Alex W Barker
Biographic Data
| ID | 97892 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex W Barker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex W |
| FAMILY NAME | Barker |
| SIGNATURE | BARKER A W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6255-0647 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 137 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
North America (USA and Canada): Museums
The Predatory Present
Resolution
Looking Back
A Repository for the Common Good
Looting, the Antiquities Trade, and Competing Valuations of the Past
Looting and spoliation of archaeological sites represent a known crisis in many parts of the world, and it is widely acknowledged that despite what we know about the scale of site destruction, the reality is worse. Available evidence suggests that the scale and severity of looting are increasing. Legal and ethical remedies exist but have not proven adequate to reduce the impact of looting and antiquities trafficking. This reflects, in part, inade…
In Whose Honor/In Whose Time? Regimes of Historicity and the Debate over Confederate Monuments
Museums and Restitution: New Practices, New Approaches (Tythacott and Arvanitis, eds.)
This work is a book review considering the title Museums and Restitution: New Practices, New Approaches edited by Louis Tythacott and Kostas Arvanitis
Evidence for Holocene Aeolian Activity at the Close of the Middle Bronze Age in the Eastern Carpathian Basin: Geoarchaeological Results from the Mureş River Valley, Romania
While extensive Pleistocene loess deposits have been identified across Eurasia, Holocene age loess (typically nonglaciogenic) is rarely recognized. We explore possible loess deposits in the Mureş River Valley of western Romania, providing a regional signal of increased aridity during the mid‐late Holocene. This proposed aridity may be responsible for the abandonment of Middle Bronze Age tell settlements along the major drainages of the eastern Ca…
Continuing Dilemmas and Dialogue: An Update on the AAA Code of Ethics Review
Exhibiting Archaeology: Archaeology and Museums
From their beginnings, archaeology museums have reflected a complex and dynamic balance between the demands of developing, documenting, and preserving objects on the one hand and sharing knowledge, access, and control on the other. This balance has informed and inflected the ways that museums present the past, including both practical aspects of pedagogy and exhibition design as well as more critical and contested issues of authority, authenticit…
An Association‐Wide Ethics Discussion
Lisa Frink is contributing editor of “Ethical Currents”, the AAA Committee on Ethics column in Anthropology News
Guidelines for the Responsible Acquisition of Antiquities and Cultural Property
Building a US Committee of the Blue Shield to Protect Cultural Property in the Event of the Armed Conflict
Perspectives on the philosophical foundations of archaeological ethics
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Council for Museum Anthropology
Mesoamerican Origin for an Obsidian Scraper from the Precolumbian Southeastern United States
EDXRF analysis of an obsidian scraper from the Spiro Mounds, Oklahoma, shows that the source material was from Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico. Given the distinctive peralkaline character of the obsidian, the source assignment is considered extremely secure. The artifact was recovered from the east tunnel of Craig Mound, Spiro, immediately after the cessation of commercial digging in 1935, and has been in the Smithsonian's collections since 1937. Despit…
On the Pleistocene Antiquity of Monte Verde, Southern Chile
The potential importance of the Monte Verde site for the peopling of the New World prompted a detailed examination of the collections from that locality, as well as a site visit in January 1997 by a group of Paleoindian specialists. It is the consensus of that group that the MV-II occupation at the site is both archaeological and 12,500 years old, as T. Dillehay has argued. The status of the potentially even older material at the site (MV-1, ∼ 33…
A Gendered Past: A Critical Bibliography of Gender in Archaeology
Lords of the Southeast: Social Inequality and the Native Elites of Southeastern North America
Powhatan's Pursestrings: On the Meaning of Surplus in a Seventeenth Century Algonkian Chiefdom
The implicit tension in chiefly economies-between a political economy predicated on surplus supplied by a domestic economy content with sufficiency-is explored, and an example of its political and processual consequences discussed. Comparison of ethnohistoric narratives with estimation of annual agricultural production for the seventeenth century Powhatan chiefdom suggests that the expansion and increasing complexity of the Powhatan political sys…
Introduction: Social Inequality and the Native Elites of Southeastern North America
On the Pleistocene Antiquity of Monte Verde, Southern Chile
The potential importance of the Monte Verde site for the peopling of the New World prompted a detailed examination of the collections from that locality, as well as a site visit in January 1997 by a group of Paleoindian specialists. It is the consensus of that group that the MV-II occupation at the site is both archaeological and 12,500 years old, as T. Dillehay has argued. The status of the potentially even older material at the site (MV-1, ∼ 33…
Mesoamerican Origin for an Obsidian Scraper from the Precolumbian Southeastern United States
EDXRF analysis of an obsidian scraper from the Spiro Mounds, Oklahoma, shows that the source material was from Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico. Given the distinctive peralkaline character of the obsidian, the source assignment is considered extremely secure. The artifact was recovered from the east tunnel of Craig Mound, Spiro, immediately after the cessation of commercial digging in 1935, and has been in the Smithsonian's collections since 1937. Despit…
Exhibiting Archaeology: Archaeology and Museums
From their beginnings, archaeology museums have reflected a complex and dynamic balance between the demands of developing, documenting, and preserving objects on the one hand and sharing knowledge, access, and control on the other. This balance has informed and inflected the ways that museums present the past, including both practical aspects of pedagogy and exhibition design as well as more critical and contested issues of authority, authenticit…
Looting, the Antiquities Trade, and Competing Valuations of the Past
