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Tactile Encounters and the Ephemerality of the Graffiti Image
(2020-11-05)The use of new materials such as stickers, posters, and stencils has transformed how graffiti (or if you prefer street art) is made in the public spaces of Barcelona. In this article, I explore the practice of graffiti in ... -
Tell Hadidi and Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence Analysis: Are There Ceramic Geochemical Signatures?
(2020-11-03)X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis using a portable analyzer is a non-destructive technology with the potential to answer many questions about ancient ceramics. This paper presents the results of a preliminary study on a ... -
The Application of NextEngine Scanning Technology to Commingled Skeletal Analysis at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery: A Replicable Method for Restoring Individuality
(2020-11-05)The analysis and subsequent disentanglement of human skeletal elements from commingled or mixed burial contexts is an essential step in creating individual identifications of those individuals represented in these burials. ... -
The Boundaries of Watchdog Journalism at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
(2020-11-05)In the early 21st century, daily newspapers across the United States struggled with how to respond to economic and technological pressures. Using ethnographic methods, this article explores one newspaper’s—the Milwaukee ... -
The Burials at Cheshmeh Ali and Rayy: The Excavations of Erich Schmidt 1934 – 1936
(2020-11-03)The Iranian site of Cheshmeh-Ali / Reyy was excavated in the 1930s by Erich Schmidt in association with the Oriental Institute and the University of Pennsylvania. Schmidt was simultaneously working on several other significant ... -
The Fall of Etowah, A.D. 1375: Warfare in the Iconographic Record
(2020-11-03)The Etowah site, located in Northwestern Georgia, was the home of a Mississippian period chiefdom that rose to prominence very rapidly during the Wilbanks phase. Using artifacts from the elite mortuary of Mound C, iconographers ... -
The Global Financial Crisis, Austerity, and Mental Health: The Case of Walker’s Wisconsin
(2020-11-05)A case study of health care in Wisconsin under Governor Walker is presented in order to explore some effects of austerity in the United States. The case study follows the trajectory of rhetoric employed by the Walker ... -
The Journey of a Hopewell Site Artifact: Bear Canine with Inlaid Pearl at the Milwaukee Public Museum
(2021-06-25)The archaeological excavations conducted by Warren K. Moorehead at the Hopewell site of Ross County, Ohio resulted in the removal of hundreds of thousands of ancient Native American objects. Crafted during the Middle ... -
The Multiple Temporalities of a Burial Monument: The Tumulus at Hrib
(2020-11-13)Tumuli are often analyzed as a coherent whole in the hope of discerning patterns that indicate social processes inhered in the monument. However, in the search for patterning too often the mound is analytically flattened, ... -
The North American Fur Trade World System
(2020-11-03)The fur trade played an important role in determining the nature of the European-Native American relations. It acted as the framework for a developing world system, in which the European powers eventually formed multiple ... -
The Toggle & Indigenous Iron Age Glass Production in Ireland
(2020-11-03)The study of beads in archaeological contexts is a significant part of the reconstruction of material culture, used for tracing trade contacts, and in the study of ornament as a visual language (Cohn 1959: 77). As portable ... -
Throw Me a Bone! Modeling Meat Sharing Behaviors in Western Great Basin Households During the Late Archaic
(2020-11-13)Sharing is a common hunter-gatherer behavior, especially as it applies to faunal resources. Ethnoarchaeologists have documented the archaeological visibility of sharing behaviors. Methods exist by which to infer sharing ... -
Tri-Nodal Social Entanglements in Iron Age Sicily: Material and Social Transformation
(2020-11-13)Indigenous Iron Age Sicilian populations underwent a series of complex social transformations following the establishment of neighboring Greek and Phoenician trade posts in the eighth through fifth centuries BC. This paper ... -
Triangle Points and the Upper Mississippians: Oneota and Fort Ancient Typologies
(2020-11-03)The Fort Ancient and Oneota cultures have long been noted for their similarities. It is my intent to analyze the stone tools from two sites crossculturally to determine whether these similarities exist beyond the superficial ... -
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Vulture Scavenging of Pig Remains at Varying Grave Depths
(2020-11-05)Vulture Scavenging of Pig Remains at Varying Grave DepthsFrom November 2012 to January 2013, four pig carcasses (Sus scrofa) were buried at varying shallow grave depths at the Forensic Anthropology Research Facility at ... -
Waking the Dead, Speaking to the Living: The Display of Human Remains in Museums
(2021-06-25)Artifacts are immensely powerful aids in telling stories from the past, yet it is the dead persons of past eras who accrued a host of ethical and legal issues. This article discusses several perspectives on and problems ...