MIDDLE ATLANTIC (Geographic Keyword)

26-50 (57 Records)

Felons, Paupers, Or Overflow Burials? Un(der)-documented Burials In One Of Philadelphia’s Public Squares. (2022)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kenneth J. Basalik.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“We the People”: Historical Cemetery Archaeology in Philadelphia" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Philadelphia was to be a “Green County Town” with wide streets and green spaces. As part of that vision five squares were created for the use of the public. In the eighteenth century some of these spaces were used as “potter’s fields”. Since burials in the squares was halted in the early 19th century, these...

Formative Cultures of the Carolina Piedmont (1964)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joffre L. Coe.

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Ground-Truthing False Earthworks at Fort Eustis, Virginia (2021)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Courtney J. Birkett.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Fort Eustis, a military installation in southeastern Virginia, contains a number of earthworks dating to the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War. It has also been the location of extensive bulldozer training, which has left behind anomalous mounds of soil. Because of this, more than one site has been erroneously identified as a Civil War earthwork. By examining aspects of these...

Hardaway Revisited: Early Archaic Settlement in the Southeast (1998)

DOCUMENT Citation Only I. Randolph Daniel, Jr..

Historic Cemeteries and the Regulatory Void: The Struggle Over Bethesda’s Moses Cemetery (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew M. Palus. Lyle C. Torp.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Cultural Heritage Laws and Policies, Political Economy, and the Community Importance of Archaeological Sites", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC are a special regulatory environment where much turns on the action of a state-level, intercounty commission formed in 1927 and responsible for regional planning. The disdain for African American communities in planning the DC...

Human Skeletal Remains from the Tollifero (Ha6) and Clarksville (Mc14) Sites, John H. Kerr Reservoir Basin, Virginia (1962)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lucile E. Hoyme. William M. Bass.

Indian Communities on the North Carolina Piedmont, A.D. 1000 to 1700 (1993)

DOCUMENT Citation Only H. Trawick Ward. R. P. Stephen Davis, Jr..

Inter-Colonial Trade of Domestic Earthenwares and the Development of an American Social Identity (1990)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carl R. Steen.

A Landscape They Didn’t See: The Great Rappahannock Town at Mid-Century (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julia King.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "A Land Unto Itself: Virginia's Northern Neck, Colonialism, And The Early Atlantic", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Northern Neck of Virginia appears to have had an especially large Indigenous population at the moment of English occupation in 1607. That population grew through the 17th century as colonial authorities generally prevented settlers from moving into the region while Indigenous nations from...

Macrobotanical Evidence for Tobacco Use within Enslaved Communities: Emerging Patterns from the Middle Atlantic States. (2022)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Justine McKnight.

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. Tobacco agriculture was central to the landscape, economy, and cultural heritage of much of the Middle Atlantic region from the 17th through the 19th centuries. A growing body of macrobotanical evidence recovered from the homes and workspaces of enslaved Africans in Maryland, Virginia, and Delaware suggests that...

Management Summary of a Ground Penetrating Radar Survey of Site 31ON82, Hammocks Beach State Park, Onslow County, North Carolina (1998)

DOCUMENT Citation Only V. Stephen Jones.

Martin's Hundred (1982)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ivor Noel Hume.

Memorialization, Reconstruction, Erosion, and Sham Battles: Multiple Ways of Remembering the Battle of Fort Mercer, New Jersey (2021)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Wade Catts.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Revisiting Revolutionary America" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The battle of Fort Mercer, or Red Bank, was fought in October 1777. An important American victory in the Philadelphia Campaign, the site was one of early and continuous monumentation and commemoration. Tourists and visitors came frequently from Philadelphia throughout the nineteenth century. Remnants of the fort’s earthen walls are extant and...

N.C. Museum of History Project: Test Excavations in an Urban Setting (1989)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lawrence E. Abbott, Jr.. John D. Davis. Paul A. Russo.

Performing Colonialism: Setting the Stage at New Amstel (2022)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lu Ann DeCunzo.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "More than Pots and Pipes: New Netherland and a World Made by Trade" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The seventeenth-century colonial experiment along the Atlantic coast of North America was staged, negotiated, and subverted in ritualizing performances of exchange, diplomacy, sociability, law, and conflict. A growing body of archaeological evidence coupled with the extensive New Netherland archives is...

Phase I and II Archeological Testing of the Eastern Portion of the Higgins Site, AMTRAK Parking Expansion at Baltimore-Washington International Airport, Anne Arundel County, Maryland (1993)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carol A. Ebright.

Phase Ib Archeological Survey of the Wetlands Replacement Area for Maryland Route 24, Harford County, Maryland (1991)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carol A. Ebright.

The Plenge Site: a Paleoindian Occupation Site in New Jersey (Preliminary Report) (1973)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Herbert C. Kraft.

Powhatan Foreign Relations, 1500-1722 (1993)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Helen C. Rountree.

Prehistoric Ceramics of North Carolina, a Quick Tour of the Published Literature (1993)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jane M. Eastman. Loretta Lautzenheiser.

Racializing Surveillance and the (Re)Production of Blackness in Plantation Landscapes (2021)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew C. Greer.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Black Studies and Archaeology" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Studies of plantation landscapes often focus on how enslavers used panoptical lines of sight to control and discipline enslaved people. While this provides powerful ways of theorizing plantations, other aspects of plantation landscapes have gone understudied. More specifically, if we combine archaeological landscapes studies with Black studies’...

Rediscovering Cemeteries at Fort Eustis, Virginia (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Courtney J. Birkett.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. People have lived and died on Mulberry Island, now the site of Fort Eustis, Virginia, for at least 10,000 years. However, fewer than expected burial sites are known. Fort Eustis Cultural Resources has been employing cadaver dogs and other methods to search for cemeteries. Thus far we have determined that one plot of land formerly belonging to the Mulberry Island Cemetery Club was in fact...

Rethinking Cultural Stability in Eastern North American Prehistory: Linguistic Evidence from Eastern Algonquian

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alvin H. Luckenbach. Wayne E. Clark. Richard S. Levy.

Seeing Forests Through the Seas: Ship Timbers as Landscape Artifacts in the Middle Atlantic (2022)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chelsea M. Cohen.

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. The colonization of North American landscapes and seascapes was closely tied, connected by imperatives to expand, urbanize, and increase economic production. In North America’s Middle Atlantic, landscape colonization and concomitant urbanization led to changes in both the region’s terrain and its economic...

The Siouan Project: Seasons I and II (1987)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Roy S. Dickens, Jr.. H. Trawick Ward. R. P. Stephen Davis, Jr..