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DOCUMENT Citation Only April M. Beisaw.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology, Activism, and Protest", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Micah White, one of the organizers of the 2011-2012 Occupy Movement, and its associated protests, emerged from Occupy so disillusioned that he published a book titled The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution. In it, White argues that activists tend to overestimate the effects of protest in the short term and underestimate them in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick Rivera.

In an era of globalization and mass production, archaeological objects and images are not immune to being transformed into commodities and sold for profit. This (re)production of the past can profoundly influence the ways that consumers understand the history of particular times and places—often erasing the experiences of marginality and resilience that archaeologists work so hard to recover. This paper examines two distinct cases in which historical images (and periods) are being transformed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachael R M Kiddey.

Archaeological analysis of successive ‘home’ spaces created by homeless people enables the documentation of increased privatisation and surveillance within the cities of Bristol and York and reveals the divisive effect they have on social interactions. Using maps, photographs and oral testimonies from homeless people, this paper examines how ‘home’ spaces are grilled off and monitored and asks what this means for the future of ‘public’ spaces. Through subtle negotiations with gatekeepers and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alissa Jordan.

Kneeling on bare earth, the Priestess takes a handful of store-bought confections from their glinting metallic bag and tosses them into a living cache. Candles and carved stones protrude at the sides of this hole, marking intrusions made and remade so many times they have now been lost to memory (even as their matter persists). Following Victor Buchli and Gavin Lucas’ call to study contemporary material culture archaeologically, this paper uses and presents ethnographic data collected...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew S. Higgs.

As 20th and 21st century artifacts, metal drum containers straddle historical and contemporary archaeological studies that will be conducted during the next 50 years. They are found across the globe as repurposed objects within site features, as components of expedient structures, as well as vernacular landscape artifacts. Although often simply described in CRM reports as "ubiquitous 55 gallon drums," archival research and field data demonstrate that not all drums are created equal in function,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carolyn White.

House and household have been the primary focus of the archaeological study of Burning Man. Domestic space in Black Rock City, the location of the Burning Man festival in northwestern Nevada, takes many different forms. In this paper, the configurations of house, household, and the components of domestic space are investigated. Even in an experimental municipality, where the fantastic and inventive are elemental, the household is the basic building block of the city. As such it is not only a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Rooney.

Homelessness is one of the most pressing social and political issues of our time. At least 570,000 people in the United States currently experience homelessness, and at least 175,000 of these live in unsheltered locations, which implies both exposure to weather and inadequate access to drinking water and sanitation resources. Most rehabilitation programs focus on returning such individuals to "normal" productive society, but research shows that many have abandoned wage labor and are instead...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Krysta Ryzewski. Rebecca S. Graff. Jan Tichy. John Cardinal. Casey Carter. Julia DiLaura. Brianna LeBlanc. Anastasia Woody.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology/Architecture", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This presentation reflects upon the scope and outcomes of a collaborative archaeological and creative project at the site of the Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead in the backlot of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD). In 2021 and 2022 research involving archaeologists based in Detroit and Chicago, artist Jan Tichy, and the MoCAD’s Teen Council...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jo Rees Howell.

The migration of people is no new phenomenon. It is, however, relatively recent that state and bureaucratic obstacles and controls have developed restrictions on the flow of migrants. State authorised immigration from former colonies and European Union member states is well documented. However, ‘illegal’ immigration, primarily that of those entering the country seeking asylum under the United Nations 1951 Refugee Convention, and the role and position of those immigrants in society, remains...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Chenoweth.

The concepts of "nature" and "culture" have been carefully critiqued by anthropologists over the last few decades, but they still remain in the forefront of the public debate over the environment and how best to preserve it.  The question of how modern people see the natural and cultural realms is at the heart of this issue.  This project explores the line between these ideas by analyzing the behavior of one segment of the modern public: visitors to Yosemite National Park.  Employing the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maureen J Brown. Charles A Harrison.

Cultural heritage has been presented to the public in a variety of traditional and engaging formats from heritage and archaeological fairs, museum exhibits, movies, plays, school curriculum, conferences, merit badge programs, books, etc.,--- and through artwork. With the preparations and events leading up to San Antonio’s big 300th celebration of the founding in 2018, the recent designation of our five San Antonio Missions as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the archaeology-artist team present an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric L. Larsen.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology, Activism, and Protest", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Germanna, as a set of sites in Orange County, Virginia, has seen archaeology since the late 1960s. The goals have changed over time. Interest in the site of Alexander Spotswood’s 1720 home (which came to be known as “the Enchanted Caste”) prompted initial archaeological research. Over the course of 50 years, approaches to the site have...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca S Graff.

From abandoned council flats to the World Trade Center site, scholars are attempting to understand the material remains of the very recent past by using the methodology of archaeological "excavation." These archaeologies of the contemporary past make familiar items unfamiliar as they explore material residues of late capitalist, post-industrial societies and beyond, participating in what Holtorf calls the merging of "archaeology in the modern world with the archaeology of the modern world." The...