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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Arriving in 1848 for the California Gold Rush, Chinese immigrants brought many cultural traditions new to the US, including opium smoking. Although use of opium was already widespread via its medicinal forms (laudanum and morphine), smoking/ingestion was not seen as a beneficial or therapeutic activity. Instead, views of opium as...
The Historic Archaeology of a Chinese Mining Venture Near Igo in Northern California (1986)
This report details the archaeological project of mapping and data recovery from several trash dumps, a reservoir, ditches and other features of a small historic rural Chinese mining operation (CA-Sha-15l2) in the vicinity of Igo in Shasta County, California (Township 31 North, Range 6 West, Section 34). This site was discovered during a routine survey of public land in response to a mining proposal. This archaeological project may deal with only part of a larger historic mining system or...
Terminology And Material Culture Of Opiates In The 18th-20th Century Western World: An Overview. (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Opiate usage took many forms in the 18th-20th century Western world, becoming so common by the 19th century that it is considered a historic epidemic comparable to the modern Opioid crisis. Western medicine created Alcohol/Opium tinctures (Laudanum and Paregoric), and isolated/synthesized alkaloids like Morphine, Narcophine,...
XII. Opium Containers and Paraphernalia from Ninth and Amherst. in Archaeological and Historical Studies at Ninth and Amherst, Lovelock, Nevada, Edited By Eugene M. Hattori, M.K. Rusco, and D.R. Tuohy (1979)
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