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DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebekah L. Planto.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology/Architecture", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In North America, recent-historical archaeology and architectural history tend to occupy separate spheres compared to, for instance, buildings archaeology in the UK. Partial exceptions include places like the Chesapeake, where the two disciplines have shared roots at institutions like Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown, and St. Mary’s City. But at more...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebekah L. Planto.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Before, After, and In Between: Archaeological Approaches to Places (through/in) Time" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Bacon’s Castle in Surry County, Virginia, is rife with paradoxes. Home to over three centuries of plantation households, it owes its popular name to a man who never set foot there. Despite surviving as the “oldest brick dwelling” in English North America, lack of scholarship has rendered it...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebekah L Planto.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Documenting the Built Environment (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Concealed building deposits and related apotropaic practices like “witch bottles” have received increasing attention in recent years from both archaeologists (e.g. Manning, et al 2014) and the public (Jamison 2020). Research in North American contexts has broadened understandings of such finds, challenging clear-cut...