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DOCUMENT Citation Only Yanxi Wang.

The landscape variability was one of the most important factors influencing the regional sociopolitical organizations in the peripheral regions of Shang. In this study, we compared the regional settlement pattern of two regions--one at the broad alluvial plain of the Middle Huai River, which presents a loosely-structured, but still hierarchical regional settlement pattern; and the other at the hilly Guan River valley, which shows a dramatic retreat of human occupation. By investigating these two...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric L. Larsen.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Germanna has been the site of archaeology over the last five decades. It is best known as the site of the 1714 Fort Germanna and for Alexander Spotswood’s “Enchanted Castle.” The current Germanna Archaeology Project has been built using an historic landscapes approach to excavations since 2016. The results have connected with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Linda M. Ziegenbein.

     People engage with place and space in profound and commonplace ways, deriving and creating meaning from the environment around them.  People and spaces are co-created: while people imbue the landscape with meaning, those same meanings come to shape the people themselves.  Basso (1996) refers this process as a sensing of place.         Archaeologists and other anthropologists have long recognized the central role the landscape plays in the processes of memory creation and retention as well...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Veronica Williams.

Within its territory, the Inka adapted their rule of such diverse spheres as political economy, ideology, and identity, among others, which explains in part the diversity and disparity seen in the empire. In Collasuyu, Inka buildings were common but it is evident that their features, dimensions, monumentality and spatial density show contrasting regional differences. New evidence regarding Inka occupation in Northwest Argentina shows different situations of Inka conquest and domination expressed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Newman.

During the last quarter of the 19th century, Mexico experienced a period of rapid social and economic modernization under the leadership of dictator Porfirio Diaz. Central to this was the dismantling of community-held lands, a practice that was intended to undermine the social aspects of the agrarian/indigenous lifestyle. The nineteenth century architects of Mexico’s progress believed that by dismantling communal villages lands and thus communal indigenous communities, they were moving Mexico’s...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha M Ellens.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Co-Producing Space: Relational Approaches to Agrarian Landscapes, Labor, Commodities, and Communities", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper presents an historical archaeological analysis of Montserrat’s late 19th to early 20th-century citrus lime industry, which emerged in response to the demise of the sugar-based plantation economy on the Caribbean island. Following the networks of lime circulation,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Quentin P Lewis.

This paper introduces the session, and as a case study, explores utopias and utopian plans inspired by conservative thinking and principles as examples of spatial play and landscape experimentation. The growth of the internet has allowed for the proliferation of like-minded communities as well as the broadcasting of political ideologies and proposals. During the 2000s, anti-government enthusiasm proliferated into a number of proposals for separatist communities within the United States, founded...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jose Luis Punzo.

In 2012 INAH-Michoacan, started an archeological project in the south central portion of the state based on ample surveys in the region looking for the presence of sites associated to the Tarascan period, especially in relation to mining, transport, manufacture and consumption of metallic items. In that sense, with this new survey we been able to identify the existence of important archeological sites with presence of rectangular stone structures with circular extensions (yácatas) similar to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brooke Kenline. James A. Nyman.

Ferry Farm is perhaps most well known as the site of George Washington’s boyhood home. However, between the early 18th century and the Civil War, it was intermittently the site of multiple occupations, including the home of a former indentured servant, the home of an overseer and his enslaved wife, in addition to the Washington's and their enslaved domestic servants. The homes these families constructed were part of a dynamic landscape that shifted meaning and context throughout time. This paper...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rüdiger Kelm. Florian Kobbe. Frank Both.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Rowan Flad.

In the third millennium BC, several walled sites were inhabited in the Chengdu Plain of Sichuan, China. These late Neolithic settlements varied in size and shape, and they had mounded earth walls, some encompassing the largest areas of any known sites of their time in China. The site of Baodun is the largest known example, and has recently been the focus of extensive excavations. Other known sites in the region include Gucheng in Pi Xian County, the most completely preserved of these walled...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Margaret J Staudter.

This is an abstract from the "Re-discovering the Archaeology Past and Future at Fort Ticonderoga" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The recovery of artifacts at Fort Ticonderoga in the 20th century focused largely on the immediate area of the fort itself prior to reconstruction effort. The military complex at Fort Ticonderoga spanned across both sides of Lake Champlain and well beyond the walls of the fort itself. Only limited professional...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jonathan Extract.

This is an abstract from the "Bringing the Past to Life, Part 1: Papers in Honor of John M. D. Pohl" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ethnoarchaeology is a critical methodology for analyzing prehispanic and early colonial codices. Drawing on the foundational work of John Pohl and Bruce Byland’s In the Realm of 8 Deer, I discuss how ethnography can help decipher, contextualize, and bring to life Indigenous pictographic documents. My...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelsey Noack Myers.

