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Zooarchaeological Perspective on a Portuguese Enclave in Nineteenth-Century Springfield, Illinois (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Terrance J. Martin. Christopher Stratton. Floyd Mansberger.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Recent archaeological mitigation of four city lots in Springfield, Illinois, provides information on Portuguese immigrants from Madeira who came to central Illinois during the 1850s. Dozens of privy pits spanning the mid-nineteenth through the early twentieth century yielded more than 13,000 animal remains that reveal insights into...