Midwest United States (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Krysta Ryzewski. Don Lafreniere. Dan Trepal. Greg Kowalski.

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. Hamtramck is a small Muslim-majority city surrounded by Detroit and defined by its century-long reputation as a welcoming home for foreign-born immigrants, who comprise over 40% of the city’s present-day population. The Hamtramck Explorer deep map is an outcome of the Hamtramck Spatial Archaeology...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Paisley.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Studying Human Behavior within Cemeteries (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Wisconsin cemeteries exhibit changes in the immigration and economic structures throughout the state’s history. Newton and Huxley Cemeteries located in southwestern Wisconsin are prime examples of how these changes are exhibited. Major nineteenth century migrant groups arriving to the area were from the eastern...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shannon K. Freire. B Charles.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Operating under the Wisconsin Burial Site Preservation Statute 157.70, two archaeological excavations occurred at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (MCPFC) 2 (1882 – 1925). Recently awarded grant funding has facilitated the completion of osteological documentation at the level of the archaeological individual for over 500 nonadults from the first excavation cohort. This poster...