoirs were an important feature of economic organization among ancient societies in the North American Southwest. Analyses of reservoir sediments from a Hohokam archaeological site in the Sonoran Desert yielded taxonomic species of ostracodes (microscopic crustaceans) and pollen grains that are indicative of a past water‐rich environment. The discovery that this reservoir was capable of storing water on a long‐term basis indica…
Hohokam Craft Economies and the Materialization of Power
Craft Specialization and Adze Production on Hawai'i Island
Craft Specialization and Adze Production on Hawai'i Island
Archaeological models of economic organization in complex societies frequently hinge on indications of craft specialization. Interpretations of such specialization in the Hawaiian islands often involve large-scale production of basalt adzes at Mauna Kea, the largest known quarry in the Pacific region. The recent discovery of expedient non-specialized production of adzes at Pohakuloa outside the main quarry of Mauna Kea, illustrates another dimens…
The Hohokam of Southwest North America
Emic and Etic perspectives on the history of archaeology
Givens, Douglas R. Alfred Vincent Kidder and the Development of Americanist Archaeology. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992. xiii + 216 pp. including chapter references and index. Harris, David R. The Archaeology of V. Gordon Childe: Contemporary Perspectives. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994. xii + 148 pp. including postscript and index. Jennings, Jesse D. Accidental Archaeologist: Memoirs of Jesse D. Jennings. Salt …
Craft economies in the north American Southwest
Dynamics of Hohokam obsidian circulation in the North American Southwest
Geochemical analyses of obsidian offer unexpected insights on the size and organization of the Hohokam regional system in the North American Southwest. Networks of obsidian circulation enlarged greatly during the Classic period as community centres with monumental architecture acquired non-local obsidian from a vast territory. This pattern confirms that prior models drastically underestimated the geographic scale of the Classic period regional sy…
Botanical Signatures of Water Storage Duration in a Hohokam Reservoir
Although large-scale canal irrigation technology is commonly associated with the prehistoric Hohokam (A.D. 200-1450) of south-central Arizona, earthen reservoirs were essential for domestic water storage in areas of the Sonoran Desert away from perennial streams. Interpretations of seasonal water storage in prehistoric Hohokam reservoirs are often based on direct analogy with the historic Tohono O'odham (formerly called the Papago). This assumpti…
Shell Ornament Consumption in a Classic Hohokam Platform Mound Community Center
Classic period (ca. A.C. 1100–1450) Hohokam platform mound settlements are commonly interpreted as community centers for the circulation of information as well as economic resources. Evidence for spatially concentrated craft production or consumption, particularly of high-value exotic goods, is one possible dimension of this function. This study presents evidence for the spatially centralized consumption of shell ornaments at Marana, an Early Cla…
Rethinking "Redistribution" in the Archaeological Record: Obsidian Exchange at the Marana Platform Mound
Economic concepts of redistribution and reciprocity (e.g., Service 1962; Sahlins 1972; Earle 1977) often play important roles in models of exchange, even though prehistorians are poorly equipped to discriminate between these processes in the archaeological record. Spatial analyses and geochemical characterization (X-ray fluorescence) of obsidian from the Classic period (A.D. 1100-1300) Hohokam multi-site community of Marana in the American Southw…
The Hohokam of Southwest North America
Craft economies in the north American Southwest
Hohokam Craft Economies and the Materialization of Power
Plausible Ethnographic Analogies for the Social Organization of Hohokam Canal Irrigation
This paper presents the results of a juxtaposition of archaeological findings on Hohokam irrigation and ethnographic research on the social organization of irrigation. There are no ethnographic or historic records pertaining to the Hohokam, so the comparative ethnographic approach is perhaps more productive than in other situations. Several forms of canal irrigation organization are considered, including politically centralized, acephalous, priva…
Shell Ornament Consumption in a Classic Hohokam Platform Mound Community Center
Classic period (ca. A.C. 1100–1450) Hohokam platform mound settlements are commonly interpreted as community centers for the circulation of information as well as economic resources. Evidence for spatially concentrated craft production or consumption, particularly of high-value exotic goods, is one possible dimension of this function. This study presents evidence for the spatially centralized consumption of shell ornaments at Marana, an Early Cla…
