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Mon, Jan 09 2012 09:36:42

Death, Burial, and the Liminal: Identities at Fort Ross, California

presented by Sandra Hollimon (Santa Rosa Junior College)

  1. BoneGirlPhD
    BoneGirlPhD@
    Now tweeting: Sandra Hollimon, Death, burial, and the liminal: identities at Fort Ross, California #bioarchaeology #osteobiography #aiaapa
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 13:45:00
  2. BoneGirlPhD
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    Hollimon - Russian American Company active in early 1800s in Alaska, but also down to northern California (pelts of marine mammals) #aiaapa
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 13:46:18
  3. BoneGirlPhD
    BoneGirlPhD@
    Hollimon - Russians took pops of native Alaskans and brought them to No. California to hunt sea lions = multiethnic community #aiaapa
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 13:47:54
  4. BoneGirlPhD
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    Hollimon - Russian administrators, native Alaskans, Coast Miwok, Kashaya Pomo = lots of diversity #aiaapa
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 13:48:23
  5. BoneGirlPhD
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    Hollimon - Distinct ethnic neighborhoods around stockade of Ft Ross, CA #aiaapa
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 13:51:33
  6. BoneGirlPhD
    BoneGirlPhD@
    Hollimon - Small village of Russians, small native Alaskan neighborhood, larger native Californian neighborhood (Kashaya and Miwok) #aiaapa
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 13:53:30
  7. BoneGirlPhD
    BoneGirlPhD@
    Hollimon - Interesting burial at intersection of three neighborhoods at Fort Ross #aiaapa
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 13:54:16
  8. BoneGirlPhD
    BoneGirlPhD@
    Hollimon - Burial discovery was accidental (park visitor noticed the human remains eroding out of bank) #aiaapa
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 13:54:54
  9. BoneGirlPhD
    BoneGirlPhD@
    Hollimon - Skeleton was well preserved b/c wasn't buried in a coffin like burials in Russian Orthodox cemetery #aiaapa
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 13:55:46
  10. BoneGirlPhD
    BoneGirlPhD@
    It occurs to me that it's appropriate to listen to Hollimon's talk on burial outside of Russian Orthodox cemetery on Orthodox Xmas! #aiaapa
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 13:56:34
  11. BoneGirlPhD
    BoneGirlPhD@
    Hollimon - Reminding audience of the definition of liminal, and the fact that different burial does not necessarily = social deviant #aiaapa
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 13:58:30
  12. BoneGirlPhD
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    Hollimon - In odd Ft Ross burial, placement doesn't follow Russian Orthodoxy - why? #aiaapa
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 13:59:00
  13. BoneGirlPhD
    BoneGirlPhD@
    Hollimon - Native Californian cultures had an idea of crossing a water barrier = proper burial #aiaapa
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 13:59:46
  14. BoneGirlPhD
    BoneGirlPhD@
    Hollimon - No evidence of orthodox cross placed at feet; means person likely wasn't Russian Orthodox #aiaapa
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 14:00:27
  15. BoneGirlPhD
    BoneGirlPhD@
    Hollimon - Natives cremated before contact, interred after contact with Russian Orthodox #aiaapa
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 14:01:20
  16. BoneGirlPhD
    BoneGirlPhD@
    Hollimon - Individual too tall and robust for a Native CA/AK man; but dental wear looks native #aiaapa
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 14:02:46
  17. BoneGirlPhD
    BoneGirlPhD@
    Hollimon - Got permission to do mtDNA analysis (whoa!) = maternal ancestry from Alaska #aiaapa
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 14:03:11
  18. BoneGirlPhD
    BoneGirlPhD@
    Hollimon - Man had native Alaskan mother; brought to California by Russians; was with a native Californian woman... #aiaapa
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 14:03:44
  19. BoneGirlPhD
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    Hollimon - ...who fed him local food, so he had local dental wear #aiaapa
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 14:04:53
  20. BoneGirlPhD
    BoneGirlPhD@
    Hollimon - Body as material culture (hat tip to J. Sofaer) #aiaapa
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 14:05:26
  21. BoneGirlPhD
    BoneGirlPhD@
    Hollimon - Identities at Fort/Colony Ross: promyshlenniki (contract workers), indigenous peoples, creole (mixed identities) #aiaapa
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 14:07:36
  22. BoneGirlPhD
    BoneGirlPhD@
    Hollimon - Cultural construction of identity and biological information about ancestry aren't one and the same #aiaapa
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 14:09:53
  23. BoneGirlPhD
    BoneGirlPhD@
    Hollimon - Not being baptized in the Russian Orthodox faith likely led to the unusual burial disposition of this individual #aiaapa
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 14:11:42
  24. BoneGirlPhD
    BoneGirlPhD@
    Hollimon - "Fort Ross Man" was reburied along with collaboration with native AK groups, Russian Orthodox #aiaapa
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 14:12:13
  25. BoneGirlPhD
    BoneGirlPhD@
    ? for Hollimon - You were able to do DNA on native remains? Answer: Close consultation with local groups, adherence to NAGPRA #aiaapa
    Sat, Jan 07 2012 14:14:13

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I see (Roman) dead people. Researcher and teacher of archaeology, bioanthropology, and classics. PI of the http://RomanDNAProject.org.

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