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Two interpretive panels created for the 2009 Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project Open House discussing religious life in New France and the material remains of beliefs at Fort St. Joseph.
Magnetometry Data - 2/20/2003 (2003)
Raw data from survey.
Magnetometry Data - 6/5/2002 (2002)
Raw data from survey.
Magnetometry Data - 6/6/2002 (2002)
Raw data from survey.
Magnetometry Data - 7/3/2002 (2002)
Raw data from survey.
Magnetometry Map (2004)
Composite map depicting results of 2002 and 2003 magnetometry surveys.
Media Day (2010)
Photographs from 2008, 2009, and 2010 Media Days at the site of Fort St. Joseph during which the press and members of the Western Michigan University and Niles communities and other involved parties were invited to experience talks and tours prior to the opening of the site to the public for the annual Archaeology Open House.
Moravian Ethnic Diversity: An Archival and Faunal Analysis of Schoenbrunn and Gnadenhutten in Colonial Ohio (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Zooarchaeology, Faunal, and Foodways Studies" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The intention of this study is to investigate the agency of Native American people in colonial America through studying their interaction with the environment and with other ethnically diverse groups. Using both archival and faunal data from archaeological investigations, there is potential to address questions concerning ethnic identity...
Native American Responses to Spanish Contact and Colonialism in the American South (2018)
As it did elsewhere around the world, early Spanish exploration and colonization of the American South led to diverse forms of engagement, entanglement, diplomacy, and resistance by Native American groups. Community identity persisted in some places and in some instances, and it was transformed in others. Geopolitical relationships among towns and chiefdoms were altered in diverse ways, both because of colonial exploration, trade, settlement, and missionization, and because of Native American...
Notes to Accompany the Fort St. Joseph, Niles, Michigan Magnetic Survey Data (2004)
Explains raw data contained in Excel spreadsheets.
Open House (2010)
Photographs from the 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 Archaeology Open Houses at the site of Fort St. Joseph. Since 2004, the Fort St. Joseph Archaeology Open House has been the culmination of Western Michigan University's field school, and the showpiece of its public education and outreach initiative. Free of charge, the public is invited to view ongoing excavations and to interact with the student archaeologists. To assist with interpreting the archaeology, past open houses have offered...
Outcomes of the Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project: 1998-2008 (2008)
Comprehensive list of presentations, publications, and timeline summarizing the results of the first decade of work under the auspices of the Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project.
Reinterpreting Winney’s Rift: Material culture, language, and ethnogenesis outside of Iroquoia (2016)
Winney’s Rift, located along Fish Creek in Saratoga County, New York, has been the focus of several systematic and publicly reported excavations, as well as countless disturbances by looters, collectors, and amateur archaeologists. This paper reviews the history of material recovery and interpretation by these various parties before reexamining the anthropological significance of the site. Reported artifacts show occupations at the site ranging from two Clovis points through to present-day...
"Representativeness" and Sampling Dilemmas: A Comparison of Slave Cabins at the Bulow Plantation (1821-1836), Flagler County, Florida (2017)
For three summers University of Florida researchers have worked at the Bulow Plantation, a large sugar plantation in East Florida founded in 1821 and destroyed by fire in 1836 during the Second Seminole War, in an attempt to understand the parameters of enslavement at that site. In 2014 and 2015, the UF Archaeological Field School completely exposed the footprint of Cabin 1; relatively few artifacts were recovered, including an almost complete lack of buttons, beads, and other personal...
Resistance and Intersectionality in Maroon Archaeology (2017)
We define Maroons by their overt resistance; theirs was one of the most extreme forms of anti-slavery opposition in the Americas and for many scholars is representative of the human desire to be free. However, defining Maroons by the act of marronage is isolating and limits attempts to study cultural continuities and ethnogenesis amongst the wider African Diaspora. This paper will look at the potential for, and advantages of, an intersectional maroon archaeology. Through the lens of marronage in...
Sacred or Secular: Religious Materiality on the French Colonial Frontier (2011)
My research examines archaeologically recovered artifacts and documentary sources to gain an understanding of the role that religious material culture played on the French colonial frontier, ca. 1608-1763. This study revisits the claims made by Rinehart (1990), stating that religious items are more likely to be recovered from the archaeological record at sites near Jesuit missions. I examined a large portion of the French colonial archaeological literature and located 30 sites that have yielded...
Summer Camps (2010)
Photographs from the 2004, 2006, 2009, and 2010 Summer Camps at the site of Fort St. Joseph. Each field season, three summer camps are held: a camp for young adults, a camp for adults, and a camp for teachers. These camps provide the members of Niles and surrounding communities with the opportunity to engage in active excavations. Summer campers receive hands-on training in archaeological field techniques, as well as a more in-depth knowledge of the historical context of the fort. For the first...
Variability among the Dead: Population Structure and Inferred Cultural Adaptations to the Changing Environmental and Sociopolitical Landscapes during the Late Moche (AD 650–800) Era in the Jequetepeque Valley, Peru (2018)
Recent bioarchaeological and archaeological research regarding the environmentally influenced demise of the Moche (AD 200 – 800) of the Jequetepeque Valley, Perú, indicates a variety of responses, including population dispersals, political fragmentation, cultural hybridization, and new political alliances with recently arrived foreigners at ceremonial centers. Biodistance analyses suggest that adjacent highland Cajamarca peoples from the adjacent highlands arrived in the Jequetepeque and likely...
Wet Screening (2010)
Images illustrating the use of an on-site wet screening operation to maximize artifact recovery at the site of Fort St. Joseph, 2006-2010.
Women of New France - Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project Booklet Series, No. 1 (2011)
The women of New France—French, Native, and métis—were active agents in a global process of colonization that led to interaction, conflict, and cooperation among peoples who participated in different cultural traditions, social institutions, and daily practices. In the course of migration from the Old World across the Atlantic, women helped to create the social, economic, and political conditions that fostered a French presence over a vast region for nearly two centuries. Documentary and...
Women of New France Panels (2010)
Series of interpretive panels created for the 2010 Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project Open House. Individual panel themes are: Women of New France, Needle Arts, Clothing and Dress, Cooking, Music, Dance, and Diversions, Education and Literacy, Women in Trade and Diplomacy, and Women and Servitude.