Society for Historical Archaeology

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandra V Slepushkina.

Catoctin Furnace is a historic forge first built in the late 18th century located in the Catoctin Mountains, in Thurmont, Maryland. The purpose of this research is to follow a paper trail in the form of deeds and surviving ledgers from the general store at Catoctin Furnace to determine which families or houses were participating in the domestic production of buttons, clothes, and shoes.Though this research will mostly focus on the Forgeman’s House due to the presence of archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elisabeth Veyrat.

From 1999 to 2008, an underwater archaeological excavation has been carried away, by French Ministry of Culture DRASSM and the ADRAMAR association, on two French Frigates sunk off St. Malo (France). One has been identified as the Dauphine, a light frigate built for privateering in the royal dockyard of Le Havre (1703) and sunk on December 1704. The other is known as the Aimable Grenot, a large frigate built in Granville for a private ship-owner (1747), armed for privateering then for trade...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chelsea Codling.

This is an abstract from the "Frontier and Settlement Archaeology" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Nauvoo, Illinois is a small town, known today as a summer tourist destination because of rich religious history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) and the splintering factions such as the Restoration Branches and Community of Christ churches. Archaeological excavations in Nauvoo began in the 1970s and continues today as a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Catherine A Comstock.

The excavation of the Forgeman’s House, (Site 18FR1043), took place in 2016 in Thurmont, Maryland. Constructed in about 1821, this house has been interpreted as the dwelling of a laborer that worked at Catoctin Furnace. Artifacts that were uncovered included food wastes such as bones, seeds, nuts, corn cobs, and egg shells. Flotation samples taken from the site also yielded further evidence regarding food consumption. In addition to growing their own food, foraging, and trading, those that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amber J Grafft-Weiss.

Extensive excavation at Kingsley Plantation (within the Timucuan Ecological and Historical Preserve National Park in Jacksonville, Florida) has yielded a wealth of data through which to interpret the lifeways of enslaved Africans who lived and worked there between 1814 and the Civil War.  Located on Fort George Island, Kingsley Plantation offered an environment rich in terrestrial as well as estuarine faunal resources.  Through preliminary analysis of faunal samples collected from cabin...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah L Elliott.

This poster examines the faunal materials excavated from a 19th-20th century cistern at a Texas-Alsatian homestead located in Medina County, Texas. This research seeks to expand on the knowledge of Texan-Alsatian food practices in Castroville, Texas by studying butchering marks and other evidence of meat consumption on the faunal material discarded by the occupants of the house in the 20th century. As a site occupied by Alsatian immigrants and their descendants, who occupied a middle...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lindsay Swinarton.

This paper examines Inuit food practices during the late 18th century communal house phase in northern Labrador, a period in which the Inuit had increasingly permanent contact with Moravian missionaries and other Europeans. With the establishment of the first mission station in Nain in 1771, the Moravian presence impacted Inuit subsistence practices in a multitude of ways, by fostering an increased importance on cod fishing, an increased economic value for fox pelts, and a disruption to the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Arlene Fradkin. Tamra Walter.

An 18th-century colonial settlement, Presidio San Sabá was the largest and, indeed, the most remote military frontier outpost within the Spanish Borderlands of Northern New Spain in Texas. Garrisoned with 100 Spanish soldiers who resided there with their civilian families, the presidio numbered nearly 400 people. Historical records reveal that this resident population lived under adverse conditions, suffering from malnutrition, disease, and chronic shortages of food and other supplies. Analysis...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jodi Barnes.

Archaeological research uncovered the remains of an ell kitchen, a smokehouse, and a cellar at Hollywood Plantation in southeast Arkansas. These spaces provide intimate information about foodways or the shared ways that people thought about, procured, distributed, preserved, and consumed foods in the 19th and 20th century. In this paper, I will discuss the ways the archaeology of foodways is used as a tool for public engagement and a lens into the intersectionality of gender, race, class at a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jean Lammie.

Located on the remote shores of Tampa Bay, Fort Brooke (1824-1888) represented a complex sphere of interaction among multiple social groups including United States soldiers, Seminoles, maroons, camp followers, and enslaved laborers. This paper explores the utility of third space and hybridity as a means of analyzing faunal remains and the material culture associated with food acquisition and consumption to better understand how identities were essentialized and contested within this space....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meredith Hardy. Elizabeth M Scott.

