North America: Northeast and Midatlantic (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin Wiley. Joseph Schuldenrein.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Geoarchaeological coring provides deep and continuous samples of subsurface soils and sediments. Through analysis, dating, and interpretation of these data, we model land and site formation processes from the Late Quaternary to the near-present. GIS 3D modeling enables us to reconstruct and visualize buried landscapes and assess areas of archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alice R. Kelley. Jacquelynn Miller. Joseph Kelley. Arthur Spiess. Daniel Belknap.

Climate change impacts on archaeological sites are equated with the burning of the great library of Alexandria for the scale and rapidity of the loss of cultural and paleoenvironmental data (McGovern, 2016). A portion of that destruction is often in the form of sea-level rise exacerbated coastal erosion. While threatened historic sites, such as lighthouses, generate support for remediation and even relocation, coastal aboriginal sites holding records of thousands of years of coastal occupation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelton Sheridan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This multi-scalar project examines economic patterns and foodways related to Native American ceramic use on the Eastern Pequot reservation in North Stonington, Connecticut. Engagement with local Euro-American markets by the Eastern Pequot was necessary during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Analysis of ceramic assemblages focusing on ware type, vessel...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Faline Schneiderman.

Gail Borden was a man of persistence and a creative inventor. Were it not for his inquisitiveness and drive in the wake of numerous failures, canned milk and Elsie the cow would never have become irrevocably connected in the minds of millions. Failing to make functional his terraqueous prairie- schooner or to make his desiccated meat-bread palatable, he pursued methods of condensing and preserving milk in sealed containers at several locations in Connecticut. Before his success, bacterial...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tim Spahr.

The Cape Porpoise Archaeological Partnership is an alliance between the Kennebunkport Conservation Trust and the Brick Store Museum. Its purpose is to conduct archaeological study of the islands in Cape Porpoise harbor located just off the coast of Kennebunkport, Maine. Evidence suggests that Historic and Pre-Historic Period archaeological sites are present. Sea level rise due to global climate change, however, is causing shoreline erosion damaging or potentially destroying these locations....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kenneth Holyoke. Branden Rizzuto.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Carboniferous Chert Geoarchaeological Survey (CCGS) was initiated in 2019 in order to identify and characterize the distribution of geological occurrences of Carboniferous-aged cherts in New Brunswick, Canada, and, to better understand the archaeological exploitation of those lithic materials. Initial fieldwork associated with the CCGS sought to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tiziana Gallo. Craig Cipolla.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Birdstones are a morphologically diverse group of ground stone objects found across eastern North America with concentrations around the Great Lakes region. In this paper, we revisit an assemblage of birdstones from the Royal Ontario Museum’s Archaeology of the Americas collection to challenge the fixity of existing birdstone types. Popular among...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Donta. Kimberly Smith.

This is an abstract from the "Changes in the Land: Archaeological Data from the Northeast" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A cluster of Native American sites was first identified in the early 1970s at the junction of Fife Brook and the Deerfield River in western Massachusetts, and was further examined 15 years ago. Recent additional work has expanded knowledge of site distribution on this portion of the Deerfield and added to the inventory of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sonja Rossi-Williams.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster summarizes the preliminary results of a survey conducted in eastern Pennsylvania exploring land use through time performed as part of a master’s thesis. The Red Hole site is in Schuylkill County’s anthracite region and was identified in 1968 as a multicomponent campsite with occupations ranging from the Archaic to the contact periods. Due to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Michael Garbellano.

This is an abstract from the "Female Firsts: Celebrating Archaeology’s Pioneering Women on the 101st Anniversary of the 19th Amendment " session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Consistent demonstration of patience and fortitude are characteristics of the most revered pioneers in human history. These qualities were seen in many individuals blazing new paths for others to follow. Directly or indirectly, those who created these paths helped improve the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kirk French.

Although arriving early to an event and consuming food and beverages outside of an arena arguably has its origins in ancient Rome and Greece, the popular and ritualized tailgating associated with American college football is a behavior that warrants archaeological investigation. The Tailgating Behavior Project is attempting to better understand these communal events through ethnographic interviews and garbological/archaeological surveys at Penn State’s Beaver Stadium at University Park,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Darrin Lowery.

The Chesapeake Bay at present encompasses approximately 4,479 square miles of estuarine water and it contains almost 12,000 linear miles of coastline. Numerous archaeological sites occur along the margins of the bay and its tributaries. Thousands of these sites are regularly threatened by the daily onslaught of wind and wave activity. The Delmarva Peninsula, which encompasses the eastern margins of the bay, has revealed approximately 350 Clovis-style fluted projectile points. Later and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Doug Mooney.

