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DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca Albert. Caitlin Clark. Susan Kooiman. William Lovis.

There is no recorded maize (Zea mays ssp. mays) at Laurel or North Bay Initial/Middle Woodland sites in the northern Lake Michigan-Huron or Superior basins of the western Great Lakes, despite the presence of maize microbotanicals in Michigan, New York, and Quebec as early as 400 BC. To evaluate the potential for an early maize presence in this region, samples of carbonized food residues adhering to sixteen ceramic vessels from the Laurel/North Bay Winter site (20DE17) were processed and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren M Christian. Victoria L Kiefer.

Often overlooked in the story of the westward settlement of America, transportation of passengers and cargo through the Great Lakes and northern river systems accounted for a substantial volume of migrant travel. From the mid-1800s through the 1930s, passenger steamers on the Great Lakes were designed to combine luxury and speed. The Goodrich Transit Company, for example, was one of the longest operating (1856-1933) and most successful passenger steamship lines on the Great Lakes. Passage on the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julia M. Herbst.

This is an abstract from the "Shipwrecks and the Public: Getting People Engaged with their Maritime History" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2015, the remains of an early 19th-century schooner were discovered below Bathurst Street and Fort York Boulevard in downtown Toronto, during the construction of the CityPlace neighborhood. The wreck, located alongside the remains of the Queen’s Wharf, was excavated and relocated to Fort York National...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alicia Hawkins. Suzanne Needs-Howarth.

Research by us and others has demonstrated that the taxonomic identification of fish bones from archaeological sites varies between analysts. While rarely acknowledged, this variation may be significant enough to result in different interpretations of site function and seasonality. The level of specificity of identifications and the elements considered identifiable are two important sources of variation. Other factors include the nature of the reference collection used and the experience of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel McTavish. Lucienne Van de Pas. Amy Klemmer.

The manifestation of different cultural history trajectories of Late Prehistoric Oneota groups from eastern and western Wisconsin can be seen in multiple material classes, including faunal remains. Despite the generally similar use of shell as a ceramic tempering agent and generic vessel shapes, Wisconsin Oneota groups vary among localities in settlement and subsistence practices. The relationship among Oneota groups and wild rice, maize, aquatic and upland game, as well as the choice of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashley Lemke. John O'Shea.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Exploration-Forward Archaeology Through Community-Driven Research", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration has supported diverse research projects including underwater archaeology in the Great Lakes within the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary (TBNMS). The Great Lakes have long been known to preserve historical shipwrecks in their cold, fresh, waters but OE research in Lake...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah L. Surface-Evans.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Research, Interpretation, and Engagement in Post-Contact Archaeology of the Great Lakes Region" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeological inquiry into health is typically centered on ableism, which views healthiness and non-(dis)abled as the norm. To see beyond these normative perspectives, I propose a view of (dis)ease and (dis)ability as “wellbeing”. Wellbeing should be conceived as a complex...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ronald Williamson. Martin Cooper.

Lacrosse, Canada’s national sport, originated with the pre-contact racket and ball games of the Iroquoian and Anishinaabeg peoples of northeastern North America. Like many traditional Indigenous games, racket and snow snake events represented much more than sport, involving aspects of physical prowess, warfare, prestige, gambling, dreaming, curing, mourning and shamanism. Gambling, in particular, was an important cultural activity that according to seventeenth century accounts, resulted in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Casey Campetti.

Isle Royale, located in northern Lake Superior, is a freshwater archipelago and home to Isle Royale National Park (ISRO). Though the antiquity of Isle Royale’s prehistory is well-established, identification and excavation of sites has historically been difficult due to the remoteness of the island and its rough terrain. Over the past several years, these efforts have been greatly enhanced by the use of GIS predictive modeling, which has allowed ISRO archaeologists to target surveys and manage...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn Frederick.

The Michigan State University Subterranean Storage Research Experiment (MSU SStoRE) employed experimental archaeology to better understand the storage efficiency, capacity, and reliability of hunter-gatherer food storage pits. Drawing on archaeological, ethnographic, and ethnohistoric information the project accurately recreated below ground storage pits for the late Late Woodland period (A.D. 1000-1600) of northern lower Michigan. Over three consecutive yearly cycles, subterranean storage...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Philip A Hartmeyer.

Beginning 7,000 years ago, humans have engaged Lake Superior’s Southern Shore in different ways. Entrepreneurs, voyagers, immigrants, and society’s periphery have relished, and shattered, in Superior’s raw, unforgiving climate. The region has been a hotbed for cyclical social and economic change as different ethnic and demographic groups clashed in the ice and snow. This paper presents a unique piece of Lake Superior’s landscape, the Keweenaw Peninsula, as an "island of industry in a sea of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Ioset.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Current Research at Texas A&M University's Conservation Research Laboratory" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2019, the Last Schooner Project surveyed the two-masted schooner Katie Eccles in eastern Lake Ontario, producing a 1:1 scale-constrained photo model of the site with an aim of reconstructing the lines of the hull. This paper will discuss the methodology used in reconstructing the hull form of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan McCullen.

