North America: Northeast and Midatlantic (Geographic Keyword)

126-150 (385 Records)

Geology First, and Geochemistry Last (but Not Last) (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Adrian Burke.

This is an abstract from the "Case Studies in Toolstone Provenance: Reliable Ascription from the Ground Up" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper I present my perspective, based on 25 years of fieldwork, on the importance of geologically based approaches to sourcing lithic raw materials. Examples are presented from geoarchaeological fieldwork in Maine, New York, Vermont, New Brunswick, and Quebec. Observing and sampling an outcrop in situ...


Geophysical Applications at the Site of Fort Halifax, PA (36DA0008) (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick McGinley.

Fort Halifax was constructed in Dauphin County, PA, by the British during the French and Indian War as part of a line of fortifications along the Susquehanna River. It was only garrisoned for about a year, from 1756-57, before being abandoned and dismantled by the end of the war. Due to its brief existence, the precise location of the fort has been lost, although the name of the modern town of Halifax perpetuates its connection to the area. Additionally, past historical research regarding...


Getting It Right for the Wrong Reasons: Using ED-XRF to Characterize Red Munsungun Chert (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Nathaniel Kitchel.

This is an abstract from the "Case Studies in Toolstone Provenance: Reliable Ascription from the Ground Up" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Artifacts made of high-quality red chert appear regularly in terminal Pleistocene fluted point period sites throughout New England. Although archaeologists in the region often attribute this material to the Munsungun Lake geologic formation of northern Maine, no large-scale effort had been made to evaluate...


Going Back and Forth: Case Studies of Historic Facial Reconstruction (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Evelyn Grant. Dana Kollmann.

This is an abstract from the "Forensic Archaeology: Research & Practice" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the field of Forensic Anthropology, artistic facial reconstruction is used to aid in the identification of unknown human remains when other scientific techniques and approaches have failed. In Forensic Archaeology, the same techniques can be utilized to bring historical remains back to life. In the context of historical case studies, several...


Gold Is in the Eye of the Beholder: Public Outreach and Education in Washington, DC (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Christine Ames. Ruth Trocolli.

This is an abstract from the ""Is There Gold in that Field?" CRM and Public Outreach on the Front Lines" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological review and compliance in Washington, DC, is handled by the DC Historic Preservation Office, a unique hybrid that operates as a local city/county agency as well as the SHPO. Typically, the DC HPO Archaeology team does not conduct compliance activities, but we do employ federal and local compliance...


Good Living in Hard Times: De-Urbanization and Personal Wealth in Nineteenth Century New Market, Maryland (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Ralph Koziarski.

New Market is a small community in Frederick County, Maryland, whose origins and early nineteenth century economic peak are tied to travel and trade, on the National Turnpike. Following the development of the B&O railroad during the mid-nineteenth century, use of the turnpike declined, subsequently shrinking the town’s economy. Excavations sponsored by the Maryland State Highways Administration have recovered datasets from two properties in New Market. Identified components include a late...


The Good, the Bad, and the Not So Great: Archaeological Curation at the New Jersey State Museum (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Gregory Lattanzi.

This is an abstract from the "Navigating Ethical and Legal Quandaries in Modern Archaeological Curation" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Unlike most state museums, the New Jersey State Museum operates directly under the Department of State, and this has its advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand, we enjoy interacting with the public through programming, exhibitions, research, presentations, and publications. On the other hand, budget cuts,...


The Granger House Project: Archaeology, History, and the Creation of a Community Museum in Castleton, Vermont (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Moriarty. Joseph Kinney. Luke Kosby. Philip Williams. Noah DiStefano.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Castleton Hidden History Project was established in 2021 to highlight a diverse and inclusive history of the town of Castleton, VT through interdisciplinary historical, archaeological, and geographic research. Investigations to date have focused on Granger House, a well-preserved 19th-century home in Castleton Village and in the heart of the Castleton...