Archaeological investigations up and down the Mississippi River Valley have produced a wealth of information about the ways people in French and Spanish colonies identified, obtained, and consumed food. Evidence regarding the maintenance of tradition and the emergence of new practice is found in the remains of foods and the wares used to prepare and serve them. In this paper, we present these practices from sites along the expanse of the Mississippi River, highlighting their differences and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michaela C Hoots.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The focus of this poster will be the three groups of individuals who, at one point, sailed aboard Queen Anne's Revenge. This poster will answer the question of what French Navy Men, the enslaved, and pirates may have eaten during the early 18th century. As well as, how they may have prepared and served their food during sail and docking. The main method used would be Historiography and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only D.A. Saguto.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Expressions of Social Space and Identity: Interior Furnishings and Clothing from the Swedish Warship Vasa of 1628." , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Footwear preserves the physical imprint of the wearer, recording anthropometric data such as foot size, gait, and pathology. Prior to the 17th-century, it was also one of the first items of clothing produced in standardized sizes on an industrial scale. The Vasa...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elise B Carroll.

Footwear has been considered a necessity throughout history and examples have been seen throughout archaeological sites. The North Carolina shipwreck 31CR314, Queen Anne’s Revenge, has yielded a few examples of different footwear components. This includes a few examples of shoe buckles and notably a leather fragment with four wooden pegs. The leather fragment has been recently recovered from a concretion and is presently believed to be associated with a shoe heel stack. Though the presence of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan K. McNutt.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“We Go to Gain a Little Patch of Ground. That hath in it no profit but the name”: Revolutionary Research in Archaeologies of Conflict" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Conflict sites, from battlefields to internment camps, exist frozen in time, with assemblages that characterize some of the most direct evidence of human agency. For the Civil War, the historiography of Union Prisoners of War focused on their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Massimiliano Secci. Massimiliano Secci.

Since their invention computers have affected, influenced and often eased several processes in archaeological research. Photogrammetry has long being exploited in underwater archaeology for recording in situ underwater cultural heritage. Moreover, the opportunities offered by computer vision are now being tested and fully exploited by archaeologists and heritage researchers. The present paper discloses the results of a test produced with two softwares combining Structure from Motion and Image...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emma Verstraete.

Decades of archaeological investigation of the Lincoln Home Historic Site in Springfield, Illinois reveal a rich data set that provides a diverse look into the community.  Archival papers of one most successful pharmacies in the town provide detailed correspondence, purchase orders, and business information from approximately 1844-1860.  Examination of available products and consumer purchasing patterns provide insight into how pharmacies and communities kept pace with national and global trends...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Kostro.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. By the late eighteenth century, Virginia taverns were regularly equipped with long covered porches that served as outdoor living spaces for socializing and much-needed respite from the region's stifling heat and humidity. This paper draws on recent archaeological excavations of three eighteenth-century Williamsburg public houses:...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Kostro.

In 1760, backed by Benjamin Franklin and the College of William and Mary’s faculty, the London based philanthropy known as the Associates of Dr. Bray founded a unique school in Williamsburg, Virginia "for the instruction of Negro Children in the Principles of the Christian religion."  Students, male and female, enslaved and free, attended the school where they were taught Anglican catechism in addition to reading, writing and possibly sewing. As the stated objective of the Bray School was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristina J. Fricker. Sean C. Cox. Trevor Hough.

Ancient naval warfare is a subject of fascination for many archaeologists, but little is known about the actual warships; the lack of available archaeological material makes the study of naval warfare largely hypothetical.  The recovery of the Athlit Ram in 1980 and other subsequent finds, such as the Egadi Rams, expanded the available archaeological material drastically, and may provide some insight as to the physical characteristics and limitations of warships of the era.  The purpose of this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lotte E Govaerts.

The Upper Missouri Basin was part of the territory acquired by the United States through the Louisiana Purchase at the beginning of the 19th century. The Missouri River was the main route of transportation into the northwestern part of this new territory. US companies established trade posts along the river where they exchanged manufactured goods from the eastern US and Europe for furs or skins with local populations. For several decades, this was a high-volume business. In order to learn about...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Francesca Fernandini.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Archaeologies and Latin American Voices: Dialogues Transcending Colonizing Archaeologies", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The praxis of archaeology performed by foreign projects in developing countries such as Peru presents a clear extractive nature: data is extracted as raw material and exported to funding institutions almost always located in the global north. This data is then analyzed and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard K. Wills. Andrew T. Pietruszka.

For nearly 20 years, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) and its Central Identification Laboratory (CIL) have conducted forensic archaeological activities on submerged aircraft wreck sites. This work is undertaken for the ultimate purpose of recovering and identifying the remains of unaccounted for U.S. Military service members, and is world-wide in its scope. Over these years, JPAC and the CIL have had to confront challenges that have included: developing a structured program for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard K. Wills. Andrew T. Pietruszka.

This paper will examine two recent underwater forensic archaeological efforts undertaken by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) to address Second World War-era U.S. Naval aircraft wreck sites associated with unaccounted-for U.S. Military service members.  These efforts, in the Republic of Palau and the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, serve as case studies that illustrate the intersection between the responsibility of site preservation, and the duty of personnel accounting via...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew R. Virta.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of the Mid-Atlantic (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. A major rehabilitation project was undertaken from 2017-2020 at Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial, a National Park Service site preserving portions of an antebellum plantation in Arlington County, Virginia. The site includes the mansion, dependencies, and immediate grounds constructed between 1802 and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian Oxley.

