Society for Historical Archaeology

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karin Bruwelheide. Douglas Owsley. Kathryn Barca.

More than three decades ago, a highway expansion project resulted in the excavation of thirty-five historic graves at Catoctin Furnace. Initial analysis was conducted by Smithsonian anthropologist J. Lawrence Angel, who identified the remains as African or African-American, presumably associated with the late eighteenth – mid-nineteenth century operation of the iron works. This report presents updated assessments of demography and pathology, as well as stable carbon and nitrogen isotope data to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Renae J. Campbell.

Japanese Gulch Village, located on the Mukilteo Lumber Company complex in Washington State, was home to a community of Issei millworkers and their families between 1903 and 1930.  Excavations conducted in the vicinity of this village in 2007 recovered a large archaeological collection that included at least 100 Japanese-manufactured ceramic vessels.  This paper presents a reanalysis of a selection of these vessels using an expanded typology specific to historical Japanese table- and sake wares....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Corey Ames Heyward.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of Contact and Colonialism" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Colonoware, a low-fired earthenware made by both enslaved Africans and Native Americans, is a ceramic tradition reflecting the interactions of these two groups with Europeans in colonial North America. The academic understanding of colonoware and its diversity has been enhanced in recent years by an intense increase in publications and research...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lukáš Holata.

The transformation of settlement structure during the medieval and post-medieval periods was mainly characterised by the abandonment of villages and the subsequent rise of other types of settlement unit. Although these processes have influenced the basic shape of the present landscape, their study is still neglected in Czech archaeology. Therefore, I try to reveal reasons, trends and also motivations within and behind these processes. This research focuses on three regions in the Czech Republic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles Dagneau. Filippo Ronca.

Archaeological investigation at the Battle of the Restigouche NHS has taken place for over forty years, from the initial discovery and the excavation of the 22-gun frigate Machault in 1967’1972, to the recent assessment of this national historic site as a battlefield including multiple features on land and underwater. This paper focuses on the many aspects of the importance of the Machault project. The shipwreck and its collection represent a rare witness to colonial trade and warfare. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paola Ortiz. Castros. Francheska Martinez. Edith Morales.

Military confrontations during the first half of August of 1898, between Coamo and Aibonito, Puerto Rico, were the last known developments of the Spanish-American War. Historically, this area has been listed as the last battlefield of Spain in America. There are several factors about these military events, such as scarcity of historical resources, political conflicts of interest, and the unseemly lack of archeological research, that have kept them from being defined in the academic literature....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paola A Schiappacasse.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, archaeological research was undertaken in urban blocks of the Santo Domingo and Ballajá wards producing one of the largest collections from within the city walls of San Juan, Puerto Rico.  Part of the collection was transferred to the Museum of History, Anthropology and Art of the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras campus.  This presentation explores the contents of the collection in terms of artifacts, documents, drawings, and photographs.  The objective...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott C Warnasch.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The chronology and legacy of Fisk’s metallic burial cases and the subsequent manufacturers of the 1850s has always been vexingly incomplete. A paucity of detailed primary sources and a significant omission in an early historical account, repeated in secondary sources, primarily Habenstein and Lamers (1955) and somewhat echoed by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brad Hatch. Barbara Heath. Lauren McMillan.

The John Hallowes Site in Westmoreland County, Virginia was excavated from 1968 to 1969. While no site report was written, an article summarizing the findings was published in Historical Archaeology in 1971. The artifacts from the site were not systematically catalogued until the 1980s, and it was not until 2010-2012 that an integrated study that compared the artifact data with site features, site history, regional archaeological findings, and regional history was completed. Benefiting from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alaina K Scapicchio.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Monuments and Statues to Women: Arrival of an Historical Reckoning of Memory and Commemoration", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Rebecca Nurse Homestead in Danvers, Massachusetts is home to the first monument commemorating a victim of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. The 1885 memorial to Rebecca Nurse is located in her historic family cemetery and has functioned as a grave marker because she received no...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicole Estey Walsh.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Meanwhile, In the NPS Lab: Discoveries from the Collections" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The year was 1968. Hawaii Five-O premiers, Richard Nixon wins the presidency, and excavations at the Casey House at Minute Man National Historical Park conclude. In the 52 years since the excavation, the collection has been largely ignored and completely unstudied despite containing outstanding examples of material...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen A. Brighton.

Ireland’s modern history has been largely ignored archaeologically. It was not until the anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising that sparked archaeological interest. The work deals mostly with the actual event, thus forms a study of a single moment in time. What is missing is a  dialogue linking Ireland’s interwar transformations to that happening across Europe after World War I. This presentation seeks to begin the discussion of interwar Ireland through the material culture recovered from the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Victoria A. Cacchione.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Boston-Higginbotham House was home to one of the founding families of Nantucket’s African-American community. The women of the Boston family served as a crucial element to the persistence and survivance of both the African and Native American cultures within the community. The Wamponoag matriarch and her female descendants found ways to subvert some Euro-American societal and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexander Menaker.

