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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The north-western region of Pakistan was a late addition to British India when it was annexed by the British after the Second Sikh War (1848-9). Standing between Imperial Russia and British India the region was of primary importance to the British as an area of strategic control. As part of a new project exploring the archaeology...
British Period Archaeology and Heritage in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan: buildings from the borders of British India. (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In this paper, we will present key results from fieldwork for the first project to record and explore the British Period in the modern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in what is now Pakistan. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (located in the north west of modern Pakistan), remained outside formal British control until the second half of the 19th...
Correcting History: 18th Century Elliot Plantation, African -Built Landscapes, Volunteers and Partners in the National Park Service (2016)
The National Park Service plays a vital role in educating the public about stewardship and preservation of archeological resources, and vice versa. In 2008, a group of volunteers engaged the NPS to re-evaluate an historic site located in Canaveral National Seashore and Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. Working with volunteers, we determined that the site is actually Elliot Plantation—a previously undocumented, but the largest and southernmost 18th century British Period sugar plantation...