Southeastern US (Geographic Keyword)
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Founded in 1565, St. Augustine became the center of power in La Florida during the First Spanish Period. Although the Spanish made earlier attempts to claim the region, San Agustin was the only settlement to endure for over 450 years, earning it the moniker of the “Nation’s Oldest City.” Moved to its current location in 1572, the town was first illustrated in 1586 by Baptista Boazio’s depiction of Sir Francis Drake’s raid on the colony. Over the decades that followed, the community was marred by...
Changing Hands: The Impact of Antiquated Acquisitions and Legacy Loans on Archeological Collections (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Hidden In The Hollinger: What We Can Learn From Archeological Legacy Collections In The National Park Service", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As a response to New Deal construction, the Archeological Research Unit (ARU) was largely created to conduct salvage archeology in the Southeast. Since forming out of the ARU in 1966, the National Park Service’s Southeast Archeological Center (SEAC) continues to...
A Chip off the Old Brick: Investigating a Nineteenth-Century Brick Kiln in West Tennessee (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper examines a brick clamp, that is located on Ames Plantation, an 18,400-acre landbase that is located in both Fayette and Hardeman counties in Tennessee. This project utilizes portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) to analyze a variety of bricks sampled from standing buildings and historic sites located on the Ames property....
Community Conversations on Heritage at Risk: Perspectives from Northeast Florida (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Dialogue as Defense: Addressing Preservation Threats with Community Conversations on Heritage at Risk (CCHAR)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Florida Public Archaeology Network’s Northeast Regional Center (FPAN NE) has hosted six Community Conversations about Heritage at Risk (CCHAR) throughout northeast and east central Florida. From Fernandina Beach to Merritt Island, FPAN NE has engaged local...
Disentangling Sixteenth-Century Spanish Entradas in Interior Alabama (2025)
The route of Hernando de Soto’s entrada included central Alabama, where a 1540 battle at the Indigenous town of Mabila resulted in a catastrophic loss of supplies and morale for Soto’s army and thousands of Indigenous lives. Twenty years later, Indigenous peoples in the same region were affected by entradas from the Tristan de Luna settlement. Four years of archaeological survey have identified the Mabila province, including more than 200 sixteenth-century Indigenous farmsteads and more than 150...
Geoarchaeology Underwater: Florida State’s Approach to Preparing Students to do Offshore CRM (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Perspectives on the Future, and the Past, of Underwater Archaeology in the Cultural Resource Management Industry" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As offshore wind farm development continues to expand, there is an increasing need for archaeologists with the training and experience to assess our nearshore continental shelves for evidence of drowned landscapes with potential for preserved cultural resources....
Heritage at Risk in Urban Environments: Integrating Municipal Archaeology into Flooding Mitigation Projects in the City of St. Augustine (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Cities on the Move: Reflecting on Urban Archaeology in the 21st Century", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Over the last six years, the City of St. Augustine has experienced increased urbanization and a growing tourism industry while simultaneously facing climate change realities. New construction projects on private property aim to fight flooding by complying with new building codes and stormwater retention...
An Introduction and Overview of the Phoenix Project (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Phoenix Project and the Rebirth of the MARTA Archaeological Collection", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Phoenix Project refers to the ongoing reinvestigation of the MARTA (Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority) archaeological legacy collection at Georgia State University (GSU). The collection resulted from archaeological investigations in the late 1970s when the initial MARTA rail lines were...
"It’s not all Disturbed!": Perspectives of Urban, Municipal Archaeology in the Nation’s Oldest City in St. Augustine, Florida (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Urban Preservation Challenges in a Global Perspective", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Often called the Nation’s Oldest City, St. Augustine is the earliest, continuously occupied European settlement in the continental United States. In 1986, the City of St. Augustine was proactive in creating its own Archaeology Preservation Ordinance to protect its buried heritage. This ordinance is unique because it...
