Book chapters by Ashley A Dumas
Salt in Eastern North America and the Caribbean: History and Archaeology, 2021
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Salt in Eastern North America and the Caribbean: History and Archaeology, 2021
Native American Log Cabins in the Southeast, 2019
Investigating the Ordinary: Everyday Matters in Southeastern Archaeology, 2018
Articles by Ashley A Dumas
Journal of Field Archaeology, 2024
In southeastern North America, the received wisdom has been that most 16th century A.D. European ... more In southeastern North America, the received wisdom has been that most 16th century A.D. European objects occur in mortuary contexts, the archaeological manifestation of gifting and barter between European leaders and Indigenous chiefs. Our application of metal detector surveys in four projects in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi now throws this interpretation into question. We have found significant numbers of diagnostic iron and cuprous 16th century A.D. artifacts in residential contexts, which reflects both the huge amount of material imported into the Southeast by European colonizing efforts and the variety of ways by which Indigenous peoples incorporated new raw materials and technologies into their world views.
Shell-tempered ceramics appeared at different times in various places along the northern coast of... more Shell-tempered ceramics appeared at different times in various places along the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. In some instances, these wares completely replaced local non-shell-tempered wares, while in other instances shell-tempered ceramics formed only a small addition to the non-shell-tempered, local ceramic assemblage. This paper examines the chronological spread and geographical distribution of such shell-tempered wares, the possible causes for their emergence and adoption, and their potential points of origin.
Southeastern Naturalist, 2010
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Conference Proceedings by Ashley A Dumas
by Marius Alexianu, Mihaela Asăndulesei, Valentin Arapu, Andrei Emilciuc, Martin Hees, Argelia del Carmen Montes Villalpando, Mădălina Necula, Tamara Montalvo-Arce, Edoardo Vanni, Sorin Stratulat, Mera Ovidiu, Konrad A. Antczak, Oriol Beltran, Robin Brigand, Neculai Bolohan, Blas Román Castellón Huerta, Cavruc (Kavruk) Valeriu (Valerii), Jorge A. Ceja Acosta, Franck Derrien, Maciej Dębiec, Diaconu Vasile, Ashley A Dumas, Alfons Fíguls Alonso, Mircea-Cristian Ghenghea, Elisa Guerra Doce, Catherine Liot, Ileana Oana Macari, Nuria Morere, Ivana Pandzic, Razvan Victor Pantelimon, Alex Popa, Gustavo Ramirez, alfonso stiglitz, Felix-Adrian Tencariu, Edoardo Vanni, Olivier Weller, Igor Lyman, Victoria Konstantinova, Iuri (Gheorghe) Simionca, Tasha Maroulis, Rosa Maria Lanaspa, and Coralie GRADEL Common salt (sodium chloride) is an invisible object for archaeological research, but the ancient... more Common salt (sodium chloride) is an invisible object for archaeological research, but the ancient texts, the history, the ethnography and our everyday life confirm that both Man and Animal cannot live without it. Salt is a primordial reference for humanity. This “fifth element” is universal in a double sense, diachronically and diatopically. How can archaeology and related disciplines or sciences approximate this soluble good, this “white gold”, this invisible past?
From the diatopic and diachronic perspective, common salt—with all its natural or artificial metamorphoses—has influenced humanity in the most diverse aspects. This is why, within a brief enumeration, the salt-related research themes are intriguingly various: explorations (hunting for salt), exploitation techniques, techniques to obtain different products, exploitation and use tools, transport and storage containers, human and animal feeding, conservation (meat, bacon, cheese, vegetables, green goods, fruits). The themes also include manufacture-related uses (including the construction of salt houses), mythology, religion, cult, rituals, beliefs, superstitions, mentalities, secret societies, magic, vows, curses, prohibitions, popular medicine, sexuality, economy, hide working, population, alchemical procedures, scientific and cultural representations, treatment of the deceased, barter, commerce, contraband, robbery.
On the other hand, the themes also include human and animal mobility, the attraction exerted on savage beasts, symbolic uses, folk literature (stories, tales, and proverbs) and cult literature, the control of salt resources, conflicts, strategic value, geographic perceptions, professions related to salt exploitation and uses, economic, legal and administrative regulations, vocabulary, toponymy, anthroponomy and the list can go on.
