Magazine article
Generationally-Linked Archaeology
The SAA archaeological record, Vol.18(5), pp.9-13
11/2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000006402
Abstract
The research involved the efforts of a wet archaeological site specialist (Dale Croes) and a Master Basketmaker and Elder from the Suquamish Tribe (Ed Carriere), who joined together to replicate and scientifically analyze the 2,000-year-old basketry collection from the Biderbost wet site, Snoqualmie Tribal Territory, housed at the University of Washington (UW) Burke Museum Archaeology Program (Figure 1). Working on this analysis and replication project over the past four years, we concluded that it was not enough to call this a case of Experimental Archaeology; we describe our work as a new approach termed Generationally-Linked Archaeology, an approach that chronologically connects from both directions, linking contemporary cultural specialists with ancient and ancestral basketmakers through the science of archaeology. We present our approach here after publicly presenting our efforts to both indigenous and scientific archaeological audiences, including Native peoples at the Northwest Native American Basketweavers Association, Indigenous Ainu of northern Japan, and at a National Maori Weavers conference in New Zealand, and to archaeological scientists at two annual SAA conferences, the Wetland Archaeological Research Project (WARP) 30th Anniversary Conference in Bradford, England, and a Wetland Archaeology Conference in central France.
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- Title
- Generationally-Linked Archaeology
- Creators
- Dale R. Croes (Author) - Washington State University, Anthropology, Department ofEd Carriere (Author)Darby C Stapp (Author)
- Publication Details
- The SAA archaeological record, Vol.18(5), pp.9-13
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology, Department of
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Identifiers
- 99901096731401842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Magazine article