Eastern North America (Geographic Keyword)
1-7 (7 Records)
This project consists of articles written by members of Santa Fe Institute’s cosmology research group. Overall, the goal of this group is to understand the larger relationships between cosmology and society through a theoretically open-ended, comparative examination of the ancient American Southwest, Southeast, and Mesoamerica.
Cultivating the American Wilderness: Macrobotanical Evidence from Bartram’s Garden (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "New Avenues in the Study of Plant Remains from Historical Sites" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1761, John Bartram, a self-taught Philadelphia naturalist, attested that his garden could “challenge any in America for variety.” He primarily referred to Eastern North American flora identified during his plant-collection trips and brought under cultivation in his own garden. These species, including the...
Jamestown And Early Domestic Horse Use In Eastern North America (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Opening the Vault: What Collections Can Say About Jamestown’s Global Trade Network", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The introduction of domestic horses into North America had tremendous social and ecological consequences – these animals underpinned the colonial projects of European powers, while also giving rise to powerful Indigenous horse cultures. Though much attention has been paid to the spread of...
Laser Scanning as a Methodology for the Recording and Reconstruction of Archaeological Ships (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Digital Approaches in Nautical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Researchers with the Center for Maritime Archaeology and Conservation at Texas A&M University have utilized coordinate measuring machine-based 3D laser scanning to record and reconstruct four disarticulated wooden archaeological ships from Alexandria, VA between 2018 and 2022. This paper summarizes the laser scanning and data...
Living with the Dead: Mortuary Patterning at Halifax’s Old Burying Ground during the American Revolution (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Investigating Cultural Aspects of Historic Mortuary Archaeology: Perspectives from Europe and North America", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In addressing attitudes towards death, we recorded gravemarker design and style at the Halifax Old Burying Ground, Nova Scotia, Canada ([HOBG] in operation from CE 1750 to 1845). In additional to detailing general mortuary trends, we were particularly interested in...
The Role of Venus in the Cosmologies of Mesoamerica, the American Southwest, and the Southeast (2010)
This paper describes differing but related views of the meanings of Venus in Central Mexico, West Mexico, the U.S. Southwest, and the Eastern Woodlands.
The World for Oysters - The Transportation of Oysters in 19th-Century North America and Its Impact on Inland Foodways. (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Fish, Oyster, Whale: The Archaeology of Maritime Traditions", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Bivalves played an important role in the diets and foodways of 19th-century North America, spawning an international industry based along the Atlantic coast that benefited from improved transport links to the interior of the continent. A case study from nineteenth-century Upper Canada demonstrates the important role...