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This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In recent years, Trent’s Cave, located on Trents Plantation (St. James Parish, Barbados), has served as a site of personal interest due to the collection of iron and steel artifacts recovered from the cavern and surrounding area. Typically, when exploring the earliest industries found in Barbados from the 1600-1800s, rarely is the attention placed on the nature of metallurgy, or where...
Blacksmithing at Fort Ouiatenon: A Preliminary Analysis of Metal Production During the French Fur Trade in Indiana (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Fort Ouiatenon, established in 1717, was the first French fur trade post in present-day Indiana. During the 1970s, over 100 kilograms of waste from metalworking activities were discovered in an area believed to be linked to a forge. This research investigated debris from a specific area previously associated with blacksmithing to...
Blacksmithing for Fun and Profit: Archaeological Investigations at 31NH755 (2017)
Archaeological investigations at an early 19th century historic site along the banks of the Lower Cape Fear River near Wilmington, North Carolina, uncovered evidence of a small blacksmith shop and adjacent domestic occupation. Archaeological features included the footprint of the burned blacksmith shop, approximately 15 by 15 feet in size, along with a dense scatter of charcoal, slag, and scrap iron. Adjacent to this building were structural posts and artifacts that appear to be related to a...
Crafty Thinking: Measuring Skill Across Time and Space (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Apprenticeship systems are essential to the development of craft specialization, yet archaeologists have only recently begun to advance general models of these systems in addition to measurements of skill. This presentation will use a blacksmith shop at the Chittenango site located in upstate New York as a case study. Developing criteria for the measurement of skill was key in...
Farming Blacksmithing (1907)
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Final Report of an Archeological Survey of Boreas Pass Road Realignments, Summit County, Colorado (1983)
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Firearms On the Frontier: Guns at Fort Michilimackinac 1715-1781 (1976)
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Investigations at the Vollrath Blacksmith Shop (41Bx786), San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas (1990)
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More Than a Pile of Iron Scraps: Understanding The Archaeology of Blacksmith Shops (2025)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "At the Intersections of History: Collaborative, Public Archaeology along the Chisholm Trail in Bolivar, Texas", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper explores the archaeology of blacksmithing through examining the Tom Cook Blacksmith Shop with excavations yielding more than 25,000 artifacts. Located along the Chisholm Trail and belonging to Tom Cook, an African American freedman, the archaeological...
Rural Industries of the Sand Hills of Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina Context (Legacy 09-436)
This historic context identifies the rural industry property types associated with the Sand Hills region; reviews the features associated with each; considers each property type or class as identified at various Department of Defense installations and reviews the significant studies of each; and reviews their physiographic distribution. The document provides recommendations for the future management, interpretation, and National Historic Preservation Act evaluation of rural industry properties.
Rural Industries of the Sand Hills of Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina Context - Report (Legacy 09-436) (2009)
This historic context identifies the rural industry property types associated with the Sand Hills region; reviews the features associated with each; considers each property type or class as identified at various DoD installations and reviews the significant studies of each; and reviews their physiographic distribution. The document provides recommendations for the future management, interpretation, and NRHP evaluation of rural industry properties.
Rural Industries of the Sand Hills, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina - Pamphlet (Legacy 09-436) (2009)
This historic context identifies the rural industry property types associated with the Sand Hills region; reviews the features associated with each; considers each property type or class as identified at various DoD installations and reviews the significant studies of each; and reviews their physiographic distribution. The document provides recommendations for the future management, interpretation, and NRHP evaluation of rural industry properties.
Using Ethnoarchaeology to Interpret Archaeological Blacksmithing Sites in Togo, West Africa (2017)
Philip de Barros, Palomar College. A 2013 study of the ethnoarchaeology of the blacksmithing village of Upper Bidjomambe in the ironworking region of Bassar in northern Togo provided invaluable data to help archaeologists interpret archaeological smithing sites. Oral traditions document the village's occupation from ca. 1870 to 1970 when it was abandoned leaving it virtually intact with little disturbance or tool recycling. An 80+-year-old informant formerly from Upper Bidjomambe, who was a...