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DOCUMENT Citation Only James M. Davidson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Beginning in the 1970s and 1980s, earnest attempts were made within African American archaeology to link material objects recovered from North American contexts to African parent cultures. One common symbol recovered archaeologically on a variety of objects was the X or cross motif, sometimes placed within a circle. Originally...