Society for Historical Archaeology

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christina L Zweig.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The State of Wisconsin has a Burial Sites Preservation Law where no human burial site, including cemeteries and Native American mound groups, may be disturbed without authorization from the director of the Wisconsin Historical Society. Requests to disturb within the boundaries of a burial site will often require additional research, especially in cases involving abandoned...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas Sanford.

This paper illuminates the common issues of archaeological collections management from the standpoint of a small, liberal arts college, the University of Mary Washington. As seen at other repositories, while collections management has not been a neglected aspect of our archaeological endeavors, it has suffered as a lower priority, contributing to problems that compound over time. My perspective has gained from teaching a new course on the topic, one that confronted our collections’ needs and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Blair Atcheson.

The US Navy (USN) manages a collection of over 14,000 historic aircraft wrecks, a significant portion of which are terrestrial sites. In addition to planned research of terrestrial aircraft wreck sites, the Navy often receives notice from the public of a potential USN aircraft wreck and must determine how best to respond. Increasing notifications from the public have led to the development of various approaches to site management that take into account local public interest, property ownership...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julie Schablitsky.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology and Analysis of the Belvoir Quarter" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Often, archaeologists are challenged by assigning cultural affiliations to their sites. Recently, four tobacco pipe stems were collected from a Maryland slave quarter and sent to a DNA lab. The analysis revealed the ancestry and sex of one of the tobacco pipe smokers, thereby providing archaeoloigsts a scientific link to a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott K. Parker.

Little Antietam Creek, Inc. (LACI) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to educate people of all ages about archaeological and historic research through hands on teaching.  Since 2012 we have been excavating the remains of an 18th-century house on the Stoner Farm near Waynesboro, Pennsylvania. The excavations have been conducted entirely by volunteers, students and interns with professional supervision. Our approach has been successful in introducing numerous school children and adults...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leslie L. Bouterie.

At the home of President James Madison in Orange, Virginia, the rich archaeological deposits of transfer-printed ceramics provide valuable information about the presidential family, their many guests, and the enslaved community that lived and worked there. Due to the distinctive patterns, evolving styles, vessel forms, colors, and often limited production periods of the various makers, important historical clues can be gleaned from British transferware. In addition to referencing archival...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gregory Cook. John R. Bratten. John Worth.

In this paper we will present an update on the continuing  archaeological and historic research on the second shipwreck identified as a vessel from Don Tristán de Luna y Arrellano’s 1559 fleet.  Known as "Emanuel Point II", archaeologists and students from the University of West Florida have focused recent excavations on the vessel’s stern and midships area, and have uncovered new artifacts and significant areas of hull structure never before exposed.  Historic research on the expedition and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrice L Jeppson.

This Robert Schuyler-dedicated Symposium paper considers three of Schuyler’s contributions to the field—his reflections on historical archaeology’s potential for the study of American national identity as a cultural and evolving process (1971, 1976), his call for an awareness of the importance of cultural context in archaeology research (1973), and his writing about the importance of conducting historical ethnography (1988). These foundational ideas shaping historical archaeology practice are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kacy Hollenback. Wendi Field Murray. Jay Sturdevant.

The Reservation Era (AD 1778 to present) is a time of culture change and fight for cultural sovereignty. There are approximately 326 American Indian Reservations covering 56.2 million acres in the United States, numbers that fail to capture the realities of non-federally recognized groups, those with no land base, or indigenous peoples in Canada or Mexico. All of these communities experienced profound transformations in economies, cultural institutions, and socio-political structures during the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brandi Bethke.

Programs of forced settlement and assimilation were responsible for the loss of many aspects of traditional Blackfoot lifeways. At the same time, however, they also strengthened the identity of the Blackfoot people as they resisted absorption into Euroamerican culture. This resistance through adaptation is seen in the Blackfoot people’s continued use of and adoration for horses. While many elements of nomadic Blackfoot culture were abandoned in the late nineteenth century with the near...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Courtney J. Birkett.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2010 the Fort Eustis Cultural Resources Management staff implemented a site monitoring program in which known archaeological sites at the installation are visited regularly. As erosion of archaeological sites located along the James and Warwick rivers is a long-running problem, in 2015 the measurement of erosion from known points was added to the assessment of high-risk sites. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John P McCarthy.

Several non-Western/non-Christian burial practices that made unusual use of ordinary material objects were seen at two cemeteries associated with the First African Baptist Church, Philadelphia.   These practices appear to have been influenced by beliefs about the afterlife and the spirit world developed from African and possibly other sources, and I have argued previously that the maintenance and possible reintroduction of these practices into the city’s African-American community are indicative...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katie M.C. Bojakowski.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Hard Science on Hard Steel: Scientific Studies of the USS Arizona" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Pearl Harbor National Memorial is a tribute to the servicemen and civilians killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and a recognized symbol of American service and sacrifice on Oahu and throughout the entire Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II. The National Park Service (NPS)...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dena Doroszenko.

