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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 completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869 marked a transition point for the transport of goods away from steamship via San Francisco and towards direct links with New York and Boston. The Enterprise Hotel site, dating from the late-1860s to early-1880s, and located along...
Making the Most of Field Schools: Education, Training, and Experiential Learning in Historical Archaeology (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Reflections, Practice, and Ethics in Historical Archaeology" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the spirit of this year’s conference theme, this paper reflects on the long-standing tradition of field schools. How are historical archaeology field schools similar to-- and how are they different from-- other type of archaeological field schools? Drawing from cumulative quantitative and qualitative data collected by the...