Wesley Bernardini
Biographic Data
| ID | 3622213 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wesley Bernardini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wesley |
| FAMILY NAME | Bernardini |
| SIGNATURE | BERNARDINI W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Redlands |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 157 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Bonito Factor
Pueblo Bonito is the largest and most centrally located great house in Chaco Canyon. One of its most striking attributes is its abundance of “exceptional deposits” of rare and unusual objects. It is unclear, however, whether Pueblo Bonito's assemblage reflects its unique status in the Chaco world or whether it is a product of sampling bias. To answer this question, we use binomial probabilities to interpret the significance of both finding, and o…
Comparing Near Eastern Neolithic Megasites and Southwestern Pueblos
Çatalhöyük and other Near Eastern Neolithic ‘megasites’ are commonly interpreted as exceptional because of their large size and early dates. In this paper, we question exceptional claims about the size and social organization of megasites like Çatalhöyük by comparing them to pueblos in the American Southwest. We argue that Çatalhöyük and other Near Eastern Neolithic megasites are better understood as large villages whose size, layout and social o…
Hopi History Prior to 1600
The Hopi region is an iconic “tribal” society of the Southwest, with geographic and cultural continuity stretching back more than a millennium. The tribe has been the subject of ethnographic and archaeological study for more than 100 years, featuring a uniquely long-running dialogue with oral tradition and blurring of boundaries between ethnography and archaeology. The Hopi population stems from a combination of local groups and diverse immigrant…
Sight Communities
Research in psychology has established that humans organize spatial information into 'cognitive maps' oriented around visual landmarks. Much of this research focuses on individual cognitive processes such as orienteering and wayfinding. We extend this research to the level of social groups, exploring the degree to which cognitive maps are shared among near and distant neighbors and the social implications of common, overlapping, or discrete cogni…
Quantifying visual prominence in social landscapes
Hopi Oral Tradition and the Archaeology of Identity
Native American activists of the civil rights era leveled heavy critiques at archaeology and anthropology for their prior support of colonial legislation and lack of sensitivity towards Native viewpoints. Archaeology in particular was taken to task for the destruction of numerous burial sites and the theft of thousands of Native American bodily remains and cultural items for over a century. The decades-long efforts by Native Americans and their n…
The Non-Diagnostic Sherd Problem
Although ceramic types are applied most commonly to sherds (simply because of their abundance), most typologies have been derived at least in part from patterns of attribute covariation on whole vessels. As a result, one typological concern is the “non-diagnostic sherd problem,” where only a fraction of the sherds deriving from a whole vessel share all of the attributes of that vessel. This paper assesses the severity of the non-diagnostic sherd …
Enduring Motives
examines tradition and religious beliefs as they are expressed in landscape, the built environment, visual symbols, stories, and ritual.Bringing together archaeologists and Native American experts, this volume focuses on long-lived religious traditions of the native peoples of the Americas and how religion codifies, justifies, and reinforces these traditions by placing a high value on continuity of beliefs and practice.Using clues from the archae…
The Orayvi Split
Identity as History
Hopi clan migration traditions appear to hold valuable knowledge about precontact Puebloan life. Some scholars, however, question the historical veracity of these migration stories, noting that small, unilineal, exogamous groups cannot move independently, nor are they likely to have persisted for the hundreds of years necessary to maintain the knowledge attributed to them. Reexamination of the units and mechanisms of information curation underlyi…
Jeddito Yellow Ware and Hopi Social Networks
Hopi villages played important roles in the precontact and contact periods in the American Southwest, but analysis has largely focused on their occupants’ longdistance contacts with non-Hopi populations. Relatively little direct archaeological evidence has been mustered to document intervillage relationships on the Hopi Mesas. The lack of attention to intervillage dynamics risks encouraging an overly homogeneous view of Hopi as a sociopolitical o…
Hopewellian Copper Celts from Eastern North America
Reconsidering Spatial and Temporal Aspects of Prehistoric Cultural Identity
Archaeologists have tended to overemphasize spatial and temporal boundaries between social groups at the expense of crosscutting and historical links. This bias is rooted in ethnographic conceptions of cultural identity and fails to make use of the time depth that is archaeology's primary advantage in the study of human behavior. An emphasis on synchronic, bounded spatial units like culture areas has obscured diachronic dimensions of identity, es…
The Formation of Settlement Clusters on Anderson Mesa
Hopewell geometric earthworks
Kiln Firing Groups
Recent research on trench kilns from the Mesa Verde region of the northern American Southwest (Blinman and Swink 1997) suggests that trench kilns represent collaborative firings by groups of potters. This study presents a method for estimating the sizes of these proposed kiln firing groups. A comparative analysis between firing group sizes and the size of other contemporaneous social units provides insights into socioeconomic relationships betwee…
