Society for Historical Archaeology 2014

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Andrew Derlikowski.

In 2013, the City of Tampa, a locally important 19th-century steamboat, was rediscovered in Blackwater Bay. The wooden-hulled vessel moved people and goods between Milton, Bagdad, and Pensacola. The City of Tampa burned to her waterline in 1921 during repairs, and was considered a complete loss. In 1991, Dr. Roger Smith, Florida’s State Underwater Archaeologist, and his team set out to survey the state’s underwater cultural resources. During this survey, only City of Tampa’s boiler material was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gavin Lucas.

This paper explores the connection of church and state in Iceland during the post-Reformation period, drawing on the recent archaeological excavations of an episcopal manor and seminary in the southwest of Iceland.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Linda Naunapper.

Bell Type II and affiliated aboriginal ceramics have long been proposed as ethnic markers of the historic Potawatomi and their ancestors in the Great Lakes region. In a more recent study, previous analyses were revisited and integrated with new data to assess the veracity of this hypothesis. Updated metric ceramic analysis identified far fewer ceramic specimens conforming to the suite of attributes defining the ceramic type than was expected (a majority being recovered from the type-site...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Russell Palmer.

The Roman Inquisition was present in Malta for around 250 years and existed as part of a religious colonial regime which also included the Knights of St John and the Bishopric of Malta and Gozo, all of whom officially reported to the Holy See. Responsible for ensuring the proper observance of Catholic ritual and doctrine among Malta’s inhabitants, the Inquisitorial court often issued custodial sentences for any transgression. During the 17th and 18th centuries, the prisons held indigenous...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tara Van Niekerk.

The Sub-Antarctic Marion Island, once a haven for the late 19th and early 20th century whaling and sealing industries, now holds countless remains of a shipwreck survivor camp and hidden stories of a terrestrial maritime landscape formed out of tragedy and the need to survive. The study of the early 20th Century Solglimt shipwreck survivor camp on Marion Island has produced the perfect opportunity to fill gaps within the discipline of Maritime Archaeology where too often emphasis is placed on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ani Chénier.

This poster presents research on grave markers and other monuments from Chinese cemeteries in four Pacific ports: Honolulu (Hawaii), San Francisco (California), Vancouver and Victoria (British Columbia). These cities were among the major hubs for travel, communication and trade between China and Chinese diaspora communities in the Americas. Documenting patterns of change in commemorative practices at these sites allows for an exploration of the relationship between local, national, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erin Gibson.

Roads embody the experiences of those who constructed, used and maintained them through time. Using a biographical approach I explore how memory and identity are entangled in the material form of a wagon road in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. First constructed by the Royal Engineers in 1859 to enable miners to reach the Fraser River goldfields, the importance of this road transcends its initial colonial origins. Local First Nations communities continued to use and maintain this road...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Johanna Kelly. Andrea Carnevale. Denise McGuire.

A bottle embossed with ‘Sir J. Clarke’s Female Pills’ was found during the excavation of the original location of Toronto’s first hospital, which opened in 1829 and was in operation at the corner of King and John Streets until 1854. The commonly accepted perception is that abortion was frowned upon and prosecuted. In reality abortion was a wide-spread practice and, if not explicitly, then covertly practiced at the major medical facility in the city. The Toronto General Hospital was intended...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Corey McQuinn. Matthew Kirk.

The Ten Broeck Mansion (originally called Prospect for its views of the Hudson Valley) in Albany, New York, was built for Abraham and Elizabeth Ten Broeck in 1798 shortly after a devastating fire burned the family out of their townhouse. The mansion serves as an interpretive house museum administered by the Albany County Historical Association. Between 2011 and 2013, Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc. and volunteers participated in an annual public archaeology event that focuses on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lu Ann De Cunzo.