All these themes already constitute a study object for an impressive number of sciences, disciplines, or sub-disciplines, such as archaeology, heritage studies, history, ethnography, ethnoarchaeology, economic anthropology, food sciences, statistics, sociology, geology, mineralogy, geography, hydrology, botany, chemistry, medicine, pharmacology, ethology, theology, agronomy, symbology, linguistics, folklore studies, cultural studies, literary studies, hermeneutics, legal sciences, etc. Obviously, some themes must be approached only in an interdisciplinary vision.
Books by Ashley A Dumas
Handbook of Alabama's Prehistoric Indians and Artifacts, Second Edition, 2019
Second Edition
This book is an introduction and guidebook to stone and pottery artifacts found i... more Second Edition
This book is an introduction and guidebook to stone and pottery artifacts found in Alabama that were made by pre-contact American Indians. There is a focus on temporally diagnostic projectile points and pottery. The intended audience is the archaeological novice, though information presented is data-based, and fully cited. In addition to text by Johnson, sections are written by archaeologists (Ian Brown, Ashley Dumas, Steven Meredith, and Teresa Paglione) with expertise on pertinent topics.
ISBN-13: 9780999383063
Papers by Ashley A Dumas
5th International Congress on the Anthropology of Salt
University of Rzeszów, Poland
Southeastern Archaeology, 2020
Over the course of the eighteenth century, the Choctaws of present-day east-central Mississippi a... more Over the course of the eighteenth century, the Choctaws of present-day east-central Mississippi and west Alabama experienced widespread changes in trade relations and alliances, subsistence practices, and sociopolitical arrangements as a result of intensifying European colonization of their homeland. Our ability to study these changes across the homeland requires accurate and detailed ceramic chronologies. Recent excavations of ten features at two eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century Choctaw house sites produced artifacts suitable for seriation and samples for Bayesian analysis of radiometric dates. The results are compared with Choctaw ceramics excavated from secure contexts at Fort Tombecbé to refine our baseline understanding of Choctaw ceramic chronology.
Trends and Traditions in Southeastern Zooarchaeology, 2014
Conference Presentations by Ashley A Dumas
Scholars of anthropology, archaeology, history, linguistics, geography, geology, and other specia... more Scholars of anthropology, archaeology, history, linguistics, geography, geology, and other specialists whose research involves the role of salt in human life are invited to submit abstracts.
Books edited by Ashley A Dumas
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2023
Mirrors of Salt publishes the proceedings of the First International Congress on the Anthropology... more Mirrors of Salt publishes the proceedings of the First International Congress on the Anthropology of Salt, which took place at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iasi (Romania). The impact of salt on the development of human communities, from the Neolithic to the present, has generated a huge number of specialized studies. However, scientific research has become so atomized that the primordial importance of the mineral has been lost, creating a need for a holistic, comprehensive vision of the dimensions generated by salt. This can only be achieved through anthropology. The anthropology of salt encompasses the entirety of human behavior, i.e. cognitive, spiritual, pragmatic, and social reactions to salt, and provides a holistic view of its role in the evolution of human communities. The anthropology of salt thus brings salt studies from an ancillary position to an autonomous discipline. The papers in this volume are organized into six sections: theory, archaeology, history, ethnography/ ethnoarchaeology/ethnohistory, linguistics, and literature. Topics include salt in Greek and Roman antiquity, as well as from Cameroon, Georgia, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Nigeria, Peru, Romania, Spain, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, the USA and Venezuela. The congress was organized within the project The Ethnoarchaeology of the Salt Springs and Salt Mountains from the Extra-Carpathian Areas of Romania, financed by the Government of Romania (CNCS – UEFISCDI) (2011-2016). Its theoretical novelty and geographical range render Mirrors of Salt a unique study of the world’s most-used non-metallic mineral.