In September 2013, the creation of a large burial ground resulted from the aftermath of decades of archaeological investigations by the University of Toronto in the twentieth century. These projects were related to studying the burial practices and conducting population studies of the Wendat in Ontario. These large, mass burial pits known as ossuaries were observed historically by French explorers and missionaries (e.g. Samuel Champlain, Gabriel Sagard). This paper will discuss the development...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Barbara A. Clark.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In October 2018, Hurricane Michael hit the Gulf Coast of Florida. The impact from this storm was more devastating and widespread than anyone had anticipated. Not only were coastal communities severely impacted, but the reach of the storm was felt all the way into Southern Georgia. Countless historical and archaeological sites were impacted, including many historic cemeteries. Over time...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eleanor Breen. Flordeliz T. Bugarin. Benjamin A. Skolnik.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Urban Preservation Challenges in a Global Perspective", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1895, a group of trustees established Douglass Cemetery in Alexandria, Virginia, named in memory of Frederick Douglass and for Alexandria’s African American community. Over a century later, the cemetery faces several intersecting preservation issues that threaten the physical integrity of the site and the African...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yoon Kyung Shim.

The forced dislocation of West Coast Japanese Americans to incarceration camps during WWII deeply affected community formation, leadership, and livelihoods. The dislocation had barely been carried out when the War Relocation Authority (WRA) conceived and put into action a program of controlled (re)movement east. This "resettlement" did not play out as administrators had hoped. This paper traces the resettlement of Japanese Americans in Chicago during and immediately after the war (1943-1950),...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher D. Green.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Reimagining Repatriation: Providing Frameworks for Inclusive Cultural Restitution", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2014, the skull of the famous Kanak rebel, Chief Ataï, was restituted to the Kanak peoples by the French government. Since then, France has been at the center of international restitution debates, especially those in Benin, however less consideration has been given to restitution to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Boyd R Harris. Katelyn Shaver. Ruth Matthews. Michael Strutt.

The Battle of San Jacinto resulted in the defeat of Mexico and the establishment of the Texas Republic in 1836 against overwhelming odds.  The site, however, has been altered by the many commemorative contributions, landscape modifications, ground subsidence, and park operations.  These have made interpretaion of this decisive battle difficult.  It is only through archeology and environmental restoration projects that park interpreters are able to create historically correct vistas.  The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jack Gary. Meredith Poole.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Founded in 1776 the First Baptist Church of Williamsburg is considered one of the oldest Black churches in America. Oral history states that a white landowner gave the congregation its first building, which was destroyed by a tornado and replaced in 1856 with a brick church. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation acquired and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jack Gary.

Archaeological research associated with recent landscape restoration efforts at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest has provided not only the details to accurately replant select elements of the ornamental grounds but has also yielded new insights into Jefferson’s influences, thought processes, and skills as a landscape designer. This paper will discuss three projects and the interdisciplinary efforts used to locate ornamental plantings, address the age of extant vegetation, and understand the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jean-Sébastien Guibert.

This paper presents results from the first excavations on the Saintes Bay’s wreck. The site was discovered in the 1990’s but no archaeological survey or excavation took place apart from a DRASSM expertise in 2002. Known by several divers the site was partially looted but has not been totally destroyed. The wreck may be Anemone a French schooner built in 1823 in Bayonne and used as a custom ship in Guadeloupe. Anemone patrolled the coast in order to prevent illegal trade, in particular the slave...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John M. Chenoweth.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the summer of 2019, twelve students took part in a field school excavating one of the earliest known European-descended farmsteads on Cape Cod, likely settled in 1645. Unlike most Lower Cape settlements, Nauset (later Eastham) was directly connected to the Seperatist community of Plymouth. Excavations aimed to delimit and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chuck Meide. Airielle R. Cathers. Nicholas C. Budsberg.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Fort Mose Above and Below: Terrestrial and Underwater Excavations at the Earliest Free Afro-Diasporic Settlement in the United States" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program (LAMP), the research arm of the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum, in 2021 partnered with Flagler College and the University of Florida to conduct terrestrial and underwater excavations...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zachary Overfield.

An East Texas steamboat landing community, known as Pattonia, operated from 1843 to the late 19th century. This paper interprets the architectural features that once stood at Pattonia and their spatial organization. Additionally, I conduct a ceramic analysis of two household assemblages with unknown occupants in order to determine their relative socioeconomic status and reconstruct the social landscape of Pattonia. This research is based on data collected during two field seasons of excavation,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gregory Waselkov.

A societal "frontier" is always a relational concept. What looks like a periphery, whether imagined as a line or a zone, from one vantage point may from another look like an invaded heartland. The diverse nature of French colonialism in North America suggests the complexity of frontiers it induced. I review my 1981 article, "Frontiers and Archaeology," with perspective gained across thirty-five years, to consider whether the frontier concept has any current utility for the archaeology of French...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Mrozowski.

