Southeast U.S. (Geographic Keyword)

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Analyzing The Luna Assemblage Of 16th-Century Majolica Ceramics (2022)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Henry Worth.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The 1559-1561 Luna settlement of Pensacola, Florida has provided a plethora of archaeological research material, and among this cloud of information the subject of majolica ceramics is one that has not yet been analyzed in depth for this site. This paper is a preview into the graduate thesis research topic that I will study to...


Carbonation And Power: Coca-Cola And The Reproduction Of Racialized Labor In Jim Crow Birmingham, Alabama (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Will McCollum.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pre-Recorded Video Presentation Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Birmingham was founded in 1873 to be the industrial capital of the New South, built up as it was around rich mineral reserves in Central Alabama. The workforce that propelled Birmingham’s extractive development was majority-Black, most workers having migrated to the city from agrarian plantation...


A Deadly Device: New Insights into the Weapon System of the Submarine H.L. Hunley (2022)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael P. Scafuri.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The submarine H.L. Hunley attacked and sank the blockading ship USS Housatonic on the night of February 17, 1864, off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina, becoming the first submarine to sink an enemy ship in war. Although successful in its mission, the submarine was itself lost that same night. Since its recovery in 2000, the...


Fanning the Flames: Responding to Covid-19 as an Endangered Public Site (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Adrianne S. Walker.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Adaptation and Alteration: The New Realities of Archaeology during a Pandemic" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The impacts of Covid-19 are innumerable for sites and museums and a serious conundrum resulted for places already in jeopardy from factors like budgetary cutbacks and limited resources. A case study for this conundrum is presented with Arcadia Mill Archaeological Site in Milton, Florida. Owned by...


Labor Relations and Ceramic Technology in Spanish Northwest Florida (1698-1763) (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Krista L. Eschbach.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeologists have traditionally applied a dichotomy to the classification of ceramics recovered from Northwest Florida presidios, reflecting broad assumptions about labor relations in the Spanish Southeast U.S. Ceramic sorting typically begins with the assumption that low-fired, hand-formed wares were produced by Native potters of the Southeast U.S. High-fired, wheel-thrown, or...


Torpedoed, Salvaged, and Buried: Findings from the 2021 Investigations of the USS Housatonic Shipwreck off Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. (2022)
DOCUMENT Citation Only James Spirek. Michael Scafuri. Scott Harris. Kimberly Roche. Nicholas Nelson-DeLong. Athena Van Overschelde. William Nassif.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. On the night of 17 February 1864, USS Housatonic while on blockade duty off Charleston Harbor was attacked and sunk by a spar-torpedo delivered by the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley during the American Civil War. The ill-fated blockader became the first surface warship sunk by an underwater vessel. In 1999, a partnership of...