Lisa C Young
University of Michigan, Anthropology, Faculty Member
- University of Arizona, Arizona State Museum, Department Memberadd
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In the northern Southwest, archaeologists generally examine the pithouse-to-pueblo transition as a sequential change, with pueblos replacing pithouses by A.D. 1000, and argue that it reflects a fundamental reorganization of farming... more
In the northern Southwest, archaeologists generally examine the pithouse-to-pueblo transition as a sequential change, with pueblos replacing pithouses by A.D. 1000, and argue that it reflects a fundamental reorganization of farming communities. However, in some areas, such as Homol’ovi in northeastern Arizona, pithouses continued to be inhabited into the second millennium A.D. This article examines whether the differences in the organization of pithouse and pueblo communities identified during the earlier pithouse-to-pueblo transition also existed in twelfth- and early- thirteenth- century A.D. pithouse and pueblo sites in the Homol’ovi area by comparing networks of ceramic exchange.
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Generally, scholars treat the pithouse-to-pueblo transition as a sequential change. However, in some areas, such as Homol’ovi in northeastern Arizona, pithouses were used until the early 1200s, just prior to the period of Pueblo... more
Generally, scholars treat the pithouse-to-pueblo transition as a sequential change. However, in some areas, such as Homol’ovi in northeastern Arizona, pithouses were used until the early 1200s, just prior to the period of Pueblo aggregation. This research compares the ceramic assemblages from a pithouse village and a roughly contemporaneous neighboring pueblo to examine the exchange networks used by the residents of these two settlements. This comparison provides insights into the complex relationships that residents of pithouse and pueblo communities had with their neighbors of northeastern Arizona, revealing the exchange networks used by residents of both sites to acquire ceramic vessels.
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Poster presented at the 2015 Association for Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museum in Washington DC Conversations about collections with communities usually occur in museum spaces. In this poster we discuss how a University of... more
Poster presented at the 2015 Association for Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museum in Washington DC
Conversations about collections with communities usually occur in museum spaces. In this poster we discuss how a University of Michigan course project involving digital technology reconnected contemporary Hopi farmers with agricultural seeds collected in 1935. With a digital archive of the collection and videoconferencing meetings between students and Hopi community members, we created a different information sharing environment. We describe the techniques used to create on-line learning opportunities and what we learned from the experience.
Conversations about collections with communities usually occur in museum spaces. In this poster we discuss how a University of Michigan course project involving digital technology reconnected contemporary Hopi farmers with agricultural seeds collected in 1935. With a digital archive of the collection and videoconferencing meetings between students and Hopi community members, we created a different information sharing environment. We describe the techniques used to create on-line learning opportunities and what we learned from the experience.