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DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah E. Harvey.

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, western Pennsylvania was a leading center in American plate glass manufacture.  One of the region’s smaller plants was run by the Columbia Plate Glass Company, which operated in Blairsville from 1903 to 1935.  During this time, the glass factory provided a major boost to the local economy and supported a community of workers’ housing.  Shortly after the factory’s abandonment, the United States Army Corps of Engineers purchased the site as part of a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather Alvey-Scott. Robert DeMuth.

This poster presents an analysis of the glassware recovered as part of the 2015 and 2016 excavations of the Coal Heritage Archaeology Project at Tams, WV and Wyco, WV.  The goal of this study is to compare and contrast the glassware found at these sites across racial, ethnic, and class lines to determine what impact living in an isolating mining community had on various groups of people who lived in these communities of labor.  This sort of analysis will allows us to compare the consumer habits...

DOCUMENT Citation Only George Cress.

This presentation focuses on the results of archaeological excavation at Dyottville and Henry Benner’s Glass Factory, both located at the confluence of Gunner’s Run and the Delaware River.  The Dyottville glassworks began as the Kensington Glass Works in the late 18th century and continued into the early 20th century producing many well- known glass bottles, flasks, and other glassware distributed widely throughout the country in the 19th century.  The portion of the factory complex that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica D Starks.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Glen Eyrie Middens: Recent Research into the Lives of General William Jackson and Mary Lincoln “Queen” Palmer and their Estate in Western Colorado Springs, Colorado." , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Alpine Archaeological Consultants, Inc. (Alpine) excavated two historical middens within Garden of the Gods Park that are associated with the construction and occupation of the Glen Eyrie Estate by the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Danielle Huerta.

This is an abstract from the "Hill People: New Research on Tijeras Canyon and the East Mountains" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Paa-ko Pueblo, also known as the mission of San Pedro due to its colonial period component, is one of the better studied sites in the East Mountain region. However, the research presented here represents the first systematic look at late Rio Grande Glaze Ware (RGGW) pottery excavated from the site’s colonial context(s)....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Justin E. Uehlein.

Colonialism has long been a focus of research within the field of Historical Archaeology. Recently, archaeological understanding of colonialism has become more complex and realistic as researchers have included issues centering on consumerism, the articulations of colonialist processes with capitalism, and colonialism’s role in globalization processes. However, much Historical Archaeological scholarship has implicitly or explicitly recognized colonialism as an arterial process within the larger...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles Orser.

Symbolic violence is usually subtle even though its physical manifestations can be imposing. Fortifications of colonialist powers express symbolic violence in contextually important ways, but when constructed as part of a colonial-capitalist nexus they have especially strong symbolic power. Focusing on the Puritan colony on Providence Island off the coast of Nicaragua (1630-41), I explore the symbolic nature of the island’s fortifications and their impact upon the indentured and enslaved...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher B. Rodning. David G. Moore. Robin A. Beck.

Spanish exploration and colonization of the American South encompassed a great deal of movement, including the movements of Spanish conquistadors, flows of goods to coastal entrepots and inland along the routes of Spanish entradas, rearrangements of Native American groups within the cultural landscape, and practices of placemaking that created common ground and borders between natives and newcomers.  One site at which to consider these dimensions of the Spanish colonialism in La Florida is the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Keller.

For the past few years, the National Park Service has been involved with the Slave Wrecks Project, an international multi-agency effort to document sites related to the International Slave Trade. Student and academic representatives from Mozambique and Senegal participated in a workshop, supported by the U.S. State Department, where information, techniques, and perspectives were exchanged during a 10-day project hosted by the NPS at Buck Island National Reef Monument and Christiansted National...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cyler N. Conrad. Allen G. Pastron.

San Francisco, originally known as Yerba Buena, became a confluence of international trade, human migration and commercial activity during the California Gold Rush (1848-1855). How did the massive influx of argonauts to the San Francisco Bay area affect domestic, native and exotic fauna in this region? A recently excavated site, Thompson’s Cove (CA-SFR-186H), located on the original shoreline of Yerba Buena Cove in present day downtown San Francisco, provides new evidence into this global...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Dawson.

This is an abstract from the "Chicanx Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. "I was a global creature before globalization became a buzzword; I am a Heinz 57, a mestizo with my taste buds on several continents" (Arellano 2014: 10). Previous research on colonial-era foodways in New Mexico has often focused on the arrival and use of Old World foods as a way to maintain a distinct Spanish identity. Yet, many of the earliest colonists, despite...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Fracchia.

This is an abstract from the "The Transformation of Historical Archaeology: Papers in Honor of Charles E Orser, Jr" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In his study of the modern world, Charles Orser has suggested that archaeologists should dig locally, but think globally.  Relating different scales across space and time allows for an understanding of the linkages between the past and the present and the connectivity of the modern world.  Through...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steve Dasovich.

