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DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael S Nassaney. Sergio Escribano-Ruiz.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Colonial Forts in Comparative, Global, and Contemporary Perspective", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Fortifications conjure images of defensive strongholds constructed by imperial forces to subjugate indigenous peoples politically, economically, and militarily. Yet because power always faces resistance, the success of Dutch, English, French, Russian, and Spanish efforts varied according to environmental...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John K McCarthy.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology in a Digital Age (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This presentation considers the value of 3D digital libraries to support maritime archaeological investigations of historic vessels, focussed on Dutch ocean-going merchant ships (1595 to 1800). During this time the Netherlands rose to become a leading maritime power. Despite prolonged scholarly interest , typological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Raquel Machaqueiro.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Uncovering of the World of the São José Paquete d’África, a Portuguese Slave Ship", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Lisbon is full of sites celebrating the Portuguese former empire: from the Empire Square and the Discoveries Pattern in Belém, to the city’s toponymy celebrating the empire’s heroes, the public space is a constant reminder of a glorious past. Contrasting with the high visibility of this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shawn Joy. Morgan Smith.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Perspectives on the Future, and the Past, of Underwater Archaeology in the Cultural Resource Management Industry" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Offshore wind is increasingly important in reducing carbon footprints and improving energy security. Improving the industry’s capabilities in cultural preservation is critical for renewable energy development. The human-altered lithic detection (HALD) method of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Reinaldo Santos Barroso.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Uncovering of the World of the São José Paquete d’África, a Portuguese Slave Ship", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This presentation is the Brazilian counterpart of trying to understand a specific route of the slave trade between Mozambique and the Brazilian Amazon, a route taken by the São José Paquete d’África. From this experience we can understand part of the diasporic process from Africa and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anne T Comer.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology, Memory, and Politics in the 2020s: Changes in Methods, Narratives, and Access", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. My paper will focus on the anthropological perspective of accessible design in creating social media content based on historical research. The mission of The New Historia is to create a global network of scholars from many disciplines who submit biographies of women of the ancient to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan R Victor.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Making Waves through Play: A Historical Archaeological Examination of Archaeogaming and the Global Impact of Video Games on the Field of Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Historical archaeology acknowledges the crucial nature stakeholder engagement and community-driven archaeological projects. Ethical, well-considered archaeology draws on narratives of the past that are co-produced, rather than...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jay van der Reijden.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Jillian E. Galle.

This is a forum/panel proposal presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In January 2020, at the SHA Annual Conference in Boston, over 80 attendees took the DAACS Material Culture Assessment. They were asked to anonymously identify the material, ware type, form, and decoration of 35 different artifacts. This panel begins with a summary of the DAACS MCA results, which will be a springboard for a wide-ranging discussion of how archaeologists are trained in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yolanda Teixeira Duarte. Ricardo Teixeira Duarte. Stephen Lubkemann.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Uncovering of the World of the São José Paquete d’África, a Portuguese Slave Ship", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper describes work by Mozambican archeologists from the Slave Wrecks Project on two terrestrial sites that represent different stages in the arduous journey of enslaved persons from Mozambique’s interior to the coast before boarding ships to the Americas or across the Indian Ocean....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jaco Boshoff.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Uncovering of the World of the São José Paquete d’África, a Portuguese Slave Ship", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Wrecking of the São José Paquete d’África on the Cape coast in December 1794 was not seen as different from any other shipwreck at the time. History only recorded the basic details of the incident relegating it to no more than a footnote. In the 1980’s treasure hunters misidentified the...