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Beyond Publications, Exhibits, and Presentations: Twenty-first-century historical archaeology and the next generation of community engagement at the Nathan Harrison Site in San Diego County, California (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Seth W Mallios.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Nathan Harrison Historical Archaeology Project, a 20-year undertaking that sought to understand and communicate the life and legacies of San Diego County’s first African American homesteader, employs orthogonal thought and archaeological, anthropological, and historical tools of analysis to bring marginalized voices to diverse...

How Wild Was Nathan Harrison’s Old West: Unsolved Murders and Mayhem in late 19th and early 20th Century San Diego County (2020)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jaime Lennox. Seth Mallios.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "On the Centennial of his Passing: San Diego County Pioneer Nathan "Nate" Harrison and the Historical Archaeology of Legend" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Harrison’s time in Southern California was bookended by two of the region’s most famous unsolved murders. In 1868, San Diego County pioneer and former sea captain Joseph Smith was killed at his Palomar Mountain home. In 1907, English storekeeper and...