Publications
ARTICLES
(*peer reviewed)
2021. Acabado, S.B. and M. Martin. Writing for the Public: Advancing a Meaningful Archaeological Practice. Backdirt: Annual Review of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, pp. 6-8.
2021. Acabado, S.B. and M. Martin. 2021. Archaeology and the Impermanence of Science. Backdirt: Annual Review of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, pp. 88-91.
*Acabado, S.B. and M. Martin. 2020. Decolonizing the Past, Empowering the Future: Community-led Heritage Conservation in Ifugao, Philippines. Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage, 7(3):1-15, DOI: 10.1080/20518196.2020.1767383
Acabado, S.B. and M. Martin. 2020. Colonial Resistance through Political and Economic Consolidation: The Short History of the Ifugao rice Terraces. In More Hispanic than we Admit 3: Quincentennial Edition, 1521-1820 Filipino and Spanish Interactions over Centuries, J. Mojaro (ed), pp. 407-422. Quezon City, Vibal.
Acabado S.B. and D-w. Kuan. 2021. Landscape, Habitus and Identity: A Comparative Study on the Agricultural Transition of Highland Indigenous Communities in Philippines and Taiwan. In Indigenous Knowledge in Taiwan and Beyond, S. Shih and L. Tsai (eds). Singapore: Springer.
Yakal, M., C.M. Lising, E. Bobis, and S. Acabado. 2020. Education and Heritage Conservation in the Philippines: Archaeology’s Role in Curricular Change (Part 2). The Archaeological Record: Society for American Archaeology Newsletter 20(4): 33-37.
Acabado, S.B. 2020. Current Archaeological Practice in Southeast Asia: Collaboration, Engagement, and Community Involvement in Field Research in Southeast Asia. Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage, 7(3), DOI: 10.1080/20518196.2020.1767370
Yakal, M., C.M. Lising, M. Martin, and S. Acabado. 2020. Education and Heritage Conservation in the Philippines: Archaeology’s Role in Curricular Change (Part 1). The Archaeological Record: Society for American Archaeology Newsletter 20(3): 6-11.
Acabado, S. and E. Hsieh. 2020. East and Southeast Asia at the Age of Contact: Post-1500 Archaeology of Asia. In Handbook of Historical Archaeology, C. Orser, A. Zarankin, P. Funari, S. Lawrence, and J. Symonds (eds), pp. 698-711. New York, Routledge.
Acabado, S.B. and G. Barretto-Tesoro. 2020. Places, Landscapes, and Identity: Place Making in the Colonial Period Philippines. In The Global Spanish Empire: Five Hundred Years of Place Making and Pluralism (Amerind Studies in Archaeology), C. Beaule and J. Douglass (eds), pp. 200-221. Tucson, University of Arizona Press.
M. Martin, S.B. Acabado, and R. Macapagal. 2019. Hongan di Pa'ge: The Sacredness and Realism of Terraced Landscape in Ifugao Culture, Philippines. In Indigenous Perspectives on Living with Cultural Landscapes, J. Liljeblad and B. Verschuuren (eds.), pp. 167-179. London, Routledge.
*Acabado, S.B., J.M. Koller, C-h. Liu, A.J. Lauer, A. Farahani, G. Barretto-Tesoro, M.C. Reyes, J.A. Martin, and J.A. Peterson. 2019. The Short History of the Ifugao Rice Terraces: A Local Response to the Spanish Conquest. Journal of Field Archaeology 44(3): 195-214.
*Acabado, S.B. 2018. Zones of Refuge: Resisting conquest in the northern Philippine highlands through environmental practice. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2018.05.005
Acabado, S.B. and M. Martin. 2018. The Ifugao Agroecological System: Bridging Culture and Nature to Enhance Tropical Biodiversity. In Exploring Networks for Tropical Forest Conservation: Integrating Natural and Cultural Diversity for Sustainability, A Global Perspective, N. Sanz (ed), pp. 228-253. UNESCO Office Mexico.