Philadelphia’s many unmarked cemeteries and burial grounds have been repeatedly disturbed by construction activities in a string of incidents that stretches back more than 200 years. Incredibly, despite the regular discovery of these unmarked graveyards, City officials and local government agencies still make no effort to proactively protect these resources, and profess a wide-eyed bewilderment each time another one is impacted. Likewise, those responsible for disturbing burial grounds...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carole Nash.

This is an abstract from the "The Middle Atlantic Regional Transect Approach to Climate Change Impacts on Archaeological Resources" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. At first glance, the archaeological resources of the uplands of the North American Middle Atlantic region are much less vulnerable to the impacts of climate change than are tidal or coastal sites. However, as the impacts of climate change become more pronounced, archaeological sites of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katharine Reinhart. Alexander Patterson. David Landon.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological excavations in 2021 recovered important new information about the Coles Hill Archaeological Site (19-PL-984), a Wampanoag site overlooking the waterfront in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Despite the location on a heavily developed urban lot, a preserved portion of the site featured intact stratigraphy yielding in situ cultural features, pottery...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jasmine Gollup. Robert Wall. Patrick Walters. Timothy Sara.

Cobble extraction and systematic lithic reduction activity areas are commonly found along the Atlantic coastal plain from the Early Archaic through Woodland periods. This process, typically involving the collection of high quality quartz and quartzite cobbles for processing, was documented 100 years ago by William Henry Holmes for the Piney Branch quarries in Washington, D.C. Excavations conducted by TRC at the Accokeek sand and gravel mine in 2014 identified 12 archaeological sites, two of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Boisvert.

NH SCRAP (State Conservation and Rescue Archaeology Program) was created in 1978 principally to train and certify the general public in the conduct of archaeology in New Hampshire. While engagement in fieldwork draws many volunteers, generates substantial recognition, and serves to promote archaeology well beyond the borders of the state - analysis and publication have always been integral parts of the program. Outreach to undergraduate students, graduate students, and avocational archaeologists...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Wolff. Donald Holly.

This paper presents evidence from a new Maritime Archaic habitation site located on the island of Newfoundland, Canada. Unlike the adjacent mainland of Labrador, very few Archaic habitation sites are known from the island, which makes this work critical to understanding Archaic settlement and social organization across the broader region. Excavations have produced hundreds of lithic artifacts and geomorphological data suggesting that a variety of subsistence and domestic activities occurred at...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Annabelle Lewis.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cemeteries and grave monuments serve as important elements in the construction of personal and community identities, contributing to the shaping of public memory. This research utilizes historic documents, site surveys, and GIS mapping to explore the prevalence and significance of nineteenth century grave monuments signed with makers’ marks within the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alanna Warner-Smith.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of Health, Wellness, and Ability" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The George S. Huntington anatomical collection is comprised of the skeletal remains of some 3600 immigrants and U.S.-born individuals. These persons—who are now collectively named for the doctor who collected them—were gathered from institutions, hospitals, and almshouses around New York City between 1893 and 1921. They were dissected as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elic Weitzel.

This is an abstract from the "Behavioral Ecology and Archaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While white-tailed deer were hunted by Native peoples in eastern North America for thousands of years, historical evidence suggests that deer populations declined dramatically following European colonization. Yet questions remain about the exact timing and causes of this decline. To address these questions, I analyzed zooarchaeological data from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laurie Miroff. Nina Versaggi.

This is an abstract from the "Touching the Past: Public Archaeology Engagement through Existing Collections" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Public Archaeology Facility's Community Archaeology Program (CAP) provides non-archaeologists with an opportunity to participate in archaeological field research projects. CAP participants experience the discovery of artifacts at the "trowel's edge" and follow the journey of an item through processing to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Mierswa. Meghan Howey.

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 three years, the Great Bay Archaeological Survey has excavated frontier contact period (1620-1750 AD) garrisons within the Oyster River watershed. These early reinforced New Hampshire homesteads are rare finds in New England archaeology. The success of this research relies on treating community volunteers as equal contributors. Archaeologists...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Donald Gaylord. Alison Bell.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The excavation and analysis of slave plantation sites from the Valley of Virginia, and especially their comparison to the well-documented sites of eastern Virginia, is becoming an important new source of information regarding variability in the conditions of enslavement across the Atlantic World. This poster compares ceramic assemblages from slave plantation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jordan Cerone. Heather Fusco.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster examines the value of ceramic analysis as a tool for understanding the relative socioeconomic statuses of the residents of the “Janitor’s House” at Gettysburg College. In summer 2022, we cataloged and recorded ceramic shreds excavated at the Janitor’s House in fall 2021. This collection was then compared with two local houses thought to be...