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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Mortuary Monuments and Archaeology: Current Research" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The 19th century is considered a watershed for changing human-animal relationships in North America and Europe. During this time, pets occupied increasingly central roles within households, animal welfare institutions became more widespread and animal breeding practices were standardized. In Victorian Britain, public pet...
The Archaeology of Tourism at George Washington’s Mount Vernon (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Since the time of George Washington’s death in 1799, people from across the globe have visited his home at Mount Vernon in Fairfax County, Virginia to walk the same ground that he trod, and to pay respects to the man many considered to be the American Cincinnatus. From the early 19th to the 21st centuries, visitors to Mount Vernon have left their own indelible mark on the landscape...
An Archeology of Labor in Practice (2015)
Labor studies in the twenty first century are at a crucial turning point. As labor has steadily lost influence in the United States, labor organizations have been increasingly memorializing crucial moments in labor history. These moments are often clashes between labor and capital in which any victory, and sometimes losses, were hard fought. The new National Historic Landmark study of labor archaeology provides guidelines to help us identify significant sites and provide a new way to contribute...
Commemorating 400 Years of Community, 1619-2019: Archaeology and Heritage of Slavery and Hacienda in Nasca, Peru (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Last year, 2019, marked the quadricentenary of the communities of San José and San Pablo of Nasca’s Ingenio Valley, founded as vineyard haciendas by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1619. For nearly a decade, the Haciendas of Nasca Archaeological Project has carried out ethnohistorical and archaeological research in close collaboration with the communities of the former estates in...
Commemoration of Molly Brant: a Canadian and American dichotomy in memorialization of an Indigenous woman (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Monuments and Statues to Women: Arrival of an Historical Reckoning of Memory and Commemoration", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Mohawk matriarch Molly Brant (c. 1736-1796) asserted considerable influence over her people and homeland in the British colony of New York (later part of the United States of America), before and during the American Revolutionary War. She maintained a dignified presence in whatever...
Community Collaboration is Commemoration at the Arboretum Chinese Labor Quarters (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Arming the Resistance: Recent Scholarship in Chinese Diaspora Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Models of community archaeology generally use collaboration as a foundation for a future commemoration. In practice, the process of collaboration is itself an act of commemoration. The Arboretum Chinese Labor Quarters, on Stanford University’s campus, is a site where Chinese employees lived as they...
Egypt in Britain: material vocabularies of bereavement. (2013)
The presence of Egyptianizing designs in nineteenth century cemeteries can be attributed at least in part to the global reach of British politico-economic interest and the appropriation of ancient cultures that this facilitated. However, the presence of these forms within a heterogeneous monumental landscape that also included designs taken from an imagined national past and from Classical architecture encourages us to consider not only how Egyptianizing forms were encountered and developed by...
Examining Cemetery Investigations At The First Presbyterian Church Of Elizabeth And First Reformed Dutch Church of New Brunswick, New Jersey: A Discussion Of Remembrance and Regulation (2016)
Unique circumstances have provided the opportunity to carefully investigate two historic New Jersey cemeteries as archaeological sites: the First Presbyterian Church of Elizabeth (founded in 1668) and the First Dutch Reformed Church of New Brunswick (founded in 1765). In Elizabeth, a grave marker conservation effort involved excavations that yielded insights into the evolving cultural landscape of the property. In New Brunswick, a monitoring program employed during new construction at the...
"It’s not about us": Exploring Race, Community, and Commemoration at the "Angela Site" on Jamestown Island, Virginia. (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Community Archaeology in 2020: Conventional or Revolutionary?" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper explores the complex relationship between making African Diaspora history and culture visible at Historic Jamestowne, a setting that has historically been seen as “white”. The four hundredth anniversary of the forced arrival of Africans in Virginia has created a fraught space to examine African American...
Let us Now Praise Great Men: A Micro-historical and Archaeological Analysis of Three 19th-Century African American Gravestones (2024)
Antebellum grave markers for African Americans are uncommon as most individuals were buried without benefit of formal gravestones. However, some of those which survive are extraordinary. The markers examined here commemorate Caesar Drake, a Revolutionary War soldier; Elisha Gaiter a sailor; and Anthony Clapp, a musician. Individually, they illustrate the lives of three exceptional people; collectively they highlight the grit, resilience, and courage of individuals who, in spite of the structural...
