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DOCUMENT Citation Only Cheryl Frankum.

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...

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This dissertation establishes a new timeframe for Indigenous participation in world-system expansion in southern Ontario, Canada ca. AD 1550–1650, by investigating how and when people living in three different Indigenous Nations in southern Ontario engaged with the expanding European world-system. This will be accomplished by: 1- Establishing an absolute timeframe for the initiation and development of Indigenous-European interaction through Bayesian chronological modeling of high-precision AMS...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Megan Conger.

This dissertation establishes a new timeframe for Indigenous participation in world-system expansion in southern Ontario, Canada ca. AD 1550–1650, by investigating how and when people living in three different Indigenous Nations in southern Ontario engaged with the expanding European world-system. This will be accomplished by: 1- Establishing an absolute timeframe for the initiation and development of Indigenous-European interaction through Bayesian chronological modeling of high-precision AMS...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lu Ann De Cunzo.

The Middle Atlantic region is drawing renewed interest among historians, especially during the era of first colonial settlement in the 17th century. Some are reassessing the prominent role of the Lenape and Susquehannock peoples in the course and outcomes of the encounters. Others are challenging previous interpretations of the contests among Dutch, Swedish, and English imperial actors for control over this borderland. Although these scholars are rethinking the concept of frontier, the spatial,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William L Fleming.

The PIllar Dollar wreck is well-known to treasure salvors and looters, but has only recently been investigated in an archaeological sense. East Carolina University's Program in Maritime Studies conducted an excavation of the site for the Program's 2014 Fall Field School in September. With the knowledge garnered from that project, as well as previous condition reports and treasure salvor guides, this project aims to reconstruct the vessel and learn about its origins and use. The final result will...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Henry M Miller.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeological Research of the 17th Century Chesapeake" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Since J. C. “Pinky” Harrington’s 1954 publication of a method of pipe stem dating, it has become a significant tool in historical archaeology analysis. For convenience, he selected a 64ths of an inch metric that became standard.   Recent research using a much finer measuring increment reveals that pipe stems are capable...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Brewer.

For the Spanish, conversion to Catholicism was an important part of the colonial strategy in the New World in order to have more perceived control over the indigenous groups they encountered there. In New Mexico, conversion of the Puebloan peoples became the main reason for remaining in the territory after little to no material wealth was found. Much of this conversion was forced, and the question remains as to exactly how many Puebloans converted and how many converted in public while...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Silas Hurry. Donald L. Winter.

Since Historic St. Mary’s City began its investigations at the Leonard Calvert site in 1980, a remarkable suite of material culture has emerged from this premier colonial site. This presentation looks back over some of the artifacts recovered and provides some context for a number of the more remarkable objects. Ceramics, tobacco pipes, small finds, and glassware are all represented.  Ceramics include Dutch tin glazed earthenware, Rhenish stoneware, and tiles, while glass includes façon de...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Liza Gijanto.

Banjul was founded in 1816 as part of the British efforts to block the slave trade on the Gambia River. A planned urban center, the city developed around a series of neighborhoods designated as colonial, merchant, and African laborer spaces. Amongst the most prominent settlers were the Aku (Liberated Africans) from Sierra Leone and French traders from Goree who were instrumental in the growth of the colonial economy. The Banjul Heritage Project seeks to highlight contributions of the different...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Diana Loren.

Wellness and spirituality are rooted in the body. Bodies and material culture are intertwined through practices of healing; ways to navigate bodily and spiritual health in daily life. In colonial Lower Mississippi Valley, European-introduced diseases and new forms of material culture greatly impacted Native American communities and their practices of healing. Some of these stories are familiar to us: the changes brought about by access to new materials, new tools, and new kinds of clothing. Yet,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Judith A Bense.

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. The Spanish and French were uninvited and unwelcome by Florida’s indigenous groups and they were rival European countries. As a result, fortifications were essential to protect the invasions. The size and configuration of Spanish and French colonial forts in La Florida varied through time and space depending...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David J. Breitkreutz.

The colonial settlement of Hanna’s Town is a vital connection to Pennsylvania’s frontier history. The significance of the Hanna’s Town site to regional heritage is represented by the effort expended by the Westmoreland County Historical Society on archaeological and geophysical projects that have taken place at the site since 1969. However, after numerous investigations, questions remain about layout of the Hanna’s Town settlement. This proposal suggests a model for the investigation and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David J. Breitkreutz.

