Historical Archaeology; Texas; Landscape; Alsatian Migration; Community Archaeology (Other Keyword)
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Main Street and the Central Square: An Examination of Spatial Decision-Making and the Frontier Narrative in the Alsatian Towns of Texas (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper examines the role of spatial decisions in acts of community place-making and identity construction on the built landscape. In particular, I look at these decisions within the broader context of the making and re-making of frontiers – plural in the sense that a frontier is never simply a boundary or geographic location, but a set of contested and...