Memorialization, Reconstruction, Erosion, and Sham Battles: Multiple Ways of Remembering the Battle of Fort Mercer, New Jersey (2021)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Revisiting Revolutionary America" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The battle of Fort Mercer, or Red Bank, was fought in October 1777. An important American victory in the Philadelphia Campaign, the site was one of early and continuous monumentation and commemoration. Tourists and visitors came frequently from Philadelphia throughout the nineteenth century. Remnants of the fort’s earthen walls are extant and...
"A New and Useful Burial Crypt:" The American Community Mausoleum (2016)
A community mausoleum is an above ground communal burial structure. The modern community mausoleum can trace its roots back to 1906, when William Hood patented and built his "new and useful burial crypt" in a Ganges, Ohio cemetery. Hood formed the National Mausoleum Company to build additional structures, but also faced competition from competing firms trying to capitalize on the new community mausoleum craze. In a little over five years, more than 100 community mausoleums were built -- by 1915,...
"No (repeat no) funds will be available to Traditions Committee:" A Case Study in Memorialization Logistics (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Monuments, Memory, and Commemoration" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper examines the records of the Fort Monmouth, NJ Memorialization Committee from the 1940s through early 21st century to shine a light on the logistics behind memorialization: who/what gets memorialized, when, where, why, and how. The paper also considers what happens when memorials are abandoned. These thousands of pages provide a...
The Rebecca Nurse Monument and George Jacobs Headstone: Using Landscape Archaeology to Discover a Commemorative Environment (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Monuments and Statues to Women: Arrival of an Historical Reckoning of Memory and Commemoration", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Rebecca Nurse Homestead in Danvers, Massachusetts is home to the first monument commemorating a victim of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. The 1885 memorial to Rebecca Nurse is located in her historic family cemetery and has functioned as a grave marker because she received no...
Remembrance abroad: 16th century graveslabs of German merchants in Shetland and Iceland (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Investigating Cultural Aspects of Historic Mortuary Archaeology: Perspectives from Europe and North America", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the context of Hanseatic trade, many ships and merchants from Bremen and Hamburg sailed to the North Atlantic islands in the 16th century to bring dried fish and other goods back to northern Germany. Some of these merchants met their deaths abroad. This paper...
Revealing Layers of Silenced History: Monuments and Statues of Women (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Monuments and Statues to Women: Arrival of an Historical Reckoning of Memory and Commemoration", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. International examples of statues symbolizing oppression and dominant political power are common in today’s media headlines. Statues and monuments to women are starting to play a significant role in discussions about historical authority, representation, silenced history, and...
Sites of Difficult Memory: The Haciendas of Chimborazo, Ecuador (2015)
From the 17th century until the land reforms of the last fifty years, hacienda agriculture dominated the highland region surrounding Chimborazo, Ecuador. Many of the central building complexes of these operations now stand as ruins on the landscape. Through interviews, historical research, and site survey, I explore the role that these ruins play as silent witnesses to a difficult past for rural indigenous communities today.
Skeletons in the Cabinet: Historical Memory and the Treatment of Human Remains Attributed to the Schenectady Massacre of 1690 (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Memory, Archaeology, And The Social Experience Of Conflict and Battlefields" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As the first historic district in New York State, the Stockade Neighborhood of Schenectady is distinguished by a rich collective memory. Paramount among these historical memories is the Massacre of 1690. The story of the 'massacre' has been venerated through first-hand accounts, ballads,...
Slavery and memory in French Guiana: designing the commemoration of memory at the Loyola cemetery while respecting sensibilities of history (2015)
Our paper reflects on the development of a commemoration concept which takes into account the sensibilities of descendants from the slave trade period in French Guiana. Memory of the trade period is indeed a very sensitive issue among residents of most Caribbean Islands and we use sixteen years of research at one site to present the various questions with which we are confronted in order for the local population to appropriate the spirit of place. The Loyola Habitation was located at 10 km from...
"That These Dead Shall Not Have Died in Vain," The Above-Ground Archaeology of New Jersey’s War Memorials (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Monuments, Memory, and Commemoration" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper examines New Jersey’s war memorials with a focus on understanding how and why some conflicts are commemorated and others are overlooked. Memorials commemorating conflicts from the Revolutionary War to the Gulf Wars are examined. Particular attention is paid to two factors that drive commemoration, periodicity, e.g. celebration...
Whither Seneca Village? (2016)
From its inception in 1997, the Seneca Village Project has been dedicated to the study of this 19th-century African-American community located in today’s Central Park in New York City. We made this long-term commitment because of the important contribution that we think the project can make to the larger narrative of the US experience. Seneca Village belies the conventional wisdom that there were few Africans in the north before the great migration of the 20th century, and that, before...