The Granger House Project: Community Outreach and Public Archaeology in Castleton, Vermont (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Ellen Moriarty. Jaron Rochon. Samantha LaPlante. Emery Benoit. Michael Angers.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Community outreach has played a major role in the Castleton Hidden History Project, which highlights a diverse and inclusive history of the Castleton, VT area from the end of the ice age through the present day. Grounded in interdisciplinary research and public participation, current archaeological work centers around Granger House, a historically...


Graves in the Forest: Mapping Lost Colonial Cemeteries in the Oyster River Watershed (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Mierswa. Crystina Friese. Meghan Howey.

The Oyster River watershed in New Hampshire was home to some of the earliest English colonial occupation outside of Boston with settlements starting in the early 1630s. This early colonial occupation as well as subsequent historic settlement of the area has left an extensive array of archaeological features in the landscape. Currently, however, this landscape is heavily forested making identification of even remnant built sites difficult. The forested setting makes it particularly hard to find...


Ground-Penetrating Radar as a Rapid Cultural Resource Management Technique for Shell Midden Delineation (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacquelynn Miller. Alice R. Kelley. Joseph T. Kelley. Daniel Belknap. Arthur Spiess.

The analysis of shell midden extent and thickness typically requires expensive and time-consuming excavation. Additionally, widely spaced test units provide limited and discontinuous stratigraphic information. Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) survey, in combination with stratigraphic information from limited excavation, can serve as a powerful tool for making rapid cultural resource management decisions. Although processing and correlating the data requires several days of additional time, this...


The Hand Site, Revisited: A Collections-Focused Approach to Recentering Deep History in the Lower Middle Atlantic (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Taylor Triplett.

This is an abstract from the "Deep History, Colonial Narratives, and Decolonization in the Native Chesapeake" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper reviews the Hand Site (44SN22) Reassessment Project, and broadly explores the reevaluation of existing collections as an avenue for decolonization. The Hand site is a complex, multicomponent site located on the Nottoway River in southeastern Virginia. Intensive excavations in the 1960s revealed...


Hearth, Home, and Colonialism: Cultural Entanglement at Calluna Hill, a 1630s Pequot War Household (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only William Farley.

This is an abstract from the "Hearth and Home in the Indigenous Northeast" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper explores the nature of cultural change and continuity during the early colonial period (ca. 1615–1637), an understudied period in southern New England. The earliest years of intercultural exchange between Europeans and Native people in the region is believed to have brought sweeping disturbances to Native American lifeways; however,...


Heating Stones: An Experimental and Ethnographic Analysis of Fire Cracked Rock at Two Monongahela Sites in Southwestern PA (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristina Gaugler.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The use of heated stones in both cookery and social rituals is an important technology in the repertoire of human food and lifeways. Archaeological assemblages often contain high percentages of these heated stones, or fire cracked rock (FCR). Yet despite its relative frequency in archaeological collections, the full diagnostic potential of FCR for determining...


Here Not Be Dragons from the End Times: Exploring Virginia Archaeology Using the 3D Printed Past (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Bernard Means. Elizabeth Moore.

What to do when a museum visitor asks you if your dinosaurs are dragons from the end times? At their invitation, the Virtual Curation Laboratory at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) teamed with the Virginia Museum of Natural History (VMNH) to create an exhibit entitled Exploring Virginia to use archaeology as a way of encouraging critical thinking. This exhibit drew on over 120 3D printed artifacts from archaeological sites across Virginia and the globe. VCU students in the inaugural...


Hidden Beneath the Asphalt: Urban Archaeology in Parking Lots (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Swain.

Historic maps provide tangible visual evidence of how cities evolve over time. Buildings are erected and demolished, roads are constructed, and streams are diverted or filled. To an untrained eye, the built environment of a typical city block may look like an unlikely place to find archaeological remains but to an archaeologist it is a time capsule waiting to be opened. To this end, urban archaeology often requires peeking beneath parking lots, which often provide temporary protection to buried...


"His Beloved Aunt Polly": The Aunt Polly Archaeological Preserve and the Life of the First Sherlock Holmes (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Schaefer.

