Mid-Atlantic United States (Geographic Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Expansion of the of the United States’ Mid-Atlantic oyster industry led to the creation of new vessel types. Variations of oyster boats were developed to enable dredging in the deep waters of the Chesapeake Bay. During the Oyster Boom of the late 19th century, the bugeye type became a favored dredging vessel and over 600 of the...
Lowering the Ladder and Raising the Bar: Fostering a Diverse and Inclusive Archaeology Through Public Archaeology (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. As part of a public history site, Colonial Williamsburg’s archaeology department is in constant contact with visitors of all ages and backgrounds. This contact has revealed rising interest in archaeology and its place in historical research and social justice among young people. In 2015, we began a program that invited children to...
Still Waiting For The Breeze: Archaeological Investigations At Walnut Point, VA (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Development of new fishing vessels led to a significant expansion of the United States’ Mid-Atlantic oyster industry in the 19th century. New types of boats, such as the pungy, were developed to enable dredging in the deep waters of the Chesapeake Bay. During the Oyster Boom of the late 19th century, several hundred pungies served...
The Tree-Ring Dating of Ironworkers’ Houses at Catoctin Furnace (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Come, Tell Us How You Lived: 50 Years of Research at Catoctin Furnace, Maryland", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The village of Catoctin Furnace in Thumont, Maryland, contains a notable number of extant workers’ cottages built during the iron furnace’s working life from 1776 to 1903. Although by the late 1800s approximately eighty tenant houses were known to exist in the area surrounding the furnace, today...