Historical Archaeology (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Simone Muhammad.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While scholars have long studied the pottery production of African peoples in the Caribbean during the colonial era, there has been minimal archaeological research on the ceramics used by enslaved African and African-descended peoples on St. Croix, USVI. This paper represents the culmination of thesis research to conclusively establish defining...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Garry Wheeler Stone. Henry M. Miller. Alexander H. II Morrison. Emily Kutler.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Rui Gomes Coelho.

The expansion of modern capitalism in the 19th century led to higher demands for commodities such as coffee, sugar, and cotton. The production of these commodities, however, was associated to an increasing industrialization of slave labor ("Second slavery"). The Paraíba valley in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, produced most of the coffee consumed in Europe and North America. The central question is: how was the valley constructed over the 19th century as a landscape of enslavement? Labor routines...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Enrique Rodriguez.

Scholars have asked how empires solidify power when colonizers, the agents of empire-building, often have diverse goals and backgrounds and their actions do not necessarily support the goals of the empire. Two answers to this question have received much attention: that empires promote ideologies that support cohesion among colonizers, and that coercion and violence can promote the expansion of empires. I propose a third answer, in which colonizers create varied material forms that may challenge...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sterling Wright. Cara Monroe. Mary Furlong. James Reeves. Courtney Hoffman.

Over the past 30 years, historical archaeologists have studied the sites and material remains of enslaved people from across the American South. Recently, archaeologists have actively worked with descendants in this research, including excavation and archaeological interpretation. However, little has been done to build the connection between biological and historical heritages of enslaved people and their descendants. In this study, we utilized ancient DNA methodology to contextualize the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Esmeralda Ferrales. Kalib Sorenson. Shannon Cowell. Kelly Jenks.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In March of 2018, New Mexico State University (NMSU) students enrolled in the cultural resource management class re-visited and recorded La Parida, a 19-century Hispanic settlement located on El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) funded this project as part of a collaborative agreement with NMSU to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric Schroeder.

This is an abstract from the "What’s Going on in Texas? Current Topics in Texas Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Paint Rock Project is a Native American collaborative research project that centers on the conservation of Native American heritage and culture facilitated by the Campbell Family, tribal elders, and researchers from Abilene Christian University and the Edwards Plateau Archaeological Research Group. Situated within the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kirstine Møller.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From the initial colonization of Kalaallit Nunaat, houses and housing have been a contested subject. The Danish Trade wanted Kalaallit Inuit to live traditionally as before missionization, spread out and following the animals, thus increasing the economic return. However, the Mission wanted Kalaallit Inuit close to the colonies because it would ease...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Allison Bain.

This is an abstract from the "At the Frontier of Big Climate, Disaster Capitalism, and Endangered Cultural Heritage in Barbuda, Lesser Antilles" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A variety of colonial period structures are scattered across the island of Barbuda. Spanning the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, they include wells, lime kilns, a Martello Tower, as well as the remains of a dozen buildings at the Highland House site, amongst others....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Constanza Roa Solís. Carolina Lema.

This is an abstract from the "Current Perspectives on Historical and Contemporary Archaeology of the Southern Cone" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. El pueblo williche o “mapuches del sur”, reconocidos como tal al menos desde fines del siglo XVIII (Parlamento de Negrete 1793), habitaron el denominado Futa Willi Mapu. Al comparar con las áreas septentrionales del País Mapuche, este territorio tuvo una organización diversa, y según las fuentes, poco...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marianne Sallum. Plácido Cali.

During the last few decades, many studies deconstructed the traditional colonial narratives about the Americas. They rethought the history with a less eurocentric point of view, emphasizing the dynamic cultural values established among European, Indigenous peoples and Africans, contributing together to combine new and old social practices in colonial situations. This work aims an alternative narrative about Brazilian indigenous peoples, which uses a Tupi settlement located in Peruíbe on the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fernando J. Astudillo. Peter W. Stahl. Florencio Delgado. Ross W. Jamieson.

Colonization of the Galápagos Islands started soon after Ecuadorian separation from the Gran Colombia in 1830. During this decade the Islands were legally claimed by the Republic of Ecuador and colonization projects started. Exploiting concessions were approved to national and international companies. One of these concessions was assigned to Ecuadorian businessmen Manuel J. Cobos and José Monroy to create an agricultural colony on San Cristóbal Island; 1000 km west from the Ecuadorian coast in...

DOCUMENT Full-Text William G. Buckles. Nancy B. Buckles.