The United States’ history of multi-national European colonial conquest, independence, and imperialism has created a complex, contested cultural memory. Swedish colonialism presents an especially important case because it lasted literally only 17 years. For diverse reasons, memory events and landmarks have continued to reproduce New Sweden for more than a century. This paper explores the institution of the ‘national family’ in the U.S. through the lens of the 375th Swedish anniversary ‘reunion’...

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Kroum Batchvarov.

In 2012 the Rockley Bay Research Project (RBRP), a joint expedition of the University of Connecticut and the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, began a long-term, large-scale underwater investigation of a 17th-century naval battle site in Scarborough Harbor, Tobago. In 2013 the RBRP expedition concentrated on the TRB-1 and TRB-2 wrecks. Based on earlier estimates of the position of the Dutch line, the preliminary reports of the late Mr. Wes Hall, the NAS report of a previous expedition to the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Victor.

This paper examines the way that frontier spaces shaped their inhabitants’ interactions, considering informal economy, trade and exchange, and the negotiation of social capital through commensal politics, as seen in the archaeological record. The processes at work within frontier locales influence inhabitants in such similar ways that they can be examined broadly across time and space. Frontier spaces are central to a more nuanced understanding of the trade networks that spanned the Atlantic and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Frederick Smith.

While the archaeology of plantation slave villages demonstrates planter control, the spaces in between these sites offer information from places where the reach of the planter was most minimal. Archaeological investigations in the caves and gullies that run through the plantation lands at St. Nicholas Abbey sugar plantation in St. Peter, Barbados offer insights into the social practices that enslaved workers pursued. The gully between St. Nicholas Abbey and the modern-day village of Moore Hill...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Harold Mytum.

Although prehistory was used by some cultural brokers in the definition of nationalist identities from the late 18th century onwards, it was historic periods were most frequently brought forward in argument and used as an inspiration for nationalistic argument and symbolism. Documented named groups and individuals on the one hand, and material objects ‘ both sites and portable artefacts ‘ on the other, provided the warp and weft to weave nationalist narratives. Antiquarianism and early...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kim Stabler.

The Rose Theatre, built in 1587 on London’s Bankside, is a rare archaeological survival. The theatre is one of only a handful of playhouses, and its repertoire included plays by Marlowe, Kyd and Shakespeare. Surviving contemporary account books provide a unique understanding of the Elizabethan stage and players. The theatre was rediscovered during routine investigations prior to the re-development of the site in 1989, and thanks to a vocal grass-roots campaign, it was saved from destruction at...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Denis Degez.

This paper presents a project developed by the Département des Recherches Archéologiques Subaquatiques et Sous-Marines (DRASSM) to develop and produce a ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) specifically designed for underwater archaeological excavation of wrecks located in great depths. It will discuss the overall field operations that have, since 2012, driven the thought process regarding the material, physical, and technical constraints associated with underwater archaeology in great depths. It...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marc-André Bernier.

In 1964, Parks Canada’s newly created underwater archaeology team conducted its first three projects at Fort Lennox (Richelieu River), Fort St. Joseph (Lake Superior) and on Walker’s fleet (St. Lawrence River estuary). Fifty years and tens of thousands of dives later, Canada’s only federal underwater archaeology team is still exploring our country’s waters. This magical journey saw the Underwater Archaeology Service (UAS) of Parks Canada deploy to all areas of the country, from the majestic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas Ross.

There is considerable archaeological evidence for alcohol consumption among Japanese migrants in North America. However, among oral histories and other archival sources alcohol is rarely mentioned, and when it is the focus is on imported Japanese saké to the near exclusion of all other beverages. Based on data from an early 20th century salmon cannery in British Columbia, I argue that certain consumer goods that served important social functions in the homeland, including saké, also played an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría.

The combination of historical texts and archaeological data is challenging, in part because we use different strategies for interpreting incommensurable data. In this paper I bring insights from literary criticism to show that historical data tend to be interpreted as a substitution of the part for the whole: a document or a few documents can be expanded to represent broad aspects of colonial society, often reaching beyond the limitations of the documents themselves. I evaluate the problems...

