Archaeology of Seafaring in Small-Scale Societies

Alberto García-Piquer is a postdoctoral scholar at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. Mikael Fauvelle is associate professor of archaeology and ancient history at Lund University. Fauvelle is coeditor of An Archaeology of Abundance: Reevaluating the Marginality of California’s Islands. Colin Grier is professor of anthropology at Washington State University.Contributors: Bettina Schulz Paulsson Peter Jordan Jordi A. Rivera Prince Matthew Des Lauriers Colin Grier Greer Jarrett Mikael Fauvelle Nelson Aguilera Peter Whitridge Claudia García-Des Lauriers Alberto García-Piquer Raquel Piqué Adam Rorabaugh Erin Smith Victor D. Thompson

• List of Figures ixList of Tables xiiiForeword xvAcknowledgments xvii1. Why Boats Matter: Breaking Down Terrestrial Bias in Archaeology 1Mikael Fauvelle, Alberto García-Piquer, and Colin Grier2. Navigating Paradigms: Seafaring, Settlement Patterns, and Social Interaction in Southernmost South America 17Alberto García-Piquer3. Seascapes of the Unreal: Using Agent-Based Modeling to Examine Traditional Coast Salish Maritime Mobility 43Adam N. Rorabaugh4. Were Sperm Whales Hunted by Megalithic Communities in Brittany, France, During the Fifth Millennium cal BCE? 58Bettina Schulz Paulsson5. Seascapes and Society on the Forgotten Peninsula: The Watercraft and Conceptual Geography of Baja California, Mexico 77Matthew R. Des Lauriers and Claudia García-Des Lauriers6. Kanči: Indigenous Seafaring, Watercraft Diversity, and Cultural Contact in Southern Patagonia 94Nelson Aguilera Águila, Alberto García-Piquer, and Raquel Piqué7. Collective Action, Transport Costs, Watercraft Technologies, and the Engineered Ancestral Landscapes of Southern Florida 115Victor D. Thompson8. The Transformative Power of Boats: Seafaring, Maritime Interaction, and Social Complexity 134Mikael Fauvelle and Peter Jordan9. Going by Boat-Being: An Indigenous Ontological Approach to Watercraft in the Pacific Northwest Coast 149Erin M. Smith10. Precontact Inuit Watercraft and the Hunter–Prey Actantial Hinge 172Peter Whitridge11. Caballito de Totora Assemblages in Ancient and Modern Huanchaco, Peru 199Jordi A. Rivera Prince12. Toward, Not To: Seafaring Worldviews from Viking Age and High Medieval Norway 219Greer Jarrett13. Negotiating Watery Worlds: Crafting a Research Agenda 243Colin Grier, Mikael Fauvelle, and Alberto García-PiquerList of Contributors 261Index 263