Hopewell Bladelets: A Bayesian Radiocarbon Analysis

Miller, Glen P.

doi:10.1017/aaq.2017.64

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“…). Finally, they are using Bayesian modeling in free computer platforms to refine absolute chronologies to an unprecedented degree—a second radiocarbon revolution (e.g., Fitzpatrick and Jew ; Hamilton and Krus ; Lulewicz ; Miller ; Otárola‐Castillo et al. ).…”

Section: Methodological and Epistemological Advancesmentioning

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New Digs: Networks, Assemblages, and the Dissolution of Binary Categories in Anthropological Archaeology

Kosiba

2019

American Anthropologist

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Anthropological archaeology has long been a process of categorization. The history of the subdiscipline could be rendered in terms of an ongoing project to create, critique, and then refashion the categories by which archaeologists understand and explain social and ecological processes. Despite ever-changing theoretical tides, many archaeologists have continued to adhere to a lingua franca that demarcates their object of study, whether "the past," "nature," complexity, material culture, or historical knowledge. In 2018, strong currents in archaeological scholarship have both challenged and washed out the boundaries of many of these epistemological mainstays. This was more than a postmodern exercise to question metanarratives of history or to destabilize supposed social universals. The recent scholarship develops innovative theoretical perspectives and sophisticated methodological tools to shed light on the varied human interactions, practices, and projects that were previously occluded by research too sharply focused on bounded categories such as periods, polities, adaptations, and meanings. Furthermore, archaeologists are now more than ever critically examining the colonial institutions that they perpetuate and seeking to establish new common ground with Indigenous communities. A decidedly archaeological perspective seems to be taking shape.This is a view that sees social life from the ground up in terms of complicated relationships between people, things, and other organisms that cannot be reduced to catchall categories. [year in review, archaeology, archaeological theory, current issues, Indigenous archaeology, environmental anthropology] RESUMEN La arqueología antropológica ha sido durante mucho tiempo un proceso de categorización. La historia de la subdisciplina podría ser descrita en términos de un proyecto continuo de crear, criticar y luego rehacer las categorías a través de las cuales los arqueólogos entienden y explican los procesos sociales y ecológicos. A pesar de las mareas teóricas siempre cambiantes, muchos arqueólogos han continuado adhiriéndose a una lengua franca que demarca su objeto de estudio, ya sea "el pasado", "naturaleza", complejidad, cultura material o conocimiento histórico.En 2018, corrientes fuertes en la investigación arqueológica han tanto retado como difuminado los límites de muchos de los pilares epistemológicos. Esto fue más que un ejercicio posmoderno para cuestionar metanarrativas de la historia o para desestabilizar supuestos universales sociales. La reciente investigación desarrolla perspectivas teóricas innovadoras y herramientas metodológicas sofisticadas para arrojar luz sobre las variadas interacciones humanas, prácticas y proyectos que estuvieron previamente ocluidos por investigación excesivamente enfocada en categorías delimitadas tales como períodos, unidades políticas, adaptaciones y significados. Además, los arqueólogos ahora están más que nunca examinando críticamente las instituciones coloniales que perpetúan y buscando establecer un nuevo terreno común con las c...

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Section: Methodological and Epistemological Advancesmentioning

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New Digs: Networks, Assemblages, and the Dissolution of Binary Categories in Anthropological Archaeology

Kosiba

2019

American Anthropologist

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“…3.Miller (2018) dates a single artifact class—the prismatic blade—and assumes it dates the Ohio Hopewell episode. Bladelets may extend in time somewhat beyond the bounds of Ohio Hopewell temporally and into the Newtown phase of the Late Woodland period (Pollack and Henderson 2000:627; Seeman and Dancey 2000:589; see also Kimball et al 2010; Redmond and McCullough 2000; Stezewski 2014), something Miller notes in later work (2020:239).…”

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Building the Ohio Hopewell Chronology: An Incremental Approach to Historical Reckoning

Seeman

Nolan

2023

Am. Antiq.

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Ohio Hopewell is an archaeological concept that is known worldwide but that suffers from “a disarray of radiocarbon results” (Lynott 2015:60). Here, we establish a comprehensive dataset of 425 14C dates from Ohio Hopewell sites and apply formal chronometric hygiene criteria to all dates. We then iteratively assess the temporal placement and span of the six most important Ohio Hopewell sites—the Hopewell Mound Group, Liberty, Mound City, Seip, Tremper, and Turner. A staged relaxation of hygiene criteria for our best three categories (Classes 1–3) permits alternate but generally consistent conclusions. As the first large-scale analyses of Ohio Hopewell temporality since the publication of IntCal20 (Reimer et al. 2020), the available data show a ritual complex that begins 90 or more years later than generally has been recognized circa 2010 14C BP, or as Bayesian modeled, AD 90–120. Our analysis reveals site histories of differing spans, more late dates than early dates, and with most Hopewell activity ending across these sites circa 1640 14C BP, or as Bayesian modeled, AD 395–430. An increased consideration of contingency in contemporary temporal reckoning increases the utility of the historical narratives that we as archaeologists can construct.

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“…American archaeologists have indeed embraced new advances in Bayesian chronological modeling, establishing absolute chronologies for sites, regions, events, and trends independently of, or formally in conjunction with, materially established chronologies (e.g., Abel et al 2019; Brown et al 2019; Cobb et al 2015; Hart and Brumbach 2005; Krus and Cobb 2018; Lulewicz 2019a; Marquardt et al 2020; Miller 2018; Ritchison 2018; Thompson and Krus 2018; Thulman 2019). Such efforts, however, remain difficult for exploring European colonization.…”

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Enduring Traditions and the (Im)materiality of Early Colonial Encounters in the Southeastern United States

Holland‐Lulewicz

Thompson

Wettstaed³

et al. 2020

Am. Antiq.

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Hernando de Soto's expedition through the southeastern United States between 1539 and 1543 is often regarded as a watershed moment for the collapse of Indigenous societies across the region. Historical narratives have proposed that extreme depopulation as a result of early contact destabilized Indigenous economies, politics, networks, and traditions. Although processes of depopulation and transformation were certainly set in motion by this and earlier colonial encounters, the timing, temporality, and heterogeneous rhythms of postcontact Indigenous histories remain unclear. Through the integration of radiocarbon and archaeological data from the Mississippian earthen platform mound at Dyar (9GE5) in central Georgia, we present a case of Indigenous endurance and resilience in the Oconee Valley that has long been obfuscated by materially based chronologies and typologies. Bayesian chronological modeling suggests that Indigenous Mississippian traditions persisted for up to 130 years beyond contact with European colonizers. We argue that advances in modeling radiocarbon dates, along with meaningful consultation/collaboration with descendant communities, can contribute to efforts that move us beyond a reliance on materially based chronologies that can distort and erase Indigenous histories.

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Hopewell Bladelets: A Bayesian Radiocarbon Analysis

Cited by 16 publications

References 39 publications

New Digs: Networks, Assemblages, and the Dissolution of Binary Categories in Anthropological Archaeology

New Digs: Networks, Assemblages, and the Dissolution of Binary Categories in Anthropological Archaeology

Building the Ohio Hopewell Chronology: An Incremental Approach to Historical Reckoning

Enduring Traditions and the (Im)materiality of Early Colonial Encounters in the Southeastern United States

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