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DOCUMENT Citation Only Tatiana Niculescu.

This is an abstract from the "POSTER Session 2: Linking Historic Documents and Background Research in Archaeology" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Like many other port cities of the time, Alexandria, Virginia’s waterfront changed drastically over the course of the 18th and 19th centuries. Recent excavations at the Robinson Landing site, along with previous work along the waterfront provide valuable data on how early Alexandrians created land to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chelsea M. Cohen.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Port of Call: Archaeologies of Labor and Movement through Ports", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. While sailing and dock work are both tractable through archaeological and archival records, the process of building out docks and wharves remains obscured. The moderation of meeting between land and water was formative in urban port placemaking, directly impacting the size of ships and quantities of storage a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sam M. Cuellar.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Disease has long played a powerful role in the shaping of communities, spurring moments of unity for the common health or bringing devastation, sowing deep distrust amongst families, groups of different religious and ethnic backgrounds, and neighboring communities. Before the rise of air travel, coastal port cities often...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Danny Zborover.

In April of 1522, Pedro de Alvarado conquered and claimed the Port of Huatulco in the name of the Spanish King Carlos V. Among the best natural harbors on the Pacific Ocean, Huatulco soon became the main port-of-trade for the Hapsburgian Empire between New Spain, Central America, and Peru up until the late 16th century. But this conquest was only one of many-- and one of the last-- of such dramatic cycles of domination and colonialization in southern Mexico. Drawing from Indigenous documents...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samuel M Cuellar.

The port of Indianola once served as the Gulf Coast's western terminus, providing the shortest overland routes to the Pacific Coast and access to countless European and American immigrants settling west Texas. By 1871, Indianola was second only to Galveston in the size and traffic of its port. Success was short lived, however. Two successive hurricanes in 1875 and 1886 destroyed the city, causing its widescale distruction and abandonment.  Despite a rich, important history, Indianola has not...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anthony Andrews. Fernando Robles.

Archaeological and historical research along the northwest coast of the Yucatán peninsula during the last half century have led to a preliminary reconstruction of a 200 km-long navigable intracoastal waterway between the Celestun estuary and Dzilám de Bravo during the Classic period. Along this waterway are remains of settlements, ports, and port complexes that supported an extensive trade network that connected northern Yucatan to more distant trade networks to the south, via the coast of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Moriarty. Ellen Moriarty.

Although the largest Classic Maya political capitals are frequently assumed to have served as the critical nodes in long-distance trade networks, empirical data from decades of research suggest that ancient Maya trade was more nuanced in its organization. This paper presents a view on Maya trade from the perspective of Trinidad de Nosotros, a port on Guatemala's Lake Petén Itzá. Trinidad's position, astride overland trade routes and intermediate between these routes and a major political...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jean-Sébastien Guibert. Christopher K. Waters. Hélène Botcazou. Chuck Meide. Marijo Gauthier-Berubé.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper aims to present preliminary results of the first year of the project dealing with three naval shipwrecks sites in West Indies. In English Harbour (Antigua) the remains of a wreck possibly identified as the Lyon (ex Beaumont) are evaluated. The first archaeological assessment indicates the presence of a large wooden hull...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William T. Nassif.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Landscapes Above and Below in Southern Contexts (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The purpose of this paper is to gather historical and archaeological data to illuminate potential relationships between economic trends in the construction of wharf structures and enhance our understanding of the multitude of factors that drive the growth and decline of port communities. To do this, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah A. Grady. Esther D. Read.

During the eighteenth century, Port Tobacco was a bustling port town located along the Port Tobacco River in Charles County, Maryland. Today it is a small village with few surviving structures and no commercial establishments. Between 2008 and 2011, systematic archaeological survey of the town defined the locations of many of the town’s early buildings. We recently began a new phase of research within the remains of a print shop. Our current excavation builds on earlier work and allows us to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samuel M Cuellar.

Indianola, Texas was the commercial gem of the western Gulf of Mexico during the height of its existence, from the late 1850s until its abandonment in 1887. Responsible for much of the commerce entering western Texas and the western territories via the Gulf of Mexico, Indianola has been largely overlooked archaeologically, despite a high potential for the presence of a significant amount of cultural materials.  A team of archaeologists from Texas A&M University, the Institute of Nautical...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven J Filoromo. Elliot H Blair.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Port of Call: Archaeologies of Labor and Movement through Ports", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the late 19th Century, communities around Sapelo Sound in coastal Georgia, USA, reconfigured the social and physical landscapes to participate in the international timber economy. During this period, those living at the North End Site (9MC81) on Creighton Island, GA, reconfigured the former plantation into...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelsey Rooney.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Port of Call: Archaeologies of Labor and Movement through Ports", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This presentation compares West African ports and their attendant infrastructure. As Atlantic trade intensified along the West African shore during the 17th and 18th centuries, Europeans relied heavily on local Africans for their seafaring knowledge and for their help in ferrying cargo and captives between ship...