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Culture Contact Studies: Redefining the Relationship between Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology

Lightfoot, Kent G.·1995·American Antiquity
DOI 10.2307/282137
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Archaeology is poised to play a pivotal role in the reconfiguration of historical anthropology. Archaeology provides not only a temporal baseline that spans both prehistory and history, but the means to study the material remains of ethnic laborers in pluralistic colonial communities who are poorly represented in written accounts. Taken together, archaeology is ideally suited for examining the multicultural roots of modern América. But before archaeology’s full potential to contribute to culture contact studies can be realized, we must address several systemic problems resulting from the separation of “prehistoric” and “historical” archaeology into distinct subfields. In this paper, I examine the implications of increasing temporal/regional specialization in archaeology on (1) the use of historical documents in archaeological research, (2) the study of long-term culture change, and (3) the implementation of pan-regional comparative analyses.

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  • Historic archaeology has, until recently, largely glossed over the multi-ethnic nature of many spaces.

    “Historic archaeology has, until recently, also largely glossed over the multi-ethnic nature of many spaces (Lightfoot 1995).”

    From Unsettling Archaeology (2020) · cites this paper as Lightfoot 1995

  • The divide between "prehistoric" and "historic" archaeology creates the illusion that Indigenous people disappeared after contact.

    “For instance, the divide between “prehistoric” and “historic” archaeology, where the former focuses on Indigenous history and the latter primarily on the European history of settler colonial states like Canada (Condori 1989;Lightfoot 1995;Little 1994), creates the illusion that Indigenous people disappeared after contact.”

    From Unsettling Archaeology (2020) · cites this paper as Lightfoot 1995

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Authors
Lightfoot, K. G.
Venue
American Antiquity
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
1995-04
Volume
60
Issue
2
Pages
199-217
ISSN
  • 0002-7316
  • 2325-5064
DOI
10.2307/282137
Cited by
265
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Language
en
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