The Western Wendat were refugees that fled their homeland villages in Ontario in 1649, and resettled in the western Great Lakes. This paper examines the lithic resources from their village at the Straits of Mackinac, inhabited from 1670-1701. Lithics can be indicative of multiple aspects of the resettlement process – particularly knowledge of local resources and strength of social networks. Results show that formal tools, excluding gunflints, tend to be made from cherts from the lower peninsula...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven Dorland.

Pottery vessels that are produced by younger community members are highly effective avenues for addressing learning structures and social interactions of Great Lakes potting groups. Yet, learner actions are often isolated by archaeologists from the actions of experienced potters in the belief that variation is random and does not follow similar stylistic and manufacturing practices. Furthermore, traditional belief portrays pottery learning as passive transmission of knowledge, an interpretation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Martha M Mihich.

During the 19th century, passenger freight propeller vessels were used to transport goods and people to the newly opened Great Lakes region. This migration was fueled and supported by many factors, which have all been well discussed, yet the impacts of these factors on the vessels themselves have not received as much attention. While improvements in technology and steel surely affected how these vessels were built, canals, insurance requirements, and consumer needs would have also impacted these...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Demel. Marla Buckmaster. Terrance Martin. James Paquette. Kathryn Parker.

The discovery of several early iconographic/Jesuit rings in 1996 in Marquette County, Michigan led to the subsequent discovery of a proto-historic locus within a larger multi-component site. Professional archaeologists and volunteers spent two summers excavating 34 square meters near this discovery, and eventually identified the area as Location A at the Goose Lake Outlet #3 site. The excavated area is a single component occupation located in an ecologically diverse region that has been used...

DOCUMENT Citation Only T. Kurt Knoerl.

This is an abstract from the "Submerged Cultural Resources and the Maritime Heritage of the Great Lakes" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For the Ojibwa First Nations in the Lake Superior region water was not only a source of life, but it permeated their cosmology, their music, their daily routines, and their very identity as well. This paper reports on research conducted in 2018 that took advantage of interviews, artwork, material culture, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kira E. Kaufmann.

Great Lakes barge and dredge vessels were the workhorses that launched the 20th century’s economy in the region. However, these ships were historically and archaeologically marginalized. They were not the vessels whose travels were recorded in historic newspapers, or whose architectural plans were archived. Very little information about 19th century barge and dredge ship construction had been recorded for Great Lakes vessels. Eleven shipwrecks, including barges, dredges, tugs, and a schooner...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Mather.

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 Grand Marais community in northeastern Minnesota (USA) is centered on a natural harbor in the rocky shore of Lake Superior. This paper describes a current effort to evaluate the harbor as a maritime cultural landscape and historic district for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, with elements including...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tori L. Galloway. Samuel I. Haskell. Charles D. Beeker.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Spanning less than 50 miles of Lake Michigan coastline, the State of Indiana has the smallest territorial waters of any Great Lakes states with only 225 square miles of bottomland. Indiana’s small coastline represents a wealth of maritime heritage and culture that has shaped the history of Northern Indiana and one of the most...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephanie Gandulla.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Citizen Science in Maritime Archaeology: The Power of Public Engagement for Heritage Monitoring and Protection" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Charged with protecting nearly 100 shipwrecks that lie in the cold, fresh waters of Lake Huron, Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary embraces an open philosophy in engaging diverse user groups to assist in the documentation of maritime heritage resources. Whether...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Jeske.

The distribution of Oneota sites in Wisconsin has long been recognized as clustered within distinct areas referred to as Localities. At least seven localities are now generally accepted by Oneota researchers in Wisconsin; several others appear to exist in northern Illinois. However, recent research at the Lake Koshkonong locality shows that it stands as a distinctive outlier among all of the other localities. It is unique in terms of landscape patterns, subsistence strategies, distance from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Philip A. Hartmeyer.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The middle-late nineteenth century witnessed substantial changes in the Great Lakes maritime landscape. Vertical integration of raw material industries, the birth of steel cities, corporate fleets, and revolutionary shipbuilding and canal technology granted shippers previously-unfathomable commercial opportunity. Sisterships GRECIAN and NORMAN were launched at the leading edge of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin Zant.

Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the Great Lakes were at the center of rapid technological advancements in shipping and shipbuilding. The diverse demands for trade and unique geographic characteristics of the region created the necessity for highly specialized vessels and technologies. While the development of steam propulsion and use of metal hulls aided this progress, advancements in unloading systems helped propel shipping into the twentieth century.  The emergence...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kira E. Kaufmann.

In 2015, the Indiana Lake Michigan Coastal Management Program expanded efforts to connect the public with historical archaeology and better manage submerged cultural resources. For the first time in the Great Lakes region, a mobile sonar survey was conducted in combination with a diver-directed sonar survey to collect three-dimensional data for four shipwrecks. The resulting compilation of remote sensing technology and 3D animated web modeling provides new information about previously...