North America: Northeast and Midatlantic (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Martin Gallivan.

This is an abstract from the "Building a Better Chronology for Fifteenth–Eighteenth-Century Eastern North America through Radiocarbon Dating and Collaborative Research Agendas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Constructing a chronology for the Native Chesapeake on the eve of the colonial era presents several challenges. These include a predominant focus on European settlement, fluctuations in the radiocarbon calibration curve, a scarcity of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alysha Lieurance.

This is an abstract from the "Communities of Engagement: Incorporating Deep Time and Slow Science into Community Based Research Projects" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent publications outlining ethical guidelines for the handling of human skeletal remains stress the necessity of obtaining informed consent from donors, lineal descendants, descendant communities, and/or communities of care before conducting research. However, when consent...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Phillip Mendenhall.

This is an abstract from the "Communities of Engagement: Incorporating Deep Time and Slow Science into Community Based Research Projects" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation explores the implementation of the ‘slow science’ method, termed to incorporate meaningful indigenous community involvement into archaeological research. Recent initiatives involving descendant indigenous communities through land acknowledgement and explanatory...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meagan O'Brien.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Various resources are typically consulted to determine soil characteristics prior to and during archaeological excavations, such as USDA’s Web Soil Survey, California Soil Resource Lab’s SoilWeb, and the Munsell Color System. The determination of soil color and texture are often impacted by the education level, work experience, geographic familiarity, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andy D'Agostino.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The McKendry Site is a multi-component pre-contact Indigenous and post-contact Euro-American site located in Chautauqua County, Western New York. Archaeological excavations involving public participation have been carried out since 1989. Throughout the site’s thirty-five excavation seasons, the past eighteen have been directed by students from the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashley McCuistion.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The curriculum of the Williamsburg Bray School is discussed in several correspondences between the school’s trustees and sponsors, and inventories of the textbooks provided to the school offer additional insight into what the students were learning. While these resources clearly indicate the purpose of the school was to indoctrinate Black children into...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Olivia Jones.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Previous bioarchaeological literature has reported that infant and perinatal human remains have been misidentified in the past, either in the field during excavation or during laboratory analysis. The misidentification of these individuals is due to a variety of reasons, including their small size, their fragility often resulting in postmortem...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aadya Khemka.

This is an abstract from the "Communities of Engagement: Incorporating Deep Time and Slow Science into Community Based Research Projects" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This part of the presentation explores the dynamic relationship between the ancient Greek colonial site of Apollonia Pontica, founded in the 7th century BCE on the Black Sea, and the modern town of Sozopol, Bulgaria. Apollonia Pontica was a significant trading and cultural hub in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Rodning.

This is an abstract from the "Building a Better Chronology for Fifteenth–Eighteenth-Century Eastern North America through Radiocarbon Dating and Collaborative Research Agendas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Berry site, located in the upper Catawba River Valley of western North Carolina, is the location of the principal town of the Native American province and polity of Joara, and the location of the mid-sixteenth-century Spanish outpost of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sydney Dufresne.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House is the one of the oldest surviving homes in Newport, Rhode Island. Built for Stephen Mumford in 1697 the property encapsulates the colonial era of New England and provides insight into its changing communities highlighting the lives of marginalized groups. In 1998, an excavation of the backyard of the property was conducted...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sascha Menn.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For any faunal osteologist MNI is key to help identify the context of burials, mass graves, archaeological sites, food processing, etc. There is great difficulty in identifying the MNI with unidentifiable bone fragments. Here we present a study of prehistoric Odocoileus virginianus (white-tailed deer) bones from SUNY Plattsburgh archaeological field...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Birch.

This is an abstract from the "Building a Better Chronology for Fifteenth–Eighteenth-Century Eastern North America through Radiocarbon Dating and Collaborative Research Agendas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Between Cartier journeying down the St. Lawrence Valley in 1535 and Champlain travelling the same route in 1604, the Iroquoian populations inhabiting those shores relocated elsewhere. The apparent disappearance of the St. Lawrence Iroquoians...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Reed.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Woodruff Cave, located near Lake Waramaug in New Preston, Connecticut, is a multi-component Native American site that exhibits exceptional preservation of faunal remains. Researchers with the Institute for American Indian Studies (IAIS) have been reanalyzing this collection since 2021 to shed new light on the assemblage and reassess previous...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michelle Pigott.

