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Author:   M. Grace Ellis ,  Carly M. DeSanto ,  Meghan C. L. Howey
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.640kg
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9781032678436

ISBN 10:   1032678437
Pages:   246
Publication Date:   12 March 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. New Perspectives on Material Infrastructures: Emerging Ideas within Archaeological Discourse 2. Perspectives: Infrastructure as Relational 3. From the Ground Up: Earthen and Botanical Traces of Biotic Infrastructures from Ancient Amazonia 4. Indigenous Infrastructure: Iconography, Dance, and Nomadic Strategy in the Historic Ute (Núuchiu) World 5. Infrastructure and Interconnectivity in Pre-Columbian Amazonia 6. Perspectives: Scale of Infrastructure 7. Landscape Infrastructure and Local Infrastructure: Scales of Intervention in Urban Water Management 8. Desert Kites: Neolithic Infrastructure in the Margins 9. Perspectives: Historicity and Temporality of Infrastructure 10. Legacies of Infrastructure in Bronze and Iron Age China 11. Transportation Systems and Movement Infrastructure: Evaluating Use, Maintenance, and Modification of Roads at Angamuco, Michoacan (AD 250–1530) 12. Adena and Hopewell Institutional Responsibilities and Aging Infrastructure in the Middle Ohio Valley, USA 13. Perspectives: Relevance of the Archaeology of Infrastructure 14. Agricultural Infrastructure in the Kawaihae Uplands: Ancient Management to Modern Resilience 15. Consumption or Infrastructure? Theorizing Ceramics in Ancient Empires 16. Building Meanings as Places: The Archaeology of the Shellmounds and the Indigenous Infrastructure of the Amazon

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M. Grace Ellis is a doctoral candidate in the Anthropology and Geography Department at Colorado State University and student researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeological Research and Evolution of Human Behavior at the University of Algarve. She specializes in landscape archaeology and remote sensing approaches to explore human-environment interactions in the past. Her research examines land use intensification and social interaction in ancient Amazonia, cosmopolitan networks and seafaring across the Caribbean Sea prior to European contact, and neanderthal extinction and human colonization of Iberia. Carly M. DeSanto is a Project Manager at Chronicle Heritage. She obtained her MA in Anthropology from Colorado State University in 2021, which focused on earthen enclosures and monumental construction during the Woodland Period in the Middle Ohio Valley. She specializes in geoarchaeology, archaeogeophysics, infrastructure, earthen monuments, and monumentality. Her current work in cultural resource management focuses on managing archaeological projects in the southwestern United States. Meghan C. L. Howey is currently the Director of the Center for the Humanities at the University of New Hampshire where she is a Professor of Anthropology and in the Earth Systems Research Center. She is an anthropological archaeologist who specializes in colonialism, public archaeology, ethnohistory, landscape, and geospatial analyses. Her current project focuses on the 17th century in the Great Bay Estuary in New England, working collaboratively with regional Indigenous knowledge keepers, community volunteers, and ecologists to explore the lasting socioecological legacies of early colonialism.

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