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DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachael R M Kiddey.

The Homeless Heritage project (2009-2013) was a collaborative public archaeology project that sought to document contemporary homelessness from the perspective of homeless people in two British cities, Bristol and York. This paper draws on case studies from the Homeless Heritage project and expands upon a paper given at SHA 2013 (Leicester) when fieldwork was in its concluding phase. Three years on, this paper reflects upon the theoretical and methodological challenges that were present and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Reilly.

Following Raymond Williams’ critical analysis of the relationship between the English countryside and its urban counterpart in The Country and the City (1973), this paper expands Williams’ analysis to incorporate the entanglements of the colony, specifically the Caribbean post-colony of Barbados, and English urban centers. Despite studies of well-known historical relationships existing in terms of Atlantic world economics, there has been less discussion of the repercussions of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura McAtackney.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Urban Dissonance: Violence, Friction, and Change" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Belfast is a city that has been made and remade through cycles of violence in its 400-year history. This has been through both conscious and unconscious means, from bombings and riots to the forced movement of communities into newly environments. The material memory of conflict is retrievable in various forms in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily L. Haines.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From the early nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century, the settlement that would become the Canadian city of Edmonton, Alberta, was composed primarily of an historical era Indigenous people called the Métis. Despite their history and enduring presence in Edmonton, the Métis are positioned as peripheral in narratives of Edmonton’s development from historical and archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Donald D. Southworth II.

While archaeologist in the western United States survey wide open expanses for federal and state agencies, archaeology in the urban centers themselves are often ignored.  The majority of city centers consist mostly of businesses and business is money.  Archaeology in these districts cost time and money, so archaeology is almost never undertaken unless it is done for an agency that must follow established laws and regulations that include archaeology.  The new United States Courthouse for the...