ANTH 201 Lecture 12: Settlement patterns, spatial analysis and identifying activities
25 Feb 2019
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Barbara voss: to understand colonialism, we must actually address sexuality. If we don"t address it we get a partial and inaccurate process of cultural change. Her work uses both archaeological and historical lines. Presidios = designed to suppress native resistance and guard against natives. Missions = to assimilate them to catholicism. Sex outside of marriage was not stigmatized in any way during the conquest of california. Soldiers raped native women despite it being illegal and were rarely incarcerated. Rape was used as an act of war at the time. Voss knew you couldn"t find rape archaeologically, but you could find defensive patterns used against rape attacks. Pre-contact, the dwellings were in the center and public areas such as sweat houses were on the periphery of settlements. ---> settlement patterns can help us understand phenomena that occurred in the past, such as rape. Inaa [instrumental neutron activation analysis] typically used for pottery, xrd [x-ray diffraction], xrf.
