The Archaeology of Anxiety

The Archaeology of Anxiety

Jeffrey Fleisher Neil Norman Editors The Archaeology of Anxiety The Materiality of Anxiousness, Worry, and Fear

Editors Jeffrey Fleisher Department of Anthropology Rice University Houston, TX, USA Neil Norman Department of Anthropology College of William and Mary Williamsburg, VA, USA ISBN 978-1-4939-3230-6 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4939-3231-3 ISBN 978-1-4939-3231-3 (ebook) Library of Congress Control Number: 2015955734 Springer New York Heidelberg Dordrecht London Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer Science+Business Media LLC New York is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Contents 1 Archaeologies of Anxiety: The Materiality of Anxiousness, Worry, and Fear... 1 Jeffrey Fleisher and Neil Norman 2 The Importance of Getting It Right: Tracing Anxiety in Mesolithic Burial Rituals... 21 Liv Nilsson Stutz 3 Risky Business: A Life Full of Obligations to the Dead and the Living on the Early Bronze Age Southeastern Dead Sea Plain, Jordan... 41 Meredith S. Chesson 4 Hid in Death s Dateless Night: The Lure of an Uncanny Landscape in Bronze Age Anatolia... 67 Tim Flohr Sørensen and Stephen Lumsden 5 Feet of Clay: An Archaeology of Huedan Elite Anxiety in the Era of Atlantic Trade... 95 Neil L. Norman 6 Communities of Anxiety: Gathering and Dwelling at Causewayed Enclosures in the British Neolithic... 121 Oliver J.T. Harris 7 Bodily Protection: Dress, Health, and Anxiety in Colonial New England... 141 Diana DiPaolo Loren v

vi Contents 8 Ritualized Coping During War: Conflict, Congregation, and Emotions at the Late Pre- Hispanic Fortress of Acaray... 157 Margaret Brown Vega 9 Concern ing Contributions to This Volume... 187 Susan Kus Index... 213

Contributors Margaret Brown Vega Department of Anthropology, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN, USA Meredith S. Chesson Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA Jeffrey Fleisher Department of Anthropology, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Oliver J.T. Harris School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK Susan Kus Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, USA Diana DiPaolo Loren Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA Stephen Lumsden Department of the Ancient Cultures of Denmark and the Mediterranean, The National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark Liv Nilsson Stutz Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA Neil L. Norman Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA Tim Flohr Sørensen The Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark vii

About the Editors Jeffrey Fleisher (B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Virginia) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Rice University in Houston, Texas. His regional specialty is on the ancient Swahili coast of eastern Africa, focusing on the development of first and second millennium urban centers there. His past research has focused on the ancient settlements of rural and non-elite Swahili, and their connections and contributions to urban developments. Currently, he directs a long-term project at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Songo Mnara in southern Tanzania, focusing on the use of open and public space. Neil Norman (B.A., Flagler College; M.A., University of South Carolina; Ph.D., University of Virginia) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA. His specialties are the archaeology of social complexity and historical archaeology. At present, he directs the Savi Countryside Archaeological Project (Republic of Benin) and the Africatown Archaeological Project (Mobile, Alabama) and co-directs the Later Zanzibar Archaeological Project (Republic of Tanzania). ix