American West (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Molly S Cannon. Ethan Ryan.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Transitioning from Commemoration to Analysis on the Transcontinental Railroad in Utah: Papers in Honor and Memory of Judge Michael Wei Kwan" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Geophysical survey techniques offer unique approaches to research, preservation, and interpretation, particularly when subsurface testing is limited or untenable. Historic archaeological excavations are severely limited in Utah, given...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michele E. Hoferitza.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Glass Beads: Global Artefacts, Local Perspectives", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Identifying the origin for Prosser beads may lead to a greater understanding of their distribution. In this study, x-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis of a collection of 102 Prosser beads of various colors found in southeastern Idaho indicate dramatic variation between elemental composition of the beads. The variations are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandra C Kelly. Jason L Toohey.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Carbon City was the first coal mining town established along the UPRR in what was then Wyoming Territory. A company town from the start, Carbon offers an intriguing case of how non-Indigenous settlers were incorporated into global networks through labor migration, industrial extraction, and commodity consumption in Carbon during...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chelsea Rose. Jaqueline Y. Cheung. Eric Gleason.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Diverse and Enduring: Archaeology from Across the Asian Diaspora" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From 1875 until 1943 treaties, laws, legal opinions, administrative rules, and regulations circumscribed the free movement of the Chinese immigrants in the U.S. and strictly limited the inflow of new migrants of Chinese descent. These efforts had a profound and lasting impact on the Chinese diaspora in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Renae J. Campbell. Molly E. Swords.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Diverse and Enduring: Archaeology from Across the Asian Diaspora" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Chinese American woman who would become known as Polly Bemis arrived in Idaho Territory in 1872. Eventually settling on the remote Salmon River with her European American husband, Charlie, Polly’s life has been the subject of literary works and even a Hollywood movie. Despite this attention, many aspects of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Dale.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Diverse and Enduring: Archaeology from Across the Asian Diaspora" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Over the past decade, the archaeology of the Chinese diaspora has embraced new methods, theories, and questions for investigating the lives of the men, women, and children of America’s 1800s and 1900s Chinese populations. As with archaeology in general, however, Chinese diaspora archaeology has largely...

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. Ryan Kennedy. Brian M. Kemp.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Diverse and Enduring: Archaeology from Across the Asian Diaspora" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Late-19th-century Chinese diaspora faunal assemblages from the American West often include a diverse range of fish species imported from many different locations. In these contexts, fish bones serve as evidence not only of the wide-ranging trade networks that connected Chinese diaspora communities, but also of...