Tales of the Texas Frontier: Research Conducted by the Fort Davis Archaeology Project (FODAAP) in Fort Davis, Texas
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2017
The Fort Davis Archaeology Project is a collaborative teaching project that uses a queer feminist pedagogy to encourage and foster diversity within the project’s personnel, research questions, and interpretations of the past. This symposium highlights research conducted by FODAAP personnel in Fort Davis, Texas between 2010 - 2016. Our research focuses on the lifeways and interactions between residents of a U.S. military post and civilian community during Reconstruction (1867-1891) and through the early 20th-century in order to investigate daily life among residents of different ethno-racial, gendered, and national identities. Of particular interest to the project are the experiences of African-American soldiers, women, and Hispanic civilians and the changing ways in which various communities related to one another in a diverse and shifting frontier landscape. FODAAP employs a variety of lines of evidence - such a geoarchaeological data, geophysical survey, artifact analysis, and historic documentation - to reconstruct interpretations of the contested past.
Other Keywords
Frontier •
Identity •
Texas •
Military •
Health •
MIdden •
Buffalo Soldiers •
Geoarchaeology •
Medicine •
Artifacts
Temporal Keywords
20th Century •
19th Century •
Nineteenth Century •
Late 19th Century •
19th century American West •
1910s-1940s •
Twentieth-century •
1867-1885
Geographic Keywords
North America •
Coahuila (State / Territory) •
New Mexico (State / Territory) •
Oklahoma (State / Territory) •
Arizona (State / Territory) •
Texas (State / Territory) •
Sonora (State / Territory) •
United States of America (Country) •
Chihuahua (State / Territory) •
Nuevo Leon (State / Territory)
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-10 of 10)
- Documents (10)
- Buffalo Soldiers, Married Soldiers, and Laundresses at Fort Davis, Texas: A Nineteenth-Century Glass Analysis of Medicinal, Health and Hygiene Vessels (2017)
- Buttons, Buckles, and Buffalo Soldiers: Personal Adornment and Identity at Fort Davis (2017)
- An Early 20th-Century Midden from Fort Davis, TX (2017)
- Empires of Displacement: Native American Spatial Encounters at Postbellum Fort Davis and Russian Fort Ross (2017)
- Freedom on the Frontier: The Archaeology of the Black Regulars of Fort Davis (2017)
- A Geological Approach to a Historic Midden Site in Fort Davis, Texas (2017)
- Health In Early Twentieth-Century Fort Davis, Texas (2017)
- Queer Frontier Identities: A Look at at the Laundresses' Quarters and Enlisted Married Men's Quarters of Fort Davis, Texas (2017)
- Time-Geography in the Texas Frontier: Exploring The Topology of Difference at Fort Davis (2017)
- What Trash Tells Us: A Look at Fort Davis's 20th-Century Population (2017)