Looting and spoliation of archaeological sites represent a known crisis in many parts of the world, and it is widely acknowledged that despite what we know about the scale of site destruction, the reality is worse. Available evidence suggests that the scale and severity of looting are increasing. Legal and ethical remedies exist but have not proven adequate to reduce the impact of looting and antiquities trafficking. This reflects, in part, inade…
In Whose Honor/In Whose Time? Regimes of Historicity and the Debate over Confederate Monuments
Evidence for Holocene Aeolian Activity at the Close of the Middle Bronze Age in the Eastern Carpathian Basin: Geoarchaeological Results from the Mureş River Valley, Romania
While extensive Pleistocene loess deposits have been identified across Eurasia, Holocene age loess (typically nonglaciogenic) is rarely recognized. We explore possible loess deposits in the Mureş River Valley of western Romania, providing a regional signal of increased aridity during the mid‐late Holocene. This proposed aridity may be responsible for the abandonment of Middle Bronze Age tell settlements along the major drainages of the eastern Ca…
The Predatory Present
Guidelines for the Responsible Acquisition of Antiquities and Cultural Property
Lords of the Southeast: Social Inequality and the Native Elites of Southeastern North America
Powhatan's Pursestrings: On the Meaning of Surplus in a Seventeenth Century Algonkian Chiefdom
The implicit tension in chiefly economies-between a political economy predicated on surplus supplied by a domestic economy content with sufficiency-is explored, and an example of its political and processual consequences discussed. Comparison of ethnohistoric narratives with estimation of annual agricultural production for the seventeenth century Powhatan chiefdom suggests that the expansion and increasing complexity of the Powhatan political sys…
Introduction: Social Inequality and the Native Elites of Southeastern North America
Powhatan's Pursestrings: On the Meaning of Surplus in a Seventeenth Century Algonkian Chiefdom
The implicit tension in chiefly economies-between a political economy predicated on surplus supplied by a domestic economy content with sufficiency-is explored, and an example of its political and processual consequences discussed. Comparison of ethnohistoric narratives with estimation of annual agricultural production for the seventeenth century Powhatan chiefdom suggests that the expansion and increasing complexity of the Powhatan political sys…
Introduction: Social Inequality and the Native Elites of Southeastern North America
Lords of the Southeast: Social Inequality and the Native Elites of Southeastern North America
A Gendered Past: A Critical Bibliography of Gender in Archaeology
On the Pleistocene Antiquity of Monte Verde, Southern Chile
The potential importance of the Monte Verde site for the peopling of the New World prompted a detailed examination of the collections from that locality, as well as a site visit in January 1997 by a group of Paleoindian specialists. It is the consensus of that group that the MV-II occupation at the site is both archaeological and 12,500 years old, as T. Dillehay has argued. The status of the potentially even older material at the site (MV-1, ∼ 33…
Mesoamerican Origin for an Obsidian Scraper from the Precolumbian Southeastern United States
EDXRF analysis of an obsidian scraper from the Spiro Mounds, Oklahoma, shows that the source material was from Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico. Given the distinctive peralkaline character of the obsidian, the source assignment is considered extremely secure. The artifact was recovered from the east tunnel of Craig Mound, Spiro, immediately after the cessation of commercial digging in 1935, and has been in the Smithsonian's collections since 1937. Despit…
Council for Museum Anthropology
Perspectives on the philosophical foundations of archaeological ethics
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Guidelines for the Responsible Acquisition of Antiquities and Cultural Property
Building a US Committee of the Blue Shield to Protect Cultural Property in the Event of the Armed Conflict
An Association‐Wide Ethics Discussion
Lisa Frink is contributing editor of “Ethical Currents”, the AAA Committee on Ethics column in Anthropology News
Continuing Dilemmas and Dialogue: An Update on the AAA Code of Ethics Review
Exhibiting Archaeology: Archaeology and Museums
From their beginnings, archaeology museums have reflected a complex and dynamic balance between the demands of developing, documenting, and preserving objects on the one hand and sharing knowledge, access, and control on the other. This balance has informed and inflected the ways that museums present the past, including both practical aspects of pedagogy and exhibition design as well as more critical and contested issues of authority, authenticit…
Evidence for Holocene Aeolian Activity at the Close of the Middle Bronze Age in the Eastern Carpathian Basin: Geoarchaeological Results from the Mureş River Valley, Romania
While extensive Pleistocene loess deposits have been identified across Eurasia, Holocene age loess (typically nonglaciogenic) is rarely recognized. We explore possible loess deposits in the Mureş River Valley of western Romania, providing a regional signal of increased aridity during the mid‐late Holocene. This proposed aridity may be responsible for the abandonment of Middle Bronze Age tell settlements along the major drainages of the eastern Ca…
Museums and Restitution: New Practices, New Approaches (Tythacott and Arvanitis, eds.)
This work is a book review considering the title Museums and Restitution: New Practices, New Approaches edited by Louis Tythacott and Kostas Arvanitis
A Repository for the Common Good
Looting, the Antiquities Trade, and Competing Valuations of the Past
Looting and spoliation of archaeological sites represent a known crisis in many parts of the world, and it is widely acknowledged that despite what we know about the scale of site destruction, the reality is worse. Available evidence suggests that the scale and severity of looting are increasing. Legal and ethical remedies exist but have not proven adequate to reduce the impact of looting and antiquities trafficking. This reflects, in part, inade…
In Whose Honor/In Whose Time? Regimes of Historicity and the Debate over Confederate Monuments
Resolution
Looking Back
North America (USA and Canada): Museums
The Predatory Present
History (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Citation (8 works) · History (7 works) · Library science (7 works) · Geography (6 works)