normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Complex systems approaches to archaeological interpretation are well-established in the discipline and offer important ways for studying change over various scales. Large data sets and regional syntheses invite new applications of complex systems applications of complex systems to archaeological data. At the same time, indigenous and postcolonial perspectives have increasingly become foundational to project planning, data collection, and interpretation. Despite the importance of these two approaches to contemporary archaeology, researchers seldom interpret complex systems concepts and methods through indigenous ontological frameworks. The lack of substantial dialogue between these theoretical approaches results in uncritical applications of complexity theory which inadvertently reinforce scripts of settler colonialism. Researchers are also potentially missing opportunities to reinterpret and store legacy data in ways that respect indigenous sovereignty. This session will explore ways indigenous theoretical frameworks can inform complexity concepts and methods, such as resilience, emergence, and computer modeling, and invite pragmatic examinations of the limits and potential conflicts among these theoretical approaches.We invite papers presenting archaeological case studies, regional syntheses, and methodological approaches to the study of complex systems in conversation with indigenous sciences. Dr. Lindsay M. Montgomery of the University of Arizona has agreed to be the session discussant.
In this session, contributions dealing with the following topics will be welcome:
- Reinterpretation of legacy data through indigenous ontologies
- Reflections on collaborations involving complex systems methods
- Computer modeling of indigenous political organization or ecology
Please send abstracts (200 word count) to [log in to unmask] by August 15, 2018.
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