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DOCUMENT Citation Only Katharine Kolpan.

Although World War II (WWII) hostilities ended in 1945, still today the graves and remains of both combatants and civilians continue to be unearthed, especially in Eastern Europe. These discoveries of graves become entwined with the dynamic physical and geopolitical landscapes, whereby the post-human remains take on new, contested identities. Their unique identifications to name or nationality are sublimated, as their collective national or ethnic identities become prioritized. Combatants...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Coy J. Idol.

Assassin’s Creed is a multivolume series, developed by Ubisoft, with 17 games across a variety of platforms. One of the most successful aspects of this franchise is its ability to recreate historical settings. In recreating these settings, the developers and writers draw from all available sources, including sponsoring their own archaeological investigations. Through the use of these sources, developers and writers are able to not only create largely historically accurate plots, but interactive...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura W. Ng.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "What We Make of the West: Historical Archaeologists Versus Frontier Mythologies", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Historically, Chinese Americans in the Southwestern United States were less visible than their West Coast counterparts, as only a handful of Chinatowns existed in the region. Although Chinatowns were few and far between, Chinese Americans often formed dispersed communities where they often labored...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cody Dalpra.

The importance of landscapes has long been discussed in archaeology, yet this is an often overlooked line of evidence. Landscapes often have a primary role in Native American oral histories and stories. Humans in general have a tendency to attach strong social meanings to visually prominent landforms. Such meanings are embedded within cultural landscapes as networks of natural and constructed places are perceived and made meaningful by communities. The Colorado Plateau of Northern Arizona...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael P Roller.

This is an abstract from the "Communicating Working Class Heritage in the 21st Century: Values, Lessons, Methods, and Meanings" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the nineteenth century, migrants from Eastern and Southern Europe settled in Northeast Pennsylvania to work in Anthracite coal mines. In places such as the margins of the company town of Lattimer, they created intimate landscapes with a spatial logic defined both by ethnic values, but...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jordan E Davis. Eric E Jones.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This poster details a pilot study investigating the rural landscapes of African American farming, focusing on the transformation of rural life and labor in the aftermath of the Civil War in upstate South Carolina and upstate New York. Our goal is to describe the relationship between farming strategies, social and economic interactions, and various landscapes of African American farmers in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew E. LaBounty.

In the summer of 1927, the International Joint Commission acquired a series of aerial photographs to survey the waters separating the U.S. and Canada. These photographs were purchased over several years by Voyageurs National Park, and stereo pairs were selected for 3D analysis and digitization to a GIS. In combination with known archeological site locations, more than 600 associated features have been recorded from 1927. These features range from ephemeral Ojibwe structures to sprawling lumber...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Barbara Heath.

Laboring people, especially the enslaved, are often considered to be archaeologically invisible during the first century of settlement in the colonial Chesapeake. In this paper I focus on key aspects of landscapes—fields, forests, and rivers—to consider how a landscape approach can illuminate the daily practice of enslaved Africans and indentured servants in the 17th century. While the focus on productive labor was tobacco cultivation that underpinned the economy, alternate economies dependent...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth C. Clay.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Materialities of (Un)Freedom: Examining the Material Consequences of Inequality within Historical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. French colonial chroniclers characterized plantation slavery in Guyane as consistently lacking in funds and labor. Despite a small population and marginal profits, French enslavers sought to manifest their imaginings of a productive colony through landscapes that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hemanth Kadambi.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology in South Asia" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In India, the term Historical Archaeology usually means archaeology that privileges written evidence for documenting the past. Unlike in the Americas and Northern Europe where archaeology as a ‘discipline of things’ and ‘land(water)scapes’ has advanced an understanding of all periods, in India, this is not the case yet. Hence, periods of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kofi Nutor.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper explores the complex history of Atlantic slavery and European colonization in Peki, a frontier Ewe community in present-day southeastern Ghana. This community played a pivotal role that led the pan-Ewe confederacy– the Krepi– out of Akwamu and Asante domination in the mid-nineteenth century. To consolidate their power, the Peki made two major...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin E. Smith.

With nearly 30 years of hindsight now available, my brief three years as archaeological field assistant at the Hermitage from 1988-1990 not only started what would become lifelong friendships with Larry McKee and Sam Smith, but also had significant and lasting impacts on how I approached the Middle Tennessee landscape, fieldwork, labwork, archival research, and archaeology in general over my career. Here, I will reflect on my personal "take away" from the distinctive methodological and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jairo Avila.

