Stephen A Mrozowski
Biographic Data
| ID | 3619385 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen A Mrozowski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen A |
| FAMILY NAME | Mrozowski |
| SIGNATURE | MROZOWSKI S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 207 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Questions Worth Asking: Un-disciplining Archaeology, Reclaiming Pasts for Better Futures
This forum engages an emerging discourse around historical reckoning, truth, and reconciliation, asking how these frameworks inform American archaeology and its future. A growing number of archaeologists are now demanding systemic disciplinary transformations that directly address how white supremacy and settler colonialism enact Indigenous dispossession and erasure as well as anti-Blackness, gender discrimination, and ableism. This forum, featur…
Recognizing Indigenous Persistence by Dating Extensive Low-Density Indigenous Occupations across the AD 1480-1630 Radiocarbon Plateau in Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Archaeologists have relied on the presence of European material on Indigenous New England sites as the main indicator that a site was occupied during the sixteenth or early seventeenth centuries-a span often characterized as the Contact period. The AD 1480-1630 span is particularly difficult to sequence because it lies on a radiocarbon calibration plateau. Here we report on a program of AMS dating from an Indigenous site on Great Island on Cape C…
Dominion and improvement: The moral ecologies of colonial encounters
Environmental relationships were critical to most early colonial encounters, especially for those involving permanent settlements. The ability to successfully establish a colony required developing relationships with plants, animals, and the land because they were central to providing for the colonists' basic subsistence needs. The ways European colonizers developed these new relationships rested on their moral ecologies, a mix of beliefs and pra…
Historical Archaeology and Indigenous Collaboration: Discovering Histories That Have Futures
This multi-authored case study of three Nipmuc sites is an introductory archaeology text that includes a tribal member as one of the scholars. Collaboration between the authors over two decades is a key theme in the book, serving as a model for a primary topic of the book. Historical Archaeology and Indigenous Collaboration engages young scholars in archaeology and Native American history, teaching them about respecting and including indigenous k…
Historical Archaeology and Indigenous Collaboration: Discovering Histories That Have Futures
The expanding and deepening scope of historical archaeology
2017 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of both the Society for Historical Archaeology, in North America, and the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology, in the UK. Each society celebrated this milestone by publishing a collection of forward-looking essays in their respective journals (see Brooks 2016; Matthews 2016). Although each group of practitioners has followed what might be best described as parallel, but not convergent, intell…
The symmetry-asymmetry continuum of human-thing and human-human relations
There's an old Ry Cooder song - written by Bobby Miller - entitled 'If walls could talk' (not the Celine Dion song), whose refrain is 'Ain't you glad that things don't talk'. Archaeologists clearly wish things could talk because we, more than most, appreciate the power of things and the close relationships that exist between humans and things and their shared histories. I was struck by this one day sitting reading a book in my bedroom. I glanced …
Archaeological Parasites as Indicators of Environmental Change in Urbanizing Landscapes: Implications for Health and Social Status
Using archaeological data of two human intestinal parasites from seventeenth- to early twentieth-century contexts, we explore the intersection of biological and cultural variables that shaped the ecology of cities in northeastern North America during the modern period. These parasites are useful because they require a developmental period in the soil, thus providing a link between human activities and changing environments. Prior to the last deca…
Capitalism in Motion
Preface: The Future is Now: Common Problems, Common Threads
Imagining an Archaeology of the Future: Capitalism and Colonialism Past and Present
Toward an Archaeology of the Future
The Death of Prehistory
Since the eighteenth century, the concept of prehistory was exported by colonialism to far parts of the globe and applied to populations lacking written records. Prehistory in these settings came to represent primitive people still living in a state without civilisation and its foremost index, literacy. Yet, many societies outside the Western world had developed complex methods of history-making and documentation, including epic poetry and the us…