The colonial settlement of Hanna’s Town is a vital connection to Pennsylvania’s frontier history. The significance of the Hanna’s Town site to regional heritage is represented by the effort expended by the Westmoreland County Historical Society on archaeological and geophysical projects that have taken place at the site since 1969. However, after numerous investigations, not much is known about layout of the Hanna’s Town settlement. This paper will potentially demonstrate that specialized...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Raymond Mauldin. Cynthia M Munoz.

San Juan Capistrano was one of several missions established in Texas in the early 1700s.   Stable isotopic data from burials at this Mission suggests that mission populations consumed a C4/CAM diet with enriched nitrogen. While some of these isotopic results are consistent with historic accounts of Mission diet, the dependence on C4 based animals with high nitrogen values led to suggestions that isotopic values reflected a pre-mission signature, possibly from the Texas Coast (Cargill 1996). We...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Bedell.

Between 1999 and 2011 the Louis Berger Group carried out a series of archaeological investigations in the Potomac Valley for the National Capital Region of the NPS. These investigations were planned by Dr. Potter as a connected series of studies, working westward up the river. The work included four years in the Prince William Forest Park, followed by four years in Rock Creek Park and then three years for each of three sections of the C&O Canal National Historic Park, culminating at Oldtown,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Travis G. Parno. Henry M. Miller. Jessica Edwards.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeological Imaginaries, Regional Realities: 50 Years of Work in the Chesapeake", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Over the past three years, archaeologists at Historic St. Mary’s City have revealed the footprint of a large, timber-framed building—dubbed Structure 101—located within the palisaded walls of St. Mary’s Fort (ca. 1634). Comprised of more than 70 posts and featuring a large cellar on its north...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marco G Meniketti.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Enslaved and free black mariners were an integral component of the Atlantic economy from early in the colonial project. Historians in recent years have artfully demonstrated the presence and significance of black mariners, particularly in the Caribbean. Archaeology has been less adept. Success of colonies was as dependent on black...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary J Galindo. Antonia Figueroa.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Gender in Historical Archaeology (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Six Nuevo Santander settlements were established along the Rio Grande in Texas and Tamaulipas. Laredo and Dolores were on the northern bank, while Revilla, Mier, Camargo, and Reynosa lined the river’s southern bank. Each municipality’s territory included 1767 land grants to settlers that straddled the Rio Grande. These...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeremy Borrelli. Stephen Atkinson. Jason T. Raupp.

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 remains of La Fortuna, a Spanish privateer that sank in 1748 off the 18th century port at Brunswick Town, North Carolina, represents just one of the potential submerged cultural resources associated with the famous archaeological site. Due to Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson Historic Site’s proximity along the Cape Fear River to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna Hayden. Thane H. Harpole.

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. Large-scale archaeological excavations on the campus of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science from 2016-2017 revealed hundreds of cultural features, excavation of which shed light on the long span of historical occupation at Gloucester Point. In-depth analysis of the spatial, temporal,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashley McCuistion.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Established in 1760 with support from a London-based philanthropy called The Associates of Dr. Bray, the Williamsburg Bray School was one of the earliest institutions dedicated to the education of free and enslaved African American children in America. The school’s curriculum was designed to teach students Anglican catechism and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan B Veness.

The Old Colchester Park and Preserve, located in southern Fairfax County, Virginia consists of approximately 145 acres along the Occoquan River.  This natural and cultural resource Park was acquired by Fairfax County Park Authority in 2006.  Located within the Park along the Occoquan River was the ca. 1754-1830 tobacco port town of Colchester.  Systematic and targeted testing over the past four years by Colchester Archaeology Research Team (CART) has yielded numerous artifacts and features. ...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Travis G Parno.

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. Guido Pezzarossi (2018) has described colonial forts as “possessive,” in the sense that they were designed and implanted to stake claim to territory and control the movements of people into and around them. Yet for all their projected power, early colonial forts were perched precariously within lands rich...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dan W Gamble.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Opening the Vault: What Collections Can Say About Jamestown’s Global Trade Network", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Many unique and one of a kind artifacts have been recovered over 20 years of excavation at the site of James Fort. Each artifact tells a story about the people and the lives that were led at the site. One artifact that stands out both for its function and the questions it raises is book...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jay Taylor.

The purpose of this poster is to discuss the analysis of tools found at Hanna’s Town, and to determine the nature of the various tasks performed by its residents, as well as the town’s economic conditions. This study aims to answer the following research questions: (1.) What kinds of tools are present at Hanna’s Town and what tasks are they associated with? (2.) Does the spatial arrangement of these artifacts reveal any information about where these tasks took place? (3.) Are there any...