This paper outlines developing dissertation research that integrates archaeological and historical evidence about the community of Andagua and the Ayo Valley in the Southern Peruvian Andes. Constructed as a Spanish colonial reducción, Andagua resides in a seldom-visited highland area, and today is merely considered a rural, provincial neighbor of Arequipa. Andagua, however, has a striking past evident in the substantial prehispanic remains that surround and lie buried beneath the contemporary...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Giuseppe Mastronuzzi. Rita Auriemma. Fabrizio Antonioli. Marco Anzidei.

The coastal landscape of Southern Apulia from Monopoli to Tarantois are characterised by gently sloping rocky coasts marked by deep rias and bays alternating with low cliffs. The presence in the past of small villages, landing places, structured harbours or cities are today witnessed along the coastline by archaeological sites both submerged and emerged. The position of quarries, tombs, sewer channels, cisterns, piers, fish tanks and shipwrecks of the Bronze Age, Classical and medieval periods...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric B. Gleason.

Uncovered during ongoing efforts to restore the last standing Chinese operated laundry and merchandise store in The Dalles, Oregon, test excavation at site 35WS453 has exposed the deep roots of a largely vanished community. The thick stratified deposits at the site are the product of nearly a century’s worth of intensive occupation, followed by a long period of near abandonment. By coupling archival research with the archaeological record, we are gaining a clearer understanding of the site...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anthony H Gilchrist.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2018, a survey conducted on shipwrecks in Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire, USA, found that many of these sites were at risk of destruction from recreational divers and fishermen. A subsequent survey conducted in the summer of 2021 found a reliable, low-cost method of recording these shipwrecks to conserve as much data as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brandi Carrier. John Bright. William Hoffman. Dave Conlin.

Between March, 2013, and October, 2014, the National Park Service Submerged Resources Center and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s Office of Renewable Energy Programs collaborated on a marine magnetic research and testing initiative resulting in the development of a custom ArcGIS python toolbox for visualizing and assessing marine magnetic survey data used to identify submerged cultural material. These tools, and the mathematical models driving them, were applied in numerous survey...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Reams. Adrian Hunt.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. An overview of aircraft carriers discovered by R/V Petrel in 2018 and 2019. These discoveries include the USS Lexington, USS Wasp, USS Hornet and wrecked aircraft associated with each. These historic WW2 carriers were discovered at depths ranging from 4,000 to greater than 5,500 meters in the Pacific Ocean.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dominique Rissolo. James C. Chatters. Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales. Alberto E Nava Blank. Blaine Schubert. H. Gregory McDonald. Pilar Luna Erreguerena.

In addition to a nearly complete human skeleton dating to the Late Pleistocene, the submerged cave site of Hoyo Negro contains a diverse and well preserved assemblage of extinct and extant fauna from the Yucatan Peninsula. Recent and on-going investigations have focused on the documentation, sampling, and partial recovery of select specimens for description and analysis. Of particular interest are bears of the genus Tremarctos, a yet unnamed megalonychid ground sloth, cougars (Puma concolor),...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin P Ford. Nick J Bon-Harper.

Longstanding questions about the main house at Ash Lawn-Highland prompted a Phase I archaeological study of the plantation’s domestic core and adjacent hilltop in 2014. This work revealed an area of interest just east of and adjacent to the 1870s wing. Phase II testing of this area in 2015 identified a substantial masonry foundation with partial basement. Associated material culture suggests that the structure dates to the first quarter of the nineteenth century. The projected architectural...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan R Snow. Alexis Artuz. Laura Tenen.

This paper will discuss the results of the archaeological investigations that were conducted as part of the establishment of a platted reburial area at Mission San Juan. The discovery of human remains during the stabilization and restoration of the Mission San Juan church led to a creative partnership between the Archdiocese of San Antonio and the National Park Service to provide a respectful reburial area that complied with the Texas Health and Safety Code, and did not compromise the integrity...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Worth.

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. Four years of archaeological investigations have now been conducted by the University of West Florida at the site of the port settlement established by Tristán de Luna y Arellano on Pensacola Bay in 1559, and devastated by the loss of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Don Booth. Robert J. Moore.

In 2015 the National Park Service and the City of St. Louis initiated a major redesign and renovation of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial; home of the Gateway Arch.  The memorial is located on the site of the French colonial 18th century village of St. Louis which later in the 19th century developed into the commercial hub of the city.  Due to the continued growth of the city throughout the 19th century as well as the destruction and redevelopment following the Great Fire of 1849 and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alistair G Paterson. Wendy Van Duivenvoorde. Souter Corioli. Green Jeremy.

The archaeological sites related to the wreck of the 1629 VOC Batavia and subsequent mutiny have been studied since the 1960s. As part of the 'Shipwrecks of the Roaring 40s' Australian Research Council project, new discoveries have been made at several Batavia sites, particularly of victims on Beacon Island and the first European execution site on Long Island. These and other innovations help illuminate one of Australia's grimmest moments in history.  