DOCUMENT Citation Only María, Zukunftskolleg Cruz Berrocal. Chenghwa Tsang. Susana Consuegra Rodríguez. Elena Serrano Herrero. Marc Gener Moret. Sandra Montón Subías.

Archaeological interventions in the location of the former Spanish colony in Taiwan have been carried out since 2011. We aim to contrast and enlarge the information provided by existing documents, and to understand not only the colony and its multiethnic microcosmos, but also the general historical context of 17th century Asia-Pacific.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leslie Stewart-Abernathy.

It is rare to find images of architecture by non-professional hands produced before the popularization of photography. More rare are representations by children except for the occasional sampler. In 1981, during the annual Arkansas Archeological Society Training Program at Washington Historic State Park, such a picture was found in an archeological context. Incised on a fragment of a school slate tablet is the image of a house, along with the name ‘»Sarah»’ and three sets of the paired numbers...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fraser Neiman.

My goal in this paper is to show how the statistical analysis of compositional data, derived from INAA, can advance our understanding of scales of production and exchange for Afro-Caribbean ceramics during the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries on Nevis and St Kitts. I use classical and newly developed multivariate methods to explore and evaluate the compositional distinctiveness of sherds recovered from recent STP surveys. Assemblages from two Nevis plantations are compositionally...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Lapointe.

Depuis l’an 2000, les technologies et les applications de scan 3D ont évoluées de façons importantes, et les applications reliées à l’utilisation des nuages de points sont de plus en plus accessibles. Nous tenterons de présenter un survol de cette évolution par le biais des projets que nous avons réalisés au cours des années. Que ce soit au niveau des sites ou des objets, à des fins de documentations techniques, de mise en valeur ou de reproduction d’artefact, le scan 3D s’est avéré utile dans...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jamie May. Karin Bruwelheide.

The Jamestown Rediscovery Project has investigated early colonial burials, but the vast majority of Jamestown graves remain unexcavated. However, the continuous and evolving occupation of the site throughout and beyond the James Fort period means that disarticulated human bones are periodically discovered within sealed, fort-period contexts that are not graves. The fill layers of a fort bulwark trench, an early fort well, and the cellar of an early work building all yielded partial human...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Justin Warrenfeltz.

Though much of the 17th century landscape has been uncovered archaeologically at St. Mary’s City in the last several decades, researchers have yet to find the elusive 1634 Fort; primary accounts even describe the Fort’s location as well as its size and construction. Forts with regional and/or temporal relevance to the 1634 Fort ‘ such as Plymouth, Fort Casimir, and Jamestown ‘ provide valuable clues and lay the groundwork for locating and reliably testing for Fort St. Mary’s. Archaeologists have...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elena Sesma.

In 1752, there were 25 Captive Africans living on the mile-long main street of Deerfield, a small village in present day Western Massachusetts. Slavery in Deerfield was by no means unusual, but in the heart of what many consider abolitionist territory, it seems shocking that English colonists bought and sold human beings in much the same way as their southern counterparts. Lucy Terry Prince, an African woman brought to America as a child, would become a legend in Deerfield Village, but despite...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anthony Martin.

In the 18th century and early 19th century, Andover, Massachusetts was home to a large African American community. However, we only know about a few of the inhabitants from the documentary record and archaeology. Only two African American homesites have been excavated- Cato Freeman and Lucy Foster (Black Lucy’s Garden). Selective acknowledgement and acceptance of a few African Americans by past and present communities have, at times, created a palimpsest towards the larger African American...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marcos Martinón-Torres. Yves Monette.

There is little doubt that one of the major ambitions behind the first attempt at settling in Canada was the pursuit of metals and other mineral wealth. Archaeological remains of the metallurgical trials carried out in Quebec may hold important clues to understand skill-sets, expectations, and perhaps failures of those early explorers seeking to exploit the riches of an unknown territory. We present study and technical interpretation of a small number of crucibles and metallurgical residues...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fred Engle.

