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DOCUMENT Citation Only Nick F Brannon.

As with many Irish towns, Coleraine commemorates the 400th anniversary of its borough status in 2013. Born of Patrician myth origins, there was evident medieval settlement, its inland port (despite access issues) being central to its success. Re-invented in the early 1600s, under James I’s ‘Plantation’ of Ulster, the Renaissance street pattern survives. Urban myths, perpetuated by the Irish Society, as to Coleraine’s imported English flat-pack timber housing frames are exploded; this is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meredith B. Linn.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of Cities: Unearthing Complexity in Urban Landscapes", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Historians have long noted that the majority of Irish immigrants fleeing the Great Famine (1845-1852) came from rural areas in Ireland and, surprisingly, settled in American cities, quickly becoming an urbanized population. Explanations for this phenomenon have centered on social factors, which are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Theodore Roberts. Matthew Spigelman.

Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field was the first municipal airport in New York City (1928) before its use by the U.S. military until the Vietnam War. Since 1972, the field has been administered by the National Park Service within the Gateway National Recreation Area- the first of its kind in an urban setting. The landform supporting Floyd Bennett Field is almost entirely anthropogenic having been created by numerous landfill episodes dating from 1878 to 1941. These efforts used two general...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth D. Meade. Douglas B. Mooney.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Advocacy in Archaeology: Thoughts from the Urban Frontier" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The pace of development in the northeastern US has resulted in the obliteration of cemetery sites for centuries. As populations swelled and cities expanded, formerly sacred burial locations have become valuable land ripe for development. As a result of loopholes in environmental review laws, gaps in social memory/the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richie Roy.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Urban Archaeology: Down by the Water" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Urban landscapes are some of the most intensely modified contexts in which archaeological sites are located. These modifications can dramatically impact the preservation of sites. Methodologically characterizing such changes allow archaeologists to strategically direct their efforts away from areas where disturbance has erased most...

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From 2003 to 2005, Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc. conducted a series of archeological investigations in advance of the construction of a parking facility in the Sheridan Hollow neighborhood of Albany, New York. The archeological examination, required by Section 14.09 of the New York State Historic Preservation Act, focused on two urban residential lots on Sheridan Avenue, occupied about 1840-1920. For most of the 19th century, the neighborhood was occupied by Irish immigrants and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leah H Mollin-Kling.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel L Hines. Raven Christopher.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The I-10 Mobile River Bridge (MRB) Archaeology Project is an ongoing interdisciplinary effort to excavate and interpret 15 sites in downtown Mobile, Alabama prior to the Mobile River Bridge and Byway project. The project area spans centuries of Gulf Coast history and includes Woodland, colonial, and 19th-20th century urban components. The MRB project is contextualizing archaeological work...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madison Aubey. Kellen Gold. Kelly Britt.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Urban Dissonance: Violence, Friction, and Change" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. While the history of mass protest can take many forms in a variety of environments, urban spaces provide an ideal location to exert dissent. Due to urban spaces’ concentration of political, economic and social power, as well as sheer density of people, they can quickly take on material and symbolic importance...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Striebel MacLean.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of Cities: Unearthing Complexity in Urban Landscapes", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. An assemblage of small triangular-mouthed Hessian crucibles was disposed of in a cellar midden at 28 Dock Street in Lower Manhattan circa 1724. The Dock Street dwelling was associated with the home and workshop of a Huguenot silversmith and family, his Huguenot apprentice, and an enslaved black man....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meredith B. Linn. Jessica Striebel MacLean.

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. Many cities throughout the world actively engage with their history, but there are also many that focus almost exclusively on their present and future. New York City is preeminent among the latter. This inattention to the past combined with other aspects of urban life – the relentless pace of development...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Courtney E Singleton.