Rethinking "Redistribution" in the Archaeological Record: Obsidian Exchange at the Marana Platform Mound
Economic concepts of redistribution and reciprocity (e.g., Service 1962; Sahlins 1972; Earle 1977) often play important roles in models of exchange, even though prehistorians are poorly equipped to discriminate between these processes in the archaeological record. Spatial analyses and geochemical characterization (X-ray fluorescence) of obsidian from the Classic period (A.D. 1100-1300) Hohokam multi-site community of Marana in the American Southw…
Property, Identity, and Macroeconomy in the Prehispanic Southwest
Archaeology provides a compelling perspective on the evolution of property rights and macroeconomy in precapitalist societies that lacked systems of writing. Most interpretations of macroeconomy in the Prehispanic Southwest have focused on interaction networks that emanated from "heartlands" where intensive agriculturalists were aggregated in towns along major streams. Although archaeologists are aware of communities in "hinterland" territories, …
Technological Change and the Archaeology of Emergent Colonialism in the Kingdom of Hawai‘i
Dynamics of Hohokam obsidian circulation in the North American Southwest
Geochemical analyses of obsidian offer unexpected insights on the size and organization of the Hohokam regional system in the North American Southwest. Networks of obsidian circulation enlarged greatly during the Classic period as community centres with monumental architecture acquired non-local obsidian from a vast territory. This pattern confirms that prior models drastically underestimated the geographic scale of the Classic period regional sy…
Hinterlands and Regional Dynamics in the Ancient Southwest
Marine shell ornaments and the political economy of gendered power in the Mariana Islands
Documentary accounts by Spanish visitors to the Mariana Islands during the seventeenth century describe the native Chamorro as a stratified society that was organized into ranked matrilineal clans. Such writers note that while men served as the titular heads of households, women exercised significant power in domestic contexts. The recent excavation of an ancient cemetery (ca. 730 BC to AD 1600/1700) and its grave-good assemblage at Naton Beach o…
A pedagogical approach to indigenous community-based archaeology in Hawai‘i: The north shore field school
Because Indigenous community-based archaeology in Hawai‘i is in its infancy, compared to other areas of the world, we decided to develop a pedagogical approach for the North Shore Field School that would foreground local cultural imperatives in tandem with the values of higher education. Engaging the local community in an archaeology that honours Hawaiian history and heritage was a major objective of our field school, as was our effort to train u…
Craft Specialization and Adze Production on Hawai'i Island
Botanical Signatures of Water Storage Duration in a Hohokam Reservoir
Although large-scale canal irrigation technology is commonly associated with the prehistoric Hohokam (A.D. 200-1450) of south-central Arizona, earthen reservoirs were essential for domestic water storage in areas of the Sonoran Desert away from perennial streams. Interpretations of seasonal water storage in prehistoric Hohokam reservoirs are often based on direct analogy with the historic Tohono O'odham (formerly called the Papago). This assumpti…
Household economy and gendered labor in the 17th centurya.d. on Guam
The gendered division of labor in household economies is well known in documentary accounts of many societies, although archaeological evidence for it is often elusive. Our study compares ethnohistorical accounts of household organization with archaeological patterns at a 17th-century village on the island of Guam in the Marianas archipelago to determine if these different sources of evidence provide similar insights. We investigated archaeologic…
Craft Specialization and Adze Production on Hawai'i Island
Archaeological models of economic organization in complex societies frequently hinge on indications of craft specialization. Interpretations of such specialization in the Hawaiian islands often involve large-scale production of basalt adzes at Mauna Kea, the largest known quarry in the Pacific region. The recent discovery of expedient non-specialized production of adzes at Pohakuloa outside the main quarry of Mauna Kea, illustrates another dimens…
Rethinking "Redistribution" in the Archaeological Record: Obsidian Exchange at the Marana Platform Mound