Natural processes and human activity impact on our heritage.  Focussing on those areas and types of heritage that are least understood, most threatened, most significant and/or most valued by communities, English Heritage’s National Heritage Protection Plan provides a framework to further the protection, management and presentation of England’s historic environment.   Formal processes of foresight, threat analysis and risk assessment are considered to be fundamental to delivering the Plan...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bryce A. Davenport. Robert W. Wanner.

This paper presents the results of surface analyses conducted at Cunningham Falls State Park in Frederick County, Maryland using Lidar-derived bare-earth models. During peak years (approximately 1859-1885) Catoctin Furnace employed over 300 woodcutters in 11,000 acres of company-owned land. Recent Lidar acquisitions for this area have allowed us to identify historic collier's pits in the hills and mountains surrounding modern Catoctin Furnace in Cunningham Fall State Park, opening direct...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin Fogle.

The well-publicized liberation of Port Royal in late 1861 was a major concern for slaveholders who operated plantations along the coast or near potential military targets. In an attempt to keep their enslaved communities in bondage, many large planters abandoned their plantations and relocated their bondsmen to sparsely populated inland regions far from the probable path of Union forces. The refugeeing of enslaved laborers put entire communities in perilous circumstances tearing apart support...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth M Dresser-Kluchman.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Between 1762 and 1847, Salisbury Connecticut was home to Riga Ironworks, one of forty nearby blast furnaces which processed iron ore for highly prized cannons and anchors, among other objects of an emerging United States militarism. During this time, the Riga furnace supported a thriving town’s economy and identity. Today, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth A. Comer.

This is an abstract from the "Cemeteries and Burial Practices" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. The forensic facial reconstruction of two of Catoctin Furnace's earliest workers is providing a visual bridge for translating current scientific findings to a broad audience, fostering dialogue on complicated subjects such as slavery, death, and disease while increasing public awareness of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Hull.

This is an abstract from the "The Transformation of Historical Archaeology: Papers in Honor of Charles E Orser, Jr" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1994, Charles Orser began a multi-year excavation program in County Roscommon, Ireland, that would help to legitimize the nascent field of post-medieval (modern-world) archaeology in the country. In a place rich with passage tombs and golden hordes, a focus on post-1700 deposits was unusual enough,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan Espersen. Jay Haviser.

This paper analyses continuity and change in burial practices through time on Saba, Dutch Caribbean, from first colonization in the mid seventeenth century to the modern era.  The Saban tradition of stone-lined vaults surrounding the buried coffin is a cultural element from English migrants that dates back to early Welsh and Anglo-Saxon burial traditions, and continues into the present day.  This practice, however, appears to be limited to the free dominant culture, as it has not been observed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bradley Phillippi.

The production of history is inherently political and often involves legitimating the status quo by obscuring the historical roots of contemporary inequality. This paper investigates how residents of an affluent suburb on Long Island came to remember one of their historic places as a site representing white, colonial history and heritage exclusively when in fact it was a historically diverse household comprised of white family members and nonwhite laborers. The masking of plural space and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Cassello.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Monuments, Memory, and Commemoration" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. President Obama established the Pullman National Monument in 2015. Within months, private developers advanced plans to redevelop the site known historically as “Poverty Row” as the “Pullman Artspace Lofts.” This significant but often excluded site is associated with the difficult history of some of the poorest, mostly immigrant, workers...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marley Brown III.

The topic of ritual practices among the enslaved population of the early Chespeake has been extensively examined,, most procatively by scholars such as Patricia Samford ,who have attempted to link what is known about the importation of captive Africans from historical sources to physical evidence encountered at the living sites of the enslaved in particular places during specific periods.  This paper develops a model, combining recent efforts to incorporate memory work, notably forgetting, into...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Linda Naunapper.

History of the Great Lakes Fox Wars (AD 1680-1730) is embedded within broader historical narratives that are based upon early modern period primary source material. Archaeologists use the narratives to assign material culture meaning by matching archaeological assemblages to what is known about the historic past. Some decades-old unanswered (or seemingly unanswerable) questions posed by this highly complex temporal period, however, appear to be rooted in a selective use of historical...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erin S. Schwartz.

Although the term "plantation" is typically associated with agricultural enterprises, the Buffalo Forge industrial plantation in southwest Virginia evades simple classification. The antebellum iron forge complex anchored a diverse array of people and places, employing varying ratios of freed, enslaved, white, black, and male and female workers in its industrial, agricultural, and domestic operations. While extensive documentary analysis on Buffalo Forge's masters and slaves has been conducted by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cassandra B. Apuzzo. H. Kory Cooper.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Fort Ouiatenon, built in 1717, was the first French fur trade post established in present day Indiana. Over 100 kilograms of waste from pyrotechnological activities were excavated from an area believed to be related to a forge during the 1970’s. Historical documents identify the presence of a blacksmith at the fort, as well as the possible use of locally available coal and iron ore. Both...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sanna Lipkin.

