Maria N Zedeno

Interests

Research

North American archaeology, prehistory to presentHunter-GatherersLandscape TheorySocial Theory

Teaching

Archaeology of North AmericaCulture Contact and ColonizationArchaeology and Descendant Communities

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Books

• Chandler, K., Murray, W., Zedeno, M. N., Clements, S., & Jones, J. (2017). The Winged: An Ethno-ornithology of the Upper Missouri River.. Tucson: University of Arizona Press - Anthropological Papers.

Chapters

• Zedeno, M. N., & Jansson, A. (2019). The bison hunting complex in the Northern Rocky Mountain Foothills.. In The Gazelle’s Dream: Game Drives across the Old and New Worlds, Paul van Pelt and Elizabeth Betts, editors. Sydney, Australia: Sydney University Press.
• Zedeno, M. N. (2015). Formation among Ancestral Bison Hunters of the Northwestern Plains. In Manipulating Prey: Development of Large Scale Hunting Events around the Globe (K Carlson and L. Bement, editors). Boulder: University Press of Colorado.
• Zedeno, M. N. (2017). Power at the Crossroads of Politics and Religion: A Commentary. In Religion and Politics in the Ancient Americas (Sarah Barber and Arthur Joyce, editors)(pp 284-302). Routledge, New York.
• Zedeno, M. N., & Scheiber, L. (2015). People and Mountains. In Engineering Mountain Landscapes: The Archaeology of Social Investment (Laura Scheiber and M. N. Zedeño, editors)(pp 186-192). University of Utah Press.
• Zedeno, M. N., Murray, W., & Chandler, K. (2018). The Inalienable-Commodity Continuum of Eagles and their Parts along the Missouri River. In Other-­than-­Human Agency and Personhood in Archaeology (Eleanor Harrison-­Buck and Julia Hendon, editors). University Press of Colorado, Boulder.
• Zedeno, M. N., Murray, W., & Murray, J. (2015). Central Places in the Back Country: Investment Scales and Community Formation among Blackfeet Hunters, Montana. In Engineering Mountain Landscapes: The Archaeology of Social Investment (Laura Scheiber and M. N. Zedeño, editors)(pp 7-22). University of Utah Press.
• Zedeno, M. N. (2017). the Impact of Abundance on the Rhythm of Bison Hunter Societies. Boulder.. In In Abundance: An Archaeological Analysis of Plentitude (Monica Smith, editor). University Press of Colorado.
• Zedeno, M. N. (2014). Journeys of Rediscovery: Archaeology, Territory, and Legitimacy in Contemporary Native Nevada. In Archaeology in the Great Basin and Southwest: Essays in Honor of Don D. Fowler (Nancy Parezo and Joel Janetski, editors).(pp 246-259). University of Utah Press.
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  It will appear in "Archaeology for All Times: Essays in Honor of Don D. Fowler," edited by N Parezo and J. Janetski.;Your Role: sole author;
• Zedeno, M. N. (2012). Methodological and Analytical Challenges in the Practice of Relational Archaeologies: A view from the hunting ground. In Relational Archaeologies (Christopher Watts, editor). Routledge.
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  It will appear in "Relational Archaeologies: Humans, Animals, and Things," edited by Christopher Watts.;Your Role: sole author;
• Zedeno, M. N. (2013). Methodological and Analytical Challenges in Relational Archaeologies: A View From the Hunting Ground. In In Relational Archaeologies (Christopher Watts, editor)(pp 117-134). Routledge, London.
• Zedeno, M. N. (2013). To Become a Mountain Hunter: Flexible Core Values and Subsistence Hunting among Reservation-Era Blackfeet. In In the Historical Ecology of Small-Scale Societies (V. Thompson and J. Waggoner, Jr., editors)(pp 141-167). Gainsville: University of Florida Press.
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  ;Your Role: sole author;Full Citation: Zedeño, M. N.2012 To Become a Mountain Hunter: Flexible Core Values and Subsistence Hunting among Reservation-Era Blackfeet. In 'The archaeology and Historical Ecology of Small Scale Economies,' edited by V. Thompson and J. Waggoner Jr., pp. 141-167. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.;

