Colonial (Other Keyword)
51-75 (108 Records)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Excavating the Foundations of Representative Government: A Case Study in Interdisciplinary Historical Archaeology." , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Excavations conducted by pioneering women archaeologists in the 1890s uncovered evidence of the 1617 Church, where the first meeting of the General Assembly occurred in July 1619. However, those excavations did not determine the church’s complete limits....
King Philip's War: America's Forgotten War (2020)
This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The historiography of King Philip’s War, (1675-1676), was, like most history, written largely from the viewpoint of the victors; in this case, the New England Confederation of English colonists. Primary sources generally point to Metacom (referred to by the colonists as King Philip) as the aggressor in the conflict, and almost universally put Metacom’s forces, and even “praying Indians”...
La Faïencerie De La Nouvelle Orleans: French Colonial Faience Production In New Orleans, Louisiana (2018)
Archaeologists invariably blame the French for all of the ceramics laying about South Louisiana colonial period sites, even those dating to the Spanish colonial period. But were the ceramics actually made in France? Could they have been manufactured locally? One Spanish period redware kiln has already been examined archaeologically in St. James Parish. Indeed, not only did potiers, or makers of redware, work in the French colony of La Louisiane, so too did faïenciers. This paper presents...
Labor Relations and Ceramic Technology in Spanish Northwest Florida (1698-1763) (2023)
This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeologists have traditionally applied a dichotomy to the classification of ceramics recovered from Northwest Florida presidios, reflecting broad assumptions about labor relations in the Spanish Southeast U.S. Ceramic sorting typically begins with the assumption that low-fired, hand-formed wares were produced by Native potters of the Southeast U.S. High-fired, wheel-thrown, or...
Landscape and the Impact of Late Colonial Industrial Agriculture on Indigenous Communities in the Tehuantepec Region of Mexico. (2015)
During the late colonial period, the political economy of the Oaxaca Isthmus of Tehuantepec, like many areas of rural New Spain, witnessed dramatic changes in response to Bourbon political reforms and as a consequence of increased engagement with global capitalism. These changes are particularly apparent in the sheltered piedmont zone of the Rio de los Perros, where Zapotec elites had managed to control productive agricultural lands into the early 18th century. New creole landowners emerge in...
"A Large and General Assortment": Fancy Goods Stores and the Retailer-Consumer Relationship in Christchurch, New Zealand. (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "“And in his needy shop a tortoise hung”: Construction Of Retail Environments And The Agency Of Retailers In Historical Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The opportunity to investigate the material culture of a place from behind the commercial veil is rare. Processes of distribution and retail are often under-represented in the archaeological record and overshadowed by the refuse of domestic...
Looking Beyond the Colonial/Indigenous Foods Dichotomy: Recent Insights into Identity Formation via Communal Foodways from Mission Santa Clara de Asís. (2016)
The Spanish Colonial mission complexes (churches, quadrangles, and outlying buildings and structures) brought about new order on native landscapes with the introduction of European urban planning. As a result, many researchers maintain that Old World plants and animals rapidly supplanted and displaced many types of native species, and they often define "wild" foods as supplemental to agricultural foods. Additionally, many scholars continue to support the notion that agriculture is an active...
Looking Beyond the Public Walkways: Introduction of Old and New Data to Expand and Enhance Interpretations of Brunswick Town and Fort Anderson (2016)
Excavations at colonial Brunswick and Civil War era Fort Anderson by Stanley South in the 1950s and 1960s were designed to make their shared footprint into a public historic park. Historical data and the artifacts uncovered through his excavations formed the initial interpretations. While this data was documented in field reports and select other venues, such as CHSA presentations in the 1960s and Method and Theory (1977), the publication of Archaeology at Colonial Brunswick (2010) largely...
Mapping Gloucestertown (2018)
Decades of primarily compliance-driven archaeology at Gloucester Point has turned up dozens of buildings, hundreds of postholes, and numerous cultural features that document the rise and fall of this colonial port town and scene of two major military encampments and fort-building episodes. But this evidence has been recovered piecemeal, and it has been difficult to relate individual buildings and sites to town lots and their owners. Our current research involved extensive excavations along with...
The Maritime Cultural Landscape of Bluefields Bay, Jamaica (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The memoirs of Thomas Thistlewood, a planter in Bluefields Bay, Jamaica during the 1700s, suggest that maritime traffic in the bay was sparse during the latter half of the 18th century. Only war brought ships-of-the-line to the bay, when they would gather to escort merchantmen back to Britain. One such occasion was in May 1782 when the bay hosted Admiral George Rodney’s fleet after...
Method over Madness: A Practical Approach to Colonial-Period Archaeology in Urban St. Louis (2018)
The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) has been conducting archaeological excavations in the City of St. Louis almost continuously since 2004. Up until 2012, this work concentrated on properties dating from the mid-nineteenth through early-twentieth centuries. MoDOT’s field methodologies drew largely on previous work in Oakland, Boston, New York, and other urban centers, with minor alterations to accommodate the idiosyncrasies of the modern St. Louis landscape. Since 2013, however,...
Michilimackinac, colonial outpost on the Great Lakes (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Colonial Forts in Comparative, Global, and Contemporary Perspective", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Michilimackinac, land of the great turtle, referred to the entire Straits of Mackinac region, where lakes Michigan and Huron connect, in the colonial period. Long a crossroads and gathering place for Indigenous people, it was the site of a series of colonial forts, first French and later British, as these...