This is an abstract from the "Burial, Space, and Memory of Unusual Death" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Several cemeteries were established during the 19th century at Buffalo, NY. Today many of these cemeteries do not exist. Throughout decades human remains have been revealed by construction work, but about 1200 burials and memorial stones from different cemeteries were moved to new Forest Lawn cemetery after its establishment in 1850. These...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas W. Owsley. Eadaoin Harney. Inigo Olalde. Karin S. Bruwelheide. David Reich. Elizabeth A. Comer.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Retrospective: 50 Years Of Research And Changing Narratives At Catoctin Furnace, Maryland", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2015, funding was awarded to the Catoctin Furnace Historical Society to provide data-grounded interpretation of a cemetery and its skeletal remains (circa 1790-1840) previously impacted by development. Phase I involved updated analysis, including assessments of demography, bone and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Victor.

This is an abstract from the "Frontier and Settlement Archaeology" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Frontiers are creative, chaotic places where cultures collide with geological and ecological forces of the physical environment; however, these dynamic spaces of interaction, meeting, and change, are often highly focused on one population – that of the dominant settler and colonizer. Particularly in the American West, frontier narratives follow dour...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicole Bucchino Grinnan. Mike Thomin.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Port of Call: Archaeologies of Labor and Movement through Ports", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Along Florida’s Panhandle, several small, coastal communities exist today as a reminder of an earlier period in the state’s history: a time when the movement of people, goods, and information relied on waterways. The town of Apalachicola, in particular, once supported enough commodities production and maritime...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Olivia L. Thomas.

The early eighteenth century saw many changes in the New World Spanish colonies. As Spain's new Bourbon monarch instituted many reforms in Iberia, trade regulations and colonial systems profoundly affected the colonists in the Americas. The seafaring community was a sort of bridge between these two worlds, and thus a place of cultural exchange. Items for trade, or those utilized by crewmembers and passengers, would have reflected various preferences in style, material, and form, that may...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas P Ames. Ian Kuijt.

The construction of a house can be as much an expression of localized identity as the items contained within. Whether individualized or based on a common layout, these foundations of the "home" play a role in materializing the larger narratives occuring within a society. One of these narratives revolves around the representation of economic "cores" verses "margins" through built space. An example of this dichotomy is the introduction of the Congested District Board standard for housing into the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Horlings.

Vessels engaged in the Atlantic trade with West Africa contended with rough seas and dangerous shorelines that offered few natural harbors. To combat this, ships generally anchored offshore in deeper water and used small vessels for trade and communication with trading establishments on shore. While the underwater seascape was a determining factor in navigation, the surface landscape was both fashioned by, and played dramatic roles in, the development of trade and navigation.  The intersection...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jean-Sébastien Guibert. Christian Stouvenot. Frédéric Leroy.

A broad point of view is applied in order to present this first approach on the formation processes of submerged  and coastal archaeological sites in Guadeloupe. Evidence from historical analysis to archaeological observation help to explain formation processes associated with coastal and submerged archaeological sites. This paper presents a typological approach linked with the site location: underwater, coastal and micro island sites. The formation processes of shipwreck sites incorporate...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Justin A Parkoff.

During the American Civil War, USS Westfield served as the Union's flagship for operations along the Texas Gulf Coast. On January 1, 1863, Westfield was destroyed by her captain at the Battle of Galveston to avoid capture. In 2009, the disarticulated artifact debris field was recovered from the Texas City Channel in advance of a dredging project. After five years of extensive conservations efforts, these artifacts were reconstructed into a large exhibit at the Texas City Museum. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessie Garland.

The volume of archaeological work undertaken in Christchurch, New Zealand, since the 2011 earthquake has uncovered a vast quantity of material culture related to the 19th century settlement and development of the city. The challenge of interpreting this material has revealed several unique opportunities to examine questions of consumption and agency in the formation of the city’s material identity. In particular, the city-wide scale of archaeological excavation in combination with a site by site...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Gibb. Maevlyn A. Stevens.

This is an abstract from the "Jesuit Missions, Plantations, and Industries" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Singular in purpose and variable in implementation, Jesuit missions in the Middle Atlantic region assumed a variety of forms, influenced by local needs and the degree of participation of local Catholic communities. Spatial data from identified mission sites of the mid-17th through 19th centuries document the degree of variability and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mechelle Kerns Galway.

