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A small history of the forgotten and the never known (1990)

DOCUMENT Citation Only William M. (William Milton) Gardner. Joan M. Walker.

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The Temple On The Hill: Reviving the Patapsco Female Institute (2022)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelly Palich.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Boxed but not Forgotten Redux or: The Importance and Usefulness of Exploring Old or Forgotten Collections" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Patapsco Female Institute (18HO143) in Ellicott City, Maryland, once stood as a beacon for female education throughout the nineteenth century. By the late 1960s, the “temple on the Hill” had fallen into complete ruin, and Howard County purchased the property in the...

Test Excavations at Raleigh's Union Square: An Inspection of Archeological Remains at North carolina's Capitol (1982)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John W. Clauser, Jr..

The Trenton Argillite Culture (1918)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leslie Spier.

Unruly Bodies, Holistic Healing: Balancing the Understanding of the Health and Well-being of the Enslaved at James Madison’s Montpelier (2021)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Taylor W Brown.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Race, Racism, and Montpelier" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Medicine is rarely neutral or objective. This was especially true in the 19th century, as physicians worked to encode slavery in the very biology of Black enslaved people. The accounting logs of President Madison’s physician paint a one-sided picture of the health of the enslaved community at Montpelier. These logs argue that their bodies were...

What Goes up Must Come Down: Transhumance In the Mountainous Zones of the Middle Atlantic (1981)

DOCUMENT Citation Only William M. Gardner.

Wolf Pits in 17th Century Delaware (2022)

DOCUMENT Citation Only William B. Liebeknecht.

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. During the early colonial period Governmental authorities recognized the physical dynamics of free-ranging forms of various livestock set against the backdrop of a wolf-laden wilderness, was or could be a costly nuisance and thus ordered wolves to be hunted and trapped in order to mitigate the problem. In May...