Southeastern US (Geographic Keyword)
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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...
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....
"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...
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...
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...