Journals/Publications

• Zedeno, M. N., Lanoe, F., Soza, D., & Jansson, A. (2019). McKean in the Northern Rocky Mountain Front: economic outlook and ethnogenesis. Plains Anthropologist. doi:DOI: 10.1080/00320447.2019.1689347 To link to this article:
• Murray, W., Zedeno, M. N., Hollenback, K., Grinnell, C., & Crows Breast, E. (2011). The Remaking of Lake Sakakawea: Locating Cultural Viability in Negative Heritage on the Missouri River. American Ethnologist, 38(3), 468-483.
• Feathers, J. K., Zedeno, M. N., Todd, L. C., & Aaberg, S. (2017). Dating Stone Alignments by Luminescence. Advances in Archaeological Practice, 3(4), 378-396..
• Zedeno, M. N. (2017). Art as the Road to Perfection: The Blackfoot Painted Tipi. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 27(4), 631-642.
• Zedeno, M. N. (2017). Bison Huntings and the Rocky Mountains: An Evolving Partnership. Quaternary International, 461, 80-101.
• Bethke, B., Zedeno, M. N., Jones, G., & Pailes, M. (2016). Complementary Approaches to the identification of bison processing for storage. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. Journal of Archaeological Sicence: Reports.
• Zedeno, M. N., Ballenger, J. A., & Murray, J. R. (2014). Landscape Engineering and Organizational Complexity among Late Prehistoric Bison Hunters of the Northwestern Plains. Current Anthropology, 55(1), 23-58.
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  ;Your Role: First author;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Jesse Ballenger is an Adjunt faculty member at the SOA.John Murray is the Blackfeet Tribal Historic Preservation Officer;

Presentations

• Zedeno, M. N. (2024, Fall). After the Ashfall: What disasters teach us about human attachments to the landscape. Public Lecture. Boon, NC: Appalachia State University, NC.
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  This public lecture focused on human attachments to volcanos and eruptions through deep time and present.Unfortunately, the completed lecture was cancelled 2 days before the date because of Hurrican Helene
• Zedeno, M. N. (2024, Fall). Philosophy is written with stone: Bison Hunter Architecture. Faculty Lecture Series. Boon, NC: Appalachia State University.
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  This completed presentation discussed philosophical principles that were materialized on stone architecture by precontact bison hunters.Unfortunately, this completed presentation was cancelled 3 days before due date because of Hurrican Helene
• Zedeno, M. N. (2024, May). The Blackfeet Tribal Historic Preservation Office - 20 years of collaboration. 2nd Blackfoot Archaeology Conference. Lethbridge, CA: Ironshirt Heritage, University of Lethbridge, University of Arizona, Blackfoot Confederacy.
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  Summary of collaborative projects and initiatives between the Blackfeet Nation and the Bureau of Applied Research In Anthropology, UArizona
• Zedeno, M. N., & Lanoe, F. B. (2024, May). The Blackfoot Early Origins Program. 2nd Blackfoot Archaeology Conference. Lethbridge: Ironshirt Heritage, University of Lethbridge, University of Arizona, Blackfoot Confederacy.
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  Summary of projects associated with the Blackfoot Early Origins Program which is a multi-year interdisciplinary collaboration with the Blackfoot members of the confederacy.
• Zedeno, M. N., Soza, D. R., & Edmo, K. (2024, May). Blackfoot Research by Graduate Students. 2nd Blackfoot Archaeology Conference. Lethbridge, CA: Ironshirt heritage, University of Lethbridge, University of Arizona, Blackfoot Confederacy.
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  This presentation summarized all University of Arizona research by graduate students that delved on Blackfoot Archaeology, History, Ethnography, and Education. Two recent works were showcased by K Edmo and D. Soza
• Zedeno, M. N. (2022). 2022       Collaboration in Archaeological Practice. Plenary presentation, American Institute of Archaeology, Annual Meeting, . American Institute of Archaeology.
• Zedeno, M. N. (2022). Badger-Two Medicine Traditional Cultural District Documentation. Blackfeet Business Tribal Council, January. Blackfeet Tribal Business Council.
