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Levanna - Jack Rossen

Levanna

Interpretation and Controversy in New York Archaeology, 1923-2018

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Buch | Hardcover
216 Seiten
2019
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-2829-9 (ISBN)
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This book discusses archaeological research and representation of Native American lifeways at the Levanna site from 1922-1941 and through the 2007-9 re-excavations and artifact analyses, along with the supporting excavations at the Myers Farm site.
Levanna was a famous and well-visited archaeological site in central New York, along the eastern side of Cayuga Lake, during the Great Depression. It was primarily known for its spectacular animal effigies. But were they real or forgeries? Jack Rossen takes us on a journey through the 1920s and 1930s, the era of an outdoor museum, and professional attempts by the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) to suppress it. Larger than life characters include Arthur C. Parker, future President of the SAA, William A. Ritchie, future State Archaeologist of New York, and Harrison C. Follett, the entrepreneurial archaeologist. The journey also takes us through the 2007-2009 re-excavation of Levanna and the related 2011-2014 excavations at the Myers Farm site. Along the way, Cayuga history is reinterpreted as more peaceful than previously believed, and the case is made for a Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy more than one thousand years old. An older confederacy is more in line with oral traditions than previous archaeological ideas of a brief confederacy that began either just before or after European contact. The work was conducted through the framework of indigenous collaborative archaeology with leaders of the Cayuga and Haudenosaunee Confederacy. A narrative approach includes stories of the contemporary people, both Native and non-Native, who protected the site, supported the research, and provided ideas, wisdom, inspiration, and friendship.

Jack Rossen received his PhD from the University of Kentucky. He was Professor of Anthropology and Co-Founder of Native American Studies at Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY and taught in the Master’s Program in Heritage Management at the University of Hawai`i at Hilo. He began work on collaborative archaeology and community projects with the Cayuga and Onondaga Nations in what is now central New York in 1998.  He currently works with the non-profit History Flight in Kiribati, supervising excavations of MIA U.S. Servicemen from the Battle of Tarawa.

Chapter 1: Levanna: A Nexus of Stories and Issues
Chapter 2. Pulling Down the Pillars: Early Investigations at Levanna (1922-1941)
Chapter 3. Indigenous Archaeology, the Age of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the Use of Oral Traditions
Chapter 4: The 2007 to 2009 Levanna Excavations
Chapter 5: Further Reinterpretation of the Cayuga: The Myers Farm site
Chapter 6. Conclusions: Chasing the Ghosts of the Old -Time New York Archaeologists

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 160 x 236 mm
Gewicht 472 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik Regional- / Landesgeschichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Antike
Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-5381-2829-2 / 1538128292
ISBN-13 978-1-5381-2829-9 / 9781538128299
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