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Lives in Ruins

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by Marilyn Johnson


  Gilmore, Joanna, 22, 25, 32–33, 89–94

  Glacial Lake Iroquois, 204, 205

  glass: artifacts, 21, 24, 27, 100, 140; knapping of, 38

  Goat Island, Rhode Island, 111

  goats, 44, 46, 63

  Goddess Temple, Niuheliang, China, 75, 80, 82

  gold artifacts, 4, 91

  gold rushes, 95, 96

  Google Maps, 93

  Gotlieb, Howard, 233n

  Gould, Richard, 176

  government funding. See federal funding

  grants, 75, 86, 87, 88, 124, 173, 202–3, 227

  graves and burial grounds, 7–8, 17, 26, 31, 46; African American, 161–62; China, 80, 83; Deadwood, South Dakota, 96; Dolní Věstonice, 48, 49; Ethiopia, 40; faux Muslim, 207; Fishkill, 155–74; Jericho, 47; New York City, 161–62; Peru, 237; pirates’, 111; as source for beverage recipes, 69, 71n; World Heritage sites, 232

  gray literature, 106, 118

  Great Britain, 18, 103, 105, 110, 185. See also British Museum; England; English Heritage

  Greece, 17, 124, 126–27, 134–54; ancient, 124–26, 138, 148–50, 151

  Greek Orthodox Church, 150

  Greenlee, Diana, 8–9

  grog, 70, 72

  “ground proof,” 166

  “ground truthing,” 112

  guessing games, 145–46

  Gulf War, 194, 195–96

  Haas, Jonathan, 227, 238–39

  Hadjisavvas, Sophocles, 139

  Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, 127, 192, 193

  hair-dragging, staged, 143

  hair of mummies, 4, 5

  hairiness of archaeologists (sexist typology), 81

  hand-axes. See axes

  Hannus, L. Adrien, 9–11, 239–40

  Han River, South Korea, 78–79

  Hatza, Ani, 180, 181

  Haudenosaunee, 210–11

  Hawaii, 111, 189, 212

  health: of ancient humans, 46–47; of archaeologists, 11, 15–16, 39, 92, 117, 175, 239; of Revolutionary War soldiers, 156, 157, 171

  hearths, 57, 80, 204n, 210

  Heyerdahl, Thor, 131, 133

  historical markers. See monuments and markers

  historical reenactors, 165, 168, 173–74

  historic buildings, demolition of, 96, 97–98

  historic preservation, 86–87, 167. See also military cultural resources management

  Historic Preservation Act of 1966. See National Historic Preservation Act of 1966

  History Channel, 126, 127

  Hitchens, Christopher, 125

  “hobbits.” See Homo floresiensis

  Hofman, Corinne, 22, 27–30, 31, 35

  homicide investigation, 178–86

  hominins, 37–67. See also human and hominin remains

  Homo erectus, 37, 39, 42, 49, 51, 88

  Homo floresiensis, 39, 51

  Homo heidelbergensis, 42, 49, 50, 51

  Homo neanderthalensis. See Neandertals

  Homo sapiens, 39, 40; naming of cultures, 53; narrative in, 44; Natufians, 53–54; Neandertal connections, 49–50, 54–57; ochre use, 48; success of, 52

  Honen Dalim, 25–26

  “honey beer,” 69, 70, 71, 72

  Hongshan culture, 75, 82–84

  Hoogland, Menno, 27–28

  Huayna Picchu, 225, 235

  human ancestors. See hominins

  human and hominin remains, 32, 160; buried pigs as, 181–86; Ethiopia, 40; Fishkill, 155, 163; forensics, 175, 182–85; Japan, 236; post– 9/11, 175–77, 178, 189; Saba, 28; St. Eustatius, 26; Washington State, 160–61. See also mummies; skeletons; skulls

  The Human Career (Klein), 53

  The Humans Who Went Extinct (Finlayson), 52

  hunting: by hominins, 37, 51, 55; not by John Shea, 39

  husband-and-wife archaeologists. See archaeologist couples

  Hussein, Saddam, 194

  Hyakinthides, 125–26

  ICAHM. See International Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management (ICAHM)

  Ice Age, 41, 54–59, 65

  illicit antiquities trade. See looting and looted artifacts

  illustration of artifacts, 137, 146

  Incan ruins, 219–26, 230, 234, 235

  independent archaeology centers. See Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project (RIMAP); St. Eustatius Center for Archaeological Research (SECAR)