This paper argues for a rethinking of colonialism as an historical process in which overwhelming European power resulted in the extinction of indigenous peoples. Instead this suggests that a different history unfolded in which indigenous peoples demonstrated great innovation and cultural perseverance in not succumbing to the inevitability inherent in the political discourse of the past two hundred years. Colonialism clearly resulted in struggles over territory, sovereignty and cultural identity,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only D. Rae Gould.

After repeatedly encountering the concept of Indians as ‘marginalized’ populations in research on southern New England Indians, I began to ask what this meant and, more importantly, in comparison to whom Native people were marginal? This paper reconsiders the twentieth-century practice of categorizing Native people as ‘marginal’ (thus continuing the practice of seeing them as ‘other’). This reconsideration is necessary because this practice perpetuates the belief that Euroamerican culture...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Delle.

Much of what we know archaeologically about the material realities of enslavement in the Caribbean is based on the analysis of material culture recovered from concentrated settlements generally referred to in the literature as ‘slave villages.’ In this paper, I demonstrate through the analysis of archival, cartographic, and archaeological evidence that residence patterns on Jamaican plantations were more dispersed and complex than the slave village model has previously assumed. While it has been...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Allison Bain. Edith Gonzalez. Heather Richards-Rissetto. Rebecca Boger. Sophia Perdikaris.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "In Small Islands Forgotten: Insular Historical Archaeologies of a Globalizing World", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Caribbean island of Barbuda, under the exclusive control of the Codrington family and their managers for over 200 hundred years, served primarily as a source of provisions for plantations on Antigua. The island is also home to a unique archaeological site: a purpose-built colonial...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Brown. Geoffrey Fouad. Richard Veit.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Revisiting Revolutionary America" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Continental Army occupied a strategic section of the Watchung Mountains of New Jersey during the spring of 1777 and winter of 1778-79. More than 5,000 soldiers were encamped over a 10-square-mile area of Washington Valley in Somerset County. During what is known as the Middlebrook Encampments, the soldiers modified the terrain in this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Silas Hurry. Donald L. Winter.

Since Historic St. Mary’s City began its investigations at the Leonard Calvert site in 1980, a remarkable suite of material culture has emerged from this premier colonial site. This presentation looks back over some of the artifacts recovered and provides some context for a number of the more remarkable objects. Ceramics, tobacco pipes, small finds, and glassware are all represented.  Ceramics include Dutch tin glazed earthenware, Rhenish stoneware, and tiles, while glass includes façon de...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Filipe Castro. Irena Radic Rossi. Jose Casaban. Kotaro Yamafune. Sebastian Govorcin. Matko Cvrljak.

The remains of the large merchantman Gagliana grossa, lost in 1583 near the little island of Gnali’, in the Adriatic Sea, a few miles from Biograd na Moru, in today’s Croatia, represent a rare opportunity to study the conception of large Venetian ships in the mid-sixteenth century. This paper relates the ongoing mapping of the shipwreck site, carried out by a joint team of the Universities of Zadar and Texas A&M during the summers of 2012 and 2013.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Theotokis Theodhoulou. Brendan Foley. Dave Conlin.

In 1900, Greek sponge divers stumbled upon what was to become one of themost iconic and fabulous shipwrecks ever found in the Mediterranean close to the tiny Greek Island of Antikythera- the Antikythera shipwreck.  Over the course of several perilous months of diving, despite  numerous episodes of the bends and a fatality, the divers recovered a treasure of Classical bronze and marble statuary and the famous Antikythera Mechanism- the world's oldest known mechanical computer.   Since 2013,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Davidson. Lori Lee. Mary Elizabeth Ibarrola.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "African Diaspora in Florida" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose, or Fort Mose, was a fortified settlement established in 1738 by the Spanish governor of Florida, and populated by recently self-emancipated Africans as a defensive element to the town of St. Augustine. The earliest free African town in what is now the United States, Mose was attacked and destroyed by the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Kostro.

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. In March of 1622, nearly a third of Virginia’s English population was killed in a surprise attack by the local Powhatan with the goal of hampering the English expansion efforts, and to reassert their supremacy over the newcomers. Martin’s Hundred, a fortified settlement founded by the English four years earlier, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Calvin Mires. Evan Kovacs. Kirstin Meyer-Keiser. Benjamin Haskell.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the summer and fall of 2019, a team from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and staff from NOAA Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary (SBNMS) conducted an interdisciplinary exploration, survey, and telepresence outreach of biological and cultural sites within Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary (SBNMS). This first year of a multi-year project included archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samuel M Cuellar.

