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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. Chocolate is one of very few things that can bring joy to nearly everyone and yet, little evidence of the consumption of chocolate has been documented in of New York City’s historical archaeological record. A 2016 CRM investigation documented 19th century shaft features in the rear yards of...
Definitional Confusion: The Many Meanings of Community-Engagement in Urban Spaces (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Cities on the Move: Reflecting on Urban Archaeology in the 21st Century", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Community-engagement is an obligatory element for many practitioners intent on fostering a 21st century, ethical archaeology. However, community-engagement as a term and a practice remains ill-defined, with as many experiences with and constraints on as there are projects. In large part, this is due to...