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The legacy of Scott Fedick in ethnoecology, ethnoarchaeology, and landscape studies cannot be understated. Aside from years of active collaborative work and mentorship, the dissemination of his research has led to rich interpretations far beyond his immediate influence. In the first part of this paper, I follow impacts of Fedick's scholarship in several fields, as tracked through citations and students. I also trace his impacts on public policy and common understandings of Maya lifeways. In...
Fields and farms in Ireland, 1650-1850: landscape archaeologies of improvement (2013)
My PhD research, funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, investigates of how Irish rural landscapes developed from 1650 to 1850, looking in particular at four case studies, in counties Clare, Tipperary, Meath and Derry. I explore how later historic rural landscapes reflect the massive social changes of the 17th to 18th centuries, and how archaeologists can contribute to understanding these changes. This paper will examine how rural landscapes inform our...
Fitting Overseers Into The Plantation Picture: Spatial Analysis At The Oval Site (2015)
Studies of plantation landscapes often focus either on the siting of mansions, quarters, and other structures across the plantation at a large scale by the owner, or attempts by the enslaved to exert control over the small-scale spaces of their own houses and yards. This paper adds to the consideration of how examining and comparing small-scale landscapes can contribute to a discussion of the creation and negotiation of intermingled racial and class-based boundaries within plantation contexts. ...
Flying High In An Unfriendly Sky: The Aviation Cultural Landscape of Malta During The Second World War (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Strides Towards Standard Methodologies in Aeronautical Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. While concepts of cultural landscapes are firmly entrenched within terrestrial and maritime archaeology, their utilisation within aviation archaeology has been far less consistent. What might such a landscape consist of, and what new insights could it invoke, if any? Can we simply transplant existing...
Following the Drinking Gourd: Considering the Celestial Landscape (2018)
The world of enslaved African Americans included not only the solid ground beneath their feet and other physical landmarks, but also the sky above them, replete with planets and stars. In a world without maps, compasses or, in many instances, the ability to read directions, the enslaved were dependent upon visual cues for making their way through the landscape. Oral traditions and historical documents reveal that planets and constellations were important guides for finding one’s way,...
From Fife to the Chesapeake: Scottish Immigrants and the Development of Public Landscapes in Early Eighteenth Century Maryland. (2013)
Ninian Beall was captured at the Battle of Dunbar in 1650 along with many of his countrymen and sent to Maryland as an indentured servant. Beall’s arrival marks an important milestone in the settlement of the Chesapeake region. Beall sponsored the transport of many Scottish immigrants who settled along the banks of the Potomac and Patuxent Rivers. Some of these individuals became powerful local politicians, slave owners, and active participants in trade with Native Americans living in the...
From Food to Fodder: Colonial Settlement and Changing Relationships with Prosopis on Peru's North Coast in the 16th Century CE (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Environmental Intimacies: Political Ecologies of Colonization and Anti-Colonial Resilience", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Colonial (re)settlement is a process of rearticulation in which people's relationships with landscapes and political institutions are often drastically reconfigured. These relationships include not just attachments to places and configurations of built environments, but also connections...
From Forest to Field: Over Three Centuries of Vegetation Change at Poplar Forest (2017)
A sealed context dating to the mid-17th century at Poplar Forest, Thomas Jefferson’s plantation and retreat in Bedford County, Virginia has provided an opportunity to examine aspects of the protohistoric environment prior to the introduction of large-scale European agriculture in the 18th and 19th centuries. Palynological analysis conducted on this context reveals ratios of arboreal to non-arboreal pollen as well as the presence or absence of disturbance indicators that provide a baseline for...
From Reuse of Space to Claim for Permanence in British Burial Grounds: the Long-term Landscape Implications of Permanent Commemoration. (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Investigating Cultural Aspects of Historic Mortuary Archaeology: Perspectives from Europe and North America", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Throughout the Middle Ages and into the early modern period, graves were rarely marked with a permanent stone monument and as descendants themselves died and memory of earlier generations and their burial locations were forgotten, plots could be reused. A combination of...
From Saint Domingue to Frederick, Maryland: Tracing Architectural Detail (2017)
Recent excavations at Monocacy National Battlefield in Frederick, Maryland, revealed slave quarters associated with L’Hermitage, an 18th-19th c. plantation. L’Hermitage was owned by the Vincendière family, who settled in Maryland after having abandoned their plantations in Saint Domingue (present-day Haiti) to escape increasingly urgent slave rebellions. A careful study of these dwellings provides an opportunity to illuminate two important aspects of the built environment. First, I will explore...
From Seafaring to Settling Downeast: Town Formation and the Eastern Frontier Landscape (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The primary goal of settlement ecology is to understand how and why people decide to settle a particular landscape. Although often applied to farming communities, this approach can be applied to any society because all settlement patterns are produced through human decision-making. Adopting a settlement ecology lens, I examine how...
From the Field to the Festival: Reading the Landscape of Cloth in Axum, Ethiopia (2017)
The city of Axum in northern Ethiopia is well known for its high quality, hand woven cloth. Sundays and festivals bring throngs of local people who, to the outside observer, appear to be uniformly dressed in beautiful white handspun clothing embellished with colourful woven borders and embroidery. This apparent uniformity belies a very complex set of activities that lead to the production, distribution and consumption of cloth in Axum. Each step in production is dominated by people of...
From Wagons to Wayfaring: Documenting the Historic Trails In and Around Fort Union National Monument (2018)
Trails, paths, and roads comprise the landscape of movement. As these features accumulate in the landscape, they form a palimpsest, attesting to changing modes and patterns of human movement through time. This project examines the historic trail network in and around Fort Union National Monument (FOUNM) in New Mexico. During the nineteenth century, Fort Union served as guardian of the most prominent thoroughfare, the Santa Fe Trail, which channeled people, wagons, livestock, goods, and ideas...
