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DOCUMENT Citation Only Madison J Aubey.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2019 the remains of the Clotilda were located along the Mobile River near Africatown, Alabama. As the last slave ship to enter the United States, the rediscovery of the Clotilda, coupled with the publication of Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon, caused a resurgence in attention to the Africatown community. Founded soon after Emancipation by captive Africans who arrived on the Clotilda,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew C. Greer.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Artifacts are More Than Enough: Recentering the Artifact in Historical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. One of the benefits of archaeology is our ability to use individual artifacts to tell complex narratives that alter how people view the past. For instance, local ceramic production in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley has long been seen by both scholars and the public as something inherently white,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick H. Garrow.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Archaeology of Arms: New Analytical Approaches", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. A proposed expansion of the Florence National Cemetery triggered archaeological data recovery of a nine-acre area adjacent to the Florence Stockade. The Florence Stockade was constructed in Florence, South Carolina in September, 1864 to house Union enlisted prisoners of war. The prison was an open stockade on the...