Northeast US (Geographic Keyword)

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The Arnold's Bay Project: Introduction and Background (2022)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher R. Sabick.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Arnold's Bay Project" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In October of 1776 a tiny bay on the eastern shore of Lake Champlain was the site of the final encounter of the three-day Revolutionary War Battle on Lake Champlain. In this location, formerly known as Ferris Bay, five colonial vessels, under the command of Brigadier General Benedict Arnold, were burned to deny their capture by the pursuing British...


From Seafaring to Settling Downeast: Town Formation and the Eastern Frontier Landscape (2022)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan D. Postemski.

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 primary goal of settlement ecology is to understand how and why people decide to settle a particular landscape. Although often applied to farming communities, this approach can be applied to any society because all settlement patterns are produced through human decision-making. Adopting a settlement ecology lens, I examine how...


Household Palimpsests: Combining Geophysical, Historical, and Oral Records of the Baranabas Pond Farmstead (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lacey B Carpenter. Hannah Lau. Erika Sanchez Goodwillie. Christian Goodwillie.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Geophysical survey techniques provide important tools to meet the goals of both academic research and public archaeology. In the Historical Households of Central New York Archaeological Project, we used geophysical and remote sensing methods to document the construction sequence and synthesize historical records (including drawings, maps, and written accounts) with the standing structures...


Island Improvement: Cultivating Change in the Eastern Frontier Landscape of Deer Isle, Maine (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan D. Postemski.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Islands of Time (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeological studies have long highlighted rapid and radical human transformation of island ecosystems through colonization. Given their generally more limited biodiversity and size, the impact of human activity is often easier to discern on islands than on the mainland. In this paper, I examine human interaction with the island ecosystem...


My Collegial Interactions With Mary Beaudry (2022)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Suzanne Spencer-Wood.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“Historical Archaeology with Canon on the Side, Please”: In Honor of Mary C. Beaudry (1950-2020)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Mary Beaudry was hired at Boston University in 1980, shortly after I was hired at University of Massachusetts/Boston in 1978. We became friendly colleagues, shared drives to conferences and worked together in several professional capacities, including as founding members of the...


Stitched in Time: Mary Beaudry’s influence on the study of small finds (2022)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Diana Loren.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“Historical Archaeology with Canon on the Side, Please”: In Honor of Mary C. Beaudry (1950-2020)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From her work on Spencer-Peirce-Little House to her groundbreaking publication Findings, Mary Beaudry’s focus on small finds has influenced a generation of scholars. Because small finds, such as artifacts of clothing and needlework, are relatively uncommon in most archaeological...