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DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Pruitt.

In the history and archaeology of early Chesapeake gardens, there is an absence of the ladies. This paper seeks to reframe the discussion of "scientific gardening" to address the ways that assumptions about gender in the present can skew the presence of women in the past. It was not uncommon for the ladies of the house to be in control of the greenhouse and kitchen gardens of plantations. Despite this commonly female involvement in the cultivation and experimentation of plants, scientific...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Russell Richard.

Testing and data recovery excavations were conducted at Oven Town (48FR5928) in northeastern Fremont County, Wyoming. Two components (Components I and II) were identified at Oven Town. Component I consisted of five basins and localized stains in two excavation blocks and one isolated unit and eight features on the disturbed surface. Component I dates to the Middle Archaic Period based on 13 radiocarbon age estimates ranging from 4,330 ± 60 to 3,680 ± 40 years before present. Component II...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katrina C. L. Eichner. Ericha Sappington.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "What We Make of the West: Historical Archaeologists Versus Frontier Mythologies", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Drawing on feminist interventions into Western histories, this paper reconsiders the important of laundresses at frontier fort installations. Too often coded as camp-followers and prostitutes, military laundresses were ration-drawing employees of the Army present at all frontier forts through the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erin S. Schwartz.

Often unacknowledged in archival documents and recent historical research, enslaved women’s diverse roles in industrial contexts shaped antebellum Virginia’s infrastructure, economy, and culture. This paper on the Buffalo Forge iron plantation in Rockbridge County, Virginia, uses archaeological, documentary, and architectural research to illuminate enslaved women as active agents within the plantation’s complex built environment. Archaeological examination of yards around two extant quarters in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Wendy E. Harris. Arnold Pickman.

Diana Wall has inspired our interest in archaeological and historical aspects of African-Americans and women in eighteenth and nineteenth-century America. Using various primary sources we have been exploring the experiences of enslaved men, women and children in Ulster County, New York, informed in part by accounts of the life of one of the most famous women in American history, Sojourner Truth, a renowned abolitionist, feminist and orator, who was born and raised a slave here in the 1790s....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Renae J. Campbell.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "In the Sticks but Not in the Weeds: Diversity, Remembrance, and the Forging of the Rural American West", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Southern Idaho’s Boise Basin was the site of a late-nineteenth-century mineral rush that attracted gold seekers from around the globe to the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. For more than fifty years, this pluralistic population took up residence in small towns...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shankari Patel.

This paper queries models of Mesoamerican fertility that define women’s social roles in terms of dependency, and interrogates narratives that link gender relations to nature where they are beyond critique. The problem with the category women is that it is often thought of as an ahistorical and eternal facet of biology hidden within an implicit model of human nature. Biology becomes a metaphor for social relations and wifehood or motherhood is then characterized as a relation of dependency...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jan Pérez.

Women are one of the many groups which had been traditionally excluded from social science studies. Because of this, when retelling historical events many of them have become invisible and/or silenced even though they played an important role in society. My investigation concentrates on women living in San Juan, Puerto Rico as reported in the 1910 census, in two distinct areas: urban blocks from within, and outside the walled city. Through primary documents, this research will present...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melissa Darby.

This is an abstract from the "Female Firsts: Celebrating Archaeology’s Pioneering Women on the 101st Anniversary of the 19th Amendment " session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1886 Zelia Nuttall began work at the Peabody Museum for Ethnology and Archaeology under the tutelage of Frederic Putnam. Nuttall became a specialist in precolumbian Mesoamerican cultures and conducted archaeological fieldwork in Mexico for the Peabody, where she was “Honorary...