Indianola, Texas was the commercial gem of the western Gulf of Mexico during the height of its existence, from the late 1850s until its abandonment in 1887. Responsible for much of the commerce entering western Texas and the western territories via the Gulf of Mexico, Indianola has been largely overlooked archaeologically, despite a high potential for the presence of a significant amount of cultural materials.  A team of archaeologists from Texas A&M University, the Institute of Nautical...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Uzi Baram.

Archaeological excavations and presentations are memory-work, offering tactile and visual materials for consideration of the past. In a coastal Florida city, growing rapidly through in-migration of retirees and service industry employment opportunities, there are few aware or concerned over history. Yet the past haunts the Florida Gulf Coast and the expanding interest in heritage includes competitions among historians and archaeologists, residents and tourists, and development interests and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sherene Baugher. John H. Jameson.

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. International examples of statues symbolizing oppression and dominant political power are common in today’s media headlines. Statues and monuments to women are starting to play a significant role in discussions about historical authority, representation, silenced history, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Margaret Wilkes.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Northeast Region National Park Service Archeological Landscapes and the Stories They Tell" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Baseline documentation and climate change research focus on identifying and interpreting archeological remains to help guide immediate- to long term treatment and preservation of the actively eroding Saint Croix Island. The integrated high resolution remote sensing surveys on the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jodi Barnes.

A VMI Cadet button was recovered in the shed kitchen of an African American tenant family in the Blue Ridge Mountain of Virginia. The button provides powerful interpretive information about the genealogies of slavery and the fission and fusion of families (both Black and White) before and after the Civil War.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles Burke.

The Village of Beaubassin, settled in the 1670s by Acadians from the Port Royal area was attacked and destroyed twice by New England raiders and razed again in 1750 by French soldiers. Following the abandonment of the community, British troops built Fort Lawrence on the ruins of Beaubassin. Long known as an important and strategic Acadian community, the first archaeological excavations occurred in the 1950s, followed in 1968 by a major excavation of several house sites, a large scale salvage...

DOCUMENT Citation Only María Cruz Berrocal.

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. Even if scarcely acknowledged by scholarship and largely unknown for public (touristic) audiences, European forts in Asia-Pacific were impressive material enterprises where many resources were invested, as nodal points to shelter and promote the territorial, economic, and religious expansion. I will review...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily A Jateff. Em Blamey.

  The Australian National Maritime Museum and the Australian Maritime Museums Council invited regional maritime museums to submit local content, or ‘shipwreck stories’, for a nationally travelling banner exhibition on Australian shipwrecks. The final graphic panel exhibition, Submerged: stories of Australia's shipwrecks, is produced by the ANMM, touring nationally and free of charge from 2018. Host venues may display their own/loaned objects with the graphic panel exhibition and are provided...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Worth. Caroline Peacock. Willet Boyer.

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 chronology and morphology of Spanish olive jar has been divided into early, middle, and late styles since John Goggin's typology was first proposed in 1960, and this has formed a basis for dating sites with a colonial Spanish component for many decades. However, recent research and discoveries have suggested that changes and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laetitia Metreau. Jean Rosen.

Significant amounts of French tin-glazed earthenware, also known as faience, are found during archaeological excavations of Quebec colonial sites. Those artifacts are usually identified using morpho-stylistic typologies based on subjective criteria. The development of the archaeology of French production sites allowed a better understanding of specific technical characteristics of some manufactures. According to these data and with the help of geochemical compositions of the bodies, i. e. using...

DOCUMENT Citation Only George E. Avery. Morris K. Jackson. H.F. "Pete" Gregory. Tom Middlebrook. Tommy Hailey.

This presentation will give updates on the following 18th century Zacatecan Missions:  Guadalupe, Dolores, and San Miguel.  Mission Guadalupe has not been found--some clues to its location will be discussed.  Kathleen Gilmore called Mission Dolores, "Mission Impossible," because she had difficulity locating it in the early 1970s.  James Corbin of Stephen F. Austin State University (SFA) did eventually locate the site and conducted the major excavations in the mid-1970s and 1980s.  A...

DOCUMENT Citation Only April M. Beisaw.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology/Architecture", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. New York City demolished thousands of rural buildings to create their Catskill, Croton, and Delaware watersheds. Archaeological survey around reservoirs has been able to document the ruins that remain. But correlating foundations to specific buildings and landowners has been difficult, due to the scale of landscape transformation. Current waterways,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Janie R Knutson.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Although the United States was late to enter the First World War, the waters of the nation became a battlefield from 1917 onward. Ships operating along North Carolina’s coast recurrently fell victim to the unrestricted U-boat campaign. This paper reexplores the topic of the First World War’s impact on the North Carolina coastline. Originally presented at the 2018 Society of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David J. McMahan. H. Kory Cooper.

