Mid-Atlantic (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian C Burrow.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "African American Voices In The Mid-Atlantic: Archaeology Of Elusive Freedom, Enslavement, And Rebellion" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Stoutsburg-Sourland African-American Museum (SSAAM), was established in a former AME church in Skillman, NJ, in 2014. Its Mission is to tell the story of the unique culture, experiences, and contributions of the African American community of the Sourland Mountain...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jack A. Gary.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Returning to Colonial Williamsburg (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Department of Archaeology in collaboration with the Materials Analysis Laboratory at Colonial Williamsburg conducted paint analysis on fragments of early 18th century painted redware flower urns recovered from the home and garden of John Custis IV in Williamsburg, Virginia. Cross-section, scanning electron, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephanie Sperling.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Remote Archaeology: Taking Archaeology Online in the Wake of COVID-19" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeologists with Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, Department of Parks and Recreation in Prince George’s County, Maryland established a vibrant and diverse public archaeology program decades ago. As soon the pandemic hit and it became clear that our 2020 initiatives would not be...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amy E Broussard. Olivia Williamson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Excavation around a mid-nineteenth century family cemetery revealed a much more complex series of graveshafts than assumed from the surface. In this presentation we analyze the orientation and distribution of approximately ninety unmarked graveshafts found in a cultivated field surrounding the extant cemetery.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aaron C Lovejoy. Crystal A Castleberry. Jack A Gary.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Returning to Colonial Williamsburg (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Excavating Experience: Exploring Delhi’s mid-century housing through literature and streetscape survey

DOCUMENT Citation Only John T. Crawmer. Jane C. Skinner. Nicholas Zeitlin.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Camp Security was a Revolutionary War prison camp that housed as many as 1,800 British POWs. Efforts to locate residential areas in the complex have been ongoing sporadically since the 1970s, but the exact location of the camp stockade is still unknown. In this paper, we explore the effectiveness of previous methodologies and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlyn J Ward.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Life along a river involves a symbiotic relationship between land dwellers and waterway navigators. It bolsters an ideology that the beings who produce on land support those who deliver the exports throughout the world through not only product but vessels as well. This dynamic was prevalent at the West Shipyard/Vine Street Lot in Philadelphia where mercantilism was just taking off and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ethan A Bean.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2019, as part of the Wolf Trap Alternate Placement Site Northern Extension (WTAPSNE) Project, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District (USACE) contracted Stell Environmental and SEARCH, Inc. to conduct an underwater investigation testing for the presence of resources eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. Utilizing side scan sonar and magnetometry, SEARCH,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kerry Gonzalez. Anita Dodd.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Rural family cemeteries are ubiquitous across the United States and, while they have been intensively studied, there is still a great deal to learn about these resources from an archaeological and burial practice perspective. Rural family cemeteries can also reflect the economic, social, ethnic and cultural heritage of a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tatiana Niculescu.

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. Dissent over what merits preservation and what constitutes progress undergird Alexandria Archaeology’s establishment. Our program is rooted in the urban renewal movement of the 1960s and 1970s. In demolishing several blocks and removing people of color and poor whites from the City’s downtown, officials hoped to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marian E Leech.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "More than Pots and Pipes: New Netherland and a World Made by Trade" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper explores the many meanings of Minisink, a Munsee region stretching from the Delaware Water Gap to Port Jervis, New York. Usually thought to mean "at the island," Minisink was a major Native center since at least the start of the Late Woodland Period and well into the mid-eighteenth century. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara J. Rivers Cofield.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Opening the Vault: What Collections Can Say About Jamestown’s Global Trade Network", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Perhaps following the example of the Spanish who imported horses in the 16th century, the Virginia Company included horses as essential to pack for their colonization venture. However, the primary benefit of carrying horses across the Atlantic before 1609 turned out to be the meat they offered...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Efrain Ocasio.