Due to President Thomas Jefferson’s call for seacoast defense, known as the "Second System," the capital city of Annapolis, Maryland saw the construction of two forts during the period of 1808 to 1810.  By the War of 1812, Annapolis had Fort Madison, a traditional star-shaped fortification and Fort Severn, a round gun battery to protect the Chesapeake Bay Severn River approach, Annapolis Roads, and the city.  This paper outlines the history of both forts, the research findings on the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lori Lee. Mary Elizabeth Ibarrola.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Archaeologies of the Long Emancipation", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Fort Mose was the first legally sanctioned free black community in Spanish North America. In 1693 the Spanish governor of Florida guaranteed the legal freedom of self-emancipated Africans and African Americans if they converted to Catholicism, built and occupied a fort on the frontier of St. Augustine, and fought against Spanish...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Strezewski. H. Kory Cooper. Misty Jackson. Terrance J. Martin.

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. Fort Ouiatenon was established by the French in 1717 in response to Indigenous demands for a fur trade post in the Wabash River valley. For over four decades Ouiatenon was the site of interaction between French, Indigenous, and Metis people. Following an attack by Kentucky militia in 1791, most of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Glenn Farris.

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. In 1812 the Russian American Company (RAC), a fur hunting monopoly headquartered at New Archangel (Sitka) Alaska, commenced construction of a fortified settlement on the coast of northern California. Although the primary purpose was to facilitate the hunting of fur bearing sea mammals, it was also meant to be...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julie Rogers Saccente. Nancy Marie White.

Spanish inroads into North America targeted the land that is now Florida, with sixteenth-century explorations and seventeenth-century missions. Between the major settlements of St. Marks/San Luis (today, Tallahassee) and Pensacola, the little-known Fort San José was an outpost and rest-stop along the northeastern coast of the Gulf of Mexico, briefly occupied in 1701 and from 1719-21. Newly available data and materials collections from this fort document its position as a way-station between the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Rodning. David Moore. Robin Beck.

Between 1566 and 1568, after 50 years of Spanish exploration in southeastern North America, Captain Juan Pardo succeeded at establishing six forts and related settlements in the Carolinas and eastern Tennessee. Fort San Juan and the town of Cuenca formed his principal outpost at the northern edge of the Spanish colonial province of La Florida. The archaeological remnants of Fort San Juan, Cuenca, and the native host community of Joara are located at the Berry site, in western North Carolina....

DOCUMENT Citation Only John W. Cardinal. Aaron A. Howard. Erika K Loveland. Michael Nassaney. James B Schwaderer.

The 2015 field season of the Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project marks the 40th annual archaeological field school hosted by Western Michigan University. Students enrolled in this RPA certified field school participated in a number of activities pertaining to public archaeology with a focus on architecture in 18th century New France. Students participated in fieldwork, lab work, writing blogs and posting to our social media, an annual public lecture series, public outreach to over 800 school...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Mantyck. Michael Nassaney. Austin J George. Erika K Loveland. Genevieve Perry.

The Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project is a collaboration between the city of Niles, Michigan and Western Michigan University. The Project’s field school teaches archaeological techniques in an environment where students engage with the community to help understand local history. The project holds a lecture series featuring guest speakers and concludes the season with an annual archaeological open house. Throughout the field season, we are invited by individuals and organizations for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Sabick.

This is an abstract from the "Re-discovering the Archaeology Past and Future at Fort Ticonderoga" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Fort Ticonderoga’s 18th Century Tool Collection represents artifacts recovered from the site of Fort Ticonderoga over the course of the 20th and 21st  centuries. These tools reflect the occupation of the complex by French, Native American, British, Continental, and German forces from roughly 1755 to 1781. It is one of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Martin ELOUGA.

Shortly after settling in the upper Mbam catchment due to migration which took them from the Adamawa highlands to their current habitat, the Tikars faced attacks from neighboring and distant ethnic groups. The fortifications that encircle the chiefdoms created indicate the conflicts that marred relations with other social groups. These fortifications which could be seen as factors of reconfiguration of space in the chiefdoms, were temporal borders put in place to ensure the safety of property...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles H. Fithian.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeological Research of the 17th Century Chesapeake" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Between 1642 and 1651, the English Civil Wars, or English Revolution, would rage across the British landscape. Actually a complex series of conflicts, this civil war would have profound implications for the history of the British Isles. Less well known is how this conflict resonated in other regions within the British...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sigrid Arnott. David Maki.

For hundreds of years, Upper Midwest Dakota constructed burial earthworks at natural liminal spaces. These sacred landscapes signaled boundaries between sky, earth, and water realms; the living and the dead; and local bands. During the 19th century, the U.S. Government took ownership of Dakota homelands in Minnesota and the Dakotas leading to decades of violent conflict. At the boundaries of conflict forts were built to help the military "sweep the region now occupied by hostiles" and protect...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Salvatore Garfi.