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen Y. Smith. Meg Gaillard. Natalie Adams Pope.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Recent work on SC DNR’s Fort Frederick Heritage Preserve, in Beaufort County, South Carolina, revealed a domestic structure likely associated with J. Joyner Smith’s 700-acre Antebellum Period Sea Island cotton plantation. More than two-dozen features related to the structure and the use of space surrounding the structure were documented through excavation and photogrammetry. In this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Zimmerman.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In April of 1972, during the construction of a new home, a considerable number of pre-historic and 17th century historic artifacts were uncovered. James Deetz, then assistant director of Plimoth Plantation, was contacted, and excavations soon began. Deetz and his fellow researchers eventually put forth the opinion that they had found the remains of the lost homesite of Isaac...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Travis Parno.

In 1981, the archaeological staff of Historic St. Mary’s City began a period of intensive survey designed to uncover portions of the 17th-century city. Ultimately their efforts revealed the city’s historic core, an intersection at the beating heart of early Maryland governance. One of the anchors of the town’s center was the Leonard Calvert House. Home to the colony’s first (and later third) governor, the Calvert House was one of the largest wooden structures in colonial Maryland that at varying...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen E. McIlvoy.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Current Research on Virginia Plantations: Reexamining Historic Landscapes" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Located only 200 feet east of Thomas Jefferson’s retreat house lay two unassuming brick structures constructed in the 1850s. Based on oral history, one initially housed black enslaved laborers, while the other housed a white overseer and his family. While Jefferson’s architectural showpiece often...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Schwemmer.

During the recent field season in Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, and off the Golden Gate entrance near San Francisco Bay, several new shipwrecks were discovered. They included the passenger steamship S.S. City of Rio de Janeiro, referred to as the "Titanic of the Golden Gate" due to the high loss of life and the passenger steamship S.S. City of Chester also lost near the Golden Gate after a collision with the steamship RMS Oceanic. Off Point Reyes, the Norwegian tramp...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrianna Dowell. Arlice Marionneaux.

The history and the search for 19th century pirate-slaver Guerrero, wrecked in the Straits of Florida, brought together a consortium of research organizations and awarded two interns a valuable learning experience. Through the Latino Heritage Internship Program and the American Conservation Experience, interns Andrianna Dowell and Arlice Marionneaux (respectively) partnered with underwater archaeologists from National Park Service to assist in the Guerrero survey. The opportunity fostered...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jackie L. Rodgers.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The mission of the Osage Nation Historic Preservation Office (ONHPO) is to preserve, main­tain, and revitalize the culture and traditions of the Osage Nation. The overarching goal of the ONHPO is to meet the cultural preservation needs voiced by the Osage people. To achieve that goal, every year the ONHPO takes up to twenty Osage Tribal members and other Tribal representatives to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph A. Downer.

This paper discusses the ongoing archaeological survey of the African-American Cemetery at George Washington’s Mount Vernon. Ultimately, this project was designed to bring about a better understanding of this space on the plantation landscape and to honor those unknown who call this spot their final resting place. Through the use of this space, it is believed that a portion of Mount Vernon’s enslaved population was able to culturally resist their imposed social position through the reinforcement...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ana F Edwards.

The Shockoe Bottom historic district in Richmond, Virginia holds an invisible 320-year old story of Black life in Virginia that coincided with and contributed to Richmond's origins and development - from 250+ years as a slave society to the end of slavery through Jim Crow and the civil rights era. The community-based struggle to reclaim the Black history of Shockoe Bottom sought first to assert the right to learn more about their history in Richmond but was later forced to focus on protecting...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Evan P. Taylor.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For contemporary residents and descendants of former residents, the oldness of “old cities” indexes the persistence of home, memory, and attachment. This poster centers the materialization of residents’ interactions with surfaces of the old cities of Acre (Israel/Palestine) and Rhodes (Greece), which were assembled under Crusader and Ottoman rule, and through to the present. The Old City...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brandi Carrier. Antti Pulkkinen. Michael Heinz.

Strong magnetic field perturbations resulting from Earth-directed solar events can adversely affect marine archaeological survey. The immediate onset of geomagnetic storms and fast compression of the magnetopause create short duration, high amplitude spikes in Earth’s magnetic field that appear similar to signatures of archaeological anomalies. Aggressive processing, analysis, and comparison of single instrument survey and observatory datasets collected during geomagnetic storms prevented...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Trabert. Brandi Bethke.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Southern Plains exchange system after 1600 CE was a complicated and fiercely competitive network of fluid alliances, rival interests, and conflict as Indigenous peoples were literally in the middle of overlapping cultural, economic, and physical power bases in the Southeast and Southwest. Although previous narratives surrounding these exchanges have focused on the trade in furs...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Terrance Weik.

