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Shoe-box shaped "flatboats" represented the most common vessel type on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers from 1770-1900. Although tens of thousands of these boats were built during this period, by 1915 a historian lamented that "not one of them remains" . In 2002, however, SIU archaeologists documented the remains of an early 1800s flatboat wreck found resting on the Illinois shoreline near the abandoned town of "America". Subsequent documentation of the 45 ft long x 12 ft wide wreck provided...
Changing Foodways in Pre-Columbian Illinois (2015)
Pre-Columbian Native Americans of Illinois have had a long history of plant production from foraging to cultivation via horticulture to domestication via agriculture. Isotopic analysis has been used as a standard for comparing diet from different sites and isotopic ratios are given as parts-per-mil (‰), and reflect the consumption of types of food. Carbon isotopes (δ13C) can indicate the types of plants eaten and nitrogen isotopes (δ15N) indicate the trophic level of protein sources in the diet....
Hoxie Farm: Bioarchaeology of a Late Prehistoric Community in Northeastern Illinois (2018)
The Upper Mississippian (A.D. 1400-1500) Hoxie Farm site is one of the best documented late prehistoric sites in Cook County, Illinois. In 1953, Elaine Bluhm and David Wenner from the Field Museum of Natural History organized a volunteer crew of professional and avocational archaeologists to salvage portions of the site in advance of construction of the first interstate highway (I-80) in Illinois. In 2000-2003, the Illinois State Archaeological Survey (ISAS) conducted additional excavations at...
Middle Nineteenth Century Portugues Immigrants in Springfield, Illinois: The Archaeological Investigations (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper builds on the historic context and project history presented in the earlier paper by Christopher Stratton, and describes the results of the archaeological mitigation conducted on four city lots occupied by Portuguese immigrants in Springfield (Illinois) beginning in the 1850s and continuing through the early years of the...
Middle Nineteenth Century Portuguese Immigrants in Springfield, Illinois: Context and Project History (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The first Portuguese arrived in Springfield (Illinois), from the Madeira Islands, in 1849, and by 1855 some 350 Portuguese were living in the city. They were exiles, who had been driven out of Madeira due to their conversion to Presbyterianism. Springfield’s Portuguese enclave was one of the first to be established in the Midwest...
You Can't Keep a Workin' Man Down: Black Masculinity, Labor, and the Frontier (2016)
Historical archaeologists have long examined changing structures of labor in the context of modern global capitalism. This paper will focus on rural sites in the Midwest, challenging normative notions of labor structures. I will examine how, in the face of changing labor economies, Black men on the frontier deployed specific types of skilled labor to create social networks, familial bonds, and to subvert economic inequalities. I will examine shifts from agrarian economies to wage economies,...