*Acabado, S.B., G. Barretto-Tesoro, and N. Amano. 2018. Agricultural intensification, status differentiation, and pottery production in precapitalist Kiyyangan, Ifugao, Philippines. Archaeological Research in Asia, 15: 55-69.
*M. Horrocks, S.B. Acabado, and J.A. Peterson. 2018. Plant Microfossil Results from Old Kiyyangan Village: Looking for the Introduction and Expansion of Wet-field Rice (Oryza sativa) Cultivation in the Ifugao Rice Terraces, Philippine Cordilleras. Asian Perspectives 58(1): 1-18.
Acabado, S. and M. Martin. (2018). The Ifugao Agroecological System: Bridging Culture and Nature to Enhance Tropical Biodiversity. In Exploring Networks for Tropical Forest Conservation: Integrating Natural, Cultural Diversity for Sustainability, A Global Perspective, N. Sanz (ed), pp. 228-253. UNESCO Office in Mexico.
*Lapeña, Q. and S.B. Acabado. 2017. Resistance through rituals: The role of Philippine “native pig” (Sus scrofa) in Ifugao feasting and socio-political organization. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 13: 583-294.
*Acabado, S.B., M. Martin, and F. Datar. 2017. Ifugao Archaeology: Collaborative and Indigenous Archaeology in the Northern Philippines. Advances in Archaeological Practice 5(1): 1-11.
*Acabado, S.B. 2017. The Archaeology of Pericolonialism: Responses of the "Unconquered" to Spanish Conquest and Colonialism in Ifugao, Philippines. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 21: 1-26.
*Acabado, S.B. and M. Martin. 2016. The Sacred and the Secular: Practical Applications of Water Rituals in the Ifugao Water Systems. TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, Available on CJO 2016 doi:10.1017/trn.2016.7.
*Peterson, J.A. and S.B. Acabado. 2015. Did the Little Ice Age Contribute to the Emergence of Rice Terrace Farming in Ifugao, Philippines? National Museum Journal of Cultural Heritage 1(1): 1-10.
*Eusebio, M., J. Ceron, S.B. Acabado, and J. Krigbaum. 2015. Rice Pots or Not? Exploring Ancient Ifugao Foodways through Organic Residue Analysis and Paleoethnobotany. National Museum Journal of Cultural Heritage 1(1): 11-20.
*Ledesma, C.P., N. Amano, and S.B. Acabado. 2015. Faunal Remains from the Old Kiyyangan Village. National Museum Journal of Cultural Heritage 1(1): 21-30.
*Lauer, J. and S.B. Acabado. 2015. Infant Death and Burial Practices in Late Prehistoric Kiyyangan Village, Ifugao. National Museum Journal of Cultural Heritage 1(1): 31-38.
*Martin, M. and S.B. Acabado. 2015. Community Participation in the Ifugao Archaeological Project. National Museum Journal of Cultural Heritage 1(1): 39-45.
*Acabado, S.B., M. Martin, and A. Lauer. 2015. The Ifugao Archaeological Project. Backdirt: Annual Review of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, pp. 54-61.
*Acabado, S.B. and M. Martin. 2015. Between pragmatism and cultural context: Continuity and change in Ifugao wet-rice agriculture. In Water and heritage: Material, conceptual, and spiritual connections, W. Willems and H. van Schaik (eds), pp. 273-295. Leiden: Sidestone Press.
Acabado, S.B., M. Martin, and A. Lauer. 2014. Rethinking History, Conserving Heritage: Archaeology and Community Engagement in Ifugao, Philippines. The SAA Archaeological Record, Nov. 2014, 14(5): 12-17.
*Acabado, S.B. 2013. Defining Ifugao Social Organization: “House”, Field, and Self-Organizing Principles in the Northern Philippines. Asian Perspectives 52(2): 161-189.
*Acabado, S.B. 2012. The Ifugao Agricultural Landscapes: Complementary Systems and the Intensification Debate. Journal Of Southeast Asian Studies 43(3): 500-522.