As the 300th anniversary of the establishment of the French fort at Ouiatenon approaches, it is clear that narratives about the area remain focused on the fairly brief affiliation of the New French government with this fur trade site on the Wabash River. In contrast, the archaeological and documentary sources that detail daily life on this landscape speak to the overwhelmingly Native population and sense of place that existed prior to its abandonment in 1791. Several years of archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thane H. Harpole. David Brown.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Before, After, and In Between: Archaeological Approaches to Places (through/in) Time" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Visitors to Fairfield plantation are intrigued by the magnificent c. 1694 brick manor house, the Burwell family who planned it, and the enslaved Africans who largely built it. The powerful Lewis Burwells and their families (five generations with the same name) helped shape 18th-century...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kenneth Cannon. Chris Merritt.

Between 1867 and 1904, hundreds of Chinese workers lived and labored along the railroad grade in deeply rural northwestern Utah. Small section houses served as the only reprieve from the toil of daily labore in the treeless and sun scorched landscapes of Box Elder County. Archaeological inventory spurred by a National Park Service Initiative is identifying sites previously unknown to scholars. These sites are shedding light on the life and experience of the 11-15 Chinese section crews in this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Todd M. Ahlman. Ashley McKeown.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Historical documents suggest the patients of the St. Croix Leprosy Hospital lived a tough life. The first facility was understaffed, overcrowded, in disrepair, and not conducive to healthcare. The second facility, according to US government reports in the 1930s, always suffered from neglect and it was not clear if the patients lived a decent life or a dull existence. Newspaper accounts in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jesse Nowak.

This is an abstract from the "Dancing through Iconographic Corpora: A Symposium in Honor of F. Kent Reilly III" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dr. Kent F. Reilly and many of the scholars associated with the Mississippian Iconography Workshop have used ethnography and folklore to support interpretations about ritual and cosmology. This talk discusses how ancient landscapes can, in turn, inform folklore, ritual communication, and iconography....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Francesc C. Conesa. Agustin Lobo. Stefano Biagetti. Marco Madella.

In recent years, applications of Earth Observation for archaeology have been boosted by data acquisition and by the increased spatial and temporal resolution of new products (e.g. Sentinel-2, WorldView series, Pléiades mission). Nowadays, archaeologists are looking for ways to effectively merge multi-spatial and multi-temporal imagery, integrating spectral and contextual information as well. In arid lands, the lack of adequate data on long-term vegetation dynamics is hampering our capacity of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathleen Huggins. Paul Goldstein. Matthew Sitek.

This paper expands on previous work which concluded that the Omo M10A Tiwanaku temple in Moquegua, Peru, was constructed using, in some amount, adobes containing cultural materials from antecedent Huaracane populations. Exploring this data further may reveal social and ecological conditions during construction of the Tiwanaku temple at Omo M10A. Analyses will include spatial distribution of Huaracane sherds within architectural collapse, and associating these architectural collapse areas with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Natalie Mooney.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of Enslavement" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Magnolia Grove is an early-mid nineteenth century town house property in Greensboro, Alabama and it functioned as a largely self-sufficient farming operation with around 25 acres of land and multiple slaves living on site. Because of these features Magnolia Grove can be viewed as a smaller contained parallel to other plantations owned by Isaac Croom. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Levi.

This is an abstract from the "Ancient Maya Landscapes in Northwestern Belize, Part I" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ancient Maya places were dynamic assemblages of people, the things that they made and used, and myriad material and immaterial affordances. Unfortunately, a simple enumeration of their components cannot account for the historical valence carried by places. In northwestern Belize, the multi-scalar operation of ritual may help clarify...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alyssa R Scott.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper explores how archaeological mapping of institutions intersects with experiences of sanatorium spaces described in oral histories and historical documents, and the relationship between landscape, memory, practice, and performance at former tuberculosis sanatorium sites in California. The Weimar Joint Sanatorium for tuberculosis in Placer County, California, was a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mackenzie M Tabeling.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Landscapes Above and Below in Southern Contexts (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. While the concept of “taskscape” has been introduced and utilized within archaeological and historical study, this theoretical approach has an even greater potential to interpret complex archaeological and cultural maritime landscapes. With Somerset Place, near Creswell, North Carolina as a focus site, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Taylor Thornton. Jason King. Jason Herrmann. Jane Buikstra.

The Golden Eagle (11C120) site enjoys unique status among prehistoric sites of the Lower Illinois River Valley due to its large earthen enclosure. This elliptical ditch and embankment circumscribes a number of mounds assumed to be of Middle Woodland origin (ca. 50 cal BC – cal AD 400), however, other diagnostic Middle Woodland attributes are absent. Magnetic survey and three seasons of excavations with field crews from the Center for American Archeology in Kampsville, IL have thus far revealed...