Conclusion
This book has made a case for a new future for archaeology, aimed at bringing the discipline to a new place in its history and growth, by presenting a variety of case studies that speak directly to the authors' own experiences and self-reflection. Working in postcolonial settings, the authors have called for an end to prehistory and examined the issues of prehistory and colonialism from within the academy rather than from within their native comm…
The Death of Prehistory
This book explores how the concept of prehistory has undermined the histories of other cultures outside the West and how archaeologists can reclaim more inclusive histories set within the idiom of deep histories. More specifically, it emphasises the need to accept ancient pre-literate histories as an integral part of the flow of human history. It aims to construct history and historical narratives that utilise oral testimonies and indigenous know…
The Tyranny of Prehistory and the Search for a Deeper History
This chapter examines the manner in which time is conceptualised within the contexts of prehistory and deeper history. By privileging historical records, it shows how the federal recognition process also subordinates oral tradition or archaeological evidence, creating circumstances where dynamic, contingent histories are replaced by strategic essentialism with embedded notions of static and timeless cultures. The chapter looks at quartz crystals …
Death of Prehistory
Temps, rythme et espace. L'influence d'Henri Lefebvre dans le champ de l'archéologie historique
Le temps et l’espace sont deux des dimensions les plus fondamentales dans la pratique de l’archéologie. Au cours des vingt dernières années, les écrits d’Henri Lefebvre ont exercé une influence grandissante sur les recherches des archéologues spécialistes d’histoire travaillant en Amérique du Nord, en Europe et dans les Caraïbes. Une part importante de ces recherches a fait usage de ses concepts de représentation de l’espace et d’espaces de repré…
Ethnobiology For A Diverse World Spaces and Natures: Archaeology and the Political Ecology of Modern Cities
Scientific insights are sometimes found in the least likely places. For an ethnobiologist whose research focuses generally on the intersection of culture and biology, the city may seem like the last place to search for answers to complex questions surrounding the relationship between the social and the natural or the material and immaterial. Yet the archaeology of modern cities reveals a complex fabric of spaces whose emergence at the nexus of so…
Pragmatism and the Relevancy of Archaeology for Contemporary Society
New and Forgotten Paradigms: The Environment and Economics in Historical Archaeology
Creole Materialities: Archaeological Explorations of Hybridized Realities on a North American Plantation
This paper explores the hybridized realities of European, Native American and Afro-Caribbean/Afro-American residents of Sylvester Manor, New York and Constant Plantation, Barbados during the seventeenth century. It draws on archaeological and landscape evidence from two plantations that were owned and operated by different members of the same family during the seventeenth century. One of plantations, known as Sylvester Manor, encompassed all 8,00…
Pulling the Th reads Together: Issues of Theory and Practice in an Archaeology of the Modern World
Pulling the Threads Together: Issues of Theory and Practice in an Archaeology of the Modern World
This chapter outlines an approach to an archaeology of the modern world that seeks to identify the major streams in a seemingly disparate history of the past five hundred years. Focusing on the interrelationship of the growthof capitalism, colonisation, urbanisation and industrialisation, I argue for a unified view of the history of the modern era. Drawing on bothhistorical and archaeological studies from a variety of geographical and temporal co…
Magunkaquog Materiality, Federal Recognition, and the Search for a Deeper History
Colonization and the Commodification of Nature
Magunkaquog Materiality, Federal Recognition, and the Search for a Deeper History
Archaeobotanical Analysis and Interpretations of Enslaved Virginian Plant Use at Rich Neck Plantation (44WB52)
Archaeobotanical analysis remains one of the least-utilized strategies for investigating the lifeways of African diasporic peoples despite the fact that the field of African diaspora archaeology has grown exponentially over the last 30 years. We consider the botanical remains from the Rich Neck Slave Quarter site as constituting a significant line of evidence for illuminating the nature of plant use among enslaved Afro-Virginians. As a result of …
Toward an Archaeology of the Future
New and Forgotten Paradigms: The Environment and Economics in Historical Archaeology
Imagining an Archaeology of the Future: Capitalism and Colonialism Past and Present
Historical Archaeology and Indigenous Collaboration: Discovering Histories That Have Futures
