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DOCUMENT Citation Only Charlotte Jones.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond Meat: Animal-Human Relations in New Orleans and Louisiana", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Postbellum New Orleans witnessed significant economic and infrastructural growth and a flurry of cultural changes in music, recreation, and festivities. The one steadfast character in all of this was the Mule, a non-human animal derived from human intervention, whose hybrid vigor they became the city’s linchpin...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Platt.

The city of Charleston, South Carolina is situated on a peninsula in a naturally marshy environment threaded with tidal creeks. Since European settlers first began to develop the city in the late seventeenth century, these wet, low-lying areas were drained and filled in to accommodate expansion of the southern metropolis and combat disease. The result is a landscape, both in shape and relief, that has changed dramatically from one generation to the next. Fires, the threat of war, hurricanes, and...