  Indiana Jones (fictional character), 127–30

  Indiana Jones and the Ultimate Quest, 126, 127

  Indians of North America. See Native Americans

  Indonesia, 39, 51

  inebriation, 68, 69; of nonhuman animals, 71

  insects and spiders, 31–32, 34

  intellectual property, 102

  International Committee of the Blue Shield, 194

  International Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management (ICAHM), 93, 220, 225, 236

  intoxication. See inebriation

  Iraq, 191–92, 198, 199, 201, 203, 207, 208, 213; deadly cultural misunderstanding, 214–15; Shanidar Cave, 52, 54

  Iraq War veterans, incineration of bodies of, 169

  Ireland, 4–6

  Iroquois. See Haudenosaunee

  Isaac, Glynn, 39

  islands, Caribbean, 18–26

  islands, Greek, 17, 124, 126–27, 131, 134–54

  Israel, 39, 50

  ivory, 21, 27, 48, 49

  Jackson, Richard, 194

  Jacobs, Michael: Andes, 221

  jade pendants, 75, 82–84

  Japan, 236

  jargon, 59

  Jefferson, Thomas, 8

  Jericho, 46–47

  Jews, 18, 25–26, 96

  job prospects. See employment prospects

  Jordan, 15, 39, 62, 69, 81

  Kane, Susan, 193

  Kennewick Man, 160–61n

  Kidder, Alfred, 81n

  “killer bees,” 31–32

  Korea, 76, 77, 78–79, 80–81

  Korean language, 78

  Lady Hao, 80, 81

  Lake George, New York, 105–6

  Lake Iroquois. See Glacial Lake Iroquois

  lamb, barbecued, 66, 69

  lambs, butchering of, 63–66

  landfills. See garbage and garbage dumps

  landowners, 26, 159–60, 165, 167, 168, 172, 173, 230–31

  landscape evolution. See geomorphology

  language, classification and naming in. See classification and naming

  language, Korean. See Korean language

  language, technical and arcane. See acronyms; jargon

  law and legislation, 26, 87, 96–97, 112, 127, 160n, 188

  League of Women Voters, 118

  Leakey, Richard, 39–40

  Leraysville, New York, 208

  La Liberté (ship), 109

  libraries, 62, 129

  Libya, bombing of, 193, 194–95, 196

  Lichfield, England, 90–94

  lidar, 1, 235

  Lima, Peru, 236–37

  “liquid pound cake,” 72

  lithics. See stone tools

  livestock, 105, 108; unusual uses for, 181–86. See also goats

  Long Island, 41–42

  looting and looted artifacts, 7, 25, 82–84, 103, 112, 127, 151, 196; in films, 128; Iraq, 191–92, 198

  Lord Sandwich (ship), 109–10, 112, 116

  Louisiana, 8–9

  Lucas, George, 128; Star Wars, 150

  luck. See chance and luck

  Lüth, Friedrich, 222

  Lynch, Kerry, 112

  Machu Picchu, 137, 219–26, 234, 235

  Mali, 197

  malls, abandoned, 155, 156

  Malta, 233–34

  mammoth (animal), 47, 49

  manchineel trees, 23

  maps and mapping, 29, 33, 78, 93; in crime investigation, 179, 180, 182–83; Fort Drum, 204, 207; George Washington’s 157; James Cook role, 103, 111; lidar, 1; New York City, 161, 162n; online, 93; playing cards, 197; 3-D, 29, 19
7; underwater, 222

  marine archaeology, 101–19

  Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 49–50

  Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, 16

  Mayans, 230

  McGovern, Patrick, 68–73

  McPhee, John, 180–81

  mead. See “honey beer”

  media. See films; news media; television

  Melancon, Tim, 194–95, 197

  Mellon Foundation. See Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

  Memphis, Tennessee, 44, 77, 79, 85

  microbrewers and microbrews, 70, 71, 72

  Midas, King of Phrygia, 69–70

  Midas Touch beer, 70, 71, 72

  Middle Ages, 91, 92

  Middle East, 46–47, 52, 69, 133, 202. See also Iraq; Israel; Jordan

  military bases, 101, 102, 116, 212. See also Fort Drum, New York

  military cultural resources management, 190–216

  “mitigation,” 160, 161, 188

  Mohawks, 210–11

  monks, Greek Orthodox, 145, 150

  Montagne, Renee, 199

  Montagu, Caroline, Countess of Sandwich, 115, 116–17

  Montagu, John, 4th Earl of Sandwich, 115–16

  Montagu, John, 11th Earl of Sandwich, 115–17

  Monte Verde site, Chile, 45n

  monuments and markers, 157, 163, 164

  “Monuments Men and Women” (World War II), 191, 198

  Moran, Kimberlee Sue, 179–86

  Moseley, Michael, 238–39

  motor vehicles: antique, 170–71; excavated as material culture, 233; filled with farm animals and exploded, 185; old and failing, 101, 102, 115