The most renowned stage portrayer of Sherlock Holmes, it was William Gillette who brought Conan Doyle’s detective to life for audiences as well as for every actor that followed in his footsteps. Most importantly, he originated the Holmes "look": the deerstalker hat, the curved pipe, and the Inverness cape. In his day, Gillette was the wealthiest actor in the country. He spared no expense in building his eccentric stone "Castle," perched high above the Connecticut River, and in the creation his...


Historical Ecologies of Botanical Gardens: Archaeobotany at Bartram’s Garden (Philadelphia, PA) (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandria Mitchem.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The collection and transport of natural specimens during the long eighteenth century had political, intellectual, and ecological effects. Botanical gardens are key loci to examine the material histories of these processes. Bartram’s Garden, the most prominent botanical garden in North America during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries,...


Historical Palimpsests: Animal-Accumulated Plant Remains in Aboveground Structures (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Naomi Miller. Chantel White.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists periodically encounter concentrations of uncharred plant remains in standing structures. Whether excavated or never actually buried, they are a challenge for interpretation. In addition to identification, the archaeobotanical tasks include determining the agent of deposition and the source and date of the material. This paper considers how...


History of Home Health Care: Shifting Practices of Hygiene, Wellness, and Medicine in Eighteenth- to Nineteenth-Century Central New York (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah Budner. Lacey Carpenter. Hannah Lau. Colin Quinn.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the early colonial context of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the United States, understanding wellness practices include a dynamic view of what constitutes medicine, personal hygiene, and healthcare. At this time, European colonizers arrived in central New York, occupying traditional Oneida Land, and brought with them their views on...


History on the Edge: Loss of the Ocean State's Past (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph Waller.

Hurricane Sandy impacted Rhode Island’s south coast on October 29, 2012. Storm surge and wind-driven waves eroded considerable sections of the shore damaging historical and archaeological sites located at the contact between the land and sea. Emergency response and preservation planning archaeological surveys conducted in response to Hurricane Sandy represent the first large scale, systematic attempts to identify and evaluate vulnerable archaeological sites situated along the Rhode Island coast....


Home Is Where the Hearth Is: Narragansett Indian Houses and Homes on the Eve of European Contact (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph (Jay) Waller, Jr..

This is an abstract from the "Hearth and Home in the Indigenous Northeast" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Site RI 110 on the southern Rhode Island coast has yielded evidence of a large Narragansett Indian settlement occupied between AD 1000 and 1500. Archaeological investigations exposed more than 20 individual *wetus (house sites) within an approximate 0.81 ha (2-acre) portion of the larger site. This paper will describe precontact Narragansett...


Horizons of Color, Shape, and Size: A Stratigraphic Analysis of Glass Beads in Fur Trade-Era Onöndowa’ga:’ (Seneca) Towns (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kaitlin LaGrasta.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Research on Glass Beads and Ornaments in North America" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. George Hamell’s 1992 paper “The Iroquois and the World’s Rim: Speculations on Color, Culture, and Contact” considers color symbolism in the Seneca (Onöndowa’ga:’) context to contemplate the metaphysics of the colors red, black, and white in Seneca cosmology and material culture. While widely cited within archaeological...


A House Divided: John Brown’s Birthplace and the Path to Freedom (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara Mascia.

On December 2, 1859, John Brown was hanged following his conviction for murder, slave insurrection, and treason resulting from his raid on a federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia two months prior. Brown anticipated and hoped that his actions might spur a rebellion that would spread throughout the South bringing freedom to all enslaved persons. To some people he was a murderous lunatic; to others he was a martyr for the abolitionist cause; and, to many he was a hero whose actions sparked...


Household Archaeology of a Late Archaic Pit-house in Southern New England (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Cosimo Sgarlata.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The focus of this paper is the Warner Site, a Late Archaic Pit-house in Southern New England. The research combines traditional and modern perspectives of household archaeology. Traditionally, archaeologists relied on spatial analysis of activity areas, and ethno-archaeological comparison. However, more recently their has been a concern for overcoming...