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. The incursion of colonial Russian fur hunters into the Pacific spanned more than a century, resulting in 20 principal Alaskan settlements. Russian entrepreneurs, deep-rooted in a feudal system adapted to the conquest of Siberia during the 16th-17th centuries, applied this cultural framework to 18th century...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sean Devlin. Jack Gary. Eric Schweickart. Kara Garvey. Mark Kostro.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Colonoware has been the subject of intense archaeological study since the type’s identification by Ivor Noel Hume at Colonial Williamsburg. The initial decades of analysis were dominated by debates centered on the cultural and ethnic origins of the ceramic’s production. A primary observation to emerge from this period, however, was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only cassandra michaud.

Long overshadowed by and conflated with the fictional story of Uncle Tom's Cabin, the life of Josiah Henson is revisited at the location he was enslaved in suburban Maryland.  Archaeological research on the former plantation has uncovered traces of life on the farm and the 19th century landscape.  This work provides part of the framework for the design of a public museum to be built at the park, dedicated to Henson's life and slavery in Montgomery County.  This paper will discuss the ongoing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Diane Dallal.

In 1982, a team of archaeologist under the direction of Joan Geismar, excavated the 175 Water Street site along the East River waterfront in lower Manhattan. Thousands of smoking pipes were recovered that dated between circa 1740 and circa 1800, a period of time less documented archaeologically in New York City. In 1989, the collection of 350,000 artifacts from the 175 Water St. site was donated to the South Street Seaport Museum. Artifacts with ‘exhibit potential’ were photographed,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen A Hutchins.

Nearly 30,000 18th- and 19th-century artifacts were recovered during the excavation of the small African American community of Parting Ways in Plymouth, Massachusetts by James Deetz beginning in 1975. The artifacts are currently housed at the Massachusetts Historical Commission in Boston. Original interpretations attributed all the artifacts to the late 18th- and 19th-century African American occupation of the site, but subsequent research indicated that Parting Ways was occupied in the middle...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Poulsen. Linda Santoro.

This paper analyzes a pit feature that was identified during a 1984 excavation in the basement of the African Meeting House, located in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood.  Full excavation of the feature followed in 1986; however, complete analysis of the resulting artifact collection was not possible at the time.  Predating the construction of the prominent African Meeting House, the feature is likely the privy of Augustin Raillion, a hairdresser who occupied a house at 44 Joy Street with two...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Danielle Cathcart. Heather Olson.

The Providence Cove Lands Archaeological District (RI 935) is located at the confluence of the Moshassuck and Woonasquatucket Rivers near the State House in Providence, Rhode Island. Between 1981-2, De Leuw, Cather/Parsons (DCP) completed archaeological and environmental surveys of the District, focused primarily on two sites—Carpenter’s Point (RI 935A) and North Shore (RI 935B). Based on DCP’s findings, the Keeper of the National Register determined that the District is eligible for listing on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrícia Carvalho.

In 1992 the remains of an early-modern vessel were found in the Ria de Aveiro (Portugal). This discovery led to the development of an interdisciplinary research project between 1996 and 2005 that allowed the study of the site formation processes, of  Atlantic shipbuilding, and the earthenware production in the Aveiro-Ovar region and their commercial circulation. In this paper, we present the last archaeological research about the ship and the new data concerning the maritime trade of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Larry McKee.

The Hermitage, a plantation owned by Andrew Jackson near Nashville, Tennessee, has been the site of archaeological investigations since the 1970s. Much of this work has focused on the large enslaved community living at the site, with the study of the remnants of their dwellings a key element of this research. Sub-floor storage pits, generally referred to as root cellars, have been found at nine Hermitage slave dwelling locations. These features are present in all three of the separate quartering...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joe Grinnan. Deborah Marx. Denise Jaffke.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2018, archaeologists from SEARCH and California Department of Parks and Recreation conducted an underwater remote-sensing survey in the Sacramento River, Sacramento County, California. The survey focused on relocating and assessing the condition of three vessels associated with the Sacramento gold rush: the Sterling and La Grange in downtown Sacramento and the Clarksburg Wreck...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather Olson. Danielle Cathcart.

In the early 1980s, archaeologists from De Leuw Cather/Parsons conducted a large-scale data recovery project in downtown Providence within the Providence Cove Lands Archeological District. In 2013, The Public Archaeology Laboratory, Inc. (PAL) began a multi-year project to assess, analyze, catalog, and re-curate the Cove Lands Collection. In total, PAL’s effort re-cataloged and re-curated an assemblage of approximately 150,000 artifacts dating from the Middle Archaic period through the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sean H. Reid. Oluseyi O. Agbelusi. Samuel Amartey. Francis M. Momoh.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Maritime Archeology of the Slave Trade: Past and Present Work, and Future Prospects", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper will assess the current state of the maritime and cultural landscapes of the region from a historical archaeological perspective and highlight their potential for present and future research. It centers on the spatial and material practices on Bunce Island and related trade sites in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John D. Broadwater.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The World Turned Upside Down: Revisiting the Archaeology of the American Revolution" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The last major battle of the American Revolution took place in Yorktown, Virginia, ending with the surrender of the Southern British Army under the command of General Charles Earle Cornwallis. The remains of the British, French, and Colonial earthworks are preserved by the National Park...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas C. Budsberg.