Economic concepts of redistribution and reciprocity (e.g., Service 1962; Sahlins 1972; Earle 1977) often play important roles in models of exchange, even though prehistorians are poorly equipped to discriminate between these processes in the archaeological record. Spatial analyses and geochemical characterization (X-ray fluorescence) of obsidian from the Classic period (A.D. 1100-1300) Hohokam multi-site community of Marana in the American Southw…
Shell Ornament Consumption in a Classic Hohokam Platform Mound Community Center
Classic period (ca. A.C. 1100–1450) Hohokam platform mound settlements are commonly interpreted as community centers for the circulation of information as well as economic resources. Evidence for spatially concentrated craft production or consumption, particularly of high-value exotic goods, is one possible dimension of this function. This study presents evidence for the spatially centralized consumption of shell ornaments at Marana, an Early Cla…
Botanical Signatures of Water Storage Duration in a Hohokam Reservoir
Although large-scale canal irrigation technology is commonly associated with the prehistoric Hohokam (A.D. 200-1450) of south-central Arizona, earthen reservoirs were essential for domestic water storage in areas of the Sonoran Desert away from perennial streams. Interpretations of seasonal water storage in prehistoric Hohokam reservoirs are often based on direct analogy with the historic Tohono O'odham (formerly called the Papago). This assumpti…
Craft economies in the north American Southwest
Dynamics of Hohokam obsidian circulation in the North American Southwest
Geochemical analyses of obsidian offer unexpected insights on the size and organization of the Hohokam regional system in the North American Southwest. Networks of obsidian circulation enlarged greatly during the Classic period as community centres with monumental architecture acquired non-local obsidian from a vast territory. This pattern confirms that prior models drastically underestimated the geographic scale of the Classic period regional sy…
Craft Specialization and Adze Production on Hawai'i Island
Craft Specialization and Adze Production on Hawai'i Island
Archaeological models of economic organization in complex societies frequently hinge on indications of craft specialization. Interpretations of such specialization in the Hawaiian islands often involve large-scale production of basalt adzes at Mauna Kea, the largest known quarry in the Pacific region. The recent discovery of expedient non-specialized production of adzes at Pohakuloa outside the main quarry of Mauna Kea, illustrates another dimens…
The Hohokam of Southwest North America
Emic and Etic perspectives on the history of archaeology
Givens, Douglas R. Alfred Vincent Kidder and the Development of Americanist Archaeology. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992. xiii + 216 pp. including chapter references and index. Harris, David R. The Archaeology of V. Gordon Childe: Contemporary Perspectives. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994. xii + 148 pp. including postscript and index. Jennings, Jesse D. Accidental Archaeologist: Memoirs of Jesse D. Jennings. Salt …
Hohokam Craft Economies and the Materialization of Power
The paleoecology and archaeology of long‐term water storage in a Hohokam reservoir, southwestern Arizona, U.S.A
Water storage reservoirs were an important feature of economic organization among ancient societies in the North American Southwest. Analyses of reservoir sediments from a Hohokam archaeological site in the Sonoran Desert yielded taxonomic species of ostracodes (microscopic crustaceans) and pollen grains that are indicative of a past water‐rich environment. The discovery that this reservoir was capable of storing water on a long‐term basis indica…
Plausible Ethnographic Analogies for the Social Organization of Hohokam Canal Irrigation
This paper presents the results of a juxtaposition of archaeological findings on Hohokam irrigation and ethnographic research on the social organization of irrigation. There are no ethnographic or historic records pertaining to the Hohokam, so the comparative ethnographic approach is perhaps more productive than in other situations. Several forms of canal irrigation organization are considered, including politically centralized, acephalous, priva…
Hinterlands and Regional Dynamics in the Ancient Southwest
Ideology, Political Economy, and Technological Change in the Hawaiian Islands After Ad 1778
Interpretations of European and American contact with Oceania often highlight the rapid changes that took place in the technologies and practices of its traditional societies. In the Hawaiian Islands, for example, many scholars have assumed that stone adzes were quickly replaced with metal adzes, and that such change was an inevitable consequence of a more efficient western technology. The timing and pace of this particular change is put into a c…
Property, Identity, and Macroeconomy in the Prehispanic Southwest
