North America: Northeast and Midatlantic (Geographic Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the "Byways to the Past: An American Highway Archaeology Symposium" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Public Archaeology Facility at Binghamton University has conducted CRM on transportation projects in New York State for over 50 years. Our archaeological investigations have discovered a full range of sites from the ubiquitous (lithic scatters, historic sheet middens) to the extraordinary (deeply stratified sites, ritual...
Struggling with Radiocarbon Dates at the Dawson Site in Downtown Montréal (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Dating Iroquoia: Advancing Radiocarbon Chronologies in Northeastern North America" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2016, construction work on Sherbrooke street in downtown Montréal has led to the discovery of late St. Lawrence Iroquoian remains that are part of the Dawson site, an Iroquoian village first discovered in 1859. Two years of excavations, in 2016 and 2017, provided new data representing a welcome addition...
Subsistence and Space within an Historical Central New York Household (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Food is a foundational element of people’s everyday lives. The remains of what people did and did not eat can provide data as to how people lived, both within a household and as a society. This is true for historical assemblages, where physical remains can provide a more concrete picture of past lifeways than historical records alone. This poster...
Subterranean Homesick Blues: Excavations at Site 51SE071, a Native American Settlement along the Anacostia River, Washington, D.C. (2018)
Construction of DC Water's new Poplar Point Pump Station in southeast Washington, D.C., led to the discovery of a buried river terrace under an I-295 interchange that contained Native American artifacts dating from the Middle Archaic period through the Late Woodland period. Archaeologists working more than 15 feet below ground in the construction footprint of a large subterranean structure recovered more than 7000 artifacts and identified the remains of a cooking hearth feature. This paper will...
The Sugartown Earthwork: A Late Prehistoric Hilltop Site in the Upper Allegheny River Drainage (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Sugartown Earthwork, situated in Cattaraugus County, NY, is one of a series of late prehistoric hilltop earthen enclosures in the upper Allegheny River valley of southwestern New York and northwestern Pennsylvania. It was the subject of a previous SUNY Buffalo Archaeological Field School and is revisited here. Limited testing revealed evidence of...
Supporting Paleoindian Viewsheds with the Jefferson VII Site, Jefferson, New Hampshire (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Viewsheds provide an integral part in understanding the first peoples inhabiting the early Northeastern landscape. Work conducted by Dr. Richard Boisvert and others have established a way of analyzing the paleo landscape by looking at the vantage point of different settlements excavated in New Hampshire. I intend to add to this list by examining the Jefferson...
Surveying New York City Collections at the American Museum of Natural History (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The North American Archaeology Collection at the American Museum of Natural History contains more than 4,000 cataloged objects from New York City. These accessions were acquired or donated to the museum between 1869 and 2017. In this poster, I examine these legacy collections by exploring the materials and artifact types collected from the area. In addition, I...
Sustainable Curation for Federal Land Managers (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent changes in federal policy on curation of archaeological and archival records are prompting federal land managers to reexamine best practices for preserving and sharing valuable national heritage. Some of the policy changes include new guidelines for deaccessioning federal archaeological collections and transitioning to digital information...
Tackling Hard Histories in Penn’s Woods: Exploratory Archaeology of Two Segregated CCC Camps (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Public Lands, Public Sites: Research, Engagement, and Collaboration" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A number of recent initiatives including the development of a Cultural Resources Program, Untold Stories interpretative work, and programming like Penn’s Parks for All at Pennsylvania’s Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) had the cumulative effect of providing multiple opportunities for the agency to...
Taskscapes and Social Sustainability: Archaeobotanical and Ethnohistorical Interpretations from the Chesapeake (2021)
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. The “taskscape,” or a landscape comprised of actions and labor (Ingold 1993, 2000), provides a means for assessing the change and continuity of a place over time. Through the study of plant remains (including macrobotanical remains, phytolith residues, and starch grains), taskscapes from the Late Archaic...
A Taste for Fish among the Saint Lawrence Iroquoians of the Montreal Region (2018)
Iroquoian groups inhabiting the Saint Lawrence valley in the 15th and early 16th centuries were agriculturalists who complemented their diet with a variety of wild plant and animal foods. The relative importance of different food sources and their methods of preparation, however, likely varied from one community to another. To further document subsistence practices and foodways at the Iroquoian site of Dawson in Montreal, organic residue analysis was carried out on foodcrust and absorbed ceramic...
Technological Know-how and Lithic Production in the mid-Hudson Valley: Observations from the Terminal Archaic (2018)
Know-how is an archaeologically observable counterpart of the knowledge of technological agents, as it is the material capacity of an agent to apply known techniques. Both elements are not necessarily in exact equivalence, as an agent’s aptitude and willingness to apply techniques may not reflect their full knowledge. Know-how is identifiable by the stigmata left by applied techniques on artifacts and materials. Separating aptitude (or "skill") from the examination and interpretation of...
Telling Localized Indigenous Histories of Trade through AMS Dating and Bayesian Chronological Modeling in Southern Ontario, Canada (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Dating Iroquoia: Advancing Radiocarbon Chronologies in Northeastern North America" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Late sixteenth-century chronology of Indigenous sites in Southern Ontario has, until recently, relied upon relative means such as ceramic seriation and trade good chronologies. Bayesian chronological modeling of high-precision AMS radiocarbon dates is increasingly being applied to sites believed to date to...