Native American removal from lands east of the Mississippi River is often recounted in narratives that emphasize injustices (e.g. physical stressors of migration). However, the paper-trail documenting the Chickasaw semi-forced migration provides glimpses of people of African descent whose lives were shaped by generations of displacement in captivity. These enslaved migrants made a significant difference in the fortunes of indigenous slaveholders, playing a role in issues such as the amount...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alicia Caporaso.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. High-resolution geophysical surveys required by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) in advance on oil industry activities have resulted in the discovery of several hundred shipwreck sites well offshore in the ultra-deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf. Public, academic, and Federal interest in these sites, coupled with the availability and affordability...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Craig Cipolla. Katherine Hayes.

This paper experiments with multi-sited analysis as a means of exploring connections and intersections between various generations of marginalized groups living and working across the colonial and U.S. Northeast from the colonial era through the 19th century. This approach challenges and complicates stereotypes of primordial race and poverty by establishing links between liminal spaces of labor that drew together diverse groups, rather than treating them as isolated and implicitly anomalous. We...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kaila Akina.

Archaeological studies of the North American fur trade have included several lines of evidence from historical texts to oral histories to actual material remains. Revisiting documentary sources, specifically representations, relating to the activities of the fur trade and its participants can provide insight into how specific images, emotions, or messages were portrayed or even promoted. Furthermore, the analysis of images allows scholars to examine how those images have been used and for what...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Landon. Christa Beranek.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Perspectives from the Study of Early Colonial Encounter in North America: Is it time for a “revolution” in the study of colonialism?" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. One of the interesting disjunctures in the narrative of the colonial encounter in the 17th-century Plymouth Colony is the difference between the historical and archaeological accounts. In historical accounts and out popular culture versions of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lu Ann De Cunzo.

The Middle Atlantic region is drawing renewed interest among historians, especially during the era of first colonial settlement in the 17th century. Some are reassessing the prominent role of the Lenape and Susquehannock peoples in the course and outcomes of the encounters. Others are challenging previous interpretations of the contests among Dutch, Swedish, and English imperial actors for control over this borderland. Although these scholars are rethinking the concept of frontier, the spatial,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel E. Bishop.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology in a Digital Age (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This presentation explores a new methodology for retrieving three-dimensional geometry from historical photographs using the iWitness photogrammetry program. Two shipwrecks raised in the early-twentieth century from Lakes Champlain and George (in New York) are examined as case studies for this methodology. As one...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel E. Bishop.

This is an abstract from the "Current Research and On Going Projects at the J Richard Steffy Ship Reconstruction Laboratory" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Royal Navy brig Duke of Cumberland was built to counter the French presence on Lake Champlain during the Seven Years' War. In 1909, its remains were raised to attract people to Fort Ticonderoga when it was opened to the public as a heritage site. Unfortunately, its timbers were not...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emma L Verstraete.

The early nineteenth century was tumultuous for Barry County in southwest Missouri. Originally made up of unclaimed acreage and the land grants for the Osage and Delaware Native American tribes, the area was redefined as a county when Missouri reached statehood in 1821 and then later divided into four smaller counties. Through all of these boundary changes the Little Flat Creek Valley was occupied nearly continuously, first by native tribes and later by Phillip Marbut and his family....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Travis L Corwin. Eric Prendergast.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Studying Human Behavior within Cemeteries (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Destruction is inherent in archaeology, but in the ever-changing urban landscape this destruction can erase a site’s place and memory within the landscape, often by compliance archaeologists making way for new development. In recent years archaeologists have utilized photogrammetry to document at risk sites and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric A. Rodriguez.

With the recent application of paleographic modelling on prehistoric wetland environments, it has been possible to observe not only the landscapes of past societies but also how the dynamic nature of these environs influenced the phenomenology and settlement patterns of such peoples. This paper focuses on two areas from Northern England’s Humber Estuary and describes the interactions between the reconstructed palaeolandscapes of Roos Carr and Ferriby and the shifting settlement patterns from the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen E. Martindale.

In 1686, the French ship of exploration La Belle sank in Matagorda Bay off the coast of what is now Texas. The ship was excavated in 1996-97 by the Texas Historical Commission, and the ship and its cargo are currently being conserved and prepared for display by Texas A&M Unversity's Conservation Research Laboratory. Amongst the cargo were wood casks containing various  trade goods and supplies. This poster presents the methodology developed by the CRL staff to create a simple, stable, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. Ryan Kennedy.

This paper presents zooarchaeological fish data from several archaeological sites in historic New Orleans. First, the author discusses these data in terms of reconstructing the historic fisheries supplying New Orleans’ growing urban population, and he highlights the city’s engagement with both local fisheries and international trade networks. The fish data are used as a starting point for exploring how urban growth in New Orleans impacted fish populations in nearby waters and lead to changes in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Filipe Castro.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Digital Approaches in Nautical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Although it is often impossible to reconstruct ships from their archaeological remains with a fair degree of certainty, the interpretation of archaeological remains and the attempt to develop a plausible model of what an old ship might have been is an iterative learning exercise that can and should be public and participated. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph Cozzi.

