Historical Archaeology (Other Keyword)
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This paper explores the complex and diverse connections between people, places and material culture in the past through a case study from Queensland, Australia. Established in c.1860 as part of the development of pastoral and mining industries in Central Queensland, today the former thriving port settlement of St Lawrence is a small, little-known town. Historical, material and spatial evidence from distinct but interconnected archaeological sites within the settlement are integrated to explore...
Ovens Aren't Just for Food: Experimenting to Determine the Materials Used in a 19th Century Spanish Oven (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the summer of 2018, field school students from the University of New Mexico excavated historical ovens likely associated with the 19th century Spanish village of Tejón. During the course of the excavations, the field school undertook an experiment to determine the purpose of the historical ovens. The experiment was unable to be completed at that time, but...
Overview and Preliminary Results from the 2022 Excavation at Fort Louise Augusta, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The former Danish West Indies are one of the scant examples of Scandinavian colonialism and the only example of Danish colonialism in the Americas. Although considered latecomers to the region, the Danes maintained almost continuous control of their West Indies from their initial settlement until the islands were sold to the United States in 1917. This...
Overview of History and Historical Archaeology San Clemente Island (1980)
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An Overview of the History of LaGrange Cemetery and Some of its Notable and Not So Notable Residents (2018)
The First Baptist Church of Philadelphia was faced with something all churches confronted – the death of their parishioners. Their burying ground along with their church would evolve and change in both size and location over time. By mid-eighteenth century Lagrange Cemetery was in full use. Who occupied the First Baptist’s Lagrange Cemetery in early Philadelphia? Who were the notable and not so notable residents buried side by side? In exploring the history of over one hundred years of its...
The Oyo Empire, ca. 1570–1840: The Art of Being a Compositional State (2024)
This is an abstract from the "States, Confederacies, and Nations: Reenvisioning Early Large-Scale Collectives." session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Yoruba sovereign states matured about the eleventh century in ideology, symbols of authority, and organizational structure. Governed by a system of monarchy comprising the divine king/palace officials and non-royal lords, theirs was a political arrangement that placed the king as first among equals with the...
Paleopathology and Dental Disease from Point San Jose (2018)
Traditional studies of health and stress in archaeological samples use several categories of skeletal alterations: linear enamel hypoplasias (LEH), adult stature, scars of anemia, dental disease, osteoarthritis, trauma, and infection. Skeletal remains from a late 19th century military hospital at Point San Jose (PSJ), San Francisco, represent a commingled assemblage, complicating paleopathological observations on the bones. Unlike bony changes, dental pathologies are often studied by individual...
Paleopathology and Non-Specific Indicators of Stress from Point San Jose (2018)
Paleopathology encompasses the understanding of disease processes that affect skeletal remains as well as the timeframe and context in which they occur. Although most such studies focus on changes observed at an individual level, the Point San Jose assemblage provides a challenging perspective on paleopathology because it consists of separate skeletal elements lacking association with whole individuals. Consequently, our focus is on the types of bony changes seen rather than specific diagnoses...
Parasitism and Care in the Schoolyard: Archaeoparasitology of an Early Twentieth-Century School Latrine in New Orleans, USA (2024)
This is an abstract from the "*SE New Orleans and Its Environs: Historical Archaeology and Environmental Precarity" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. McDonough No. 5 School (1882-1930) was built in the historic Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans and was one of the first schools to educate black children. But as the neighborhood turned whiter and wealthier, the school was renovated, the black children turned away and relocated, and the newly...
Part 2, Historic Preservation Plan, Baltimore / Washington International Airport, Anne Arundel County, Maryland: Planning Manual and Action Plan (1995)
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Partnering with Descendant Communities: Investigating the Dorsey Site, an 1874 African American Farm in Sugarland, Maryland (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Transformations in Professional Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The current symposium explores how professional archaeology is changing. In the past 25 years, we have increased partnerships, and collaboration, with descendant voices changing the practice of archaeology. Toward that end, in 2020 the Sugarland Ethno-History Project (SEHP) leadership initiated the investigation of the Basil and Nancy Dorsey’s...
Partnerships for Heritage Stewardship (2018)
The objective of my Master’s thesis was to formulate a history of the Carroll Cabin and farm, a historic log house located in Fayette County, Pennsylvania on Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) land. My research focused on how archaeological and historical records could be used to answer questions about the farm's extant home and the property's history. In Pennsylvania and other states (and at the federal level) multi-use public land managers are responsible for similar...
