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DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Mierswa.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Public Archaeology in New Hampshire: Museum and University Research" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Great Bay Archaeological Survey (GBAS) runs a six-week field program each summer that draws students as well as community member volunteers from across New England. Run in collaboration with the New Hampshire State Conservation and Rescue Archaeology Program (SCRAP), GBAS offers community members an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Konwest.

Greater La Amontonada, a cluster of Postclassic period sites in the Nejapa region of Oaxaca, Mexico, is an ideal location for investigating the ways in which people would have negotiated their roles as members of households, neighborhoods, and larger communities. Group members enact their relationships through everyday choices, habits, and routines that are materialized through daily action. The practices enacted in one community, the learning and doing, may be materialized differently than...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Crystal A Castleberry. Jack Gary.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In August of 2020, Colonial Williamsburg’s Department of Archaeology began investigating the original site of Williamsburg’s historic First Baptist Church, one of the nation’s earliest congregations founded by free and enslaved people of African descent. The project has, from the beginning, been a partnership with the First...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura McAtackney. Krysta Ryzewski. Meredith Hardy. Pardis Zahedi.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“Folkeliv” and Black Folks’ Lives: Archaeology, History, and Contemporary Black Atlantic Communities", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper will present initial findings from fieldwork on St Croix as part of a Danish-funded, multi-year, heritage project that began in early 2020. When funded, this project was intended to work with the NPS, who have established projects on the island, to examine the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Calvin Mires.

In 1898, the passenger steamship, Portland, sank with approximately 200 people onboard. In lieu of a physically accessible memorial on land, the narrative that emerges following a ship’s sinking becomes the memorial, with archaeology often informing the ways meaning-making is negotiated in the wake of traumatic events. As part of the symposium, “Confronting the Deep North: Addressing the Legacies of Injustice through Education of African Diaspora Sites in the Northeast of the United States,”...