Reassessing the Scale of Social Action at Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Understanding the social system that developed in and around Chaco Canyon, New Mexico between A.D. 850 and 1150 is essential not only for reconstructions of that period, but also for explanations of subsequent social changes in the northern American Southwest. The size of the residential population of Chaco Canyon has long been recognized as a critical variable in any reconstruction of the Chaco phenomenon. In this study, I propose a method of es…
Transitions in Social Organization
Hopi Oral Tradition and the Archaeology of Identity
Native American activists of the civil rights era leveled heavy critiques at archaeology and anthropology for their prior support of colonial legislation and lack of sensitivity towards Native viewpoints. Archaeology in particular was taken to task for the destruction of numerous burial sites and the theft of thousands of Native American bodily remains and cultural items for over a century. The decades-long efforts by Native Americans and their n…
Quantifying visual prominence in social landscapes
Reassessing the Scale of Social Action at Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Understanding the social system that developed in and around Chaco Canyon, New Mexico between A.D. 850 and 1150 is essential not only for reconstructions of that period, but also for explanations of subsequent social changes in the northern American Southwest. The size of the residential population of Chaco Canyon has long been recognized as a critical variable in any reconstruction of the Chaco phenomenon. In this study, I propose a method of es…
Reconsidering Spatial and Temporal Aspects of Prehistoric Cultural Identity
Archaeologists have tended to overemphasize spatial and temporal boundaries between social groups at the expense of crosscutting and historical links. This bias is rooted in ethnographic conceptions of cultural identity and fails to make use of the time depth that is archaeology's primary advantage in the study of human behavior. An emphasis on synchronic, bounded spatial units like culture areas has obscured diachronic dimensions of identity, es…
Identity as History
Hopi clan migration traditions appear to hold valuable knowledge about precontact Puebloan life. Some scholars, however, question the historical veracity of these migration stories, noting that small, unilineal, exogamous groups cannot move independently, nor are they likely to have persisted for the hundreds of years necessary to maintain the knowledge attributed to them. Reexamination of the units and mechanisms of information curation underlyi…
Jeddito Yellow Ware and Hopi Social Networks
Hopi villages played important roles in the precontact and contact periods in the American Southwest, but analysis has largely focused on their occupants’ longdistance contacts with non-Hopi populations. Relatively little direct archaeological evidence has been mustered to document intervillage relationships on the Hopi Mesas. The lack of attention to intervillage dynamics risks encouraging an overly homogeneous view of Hopi as a sociopolitical o…
Sight Communities
Research in psychology has established that humans organize spatial information into 'cognitive maps' oriented around visual landmarks. Much of this research focuses on individual cognitive processes such as orienteering and wayfinding. We extend this research to the level of social groups, exploring the degree to which cognitive maps are shared among near and distant neighbors and the social implications of common, overlapping, or discrete cogni…
Kiln Firing Groups
Recent research on trench kilns from the Mesa Verde region of the northern American Southwest (Blinman and Swink 1997) suggests that trench kilns represent collaborative firings by groups of potters. This study presents a method for estimating the sizes of these proposed kiln firing groups. A comparative analysis between firing group sizes and the size of other contemporaneous social units provides insights into socioeconomic relationships betwee…
The Bonito Factor
Pueblo Bonito is the largest and most centrally located great house in Chaco Canyon. One of its most striking attributes is its abundance of “exceptional deposits” of rare and unusual objects. It is unclear, however, whether Pueblo Bonito's assemblage reflects its unique status in the Chaco world or whether it is a product of sampling bias. To answer this question, we use binomial probabilities to interpret the significance of both finding, and o…
Comparing Near Eastern Neolithic Megasites and Southwestern Pueblos
Çatalhöyük and other Near Eastern Neolithic ‘megasites’ are commonly interpreted as exceptional because of their large size and early dates. In this paper, we question exceptional claims about the size and social organization of megasites like Çatalhöyük by comparing them to pueblos in the American Southwest. We argue that Çatalhöyük and other Near Eastern Neolithic megasites are better understood as large villages whose size, layout and social o…
Transitions in Social Organization
Reassessing the Scale of Social Action at Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Understanding the social system that developed in and around Chaco Canyon, New Mexico between A.D. 850 and 1150 is essential not only for reconstructions of that period, but also for explanations of subsequent social changes in the northern American Southwest. The size of the residential population of Chaco Canyon has long been recognized as a critical variable in any reconstruction of the Chaco phenomenon. In this study, I propose a method of es…
