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DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelton M. Sheridan.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Considering Frontiers Beyond the Romantic: Spaces of Encroachment, Innovation, and Far Reaching Entanglements" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In this paper I argue that the concepts of nostalgia, remembering, forgetting, and collective cultural memory are strategically employed in official historical discourse to perpetuate certain social projects. These practices are carefully cultivated in the state of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meta F. Janowitz.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Artifacts are More Than Enough: Recentering the Artifact in Historical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. A tenet of historic archaeological research is that when ceramic vessels are purchased, they have certain meanings for those who choose to and are able to acquire them. Whether or not we can correctly interpret these meanings is a matter of debate. Do we know enough about the economics of the...