The Second Battle of the Atlantic spanned from 1939 to 1945 and ranged from the North Cape of Norway to the Cape of Good Hope. In 1942, the battle arrived off North America’s Atlantic coast and U-boats took a heavy toll on allied shipping. War at sea leaves no traces at the surface, but the seabed off the Outer Banks of North Carolina contains the wrecks of the battle’s hunted and hunters. Many of these wrecks lie at depths within the range of sport divers, and in this time of limited...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Scott.

In settings of secondary colonization, where one European colony is conquered and colonized by another European nation, the material culture available to all residents is controlled by the conquering nation. Perhaps one of the clearest cases of this was in post-Conquest New France, where the conquering British put in place after 1760 an embargo on all goods from France. Thus, the large numbers of French residents who continued to live in Canada had access only to goods from Britain or conveyed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin Leonard.

The brief but prosperous period of settlement at Havre St. Pierre introduced a wide range of new plant species. Macroremains recovered from excavations adjacent to an Acadian dwelling burnt (possibly by the British during the 1758 expulsion) and from the bottom of a nearby well reveal the extent of the impact on the local flora created by the Acadian residents whose lives were uprooted by colonial war.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Cassell.

In the late 19th-early 20th century, the American commercial whaling industry in the western Arctic developed an industrial labor force of Iñupiat Eskimos to conduct and support shore whaling in north Alaska. Remuneration for Native labor took the form of foodstuffs, trade items, and productive resources such as boats and harpoons. For common Iñupiat Eskimos, independent acquisition of these material goods could provide the means to become a whaling captain, an umialiq, and operate their own...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Annie Clarke. Ursula Frederick.

Quarantine, as an act of enforced isolation and medical supervision, was used by British colonial authorities and later by Australian governments to manage and control the introduction of infectious diseases. Quarantine stations such as that located at North Head, Manly were initially built as specialist institutions. Over time, however, as the need for mass quarantine declined, the facilities at North Head were used for other forms of social regulation and welfare. These included a detention...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kyle Somerville. Christopher Barton.

In the nineteenth century, the growth of consumer culture altered the ways in which people saw themselves and the intersection of identities constructed through material culture. This paper examines a matching tea cup and saucer recovered from the Spring House, a former commercial farmstead and hotel located in southeastern Monroe County, New York. The tea set is decorated with transferprint depictions of ‘Faith, Hope, and Charity,’ the Three Virtues forming the basis of Christianity, and a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas Appler.

One of the central characteristics of successful municipal archaeology programs is that they require archaeological review prior to ground disturbing activities, such as new city road projects or new commercial development. But there is considerable variety in the regulatory ‘triggers’ that local governments use to determine when archaeological review is required. Using examples from cities and counties across the United States, this paper will highlight the different processes used to bring...

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. Vigeant. D. Caron. I. Ribon. R. Stevenson.

Notre-Dame cemetery in Montréal (1691-1796) and St. Matthew’s cemetery in Quebec City (1771-1860) are major sources of information about colonization in Québec. We analyzed stable isotopes of enamel carbonate (d13C and d18O) of teeth formed between the ages of 2 and 8 years for 92 individuals to address questions regarding immigration provenance. Results show that in Montréal, individuals were mainly established colonists (52%), while 35% came from regions with higher d18O, and 13% from regions...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elisabeth Lecler-Huby.

la réalisation en 1993 d’un parking souterrain en plein centre ville de Rouen a permis la découverte d’un ensemble de céramiques associées aux rebuts d’un atelier d’artisan verrier. Le mobilier comprend de nombreux éléments de matière première, des objets de parure (perles, boutons, bagues, anneaux, résilles...), des verreries et des céramiques à usage domestique et culinaire.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matt McGraw. Rebecca McLain. Beverly Clement.

