Papers by Kelley Hays-Gilpin
Engaged Archaeology in the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico, 2021
Understanding aggregation in the Homol'ovi pueblos: scalar stress and social power / E. Charl... more Understanding aggregation in the Homol'ovi pueblos: scalar stress and social power / E. Charles Adams -- Modeling prehistoric agricultural strategies and human settlement in the middle Little Colorado River Valley / Carla R. Van West -- Mobility and sedentism: changes in storage during the pit house to pueblo transition / Lisa C. Young -- The rise and demise of Winslow orange ware / Kelley Hays-Gilpin, Trixi D. Bubemyre, and Louise M. Senior -- Ritual deposits: another perspective / William H. Walker -- The use of adobe architecture in the Homol'ovi region / Douglas W. Gann --Middle Little Colorado River rock art and relationships with the San Juan Anasazi / Sally J. Cole -- Prehistoric subsistence and survival at Petrified Forest, Arizona / Anne Trinkle Jones -- Archaeobotany of the middle Little Colorado River / Karen R. Adams -- Analysis of the fauna f rom Homol'ovi II / Jennifer G. Strand and Rebecca McKim -- Chipped stone research in the middle Little Colorado River...
TRAJECTORIA, Mar 31, 2020
The questions discussed in this article are fundamental to the value of museum collections, to ou... more The questions discussed in this article are fundamental to the value of museum collections, to our institutions, and to humanity. Most anthropology museums and museum anthropology departments were founded under colonial agendas. These museums collect the objects of "other" culturesespecially colonized communities-and present them to an audience comprised primarily of members of dominant colonizer cultures. Colonial powers often collected under the paradigm of "salvage ethnography." Anthropologists, missionaries, and other representatives of colonial powers believed that indigenous communities were dying out or assimilating. They collected artifacts (objects of material culture), stories, songs, and other "data" in order to preserve evidence of lifeways they thought were becoming extinct. Now we find ourselves a century or two later with plenty of artifacts but very few connections to original use contexts or to the communities who made them-the source communities (Peers and Brown 2003: 2). In many cases, the descendants of those who made and used these artifacts are still very much alive, still in their homelands, in new settlements, or in diaspora. We refer to those with historical, kin, and cultural connections to artifacts as descendant communities. The problem to be addressed is how museums as historically colonial institutions can be "de-colonized" in various ways. That is, how can museums and communities work together facilitate access to collections and information, develop collaborative relationships that foreground what descendant communities want to do and say, prioritize community-driven programs, and promote repatriation, return, and cultural use of collections, as appropriate and necessary (Infographics 1 i)).
Uto-Aztecan peoples of Mesoamerica and the Southwest, together with neighboring Pueblo and Mayan ... more Uto-Aztecan peoples of Mesoamerica and the Southwest, together with neighboring Pueblo and Mayan groups, share a system of verbal imagery in which a flowery spirit world is evoked, particularly in songs (Hill 1992). The verbal Flower World complex includes several elements, all found in songs in the Southwest and Mesoamerica: 1. The Flower World is the land where the dead go and the land where living beings have their spiritual dimension. The "roads," "patios," "houses," and living beings of the spirit land are "flowery." 2. The spiritual dimension of living beings and ritual objects can be evoked by associating them with flowers or by referring to them as "flowery." 3. Flowers are associated with the soul, the heart, and blood. 4. Flowers are associated with fire; fire "blooms," and blooming flowers "burst into flame." 5. The Flower World complex is often associated with male ritual practice or male domains such ...
American Antiquity, 2020
This article emerged as the human species collectively have been experiencing the worst global pa... more This article emerged as the human species collectively have been experiencing the worst global pandemic in a century. With a long view of the ecological, economic, social, and political factors that promote the emergence and spread of infectious disease, archaeologists are well positioned to examine the antecedents of the present crisis. In this article, we bring together a variety of perspectives on the issues surrounding the emergence, spread, and effects of disease in both the Americas and Afro-Eurasian contexts. Recognizing that human populations most severely impacted by COVID-19 are typically descendants of marginalized groups, we investigate pre- and postcontact disease vectors among Indigenous and Black communities in North America, outlining the systemic impacts of diseases and the conditions that exacerbate their spread. We look at how material culture both reflects and changes as a result of social transformations brought about by disease, the insights that paleopathology...
Time and Mind, 2019
Members of Indigenous communities in Arizona and New Mexico explain that petroglyphs and rock pai... more Members of Indigenous communities in Arizona and New Mexico explain that petroglyphs and rock paintings serve as animate, tangible, and enduring connections among places, ancestors, and contemporary communities in ways that non-Native public lands managers can only understand with instruction in Native peoples' ontologies. Rock art sometimes takes an active role in resistance to environmental injustice and cultural appropriation. Archaeologists should study rock art in this region as material evidence for changing and varied human-land relationships, and collaborate with Indigenous communities and public lands managers to develop sustainable and culturally sensitive management programs.
Advances in Archaeological Practice, 2018
ABSTRACTWhile our fascination with understanding the past is sufficient to warrant an increased f... more ABSTRACTWhile our fascination with understanding the past is sufficient to warrant an increased focus on synthesis, solutions to important problems facing modern society require understandings based on data that only archaeology can provide. Yet, even as we use public monies to collect ever-greater amounts of data, modes of research that can stimulate emergent understandings of human behavior have lagged behind. Consequently, a substantial amount of archaeological inference remains at the level of the individual project. We can more effectively leverage these data and advance our understandings of the past in ways that contribute to solutions to contemporary problems if we adapt the model pioneered by the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis to foster synthetic collaborative research in archaeology. We propose the creation of the Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis coordinated through a U.S.-based National Center for Archaeological Synthesis. The coalition will b...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Oct 17, 2017
Oxford Handbooks Online, 2017
Images from archaeological sites are often engaging, sometimes mysterious, and always seem full o... more Images from archaeological sites are often engaging, sometimes mysterious, and always seem full of potential for insight into the lives and thoughts of people from the past. Unfortunately, most research into archaeological images relies on a narrow range of art historical methods and on parallels with ethnographic information. These approaches are valuable, but unnecessarily limited. In this chapter, we encourage researchers to expand their understanding of images, exploring how perceptual and social theories of pictures shape our understanding of meaning and discussing the benefits and drawbacks of formal, informed, and artifactual approaches to studying pictures. We also review major temporal and cultural patterns in image traditions in the Southwest, illustrating how iconography yields important insights into cosmologies, values, the advent and spread of religious movements, macro regional interactions, and social dynamics in the past.
Relating to Rock Art in the Contemporary World: Navigating Symbolism, Meaning, and Significance, 2016
The Kiva, 2006
Page 1. A NEW LOOK AT TIE-DYE AND THE DOT-IN-A-SQUARE MOTIF IN THE PREHISPANIC SOUTHWEST LAURIE D... more Page 1. A NEW LOOK AT TIE-DYE AND THE DOT-IN-A-SQUARE MOTIF IN THE PREHISPANIC SOUTHWEST LAURIE D. WEBSTER KELLEY A. HAYS-GILPIN AND POLLY SCHAAFSMA ABSTRACT Tie-dyed fabrics patterned ...
Representations of Gender from Prehistory to the Present, 2000
... in the Material Culture of Seventh-century Anasazi Farmers in North-eastern Arizona* Kelley .... more ... in the Material Culture of Seventh-century Anasazi Farmers in North-eastern Arizona* Kelley ... with black and red designs (d, e) Source: Courtesy of the Carnegie Institute of Washington. ... Hurst, W. and J. Pachak (1989) Spirit Windows: Native American Rock Ar t of Southeastern ...
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