Historical Archaeology (Other Keyword)
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While archaeologists have explored networks of trade and exchange of manufactured goods between rural communities, regional market towns, and urban centers, less attention has been given to the way that rural shops and shopkeepers played a significant role in the accessibility and distribution of material goods in local economies. Focused on the emergence of rural shops in Western coastal Ireland and islands of Inishark and Inishbofin, 1840-1950, this study will contribute to an understanding of...
New Concepts in Marine Archaeology: Shallow Water Historical Archaeology In the Lower Florida Keys (1974)
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New Discovery of a Special Site of Liao and Jin Dynasties (907-1234 A.D.) in Jilin Province at Northeast China (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Around 2010, an ancient site was confirmed in the west area of Jilin Province at northeast China, which named Chun-Na-Bo Site Group (春捺钵遗址群). Without any systematical archaeological research, it was considered to have something to do with the Spring Fishing and Hunting Trip of the Emperors of Liao and Jin Dynasties. From 2013-2018, we carried out a lot of...
A New Discovery of a Tang Dynasty Cemetery in the Eastern Suburb of Xi’an (2019)
This is an abstract from the "From Tangible Things to Intangible Ideas: The Context of Pan-Eurasian Exchange of Crops and Objects" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Between August 2017 and December 2018, more than one thousand Tang dynasty tombs had been found in the eastern suburb of Xi’an by Xi’an Institute of cultural relics protection and archaeology. Abundant important antiquities were uncovered, including Persian style silverwares, sliver...
New Empire of the Rockies: a History of Northeast Colorado
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New Insights at the Intersection of Historical Archaeology and the Archaeology of Religion (2015)
An increasing number of archaeologists are arguing against the separation of ritual and religion as separate fields of study, favoring pragmatic combinations of theoretical criteria to advance more holistic understandings of the theory and practice of religion. Advancements in the archaeological study of religion have been spearheaded by archaeologists of ancient and pre-historic societies. In this paper, I will outline the potential contributions of historical archaeology to anthropological...
New Methods for Training Historic/Prehistoric Human Remains Detection Dogs (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Canine Resources for the Archaeologist" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Human remains detection dogs have been used with success to detect both historic and prehistoric human remains in various projects in the United States and Europe. However, success has often been marginal, as it is with “search and rescue” cadaver dogs. Three dogs have been trained at the forensic anthropology center at Texas State University on...
Non-Native Incorporation of Native American Technologies in Historic Period Arizona (2018)
Numerous archaeological studies of European-Native American interaction in the Americas during the colonial and historic eras focus on the processes by which Native American households and communities procured and adopted (or resisted the adoption of) European technologies and material culture. Comparatively few studies have addressed instances in which non-Native households incorporated Native American technologies and material culture. Recent archaeological investigations in Tempe and Phoenix,...
The Northern Hinterland of Mongolian Empire: Urban centers of Transbaikalia (2017)
In Yuan shih chronicle Hasar, the brother of Chinggis Khan, is described as having the territory of the Argun river and nearby steppe. In the new Yuan empire, after change of the capital from the Onon – Herlen to the Orkhon valley, Eastern Mongolia and Transbaikalia were transformed from heartland into hinterland. Because of previous betrayals by his family Chinggis granted Hasar only four thousand yurts. Also, a city was built in what is today the Hailar/Hulumbur area of Inner Mongolia. This...
A Not-So-Secret Affair: A Case Study of Treponemal Infection from the Bethel Cemetery (2023)
This is an abstract from the "The Bethel Cemetery Relocation Project: Historical, Osteological, and Material Culture Analyses of a Nineteenth-Century Indiana Cemetery" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. When records and textual evidence from the past are subjective, piecemeal, or absent, bioarchaeological analyses can be indispensable for elucidating otherwise buried histories. The case study of Burial 505 from the Bethel Cemetery highlights an...
Notorious and Profitable: Exploring Fresno's China Alley (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Brought to California’s Central Valley by the opportunity to mine for gold and the construction of the railroad, Chinese immigrants created a fast-growing and prosperous Chinatown in Fresno. So infamous was this neighborhood in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that journalist and researcher Schyler Rehart stated "[t]he Chinese gambling dens of West...
Number Games: MNI and Element Representation in the Point San Jose Collection (2018)
The Point San Jose skeletal collection was excavated from a 19th century medical waste deposit. Remains within the deposit were completely commingled and highly fragmented. As re-association was highly unlikely, careful assessment of the commingled nature of the collection was required. To establish the Minimum Number of Individuals (MNI) represented in the collection, two approaches were used: Max (L,R) and an age-informed MNI. The maximum count per unique element resulted in an MNI of 22...
Nuute’owingeh: Complicating Our Understanding of Historic Period Pueblo Settlement in the Northern Rio Grande (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the settlement patterns of the Pueblo world of northern New Mexico fundamentally shifted. The "abandonment" of much of the Pueblo’s traditional homeland, and the subsequent coalescence of people in large villages along the Rio Grande and its major tributaries, has long sparked interest from archaeologists and...
