Northeastern US (Geographic Keyword)

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Bioarchaeology of a Hospital Cemetery from the American Revolution: The Courtland Street Burying Ground, Lake George, New York (2025)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lisa Anderson. Julie Weatherwax. Alexandra DeCarlo.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“A Little Grass and Earth Thrown in to fill up the Grave”: Archaeological studies of American War for Independence burial spaces", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1776, at the end of the failed campaign to take Quebec, the greatest threat to the Continental Army was not battlefield trauma but disease. The retreat from Canada to New York was marred by an epidemic of smallpox and thousands were sent to a...

We Can’t Just Hold Hands And Sing Kumbaya: A Beachhead of Collaboration Balancing Critical Infrastructure and Maritime History On The Jersey Shore (2022)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher P Morris. Lauren J. Cook.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Rocked by historic Superstorm Sandy a New Jersey Shore community was depending on a consortium of State and Federal Agencies to rebuild its lifeline roads and a new seawall to protect its homes and beaches. When contractors installing that seawall encountered what turned out to be historic shipwreck remains it would take...