The LSU Rural Life Museum conducted Phase III data recovery excavations at the sugar mill portion of the Chatsworth Plantation site (16EBR192) now in Baton Rouge, Louisiana from January to June 2013. Chatsworth Plantation existed as a sugar producer along the banks of the Mississippi River from the 1840s until the property was sold at a Sheriff’s sale in 1928. The purpose of this poster is to demonstrate the efforts made by the project team to engage the public with historic archaeology. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Trevarthen Andrews. Joanne Bowen.

Excavations in and around James Fort, have produced what are arguably the most significant series of faunal assemblages ever recovered from this region. Dating from the earliest period of ‘The Starving Time’ of 1609-1610, some of the assemblages bear testimony to the hardships that the colonists faced during the initial years of settlement, revealing what has previously only been read about in the documentary records. Analysis of these faunal assemblages, such as the one associated with the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Staniforth. Cass Philippou.

Shipbuilding in a colonial context draws on traditions from a variety of places including the parent culture. Colonial shipbuilding adapts and evolves over time to meet the local environmental conditions, the availability of endemic and other timbers and to suit the requirements of local and regional mercantile commerce. Establishing the identity and biography of colonial shipbuilders is key to understanding the processes which underpin shipbuilding development. This paper considers shipbuilding...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mike Belasus.

During the period at the end of the 19th and early 20th century German historians saw their duty among others in the education of the people of the young nation towards a national identity. The Hanseatic League was seen as a predecessor of the German Empire and the cargo ship of the German merchants, which was then identified to be the ‘Cog’ became its symbol. The need to visualize this vessel gave reason for the attempt of a technical definition which could serve the national idea.When the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samuel Cuellar.

Ships’ bells have long been of interest in maritime history. Despite this, however, not much is known on the origin, design, and use of ship bells’ prior to the 18th century. The lack of adequate research on this topic limits the understanding of how bells came to be aboard ships, where they were first created, and how they changed stylistically over time and place. All of these elements may prove crucial in providing contextual information to sites discovered with an associated bell. This paper...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rodrigo Torres. Kotaro Yamafune.

On December 2012, a joint team composed of students from the Netherlands (Dutch Cultural Heritage Agency), the United States (Texas A&M University), and Brazil (the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at University of Bahia) carried out an expedition on a 17th century Dutch and Portuguese shipwreck site off the coast of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The short 2012 field season entailed the recording of current conditions of the site and the creation of a 3D siteplan based on archaeological data....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Wendy Van Duivenvoorde. Alistair Paterson. Jeremy Green.

This paper discusses a new project that attempts to make a significant contribution to our understanding of Europeans active in the Indian Ocean and Western Australian region during the 17th and 18th centuries through the unique window into the past provided by maritime archaeological sites. A strategic international alliance of university and museum researchers will return to shipwreck sites excavated over 40 years ago to examine how approaches to maritime archaeological sites have changed over...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kerri S. Barile. Kerry S. Gonzalez.

It was a strange request indeed. Is it possible to do an archaeological dig in an attic? An August 2011 earthquake caused extensive damage to Salubria, a circa 1757 Georgian mansion, requiring rebuilding chimneys and roof repair. To help prepare the space for construction, the owners requested that the attic be cleaned of the ‘detritus’ that had accumulated on the attic floor during the building’s 250-year occupation. Over 10,000 items were found during the ‘dig’ spanning the eighteenth through...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eduard Reinhardt. Shawn Collins. Brady Gregory. Shawn Kovacs. Peter van Hengstum.

Aquatic cave sediments have been studied by few scientists. The highly specialized dive training required to conduct this research has left the cave environment unexplored relative to other parts of the earth. Our recent research in Yucatan caves explores the utility of cave sediments as archives for environmental change, and examines how physical, biological and chemical indicators found within the sediments can be used to provide information regarding groundwater and its potability through...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lisa Daly.

