Samantha G Fladd
Biographic Data
| ID | 3642342 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samantha G Fladd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samantha G |
| FAMILY NAME | Fladd |
| SIGNATURE | FLADD S G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4575-3474 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Writing Together About the American Southwest
Research that results in coauthored publications provides invaluable benefits to individual careers, bolstering applications for jobs, promotions, and funding. Building on studies that demonstrate that men publish at higher frequencies than women, we consider how coauthorship may influence disparities in women’s publication records in Southwest archaeology. A detailed consideration of coauthorship trends reveals both men and women lead authors co…
Who Writes about Southwest Archaeology? Gendered Authorship and Publication Trends
Studies of gender and authorship in archaeology have been widespread in recent decades, all showing that women persistently publish less often than their peers. Targeted analyses of authorship trends within various specialties, either regional or methodological, suggest some offer more welcoming environments for women than others. In this paper, we expand the coverage of archaeological specialties to consider authorship in Southwest archaeology. …
Beyond Leaky Pipelines
Gender inequality carries high social costs, and understanding its causes and consequences remains a pressing concern. Numerous policymakers and academics have taken on this challenge, including anthropological archaeologists. Because archaeologists create narratives about the past that can justify or question current and future actions, contemporary archaeological practice impacts everyone. This themed issue builds on recent documentations of di…
The Names We Know
Authorship metrics are a key component of academic advancement. Given recent increases in the publication of collaborative, multiauthored articles, we examine patterns in the perceived gender of authors of peer-reviewed journal articles with five or more coauthors in 11 academic archaeology journals. Our results suggest consistent patterns in lead and last authors and in coauthors. Men are more likely to serve as both lead and last authors and to…
From Leaky Pipelines to Watering Cans
Despite improvement over the past few decades, particularly for white, cisgender women, intersectional gender-based inequality remains prominent within anthropological archaeology and beyond. Building on critiques of the leaky pipeline metaphor laid out in the introduction to this themed issue, and drawing on Black, Indigenous, and Posthumanist Feminisms, we advocate for a metaphorical shift focused on care, inclusivity, and diversity—that of a g…
The Social Construction of Backdirt in Chaco Archaeology
Archaeologists routinely create backdirt during excavation, but it is rarely acknowledged and remains surprisingly undertheorized. In this paper, we treat backdirt as a uniquely archaeological product that is socially constructed and guided by culturally and historically situated motivations. Using Chaco Canyon as a case study, we examine the ways in which project priorities changed over nearly 150 years of excavation and (more recently) re-excav…
The Greater Chaco Landscape
Journal Article The Greater Chaco Landscape: Ancestors, Scholarship, and Advocacy. Edited by Ruth M. Van Dyke and Carrie C. Heitman Get access The Greater Chaco Landscape: Ancestors, Scholarship, and Advocacy. Edited by Ruth M. Van Dyke and Carrie C. Heitman (Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2021. xix + 368 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, references, index. $41.95, paper.) Samantha G Fladd Samantha G Fladd University of Colorado–…
Symbolic Associations
Trash reconsidered
Miniature in Everything but Meaning
Miniature in Everything but Meaning
The most common explanations for the appearance of miniatures in the archaeological record are drawn from practice theory. Two alternatives stem from learning theories, while a third is based in ritual practice and performance. First, miniatures may represent early attempts at craft production by children or novice adults. Second, they could serve as children's toys used for enculturation purposes. Third, miniatures may be produced for use in rit…
Ritual Fauna and Social Organization at Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon
Chaco Canyon served as a regional center for the Northern U.S. Southwest from AD 850–1130. Reconstructions of the social organization of great houses within the canyon have varied, with models alternately drawing on ethnographically described “Eastern” (predominantly moiety-based) or “Western” (predominantly clan-based) Pueblo organizational systems. Ethnographic research demonstrates the significance of animals in Pueblo social and ritual life, …
Water uncertainty, ritual predictability and agricultural canals at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
The Pueblo population of Chaco Canyon during the Bonito Phase (AD 800–1130) employed agricultural strategies and water-management systems to enhance food cultivation in this unpredictable environment. Scepticism concerning the timing and effectiveness of this system, however, remains common. Using optically stimulated luminescence dating of sediments and LiDAR imaging, the authors located Bonito Phase canal features at the far west end of the can…
Social syntax
Micro-flotation removal of coal contaminants from archaeological radiocarbon samples from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, USA
Composition and interpretation of stratified deposits in ancestral Hopi villages at Homol'ovi
Evaluating soil salinity and water management in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Ritual Fauna and Social Organization at Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon
Chaco Canyon served as a regional center for the Northern U.S. Southwest from AD 850–1130. Reconstructions of the social organization of great houses within the canyon have varied, with models alternately drawing on ethnographically described “Eastern” (predominantly moiety-based) or “Western” (predominantly clan-based) Pueblo organizational systems. Ethnographic research demonstrates the significance of animals in Pueblo social and ritual life, …
Water uncertainty, ritual predictability and agricultural canals at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
The Pueblo population of Chaco Canyon during the Bonito Phase (AD 800–1130) employed agricultural strategies and water-management systems to enhance food cultivation in this unpredictable environment. Scepticism concerning the timing and effectiveness of this system, however, remains common. Using optically stimulated luminescence dating of sediments and LiDAR imaging, the authors located Bonito Phase canal features at the far west end of the can…
Composition and interpretation of stratified deposits in ancestral Hopi villages at Homol'ovi
