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DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Bilgri.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Seminole Wars of the nineteenth century were critically important in establishing the modern Tribal identity of the Seminole Tribe of Florida, and the consequences of the conflict reverberate throughout the community today. Yet relatively little archaeological work has been done to study the small military engagements that characterized the Third Seminole War (1855-1858) in south...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather Olson.

In 2014, the Public Archaeology Laboratory conducted archaeological excavations at the former House of the Good Shepherd orphanage in Tomkins Cove, New York. Over 4,000 domestic and structural artifacts were found at the site, offering glimpses into its nineteenth-century orphanage history as well as its use as a Fresh Air Association summer retreat during the twentieth century. Although small, the nineteenth-century artifact assemblage reflects the life of the orphans who lived there. Current...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexander D. Keim. Andrew Webster.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Boxed but not Forgotten Redux or: How I Learned to Stop Digging and Love Old Collections" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Historical archaeologists often interpret artifacts through the lens of household and family as the location for the development of practice and identity. Economic uncertainty for working-class households in historic urban contexts, however, meant that some families moved as many as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only C. Broughton Anderson.

This is an abstract from the "Deepening Archaeology's Engagement with Black Studies" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the mid-nineteenth century, Spicy Baxter and siblings were emancipated by their father, George White, a freedman in Madison County, Kentucky. The family moved south, away from their northern Madison County farm to a rugged, isolated, parcel in the south of the county. Here, Spicy and her female siblings lived until the early...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Larry Lahren.

J. Whittaker: Nice personalized illustrated narrative of Montana prehistory. Anzick Clovis site frequently referred to. Lithic archaeology includes projectile point chronology, knapping discussion featuring work of Ray Alt, Bonnichsen. Shoshone legend of how coyote stole knapping knowledge from wolf. Experiments with bow (Alt) and atlatl leave them skeptical of ability to distinguish points by size, and of penetrating ability of atlatl dart. [Stories about effectiveness of bow and arrow, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey D. Larson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Roads, Rivers, Rails and Trails (and more): The Archaeology of Linear Historic Properties" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Homestake Aqueduct (39LA2057) in Lawrence County, South Dakota is a pipeline constructed by the Homestake Mining Company to transfer water from Spearfish Creek to the mines and mills of the Lead-Deadwood area. This predominately subterranean system was likely started in 1879 and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cyler N. Conrad. Jeremy C Brunette.

Beginning in the 1880s, Hispanic- and Euro-American homesteaders expanded onto the Pajarito Plateau in northern New Mexico. While journals and documentary accounts from visitors and descendants provide insight into the everyday livelihood of these farmers and ranchers, few studies have investigated their shared experience based on examination of physical remains. In this zooarchaeological analysis we identify and quantify the animal remains from several homesteader cabin sites at Los Alamos...

PROJECT Al Luckenbach.

Homewood's Lot (18AN871) is located off Whitehall Creek near the Chesapeake Bay in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Continuously occupied since 1650, Homewood's Lot is one of eight known sites associated with the Puritan town of Providence (1649) (Luckenbach 1995). James Homewood arrived in Providence in 1649 and, in 1650, a parcel of land was laid out for him. James' brother, John Homewood, lived on Homewood's Lot until his death in 1681/82, leaving the land to his wife Sarah and first nephew,...

IMAGE Catherine Alston.

Artifact distribution map, bottle glass

IMAGE Catherine Alston.

Artifact distribution map, buttons

IMAGE Catherine Alston.

Artifact distribution map, clothing and sewing items

IMAGE Catherine Alston.

Artifact distribution map, cutlery

IMAGE Catherine Alston.

Artifact distribution map, North Devon sgraffito

IMAGE Catherine Alston.

Artifact distribution map, Rhenish blue and gray stoneware

IMAGE Catherine Alston.

Artifact distribution map, table glass

IMAGE Catherine Alston.

Artifact distribution map, terra cotta pipes

IMAGE Catherine Alston.

Artifact distribution map, tin-glazed earthenware

IMAGE Catherine Alston.

Artifact distribution map, white clay tobacco pipes

IMAGE Catherine Alston.

Artifact distribution map, window leads

IMAGE Catherine Alston.

Representative artifacts: Bottle seal

IMAGE Catherine Alston.

Representative artifacts: Ceramics

IMAGE Catherine Alston.

General site map

IMAGE Catherine Alston.

Representative artifacts: Iron fork

IMAGE Catherine Alston.

Representative artifacts: Key

IMAGE Catherine Alston.

Midden analysis chart: Artifact classes in plow zone