  mounds, 201, 227. See also burial mounds; tells (mounds)

  movies. See films

  mummies, 4–7, 231–32, 239

  “Mummies of the World” (exhibit), 6

  mummified heads, Nasca. See “trophy heads,” Nasca

  museums, 58; amateur, 186–88; England, 87, 92, 135, 151; Fishkill, 156, 157, 165, 168, 173; funding, 86, 87; Greece, 147; Iraq, 191– 92, 198; Ireland, 4–6; Netherlands Antilles, 21–22; New Mexico, 16; Rhode Island, 105; Seattle, 161n; U.S. Army, 171

  NAGPRA. See Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA)

  nails and spikes, 25, 30–31; from coffins, 155, 163

  naming. See classification and naming

  narrative, problematic nature of, 44–45

  Nasca people, 229, 230

  National Endowment for the Humanities, 87

  National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, 87

  National Museum of Iraq, 191–92, 198

  National Museum of Ireland—Archaeology, 4–6

  National Park Service, 86, 164, 167, 200

  National Register of Historic Places, 158, 164, 208

  National Science Foundation, 88

  Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 127, 160n Native Americans, 7–11, 16, 187, 188, 239; beads, 162; mounds, 7–8, 77, 221–22; New York State sites, 200, 203, 204, 205, 210–11; US Army relations, 210–12

  Native Hawaiians, 212

  NATO. See North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

  Natufians, 53–54

  Nazca Lines, 229, 230

  “Neandertal” (word), 37, 43, 55n

  Neandertals, 37–38, 41, 48, 49–51, 52, 53n, 54–55, 61; in fiction, 54, 56, 57

  Negishi, Yo, 220, 224–25, 236

  Nelson, Sarah Milledge, 74–82, 84

  “Neolithic” (word), 46

  Neolithic era, 10, 46, 70, 79. See also Hongshan culture

  Netherlands, archaeological digs in, 28

  Netherlands Antilles, 18–36

  New Jersey, 59n, 169, 178–86

  New Mexico, 16

  Newport, Rhode Island, 101–19

  news media, 1–2, 192n, 198, 199, 200, 227

  New York City, 123–27, 130–33; African Burial Ground, 161–62, 163; September 11, 2001, attacks, 175–77, 178, 189; ship in landfill, 160

  New York State, 105. See also Fishkill Supply Depot, New York; Fort Drum, New York

  New York State Historic Preservation Office, 158, 166, 172

  New York University, 123–27, 134, 143n

  New Zealand, 103, 110

  nipples: as condition of being king, 5

  North American cultures, pre-Clovis. See pre-Clovis cultures (North America)

  North American Indians. See Native Americans

  North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 194

  no-strike lists. See bombing targets, no-strike lists

  novels, 54–59, 80–81, 119, 179

  NYU. See New York University

  observation without judgment, 45

  obsidian, 47, 64

  ochre, 48

  Ohio, 221–22

  Old Croghan Man, 5

  Omo Kibish, 40, 62n

  “oracle bones,” 80, 81

  Oranjestad, St. Eustatius, 18, 20, 21–22, 25, 89

  ordnance, 114, 207

  Ötzi the Iceman, 232

  paleoanthropology and paleoarchaeology, 37–67

  Paleoanthropology Society, 60

  paleoethnobotany, 162

  “Paleolithic” (word), 46, 59

  Paleolithic era, 41, 47–49, 222; in fiction, 54–59

  Palisades Museum of Prehistory, 186–88

  Pallas Athena. See Athena

  paperwork, 178. See also artifacts: logging of

  Parthenon, 125–26, 133

  pay, 85, 86, 113, 117, 178

  Paranthropus, 51

  peat bog bodies. See “bog bodies”

  pemmican, 11

  penises, trophy, 132

  Perdikaris, Sophia, 176

  Persian Gulf War, 1990–91. See Gulf War

  Peru, 17, 26–27, 219–31, 234–40; government of, 225

  Peters, George Marshall, 146

  petroglyphs, 188, 189

  Philadelphia, 68–76

  “pig dragons” (Hongshan pendants), 75, 82–84

  pigs, buried in lieu of humans, 181–86

  piko holes, 189

  Pine Barrens, New Jersey, 178–86

  pin flags, 178, 179, 180, 182

  pipes. See tobacco pipes

  Plains Indians, 9–11, 239

  playing cards. See cultural heritage playing cards

  plunder, 191–92, 196, 199

  Pompeii, 97, 232

  porcelain, 21, 210

  Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece (Connelly), 124

  postholes, 27

  post-processualists, 128

  pottery, 33; disparaged, 99; Dolní Věstonice, 48; invention of (in fiction), 56; Greece, 17; Japan, 236; Nasca, 229; Native American, 9, 11; pulled out by amateur, 178; St. Eustatius, 19, 21, 24, 25, 28, 35–36; Yeronisos, 140, 148. See also amphorae

