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In 1891 George Dorsey conducted excavations Ancon, Peru, as archaeology was still a fledgeling discipline, and his conclusions reflect his naïveté of modern field methods to come. He assessed that the remains derived from one community, and classified the burials as elite/non-elite. From what we know today, there were two distinct time periods, between which mortuary practices and material culture changed dramatically. The collection has been repeatedly ignored due to the theorized disappearance...
What We can Learn from Silence: Analyzing Archival Omissions within the Context of Enslaved African Americans at Fort Snelling, Minnesota (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As many scholars have noted, archives reflect the social context within which they were assembled as well as the personal experiences of those who created the collections. The archival materials associated with Fort Snelling in Minnesota are no exception. In the context of this site, I will discuss the archived papers of Lawrence...