Landscapes and Lived Spaces: Preliminary Survey Of An 19th Century Enslaved and Emancipated Community At The North End Site (9MC81), Creighton Island, GA. (2022)
This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Tabby ruins along the marsh and bits of historic ceramic strewn across the surface of the North End Site (9MC81) on Creighton Island, GA, are among the only traces left of a once vibrant African American Postbellum and earlier enslaved Antebellum community. Combining the results of a systematic shovel test pit survey and excavations in 2018 and 2021, we explore the spatial organization of...
"Let's Walk Over Here...": The Ways Leland Ferguson Taught Us Archaeology By Teaching Us About Life (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "A Tribute to the Legacy of Leland Ferguson: A Journey From Uncommon Ground to God's Fields", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As his student and friend, Leland asked me to walk and talk with him and contemplate the world around us. He taught us how to look at things differently, with patience and attention. He made me ponder not just archaeology in the field, but life. Through Leland's subtle cues I have...
A Liminal Campus Garbology of Sex, Drugs, and Cinnamon Rolls (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. University of Kentucky parking garages are popular persistent hangout spaces for faculty, staff, and students. Garages provide multi-use spaces for recreational activities, notably eating, smoking cigarettes and marijuana, drinking alcohol, having sex, taking selfies, sunbathing, skateboarding, napping, and car stunts. Campus...
Looking at "Uniqueness:" the Importance of the Gullah Geechee in Understanding African American Behavioral Adaptations (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "First Steps on a Long Corridor: The Gullah Geechee and the Formation of a Southern African American Landscape" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. When compared with other African Americans the Gullah Geechee are generally described as unique and relatively culturally homogeneous. Their uniqueness has been attributed to the operation of a number of forces from their isolated environment to the labor regime...
Mapping the Old City; Searching for the 17th Century in Downtown Charleston, South Carolina (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Cities on the Move: Reflecting on Urban Archaeology in the 21st Century", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The city of Charleston, South Carolina retains a remarkably well-preserved archaeological landscape spanning the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. The peninsular city became the administrative center of the colony of Carolina in 1680, and emerged as one of the most critical urban centers in...
Nearly Gone but Not Forgotten: Reclaiming African American Heritage in Rural Southern Cemeteries (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Cemeteries serve as places for descendant populations to gather, remember past events, and celebrate past lives. How then do such places become abandoned and forgotten? The 4AC project (Ayden African American Ancestral Cemetery) investigates the processes that led to the abandonment of a large African American cemetery....
PXRF Analyses of Metal Artifacts from Spanish Colonial Sites in the American Southeast (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. We have conducted pXRF analyses on over 300 metal artifacts from Spanish colonial sites in the Americas that date from the 1500s to 1700s. Most are from the American Southeast, but the sample also includes locations in South America and the Caribbean. Sites encompass Indigenous towns visited by Spanish expeditions to presidios. The...
Recent Archaeology at the John Joyner Smith Plantation on the Fort Frederick Heritage Preserve, Beaufort County, South Carolina (2022)
This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Recent work on SC DNR’s Fort Frederick Heritage Preserve, in Beaufort County, South Carolina, revealed a domestic structure likely associated with J. Joyner Smith’s 700-acre Antebellum Period Sea Island cotton plantation. More than two-dozen features related to the structure and the use of space surrounding the structure were documented through excavation and photogrammetry. In this...
Settlement Patterns and Probabilities for the Southern Virginia Piedmont: An Archaeological Synthesis and Geospatial Model of 18th- and 19th-Century Sites (2021)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Landscapes Above and Below in Southern Contexts (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Between the 1730s and the 1820s, European settlement expanded into Virginia’s southern Piedmont and Appalachian Mountains. The mountainous terrain of southwestern Virginia was a stark contrast to the long-settled coastal plains, with new ecological and sociocultural conditions challenging established forms of...
Shifting Tides: Impacts of Coastal Terrain on Archaeological Survey Methods (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Bridging the Land and the Sea: Documenting and Assessing Climate Impacts on North Carolina’s Coastal Heritage", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Coastal terrains are highly variable, energetic, and in flux, presenting unique challenges for the survey and documentation of terrestrial archaeological sites. The North Carolina State Office of State Archaeology’s (NC OSA) Shorescape project encountered a range of...