The Highbourne Cay Shipwreck, found in the Exumas, Bahamas, is the most intact example of a ‘Ship of Discovery’ in the world. The identity and purpose are still unknown, yet a recent, non-intrusive visit to the site recorded no obvious signs of damage to the ballast mound. Because the site has been disturbed and re-covered on two documented occasions, valuable reflexive questions can be asked decades later regarding the effectiveness of conservation in situ. Soon, the Bahamas will be lifting...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas Budsberg.

The Highbourne Cay wreck presents a unique opportunity for researchers to study the degradation of a previously investigated site. Originally discovered and salvaged in the 1960’s and dated to the early 16th century, researchers from Texas A&M University re-visited the site in the 1980’s as it appeared to be contemporaneous with a neighboring shipwreck. This partial excavation reported astonishing results as a large portion of the main mast step of the vessel was well preserved and intact. ...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Loren Clark. George Papatheodorou. Maria Geraga. Richard Norris. Thomas E Levy.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Attention this is a Submergency: Incorporating Global Submerged Records", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Methoni Bay, in the Southwest corner of the Peloponnese, Greece, provides an excellent case study for research into how cultural landscapes interact with natural landscapes. The aim of the University of Patras – University of California, San Diego Methoni Bay Paleoenvironmetnal and Cultural Heritage...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lisa Fischer.

Archaeology in Williamsburg has been ongoing since the restoration and reconstruction of Williamsburg began in the 1920s, although the methods used have certainly evolved over time. While we cannot re-excavate an area destroyed during the reconstruction process, technology can be an effective tool for reassessing and reinterpreting the evidence, including any more recent data that may have surfaced since a site was first excavated and reconstructed. 3D modeling is one effective approach for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Luke Pecoraro.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For several decades the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation (JYF) has run an immersive living history museum with a re-created Powhatan Indian town on the grounds of the Jamestown Settlement. Based on the nearby archaeological site of Paspahegh, a pre- and post-contact Powhatan town site, the material culture used by the interpretive staff has been driven almost exclusively by archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maxime Poulain. Jan Trachet. Wim De Clercq.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Re-Visualizing Submerged Landscapes", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Medieval Bruges has been coined as “the cradle of capitalism”, a place where goods, ideas and people converged into a unique, multicultural environment. A tidal inlet, called the Zwin, linked Bruges to the rest of Europe and beyond and was dotted with several outports at its banks. Natural, political and economic factors all resulted in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Orr.

After many seasons of archaeology in the camp sites of Valley Forge , Pennsylvania, several types of buttons were discovered with just the intertwined letters «USA» depicted on their surfaces. Several years ago a very particular type of «USA» button was found which also had the date «1777» under the «USA» letters. What does this mean? This design was radical and innovative at the time in comparison to all military buttons of its type.Other questions were also suggested: is it referencing the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eleanor Breen.

What made the 40-year period before the American Revolution unique was that access to goods appears to have opened up for larger segments of the colonial population through a more sophisticated and far-reaching system of distribution for imported items. How equal was this access? How democratic was this consumer revolution? Through a material culture approach that triangulates between three vital sources - George Washington’’s orders for goods through the consignment system, inventories from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only M. Jay Stottman.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Community Archaeology in 2020: Conventional or Revolutionary?" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Over the last twenty years community engagement has become more prominent if not mainstream in archaeology, perhaps to the point that our concept of community archaeology has become generalized. In this paper I will examine the concept of community archaeology, its theoretical underpinnings as activist archaeology...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nathan W Fulmer. Rebecca M Berlin.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Since its discovery by sport divers in the Cooper River near Charleston, South Carolina during the 1970s, the Strawberry Vessel shipwreck was believed to represent the remains of a British gunboat lost in 1781, however XRF and SEM analysis of hull sheathing samples recovered from the wreck in 2018 suggests the Strawberry Vessel was constructed no earlier than 1810. In light of these...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Terese Newman.

