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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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Donna J. Seifert. Elizabeth J. Abel. Douglas C. McVarish. Dana B. Heck.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Tamara Schlossenberg.

This is an abstract from the "Meaning in Material Culture" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Often less studied than more standardized forms, the vernacular architecture of Ireland’s rural poor provides valuable information to understanding rural life in the periods following the Great Famine. The author conducted an architectural study during a five-week archaeological investigation of a late 19th/early 20th century cabin, under the direction of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jaime M Donta.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Anthony Farmstead site (SOM.HA.4) in Somerset, Bristol County, Massachusetts was excavated as part of a mitigation project for proposed utility infrastructure upgrades. Documentary research established that the farmstead was settled in 1757 and passed father-to-son through multiple generations of a prosperous New England Yankee...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen A. Brighton. Andrew Webster.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology on the Island of Ireland: New Perspectives" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. One cannot interpret the structure of everyday life without understanding the concept of family and household. Perhaps Henry Glassie said it best when he wrote that as archaeologists “we make meaning out of ruined houses, moving from pattern to change, logic to will, culture to history.” In this paper, we use...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter E. Siegel. Margarita J. Wuellner.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Autumn Melby.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists working in isolated rural locales continue to face the challenge of protecting archaeological sites from threats of looting and vandalism. Whether physically secluded beyond a watchful eye or simply located on private lands with few legal protections, sites in these rural spaces are at particular risk for damage or (un)intentional...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chelsea Rose.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "In the Sticks but Not in the Weeds: Diversity, Remembrance, and the Forging of the Rural American West", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Kam Wah Chung State Heritage Site represents one of the key interpretive hubs for Chinese heritage in the Pacific Northwest. Once home to the John Day Chinatown, its residents provided medical care, groceries, automobiles, and employment to the citizens of eastern...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jocelyn Lee.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Arming the Resistance: Recent Scholarship in Chinese Diaspora Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Chinese Diaspora archaeology has historically focused on urban contexts or in-depth case studies, with minimal comparative studies. The Oregon Chinese Diaspora Project is a multi-agency partnership conducting research on Chinese migrant populations across the state. This paper focuses on the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick Durst. Dwayne Scheid.

Until the advent and widespread adoption of modern plumbing, the privy vault played nearly as important a role to permanent occupation as would a sustainable water source. This paper will examine the various construction methods employed while investigating the rationale behind changes in morphology. Special focus will be given to privies within the urban setting of turn of the century East St. Louis, Illinois and comparisons will be made between privy vaults found in various St. Louis, Missouri...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Randall J. Mason.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Leonor Pena-Chocarro. Guillem Pérez Jordà.

This presentation focuses on the various examples collected from northern Morocco during ethnographic fieldwork on the use of dung. Apart from the most known use of dung as fuel, traditional communities in the Moroccan Rif used dung for other purposes such as flooring, tempering, manuring, making containers for storage, etc. This paper will discuss the various uses of this important material and results will be compared to other examples from other Mediterranean areas.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Abigail K Kindler.

On a poor and rural homestead, an approximated late 19th century tin enamel bucket was found with numerous bullet holes of varying calibers and trajectories. With ammunition costing money the family may or may not have had, what was the purpose of this bucket besides target practice? With very little information on target practice as a possible recreational pastime, the sport could have been done by both men and women, young and old, infrequently or quite commonly. Both experimental archaeology...