*Acabado, S.B. 2012. Taro Before Rice Terraces: Implications of Radiocarbon Determinations, Ethnohistoric Reconstructions, and Ethnography in Dating the Ifugao Terraces. In M. Spriggs, D. Addison, And P.J. Matthews (Eds), Irrigated Taro (Colocassia Esculenta) in the Indo-Pacific: Biological And Historical Perspectives. Senri Ethnological Studies. Vol (N.D.). National Museum of Ethnology: Osaka.
*Acabado, S.B. 2010. Landscapes and the Archaeology of the Ifugao Agricultural Terraces: Establishing Antiquity and Social Organisation. Hukay: Journal for Archaeological Research in Asia and the Pacific, 15: 31-61.
Acabado, S.B. 2010. The Archaeology of the Ifugao Agricultural Terraces: Antiquity and Social Organization. Phd Dissertation, University of Hawaii.
*Acabado, S.B. 2009. A Bayesian Approach to Dating Agricultural Terraces: A Case from the Philippines. Antiquity 83(2009): 801-814.
(*peer reviewed)
2021. Acabado, S.B. and M. Martin. Writing for the Public: Advancing a Meaningful Archaeological Practice. Backdirt: Annual Review of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, pp. 6-8.
2021. Acabado, S.B. and M. Martin. 2021. Archaeology and the Impermanence of Science. Backdirt: Annual Review of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, pp. 88-91.
*Acabado, S.B. and M. Martin. 2020. Decolonizing the Past, Empowering the Future: Community-led Heritage Conservation in Ifugao, Philippines. Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage, 7(3):1-15, DOI: 10.1080/20518196.2020.1767383
Acabado, S.B. and M. Martin. 2020. Colonial Resistance through Political and Economic Consolidation: The Short History of the Ifugao rice Terraces. In More Hispanic than we Admit 3: Quincentennial Edition, 1521-1820 Filipino and Spanish Interactions over Centuries, J. Mojaro (ed), pp. 407-422. Quezon City, Vibal.
Acabado S.B. and D-w. Kuan. 2021. Landscape, Habitus and Identity: A Comparative Study on the Agricultural Transition of Highland Indigenous Communities in Philippines and Taiwan. In Indigenous Knowledge in Taiwan and Beyond, S. Shih and L. Tsai (eds). Singapore: Springer.
Yakal, M., C.M. Lising, E. Bobis, and S. Acabado. 2020. Education and Heritage Conservation in the Philippines: Archaeology’s Role in Curricular Change (Part 2). The Archaeological Record: Society for American Archaeology Newsletter 20(4): 33-37.
Acabado, S.B. 2020. Current Archaeological Practice in Southeast Asia: Collaboration, Engagement, and Community Involvement in Field Research in Southeast Asia. Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage, 7(3), DOI: 10.1080/20518196.2020.1767370
Yakal, M., C.M. Lising, M. Martin, and S. Acabado. 2020. Education and Heritage Conservation in the Philippines: Archaeology’s Role in Curricular Change (Part 1). The Archaeological Record: Society for American Archaeology Newsletter 20(3): 6-11.
Acabado, S. and E. Hsieh. 2020. East and Southeast Asia at the Age of Contact: Post-1500 Archaeology of Asia. In Handbook of Historical Archaeology, C. Orser, A. Zarankin, P. Funari, S. Lawrence, and J. Symonds (eds), pp. 698-711. New York, Routledge.
Acabado, S.B. and G. Barretto-Tesoro. 2020. Places, Landscapes, and Identity: Place Making in the Colonial Period Philippines. In The Global Spanish Empire: Five Hundred Years of Place Making and Pluralism (Amerind Studies in Archaeology), C. Beaule and J. Douglass (eds), pp. 200-221. Tucson, University of Arizona Press.
M. Martin, S.B. Acabado, and R. Macapagal. 2019. Hongan di Pa'ge: The Sacredness and Realism of Terraced Landscape in Ifugao Culture, Philippines. In Indigenous Perspectives on Living with Cultural Landscapes, J. Liljeblad and B. Verschuuren (eds.), pp. 167-179. London, Routledge.