Airplane sites in Newfoundland and Labrador tend to be in isolated locations, and are often resting in bog environments. Due to the nature of bogs, neither underwater nor terrestrial techniques are adequate for the proper survey of these sites. Similarly, the isolation of sites means investigators are limited by the equipment they can carry. As such, methods must be combines and adapted based on the characteristics of each aviation site to achieve the most accurate and detailed survey possible....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer McKinnon. Sam Bell.

From 2009 to 2012 a multidisciplinary team collected archaeological and conservation survey data on four sunken aircraft in Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. This data was analysed in an effort to better understand site formation processes of WWII aircraft lost in the Pacific. A site formation model was produced based on previously established shipwreck models as well as corrosion data collected and analysed to provide a detailed description of how these sites have been and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only J Eric Deetz.

As archaeologists working in cultural resource management we are called upon to assess the potential research value of the resources encountered during survey. We judge the merits of these sites against the criteria for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places. The more material you find at a site the easier it is to assess. This has the potential to bias the sites we investigate towards “richer” sites and as a result sites with lower densities of materials are too often...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lori Lee.

This paper centers on a material culture analysis of the contents of an abandoned emigrant’s backpack found in St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Documents and objects identify the emigrant as a young Haitian man. These objects are remnants from the long, arduous journey of a displaced individual from a politically and economically conflicted homeland to a contested U.S. territory. The objects are tangible artifacts of struggle, persistence, and agency. They are simultaneously artifacts of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Ransdeb.

In the Northeast, ‘contact’ refers to meetings between Aboriginal Americans and Western Europeans. But ‘contact’ is really a way of saying ‘contact-induced culture change’, since the key is not the meeting of two peoples, but the cultural changes that resulted. Thus the meetings between Norse and Aboriginal people in the far northeast over 4 centuries are not considered to mark the beginning of contact, whereas the visits of Cartier to the St. Lawrence over a period of a few months in 1534 are....

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Davidson.

At Kingsley Plantation on Fort George Island, Florida, eight years of summer archaeological field schools have revealed new knowledge regarding African lifeways in this early 19th century New World context, through excavations within four slave cabins and the discovery of the long lost Kingsley era African Burial Ground. In 2010 and 2011 we also uncovered a previously unknown slave water-well. While digging the well we expected to find amazing artifacts like whole ceramic vessels, bottles, or...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Heather Walder.

As European explorers and displaced Native newcomers entered the Upper Great Lakes region, they introduced unfamiliar material types, such as glass beads, which both local and non-local people incorporated into trade networks and technological systems as they confronted the social and economic challenges of interacting with Europeans and their objects. During the 17th and 18th centuries, Native Americans used glass beads as personal adornments and as raw material modified to produce new objects....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas Armstrong.

Domestic deposits associated with early Barbadian plantations are providing a basis to examine the revolutionary shift from small scale farming to large scale sugar production in the early to mid- seventeenth century. Using the 1647 Hapcott Map (John Carter Brown Library) as a guide, and GIS as a locating tool, features associated with «Fort Plantation», now known as «Trents Plantation» have been identified and excavated. The settlement at this site was initially organized as a series of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meta Janowitz.

Among the smoking pipes found during the New York City Hall excavations are a number with Masonic motifs and a few with an unusual motif: a figure with a headdress holding a spear along with a shield or coat of arms topped by flames. The figure might be the mythical St. Tammany. When most modern people hear the name of ‘Tammany’ they usually recall the immensely powerful and corrupt political organization that controlled New York politics from the early nineteenth into the mid-twentieth...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marco Meniketti.

Throughout the British Caribbean emancipation for enslaved Africans came in 1833. Many lived in clusters on Estate lands, some of which transitioned to ‘Free Black’ villages. On the island of Nevis, in the eastern Caribbean, a village is depicted on an 1871 map in association with the Morgan estate. The possible pre-emancipation scope of this village, however, offers the greatest potential for reconstructing the lives and social dimensions of enslaved Africans who labored in the agro-industrial...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Morgan Wampler.

