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This is an abstract from the session entitled "From the Bottom Up: Socioeconomic Archaeology of the French Maritime Empire" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Throughout the 1700s, France and Great Britain warred over command of the sea. Internally, administrators of both countries, inspired by the rationalism of the Enlightenment, pushed shipwrights to design ships scientifically, convinced that this would give their navy an edge in battle. Shipwrights...
Learning Landscapes within an Ancestral Wendat Village (2015)
This paper concerns my proposed doctoral research that focuses on learning environments within Ancestral Wendat potting communities, more specifically, the 15th Century AD Keffer village. My theoretical perspective is grounded in a framework of apprenticeship, and experiential philosophy that emphasizes the experience and interaction of an individual within the material world, interwoven with both social and body memory. My methodological approach consists of micro-variation analysis to identify...
The PHAST Way: The PennDOT Highway Archaeological Survey Team (2016)
Since 2010, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) and the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) have cooperated in the implementation of the PHAST program. PHAST is both a small, in-house transportation archaeology program and a professional development-apprenticeship program. The team is supervised by a PennDOT staff archaeologist and is composed of a graduate student Field Director and student intern field technicians. PHAST is deployed on small to mid-sized highway...
Ritual Apprenticeship? A Case Study from The Eastern Finger Lakes of New York State (2016)
The Early Woodland Period In New York state is a unique time period with many changes from the preceding Late Archaic and Transitional periods. Many of the Western Finger lakes were not only used for their abundant resources, but were integral parts of the landscape used as ceremonial spaces. We know much less about the role of the Eastern Finger Lakes, but the Canadarago Lake I site can shed new light on the role they played. Excavations conducted as part of a Cultural Resource Management...