Miniature in Everything but Meaning
The most common explanations for the appearance of miniatures in the archaeological record are drawn from practice theory. Two alternatives stem from learning theories, while a third is based in ritual practice and performance. First, miniatures may represent early attempts at craft production by children or novice adults. Second, they could serve as children's toys used for enculturation purposes. Third, miniatures may be produced for use in rit…
Evaluating soil salinity and water management in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Trash reconsidered
Micro-flotation removal of coal contaminants from archaeological radiocarbon samples from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, USA
The Social Construction of Backdirt in Chaco Archaeology
Archaeologists routinely create backdirt during excavation, but it is rarely acknowledged and remains surprisingly undertheorized. In this paper, we treat backdirt as a uniquely archaeological product that is socially constructed and guided by culturally and historically situated motivations. Using Chaco Canyon as a case study, we examine the ways in which project priorities changed over nearly 150 years of excavation and (more recently) re-excav…
Evaluating soil salinity and water management in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Social syntax
Micro-flotation removal of coal contaminants from archaeological radiocarbon samples from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, USA
Composition and interpretation of stratified deposits in ancestral Hopi villages at Homol'ovi
Ritual Fauna and Social Organization at Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon
Chaco Canyon served as a regional center for the Northern U.S. Southwest from AD 850–1130. Reconstructions of the social organization of great houses within the canyon have varied, with models alternately drawing on ethnographically described “Eastern” (predominantly moiety-based) or “Western” (predominantly clan-based) Pueblo organizational systems. Ethnographic research demonstrates the significance of animals in Pueblo social and ritual life, …
Water uncertainty, ritual predictability and agricultural canals at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
The Pueblo population of Chaco Canyon during the Bonito Phase (AD 800–1130) employed agricultural strategies and water-management systems to enhance food cultivation in this unpredictable environment. Scepticism concerning the timing and effectiveness of this system, however, remains common. Using optically stimulated luminescence dating of sediments and LiDAR imaging, the authors located Bonito Phase canal features at the far west end of the can…
Miniature in Everything but Meaning
Miniature in Everything but Meaning
The most common explanations for the appearance of miniatures in the archaeological record are drawn from practice theory. Two alternatives stem from learning theories, while a third is based in ritual practice and performance. First, miniatures may represent early attempts at craft production by children or novice adults. Second, they could serve as children's toys used for enculturation purposes. Third, miniatures may be produced for use in rit…
Symbolic Associations
Trash reconsidered
The Greater Chaco Landscape
Journal Article The Greater Chaco Landscape: Ancestors, Scholarship, and Advocacy. Edited by Ruth M. Van Dyke and Carrie C. Heitman Get access The Greater Chaco Landscape: Ancestors, Scholarship, and Advocacy. Edited by Ruth M. Van Dyke and Carrie C. Heitman (Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2021. xix + 368 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, references, index. $41.95, paper.) Samantha G Fladd Samantha G Fladd University of Colorado–…
The Social Construction of Backdirt in Chaco Archaeology
Archaeologists routinely create backdirt during excavation, but it is rarely acknowledged and remains surprisingly undertheorized. In this paper, we treat backdirt as a uniquely archaeological product that is socially constructed and guided by culturally and historically situated motivations. Using Chaco Canyon as a case study, we examine the ways in which project priorities changed over nearly 150 years of excavation and (more recently) re-excav…
Writing Together About the American Southwest
Research that results in coauthored publications provides invaluable benefits to individual careers, bolstering applications for jobs, promotions, and funding. Building on studies that demonstrate that men publish at higher frequencies than women, we consider how coauthorship may influence disparities in women’s publication records in Southwest archaeology. A detailed consideration of coauthorship trends reveals both men and women lead authors co…
Who Writes about Southwest Archaeology? Gendered Authorship and Publication Trends
Studies of gender and authorship in archaeology have been widespread in recent decades, all showing that women persistently publish less often than their peers. Targeted analyses of authorship trends within various specialties, either regional or methodological, suggest some offer more welcoming environments for women than others. In this paper, we expand the coverage of archaeological specialties to consider authorship in Southwest archaeology. …
Beyond Leaky Pipelines
Gender inequality carries high social costs, and understanding its causes and consequences remains a pressing concern. Numerous policymakers and academics have taken on this challenge, including anthropological archaeologists. Because archaeologists create narratives about the past that can justify or question current and future actions, contemporary archaeological practice impacts everyone. This themed issue builds on recent documentations of di…
The Names We Know
Authorship metrics are a key component of academic advancement. Given recent increases in the publication of collaborative, multiauthored articles, we examine patterns in the perceived gender of authors of peer-reviewed journal articles with five or more coauthors in 11 academic archaeology journals. Our results suggest consistent patterns in lead and last authors and in coauthors. Men are more likely to serve as both lead and last authors and to…
From Leaky Pipelines to Watering Cans
Despite improvement over the past few decades, particularly for white, cisgender women, intersectional gender-based inequality remains prominent within anthropological archaeology and beyond. Building on critiques of the leaky pipeline metaphor laid out in the introduction to this themed issue, and drawing on Black, Indigenous, and Posthumanist Feminisms, we advocate for a metaphorical shift focused on care, inclusivity, and diversity—that of a g…
Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (10 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · History (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (5 works) · Canyon (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Geology (4 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (3 works)