This multi-authored case study of three Nipmuc sites is an introductory archaeology text that includes a tribal member as one of the scholars. Collaboration between the authors over two decades is a key theme in the book, serving as a model for a primary topic of the book. Historical Archaeology and Indigenous Collaboration engages young scholars in archaeology and Native American history, teaching them about respecting and including indigenous k…
Creole Materialities: Archaeological Explorations of Hybridized Realities on a North American Plantation
This paper explores the hybridized realities of European, Native American and Afro-Caribbean/Afro-American residents of Sylvester Manor, New York and Constant Plantation, Barbados during the seventeenth century. It draws on archaeological and landscape evidence from two plantations that were owned and operated by different members of the same family during the seventeenth century. One of plantations, known as Sylvester Manor, encompassed all 8,00…
The Archaeology of Sylvester Manor
This chapter introduces the history of the Sylvester Manor Project. It emphasizes the importance of the interdisciplinary approach employed during the project and the overall goals of the investigations. A discussion of pluralistic space and its importance as a central theme of the investigations is also presented. This is followed by a discussion of the Native American history of Shelter Island and its European colonization with particular atten…
Capitalism in Motion
Differential pollen preservation in a seventeenth-century refuse pit, Jamestown Island, Virginia
Historical archaeology as anthropology
Archaeological Parasites as Indicators of Environmental Change in Urbanizing Landscapes: Implications for Health and Social Status
Using archaeological data of two human intestinal parasites from seventeenth- to early twentieth-century contexts, we explore the intersection of biological and cultural variables that shaped the ecology of cities in northeastern North America during the modern period. These parasites are useful because they require a developmental period in the soil, thus providing a link between human activities and changing environments. Prior to the last deca…
Lines That Divide: Historical Archaeologies of Race, Class, and Gender . James A. Delle
Questions Worth Asking: Un-disciplining Archaeology, Reclaiming Pasts for Better Futures
This forum engages an emerging discourse around historical reckoning, truth, and reconciliation, asking how these frameworks inform American archaeology and its future. A growing number of archaeologists are now demanding systemic disciplinary transformations that directly address how white supremacy and settler colonialism enact Indigenous dispossession and erasure as well as anti-Blackness, gender discrimination, and ableism. This forum, featur…
The symmetry-asymmetry continuum of human-thing and human-human relations
There's an old Ry Cooder song - written by Bobby Miller - entitled 'If walls could talk' (not the Celine Dion song), whose refrain is 'Ain't you glad that things don't talk'. Archaeologists clearly wish things could talk because we, more than most, appreciate the power of things and the close relationships that exist between humans and things and their shared histories. I was struck by this one day sitting reading a book in my bedroom. I glanced …
The dialectics of historical archaeology in a post-processual world
Historical archaeology as anthropology
The dialectics of historical archaeology in a post-processual world
Differential pollen preservation in a seventeenth-century refuse pit, Jamestown Island, Virginia
Cultural Change and the New Technology: An Archaeology of the Early American Industrial Era . Paul A. Shackel
Colonization and the Commodification of Nature
Lines That Divide: Historical Archaeologies of Race, Class, and Gender . James A. Delle
Cultural Identity and the Consumption of Industry
The Archaeology of Sylvester Manor
This chapter introduces the history of the Sylvester Manor Project. It emphasizes the importance of the interdisciplinary approach employed during the project and the overall goals of the investigations. A discussion of pluralistic space and its importance as a central theme of the investigations is also presented. This is followed by a discussion of the Native American history of Shelter Island and its European colonization with particular atten…
Archaeobotanical Analysis and Interpretations of Enslaved Virginian Plant Use at Rich Neck Plantation (44WB52)
Archaeobotanical analysis remains one of the least-utilized strategies for investigating the lifeways of African diasporic peoples despite the fact that the field of African diaspora archaeology has grown exponentially over the last 30 years. We consider the botanical remains from the Rich Neck Slave Quarter site as constituting a significant line of evidence for illuminating the nature of plant use among enslaved Afro-Virginians. As a result of …
