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This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of Eagle Nest Canyon, Texas: Papers in Honor of Jack and Wilmuth Skiles" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The value of several significant archaeological sites investigated by the Ancient Southwest Texas Project in Eagle Nest Canyon (Val Verde County, Texas) is a testament to the conservation and stewardship of landowners Jack and Wilmuth Skiles. From the beginning it was anticipated that these...
Shades of Meaning: Relating Color to Chacoan Identity, Memory, and Power at the Aztec Great Houses (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Coloring the World: People and Colors in Southwestern Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Ancient Puebloan occupation of the Aztec complex in northwest New Mexico spanned a tumultuous two and a half centuries that saw the arrival of Chacoan people and Chacoan ways in the Animas Valley in the late 11th century C.E., followed by the waning influence of Chaco by 1140, and a new era of Aztec-centered power in...
"Shadow of the Whale:" West Coast Rituals Associated with Luring Whales (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Supernatural Gamekeepers and Animal Masters: A Cross-Cultural Perspective" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Native peoples along the Pacific Coast of North America exploited stranded whales that washed ashore, providing abundant meat and oil for consumption. Many rock art sites along the coast between Alaska and Acapulco contain images of whales and other cetaceans, and portable effigies also depict these marine...
Shadowed Facts: How the Zooarchaeological Analysis of a Horse Skeleton within a University Teaching Collection potentially Provides Insight into Early Chicago History and Equine Pathology. (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation details a zooarchaeological analysis of a horse skeleton, stored unstudied for decades previous in a university teaching collection. Originating from an archaeological site outside of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, the skeleton displays notable pathologies and other osteological changes that potentially reflect its living use and...
The Shaker Dig: Community Archaeology in Shaker Heights, OH (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For the last four summers the Shaker Historical Museum in Shaker Heights, OH, has been sponsoring a community-based archaeological day camp experience for school-aged children. Through excavations at two local historical sites within the city, the participants of our program have learned the importance of archaeology, history, and preservation in their own...
Shall We Gather at the River: 13,000 Years of Adaptation in the Sonoran Desert at La Playa (SON F:10:3) (2024)
This is an abstract from the "13,000 Years of Adaptation in the Sonoran Desert at La Playa, Sonora" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Our research at the extraordinary La Playa Site (SON F:10:3) is now entering its twenty-third year. This site is located at the Boquillas Valley about 10 km north of Estación Trincheras and some 27 km west of Santa Ana, Sonora. The La Playa site presents an archaeological landscape revealing evidence of continuous...
Shallow Water Hydrographic surveys in support of archaeological site preservation: Queen Anne’s Revenge Wreck Site, North Carolina (2016)
In 2006, the NC Department of Cultural Resources/Underwater Archaeology Branch and the US Army Corps of Engineers undertook an experimental project by placing a mound ofdredge spoil sediments on the updrift side of the Queen Anne’s Revenge shipwreck site. This experiment was designed to promote site preservation and decrease exposure of subaqueous cultural artifacts. A series of high-resolution multibeam sonar surveys were conducted to quantify and monitor the morphology of the sediment mound...
Shanties on the Mountainside: A Look at Labor on the Blue Ridge Railroad (2018)
From 1850 to 1860, the Blue Ridge Mountains were home to roughly 1,900 Irish laborers as they worked on the construction of the Virginia Central Railroad. Upon its completion, the railroad stretched from Norfolk, Virginia, to the Ohio River. Along the Blue Ridge Mountains, several cuts and tunnels were constructed by the Irish immigrants including the 4,263ft Blue Ridge Tunnel. In 2011, a local non-profit organization, focused on pinpointing the remains of Irish shantytown homes, contacted the...
'The Shape which all that which is Settled has is that of a Cross': Negotiating Inscription and Experience in the Sacred Landscapes of 17th Century New Mexico (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Sacred Southwestern Landscapes: Archaeologies of Religious Ecology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the emergent social geography of empire, Franciscan missions were agents of spatial production as well as colonial establishment. Their foundation, form, and operation instantiated claims to and about society, dominion, and the culmination of history. These claims were forged within an already extant, meaningful, and...
Shaping the City from Detroit’s Rediscovered Archaeological Collections (2015)
Unearthing Detroit is a collections-based and community archaeology research project focused on the extensive salvage collections recovered from major downtown construction projects during the 1960s and 70s that are now housed in Wayne State University’s Grosscup Museum of Anthropology. Inspired by the findings of recent collections-based research at Market Street Chinatown (San Jose) and CoVA’s Repositories Survey, Unearthing Detroit project members revisited the Renaissance Center collections...
Shaping the Landscape: A Chronology of Shore Line Changes (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Rebuilding The Alexandria Waterfront: Urban Landscape Development and Modifications" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The shore line of Alexandria, Virginia in the early 18th century sat approximately 300 feet farther west than it does now. In the 18th and 19th centuries the owners of the riverfront lots along union street were encouraged to expand their property, specifically their land, into the Potomac River....
Shaping the World and Running for Corn: Monumental Agriritual Landscapes in the Dry-farm Belt of the Ancient Puebloan, Northern San Juan (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Newly available USGS LiDAR imagery has confirmed the reported existence, and greatly expanded the known extent, of ancient ritual and agricultural earthworks in the northern San Juan region. These findings are transforming our understanding of early Puebloan landscape manipulation, with large implications for Puebloan community organization and food...