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 reconstruction of the bow of the Emanuel Point Ship (EP1) is undertaken in an attempt to establish the vessel's length of keel. This is a crucial step in determining the vessel's size, which may help to identify which of the vessel's lost during Tristan de Luna's 1559 expedition is represented by the remains of Emanuel Point 1.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mike Whitehead. Ben L. Ford.

This paper presents the results of recent metal detection surveys conducted by Indiana University of Pennsylvania at Fort Necessity National Battlefield, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.  Fort Necessity was a hastily fortified storehouse located within a historically significant landscape known as Great Meadows.  On July 3 1754, British Colonial forces led by George Washington defended Fort Necessity against a small army of French soldiers and French-allied Native Americans.  The Battle of Fort...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Annaliese Dempsey.

The wreck site of Blackbeard’s flagship Queen Anne’s Revenge was first discovered in 1996 and yielded both articulated hull structure and numerous rigging elements, which are currently under study as part of a long-term research project which will culminate in a full reconstruction of the vessel.  The rig and hull of a vessel such as Queen Anne’s Revenge are inextricably linked, and need to be studied as a single integrated whole to fully understand not only the specifics of the hull and rig,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ywone Edwards-Ingram.

This paper summarizes the main findings of an analytical synthesis of archaeological, documentary, and oral history evidence about burial practices relating to enslaved and free African Americans within the geographic confines of the town-sized museum of Colonial Williamsburg and its environs. It addresses a persistent query in the living-history interpretation of this colonial Virginia capital, specifically; «Where did they bury slaves and free blacks?» In the late eighteenth century, the town...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Inker.

Computer generated reconstruction is becoming more embedded in cultural heritage settings. This paper presents the audience with the potential for the presentation of varying levels of archaeological data through digital reconstruction, in particular the immersive environment Virtual Williamsburg. Historical Archaeology collects many diverse sets of data, often at differing resolutions, and these datasets are not always immediately compatible. As part of the Virtual Williamsburg project,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dorothy L Sprague.

A goniometer was used in situ to measure the curvature of the frames and the dimensions of the keel of the Pillar Dollar Wreck in Biscayne National Park, FL.  Using this information, an approximation of the hull shape and general curvature of the ship was generated in Rhino. The shape was rotated to an upright position based on the angle of the top of the keel as it lay in on the sea floor.  The data that was collected was used for an approximate reconstruction.  With a reconstructed keel, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Penny Crook.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“And in his needy shop a tortoise hung”: Construction Of Retail Environments And The Agency Of Retailers In Historical Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper reflects on 15 years of close analysis of over 55,000 prices in store and mail order catalogues and price lists of major Australian, English, American and Canadian retailers dating from the 1860s to 1907. These rare and dense resources...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Roy Jaijel. Beverly Goodman. Patricia Beddows. Alice Carter. Derek Smith. Dominique Rissolo. Jeffrey Glover. Zvi Ben Avraham.

The environmental and morphological history of the ancient Maya port site of Vista Alegre, located along the north coast of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, is being investigated within a larger multidisciplinary effort called the Costa Escondida Project. The project’s main goals are to learn how the ancient inhabitants adapted to the environment, and to understand how this coastal site was integrated into broader maritime trade routes. The portion of the research presented here concentrates on the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William T. Nassif.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Landscapes Above and Below in Southern Contexts (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The purpose of this paper is to gather historical and archaeological data to illuminate potential relationships between economic trends in the construction of wharf structures and enhance our understanding of the multitude of factors that drive the growth and decline of port communities. To do this, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda E Balough. Bryan Mitchell. Mark D Groover. Christine Thompson.

Urban landscapes were active environments in the past that present unique challenges during site investigations.  During summer 2016 students and staff with Ball State University conducted excavations at the site of Fort Recovery, an early Federal period fort constructed in 1793.  Site investigations in the town lot consisted of two GPR surveys and the excavation of a ca. 40 square meter area.  Field results revealed the town lot was intensively used from the 1790s to the 1940s.  Based on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shawn Collins. Eduard Reinhardt. Dominique Rissolo.

A pit (approx. 160 ft deep) named ‘Hoyo Negro’ was discovered in the underwater cave system of Aktun-Hu in the Yucatan Peninsula; Mexico. It contained numerous Pleistocene fossils (eg. gomphothere, sabertooth cat, groundsloth, black bear etc.) including the remains of a young PaleoIndian woman (radiometric dates are pending). The closest (225 ft) entrance to the Hoyo Negro pit is a small (approx. 25 x 10 ft) opening to the surface named Cenote Ich Balam. Questions regarding when and how animals...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Johanna Rivera. Nicholas DeLong. Virginia Theerman. Greg Varley.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The H.L.Hunley submarine disappeared in 1864 in Charleston after successfully attacking USS Housatonic. Researchers determined that shortly after the loss of the submarine, the bodies of the crewmembers were gradually covered with sediment, protecting their clothing from the environment. Sediment entered the submarine near the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jose Luis Casaban.

