Southeast United States (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel L Hines. Raven Christopher.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The I-10 Mobile River Bridge (MRB) Archaeology Project is an ongoing interdisciplinary effort to excavate and interpret 15 sites in downtown Mobile, Alabama prior to the Mobile River Bridge and Byway project. The project area spans centuries of Gulf Coast history and includes Woodland, colonial, and 19th-20th century urban components. The MRB project is contextualizing archaeological work...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicole Bucchino Grinnan. Mike Thomin.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Port of Call: Archaeologies of Labor and Movement through Ports", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Along Florida’s Panhandle, several small, coastal communities exist today as a reminder of an earlier period in the state’s history: a time when the movement of people, goods, and information relied on waterways. The town of Apalachicola, in particular, once supported enough commodities production and maritime...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sofia M Almeida.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Living and the Dead: New Interpretations of Above- and Below-Ground Cultural Historical Archaeology", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Digital technology can be a useful tool for archaeologists to digitally preserve the current state of mortuary landscapes and can also be a useful tool for public engagement to raise awareness about these marginalized sites, their histories, and the environmental dangers...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sherman W Horn III. Susan Barrett Smith.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Plantation in the Right-of-Way: Data Recovery at St. Rosalie Plantation, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The antebellum history of St. Rosalie plantation presents an intricate socioeconomic tapestry woven with threads of race and class relationships. In many ways, St. Rosalie is typical of Plaquemines Parish settlements before the Civil War, one of several sugar-producing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shawn Joy.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Attention this is a Submergency: Incorporating Global Submerged Records", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Offshore wind is increasingly essential in reducing carbon footprints and improving energy security. Improving the industry’s capabilities in cultural preservation is critical for renewable energy development. The human-altered lithic detection (HALD) method of mapping submerged archaeological sites has...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James P. Delgado. Samuel Turner. Geoffrey DuChemin.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Current Maritime Research in Saint Augustine, Florida", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Construction monitoring for a storm drain system on the historic waterfront of St. Augustine, Florida revealed the articulated remains of a small, flat-bottom "sharpie" that was apparently abandoned or lost on the now land-filled city front before 1886; it likely dates to the late 1860s or early 1870s. Working closely with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jillyan M Corrales.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Intersection Between Natural and Cultural Heritage and the Pressing Threats to Both", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The multi-component site known as 8SJ40 is perhaps most widely recognized as the site of the first legally sanctioned free Black settlement in the United States, called Fort Mose. However, long before the establishment of the Fort Mose community, this land was utilized by indigenous...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lori Lee. James Davidson. Mary E Ibarrola.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Fort Mose Above and Below: Terrestrial and Underwater Excavations at the Earliest Free Afro-Diasporic Settlement in the United States" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In an era when community-based participatory research is becoming the norm, it is important to recognize the pioneers of this approach. Kathleen Deagan and her students began a research project at Fort Mose in the 1980s that resulted in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Olivia M. Dunn. Tanya Pattison.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Fort Mose Above and Below: Terrestrial and Underwater Excavations at the Earliest Free Afro-Diasporic Settlement in the United States" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1738, the earliest free Afro-Diasporic settlement in the North American colonies was established in defense of St. Augustine. Abandoned by 1763, the historic Gracia Real de Santa Theresa de Mose was lost in the narrative of freedom and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lori Lee.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Fort Mose was the first legally sanctioned free black community in what later became the United States. Consequently, it was an experiment in freedom shaped by Spanish colonialism and African responses to it. Inhabitants of Fort Mose, including men, women, and children, lived their lives on a frontier and faced multiple challenges...

DOCUMENT Citation Only L. Charde Reid.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Africa’s Discovery of the World from Archaeological Perspectives: Revisiting Moments of First Contact, Colonialism, and Global Transformation", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The arrival of the First Africans in English North America in 1619 marked a pivotal moment for the Virginia colony, for their arrival and labor secured the permanency and expansion of the colony itself. Previous Anglocentric narratives...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lori Lee.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Intersection Between Natural and Cultural Heritage and the Pressing Threats to Both", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Fort Mose is the first legally-sanctioned free black community in what became the United States. This unique community, formed by self-emancipated Africans, provides a glimpse into the imagination, construction, and conflicted nature of early stages of freedom in Spanish St. Augustine....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric C Poplin. Jeffrey Sherard. Jon B Marcoux.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Sixteenth-century European colonization prompted Southeast Native groups to utilize new socio-political strategies to cope with instability brought on by accelerated change in Ethridge’s “shatter zone”, where surviving indigenous groups were forced to adapt and redevelop their cultural systems to survive and to maintain their cultural identities. In the “shatter zone,” Native groups...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Philip Carr. Sarah Price.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Mobile, Alabama, City of the Six Flags; not signifying an amusement park, but rather the variety of European/European descendants who claimed the western shore of the Mobile River already occupied by diverse Indigenous Nations, and to which additional genetic and ethnic diversity came from enslaved Africans brought to its port. In...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Philip Carr. Sarah Price. Kern Jackson. Rachel Hines. Ryan Morini. Raven Christopher.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The general public and bureaucratic decision makers rarely see the value of publicly-funded archaeological projects. The on again-off again I-10 Mobile River Bridge Archaeological Project (MRBAP) investigating 13 archaeological sites in the City of Mobile, includes ongoing artifact analyses, oral history interviews, historic map georeferencing, archival research, and public outreach....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher M. Grant.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond Meat: Animal-Human Relations in New Orleans and Louisiana", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Throughout the colonial period, plantations played an important role in shaping the social and economic landscape of early New Orleans. The developing economies of these early plantations relied heavily on the exploitation of wild animals for food, but animals were exploited for purposes beyond pure sustenance....