Historical Archaeology (Other Keyword)

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 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 Katherine Brewer.

Historical artifacts from Room 28 in Pueblo Bonito provide a unique opportunity to investigate what the Hyde Exploring Expedition, Moorehead, and National Geographic Society excavations left behind during their excavations between 1896 and 1927. Using the 2013 UNM excavations in Room 28 as a starting point, analysis of the historical artifacts found in excavation and stabilization over the last century provides an important perspective on how those early excavators discarded their own material...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jordan Cerone. Heather Fusco.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster examines the value of ceramic analysis as a tool for understanding the relative socioeconomic statuses of the residents of the “Janitor’s House” at Gettysburg College. In summer 2022, we cataloged and recorded ceramic shreds excavated at the Janitor’s House in fall 2021. This collection was then compared with two local houses thought to be...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Gust.

In this paper I compare the working conditions and cultural material found at a cluster of three sites in the northeast corner of the Mexican Yucatán Peninsula, to those at San Pedro Siris in the Cayo District of then British Honduras. The people in both areas contended with more militant Maya groups that were unhappy with improved relations with Mexican and British Honduran authorities respectively. Similar workplace dangers confronted both the lumber workers at San Pedro Siris and the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dennis Blanton. Elliot Blair.

Glass beads are one of the most important artifact types on colonial archaeological sites, providing insights into colonial trade networks and helping address critical chronological issues. In this paper, using a sample of 16th to 17th century beads from Mission Santa Catalina de Guale (GA), the Glass Site (GA), and Jamestown (VA), as well as a comparative sample from Venice, we use LA-ICP-MS and XRF analyses to examine elemental variability within and across these assemblages. Primarily...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Khori Newlander. Linda Zuniga.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Compositional analyses are commonplace in prehistoric archaeology. For example, lithic and pottery analysts regularly use geochemical methods to acquire mineralogical and chemical data that allow them to source artifacts. The geographic patterning of sourced artifacts provides archaeologists with a rich dataset from which they infer seasonal procurement...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michele Hoferitza.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Research on Glass Beads and Ornaments in North America" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. n 1864, a factory in Briare, France, began producing Prosser Molded beads for African and North American trade. The beads were made using a novel process combining milk as a binding agent to powdered feldspar, calcium fluoride, silica sand, and coloring elements to create a paste that was pressed into molds, then fired in a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Clyde D. Dollar.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Nassaney.

Our scholarship teaches us that racialized structures created conditions that constrained and facilitated social action, with a pervasive influence on the materiality of the past. Inevitably, agents worked against institutionalized racism in public and covert ways to try to affect a more equitable and less dehumanizing society. Despite these efforts, we generally pay less attention to how ongoing structural racism influences our current lives and practice as historical archaeologists and global...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brendan Weaver.

The fertile desert middle-valleys of South Coastal Peru’s Grande Basin offered resources for great productive potential which supported a large population since the Formative Period and attracted intense agro-industrial interests during Spanish colonization. Historical archaeology offers tools for understanding regional processes of population replacement, highland/coastal exchange and migration, and the radical transformation of social processes during the last five centuries of intense...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stance Hurst. Eileen Johnson. Doug Cunningham.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The removal of the Comanche from northwest Texas in the early 1870s opened the Southern High Plains eastern escarpment region to new pastores (Spanish sheepherders from New Mexico) and Anglo-Americans, who created order out of the landscape through construction of built cultural heritage. An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) was used to document the built cultural...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jan Bemmann.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology of Medieval Eurasian Steppe Urbanism" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Permanent settlements of the Mongol Empire era on the Mongolian Plateau seem to be rare and only few sites have been explored so far in some detail. Well-known are Karakorum, the capital of the Mongol Yeke Ulus, Avraga near the Kherlen River, and Khirkhira in Transbaikalia. To date, there is no differentiation of settlements by form and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paola Schiappacasse.

The archaeological collections crisis we have been facing for the last couple of decades has forced many of us to rethink how to conduct research without adding to the problem. Although the idea that you need to excavate in order to do "archaeology" still permeates the opinions in academia, we have been seeing more research projects that revisit archaeological collections. Therefore, how can we make archaeology students aware of other research possibilities? The archaeological excavations...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher DeCorse.

This paper examines Portugal’s and Spain’s varied contacts, intersections and colonial aspirations in West and western Central Africa. Portugal and Spain share centuries of culture history, religion, and governance, and were united under the Iberian Union between 1580 and 1640. Yet within the context of European expansion into the non-Western world, they have often been considered distinct with regard to their histories and as foci of study. Pushing beyond national pasts, this paper...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charlotte Williams.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1940, textile fragments and botanical specimens were packed into matchboxes from cave sites in Coahuila, Mexico during Walter Taylor’s archaeological excavation. By the 1990s the specimens were accessioned into the Smithsonian, and the archaeological notes archived, yet the matchboxes themselves never received any record. Instead, collections managers...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cassandra Mills. Leo Demski.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The economic and communal importance of alcohol production across the Southeastern United States can be traced from colonization to the present day. From colonists' advertisements for wives who could brew beer, to moonshiners outrunning revenuers and Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms agents, to distillery-based tourism in the present day, alcohol production...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Johana Caterina Mantilla Oliveros.

This is an abstract from the "Contested Landscapes: The Archaeology of Politics, Borders, and Movement" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Access to land is still a problem in Latin America and the Caribbean (as well as other places, mostly located in the global South). In that context, the landscapes and our analysis of them are directly crossed by power relations, conflict, the creation of borders, contestation of hierarchies, etc. The current...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Summer Moore.

Archaeologists increasingly emphasize the role of social and cultural context in understanding how indigenous groups in colonial settings appropriated foreign goods. While documentary accounts of explorers, traders, and missionaries have long been used by Pacific historians to examine foreign trade in Hawaii’s early colonial period, archaeological sites from this period have rarely been identified. As a result, we know little about how foreign goods acquired through such exchanges were actually...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Noa Corcoran Tadd.

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. Despite excellent work in the field over the past two decades, the tensions between continuity and rupture in archaeological accounts of the colonial ‘transition’ in the Andes have tended to remain under-theorized. Drawing on recent fieldwork in Tacna...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Flordeliz Bugarin.

This is an abstract from the "Deepening Archaeology's Engagement with Black Studies" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology has much to offer Black Studies, and in turn, Black Studies has much to offer the archaeology of Africa and the African diaspora. In concert, these fields of inquiry hold the potential to enhance our understanding of history and culture in the African world and uplift archaeology as a field that is more relevant to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marley Brown.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2019 marks the four hundredth anniversary of the arrival to the first Africans to Jamestown, Virginia's founding colony, individuals captured by English privateers from a Portuguese slaver on its way to Vera Cruz, Mexico. Many captives in the same cargo were taken the same year to Bermuda, England's other colony controlled by the same joint stock company. ...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Grant.

The early residents of the Creole faubourgs have long been recognized as contributors to the development of New Orleans’s unique aesthetic traditions. Indeed many of the city’s most iconic architectural forms and cultural practices were forged in these neighborhoods—semi-peripheral spaces where people from a variety of local and trans-Atlantic backgrounds came together to re/define and embody the meaning of "Creole" in the nineteenth century. But much of the details about the labor that built...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Donop. Michael Eichstaedt. Joanna Klein.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The McFall Site (1LU528) in Northwest Alabama provides a case study for the archaeology of rural consumption and consumerism during the first half of the twentieth century. The site and the surrounding land have been maintained as a farmstead by the Holland (1870-1945) and the McFall (1945-present) families, who faced numerous challenges stemming from...