Ten Right-Sided Sheep Femora and Other Peculiarities: What To Make of the Arch Street Faunal Assemblage (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Bones and Burials in Philadelphia: The Arch Street Project’s Multidisciplinary Research" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1860, a concerned party claimed that neighboring tenement dwellers used the cemetery of the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia as their personal dumping ground, leaving behind ‘refuse of their domestic economy’ in the form of material culture and food waste. In 2017, salvage archaeology...
Thinking Inside the Box: Research Potential of National Park Service Archeological Collections at the Museum Resource Center (2018)
The National Capital Region of the National Park Service is rich with archeological resources as can be attested by the vast collection of objects stored at the Museum Resource center. However, for many collections, only a basic identification of the artifacts exists. Collections dating from early Native American habitation to the American Civil War to 20th Century Industrialization are available for further research that could lead to Master's Thesis or Dissertations. This paper will highlight...
Time and Tide Wait for no Man: Responses to Sea Level Rise on Virginia's Eastern Shore (2019)
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. With sea level rise inevitable, archaeologists can no longer cling to the 'Preservation in Place" paradigm as there will no longer be a place. The 'place' of the past will readily become the eroding beach and, eventually, sea bottom. The Threatened Sites Program of DHR anticipated the...
Time, Space and Ceramic Attributes: The Ontario Iroquoian Case (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Dating Iroquoia: Advancing Radiocarbon Chronologies in Northeastern North America" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ontario Iroquoian chronology has been largely based on observed or inferred changes in the frequency of rim sherd types or attributes through time. Such observations include the increasing development of collars, decreasing complexity in collar motif, decreasing frequency of horizontals and changes to the...
Timing the Circulation of Nonlocal Materials in Seneca- and Onondaga-Region Sites (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Dating Iroquoia: Advancing Radiocarbon Chronologies in Northeastern North America" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, I evaluate newly acquired AMS radiocarbon dates for Seneca- and Onondaga-region sites, focusing on what these new dates can tell us about the regional exchange of non-local materials in the circa fourteenth- to seventeenth- century ancestral Haudenosaunee homeland (what is today central New...
"To leave a part of who you are here:" Reusing and Reimagining the Archaeological Record on the Pamunkey Indian Reservation (2018)
Archaeologists rarely examine the reuse and reimagining of artifacts within contemporary Indigenous communities. The Pamunkey Indian Tribe, located in the Tidewater region of Virginia, has a long history of utilizing materials from the Reservation’s archaeological record in a variety of ways. For over a century, tribal members have reused artifacts in methods similar to their intended function, and they have reimagined them to create artwork and encourage artistic inspiration. Archaeology has...
To Live in a Longhouse: A Case Study from Iroquoian Village Sites in Southern Quebec (2021)
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. Archaeologists have been largely interested in documenting the architecture, variability, evolution, and even the symbolism of Iroquoian longhouses for several decades in the Northeast, often using the village or the region as the preferred scale of analysis. However, the study of daily life inside these longhouses has not received the same...
Toward a Household Archaeology of the Onöndowa'ga:' (Seneca Iroquois) White Springs Site, circa 1688-1715 CE (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Onöndowa'ga:' (Seneca Iroquois) White Springs site near Geneva, New York, was occupied circa 1688-1715 CE. The town, approximately 3.4 hectares in size and likely palisaded, was founded in the aftermath of the 1687 French-led Denonville invasion that destroyed several Onöndowa'ga:' towns and most of their agricultural fields. Cornell University-sponsored...
Trade And Production of Steatite Vessels in New England (2018)
This research examines the trade and production of steatite vessels during the Archaic Period in New England. The study focuses specifically on a quarry Located in Barkhamsted, Connecticut where recent excavation has supplemented prior investigations from 1949 to 1951. The material from this site is located at Yale’s Peabody Museum and the archaeology lab at Central Connecticut State University. We also examine the artifact assemblages from other sites in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Along...
Trading In Children (2018)
A decade of archaeology at Wye House Plantation in Maryland has yielded a multitude of information regarding the institution of slavery and the experiences of enslaved individuals. Whether or not enslaved peoples were deliberately bred systematically to produce children for sale by the master is a topic that has been generally neglected in modern scholarship. This practice demonstrates the inherent inhumanity of slavery and is an example of what the scholar Orlando Patterson describes as "the...
Treasure within the Fortress: Opportunities for Partnership in DoD Archaeology (2018)
Some of the least known and best preserved archaeological resources in North America exist within the confines of federal property in the Department of Defense (DoD). The US military acquired large land holdings for the purposes of military training in the early nineteenth century, prior to suburban sprawl in the Northeast. The Army and subsequently the Air Force in a snapshot encapsulated whole communities that evolved in place since colonial times. Those archaeological resources, held in...
Trends, Traditions, Interregnums, and Continuities: An Examination of the Cultures of the Early Holocene of the Far Northeast (2018)
This paper will examine several early Holocene archaeological complexes producing Late Paleoindian St. Anne/Varney bifaces, quartz unifaces (Early Maritime Archaic), and bifurcate-based Early Archaic bifaces across the Far Northeast. Recent examinations by the authors have raised questions about the timing and spatial extent of some of these complexes and what the patterns or lack thereof suggest about the cultural and technological origins of the Native Americans producing them, their lifeways,...