Southeastern U.S. (Geographic Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Bronson Strip site (9Li163), located on the Holocene dune ridges of St. Catherines Island, a barrier island on the Georgia coast (USA), is a multicomponent site that includes substantial evidence for earthworks (e.g., dams and ditches) associated with tidewater, plantation-era (ca. 1790-1820), rice agriculture. While most...
An Analysis of Trade Beads Excavated from the Tristán de Luna Settlement Site and Their Significance (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. A diverse assemblage of glass beads has been excavated from the ill-fated 1559-1561 Tristán de Luna settlement site in Pensacola, Florida. These beads were part of the assortment of trade goods brought on the expedition as gifts or for exchange with Native American groups along the anticipated expedition route and its settlements....
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Resources
Project metadata for resources within the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station cultural heritage resources collection.
Chiefs and Commandants: Fort Tombecbé and "the Glory of France" in the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Gulf South (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Colonial Forts in Comparative, Global, and Contemporary Perspective", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1736, the colonial governor la Louisiane ordered construction of an outpost on the central Tombigbee River in present-day Alabama, U.S.A. Fort Tombecbé was part of the larger French effort to secure claims to the lower Mississippi Valley and the northern Gulf of Mexico against British and Spanish...
From Soil to Shore to Sale: Gullah Geechee Production, Transit, and Exchange in the Port of Charleston, South Carolina (2023)
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. Operating under a Black majority, South Carolina low country Blacks created a creole culture known as the Gullah Geechee, a culture that emphasized self-sufficiency and craft production. The Gullah Geechee on Antebellum plantations operated in a task labor economy that allowed them time to use on their own once...
Paleoindian and Early Archaic Potentials of the Continental Shelf in the Southeast US (2002)
Florida Site File Survey Log for the report of Paleoindian and Early Archaic Potentials of the Continental Shelf in the Southeast US. From Virginia to Texas, archaeological sites which are now inundated or near the coast but were once inland as well as the sites containing coastal and marine resources are included in this synthesis. Environmental changes, including the phases of the last glacial recession and oscillations of the early Holocene are considered as determinants of known and...
Revising Sixteenth-Century Olive Jar Chronology: The View from Two Early Contact Sites in Florida (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. The chronology and morphology of Spanish olive jar has been divided into early, middle, and late styles since John Goggin's typology was first proposed in 1960, and this has formed a basis for dating sites with a colonial Spanish component for many decades. However, recent research and discoveries have suggested that changes and...
Tracing the Movement of European-introduced Foods into Cherokee Country (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "New Avenues in the Study of Plant Remains from Historical Sites" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper examines the routes European-introduced foods traveled into Cherokee towns during European colonization (the sixteenth- to eighteenth-centuries). We know that peaches, cowpeas, watermelons, and sweet potatoes were all new foods Cherokees adopted from Europeans. However, I argue that each food was...