*Acabado, S.B., J.M. Koller, C-h. Liu, A.J. Lauer, A. Farahani, G. Barretto-Tesoro, M.C. Reyes, J.A. Martin, and J.A. Peterson. 2019. The Short History of the Ifugao Rice Terraces: A Local Response to the Spanish Conquest. Journal of Field Archaeology 44(3): 195-214.
*Acabado, S.B. 2018. Zones of Refuge: Resisting conquest in the northern Philippine highlands through environmental practice. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2018.05.005
Acabado, S.B. and M. Martin. 2018. The Ifugao Agroecological System: Bridging Culture and Nature to Enhance Tropical Biodiversity. In Exploring Networks for Tropical Forest Conservation: Integrating Natural and Cultural Diversity for Sustainability, A Global Perspective, N. Sanz (ed), pp. 228-253. UNESCO Office Mexico.
*Acabado, S.B., G. Barretto-Tesoro, and N. Amano. 2018. Agricultural intensification, status differentiation, and pottery production in precapitalist Kiyyangan, Ifugao, Philippines. Archaeological Research in Asia, 15: 55-69.
*M. Horrocks, S.B. Acabado, and J.A. Peterson. 2018. Plant Microfossil Results from Old Kiyyangan Village: Looking for the Introduction and Expansion of Wet-field Rice (Oryza sativa) Cultivation in the Ifugao Rice Terraces, Philippine Cordilleras. Asian Perspectives 58(1): 1-18.
Acabado, S. and M. Martin. (2018). The Ifugao Agroecological System: Bridging Culture and Nature to Enhance Tropical Biodiversity. In Exploring Networks for Tropical Forest Conservation: Integrating Natural, Cultural Diversity for Sustainability, A Global Perspective, N. Sanz (ed), pp. 228-253. UNESCO Office in Mexico.
*Lapeña, Q. and S.B. Acabado. 2017. Resistance through rituals: The role of Philippine “native pig” (Sus scrofa) in Ifugao feasting and socio-political organization. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 13: 583-294.
*Acabado, S.B., M. Martin, and F. Datar. 2017. Ifugao Archaeology: Collaborative and Indigenous Archaeology in the Northern Philippines. Advances in Archaeological Practice 5(1): 1-11.
*Acabado, S.B. 2017. The Archaeology of Pericolonialism: Responses of the "Unconquered" to Spanish Conquest and Colonialism in Ifugao, Philippines. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 21: 1-26.
*Acabado, S.B. and M. Martin. 2016. The Sacred and the Secular: Practical Applications of Water Rituals in the Ifugao Water Systems. TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, Available on CJO 2016 doi:10.1017/trn.2016.7.
*Peterson, J.A. and S.B. Acabado. 2015. Did the Little Ice Age Contribute to the Emergence of Rice Terrace Farming in Ifugao, Philippines? National Museum Journal of Cultural Heritage 1(1): 1-10.
*Eusebio, M., J. Ceron, S.B. Acabado, and J. Krigbaum. 2015. Rice Pots or Not? Exploring Ancient Ifugao Foodways through Organic Residue Analysis and Paleoethnobotany. National Museum Journal of Cultural Heritage 1(1): 11-20.
*Ledesma, C.P., N. Amano, and S.B. Acabado. 2015. Faunal Remains from the Old Kiyyangan Village. National Museum Journal of Cultural Heritage 1(1): 21-30.
*Lauer, J. and S.B. Acabado. 2015. Infant Death and Burial Practices in Late Prehistoric Kiyyangan Village, Ifugao. National Museum Journal of Cultural Heritage 1(1): 31-38.
*Martin, M. and S.B. Acabado. 2015. Community Participation in the Ifugao Archaeological Project. National Museum Journal of Cultural Heritage 1(1): 39-45.
*Acabado, S.B., M. Martin, and A. Lauer. 2015. The Ifugao Archaeological Project. Backdirt: Annual Review of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, pp. 54-61.