With the signing of the Treaty of Cordoba in 1821, Spain formerly recognized Mexico as an independent nation. As identity shifted from colony to country, processes of modernization accelerated and rural households were transformed. These transformations led to increased attacks on the traditional structures of home life, family, and community, attacks that ultimately erupted in the rural uprisings associated with the Central Mexican experience of the Mexican Revolution. Drawing on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zachary M. Overfield. Karissa A. Basse. Brooke Bonorden.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "From the Famed to the Forgotten: Exploring San Antonio’s Storied History Through Urban Archeology" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. One of only two Tejano signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence, José Francisco Ruiz was a complex historical figure who navigated the cultural and political frontier of San Antonio, serving as a broker between Anglo, Spanish, and Native American spheres to further the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marie L Meranda.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This is the story of one small man with huge responsibilities. Quash was one of Butler’s enslaved people on Little St Simons Island, Georgia during the antebellum period. Even under the thumb of overseer Roswell King, Quash managed to gain his own form of autonomy, lived in his own house that was much larger than a traditional slave dwelling, on his own island. During the spring of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul F. Johnston.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2019, the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History (NMAH) hosted international experts in shipwreck timber conservation to consult on the long-term stabilization and preservation of the Revolutionary War gunboat Philadelphia. The gondola sank at the Battle of Valcour Island in Lake Champlain on 11 October 1776 and was raised in 1935. It is the oldest surviving American...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William L. Kidder.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "African American Voices In The Mid-Atlantic: Archaeology Of Elusive Freedom, Enslavement, And Rebellion" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Jacob Francis of Amwell Township, New Jersey experienced indentured servitude in New Jersey, New York, the West Indies, and Salem, Massachusetts ending on his twenty-first birthday in 1775. Overcoming resistance to Black enlistment in the Continental Army, he joined a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chelsea L Colwell-Pasch.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Traditional systematic sub-surface testing for AIAs is common practice in CRM since the land development boom of the 1970s when the use of rapid survey methods were created to rescue material culture. Conventionally test pits are hand dug with shovels and processed with bipedal screens, however innovations out of New Brunswick have seen this five-decades old methodology develop in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn A Catlin.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Medieval to Modern Transitions and Historical Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Numerous farmsteads were established in Iceland's highland margins and back valleys during the late 9th and early 10th centuries, as part of the rapid process of settlement across the island. Many of these marginal farms were deserted sometime between the 11th and early 16th centuries, only to be re-settled...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meghan M Mumford.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Adaptation and Alteration: The New Realities of Archaeology during a Pandemic" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As the general population learns to adjust to the “new normal,” the University of West Florida (UWF) Archaeology Institute Collections Management team has adapted to face new and old challenges alike. The initial closure of the UWF campus and subsequent limited access to curational facilities...

DOCUMENT Citation Only M. Pilar Prieto-Martínez. Amélie Guindon. Brad Loewen.

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. The ceramic record of New France is dominated by coarse earthenware, faïence and stoneware produced in various pottery centres of France, with local varieties also found in the Saint-Lawrence-Valley. Within this French Atlantic pottery-scape, Rhenish stoneware represents a small but significant...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher P. McCabe. Timothy H. Ives. Rod Mather.

In 2017 the Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission teamed up with the University of Rhode Island’s Applied History Laboratory to create a Geographic Information System (GIS) incorporating the state’s complex assortment of archaeological and historical sites. With support from the National Park Service, their objective is to collect and share the stories of Rhode Island through an effective and sustainable geospatial database of known archaeological sites and properties in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lisa Kraus. Jason Shellenhamer.

Catoctin Mountain has always been a challenging landscape, but one that rewards perseverance. Native Americans negotiated its rocky slopes in search of rhyolite for stone tools, and hunted and camped along the freshwater streams and springs. Workers from the nearby Catoctin Iron Furnace burned its ample timber for charcoal to fuel the ironworks. Innovative farmers and homebuilders created flat terraces for their houses and gardens on the mountainside. During the Prohibition era, some of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brandon Mason. Christin Heamagi. Nigel Nayling.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Digital Approaches in Nautical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Spanish Galleon Santiago de Galicia was constructed in Italy in the 1590s and sank outside the port of Ribadeo, Galicia in 1597. This important wreck, lying in 10m of water, has been investigated by a multi-disciplinary team led by Dr Miguel San Claudio since 2011. Targeted photogrammetry has been undertaken since 2015, aiming to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ana Catarina Garcia. Brígida Baptista. Jorge Freire. Filipa Silva. Claudia Manso. Filipe Castro.

 During more than one year (2016-2017) public works at Campo das Cebolas, in downtown Lisbon, have exposed archaeological complexes related with his waterfront. This central node of the city and harbor was essential since the Portuguese maritime expansion which spans a period of 500 years, gathering mercantile and daily life activities, buildings, small shipyards, and ships connecting water and land. This paper presents a summary of the finds and a comment of the interest of this excavation,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mia L Carey.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Africa’s Discovery of the World from Archaeological Perspectives: Revisiting Moments of First Contact, Colonialism, and Global Transformation", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. African Islam, the version of Islam brought by and retained by enslaved Africans and their descendants, disappeared as conscious practice before the eve of the American Civil War. Despite this, remnants of Islamic beliefs and practices...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas D Scott. Joel Bohy.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Documenting the Built Environment (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The British Regulars retreat from Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775 is legendary in American history. Colonial militias and the famous Minute Men ambushed the British column along the retreat route back to Boston. Colonists’ usws local homes as ambush points. The British reached the Village of Arlington,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelly M Britt.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Advocacy in Archaeology: Thoughts from the Urban Frontier" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper sees heritage as a community resource to challenge racist urban planning policies in a historically African American neighborhood of Brooklyn. It examines this case through Ruth Wilson Gilmore's concept of abolitionist geography, which views urban space as an extension of enslavement and confinement. Urban...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Molly McDonald.