Spain colonised Western Sahara in 1884. Any Spanish sense of place in the territory was limited until the French ‘pacified’ the region in 1934, and the colony was girdled by French and Spanish forts. Spain ceded the colony to Morocco and Mauritania in 1975, and Spain’s disarticulated outposts were replaced by a matrix of earth and stone defensive walls (berms), constructed by the new colonizing power, Morocco, in its bid to secure the territory from nationalist Polisario fighters. Viewing these...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steve A. Tomka.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Plus Ultra: An examination of current research in Spanish Colonial/Iberian Underwater and Terrestrial Archaeology in the Western Hemisphere." , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The locations and layouts of Franciscan missions was prescribed in great detail by the Crown. Yet, as it often happens with rules and regulations and their implementations, the realities of building a shield against perceived or real...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Philip Levy.

Sometime in the 1870s, a small set of subterranean stones became an object of importance and pilgrimage. Promoters, travel writers, and visitors claimed that the stones were the original foundations of George Washington’s boyhood home near Fredericksburg Virginia. The site was already well known as the site of Parson Weems’s famous Cherry Tree parable, but as the landscape recovered from the Civil War, residents look for other ways to have a less troubled American past. Washington provided the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Derek Miller.

Studies of diasporic peoples often highlight their global connections. Moreover, diasporic peoples are always dispersed from somewhere. However, despite this emphasis on global connections and movement away from a homeland, diasporic peoples also create particular places in local settings. These places play an important role in the maintenance of diasporic cultural traditions and identity. In the 1650s a group of Jews arrived on the English island of Barbados and established a small...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tatiana Niculescu.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Urban Archaeology: Down by the Water" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Adopted by City Council in November of 1989 and incorporated into the zoning ordinance in 1992, Alexandria’s Archaeological Protection Code serves to preserve the city’s rich heritage for future generations of scholars and the public. Recent large-scale projects along the waterfront have unearthed amazing finds, perhaps beyond what the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily S. Dale.

From 2011 to 2014, Dr. Carolyn White and Emily Dale of the University of Nevada-Reno and Fred Frampton and Eric Dillingham of the USFS collaborated on a series of Passport in Time projects in the historic mining town of Aurora, Nevada. The dozens of PIT volunteers who participated throughout the years came from a variety of backgrounds and for myriad reasons, yet all left with a connection to the past and an understanding of the importance of protecting America’s archaeological heritage. By...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ethics Bowl Committee.

Welcome to the SHA’s fourth annual Ethics Bowl! Sponsored by the APTC Student Subcommittee and aided by the Ethic Committee, this event is designed to challenge students in terrestrial and underwater archaeology with case studies relevant to ethical issues that they may encounter in their careers. Teams will be scored on clarity, depth, focus, and judgment in their responses. The bowl is intended to foster both good-natured competition between students from many different backgrounds and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Barker.

The production process represents the beginning of the life of material things. In this paper I shall argue that the archaeology of pottery production sites is more than ‘industrial archaeology’ in the traditional sense of the term, but rather the archaeology of industrial production in the widest sense. The evidence derived from ceramic waste recovered from production site excavations informs an understanding of the life cycles of those products which progressed beyond the factory gate to the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Miriam A. W. Rothenberg. Elizabeth Gurin.

Since 2012, Brown University has conducted annual excavations on College Hill with the aim of understanding diachronic changes in the campus’ physical environment and student activities. This poster presents the results of archaeometric research conducted on a variety of artifacts (ceramic, glass, and metal) excavated from a single context abutting Hope College dormitory (constructed 1822). The artifacts were analyzed using p-XRF, optical microscopy, SEM, and EDS, in order to understand their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eve J. Campbell.

In the opening section of his Gaelic language text The history of Ireland (1632), the Munster cleric Geoffrey Keating took English writers to task for their misrepresentations of Ireland. Keating was particularly aggrieved by their conflation of the habits and material culture of the Irish nobility and the ‘inferior people’. His explicitly class conscious rebuttal of outsiders’ accounts of Ireland forms part of a broader discourse among the native Irish literati concerned with social hierarchy...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Brown.

This paper presents the final report of the Corolla Wreck, North Carolina's oldest ship remains. Included is a historical archaeological analysis of the wooden structural remains comprising just ten partial frames and less than two dozen associated artifacts. 

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marijo Gauthier-bérubé.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "From the Bottom Up: Socioeconomic Archaeology of the French Maritime Empire" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Sunk in 1692 at the Battle of La Hougue during the Nine Years' War (1688–1697), the wrecks of Saint-Philippe, Magnifique, Merveilleux, Foudroyant, and Ambitieux constituted what is considered to be the first navy of France. These ships were built by master shipwrights who were already seasoned...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Williams.

Colonial Williamsburg has one of the longest continuously running archaeological conservation programs in North America. This program provides a unique laboratory in which to examine both historic and present day intersections between archaeology and conservation, to consider the inherent tensions and synergies between the two fields and to look at the ways they both contribute to the creation and understanding of history. Using a retrospective approach, this paper will examine the interactions...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Colleen M. Delaney.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "California: Post-1850s Consumption and Use Patterns in Negotiated Spaces" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. California State University Channel Islands campus was originally constructed as the former Camarillo State Mental Hospital. This location serves as a case study for examining changes in communities and land use in California throughout time. Archaeological surveys on campus, artifact analyses, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth M Scott.