This is an abstract from the "Building a Better Chronology for Fifteenth–Eighteenth-Century Eastern North America through Radiocarbon Dating and Collaborative Research Agendas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent implementations of Bayesian chronological modeling of Indigenous North American archaeological sites have demonstrated the feasibility of this approach when encountering calibration plateaus and reversals, such as the series which...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Haley Borowy.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Multiple archaeological and historic sites on properties part of Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary, Maryland are threatened by sea level rise and coastal erosion. Located along the Patuxent river, a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay, Emory Waters Nature Preserve and the surrounding area are of notable concern. Until now, relatively little archaeological inquiry...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Victor Prieto.

This is an abstract from the "Living and Dying in 19th-Century Farming Communities During Westward Expansion, from New England to the Mountain West" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster details current research at the Welsh Union Church Cemetery site in Nelson, New York. From its earliest known interment in 1809 to its continued role as an active burial ground today, this cemetery indexes the history and contributions of many Welsh...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Donald Slater.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. On the night of July 10, 1666, Anne Bradstreet was startled from sleep by her family’s screams: “FIRE!! FIRE!!” While everyone escaped the blaze, the house and their belongings were destroyed. Bradstreet later lamented this fateful night in her poem “Verses upon the Burning of our House” which gave voice to her grief and cataloged what was lost, yet...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Angela Escalante Zarco.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ceramics are integral to daily life, reflecting both practical and cultural aspects of historical households. The analysis of ceramic assemblages can reveal insights into the daily practices, social status, and cultural connections of a household. This poster investigates the ceramic assemblages retrieved from the Barnabas Pond House in Clinton, New York,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elic Weitzel.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Across eastern North America, white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) were a key food resource in the diets of Native peoples. Despite heavy predation by sizeable Native American populations, there is only limited evidence that white-tailed deer were ever unsustainably hunted prior to European colonization. After colonization, however, people drove...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elena Frye.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, formerly known as the Conewago Chapel, is a Catholic church campus in Hanover, PA, near the Pennsylvania-Maryland border. Founded in the early 18^th century, the basilica was the largest Catholic church in the country at the time of its founding and the current church building is the oldest stone...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Larsen.

This is an abstract from the "Living and Dying in 19th-Century Farming Communities During Westward Expansion, from New England to the Mountain West" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research focuses on patterns of settlement location choices among homesteading farmers and ranchers in non-mountainous Boulder County, Colorado. This work uses household and agricultural data from the 1885 Colorado state census and an 1880 property map, analyzed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only F. Barker.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological documentation of the nineteenth-century Oak Hill Pond Millrace site in North Kingstown, RI, examined a 30 m section of the existing millrace structure threatened by upgrades to an electric transmission corridor. The recordation incorporated representative elevation and cross-section views, scale photography and employed photogrammetric and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brandon Ritchison.

This is an abstract from the "Building a Better Chronology for Fifteenth–Eighteenth-Century Eastern North America through Radiocarbon Dating and Collaborative Research Agendas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper we describe our initial chronological reexamination of a portion of the central Ohio River Valley during the transition from pre- to post-European contact and colonialism. The post-16th century diaspora of the Shawnee people...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Conger.

This is an abstract from the "Building a Better Chronology for Fifteenth–Eighteenth-Century Eastern North America through Radiocarbon Dating and Collaborative Research Agendas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> This paper presents the results of radiocarbon dating and Bayesian chronological modeling at Sidey-Mackay and McQueen-McConnell, two Tionontate villages in southern Ontario, Canada, which demonstrate early-16^th century...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madelyn Mezzell.

This is an abstract from the "Communities of Engagement: Incorporating Deep Time and Slow Science into Community Based Research Projects" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation explores the roles of animals and fantastical beasts in Etruscan iconography from the Archaic to the Late Orientalizing period and the manner in which their misinterpretation, or complete lack thereof, affects our understanding of communities who inhabited very...