The Hegemony of Archaeological Cartography

Sissel Schroeder, chair and professor, Department of Anthropology, UW–Madison. Nineteenth-century field surveys of earthen monuments were the basis of maps developed with a Eurocentric understanding of history and an emphasis on descriptive elements. These depictions helped establish a timeless view of the past that persists today in some interpretations and depictions of mound sites. Sissel will examine the history of the Aztalan mounds site interpretations as an example.