Frontiers in Colorado Paleoindian Archaeology: From the Dent Site to the Rocky Mountains (2007)
As the Ice Age waned, Clovis hunter-gatherers began to explore and colonize the area now known as Colorado. Their descendents and later Paleoindian migrants spread throughout Colorado's plains and mountains, adapting to diverse landforms and the changing climate. In this new volume, Robert H. Brunswig and Bonnie L. Pitblado assemble experts in archaeology, paleoecology-climatology, and paleofaunal analysis to share new discoveries about these ancient people of Colorado.The editors introduce the...
Garden and Landscape Archaeology at the Robert Carter House in Williamsburg, Virginia (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Meaning in Material Culture" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Robert Carter House, built circa 1727 and restored by Colonial Williamsburg in 1931, is one of the largest domestic properties within the eighteenth century townsite. At a time when the best rooms in most gentry houses in town were oriented toward the front of the house, the best rooms at the Robert Carter House are at the back. A series of terraces...
A Garden Inferior to Few: Landscape Archaeology at Custis Square, Williamsburg, Virginia (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Department of Archaeology at Colonial Williamsburg has begun a multi-year investigation of Custis Square, the 18th century Williamsburg home and gardens of John Custis IV. Utilizing enslaved labor, Custis transformed this four acre lot into one of the most elaborate ornamental gardens in America between 1714 and 1749. Developed at a time of transformation in European garden...
Gardens and Forking Paths: A Genealogy of Landscape and Subject Formation in the Zaña Valley, Peru (2015)
Recent archaeological research has called attention to the performative dimensions of imperial built environments, shedding new light on how regimes and subjects emerge (and persist) in acts of place-making, urban planning, and monumental construction. However, our focus on clarifying the semiotics of imperial architecture has drawn attention away from longer-term process of subjectification and elided the role that landscapes play within them. The study of landscapes in Peru's Zaña valley...
Gathering Relations in an Aqueous World: Monumentality, Ontology, and the Belle Glade Landscape (2016)
Recent research on Pre-Contact South Florida has reinforced the notion that the peoples dwelling in the region inhabited a past material world much different from our own and from neighboring areas. In particular, the hydrologic characteristics of a subtropical landscape centered on the Lake Okeechobee basin are one of the central features of both the epistemology and ontology reflected in the earliest monumental architecture in the region. Yet these worldviews and worlds were not static...
The Geoarchaeology of two Riverine Sites in New Jersey (2015)
In dynamic environmental settings, various ecological processes can affect the landscape, the people living on those landscapes, and the subsequent archaeological record. Further confounding the situation is human-induced landscape change, which evidence indicates has occurred recently, historically, and prehistorically. Our efforts at two riverine locations in northern and central New Jersey reveal the efficacy of a geoarchaeological approach to understanding the archaeological record. Through...
A Geospatial Analysis of Landscape Modification in Relation to Burials and Social Control (2015)
This poster examines burial construction in relation to landscape modifications in the Rio Bravo region of northwestern Belize. A geospatial analysis was conducted on burials and surrounding features, such as shrines, to determine the Maya social hierarchical system established during the Middle Preclassic, Late Preclassic, and Late Classic periods. This research addresses the interrelationship between altered landscapes and burial locations, which can yield insight into social control. Poor...
A GIS Approach to Landscape Legibility and Its Role in Late Pleistocene Hominin Dispersals (2018)
The large-scale colonization of unfamiliar environments by Late Pleistocene humans would have required advanced navigational abilities. Archaeological signatures of spatial cognition are difficult to identify in Prehistory, although the presence of well-dated sites can help us track human mobility across the landscape. In this research, we test whether structural properties of the environment played an important role in helping humans navigate new landscapes, providing affordances for wayfinding...
GIS as a Heuristic Tool: Revisiting Spatial Concepts in the Paiwan Landscape (2016)
This research showcases how Geographic Information System (GIS) serves as a heuristic interface to visualise obscure spatial concepts and further facilitates researchers to explore how these concepts influence people’s perception of and interaction with the landscape. The abandoned slate-stone settlements of Paiwan are one of their most distinct icons. However, their spatial location and their relation with the wider regional landscape were not thoroughly investigated. This research utilises...
GIS, Identity, and the Sacred Landscape (2017)
GIS techniques are no foreigner to Mesoamerican studies though the hybridization of digital analytics and human identity is incomplete. In recent years suites of technologies have allowed for better visualization of data within archaeological projects. Though computer programs and higher profile data-gathering techniques have become widely embraced by the archaeological community, research should be rooted in cultural proclivities as well. By recording the complex shifts in topography via remote...
A Glance at Camata: GIS Analyses of Camata Valley, Bolivia (2015)
Although significant research has been accomplished on the Inka Empire, there are still questions about how the Inka integrated diverse people and lands, especially those regions near their imperial frontier, such as the Camata Valley. Understanding how the valley became part of the Inka imperial frontier will shed light into studies of colonialism, borderlands, landscapes, and imperialism. The goal of this poster is to explore patterns across the landscape of the Camata Valley. More...
Great Balls of Fire: Phantoms of Ontario’s Past (2016)
Landscapes are an imbroglio of structures (abandoned buildings, ruins), spaces, social memory, oral tradition and at times, the materialization of ghosts in places which are sometimes apart from the communities that once thrived in those villages, towns, cities. Whether actively or indirectly, the stories that develop around these sites continue to play a role in building their communities. A number of historic sites and industrial landscapes in Ontario will be discussed in this paper, unveiling...