The goals of the report were to develop an historical archaeology context for the State of Colorado for making decisions about cultural resources and to incorporate historical archaeological values into the State Preservation Planning Process. In addition to developing a research plan for historical archaeology, our response to the project has been to develop a framework by which major issues can be resolved and some consistent goals established for historical archaeology in Colorado. These...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas Ross. Bridget Wall.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. It’s been over 25 years since Lightfoot published his seminal article on the ethnocentric and arbitrary dichotomy between prehistoric and historical archaeology, and numerous authors have since echoed his sentiment. Yet, problems of this nature persist in cultural resource management in California, as Panich and Schneider have demonstrated in their 2019...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ann Stansell.

The commemoration of disasters and their victims is a product of cultural, economic, political, and social forces in human society. Southern California's largely forgotten St. Francis Dam Disaster of 1928 provides an excellent opportunity to study this complex process of commemoration, engaging memory within different frames of reference. Previous scholarship related to the disaster has been focused within the fields of civil engineering and geology, with the singular goal of determining the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Hernández.

This is an abstract from the "Primary Sources and the Design of Research Projects" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A deeper analysis of the neighborhoods (barrios) of San Juan, the capital of Puerto Rico, during the early 1900’s provides a clearer scope of the complexities of population density and work related activities. For instance, Barrio Ballajá, the smallest neighborhood located to the northwest of the walled city, had a population of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelvin Blanco Peña.

This is an abstract from the "Primary Sources and the Design of Research Projects" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research is a case study in which the themes of "pulperías" and "ventorrillos", within the walled city of San Juan Puerto Rico in 1910 and 1920, is approached as a potential line of archaeological research. The main objective is to identify the existence of these commercial loci within the study area through the analysis of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katrina C Eichner.

This is an abstract from the "Seeing Migrant and Diaspora Communities Archaeologically: Beyond the Cultural Fixity/Fluidity Binary" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Using materials and archives associated with Black US Army laundresses stationed at Fort Davis, Texas, in the 1860s–1890s, this paper will investigate how the practice of parenting intersected with a broader focus on public caretaking in the African American community. Adoption, communal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Krysta Ryzewski.

Michigan Central Station and Roosevelt Park were constructed between 1908 and 1918 as part of Detroit’s City Beautiful Movement. The construction process was a place-making effort designed to implant order on the urban landscape that involved the displacement of a community who represented everything that city planners sought to erase from Detroit’s city center: overcrowding, poverty, immigrants, and transient populations. Current historical archaeological research reveals how the existing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric Proebsting. Karen McIlvoy. Erin Schwartz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ongoing work at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest strives to explore the history and legacy of those who shaped the landscape of this National Historic Landmark, beginning in the 1760s and continuing through Emancipation. This includes collaborative efforts with members of the local African American community to explore historic sites, families, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Belford.

This poster describes a recent community archaeology project in Telford, a new town created in the 1960s. The project began in 2010 and continues to 2014, and involves a wide range of community groups and others. Fieldwork focusses on the 'Town Park', a large area of public open space that contains a number of previously unexplored remains associated with 19th and 20th century industrialisation and de-industrialisation. So far the project has explored 19th century workers' housing, a 19th...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Abigail Antinossi.

This is an abstract from the "What’s Going on in Texas? Current Topics in Texas Archaeology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There’s a lot going on in Texas Archaeology, some of which includes new ways of teaching, learning, and engaging. At Rice University, undergraduate students excavate at plantation sites in Brazoria County alongside descendants of those who were once enslaved in these same spaces, working in partnership with local museum and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca Dean.

This poster focuses on the pedagogical challenges and educational outcomes of including excavations at a 19th century cemetery in an Introduction to Archaeology class. The research project was initiated by a local family when their cemetery was destroyed for farmland. Community-based research is archaeology for, by, and of local communities, a collaboration between community members and researchers. The Anthropology program at the University of Minnesota Morris (UMM) -- a small, public liberal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven G Harris. Douglas Armstrong.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Trents Cave, Barbados is a site hidden between the previous enslaved laborer settlement (1650-1838) and the planter’s compound (1627-present) at Trents Plantation. Containing caches of various metal artifacts, Trents Cave is believed to be a site of special purpose, where selection and use of ferrous materials was conducted by people of African descent as a form of ritual and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peyton Foti.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A comparative analysis of brothel sites and red-light districts in three major port cities during or around the period of the American Industrial Revolution. While this paper will focus primarily on the site Storyville in New Orleans, Louisiana, both Five Points in Manhattan, New York, and Hell's Half Acre in Los Angeles, California will be used as...