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The Kooskia Internment Camp (KIC) near Lowell, Idaho, housed Japanese internees during World War II. Open from 1943 to 1945, Kooskia was home to 256 Japanese men who helped to build U.S. Highway 12 during their stay. As detainees of the U.S. Department of Justice, these individuals were treated as foreign prisoners of war and were therefore subject to the conditions of the 1929 Geneva Convention. As such, the internees possessed the right to adequate medical care. Artifacts recovered from the...
Caring Forthe Future With Archaeology (2017)
Historical archaeology is a useful method for discovering silenced and hidden pasts that force reconsideration of how the present came to be and at what and who’s expense. This impulse regularly generates deeper appreciations for the power of the past in and over the present. Yet, archaeologists less often move their results forward to engage with the futures that contemporary people, such as descendant and local communities, can make with new archaeological knowledge. This is surprising since a...
Carissimo Salvatore: An Archaeological view of Italian Service Units at the Presidio of San Francisco (2015)
Over 50,000 Italian prisoners of war were transported to the United States during World War II. After Italy negotiated an armistice with the Allies, POWs were presented with a choice. Those that signed an oath of allegiance to the new Italian government were assigned to Italian Service Units (ISUs). They provided support services for the United States military in exchange for limited freedoms and better living conditions. Those that refused to sign the oath remained in POW camps. This paper...
‘Carmelo’s Cabinet’: The Material Culture of Collections in the Anthracite Region of Pennsylvania (2015)
Personal collections of objects reflect individual orderings of the material world, particularly when they encompass the realms of work, domestic life, health, aesthetics and religion. As complete sets, they are like an idealized version of an archaeological assemblage: intact, curated, annotated, and often traceable to an individual life trajectory and historical period. Carmelo Fierro was an Italian immigrant who came to American in 1902, carrying with him a small cabinet packed with small...
Carpeted with Ammunition: Investigations of the Florence D shipwreck site, Northern Territory, Australia (2017)
The American transport ship Florence D disappeared in the murky waters off of the Tiwi Islands after being bombed by Japanese fighter planes on their return from the first air attack on Darwin Harbour on 19 February 1942. Considered one Australia’s great wartime mysteries, the location of the site was unknown until discovered by a local fisherman in 2006. Archaeological investigations of the wreck later conducted by teams from the Northern Territory’s Heritage Branch verified the identity of the...
Carter's Grove Site CG-8 (44JC647)
Carter’s Grove Site 8—also known as CG-8 (44JC647)—is part of the Martin’s Hundred settlement, located on the James River in James City County, Virginia. The site was probably occupied sometime in the second quarter of the 17th century and abandoned by c. 1650, at a time when the price of tobacco had dropped in Virginia. Its occupants appear to have been at the lower end of the economic scale, in contrast with the Martin’s Hundred residents described by Ivor Noël Hume in his book, Martin’s...
Carter’s Grove CG-8 (44JC647): Artifact Distributions, Bone and Shell (2004)
Artifact distribution map, bone and shell
Carter’s Grove CG-8 (44JC647): Artifact Distributions, Brick (2004)
Artifact distribution map, brick
Carter’s Grove CG-8 (44JC647): Artifact Distributions, Case Bottles (2004)
Artifact distribution map, case bottles
Carter’s Grove CG-8 (44JC647): Artifact Distributions, Domestic Material (2004)
Artifact distribution map, domestic material
Carter’s Grove CG-8 (44JC647): Artifact Distributions, European Ceramics (2004)
Artifact distribution map, European ceramics
Carter’s Grove CG-8 (44JC647): Artifact Distributions, Terra Cotta Pipes (2004)
Artifact distribution map, terra cotta pipes
Carter’s Grove CG-8 (44JC647): Artifact Distributions, Tin-Glazed Earthenware (2004)
Artifact distribution map, tin-glazed earthenware
Carter’s Grove CG-8 (44JC647): Artifact Distributions, Unidentified Earthenware (2004)
Artifact distribution map, unidentified earthenware
Carter’s Grove CG-8 (44JC647): Artifact Distributions, White Clay Tobacco Pipes (2004)
Artifact distribution map, white clay tobacco pipes
Carter’s Grove CG-8 (44JC647): Artifact Distributions, Window Glass (2004)
Artifact distribution map, window glass
Carter’s Grove CG-8 (44JC647): Bartmann Jug (2004)
Representative artifacts: Bartmann fragment
Carter’s Grove CG-8 (44JC647): Burned Nails (2004)
Representative artifacts: Burned nails
Carter’s Grove CG-8 (44JC647): Ceramics (2004)
Representative artifacts: Ceramics
Carter’s Grove CG-8 (44JC647): Domestic Pipes (2004)
Representative artifacts: Domestic pipes
Carter’s Grove CG-8 (44JC647): General Site Map (2004)
General site map
Carter’s Grove CG-8 (44JC647): Imported Pipes (2004)
Representative artifacts: Imported pipes
Carter’s Grove CG-8 (44JC647): Lead Shot (2004)
Representative artifacts: Lead shot and fragments
Carter’s Grove CG-8 (44JC647): Maize (2004)
Representative artifacts: Maize
Carter’s Grove CG-8 (44JC647): Seeds (2004)
Representative artifacts: Seeds