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From the diatopic and diachronic perspective, common salt—with all its natural or artificial metamorphoses—has influenced humanity in the most diverse aspects. This is why, within a brief enumeration, the salt-related research themes are intriguingly various: explorations (hunting for salt), exploitation techniques, techniques to obtain different products, exploitation and use tools, transport and storage containers, human and animal feeding, conservation (meat, bacon, cheese, vegetables, green goods, fruits). The themes also include manufacture-related uses (including the construction of salt houses), mythology, religion, cult, rituals, beliefs, superstitions, mentalities, secret societies, magic, vows, curses, prohibitions, popular medicine, sexuality, economy, hide working, population, alchemical procedures, scientific and cultural representations, treatment of the deceased, barter, commerce, contraband, robbery.
On the other hand, the themes also include human and animal mobility, the attraction exerted on savage beasts, symbolic uses, folk literature (stories, tales, and proverbs) and cult literature, the control of salt resources, conflicts, strategic value, geographic perceptions, professions related to salt exploitation and uses, economic, legal and administrative regulations, vocabulary, toponymy, anthroponomy and the list can go on.
All these themes already constitute a study object for an impressive number of sciences, disciplines, or sub-disciplines, such as archaeology, heritage studies, history, ethnography, ethnoarchaeology, economic anthropology, food sciences, statistics, sociology, geology, mineralogy, geography, hydrology, botany, chemistry, medicine, pharmacology, ethology, theology, agronomy, symbology, linguistics, folklore studies, cultural studies, literary studies, hermeneutics, legal sciences, etc. Obviously, some themes must be approached only in an interdisciplinary vision.
Books by Ashley A Dumas
This book is an introduction and guidebook to stone and pottery artifacts found in Alabama that were made by pre-contact American Indians. There is a focus on temporally diagnostic projectile points and pottery. The intended audience is the archaeological novice, though information presented is data-based, and fully cited. In addition to text by Johnson, sections are written by archaeologists (Ian Brown, Ashley Dumas, Steven Meredith, and Teresa Paglione) with expertise on pertinent topics.
ISBN-13: 9780999383063
Papers by Ashley A Dumas
Conference Presentations by Ashley A Dumas
Books edited by Ashley A Dumas
From the diatopic and diachronic perspective, common salt—with all its natural or artificial metamorphoses—has influenced humanity in the most diverse aspects. This is why, within a brief enumeration, the salt-related research themes are intriguingly various: explorations (hunting for salt), exploitation techniques, techniques to obtain different products, exploitation and use tools, transport and storage containers, human and animal feeding, conservation (meat, bacon, cheese, vegetables, green goods, fruits). The themes also include manufacture-related uses (including the construction of salt houses), mythology, religion, cult, rituals, beliefs, superstitions, mentalities, secret societies, magic, vows, curses, prohibitions, popular medicine, sexuality, economy, hide working, population, alchemical procedures, scientific and cultural representations, treatment of the deceased, barter, commerce, contraband, robbery.
On the other hand, the themes also include human and animal mobility, the attraction exerted on savage beasts, symbolic uses, folk literature (stories, tales, and proverbs) and cult literature, the control of salt resources, conflicts, strategic value, geographic perceptions, professions related to salt exploitation and uses, economic, legal and administrative regulations, vocabulary, toponymy, anthroponomy and the list can go on.
All these themes already constitute a study object for an impressive number of sciences, disciplines, or sub-disciplines, such as archaeology, heritage studies, history, ethnography, ethnoarchaeology, economic anthropology, food sciences, statistics, sociology, geology, mineralogy, geography, hydrology, botany, chemistry, medicine, pharmacology, ethology, theology, agronomy, symbology, linguistics, folklore studies, cultural studies, literary studies, hermeneutics, legal sciences, etc. Obviously, some themes must be approached only in an interdisciplinary vision.
This book is an introduction and guidebook to stone and pottery artifacts found in Alabama that were made by pre-contact American Indians. There is a focus on temporally diagnostic projectile points and pottery. The intended audience is the archaeological novice, though information presented is data-based, and fully cited. In addition to text by Johnson, sections are written by archaeologists (Ian Brown, Ashley Dumas, Steven Meredith, and Teresa Paglione) with expertise on pertinent topics.
ISBN-13: 9780999383063