Qualitative and quantitative data comparison of the personal possession and ceramic assemblages of the shipwreck Nuestra Señora del Rosario y Santiago Ap’stol (Rosario) to the shipwreck El Nuevo Constante and Presidio Santa María de Galve provides information regarding the social identities of the sailors on the Rosario. Historical document research and comparative analysis of personal possessions from the Rosario demonstrate the performance of identities such as gender, ethnicity, occupation,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lisa Rankin.

Qualitative and quantitative data comparison of the personal possession and ceramic assemblages of the shipwreck Nuestra Señora del Rosario y Santiago Ap’stol (Rosario) to the shipwreck El Nuevo Constante and Presidio Santa María de Galve provides information regarding the social identities of the sailors on the Rosario. Historical document research and comparative analysis of personal possessions from the Rosario demonstrate the performance of identities such as gender, ethnicity, occupation,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aryandini Novita.

Lighthouse is a complex of several buildings and it guarded by officers. Buildings which are contained in the lighthouse complex are the lighthouse, engine room, warehouse, dwelling and freshwater sources. In marine navigation, lighthouses serve as signs to mark the condition of the waters. Chronologically lighthouses in the Bangka waters were built on the late 19th century AD. In a lighthouse there is a community that is in charge of managing the lighthouse, they are living in the lighthouse...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ron Hancock. Jean-François Moreau.

INAA data from 421 green glass trade beads, from our bead database, were visually inspected to see if there was a logical process for sorting them. Most of the samples were from the 16th to 18th century archaeological sites in northeastern North America. The first steps were to eliminate samples that came from non-European sources or from later times. This was done by removing samples with very high aluminum or potassium, or with no measurable chlorine. Then, we removed tin-opacified samples....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Palus.

American writer William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) expressed a terror at modernity and also a suite of tactics for escaping some of its confines. This literary mode is common among many of the Beats, but Burroughs wrote in a visionary, experimental style that conveyed an epistemology of his own, and one that is both available and appropriable for historical archaeological investigation of different elements of modern American life. Though very much a post-war literary movement, the Beat writers...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christine Heacock.

Plantation owners during the 18th to mid-19th century were known for lavish dinners and generous hospitality towards other elite families. Depending on one’s success and reputation, planters varied in the expectations placed upon them regarding food consumed, ceramics used, and alcoholic beverages offered. These meals are perhaps more appropriately examined as feasts aimed at serving a variety of purposes for hosts. This paper is a preliminary comparative analysis of planters’ feasting...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Leventhan. Tiffany Cain.

What benefit can practicing archaeology bring to a developing community? How do communities balance the need for economic development and the desire to maintain and explore their cultural heritage? The Tihosuco Heritage Preservation and Community Development Project is a cooperative, community-based project in the town of Tihosuco, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Tihosuco rests at the epicenter of the Caste War (1847-1901) when Maya rebelled against Mexico. The town remains part of a much larger story of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Chadwell.

The large pool of sport divers willing to participate in underwater archaeological projects presents a potentially rich pool of available labor. However, employing sport divers in underwater projects also presents potential safety and liability issues for the professional archaeologist. This presentation is intended to inform terrestrial archaeologists who may lead or participate in underwater archaeological projects in the future - or underwater archaeologists who have only a basic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only R. Grant Gilmore.

The Jews of St Eustatius have been examined a few times over the past decades. However, recent excavations and documentary work have revealed new insights into how this important section of the population fulfilled a unique niche in island and Atlantic World society. Details regarding the Synagogue Honen Dalim, the mikveh and the cantor’s home provide a framework to build up a deeper understanding of Jewish social, economic and physical landscapes. The Statian Jewish Diaspora will be shown...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Claude Chapdelaine.

