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Naming the Unnamed: Identifying Colonial Williamsburg's Early Black Archaeologists (2021)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Returning to Colonial Williamsburg (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Descriptions of Williamsburg’s earliest excavations have thoughtlessly applied the term “unskilled labor” or “day laborers” to the local African American workforce employed to expose brick foundations between the late 1920s and 1960. Even as Historical Archaeology found its footing in the 60s and 70s, the budding...