*Acabado, S.B. and M. Martin. 2015. Between pragmatism and cultural context: Continuity and change in Ifugao wet-rice agriculture. In Water and heritage: Material, conceptual, and spiritual connections, W. Willems and H. van Schaik (eds), pp. 273-295. Leiden: Sidestone Press.
Acabado, S.B., M. Martin, and A. Lauer. 2014. Rethinking History, Conserving Heritage: Archaeology and Community Engagement in Ifugao, Philippines. The SAA Archaeological Record, Nov. 2014, 14(5): 12-17.
*Acabado, S.B. 2013. Defining Ifugao Social Organization: “House”, Field, and Self-Organizing Principles in the Northern Philippines. Asian Perspectives 52(2): 161-189.
*Acabado, S.B. 2012. The Ifugao Agricultural Landscapes: Complementary Systems and the Intensification Debate. Journal Of Southeast Asian Studies 43(3): 500-522.
*Acabado, S.B. 2012. Taro Before Rice Terraces: Implications of Radiocarbon Determinations, Ethnohistoric Reconstructions, and Ethnography in Dating the Ifugao Terraces. In M. Spriggs, D. Addison, And P.J. Matthews (Eds), Irrigated Taro (Colocassia Esculenta) in the Indo-Pacific: Biological And Historical Perspectives. Senri Ethnological Studies. Vol (N.D.). National Museum of Ethnology: Osaka.
*Acabado, S.B. 2010. Landscapes and the Archaeology of the Ifugao Agricultural Terraces: Establishing Antiquity and Social Organisation. Hukay: Journal for Archaeological Research in Asia and the Pacific, 15: 31-61.
Acabado, S.B. 2010. The Archaeology of the Ifugao Agricultural Terraces: Antiquity and Social Organization. Phd Dissertation, University of Hawaii.
*Acabado, S.B. 2009. A Bayesian Approach to Dating Agricultural Terraces: A Case from the Philippines. Antiquity 83(2009): 801-814.
BOOKS
Acabado, S.B. and D.-W. Kuan (editors). 2021. Indigenous Peoples, Heritage and Landscape in the Asia Pacific: Knowledge Co-Production and Empowerment. Milton Park: Routledge.
Acabado, S.B., K.C. Cordero, and A. Camacho. The Bahay Kubo: A Filipino Children’s Song (A Picture Book). Naga City, Philippines: KC Cordero Savage Mind Publishing House.
Acabado, S.B. 2015. Antiquity, archaeological processes, and highland adaptation: The Ifugao rice terraces. Manila: Ateneo de Manila University Press.
Acabado, S.B. and D.-W. Kuan (editors). 2021. Indigenous Peoples, Heritage and Landscape in the Asia Pacific: Knowledge Co-Production and Empowerment. Milton Park: Routledge.
Acabado, S.B., K.C. Cordero, and A. Camacho. The Bahay Kubo: A Filipino Children’s Song (A Picture Book). Naga City, Philippines: KC Cordero Savage Mind Publishing House.
Acabado, S.B. 2015. Antiquity, archaeological processes, and highland adaptation: The Ifugao rice terraces. Manila: Ateneo de Manila University Press.
PUBLIC-FACING PUBLICATIONS/PROJECTS
2020. S.B. Acabado and M. Martin. Ifugao Myths Make Sense of the Archeological Finds https://usa.inquirer.net/61015/ifugao-myths-make-sense-of-archeological-finds. Philippine Daily Inquirer USA Edition, December 11, 2020.
2020. S.B. Acabado and M. Martin. 2020. Saving Ifugao Weaving in the Philippines. SAPIENS. August 26, 2020. https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/ifugao-weaving/
2020. S.B. Acabado and M. Martin. Monuments and the Power of Memory https://usa.inquirer.net/57041/monuments-and-the-power-of-memory. Philippine Daily Inquirer, USA Edition, July 20, 2020.