Patriot, Federalist and Masons, Politically Oriented Artifacts from the Revolutionary War to the Federal Period Occupation of the Anthony Farmstead in Southeastern Massachusetts (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Changes in the Land: Archaeological Data from the Northeast" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent excavations of the mid-eighteenth to mid-nineteenth century Anthony Farmstead in the town of Somerset, southeastern Massachusetts, yielded thousands of period artifacts, including numerous objects reflecting the patriotism and political affiliations of its occupants and the region as a whole. Several members of the...
Patrones de desecho en los grupos domésticos de la Hacienda San Pedro Cholul. (2015)
A partir de 2009 la Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán ha realizado exploraciones arqueológicas al interior de la hacienda henequenera San Pedro Cholul, teniendo como principal enfoque el estudio de la vida cotidiana de los antiguos pobladores. Como parte del proyecto, hasta el momento se han intervenido 3 solares habitacionales y sus respectivas viviendas. Mediante la recolección de superficie y la excavación de dichos espacios se han recuperado diversos elementos materiales que nos han permitido...
The People of Solomon: Performance in Cross-Cultural Contacts between Spanish and Melanesians in the SW Pacific 1568–1606 (2018)
In 1568, 1595 and 1606 Spanish expeditions out of Peru explored the Solomon Islands (S.W. Pacific) with the intention of establishing colonies. The motivations for these voyages were an uneasy amalgam of ambitions for Imperial and familial advancement, attempts to find the gold mines of Ophir, and religious fervor for converting indigenous populations. Despite repeated historical retelling, little attention has been paid to the structures of the cross-cultural encounters described in the...
People, Trees, Rice: Consequential Intersections and Complicated Relationships in the Lowcountry (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Entangled Legacies: Human, Forest, and Tree Dynamics" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Multiple dramatic changes in human-forest relationships are manifest in the landscape of the coastal region that spans southern North Carolina to northern Florida known as the Lowcountry. Ecologically diverse bottomland hardwood forests managed by Native Americans since at least the Woodland period were destroyed by settler-colonist...
Performing a Queer Aesthetic in Early 20th Century Washington: Preliminary Findings from the Halcyon House Site (2018)
Located in the Georgetown area of Washington, DC, the Halcyon House is one of the only archaeological sites with a documented queer inhabitant. Albert Adsit Clemons, who was purportedly a relation of Mark Twain, lived on the property with a male carpenter, and together the two filled the house with oddities and antiques. In this paper, I will analyze the way that Clemons performed a queer aesthetic through his household décor and personal adornments. Although the site was excavated in 1985, the...
Periodizing Andean Colonialism: A Comparison of Archaeological and Historical Data From Markaqocha, Cusco, Peru (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Lost in Transition: Social and Political Changes in the Central Southern Andes from the Late Prehispanic to the Early Colonial Periods" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper assesses the problem of materially distinguishing between the Andean Late Horizon Inka Empire (ca. 1450-1532 CE) and ensuing Spanish Colonial Period (1532-1824 CE) in contexts that lack overtly colonial artefacts. The arrival of Spanish...
Perseverance, Resistance, and Community: An Introduction to the Archaeology, Heritage, and History of Great Blasket, Co Kerry, Ireland (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Working on the 19th-Century" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper focuses on the everyday lives of the Islanders on Great Blasket in County Kerry, Ireland. Particular attention is paid to the juxtaposition of economic class, gender, and improvisation during the Famine and Post-Famine periods. The Islanders experienced a hard life while enduring extreme poverty, repression, and environmental dangers. This paper...
Petrographic and Chemical Analysis of Ceramics of the Atlantic Period of Baol (1400–1900), Historical Kingdom of Northern Senegambia (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The petrographic and chemical analysis of ceramic shards from the Senegalese Atlantic period (1400-1900) is the weak link in archaeological research in Senegal. Archaeological surveys and excavations carried out for my doctoral thesis yielded several artifacts, including local ceramics. A qualitative study of the ceramics collection was carried out...
Phase I and Phase II Archeological Investigations for the Maryland Aviation Administration in the Vicinity of Hanover, Maryland, Anne Arundel County (2000)
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A Phase I Archaeological Identification Survey and Architectural Survey of the SMECO Powerline from Holland Cliff to Calvert Cliffs, Calvert County, Maryland (1992)
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Phase I Archaeological Investigation at the Ellicott City Colored School, Ellicott City, Maryland (1996)
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A Phase I Archaeological Investigation of the Cultural Resources Associated with the MicKims School, 18BC107, Baltimore, Maryland (1994)
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Phase I Archaeological Investigations at Benjamin Banneker Historical Park: Prehistoric and Historic Evidence of Use in the Patapsco River Drainage, Baltimore County, Maryland (1992)
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