• Zedeno, M. N. (2022). From all sides a cairn for posterity: Ancient monuments and collective action strategies among bison hunters.  . 100th Anniversary of the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Conference, Ann Arbor. (with Francois Lanoe) October.
• Zedeno, M. N. (2022). The petroformed landscape of the Blackfoot. . The Power of Stones, University of Israel, Tel Aviv. (Francois Lanoe, lead author) September.
• Zedeno, M. N. (2022). “We want you to do science for us”  Archaeology at the Service of Bison Hunters. Keynote address. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association, Edmonton. May.
• Zedeno, M. N. (2022, April). Blackfoot Early Origins.  . Department of Archaeology Simon Fraser Universityy.. Department of Archaeology Simon Fraser Universityy..
• Zedeno, M. N. (2022, March). 2022       Reimagining the Plains Archaic. Symposium paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. March (With Francois Lanoe) March. Society for American Archaeology. Chicago.
• Zedeno, M. N. (2022, Spring). After the Ashfall: What ancient disasters can teach us about human attachments to the landscape. Keynote address . International Mountain Conference, Innsbruck, Austria.
• Zedeno, M. N. (2020). Early colonization of the Northern Rocky Mountain Front. . Department of Anthropology and Museum of the North, University of Alaska Fairbanks (co-presented with F. Lanoe)..
• Zedeno, M. N. (2012, Spring). Landscape Engineering and Organizational Complexity among Late Prehistoric Bison Hunters of the Northwestern Plains. Keynote Address, Montana Archaeological Society Meetings.
• Zedeno, M. N. (2013, Spring). Bison Hunting as a Social Institution: A Bird's Eye View. Public Lecture: Archaeological Institute of America Distinguished Archaeologist Lecture. University of Colorado-Boulder.
• Zedeno, M. N. (2013, Spring). Relational Archaeology, Indigenous Archaeology, and the Challenges of Application. Public Lecture: Departmental Lecture, Anthropology Department,. University of Colorado-Boulder.
• Zedeno, M. N. (2014, March). Ethnographic Landscapes. Public Lecture: Montana Preservation Alliance Annual Road Show.
• Zedeno, M. N. (2015, September). Boundary Biographies and Geopolitical Histories of North America's Mobile Big Game Hunters. Conference on Hunter Gatherer Research.
• Zedeno, M. N. (2017, September). Cooperation and Order among Communal Bison Hunters. Public Lecture: Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
• Zedeno, M. N. (2017, Spring). Cooperation and Order among Communal Bison Hunters in the Northwestern Plains. Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting.
• Zedeno, M. N., Lanoe, F., Soza, D., Jansson, A., & Thompson, A. (2017, October). Archaic Occupation at Billy Big Springs, Montana.. Plains Anthropological Society Annual Meeting.
• Zedeno, M. N., Pailes, M., Lanoe, F., & Daughtrey, C. (2015, Spring). Coming-for-the-Bison, Going-to-the-Sun: Evolution and Significance of Staging Places on the Northern Rocky Mountain Front. Annual Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology.
• Zedeno, M. N., Roos, C., & Hollenback, K. (2014, Fall). Alluvial and Colluvial Records Of Multi-Centennial Fire Histories from Blackfoot Country. Plains Anthropological Conference.
• Zedeno, M. N. (2012, 2012-04-01). Methodological and Analytical Challenges in the Practice of Relational Archaeology. Society for American Archaeology. Memphis, TN.
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• Zedeno, M. N. (2012, 2012-05-01). Landscape Engineering and Organizational Complexity among Late Prehistoric Bison Hunters of the Northwestern Plains. Montana Archaeological Society. Helena, MT.
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  Keynote Address to the MAS;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Invited/Plenary Speaker;
• Zedeno, M. N., & Ballenger, J. (2012, 2012-10-01). Horizontal Monumentality and Organizational Complexity among Bison Hunters of the NW Plains. Plains Anthropological Conference. Saskatoon, CA.
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• Zedeno, M. N., Ballenger, J., & Miller, S. (2012, 2012-04-01). Horizontan Monumentality: The planning, construction, and maintenance of Late Prehistoric Bison Drive Lines. Society for American Archaeology. Memphis, Tn.
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  ;Your Role: second author;Invited: Yes;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference/Workshop;