Louis Blanchette was driven from his home by the British during the French and Indian War.  He settled in Spanish territory (now the state of Missouri) where the predominant languages were French along with multiple Indian languages.  He married an Indian woman, bought British goods, and, as Civil Commandant, reported to a Spanish Lieutenant Governor.  Through historical research and archaeological investigation of his homestead site in St. Charles, Missouri, we can show the public how...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rosemary Hammack.

Following the 1807 British abolition of the slave trade, the West African coast saw the rise of a new phenomenon: the liberation of captive Africans found aboard illegal slaving ships and their resettlement in Sierra Leone and The Gambia. This diaspora group became known as the Liberated Africans, and eventually transformed into the creole ethnic group known as the Aku in The Gambia. After its establishment in 1816 Bathurst (now Bathurst) welcomed the Liberated Africans as a source of low-paid...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul R. Mullins. Timo Ylimaunu.

North American historical archaeology has long focused on poverty and consumer marginalization, but models of impoverishment and inequality constructed to address a distinct range of US contexts are not always useful in international contexts.  A wave of recent archaeological scholarship has focused on the materiality of poverty, and an examination of impoverishment is productively complicated by international research comparisons.  This paper examines case studies from African America, British...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren Silverstein.

Smuttynose Island, Maine is a well preserved fishing site that documents approximately 200 years of occupation divided into two distinct fishing periods with different political structures.  The first, independently operated (1640-1720) and the second, under single ownership (1760-1830). This project focuses on examining the glass related to the fishing site. By creating a timeline of when specific glass manufacturing techniques were utilized, I am able to group glass by fishing period. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ali Livesay.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the summer of 2022, Los Alamos National Laboratory partnered with the University of New Mexico to host a field school for the first time. This field school focused on the non-destructive side of compliance work, and sought to build foundational survey, site identification, and recording skills, that would help launch the students in their chosen...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julia King.

Go-betweens, including translators, traders, diplomats, and other individuals who move between two or more cultures, are often viewed as important and even transforming actors in the colonial encounter. Go-betweens in the early modern Chesapeake are understood as not only moving between two or more cultures but between cultures located at some geographical distance from one another’s territories (in Maryland, Henry Fleet and William Claiborne would be examples). But what about the nature of...

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The Secretary’s Report to Congress on the Federal Archeology Program documents the archeological resource management and stewardship activities carried out by Federal agencies between FY2004 and FY2007. The Departmental Consulting Archeologist prepares the report on behalf of the Secretary on the basis of information provided by over two dozen Federal agencies that conduct, fund, or require archeological activities and investigations. The data in the FY2004-2007 report convey a sense of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy Wilcox.

The production of Gobernador Polychrome Pottery by the Navajo people, is entangled in many social and material negotiations of survivance. Its production in the Dinetah Region of New Mexico, during the late Seventeenth and early Eighteenth century place it in a time of Native resistance to Spanish colonization in Northern New Mexico. This resistance, in the form of a pan-Indian uprising, the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, sets the stage in which the production of Gobernador Polychrome emerged and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Janene W Johnston.

The Civil War Battle of Natural Bridge was fought within miles of Tallahassee, Florida, in March of 1865. In 2015 archaeologists and volunteers conducted a metal detecting survey on the battlefield, which is now a state park. Utilizing a modified catch-and-release strategy allowed for just the analysis of battle related artifacts, the vast majority of which were munitions related to both small arms and artillery combat. Due to the amount of Minié Balls recovered, firearm identification was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aleck Tan.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "East Carolina University Partnerships and Innovation with Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The 1944 Battle of Saipan resulted in many U.S. losses, including Douglass SBD Dauntless, F6F Hellcat, and TBF/M Avenger aircraft. In 2018, East Carolina University’s (ECU) Program in Maritime Studies held their summer field school as a DPAA-oriented mission to examine an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Barry Bleichner.

The Caribbean Sea is host to a significant number of colonial-era wrecks and has historically been a prime hunting spot for commercial salvors.  Frequently, salvage of this underwater cultural heritage (UCH) occurred with the blessing of the governing authority or was implicitly endorsed by the courts determining proprietary rights.  Many wrecks are located in ecologically-sensitive areas, however, or serve as substrate for the growth of new underwater habitat.  As such, the wreck sites may...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy J Horsley.

As geophysical techniques become more frequently integrated into archaeological investigations in Maryland, methodologies are being refined, and their potential is becoming better understood across the discipline. Many factors affect the successful outcome of these non-invasive surveys, including the specific natural conditions and archaeological features at a site, but also careful selection of appropriate techniques and data collection strategies. This presentation will review a variety of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Isaac Imran Taber Ullah.

In this paper I discuss the construction and deployment of a paperless data collection workflow that focuses on the use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) tools, such as GeoODK, Qfield, OpenDroneMap, QGIS, and GRASS, and "off-the-shelf" technology such as mobile tablet computers, Bluetooth GPS, and compact unmanned aerial vehicles. A focus on FOSS tools ensures availability to all, encourages reproducibility and open scientific methods, and fosters wide compatibility in data collection...