Objects of Action and the Practice of Empire in Xiongnu Inner Asia (2018)
Material remains of communities and peoples enmeshed in imperial regimes are most often assessed as representations of incorporation into empires. Yet many of the objects in consideration were not so much passive material declarations as they were tools for active demonstrations. Authority, regional and local, derived from membership in exclusive imperial echelons; membership that required more than mere badges of identity but performances of imperially-derived authority. This paper addresses...
Of Wharves and Watercraft: Exploring the Maritime Archeology of Theodore Roosevelt Island (2018)
Situated in the Potomac River within the District of Columbia, Theodore Roosevelt Island serves as a living memorial to the 26th president of the United States. Secluded from the bustling capital city, the island’s rich history extends beyond the memorial itself. It served as a site of American Indian occupation in the pre-contact era, hosted John Mason’s plantation beginning in the late eighteenth century, was the training ground for the 1st U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War and then...
Old Main: Archaeology of a 19th Century College Campus (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper synthesizes the ongoing archaeological research of one of the first academic buildings on the Alma College campus, located in central Michigan. Old Main was built in 1886, and destroyed by a fire in 1969. Although the building only burned down 50 years ago, the cause of the fire and exact location of the foundation remain a mystery. Throughout this...
The Old Stone House Revisited: (2018)
The Old Stone House was built in 1765, making it the oldest standing building in Washington, DC. The house has been used throughout its history as a residence or residence/shop. This presentation provides an overview of archeological research conducted at the site and the results of recent investigations. This paper also addresses how historical narratives are produced and consumed and the role of archaeology in public heritage.
Ollas and Inequality: Reflections on Space, Ceramics, and Power Relationships at the Sanchez site. (2018)
Spanish exploitation of Indigenous people’s labor was a foundational component of the initial colonization of New Mexico. Pueblo Indians and enslaved Plains peoples worked on Spanish public infrastructure projects, built Spanish Missions, tended friar’s livestock, and helped with the daily operations of outlying estancias. At the Sanchez site, evidence of daily labors can be seen in broken manos and metates scattered around the site, the presence of the adobe structures that were built by Pueblo...
On a Misty Day You Can See Back To 1805: Ethnohistory and Historical Archaeology On the Southeastern Side of Kodiak Island, Alaska (1987)
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On Finance: Toward an Archaeology of Debt of Colonial New Mexico (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster presents the results of faunal, ceramic, and lithic analyses of the San Antonio del Embudo midden, a refuse site for a small Hispano agropastoral community in the northern borderlands of the Spanish Empire. These analyses are informed by both archived and new translations of the last will and testaments of the original proprietors of the San...
On Finding Smoke Town, a Late Eighteenth to Mid-Nineteenth Century, Rural Free Black Community Populated in Circa 1791 by Some of the 452 Manumitted Slaves of Robert Carter III (2018)
This paper discusses the findings of initial excavation of a portion of the elusive rural free black community cartographically known as Smoke Town or Leeds Town, situated on the Shenandoah River, Warren County, Virginia. This community was populated by some of the 452 slaves manumitted by Robert Carter III by his Deed of Gift of 1791. Robert Carter III was an affluent grandson of Robert ‘King’ Carter. This Deed of Gift was the largest single manumission of slaves in America until the American...
On the Place of Sa-ja-la Title Holders in the Classic Maya Regime (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Regimes of the Ancient Maya" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since they began to be discerned in the 1980s, much has been written about the political offices and roles of various secondary members of the Classic Maya court. In particular, the political office of sa-ja-la has come to be seen as that of a “governor” of smaller settlements within and between Classic Maya centers. However, the presumed role of sa-ja-la...
On the Road Again: Archaeology on El Camino Real (2018)
In 2017, graduate students enrolled in a cultural resource management class conducted a week-long documentation and surface collection project at Paraje San Diego, a popular historic campsite on El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail. The Camino Real once connected the Spanish colony of New Mexico, founded in 1598, to the markets and governing authorities in central Mexico. After Mexico won independence from Spain it served as a commercial corridor between Mexico and the United...
“On the Road to Moorhead”: Contextualizing the Infrastructure of Transient Workers and Moorhead Saloons along the Minnesota and North Dakota Border (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Unsettling Infrastructure: Theorizing Infrastructure and Bio-Political Ecologies in a More-Than-Human World" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Following the Civil War, the Midwest experienced unprecedented population growth. Keeping pace with the expansion of numerous commodity frontiers driven by the building of railways, cities such as Fargo, ND, and Moorhead, MN, became seasonal locales for thousands of transient...
One Hundred Years of Mozambican Archaeology: Past, Present, Future, and Challenges (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeology in Mozambique: Current Issues and Topics in Archaeology and Heritage Management" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mozambique, as a country located in the East as well as Southern Africa, has a diversity of important archaeological remains uncovered in the last 100 years as a result of individual enthusiasm and systematic academic research. However, large parts of this past remain poorly explored and...