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. Over a third of Lower Manhattan’s landmass is composed of fill contained within buried wharves, bulkheads, and other landfill retaining structures. Archaeological investigations have increasingly afforded opportunities to examine the construction methods used to build these early structures in New York City and elsewhere. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles Ewen.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Prior to the Civil War both whites and free African-Americans were interred at Cedar Grove cemetery in New Bern, North Carolina. In 1914, the Jim Crow Era city fathers decided to remove 14 African American burials to the black cemetery three blocks away. A century later, a local reporter and a community activist joined forces to right the past wrong and return the burials to their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caroline A Peacock.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In Spanish colonial sites, olive jars stand out among other ceramic types as important chronological markers due to their abundance and previously observed changes in form over three centuries. This plays a large role in identifying the age of sites in areas, like Florida and the Caribbean, where Spanish colonial rule persisted over those three centuries. Despite their importance as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Furness. Fiona Jackson.

The ‘Highland Clearances’ is an evocative term used to refer to the dramatic depopulation of the Scottish Highlands in the late 1700s and early 1800s, in the aftermath of the failed Jacobite rebellion. Although there is good evidence for forced and likely brutal evictions in many areas, the movement of people out of small rural settlements in other parts of the Highlands was less dramatic and more organic. The High Morlaggan Project is a community-led heritage and archaeology project that has...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ellis B. Powelson.

When the discovery of gold in California was announced to the world, San Francisco almost instantly became the focal point of global activity. A steady flow of ships sailed to the fledgling city, carrying immigrants from ports as far-flung as Hong Kong, Valparaiso, London, and virtually every major entrepot on the eastern seaboard of the United States. Flooding into the city with these new arrivals was a vast assortment of commercial goods. Raw materials such as hardware and building supplies,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Donald Gaylord.

Settled in the 1730s by Scotch-Irish immigrants who initially eschewed the institution of slavery, Rockbridge County, Virginia eventually became home to a society reliant on the enslavement of African Americans. After the Revolution, an elite class of newly minted American citizens established its identity through economic, social, and symbolic associations with Chesapeake plantation society. William Alexander (1738-1797) and his son Andrew (1768-1844) exemplified this transition, with Andrew...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nancy L. Powell. Paul Kreisa. Geri Knight-Iske.

In 2014 the District Public Schools began extensive construction and renovation of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, the former Western High School. Portions of the building date to the last decade of the 19th century, the former location of The Cedars residence, the home of the Cox family. The few photographs and descriptions of The Cedars were thought to be all that remained due to the construction of the school.  Stantec and EHT Traceries undertook archaeological and archival...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew H. Newberry.

The use of remote sensing technology, such as aerial LiDAR (light detection and ranging), provides archaeologists with a significant tool to aid in research as well as digitally record sites. Inland and coastal rice plantation contexts are extremely well suited for the application of aerial LiDAR in locating potential new sites as well as providing accurate maps of the overall landscape and topography. LiDAR scans produce a more accurate map than traditional topographic maps which enables...

DOCUMENT Citation Only pete regan.

Mulberry Island, a peninsula on Virginia’s James River and home to Joint Base Langley-Eustis’ Fort Eustis, is a trove of cultural resources. Among its more than 230 archaeological sites are dozens of indentured, enslaved, and tenant laborers’ ephemeral homesteads. Relatively few sites associated with its economically advantaged minority have been discovered on Mulberry Island, leaving a gap in the archaeological record compounded by the loss of antebellum public records during the Civil War....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Chartrand.

Jamestown Island contains low-lying terrain with archaeological sites, known and unknown, threatened by sea level rise.  Using data acquired from the United States Geological Survey (USGS), a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) was created using a Light Detection and Ranging Remote Sensing technique (LIDAR) to identify cultural sites and assist in planning for cultural remediation. Four scenarios of sea level rise modeling were created based on historic trends and projected environmental events...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas Armstrong.

An overview of religious practice and resistance reflected in the material record of Trents Cave, Barbados.  The cave site is located at the bottom of a gully located between the enslaved laborer settlement and the planter’s residence at Trents Plantation.  The findings suggest recurrent use of the site by persons of African descent (circa 1750s through the 1850s) for ritual, or specialized purposes, associated with iron and steel.  The distinctive pattern of deposition of key artifacts...