Kiln Firing Groups
Recent research on trench kilns from the Mesa Verde region of the northern American Southwest (Blinman and Swink 1997) suggests that trench kilns represent collaborative firings by groups of potters. This study presents a method for estimating the sizes of these proposed kiln firing groups. A comparative analysis between firing group sizes and the size of other contemporaneous social units provides insights into socioeconomic relationships betwee…
The Formation of Settlement Clusters on Anderson Mesa
Hopewell geometric earthworks
Hopewellian Copper Celts from Eastern North America
Reconsidering Spatial and Temporal Aspects of Prehistoric Cultural Identity
Archaeologists have tended to overemphasize spatial and temporal boundaries between social groups at the expense of crosscutting and historical links. This bias is rooted in ethnographic conceptions of cultural identity and fails to make use of the time depth that is archaeology's primary advantage in the study of human behavior. An emphasis on synchronic, bounded spatial units like culture areas has obscured diachronic dimensions of identity, es…
Jeddito Yellow Ware and Hopi Social Networks
Hopi villages played important roles in the precontact and contact periods in the American Southwest, but analysis has largely focused on their occupants’ longdistance contacts with non-Hopi populations. Relatively little direct archaeological evidence has been mustered to document intervillage relationships on the Hopi Mesas. The lack of attention to intervillage dynamics risks encouraging an overly homogeneous view of Hopi as a sociopolitical o…
Identity as History
Hopi clan migration traditions appear to hold valuable knowledge about precontact Puebloan life. Some scholars, however, question the historical veracity of these migration stories, noting that small, unilineal, exogamous groups cannot move independently, nor are they likely to have persisted for the hundreds of years necessary to maintain the knowledge attributed to them. Reexamination of the units and mechanisms of information curation underlyi…
The Orayvi Split
Enduring Motives
examines tradition and religious beliefs as they are expressed in landscape, the built environment, visual symbols, stories, and ritual.Bringing together archaeologists and Native American experts, this volume focuses on long-lived religious traditions of the native peoples of the Americas and how religion codifies, justifies, and reinforces these traditions by placing a high value on continuity of beliefs and practice.Using clues from the archae…
Quantifying visual prominence in social landscapes
Hopi Oral Tradition and the Archaeology of Identity
Native American activists of the civil rights era leveled heavy critiques at archaeology and anthropology for their prior support of colonial legislation and lack of sensitivity towards Native viewpoints. Archaeology in particular was taken to task for the destruction of numerous burial sites and the theft of thousands of Native American bodily remains and cultural items for over a century. The decades-long efforts by Native Americans and their n…
The Non-Diagnostic Sherd Problem
Although ceramic types are applied most commonly to sherds (simply because of their abundance), most typologies have been derived at least in part from patterns of attribute covariation on whole vessels. As a result, one typological concern is the “non-diagnostic sherd problem,” where only a fraction of the sherds deriving from a whole vessel share all of the attributes of that vessel. This paper assesses the severity of the non-diagnostic sherd …
Sight Communities
Research in psychology has established that humans organize spatial information into 'cognitive maps' oriented around visual landmarks. Much of this research focuses on individual cognitive processes such as orienteering and wayfinding. We extend this research to the level of social groups, exploring the degree to which cognitive maps are shared among near and distant neighbors and the social implications of common, overlapping, or discrete cogni…
Hopi History Prior to 1600
The Hopi region is an iconic “tribal” society of the Southwest, with geographic and cultural continuity stretching back more than a millennium. The tribe has been the subject of ethnographic and archaeological study for more than 100 years, featuring a uniquely long-running dialogue with oral tradition and blurring of boundaries between ethnography and archaeology. The Hopi population stems from a combination of local groups and diverse immigrant…
Comparing Near Eastern Neolithic Megasites and Southwestern Pueblos
Çatalhöyük and other Near Eastern Neolithic ‘megasites’ are commonly interpreted as exceptional because of their large size and early dates. In this paper, we question exceptional claims about the size and social organization of megasites like Çatalhöyük by comparing them to pueblos in the American Southwest. We argue that Çatalhöyük and other Near Eastern Neolithic megasites are better understood as large villages whose size, layout and social o…
The Bonito Factor
Pueblo Bonito is the largest and most centrally located great house in Chaco Canyon. One of its most striking attributes is its abundance of “exceptional deposits” of rare and unusual objects. It is unclear, however, whether Pueblo Bonito's assemblage reflects its unique status in the Chaco world or whether it is a product of sampling bias. To answer this question, we use binomial probabilities to interpret the significance of both finding, and o…
Geography (15 works) · Archaeology (13 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (10 works) · History (9 works) · Anthropology (8 works) · Demography (6 works) · Hopi (6 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (5 works)