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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Life and Death in the San Francisco Bay: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Historic Lifeways", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The purpose of this study is to explore the embodied evidence of structural violence through a bioarchaeological analysis of 16 commingled, fragmented, and pathological human remains. This exploration reveals how mid-nineteenth century San Francisco society marginalized individuals in...
Life, Healthcare, and Death at the St. Croix Leprosy Hospital: Marginalization, Alienation, and Colonial Healthcare (2024)
This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Historical documents suggest the patients of the St. Croix Leprosy Hospital lived a tough life. The first facility was understaffed, overcrowded, in disrepair, and not conducive to healthcare. The second facility, according to US government reports in the 1930s, always suffered from neglect and it was not clear if the patients lived a decent life or a dull existence. Newspaper accounts in...
Medicine and Resilience in a Free Black community in New Jersey (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Marginalization and Resilience in the Northeast", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Located on what was considered “undesirable” land, a community founded by formerly enslaved Africans in the mid-19th century was able to thrive in the last northern state to abolish slavery. This paper will utilize the historical record as well as findings from a recent archeological survey to examine the...
Migrations, colonizations, perisferies, and historical divides. An analysis of the construction and deconstruction of the ¨archaics¨ in Cuba and Hispaniola (2016)
The diversity, complexity, and continuity of ¨archaics ¨ communities is one of the most recurrent themes in contemporary Caribbean archeology. Despite this, the tradition of research on this phenomenon goes back more than 40 years in Cuba and La Española, prompting classifications and models under the dominance of four basic theoretical approaches: colonization, difussion, evolution, and transculturation. This paper examines, discusses and compares the treatment and management of archaeological...