The Spanish silver galleons of the Indies Run are probably the most famous and mythical ships of the seventeenth century but, what do we really know in relation to their design, construction, outfitting, and life aboard? Current perceptions of Spanish galleons have been determined largely by the valuable cargo they transported. However, the design of these vessels, probably one of the most advanced and specialized of its time, was determined by economic, political, technical, and social factors....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Martin J Read. Kester Keighley.

In 1973 a composite wood-iron swivel gun known as a 'Serpentine' was recovered from the Cattewater, Plymouth and a Tudor wreck, known as the Cattewater Wreck, subsequently partially excavated. In 1979 a film was made of the construction of a replica swivel gun by Colin Carpenter which showed the fabrication of the wrought iron gun barrel and oak bed, their fitting and subsequent firing. This film has been digitised by the South West Film & Television Archive.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ricardo Borrero Londoño.

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. This paper complements the rigging reconstruction of a galleon, of 22 codos (12.65 m) of beam and 1073.33 toneladas of tonnage, based in the Ordenanza of 1613. The Ordenanzas were official documents regulating shipbuilding, equivalent...

DOCUMENT Citation Only George Schwarz.

Launched in the spring of 1815, the Lake Champlain steamboat Phoenix operated as a passenger vessel for five seasons until the fall of 1819, when she tragically burned to the waterline en route to Quebec with 46 persons on board and sank off Colchester Shoal, Vermont. During the summers of 2009 and 2010 an archaeological investigation was undertaken to document the steamer’s hull and associated artifacts. The intention of the study was to advance our knowledge of early steamboat development by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carolyn Kennedy.

The hull of the Lake Champlain steamboat Phoenix II, built in 1820 and retired in Shelburne Shipyard in 1837, was archaeologically investigated over the course of three field seasons by a team of nautical archaeologists from Texas A&M University and the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum. A reconstruction of Phoenix II from the archaeological material promises to fill several significant gaps in our understanding of the development and diversification of steam technology. To date, only one other...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William L Fleming.

The PIllar Dollar wreck is well-known to treasure salvors and looters, but has only recently been investigated in an archaeological sense. East Carolina University's Program in Maritime Studies conducted an excavation of the site for the Program's 2014 Fall Field School in September. With the knowledge garnered from that project, as well as previous condition reports and treasure salvor guides, this project aims to reconstruct the vessel and learn about its origins and use. The final result will...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julia M. Herbst.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Current Research at the Conservation Research Laboratory at Texas A&M University" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2010, excavators discovered the remains of an 18th-century vessel below the foundation of the World Trade Center in New York City. The wreck was excavated and sent to the Conservation Research Laboratory at Texas A&M University for conservation and documentation. As part of that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tori Falck.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Digital Approaches in Nautical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Co-Author: Sarah Fawsitt, Terje Planke, Christian Rodum, Kristina Steen, Lars Stålegård, Hilde Vangstad The making of reconstructions of the vessels we investigate, undeniably increases our knowledge on the qualities of the objects. In this paper we would like to present the making of three different reconstructions of the same...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark W Hauser.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Sal, Bacalhau e Açúcar : Trade, Mobility, Circular Navigation and Foodways in the Atlantic World", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. It has long been recognized that the scale, speed, and magnitude of mobility accelerated dramatically after .ca 1500, through physical movement, communication, and crafting.  Despite this recognition, Historical Archaeology has painted itself into an epistemic corner by employing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael C. Murray.

Since the beginning of underwater archaeology, the effective recording of sites has always been a challenge. This study will compare the ULS-200 underwater laser scanning device to other traditional archaeological recording methods, seek to quantify the average amount of time it takes to conduct a scan underwater and evaluate its accuracy in resolving an image at different turbidities and ranges. Within its ideal range, the expected outcome is that while it will take an equal or longer amount of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Martin C Newman.

English Heritage, with funding from MEDIN (the Marine Environmental Data and Information Network), undertook a project to extend the coverage of the maritime component of the National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE) from its previous 1945 cut-off date to the present day bringing it into line with its terrestrial equivalent. This utilised a bespoke database and associated GIS layer to hold the results of desk-based research pulling together information from a variety of sources for both...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Ferguson.

In 1720, the Comte de Saint Pierre sent three ships from France to Isle Saint-Jean, the island known as Epekwitk to its Mi’kmaw inhabitants. Initially, the newcomers established two settlements, at Port la Joye and at Havre Saint-Pierre, and began the French occupation of the island. Isle Saint-Jean was part of the colony of Isle Royale. It was not considered a part of Acadia, which, by 1713, was under British domination and had been renamed Nova Scotia. In 1720, the Comte de Saint Pierre...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael C. Murray.

