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DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Minkoff. Terry Brock. Matthew Reeves.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Race, Racism, and Montpelier" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeologists studying the African American experience have a responsibility to not only examine the complicated relationships and emergence of race and racism in the past, but also its legacy in the present. This is particularly true when this research is done as part of a public archaeology program, especially one that claims to engage with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Natalie A. Pope. Stefanie M. Smith.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeological investigations in Newport News, Virginia uncovered a significant early war Confederate encampment. Historical documents indicated that it was likely occupied between October 1861 and March 1862 by troops including the 15th Virginia and the 5th Louisiana Infantries. Of considerable interest were several large single...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen J. Hinks.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Mara Z Kaktins. Elyse Adams.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Collections Management in the Age of COVID-19" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. On the 16th of March our jobs as we knew them changed drastically. All employees of The George Washington Foundation were ordered to work from home with no set date to return. What was predicted to be a few weeks turned into two and a half months. For an archaeology department in a museum this posed numerous challenges including...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas J. Kutys. Samuel A. Pickard.

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. The Port Richmond neighborhood of Philadelphia arose around a crossroads village along the Delaware River, several miles north of Old City Philadelphia. With the opening of the Reading Railroad’s Port Richmond terminal in 1842, the village was transformed into a boom town with blocks of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian D Crane.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Studying Human Behavior within Cemeteries (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Historical and archaeological research in Montgomery County, MD is exploring the relationships between burial grounds and surrounding landscape features in order to better understand these sites and find graveyards whose locations have been lost. The topographic settings of family burial grounds and their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William M. Kelso.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Jay F. Custer.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Reeves. Mary Furlong Minkoff. Terry Brock. Chris Pasch. Hannah James. Taylor Brown.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Adaptation and Alteration: The New Realities of Archaeology during a Pandemic" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Montpelier Archaeology Department has a long tradition of publicly engaged participant programs that feature hands-on learning. At the time of writing this abstract, we had decided to move forward with our week-long public programs. We adapted by changing our field procedures to ensure proper...