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DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth M. Scott.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Eugene T. Petersen.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Lynn Evans.

Archaeological excavations have taken place at Michilimackinac every summer since 1959, pre-dating the Society for Historical Archaeology.  The project and its approaches have evolved along with the discipline.  This paper examines current research at an English trader's house within the fort.  His wide range of ceramics and other goods provide insight into the cosmopolitan nature of life on the edge of the eigteenth-century British empire.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lynn Evans.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Colonial Forts in Comparative, Global, and Contemporary Perspective", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Michilimackinac, land of the great turtle, referred to the entire Straits of Mackinac region, where lakes Michigan and Huron connect, in the colonial period. Long a crossroads and gathering place for Indigenous people, it was the site of a series of colonial forts, first French and later British, as these...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lynn Evans.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pandemic Fieldwork: Doing Fieldwork During a Pandemic" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Michilimackinac is the site of one of the longest ongoing archaeological projects in North America. Could it continue in a pandemic? Because most of our funding comes from park admission fees and museum store revenue, our project is dependent on Colonial Michilimackinac State Historic Park being open to the public. Once...