Archaeology provides a compelling perspective on the evolution of property rights and macroeconomy in precapitalist societies that lacked systems of writing. Most interpretations of macroeconomy in the Prehispanic Southwest have focused on interaction networks that emanated from "heartlands" where intensive agriculturalists were aggregated in towns along major streams. Although archaeologists are aware of communities in "hinterland" territories, …
Technological Change and the Archaeology of Emergent Colonialism in the Kingdom of Hawai‘i
Household economy and gendered labor in the 17th centurya.d. on Guam
The gendered division of labor in household economies is well known in documentary accounts of many societies, although archaeological evidence for it is often elusive. Our study compares ethnohistorical accounts of household organization with archaeological patterns at a 17th-century village on the island of Guam in the Marianas archipelago to determine if these different sources of evidence provide similar insights. We investigated archaeologic…
Fishhooks and Adzes: The pointed and edgy nexus of culture, technology, and early capitalism in Hawai‘i
The political economy of European contact, emergent colonialism, and the construction of culture are understudied topics of Pacific archaeology. This study examines the dynamic nature of Hawaiian technologies as they were materialized in the persistence of shell fishhooks and stone adzes after the arrival of Europeans in AD 1778. Archaeological site records and documentary accounts reveal that Hawaiians continued to make shell fishhooks and stone…
A Shark Going Inland Is My Chief: The Island Civilization of Ancient Hawai‘i
Spanish Colonial History and Archaeology in the Mariana Islands: Echoes from the Western Pacific
A pedagogical approach to indigenous community-based archaeology in Hawai‘i: The north shore field school
Because Indigenous community-based archaeology in Hawai‘i is in its infancy, compared to other areas of the world, we decided to develop a pedagogical approach for the North Shore Field School that would foreground local cultural imperatives in tandem with the values of higher education. Engaging the local community in an archaeology that honours Hawaiian history and heritage was a major objective of our field school, as was our effort to train u…
Gendered Households and Ceramic Assemblage Formation in the Mariana Islands, Western Pacific
The archaeological investigation of gendered labor is vital for interpreting households in the Mariana Islands because Spanish documentary accounts are largely silent regarding their spatial organization. Preliminary analyses of excavated materials from a household on the island of Guam revealed that it comprised two adjacent buildings (latte) that were economically integrated and within which craft activities by women and men were spatially segr…
Marine shell ornaments and the political economy of gendered power in the Mariana Islands
Documentary accounts by Spanish visitors to the Mariana Islands during the seventeenth century describe the native Chamorro as a stratified society that was organized into ranked matrilineal clans. Such writers note that while men served as the titular heads of households, women exercised significant power in domestic contexts. The recent excavation of an ancient cemetery (ca. 730 BC to AD 1600/1700) and its grave-good assemblage at Naton Beach o…
Afetna Point, Saipan: Archaeological Investigations of a Latte Period Village and Historic Context in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands by Boyd Dixon et al., and: Yellow Beach 2 after 7…
Reviewed by: Afetna Point, Saipan: Archaeological Investigations of a Latte Period Village and Historic Context in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands by Boyd Dixon et al., and: Yellow Beach 2 after 75 Years: The Archaeology of a WWII Invasion Beach on Saipan and its Historic Context in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands by Boyd Dixon et al James M. Bayman Afetna Point, Saipan: Archaeological Investigations of a Latte P…
States without Archaeological Correlates? A Report from Hawaiʻi
Two recent archaeological narratives of ancient Hawaiian society apply a neo-evolutionary approach to political development to argue that a primary state evolved prior to contact with Europeans in the late 18th century. Our analysis demonstrates that this finding is based on interpretations of indigenous oral traditions and contact-period historical accounts but lacks archaeological warrant. The Hawaiian archaeological record does not yield the c…
Archaeology (22 works) · Geography (19 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (16 works) · History (14 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · History (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (10 works) · Politics (7 works)