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DOCUMENT Citation Only Ariel L. Butler.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Ethnographic methods can be used to observe and document the ways in which vulnerable populations are being affected by Covid-19. The homeless, elderly, and disabled are particularly susceptible to this highly contagious disease because of dependency of others, lack of resources, and the inability to fully grasp the severity of the disease. How individuals cope, such as going outside or...