2020. S.B. Acabado and M. Martin [OPINION] The Ifugao, cowboys, and assimilation through education https://www.rappler.com/move-ph/ispeak/266120-opinion-ifugao-cowboys-assimilation-through-education
2020. S.B. Acabado and M. Martin. [OPINION] Bakit walang forever? The impermanence of scientific knowledge https://www.rappler.com/move-ph/ispeak/265274-opinion-impermanence-science-archeology. Rappler July 1, 2020
2020. S.B. Acabado. [OPINION] Bahay Kubo and the Making of the Filipino. https://www.rappler.com/voices/ispeak/opinion-bahay-kubo-making-filipino. Rappler June 26, 2020.
2020. S.B. Acabado. [OPINION] An anthropologist on rethinking history to inspire the future. https://www.rappler.com/move-ph/ispeak/264460-opinion-anthropologist-rethinking-history-inspire-future. Rappler June 22, 2020.
2020. S.B. Acabado. A call for Philippine indigenous history, a call for inclusivity (https://usa.inquirer.net/55789/a-call-for-philippine-indigenous-history-a-call-for-inclusivity). Philippine Daily Inquirer, USA Edition, June 17, 2020.
2020. S.B. Acabado, M. Martin, and A. Burgos. The Old Kiyyangan Story: Oral Histories and
Archaeological Findings from the Old Kiyyangan Village, Ifugao, Philippines (An Animated Film) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTwOHUnYr7w).
2019. S.b. Acabado and M. Martin. Demystifying the age of the Ifugao Rice Terraces to decolonize history (https://www.rappler.com/science/society-culture/demystifying-age-ifugao-rice-terraces). Rappler April 14, 2019.
2020. S.B. Acabado and M. Martin. Ifugao Myths Make Sense of the Archeological Finds https://usa.inquirer.net/61015/ifugao-myths-make-sense-of-archeological-finds. Philippine Daily Inquirer USA Edition, December 11, 2020.
2020. S.B. Acabado and M. Martin. 2020. Saving Ifugao Weaving in the Philippines. SAPIENS. August 26, 2020. https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/ifugao-weaving/
2020. S.B. Acabado and M. Martin. Monuments and the Power of Memory https://usa.inquirer.net/57041/monuments-and-the-power-of-memory. Philippine Daily Inquirer, USA Edition, July 20, 2020.
2020. S.B. Acabado and M. Martin [OPINION] The Ifugao, cowboys, and assimilation through education https://www.rappler.com/move-ph/ispeak/266120-opinion-ifugao-cowboys-assimilation-through-education
2020. S.B. Acabado and M. Martin. [OPINION] Bakit walang forever? The impermanence of scientific knowledge https://www.rappler.com/move-ph/ispeak/265274-opinion-impermanence-science-archeology. Rappler July 1, 2020
2020. S.B. Acabado. [OPINION] Bahay Kubo and the Making of the Filipino. https://www.rappler.com/voices/ispeak/opinion-bahay-kubo-making-filipino. Rappler June 26, 2020.
2020. S.B. Acabado. [OPINION] An anthropologist on rethinking history to inspire the future. https://www.rappler.com/move-ph/ispeak/264460-opinion-anthropologist-rethinking-history-inspire-future. Rappler June 22, 2020.
2020. S.B. Acabado. A call for Philippine indigenous history, a call for inclusivity (https://usa.inquirer.net/55789/a-call-for-philippine-indigenous-history-a-call-for-inclusivity). Philippine Daily Inquirer, USA Edition, June 17, 2020.
2020. S.B. Acabado, M. Martin, and A. Burgos. The Old Kiyyangan Story: Oral Histories and
Archaeological Findings from the Old Kiyyangan Village, Ifugao, Philippines (An Animated Film) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTwOHUnYr7w).
2019. S.b. Acabado and M. Martin. Demystifying the age of the Ifugao Rice Terraces to decolonize history (https://www.rappler.com/science/society-culture/demystifying-age-ifugao-rice-terraces). Rappler April 14, 2019.