Previous studies on material exchange have provided valuable insights about the complexity of long-distance networks once established by prehistoric cultures. Fueled by the presence of middlemen throughout the region, these elaborate and intricate networks of interaction and trade allowed easier acquisition and exchange of materials (local and non-local) over the years. Given the extensiveness of materials (i.e. lithics, beads, ochre) repeatedly entering and exiting Southern California by land...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Birge.

Ritual trails and geoglyphs in the Andes date back as far as 400 BC and are perhaps best represented in the Nasca lines and the ceques of Cusco. In western Bolivia, the Sajama lines are a network of ritual trails that cover an estimated 22,000 square kilometers and connect pucaras, chullpas, villages, and chapels. Although this ritualized landscape was heavily modified during the Colonial (1532-1820) and Republican (1821-1952) eras, these pathways had prehistoric use by the local Carangas. These...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn E Sampeck.

The idea of "nation" in Latin America invoked discussions of ideal citizens. The colonial metamorphosis from social classification—the casta system--to racial thinking centered on defining places, social and geographic, for and by Afro-Latin Americans. In cases such as Cuba, political efforts aimed to end racism and build "raceless" nations, while others, such as Mexico, enthusiastically embraced indigenous heritage but at the same time elided or even rejected African descent, creating what...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Camille Westmont.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Materialities of (Un)Freedom: Examining the Material Consequences of Inequality within Historical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Despite promises of freedom and citizenship for Black people in the United States following the Civil War, legal and cultural systems arose almost immediately to ensure Black citizens, particularly those in former Confederate states, would never achieve parity with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather Wholey.

In the Mid-Atlantic, steatite outcrops within the eastern talc belt, which runs from Alabama, through New England to Labrador. It is a porous, carvable stone with a mineralogical and chemical makeup that inhibits soil formation, resulting in scrub or barren landscapes that host rare grasses and wildflowers. In their natural state, these would be striking landscape features. While an array of items, such as plummets, bannerstones and pipes, were produced from steatite throughout pre-colonial...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda Burtt. Laura Scheiber. Lindsey Simmons.

Interpreting the use of mountainous regions by prehistoric and historic hunter-gatherers has been hampered through the years by difficult access, excessive ground vegetation, and wilderness restrictions. Archaeologists have benefited, however, from the regular occurrence of forest fires that burn thousands of acres and expose hundreds of archaeological sites every summer, as our knowledge of campsite structure and landscape use has dramatically improved. We now know that remote campsites often...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan M. Bailey.

This research focuses on a late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century plantation site, L’Hermitage, in order to investigate how a "nervous landscape" can be read through spatial organization, material culture, and interpersonal interactions.  I refer to Denis Byrne’s use of the phrase "nervous landscape" to explore how a landscape and its occupants can be literally and figuratively nervous when absolute power fails and a heterogeneity and multiplicity of power and identities are introduced....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Luke Pecoraro.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Fieldwork at Drayton Hall has taekn place since the plantation was acquired by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1974 and continued through short excavation campaigns to present. A renewed emphasis for archaology is currently underway, with a strategic plan to more holistically explore the landscape and the service areas within the main house. This poster will illustrate the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jay Sturdevant. William Clayton.

As co-signatories on the 1854 Treaty of LaPointe, the Grand Portage Band was placed on a reservation within their traditional homeland where they continued to maintain a tribal identify directly tied to Grand Portage Bay on Lake Superior. During the reservation era, the Grand Portage Band lived within a changing cultural landscape created out of the multi-cultural milieu that had existed since the arrival of the French in the 1660s. This paper explores cultural landscape aspects of mobility and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric Proebsting.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Current Research on Virginia Plantations: Reexamining Historic Landscapes" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. A key focus of the long-term archaeological work that has taken place at Poplar Forest has included developing a highly-detailed contextual understanding of Jefferson’s retreat home and plantation. Over the past decade, research and restoration efforts associated with the carriage circle, ornamental...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Garry L Momber.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Approaches to Submerged and Coastal Landscapes", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Human colonisation and dispersal out of Africa and to the far reaches of Europe followed major inter-glacial events as the climate warmed, but before the ice thawed and sea level rose. The relationship of the archaeology with the landscape that was left behind provides a cultural and datable resource that can be interrogated to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Reeves.

Plantations consist of multiple sites spread across the landscape with site contexts that are can be easily seen as discrete and separate entities. This paper argues for seeing these sites from more of a single site context using horizon markers on varying scales of inter-relation. These horizon markers can range from particular artifact types (sets of unique ceramics, agricultural implements), depositional contexts (rubble and fill deposits), and occupation period (generational/new owners)....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark P. Leone. Elizabeth Kryder-Reid. Julie H. Ernstein. Paul A. Shackel.

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