Southeastern United States (Geographic Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Needle, Meet Haystack: The Role of Magnetometers in Underwater Archaeological Research and the Evolution of Interpreting Magnetic Data for Cultural Resource Investigations", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. An archaeological remote-sensing survey was conducted in search of the U.S.S. Firebrand, formerly known as the Dorada, situated on or near Square Handkerchief Shoal offshore Pass Christian, Mississippi....
Joara and Fort San Juan: Colonial Encounters at the Berry Site, North Carolina (2025)
From 1566 to 1568, Captain Juan Pardo founded a network of six small garrisons across the modern-day Carolinas and across the Appalachian Mountains into eastern Tennessee. The first of these, Fort San Juan, was built at the Native town of Joara as the base of operations for Spain’s imperial designs in the interior of northern La Florida. Yet the subsequent destruction of all six forts during an Indigenous uprising brought these ambitions to an unexpected end. Although short-lived, Pardo’s forts...
Making the Pieces Fit - Historic Maps and the Colonial Archaeology of Downtown Pensacola, Florida (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Well, Well, Well: Papers in honor of Judith A. Bense", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The urban nature of Pensacola's colonial archaeology means we get tiny fragments of the archaeology a piece at a time. Beginning in the early 1990s Dr. Bense realized the importance of a single, unified archaeological grid across Pensacola and found the people and tools necessary to help implement it. Using this grid, more...
The Maritime Taskscape Of An Enslaved Community (2021)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Landscapes Above and Below in Southern Contexts (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. While the concept of “taskscape” has been introduced and utilized within archaeological and historical study, this theoretical approach has an even greater potential to interpret complex archaeological and cultural maritime landscapes. With Somerset Place, near Creswell, North Carolina as a focus site, the...
National Historic Landmark Theme Study (Draft) the Encounter Between the Old World and the New World in the Southeastern Region of the United States A.D. 1500 - 1830 (1991)
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Not Forgotten: Personal Touches in Mortuary Treatment at Asylum Hill (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From 1855 to 1935, the Mississippi State Asylum occupied a tract of land north of downtown Jackson. Graves discovered during construction in 1992 and 2012 on the University of Mississippi Medical Center campus represent a burial ground established for patients who died in the asylum. The current cemetery excavation has found ample...
Not Quite Just "Point and Click:" Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) and Photogrammetry as Aids to Coastal Heritage Monitoring (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Methods for Monitoring Heritage at Risk Sites in a Rapidly Changing Environment", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In contributing to the dire need for monitoring and documenting heritage sites at risk from sea-level rise and other climate impacts, researchers at the University of West Florida and the Florida Public Archaeology Network are exploring the use of both terrestrial laser scanners (TLS) and...
A Palimpsest of Pits and Posts: Excavations at Mission San Buena Bentura de Palica in St. Augustine, Florida (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Colonial Ventures and Native Voices: Legacies from the Spanish and Portuguese Empires", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the early 1700s, communities of Christianized Native Americans living in Spanish mission communities across the southeastern U.S. were being actively attacked by the British and their Native allies. By 1706, the chain of missions was reduced to only a handful of refugee settlements,...
Prepared in Mind and Resources: Addressing Heritage at Risk at the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Intersection Between Natural and Cultural Heritage and the Pressing Threats to Both", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) owns and manages over 1.2 million acres, of which 176,000 acres are coastal. Within the SCDNR, the South Carolina Heritage Trust Program staff are tasked with protecting some of the state’s most valuable natural and cultural...
Public Landscapes and Historic Burials: An Investigation of Historic Graves at the Poverty Point Site (16WC5) (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Public Archaeology and CRM in Louisiana: Making Historical Archaeology Matter", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Poverty Point Site has at least two known, but not well understood, historic mortuary areas. Between two and four historic graves are known to exist atop Mound D, a precolonial monument locally known as Sarah’s Mound. Sarah Guier, whose husband Philip owned and cultivated the site as a cotton...
Rice Berms and Deadhead Logs: Co-Creating Land and Labor on the Cape Fear (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Co-Producing Space: Relational Approaches to Agrarian Landscapes, Labor, Commodities, and Communities", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Studies of antebellum rice plantations in the Southeastern United States tend to center on South Carolina and Georgia, largely because they were the most extensive land holdings in terms of acreage, production, and enslaved labor. One area where rice agriculture is...
Sands of Time: Bathymetric History of the Emanuel Point Shipwreck Area (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Three shipwrecks associated with the 1559 Tristán de Luna expedition have been located off the coast of Emanuel Point in Pensacola Bay. These shipwrecks have borne witness to the activities occurring overhead and the development of Pensacola's maritime landscape. The landscapes to meet the evolving needs of the population drove the...
South Carolina Institute of Archaeology & Anthropology, the University of South Carolina, Annual Report 1985 (1985)
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South Carolina Institute of Archeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Annual Report 1986 (1987)
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Still Boundary Street: Marion Square as Contested Ground in Charleston, South Carolina (2021)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Urban Dissonance: Violence, Friction, and Change" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The recent removal of a towering statue of John C. Calhoun has brought much attention to the open park known known as Marion Square in Charleston, South Carolina. Historical and archaeological research demonstrates that the removal, and the protests that led to this event are just the latest instances of social...
Unexpected Discovery: An 18th-Century Cannon Cluster Site in the Savannah River (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In February 2021, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District recovered three cannon, a stocked anchor, and a number of wooden and metal materials while dredging regular maintenance areas in preparation for deepening associated with the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP). A subsequent geophysical survey and diver...
The Utility of Communities of Practice in a Spanish Colonial Context (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeologists studying colonial contexts know that these periods are often marked by rapid social and demographic change. In the southeastern United States, these changes led to the coalescence of formerly independent peoples. Interestingly, there are also rapid changes in potting practices. While these processes of coalescence...
Van McMurray Playground (16OR752): A Case Study of Urbanization in a New Orleans Neighborhood (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2022, TerraXplorations, Inc. excavated Van McMurray Playground (16OR752) in the Central City neighborhood of New Orleans in preparation for the construction of a new drainage system to combat climate change-related flooding events. The assemblage of over 1,000 artifacts collected had a time depth from the Antebellum period...
VRchaeology: Applications of Virtual Reality in Historical Archaeology (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Within the field of archaeology, virtual reality technologies are an underutilized tool holding great potential. These systems have an unrealized capacity to change the way archaeologists record, visualize, and interpret archaeological sites. Such applications are demonstrated following recent research at the Brunswick Town...
When in Drought: An Exposed Shipwreck Along the Mississippi River in Baton Rouge, LA (2024)
This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. When the Mississippi River dropped significantly in the Fall of 2022, the Louisiana Division of Archaeology received numerous calls and emails from citizens stumbling across exposed structures and vessels, some of which turned out to be shipwrecks. The low water levels and the proximity to the Division of Archaeology’s office allowed staff and volunteers to further document the exposed...