Since the dawn of underwater archaeology, the ability to record features with a high level of accuracy and detail compared to terrestrial sites has been an extremely difficult prospect. However, according to 2G Robotics, the ULS-200 underwater laser scanner can resolve features on an astounding millimetric scale, but under the most ideal conditions. While this has some very exciting implications for the field of underwater archaeology, the CSS Georgia resides in an extremely challenging and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Raphael M Franca. Nicholas C. Budsberg. Annaliese Dempsey.

The Highbourne Cay shipwreck in the Bahamas was discovered in the 1960s by three skin divers and partially salvaged shortly thereafter by the discoverers under a permit from the government of the Bahamas.  The metallic remains of the vessel’s armament were recovered at that time, and surviving hull structure was revealed underneath a ballast mound.  The site was periodically surveyed in subsequent decades, and in the summer of 2017 a field season was conducted to excavate and fully record the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susana C Vallejos Arenas.

The Charles W. Morgan is the oldest American commercial wooden square rigged vessel and the last surviving wooden whaleship still afloat. This intact historical vessel was launched in 1841 in New Bedford, MA, and is now preserved at Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, CT, USA. Since arriving at Mystic Seaport in 1941, the Morgan has undergone two major rebuildings - from the waterline up initially, as she was placed in a sand bed shortly after her arrival. This third restoration will renew areas of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Cousins. Danni Seliger.

The site of the Swash Channel Wreck is that of a large armed merchant ship wrecked in the approached to Poole Harbour on the South Coast of England. The site consists of the almost entire port side of the originating vessels including the bow and stern castles. During 2010 – 2012 the site was subject to an English Heritage funded rescue excavation. The size and nature of the site is such that a recording in a traditional manner would have been prohibitively expensive and an alternative approach...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn H Deeley. Dolores Levister.

For the descendants of the people studied by archaeologists, archaeology can be deeply personal, as it reveals forgotten details of a family’s past. In the case of the James Holliday House in Annapolis, Maryland, the same African American family has occupied the James Holliday House since 1850. In 2009, the great-great-granddaughter of James Holliday asked Archaeology in Annapolis to help fill in the blanks about her family’s history, simply because there was very little information from family...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah A. Grady. Esther D. Read.

During the eighteenth century, Port Tobacco was a bustling port town located along the Port Tobacco River in Charles County, Maryland. Today it is a small village with few surviving structures and no commercial establishments. Between 2008 and 2011, systematic archaeological survey of the town defined the locations of many of the town’s early buildings. We recently began a new phase of research within the remains of a print shop. Our current excavation builds on earlier work and allows us to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey A. Pardee.

In 2015, the remains of the CSS Georgia, a Civil War ironclad-ram and a National Register of Historic Places listed site, were fully archaeologically documented and removed as a permitting requirement for the proposed construction of the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP). Conducted and overseen by archaeologists with Panamerican Consultants, the data recovery project required the development and implementation of unique methodologies relative to both the working environment and artifact...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Catherine Davis.

Geographic Information System (GIS) technologies have advanced archaeological investigations through the use of analytical tools in conjunction with global positioning. Such work has provided insights to archaeologists who research land use patterns over time. This research project focuses on recreating the landscape at Betty’s Hope sugar plantation in Antigua, West Indies through GIS. With the aid of historic survey maps, Global Positioning System (GPS), ground survey, and the historical...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven Holm.

Historic photography is often beautiful and steeped in history but can also be used as a tool for archaeologists in relocating structures, identifying features, and situating historic places within their modern and captured viewsheds. Photographing a site is paramount nowadays for documenting the archaeological record. We have the opportunity to exploit historic photographs for additional data beyond site documentation that can lead to better research designs, excavation planning, and site...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John D. Burton.

This paper will examine the construction of the plantation landscape drawing on both extent archaeological remains and documentary record for the plantation.  Charles Farquharson's Prospect Hill plantation is one of the most studied sites in The Bahamas.  Farquharson has the distinction of being the only out-island planter who left a diary from the plantation period, an important historical source for understanding plantation life.  In addition to the textual record for the plantation, however,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rodrigo de Oliveira Torres. Kotaro Yamafune. Nicholas C. Budsberg. Lucas Vignoli Hernandez.

The integration of digital tools into the research, interpretation, and public outreach of historical shipwreck sites is rapidly becoming a requirement for any archaeology project. A workflow focused on utilizing photogrammetry point cloud data is presented here, developed from multiple underwater research field seasons, as well as work conducted in 2017 at the Highbourne Cay shipwreck site in the Exumas, Bahamas. The workflow uses photogrammetry for the creation of real-scale, three-dimensional...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jason Raupp.

Penscola, Florida’s red snapper fishery was among the city’s most prosperous industries by the late 19th century. The vessels employed in the fishery, known locally as "snapper smacks", were heavily influenced by the evolving designs of New England fishing schooners, but adapted for conditions encountered in the Gulf of Mexico. And though these designs proved ideal for snapper fishing, external factors reduced capital in the industry and led Pensacola fish houses to simply recycle schooners...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maclaren A Guthrie. Alexandra C Kelly. Jason L Toohey.

