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DOCUMENT Citation Only Sam M. Cuellar.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Disease has long played a powerful role in the shaping of communities, spurring moments of unity for the common health or bringing devastation, sowing deep distrust amongst families, groups of different religious and ethnic backgrounds, and neighboring communities. Before the rise of air travel, coastal port cities often...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leigh Koszarsky.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology at an Atlantic Crossroads: Bermuda’s Smith’s Island Archaeology Project (SIAP), 2010-2024", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the 19th century, the Smallpox Bay site was utilized as a location to separate healthy soldiers of the British Regiment from those infected by an outbreak of yellow fever. An analysis of the material culture left behind by these soldiers and their family members sheds...