E. Chilton - Publications - Anthropology

Elizabeth S. Chilton

Department Chair, Professor

Department of Anthropology
UMass Amherst

Select Publications

Books and Monographs

2010	Nantucket and Other Native Places (first editor, with Mary Lynne Rainey). SUNY Press and the Massachusetts Archaeological Society.
2003	Cultural Continuity in Native New England (second editor; with Holly Herbster). Peer-reviewed, edited volume, special issue of the journal Northeast Anthropology, Vol. 64. Ten chapters by invited authors.
1999	Material Meanings: Critical Approaches to the Interpretation of Material Culture. Peer reviewed, edited volume. Nine chapters by invited contributors. Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry Series, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

Recent Chapters and Journal Articles

2010	“Mobile Farmers and Sedentary Models: Horticulture and Cultural Transitions in Late Woodland and Contact Period New England.” In Ancient Complexities: New Perspectives in Pre-Columbian North America, edited by Susan Alt. Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry Series, University of Utah Press.
2009	Re-locating Meaning in Heritage Archives: A Call for Participatory Heritage Databases, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of Computer Applications to Archaeology 2009 Williamsburg, Virginia, USA, March 22-26, 2009, pdf version.
2009	Building Collaborative Archaeologies from the Ground Up: Two Case Studies from New England. Collaborative Archaeologies 2:87-107.
2009	Before Hadley: Archaeology and Native History, 11,000 years ago to the Present, co-authored by Siobhan Hart, Elizabeth Chilton, and Christopher Donta. In Cultivating a Past: Essays on the History of Hadley, Massachusetts, edited by Marla Miller, pp. 43-67. University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst.
2009	Archaeology and Community Service Learning in the “Pioneer” Valley, co-authored by Elizabeth S. Chilton and Siobhan M. Hart. In Archaeology and Community Service Learning, edited by Michael S. Nassaney and Mary Ann. Levine, pp. 168-182. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
2008	So Little Maize, So Much Time: Understanding Maize Adoption in New England. In Current Northeast Ethnobotany II, edited by John P. Hart. New York State Museum, pp. 53-58.
2006	From the Ground Up: The Effects of Consultation on Archaeological Methods. In Cross-Cultural Collaboration: Native Peoples and Archaeology in the Northeastern United States, edited by Jordan Kerber. University of Nebraska Press.
2006	Pre-Contact Maize Horticulture in New England: A Summary of the Archaeological Evidence. In A Memorial Volume in Tribute to Elizabeth Alden Little (1926-2003), edited by Mary Lynne Rainey, published by the Nantucket Historical Society and the Massachusetts Archaeological Society. In press .
2006	The Origin and Spread of Maize (Zea Mayz) in New England. In Histories of Maize: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Prehistory, Biogeography, Domestication, and Evolution of Maize , edited by John Staller, Robert Tykot, and Bruce Benz, pp. 539-547. Elsevier.
2005	" A Reexamination of the DEDIC Paleo-Indian Site, Deerfield, Massachusetts," by Elizabeth Chilton , Tom Ulrich, and Niels Rinehart. Massachusetts Archaeological Society Bulletin 66(2):58-66 .
2004	Beyond 'Big': Gender, Age, and Subsistence Diversity in Paleo-Indian Societies. In The Settlement of the American Continents: a Multidisciplinary Approach to Human Biogeography , edited by C. M. Barton and G. A. Clark, D. Yesner, and G. Pearson, pp. 162-172. University of Arizona Press.
2004	Social Complexity in New England: AD 1000-1600. In North America Archaeology , edited by Timothy Pauketat and Diana Loren, pp. 138-160 . Blackwell Press, Studies in Global Archaeology Series.

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