            In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the town of Ste. Genevieve (in present-day Missouri) was supported by agriculture, salt production, and fur-trading, all of which were dependent on enslaved African American and Native American laborers.  French emigrants and New World French descendants made up the majority of Euro-American settlers and French cultural traditions structured daily life in the community.  The built environment included architectural barriers, a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kerri S. Barile. D. Brad Hatch.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Monuments, Memory, and Commemoration" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Cultural memories in Fredericksburg, Virginia, are numerous and pervasive. While some stories are rooted in recorded data, others are the product of changing tales over time—modified as they filter through the lens of cultural consciousness. Recognition of these traditions is imperative during urban archaeology. In 2018, Dovetail Cultural...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tracy Jenkins. Stefan Woehlke.

Since 2011, Archaeology in Annapolis has been researching a free African American neighborhood known as The Hill in Easton, Maryland, that was established before 1790. At the invitation of local community members, archaeologists were brought into the project to work with local residents and scholars from Morgan State University conducting documentary, oral, and architectural history. The goal is to use research and the remembrances of the past to promote community preservation and development...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah J Francis.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. September 1, 1818: To the free negresse Maria Lucia 34 years old and 5 feet 4 inches tall leaving on the Schooner of Mr. Laurent for Pensacola. - New Orleans, Office of the Mayor. On September 1, 1818, the New Orleans government recorded Maria Lucia’s passport, the first granted to a free person of color. From 1818-1831, the city...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Croucher.

In understanding the archaeology of nineteenth century African American New Englanders, although some studies have targeted smaller, rural, sites, archaeologists and historians have tended to focus on communities in the largest New England cities, much less attention has been paid to smaller urban centers. However, for the first generations of emancipated New Englanders, smaller urban centers clearly exerted a significant draw. Middletown, Connecticut, was home to a growing community of African...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madison J Aubey.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2019 the remains of the Clotilda were located along the Mobile River near Africatown, Alabama. As the last slave ship to enter the United States, the rediscovery of the Clotilda, coupled with the publication of Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon, caused a resurgence in attention to the Africatown community. Founded soon after Emancipation by captive Africans who arrived on the Clotilda,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Khadene K Harris.

Archaeological interest in postemancipation life on plantations has received significantly less attention than those dating before emancipation. The resulting neglect misses several opportunities to unveil the complexities of postemancipation social and economic life and the impact of full freedom on the material and spatial practices of formerly enslaved individuals. I show how both planters and free people reorganized their physical surroundings and what this reorganization can reveal about...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashley M. Morton.

Although douching paraphernalia is increasingly recognized in scholarly articles and CRM reports it continues to be underrepresented and under discussed. Given the private nature of this non-display good, some form of taboo meaning among archaeologists and material culture studies have taken place. Yet this complex behavior, still common among American women today, provides a unique case study for archaeologists to explore women’s past lived experiences of health and illness and the motivations...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Elizabeth Ibarrola.

We define Maroons by their overt resistance; theirs was one of the most extreme forms of anti-slavery resistance in the Americas and for many scholars is representative of the human desire to be free. Maroons removed themselves from the places in which they were enslaved and created new places apart from this brutal existence. However, reducing our understanding of Maroon life to a history of domination and resistance limits the scope of Maroon agency and values certain forms of action, such as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Oluseyi O. Agbelusi.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Archaeologies of the Long Emancipation", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. While many archaeological studies examine the impacts of the Atlantic slave trade on West African communities, archaeological research on tension for freedom in the region has been limited. No archaeological studies have analysed how anti-slavery or struggle for abolition set the stage for colonialism in the region. This paper...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laurie A. Wilkie.

In the late 1860s, the frontier army provided opportunities for black Civil War veterans, displaced northern black workers and formerly enslaved men to develop careers.  During the Civil War, black soldiers had successfully won the fight for equal pay, and the military was a rare space that offered regular pay, educational opportunities, and limited opportunity for upward mobility.  The segregated cavalry and infantry units of the black regulars, however, quickly became posted in some of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anthony Martin. Warren Perry. Janet Woodruff. Jerry Sawyer.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of Enslavement" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.  From the mid-18th to mid-19th century, African American communities in New England t developed their own political and cultural structure headed by elected officials known as Black Governors or Black Kings.  Black Govenors/Kings operated at the local level and performed several important social functions including heading events, resolving conflicts and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only George Avery. Tom Middlebrook. Morris K. Jackson.

