Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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978-1-5381-2829-9 • Hardback • June 2019 • $129.00 • (£99.00)
978-1-5381-5840-1 • Paperback • May 2021 • $40.00 • (£30.00)
978-1-5381-2830-5 • eBook • June 2019 • $38.00 • (£30.00)
Jack Rossen received his PhD from the University of Kentucky. He was Professor of Anthropology and Co-Founder of Native American Studies at Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY and taught in the Master’s Program in Heritage Management at the University of Hawai`i at Hilo. He began work on collaborative archaeology and community projects with the Cayuga and Onondaga Nations in what is now central New York in 1998. He currently works with the non-profit History Flight in Kiribati, supervising excavations of MIA U.S. Servicemen from the Battle of Tarawa.
Chapter 1: Levanna: A Nexus of Stories and IssuesChapter 2. Pulling Down the Pillars: Early Investigations at Levanna (1922-1941)Chapter 3. Indigenous Archaeology, the Age of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the Use of Oral Traditions Chapter 4: The 2007 to 2009 Levanna ExcavationsChapter 5: Further Reinterpretation of the Cayuga: The Myers Farm siteChapter 6. Conclusions: Chasing the Ghosts of the Old -Time New York Archaeologists
Rossen offers an exemplary example of what archaeology has to offer beyond the familiar realms of artifact description and interpretation. His reinvestigation of Levanna offers a fresh telling of its history, transforming it from a dusty archaeological assemblage to an expression of the still-vibrant living tradition of Cayuga descendants. This is an outstanding example of community based research that foregrounds heritage values while maintaining archaeological rigor
— George Nicholas, Professor and Chair, Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University