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 American Wild West was characterized by illicit activity. During the Temperance period (1800-1933) of American history, alcohol consumption became an increasingly policed activity. This paper will present the findings of an analysis of the material culture at the Red Buttes Dugout in comparison to other known bootlegging and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bridget A Bennane.

Orleans Landing is a multi-block urban archaeological site in Detroit with remains dating to the 19th and early 20th centuries; this neighborhood reflects the fast-paced growth of the city during the period. In 2014-15 Orleans Landing was excavated by a CRM company and in 2017 the artifacts were turned over to Wayne State University for cataloguing, analysis, and storage. The collection contains about 30,000 artifacts and covers multiple building lots. This poster presents artifact analysis...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thadra P. Stanton.

Located in south Wakulla County, FL, Byrd Hammock is a multi-component village and burial mound site. The site has been ravaged over the last century by looters but has never been developed. Recent potential development threats provided the impetus to seek partners to assist in procuring the site and add it to the St. Mark’s Wildlife Refuge. Efforts to conduct additional research for possible NHL nomination on the site were launched last year and a call for volunteers was issued to the greater...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Keagle.

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 was the site of nearly two and a half decades of military occupation during the 18th century. This covers the critical conflicts of the 18th century: the French and Indian War and American Revolution. Seesawing between powers saw the landscape occupied by many American and European military forces, all...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stacy L Bumback.

A diverse team of spotters and archaeologists were assembled to assist Snohomish County with the site stabilization efforts following the massive landslide that occured March 2014 in Oso, Washington.  This three month project focused on the recovery of human remains and personal items from the 300,000 cubic yards of search and rescue piles that were created during search and recovery immediately following the slide. The community was intimately involved in every aspect of the project and their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kyle W. Edwards.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Once the home of President James Monroe, Highland is an historic plantation located in the central Virginia Piedmont. However, the modern plantation landscape is the product not only of Monroe, but also its seven subsequent owners and the numerous free and enslaved individuals that inhabited it over the course of the 19th century. This complex occupational history combined with limited...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stacey Camp.

The archaeology of Japanese and Japanese American interment has burgeoned in recent years, developing in large part out of research conducted by the National Park Service, and, to a more limited extent, cultural resource management firms and archaeologists working within the context of academia. This paper places these previously conducted research projects in dialogue by looking at the challenges inherent in conducting research on both demographically large and small internment camps. In...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian C Wilson.

This paper sheds new light on the construction at the end of the 16th century of one of the most impressive, albeit ultimately superfluous, fortification walls in southern Asia: the 22km long wall surrounding Velha Goa—the capital city of the Portuguese eastern empire. Through discussion of legal documents pertaining to rural and city life, I reveal how the Portuguese came to conceive of the city as a separate space requiring new mechanisms of governance different from the countryside. ...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Lickliter-Mundon.

USS Macon, the last large Navy airship, was lost along with the bi-planes it carried off the Coast of California in 1935. The wreck site was discovered in 1990 and surveyed in 1991, 1992, and 2006. Before the site was included within the boundaries of the Monterrey Bay National Marine Sanctuary a small diagnostic recovery effort was made and several artifacts were brought up, conserved, and then distributed to museums around the US. Twenty years later, that information is lost - it is unknown...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shaun R. Nelson. Ephriam D. Dickson. Jane Stone. Paul Graham.

The U.S. Army established Camp Floyd in Cedar Valley, approximately 40 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, in 1858.  Four years later, the post was abruptly abandoned and its soldiers were sent east to fight in the rapidly expanding Civil War.  In 2009, the Fort Douglas Military Museum, Utah National Guard and Camp Floyd State Park formed a partnership to excavate a number of known and previously unknown features at Camp Floyd.  These excavations were meant to build on the research conducted on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Deirdre Kelleher.

During the 19th century, Elfreth’s Alley in Old City Philadelphia was the bustling home of a community of immigrants from across Europe.  Today, however, the residential street is remembered and lauded primarily for its early colonial roots.  The Alley, which was formed circa 1702 and contains 32 brick row houses, was designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1960 and was later listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a notable representation of surviving, early American...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Idah M. Whisenant.

Pend Oreille City was a steamboat landing town and one of the earliest settlements in North Idaho. From roughly 1866 to 1880, it served as a waypoint through the Idaho panhandle for travelers during early Euroamerican settlement of the region. As with many frontier towns, Pend Oreille City faded. In recent years, local interests have driven efforts to rediscover the site and appreciate its role in Idaho territorial history. The CLG grant offered the opportunity to collaborate with the University...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dena Doroszenko.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Bridging Connections and Communities: 19th-Century Black Settlement in North America" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Josiah Henson was known as the patriarch of the British American Institute (BAI) in 1842 which began as a school for the growing freedom-seeker population living at the Dawn Settlement. The Dawn Settlement was a farming community which grew to 500 people by 1850. While the history of the BAI...