Poster Presentations

• Zedeno, M. N. (2021). After the Ashfall: Early Archaic Reoccupation of the Northern Rocky Mountain Front. . Plains Anthropological Conference Poster. University of Colorado Boulder October.

Others

• Zedeno, M. N. (2020, November). Snake Butte Traditional Cultural Property Nomination. Report Prepared for the BIA.
• Bethke, B., Daughtrey, C., & Zedeno, M. N. (2014, November). An Archaeological Excavation of Two Tipi Rings and One Cairn for the Proposed Reroute of State Highway 89, 24GL942 and 24GL943, Glacier County, Montana. Prepared for the Montana Department of Transportation and the Blackfeet Tribe.
• Daughtrey, C., White, W., & Zedeno, M. N. (2015, November). Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota - Ethnographic Resource Inventory. Prepared for the NPS Midwest Regional Office, Omaha, NE.
• Zedeno, M. N. (2011, November). Presettlement Fire Regimes And Aboriginal Fire Uses In The Kootenai National Forest, Northwestern Rocky Mountains, Montana (with B. Timmons). Prepared for Joint Fire Science Research Program of the Dept. of Geology and Dept. of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder.
• Zedeno, M. N., Daughtrey, C., Ballenger, J., Lanoe, F., Pailes, M., Bethke, B., & White, B. (2016, November). Final Report - Emergency Excavations at the St Mary River Bridge Site (24GL203), Glacier National Park, Montana.. Prepared for Glacier National Park, Blackfeet Tribe, and Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribe, Montana.
• Zedeno, M. N., Jansson, A., Lanoe, F., & Thompson, A. (2017, December). Annual Report- Archaeological Excavations at the Billy Big Springs Site, Blackfeet Indian Reservation, MT.
• Zedeno, M. N., Miller, S., & Hollenback, K. L. (2011, November). Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore and the Inland Consent Decree of 2007: Natural Resource Management and Tribal Access Considerations: Final Report. Prepared for the National Park Service, Midwest Region.
• Zedeno, M. N., Moore, K., Murray, W., Clements, S., & Jones, R. (2013, November). The Wingeds: A Missouri River Ethno-Ornithology. Final Report prepared for the National Park Service, Midwestern Regional Office.
• Zedeno, M. N., Roos, C., & Hollenback, K. (2017, October). Bison Hunting and Prairie Fires: A View from the Northwestern Plains. National Science Foundation Workshop Environmental History of the Great Plains.
• Scheiber, L., & Zedeno, M. N. (2012, November). Engineering Mountain Landscapes Archaeology of Social Investment.
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  The book manuscript is almost completed and will be submitted to UAP by April 2013.;Other collaborative: Yes;Please specify if you select "Other collaborative" : Coedited with Laura Scheiber, University of Indiana-Bloomington;Full Citation: Scheiber, Laura and M. N. Zedeñond Engineering Mountain Landscapes Archaeology of Social Investment. Will be submitted to the University of Utah Press.;Status: Paper in Preparation;
• Zedeno, M. N. (2012). Lower Missouri/Niobrara National Scenic Rivers - Ethnographic overview and assessment.
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  ;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Please specify if you select "Other collaborative" : Several Lower Missouri River Tribes in SD and NE;Full Citation: no citation yet; report is almost completed, not submitted yet.;Status: Paper in Preparation;
• Zedeno, M. N., & Clements, S. (2012). Glacier Ice Patches and the Blackfeet.
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  ;Your Role: second author;Full Citation: Clements, S. M., and M. N. Zedeño, and John R. Murray2012 Glacier Ice Patches and the Blackfeet. Report prepared for Robert Kelly, University of Wyoming, Laramie. BARA, SOA, University of Arizona, Tucson.;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Collaborative with staff member and Blackfeet THPO;
• Zedeno, M. N., & Moore, K. (2012). Traditional Cultural Property Evaluation for Kootenai Falls, Montana.
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  ;Your Role: First author;Full Citation: Zedeño, M. N., K. Moore, and, (alphabetically)2012 Traditional Cultural Property Evaluation for Kootenai Falls. Prepared for Kootenai National Forest, Montana under Agreement No. 10PA11015600021. Bureau of Applied Research In Anthropology, School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson.;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Graduate students who worked on this project as part of their ANTH 606 assignment are coauthors of this report.;
• Zedeno, M. N., & Moore, K. (2012). Traditional Property Evaluation for Chicago Peak, Montana.
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  ;Your Role: First Author;Full Citation: Zedeño, M. N. and K. Moore2012 Traditional Cultural Property Evaluation and National Register Nomination Prepared for Rebecca Timmons, Kootenai National Forest, MontanaUS Forest Service Contract Agreement 11CS11011400023. BARA, SOA, University of Arizona, Tucson.;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;
• Zedeno, M. N., & Murray, J. R. (2012). Badger-Two Medicine Traditional Cultural District - Boundary Expansion Study.
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  ;Your Role: First author;Full Citation: Zedeño, M. N. and J. R. Murray2012 Badger-Two Medicine Traditional Cultural District - Boundary Expansion Study. Prepared for the Lewis & Clark National Forest, Montana. BARA, SOA, University of Arizona, Tucson.;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Blackfeet Tribal Historic Preservation Office, Blackfeet Community College, and Blackfeet Tribe;
• Zedeno, M. N., Ballenger, J., Reitze, W., Laluk, N., & Jones, R. (2012). THE KUTOYIS (TWO MEDICINE) BISON HUNTING COMPLEX Two Medicine River, Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Glacier County, Montana Field Report of the Kutoyis Archaeological Project (KAP) 2007-2012.
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  ;Your Role: First author;Full Citation: Zedeño, M. N., J. Ballenger, W. Reitze, N. Laluk, and R. Jones2012 THE KUTOYIS (TWO MEDICINE) BISON HUNTING COMPLEX Two Medicine River, Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Glacier County, Montana. Final Report of the Kutoyis Archaeological Project (KAP) 2007-2012. Prepared for the Blackfeet Historic Preservation Office, the National Park Service Grants Number 30-07-NA-3015 & 30-09-NA-3017, and the National Science Foundation BCS-0918081. BARA, SOA, University of Arizona, Tucson.;Collaborative with graduate student: Yes;Collaborative with faculty member in unit: Yes;