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 the mid-19th century, midwives were local women, usually with children of their own, who had learned midwifery as apprentices. Observing and helping with deliveries accumulated their skills and exposed them to the variety of problems they would face when working on their own. Dunkerhook, a community established by formerly...

DOCUMENT Citation Only C. Lorin Brace VI.

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. As monuments celebrating the Confederacy have come down in cities across the country in recent months, following the protests sparked by the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and numerous other Black Americans, debates have raged over the country’s legacies of slavery and racism. Some argue that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Taylor Bowden. Brigid M. Ogden. Elizabeth Tarulis.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper presents an analysis of a tentatively identified animal membrane condom from the colonial Oxon Hill Manor Site (18PR175) in Maryland using Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) to identify the taxon from which the artifact was made. Taxonomic identification of the condom allows for more in-depth exploration of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric Proebsting.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Current Research on Virginia Plantations: Reexamining Historic Landscapes" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. A key focus of the long-term archaeological work that has taken place at Poplar Forest has included developing a highly-detailed contextual understanding of Jefferson’s retreat home and plantation. Over the past decade, research and restoration efforts associated with the carriage circle, ornamental...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristen L. LaPorte.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Stone tools have served invaluable purposes throughout history and prehistory. During the historic period, the use of flint as the sparking instrument in firearms revolutionized warfare and reshaped life. When commercially made flint tools were unavailable or otherwise inaccessible, opportunistic individuals were known to source raw material for gunflints and tinderflints from ballast...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas A. Crist. Kimberly A. Morrell. Douglas B. Mooney.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“We the People”: Historical Cemetery Archaeology in Philadelphia" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Not all figures who sustain social or political movements are obvious or celebrated. For instance, in 1923 Rosetta Douglass Sprague published a short biography of her mother Anna Murray-Douglass, the first wife of Frederick Douglass. No such biography of Ann (Crusoe) Gloucester exists despite her husband...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erin S. Schwartz.

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. Iron plantations played diverse economic roles in the early mid-Atlantic. While designed to refine and transport iron products along waterways to regional markets or specialty iron operations, iron plantations also served as nodes of bidirectional exchange between Virginia’s coastal and inland areas, including...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul F. Albert Jr..

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Come, Tell Us How You Lived: 50 Years of Research at Catoctin Furnace, Maryland", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Phase III archaeological excavations at the Forgeman’s House and Hoke House sites in the Catoctin Furnace Historic District (Thurmont, Maryland) have yielded significant, contemporaneous ceramics assemblages that provide insight into the lived experiences of early nineteenth century furnace...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey H. Maymon. Michael A. Simons. Christopher R. Polglase. Hugh B. McAloon. S. Justine Woodard.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher R. Polglase. Jeffrey H. Maymon. Kathleen Child. Justine Woodard. Thomas W. Neumann.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Alison M. Ricci-Wadas.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“We the People”: Historical Cemetery Archaeology in Philadelphia" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Artifacts from places of confinement, excavated by archaeologists from institutions occupied long ago, provide unique insights into the people who lived, worked, and died there. Between 1835 and 1905, the Blockley Almshouse in Philadelphia housed the sick poor, mentally ill, unwed mothers, and children. In...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samuel A. Pickard. Joel Dworsky.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Archaeology of the Delaware River Waterfront Symposium of Philadelphia Neighborhoods" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Excavations at the Somerset-Cambria and Cambria-Ann sites conducted as part of the I-95 Girard Avenue Improvement Project encompassed two full city blocks of the Port Richmond neighborhood in Philadelphia. Such sites offered archaeologists the opportunity to examine data from a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tatiana Niculescu. Nichole Doub. Scott Seibel.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Urban Preservation Challenges in a Global Perspective", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the 18th century, Alexandria, Virginia’s waterfront was literally and figuratively created by ships. Recent redevelopment revealed the remnants of four historic vessels and numerous wharves and land making structures. These important pieces of maritime heritage have provided new opportunities for studying the past while...