  Poverty Point earthworks, 8–9

  pre-Clovis cultures (North America), 98

  prehistoric art. See art, prehistoric

  preservation. See collections: access and preservation; historic preservation

  preservation law versus salvage law. See salvage law versus preservation law

  Preserving Heritage in the Caribbean (Siegal and Righter), 26

  Primitive Technologies (Shea class), 66

  private property, 167–68, 172. See also landowners; real estate development

  protection of cultural property in wartime. See wartime protection of cultural property

  pseudoscience and fraud, 130, 229–30

  Ptolemy XV. See Caesarion

  Puerto Rico, 20

  Pursuit, Jaime, 197n

  Putnam, Israel, 167

  pyramids, Peruvian, 26–27, 237–38

  quarries, 147–48

  radar, 24, 75

  radiocarbon-dating. See carbon-dating

  Rand, Ayn, 177

  real estate development, 155, 172, 230–31, 236

  reenactors. See historical reenactors

  Register of Professional Archaeologists
, 164–65

  Reichs, Kathy: “Bones” Brennan series, 179

  religion, 124, 125–26, 139, 149, 150

  replica sites, military use of, 207–8

  reverse engineering, 70

  Revolutionary War, 18, 107–8, 155–69, 171–74; ships and shipwrecks, 101, 103, 109–10, 116

  Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project (RIMAP), 101–19

  RKLOG Press, 81

  Roach, Mary: Stiff, 180

  rock. See stone

  Roman Empire, 134, 138

  Roosevelt, Teddy, 131

  ruins, Incan. See Incan ruins

  rum, 21, 27, 34

  Rumsfeld, Donald, 192

  Rush, Laurie, 198–216

  Russell, John, 199

  Rutgers Pinelands Field Station, 179

  Rutsch, Ed, 161, 162n

  SAA. See Society for American Archaeology (SAA)

  Saba (island), 28

  St. Eustatius (island), 18–36, 88–90, 93

  St. Eustatius Center for Archaeological Research (SECAR), 17–36, 89

  St. Maarten (island), 29

  St. Thomas (island), 26

  saliva in fermentation of beverages, 71

  salvage law versus preservation law, 112

  Sandy, Bill, 155–71, 173

  satellite photography, 236

  Save America’s Treasures, 86

  Schleswig, Germany, 6

  Schofield, John, 223, 224–25, 232–35

  Schumer, Chuck, 167

  Screwtape Letters (Lewis), 60–61

  scuba diving, 104, 105

  SECAR (St. Eustatius Center for Archaeological Research). See St. Eustatius Center for Archaeological Research (SECAR)

  September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks: recovery of remains, 175–77, 178, 189

  sex, contemporary: “in the field,” 62, 80

  sex, prehistoric: in fiction, 57n

  sexism, 80, 81, 104–5, 130

  screening of excavated material, 24, 34, 162

  Shady Solís, Ruth, 226–28, 236, 238–39

  shamans, women, 55, 80

  Shanidar Cave, Iraq, 52, 54

  Shanidar: The First Flower People (Solecki), 61–62

  Shea, John, 37–54, 58–59, 60–67, 85

  shells, 31, 47

  ships: found in landfill, 160; sunken, 17, 100, 101, 103, 104, 109–18

  sifting. See screening of excavated material

  silver artifacts, 91

  Silverman, Helaine, 228–29, 230–31, 232

  Sinamai, Ashton, 220, 224–25

  Sint Eustatius. See St. Eustatius (island)

  site contamination, 178, 180, 182

  site destruction. See demolition of historic sites and buildings

  site secrecy, 164

  skeletons, 32; China, 83; Dolní Věstonice, 48, 49; Yeronisos, 148–50

  skulls, 35; crystal, 130; Georgia (country), 39, 88; gifts of, 32; infants’, 28; Jericho, 47; Omo Kibish, 40; part-eaten, 51; size of, 43

  slaves, 17, 20, 21, 23; burial grounds, 26, 31. See also freedpeople

 

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