This is an abstract from the "Urban Erasures and Contested Memorial Assemblages" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As urbanism emerged in the United States so too did contemporary forms of homelessness. Urban homelessness, a phenomenon defined by transience and ephemerality, is omnipresent within the modern urban landscape. Homelessness is an issue few politicians dare to address and a "social problem" that no one seems to be able to clearly...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas J. Kutys. Samuel A. Pickard.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Archaeology of the Delaware River Waterfront Symposium of Philadelphia Neighborhoods" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Port Richmond neighborhood of Philadelphia arose around a crossroads village along the Delaware River, several miles north of Old City Philadelphia. With the opening of the Reading Railroad’s Port Richmond terminal in 1842, the village was transformed into a boom town with blocks of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alex Glass. Patricia Samford.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Salvage excavations during the 1980 construction of the Federal Reserve Bank in Baltimore, Maryland identified structural features and a privy pit associated with a late 19th-century home for the elderly run by African American congregations of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The home was almost entirely supported through church...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Myles Sullivan.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This poster presents comparative research of 18th century ceramic assemblages from Charleston, SC and St. Augustine, FL. Founded as British and Spanish ports, these colonial cities were interconnected and contested in the Southeastern United States, with the British gaining control of St. Augustine in 1763. This work seeks to identify dining practices in relation to political rule and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Marie Lorraine Pipes.

Faunal analysis of animal bones and food remains from features at the Sheridan Hollow Parking Facility Historic Archaeological Site, Albany, NY. Pipes's report appears as an appendix in the Sheridan Hollow Parking Facility site data recovery report.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emmett T. Cantkier.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Phoenix Project and the Rebirth of the MARTA Archaeological Collection", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Atlanta has always been a major hub for soft drink production since the beginning of the industry, producing the world’s most popular soft drink, Coca-Cola, as well as attracting its competitors and knockoffs from surrounding areas. In this presentation, I discuss my work analyzing the soft drink...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brent Fortenberry.

The town of St. George's served as Bermuda's colonial capital from 1612 to 1815. Over nearly three hundred years, the town flourished as Bermuda transitioned from a restrictive agriculture economy under the Somers Island Company to a powerful maritime economy under the Crown during the Free Holding period. In this paper I explore the changing urban landscape of St. George's from 1684 to 1730 as the town underwent a dramatic rebuilding when the Somers Island Company was dissolved and the town...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emma Dwyer.

During the 1920s and 1930s local authorities from across Britain visited municipal housing schemes in continental Europe to learn more about the provision of new homes. This included representatives from Birmingham, Britain’s second-largest city, in the midst of replacing crowded urban dwellings. The Birmingham Corporation was particularly impressed by inner-city estates in Hamburg, Vienna and Prague, illustrating their recommendations with photographs of flowerbeds, communal facilities and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Roland Fletcher.

Urban as a label is a problem. This was recognised by Childe and Adams and is re-iterated in the 21st century. Varied definitions apply in different regions, some huge settlements are excluded - apparently arbitrarily, others go in and out of "urban" fashion. Concurrently, the term "urban" has huge cachet, providing social dignity, national respect and access to research funds. The news media rarely refer to "The Lost Village" with awe. The conundrum is that while western European languages...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine M. Sims. Andrea P. White.

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. Over the last six years, the City of St. Augustine has experienced increased urbanization and a growing tourism industry while simultaneously facing climate change realities. New construction projects on private property aim to fight flooding by complying with new building codes and stormwater retention...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Swain.

Historic maps provide tangible visual evidence of how cities evolve over time. Buildings are erected and demolished, roads are constructed, and streams are diverted or filled. To an untrained eye, the built environment of a typical city block may look like an unlikely place to find archaeological remains but to an archaeologist it is a time capsule waiting to be opened. To this end, urban archaeology often requires peeking beneath parking lots, which often provide temporary protection to buried...

IMAGE Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc..

Photographs of structural remains of two houses at 112 and 114 Sheridan Avenue at the Sheridan Hollow Parking Facility site. The houses were built in the early 1840s and represent examples of row-housing in Albany. Accompanied by conjectural plans of the house and contemporary examples.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael E. Smith.

Housing at Teotihuacan took several forms, including apartment compounds, nonroyal palaces, residential quarters within civic structures, and perishable houses. I describe several approaches and methods that have been, or could be, applied to the analysis Teotihuacan housing. These include quantitative measures of wealth inequality using the Gini index; typological analysis of the forms of rooms, spaces, and compounds; measures of architectural standardization; distributions of surface artifacts...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Fennelly.

This paper will explore housing for working-class metal workers in Sheffield. The focus of the paper will be the nineteenth-century industrial colony of Parkwood Springs in north Sheffield, in the United Kingdom. Residential housing was constructed on the Parkwood Springs site to house workers employed in metal trades. The neighbourhood was isolated, as access was limited to a road tunnel running under a railway bridge, and later a footbridge - the primary route for local school children to the...