Chesapeake (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ruth M Mitchell. Brandon L Herrmann.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Bastions, Buttons, and Burials: Recent Research at Historic St. Mary’s City", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Two burials of individuals of African descent (ca. 1680-1730s) were recently excavated at Chancellor’s Point in St. Mary’s City, Maryland. These two individuals were interred on an earlier domestic site dating to 1639 – ca. 1680. Archaeological work from previous decades suggests that blacksmithing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elsie A. Immel. Julie Kime.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Henry M. Miller. Robert Bray, Jr.. Donald Winter. Julia von Uffel.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Carol A. Ebright.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Chrissy A Perl. Erin N Crawford.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Bastions, Buttons, and Burials: Recent Research at Historic St. Mary’s City", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. More than twenty seasons of excavations at the Leonard Calvert House site have yielded artifacts spanning vast periods of time both before and after the gubernatorial occupation that lends the site its name. The land of Historic St. Mary’s City was long occupied by the indigenous groups of Maryland...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Strickland. Patricia Samford.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeological Imaginaries, Regional Realities: 50 Years of Work in the Chesapeake", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper examines two colonial sites in Maryland’s Patuxent River Valley: the Melon Field site (18CV169), home of Robert Taylor Jr., dating between the 1660s and the 1680s and the 1690 to 1711 King’s Reach Site (18CV83), home of Richard Smith Jr. While these two small tobacco farms both have...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stanley W. Baker.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Fraser Neiman. Christine Devine. Crystal O’Connor. Corey Sattes. Derek Wheeler.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of Chesapeake Landscapes in Transition", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Forty years of excavation at Monticello have yielded artifacts from thousands of contexts created by diverse taphonomic processes. These include spatially scattered quadrats in plowzone sites, lithostratigraphic units from sites with extensive horizontal stratification, and discrete features. This paper describes...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sean Devlin. Jack Gary. Eric Schweickart. Kara Garvey. Mark Kostro.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Colonoware has been the subject of intense archaeological study since the type’s identification by Ivor Noel Hume at Colonial Williamsburg. The initial decades of analysis were dominated by debates centered on the cultural and ethnic origins of the ceramic’s production. A primary observation to emerge from this period, however, was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Crystal L O'Connor. Fraser D Neiman.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of the Mid-Atlantic (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1789 enslaved chef James Hemings prepared elite French cuisine at Monticello on one of the earliest stew stoves in Virginia. His owner, Thomas Jefferson, had taken Hemings to Paris five years earlier to be trained in preparing French cuisine. Recently archaeologists at Monticello excavated Monticello's first...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Travis G. Parno. Henry M. Miller. Jessica Edwards.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeological Imaginaries, Regional Realities: 50 Years of Work in the Chesapeake", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Over the past three years, archaeologists at Historic St. Mary’s City have revealed the footprint of a large, timber-framed building—dubbed Structure 101—located within the palisaded walls of St. Mary’s Fort (ca. 1634). Comprised of more than 70 posts and featuring a large cellar on its north...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Keith Bott.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica E Edwards.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Bastions, Buttons, and Burials: Recent Research at Historic St. Mary’s City", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. “We have seated ourselves, within one half mile of the river, within a pallizado of one hundred and twentie yarde square, with four flankes,..'' These were the words written by Governor Leonard Calvert to friend and financier Sir Richard Lechford in May of 1634. With the discovery of the St. Mary’s...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca J. Webster.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeological Studies of Material Culture (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1644, a group of men met a Coan Hall, located in Northumberland County, Virginia, to plan what would come to be known as Ingles Rebellion, the Protestant-led overthrowing of the Catholic Maryland government. Three-hundred-and-seventy-five years later, a French-manufactured, copper-alloy “Jesuit” ring with an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julia A King.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Digging Deep: Close Engagement with the Material World" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. What does one do with artifacts recovered from disturbed proveniences? Or with artifacts recovered almost a hundred years ago and now sitting in museum collections? Are reasonable, responsible inferences possible? Space and form may help achieve what lost levels cannot: this paper considers the case of the mysterious...