Shards of Medical History: Artifacts from the Point San Jose Hospital Medical Waste Pit (2018)
While monitoring lead remediation activities around historic buildings at Point San Jose (now Fort Mason) in 2010, National Park Service archaeologists discovered thousands of human bones in a medical waste pit behind the former hospital. Large numbers of medical artifacts, primarily medicinal bottle shards, were also recovered from the pit. Many of these medicinal bottles were produced by the U.S. Army Hospital Department for a limited time during the Civil War (1862-1865). Such precise...
Shared Authority, Reflective Practice, and Community Outreach: Thoughts on Parallel Conversations in Public History and Historical Archaeology (2015)
Over the past two decades, publications in public history, museum studies, oral history, historic preservation, and historical archaeology have often followed similar trajectories in seeking to serve a diversity of stakeholders connected to historic sites and promoting discussion of poorly documented and marginalized communities. This paper traces these parallel theoretical concepts and ethical considerations and examines how public archaeologies of the recent past may benefit from closer...
Sharing Stories of The Sunken Prize (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Telling a Tale of One Ship with Two Names: Queen Anne’s Revenge and La Concorde" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. A recent three-year project by two independent scholars produced a book summarizing the discovery, recovery, and artifact analyses of a French privateer and slave transport, Concorde, that ended its service under control of pirates as Queen Anne’s Revenge. It was a ship with more than one life...
Sharing the Buried History of the Apperson Community, Menifee County, Kentucky (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Communicating Working Class Heritage in the 21st Century: Values, Lessons, Methods, and Meanings" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. About 1941-1943, as the Cumberland (now Daniel Boone) National Forest, was forming, the occupants of two rural domestic sites in Menifee County, Kentucky left, most eventually to find work in factories of Ohio and Michigan. Recent historical and archaeological study of these sites has...
Sharing the Interpretive Center at Colonial Williamsburg: Archaeologists, Historical Interpreters, and Descendant Communities (2015)
Archaeology at Colonial Williamsburg has always involved African Americans in different levels of its practice. Members of this community have worked behind-the-scenes and in more public roles at the museum since its founding in the late 1920s. This presentation addresses the unique ways in which archaeologists have worked with African Americans, and how this interaction has allowed archaeologists to reach descendant communities. Examples from past and ongoing activities are used to illustrate...
Sharing The Wealth: Crowd Sourcing Texts And Artifacts (2016)
Historical archaeological studies have always relied upon statistically valid datasets for quantitative analyses and often required that archaeologists wade through volumes of text for clues to a site’s historical context. The digital age allows for the collection of these data in a variety of ways including gathering primary sources through crowd sourcing – multiple users, often from a diversity of sites or backgrounds, compiling data into a central repository. This paper explores the utility...
Sharing Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) in an Outdoor Exhibit with the Waccamaw Indian People (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Entangled Legacies: Human, Forest, and Tree Dynamics" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Waccamaw Indian People (WIP) are a close-knit community that shares knowledge of the relationships, culture, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) of their ancestors. Working collaboratively, we have created an outdoor exhibit and interpretive trail that embraces TEK as a means for the public to learn about Indigenous...
The sharpest cut of all (2014)
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Shattered: Conducting Experimental Archaeology to Better Diagnose Contact Period Lithics (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Contact period studies tend to focus on the interactions between indigenous peoples and non-native peoples and the commerce produced from said interactions. As such, a plethora of information can be gleaned from the study of tools and materials procured during this time period with a focus on changes in tool form or material choice, if any. As a result of...
The Shaw Butte Hilltop Site: A Prehistoric Hohokam Observatory (1996)
The Sonoran Desert of Southern Arizona was once occupied by the prehistoric Hohokam, a group of agriculturalists who constructed thousands of kilometers of irrigation canals as well as public architecture, including platform mounds and bailcourts. They also appear to have been keen astronomical observers, although the subject of Hohokam archaeoastronomy remains underexplored. This paper summarizes previous Hohokam archaeoastronomy studies, discusses O'odham (Piman) Indian calendar systems,...
The Shelburne Shipyard Steamboat Graveyard: Four Early Nineteenth-Century Steamboats from Lake Champlain (2015)
Steamboat construction of the early nineteenth century remains largely forgotten and unstudied. Historical records provide little detail to how construction techniques were evolving in this experimental phase of steam-powered vessels. A survey of Lake Champlain’s Shelburne Shipyard revealed the remains of four nineteenth-century steamboats, three of which were built prior to 1840. The four hulls were recorded for comparative study during a field school which took place in the month of June,...
Shelburne Shipyard Steamboat Graveyard: Results of the 2015 field season using traditional and new recording techniques. (2016)
A team of nautical archaeologists from Texas A&M University, the Institute of Nautical Archaeology and the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum returned to Shelburne Shipyard in June 2015 to continue examining Wreck 2, a steamboat wreck from the early 1800s. Wreck 2 was surveyed during a preliminary investigation of four steamboat hulls in June 2014 and determined to be the oldest of the four. The 2015 team recorded Wreck 2 using both traditional archaeological methods and photogrammetric...
A Shell Above the Waters: An Ojibwa Maritime Cultural Landscape (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Submerged Cultural Resources and the Maritime Heritage of the Great Lakes" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For the Ojibwa First Nations in the Lake Superior region water was not only a source of life, but it permeated their cosmology, their music, their daily routines, and their very identity as well. This paper reports on research conducted in 2018 that took advantage of interviews, artwork, material culture, and...