Pulling the Th reads Together: Issues of Theory and Practice in an Archaeology of the Modern World
Pulling the Threads Together: Issues of Theory and Practice in an Archaeology of the Modern World
This chapter outlines an approach to an archaeology of the modern world that seeks to identify the major streams in a seemingly disparate history of the past five hundred years. Focusing on the interrelationship of the growthof capitalism, colonisation, urbanisation and industrialisation, I argue for a unified view of the history of the modern era. Drawing on bothhistorical and archaeological studies from a variety of geographical and temporal co…
Magunkaquog Materiality, Federal Recognition, and the Search for a Deeper History
New and Forgotten Paradigms: The Environment and Economics in Historical Archaeology
Creole Materialities: Archaeological Explorations of Hybridized Realities on a North American Plantation
This paper explores the hybridized realities of European, Native American and Afro-Caribbean/Afro-American residents of Sylvester Manor, New York and Constant Plantation, Barbados during the seventeenth century. It draws on archaeological and landscape evidence from two plantations that were owned and operated by different members of the same family during the seventeenth century. One of plantations, known as Sylvester Manor, encompassed all 8,00…
Pragmatism and the Relevancy of Archaeology for Contemporary Society
Ethnobiology For A Diverse World Spaces and Natures: Archaeology and the Political Ecology of Modern Cities
Scientific insights are sometimes found in the least likely places. For an ethnobiologist whose research focuses generally on the intersection of culture and biology, the city may seem like the last place to search for answers to complex questions surrounding the relationship between the social and the natural or the material and immaterial. Yet the archaeology of modern cities reveals a complex fabric of spaces whose emergence at the nexus of so…
The Death of Prehistory
Since the eighteenth century, the concept of prehistory was exported by colonialism to far parts of the globe and applied to populations lacking written records. Prehistory in these settings came to represent primitive people still living in a state without civilisation and its foremost index, literacy. Yet, many societies outside the Western world had developed complex methods of history-making and documentation, including epic poetry and the us…
Conclusion
This book has made a case for a new future for archaeology, aimed at bringing the discipline to a new place in its history and growth, by presenting a variety of case studies that speak directly to the authors' own experiences and self-reflection. Working in postcolonial settings, the authors have called for an end to prehistory and examined the issues of prehistory and colonialism from within the academy rather than from within their native comm…
The Death of Prehistory
This book explores how the concept of prehistory has undermined the histories of other cultures outside the West and how archaeologists can reclaim more inclusive histories set within the idiom of deep histories. More specifically, it emphasises the need to accept ancient pre-literate histories as an integral part of the flow of human history. It aims to construct history and historical narratives that utilise oral testimonies and indigenous know…
The Tyranny of Prehistory and the Search for a Deeper History
This chapter examines the manner in which time is conceptualised within the contexts of prehistory and deeper history. By privileging historical records, it shows how the federal recognition process also subordinates oral tradition or archaeological evidence, creating circumstances where dynamic, contingent histories are replaced by strategic essentialism with embedded notions of static and timeless cultures. The chapter looks at quartz crystals …
Death of Prehistory
Temps, rythme et espace. L'influence d'Henri Lefebvre dans le champ de l'archéologie historique
Le temps et l’espace sont deux des dimensions les plus fondamentales dans la pratique de l’archéologie. Au cours des vingt dernières années, les écrits d’Henri Lefebvre ont exercé une influence grandissante sur les recherches des archéologues spécialistes d’histoire travaillant en Amérique du Nord, en Europe et dans les Caraïbes. Une part importante de ces recherches a fait usage de ses concepts de représentation de l’espace et d’espaces de repré…
Preface: The Future is Now: Common Problems, Common Threads
Imagining an Archaeology of the Future: Capitalism and Colonialism Past and Present
Toward an Archaeology of the Future
Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (26 works) · History (26 works) · Archaeology (24 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (21 works) · Sociology (20 works) · History (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Anthropology (10 works)