Michilimackinac (Site Name Keyword)

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lynn Evans.

This is an abstract from the "Frontier and Settlement Archaeology" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Michilimackinac is well known as a French and British fur trade entrepôt in what is now northern Michigan. Analysis of personal adornment artifacts from a recently excavated fur trader's household revealed that the assemblage included some artifacts more commonly associated with the Spanish, jet beads and a fan stick fragment. Are these artifacts...