Mortar Analysis for Archaeological Stratigraphy: The Stadt Huys Block and Seven Hanover Square Collections, New York, NY (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Boxed but not Forgotten Redux or: How I Learned to Stop Digging and Love Old Collections" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Advancements in materials analysis offer new opportunities for studying architectural materials in archaeological collections. This paper will demonstrate the diagnostic capabilities of mortars recovered from the Stadt Huys Block and Seven Hanover Square excavations in Lower Manhattan in...
Mortuary Landscapes and Cultural Representation in Burial Spaces, 17th- to early 18th-Century Northeast North America (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The archaeology of colonial settlements and burial grounds is a popular avenue of historical archaeology, but consideration of the different cultures represented in these spaces is not regularly considered. The development of the burial landscape in 17th- and 18th-century northeast North America included not only the white European...
Mosquitoes, Landscapes, Ruins, and Artifacts: The Evolution of the Peachtree Plantation Rice Culture Landscape (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Emergence and Development of South Carolina Lowcountry Studies: Papers in Honor of Martha Zierden" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Situated on 481 acres on the South Santee River near McClellanville, South Carolina, an abandoned rice culture landscape lay almost forgotten, waiting patiently for its stories to be told. Preservation students began systematic documentation of the plantation main house ruin...
"…near the side of an Indian field commonly known as the Pipemaker’s field": Reanalyzing the Nomini Plantation Midden Assemblage (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of Contact and Colonialism" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Excavated in the 1970s by Vivienne Mitchell, a crew of volunteers, and avocational archaeologists from the Archeological Society of Virginia, the Nomini Plantation (44WM12) midden assemblage represents an extraordinary collection of mid- to late-seventeenth-century material culture. However, a full analysis and report were never completed, due...
An Officer and a Gentleman? Telling the story of Captain Rábago and the Spanish Colonial Site of Presidio San Sabá through Archaeology and History (2013)
Presidio San Sabá, located in Menard County, is the largest Spanish Fort in Texas. Occupied from 1757 to 1770, the garrison was under the command of Captain Felipe Rábago for most of its existence. Prior to and during his command, the presidio underwent several changes that reflect the political and social environment of Spanish Colonial Texas during the late 18th century. Drawing from both archaeological investigations conducted by Texas Tech University and historical research, the story of...
Phase I Literature Review and Archeological Field Investigation, Monitoring Fiber Optic Cable Installation, Maiden Lane, City of Albany, Albany County, NY (2001)
Phase I investigations and monitoring for the installation of a fiber optic cable in Maiden Lane. The monitoring work uncovered a 19th-c. foundation and associated sheet midden, as well as a late 17th-c. feature and two 18th-c. features. Samples were recovered from each feature.
Phase IB/III Archeological Investigations, Hudson River Way Pedestrian Bridge, Maiden Lane, City of Albany, Albany County, New York (2002)
Investigation of 17th, 18th, and 19th features in the colonial center of the City of Albany. Includes examination of a culverted stream, a late 18th-c. privy, and evidence of massive fires in 1793 and 1797.
Phase II Site Evaluation, New York State Court of Appeals, City of Albany, Albany County, New York (2001)
Phase II investigation of archaeological features associated with the construction of the early 20th-c. Court of Appeals and 19th-c. privy features. Survey provides evidence of landscape alterations from the colonial period onward.
Phase III Data Retrievals on Historic Archaeological Sites in Albany, New York
This is a group of Phase III data retrieval reports on nine historic archaeological sites in Albany, New York. The group covers a broad range of cultural and temporal contexts, including one of the nation's first railroads, colonial period downtown sites, and mid to late 19th-century domestic contexts.
Pictorial Examples Of Supposed Native Architecture In lreland: An Alternative View (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology on the Island of Ireland: New Perspectives" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in Ireland saw much conflict as the English crown sought to establish its rule throughout the island. The period saw government servants alongside entrepreneurs and adventurers take a greater interest in Ireland. As one consequence, more maps and pictorial images...
Poteaux-en-Terre, Faience, Ash Pits and Native American Ceramics: An Update on MoDOT’s Archaeology Under the Bridge (2018)
The continuing archaeological investigations by the Missouri Department of Transportation on the Poplar Street Bridge Project in downtown St. Louis, has increased our knowledge of early St Louis’ French inhabitants, the interactions between the French and the local Native Americans, and improved archaeological methods in urban environments. Excavations in 2016 and 2017 on the Berger Site (23SL2402) have encountered a large French colonial period poteaux-en-terre vertical log structure with a...
Preventive excavation in l’Autre Bord, a district of the city of Le Moule (Guadeloupe) destroyed by the 1738 hurricane. (2013)
The city of Le Moule is situated in Grande Terre, Guadeloupe, French West Indies. The first inhabitants were settled there by 1680. The parish of Le Moule was established in 1712. The early village was built on the right bank of the mouth of the River d’Audoint. It contained a church, a parade ground and two perpendicular streets oriented according to the axis of the river. The cyclone of 1738 annihilated a part of the village and following the cyclone it was reconstructed on the other bank. The...
A pXRF Analysis on18th-Century Colonial Redware (2017)
This portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) research addresses questions concerning economic status and procurement strategies through the study of redware ceramics. The use of pXRF is a high-tech, newly emerging analytical technique for archaeologists that provides quantitative data concerning the chemical composition of ceramics. The ceramics were produced by local or regional manufacturers, and this research is a comparative compositional study with collections from several archaeological sites...