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This is an abstract from the session entitled "From the Famed to the Forgotten: Exploring San Antonio’s Storied History Through Urban Archeology" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. San Pedro Creek has long played an important role in the development of San Antonio. The abundance and variety of resources in the vicinity of the six springs that give birth to the stream served as an ideal site for the establishment of the first mission in San Antonio, Mission...
From "Patch[es] of Nowhere" to Somewhere: Placing Sites of Racial Violence on the Dallas Landscape (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. Many cities in the U.S. have rendered landscapes of racial violence invisible by effacing such sites from their cityscapes and any memory of them from public consciousness. Martyrs Park in Dallas, Texas was the scene of an 1860 lynching, the culmination of hysteria over a rumored slave revolt. A 2018 article referred to the park,...
More Than a Pile of Iron Scraps: Understanding The Archaeology of Blacksmith Shops (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "At the Intersections of History: Collaborative, Public Archaeology along the Chisholm Trail in Bolivar, Texas", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper explores the archaeology of blacksmithing through examining the Tom Cook Blacksmith Shop with excavations yielding more than 25,000 artifacts. Located along the Chisholm Trail and belonging to Tom Cook, an African American freedman, the archaeological...
Uncovering Historic Burial Types at the Alamo Church: Insights from 2019–2020 Alamo Church and Long Barrack Restoration Project at Mission San Antonio de Valero, Bexar County, Texas, USA (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Mission San Antonio de Valero and the Alamo – A Construction History from Mission to Military Fortress, Texas, United States", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Between 2019 and 2020, archaeologists conducted a series of test excavations within the footprint of the former Mission San Antonio de Valero – known today as the Alamo – for the Alamo Church and Long Barrack Restoration Project. These investigations...