The piney woods area of El Camino Real de los Tejas, spanning from Natchitoches, Louisiana to Crockett, Texas is an area characterized by multi-cultural interaction under generally peaceful conditions during the middle to late 18th century’this would change after the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. The French in Louisiana had established economic and social relations with the Spanish and various American Indian groups in Texas during the 18th century and identifying French pottery in the piney...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert A. Selig. Elisabeth Lavigne. Wade P. Catts.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond Battlefields: Culture and Conflict through the Philadelphia Campaign" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the fall of 1777, the Royal Navy was prevented from reaching Philadelphia by river obstructions, a small Pennsylvania Navy, and two forts. Fort Mifflin and Fort Mercer, on opposite sides of the Delaware river, served as the principal American defensive works. On 22 October 1777, Crown Forces...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John de Bry. Chuck Meide.

16th century France was a vigorous, expansionist nation emerging from feudalism and dreaming of empire. Spain, the world's leading power, already had a foothold in the Americas, and France wanted a share of the riches. After a first attempt, France assembled a more powerful expedition in May 1565. Shortly after they arrived in Florida, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés' fleet appeared and challenged the French. What followed led to the loss of the French fleet and the founding of St. Augustine, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erika K Hartley. Michael S Nassaney.

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. Imperial ambitions and the search for a Northwest Passage led French explorers deep into the North American continent to establish over 100 trading posts and fortified settlements from the St. Lawrence River valley to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Fort St. Joseph was among them; it was founded in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rob Mann.

During the late 18th century several hundred Canary Islanders (Isleños) were relocated to a remote village at the very edge of Spanish Louisiana. Recent archaeological investigations at the site of this village, known as Galveztown, are beginning to reveal the complex social processes at work on the Spanish frontier. Due to restrictive Spanish economic policies, grounded in a weak and contradiction-riddled mercantilism, the Isleños had very little control over the materiality of their daily...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Birgitta Wallace.

According to David Anthony (1990), the first stages of all long-distance migrations follow a leapfrogging pattern. Merchants, trappers, mercenaries and craft specialists create an “island” form of settlement in suitable locations separated by large stretches of land. The early French habitations reflected such a leapfrogging, exploratory settlement pattern, indicative of their exploitive and competitive nature. Settlements consisted of habitations in widely scattered coastal locations. Their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amy Borgens.

In 1684, as part of preparations for a French expedition to the Mississippi River in the Gulf of Mexico, King Louis XIV granted Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle 400 firearms in addition to other weapons and supplies. These arms, though important as a means of defense or food procurement, were intended for another purpose as well - a campaign to wrest regional silver mines in northern Coahuila from Spanish control. Fragmentary and complete artifacts recovered from the hull of La Salle’s vessel...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dana Lee Pertermann.

Fort Bridger, WYhas a strong connection to French colonialism in North America. While the original trading post was created to accomodate French traders in the West, the French influence on military structures has not been as well researched in this region. Lunette fortifications that were recorded on historical documents have been found through magnatometry, and are currently being excavated. Features have been discovered that do not match the historical records exactly, however, such as a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patricia H Schwindinger.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "From the Bottom Up: Socioeconomic Archaeology of the French Maritime Empire" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Throughout the 1700s, France and Great Britain warred over command of the sea. Internally, administrators of both countries, inspired by the rationalism of the Enlightenment, pushed shipwrights to design ships scientifically, convinced that this would give their navy an edge in battle. Shipwrights...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jenifer C. Elam. RPA.

Tomkins Cove, a scenic, mountain-side community an hour’s drive north of New York City, was the setting of the House of the Good Shepherd orphanage (1865–1893) established and directed by Reverend Ebenezer Gay Jr. under the supervision of the Episcopal Diocese of New York. The orphanage and the later Fresh Air institutions (1894–1973) that occupied the same property on the west bank of the Hudson River relied on small monetary and other donations from the public to carry out their activities....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melissa Darby.

The Drake Anchorage Research Collaboration (DARC) is revisiting the question of where on the west coast of North America Drake and Company careened the Golden Hinde and camped for five weeks during the summer of 1579. Though Drake’s logs and charts are lost, we have several contemporary accounts and documents that provide a picture of conditions at the landing. Drake and company built an enclosed camp on the shore and spent 37 days repairing their ship and preparing for the voyage across the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only April Kamp-Whittaker.

During World War II thousands of Japanese American families were relocated from the west coast to the interior of the United States. Internment along with rampant racism and cultural stereotyping focused public attention on individuals of Japanese descent in this county and raised questions about identity and national allegiance. Research from Amache, the internment camp located in Colorado, is used to explore issues of children’s national identity and broader understanding of the war. ...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn A. Cross.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Many cities in the U.S. have rendered landscapes of racial violence invisible by effacing such sites from their cityscapes and any memory of them from public consciousness. Martyrs Park in Dallas, Texas was the scene of an 1860 lynching, the culmination of hysteria over a rumored slave revolt. A 2018 article referred to the park,...