Since the early development of anthropologically oriented St. Lawrence Iroquoian archaeology in the late 1960’s, the role of Jacques Cartier’s Iroquoians during the 16th Century has been at the center of several research questions, all looking for a better understanding of their dramatic disappearance. After reviewing the evidence of contact between Europeans and Iroquoians in the Canada and Hochelaga kingdoms, this paper will concentrate on the idea of a passive versus an active attitude of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin Zant.

Throughout the nineteenth century, steam propulsion in ships grew from an idea to a widely used method of modern transportation. While the use of steam in propulsion has been given credit with advancing shipping into the modern age, the advancements in steam powered unloading systems on the Great Lakes helped propel shipping into the twentieth century. One ship that fully demonstrates this advancement in maritime technology is Adriatic of Sturgeon Bay. Credited as the first self-unloading...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Bayman.

The role of the Manila Galleon in linking the economies and cultures of Asia, the Americas, and Europe has long been studied through the historical analysis of documentary records. Although documentary sources are vital to such studies, archaeology is necessary to fully understand the material consequences of early modern colonialism. This presentation examines an emerging body of archaeological evidence on the nature and consequences of Spanish colonialism in the Mariana Islands, an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Antoine Loyer-Rousselle.

The Loyola habitation (1668-1769) is a Jesuit missionaries’ plantation located in French Guiana. The establishment was dedicated to the production of sugar, indigo, coffee, cocoa, and cotton to finance missions of evangelization among Amerindian groups in South America. The storehouse inventory included tools, food, alcohol and imported goods. This presentation will focus on the excavations conducted on this building. These unearthed a large quantity of building hardware and architectural...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ervin Lane. Brent Lane.

The first English settlement attempt in the New World, organized by Sir Walter Ralegh in 1585, included a contingent of ‘mineral men’ led by a metallurgist from Prague named Joachim Ganz. At the colony’s settlement on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, Ganz established what archaeologist Ivor Noel Hume describes as ‘America’s First Science Center’ to assay and smelt ore specimens. Evidence of this earliest metallurgical work in North America consists of a few excavated items: charcoal, crucible...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jonathan Moore.

Archaeological inventories of near-shore areas have played a central part in the work of Parks Canada’s Underwater Archaeology Service for many years. To a degree however they have been overshadowed by our large-scale shipwreck excavations. Near-shore inventories have encompassed a multitude of site categories including: submerged lands; colonial naval and military sites; harbours; nineteenth-century canal corridors; and industrial whaling, forestry and fishing sites. Over the years we have...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Beaudoin.

Historical archaeology in North America can be broadly bifurcated between the archaeology of the colonizer (European peoples) and the archaeology of the colonized (Indigenous peoples). This bifurcation is continuously reified in the archaeological discipline, such as by the research questions asked, data privileged, and/or narratives chosen; however, all serve to re-affirm the divide as significant and ultimately conceptualize the colonizers and colonized as essentially different without...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah Smith. Thomas Beaman.

Located in southeastern North Carolina, Fort Anderson was a Confederate Civil War fortification comprised primarily of defensive earthen mounds. Though garrisoned only by a small company of soldiers, its population swelled in January 1865 as other regional forts were abandoned as Federal forces advanced towards Wilmington. Shortly after this increase, a three-day bombardment by Federal forces left the encampment areas in ruins and Fort Anderson abandoned. During the 2011 excavation in the area...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Barton.

This paper delves into the work at the African American community of Timbuctoo, New Jersey. The community was founded circa 1825 and operated as a terminus along the underground railroad. From 2010-2011 a group of descendants, scholars, volunteers and Temple University archaeologists conducted Phase III excavations of the Davis site located within Timbuctoo. Once the home to William Davis (1836-1914) after its abandonment (circa 1930s) the 12x16 feet foundation was used as a community trash...