Western US (Geographic Keyword)

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Combating the Ongoing Erasure of Native Americans from Late Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Archaeological Landscapes (2025)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas E Ross. Bridget R Wall.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "In the Sticks but Not in the Weeds II: Historical Whitewashing and Modern Reimagining of Rural America’s Fantasy Past", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. It’s been 30 years since Lightfoot published his seminal article on the arbitrary dichotomy between prehistoric and historical archaeology. Yet, problems of this nature persist in California CRM. Precolonial and historic components of sites are regularly...

The (Re)Imagining of Pike's Stockade (2025)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Holly Norton.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Community Centered Archaeology in Colorful Colorado", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the early to mid-twentieth century there was a scramble in Colorado to identify the location of the stockade built by Zebulon Pike in 1807, just prior to being arrested by the Spanish and ending his expedition across what is today the Western US. The State of Colorado had grand designs to make the stockade a tourist...

Taking A Shot At Late 19th c. Indigenous Sites (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert McQueen.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper looks at identifying and characterizing late 19th century sites occupied by the Western Shoshone in northern Nevada’s (USA) Great Basin Desert. Much of the regional literature on ethnohistoric sites focuses on identifying early contact sites, which for the Great Basin begin around the 1840s, and the mixing of certain...

Victorian Dining and Class in the San Francisco Bay Area (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark K Walker.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Victorian food consumption with its complex etiquette and changing fashions results in assemblages with a bewildering number of vessel types. In this paper I consider how Victorian dining varied along class lines by comparing assemblages from 86 features excavated in the Bay Area over the past three decades by the Anthropological...