Society for Historical Archaeology 2014

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amber Grafft-Weiss.

Kingsley Plantation, located on Fort George Island in Jacksonville, Florida, offers archaeological insight into the lives of enslaved Africans living in Florida. The site, owned for many years by Zephaniah Kingsley, a merchant and sometime slave trader, features an array of still-standing historical structures including an arc of tabby slave cabins. The most recent excavations at the plantation have been conducted through the University of Florida’s field school each summer since 2006. These...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas Honerkamp.

Thanks to John Solomon Otto’s pioneering work in plantation archaeology, Cannon’s Point on St. Simons Island, Georgia, is well known to most contemporary researchers. A ‘mystery’ tabby structure associated with this site was recently investigated by the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga to determine its approximate age and possible function. Documentary records and oral history information were either non-existent or ambiguous, but were sufficient to frame the existence of the tabby as an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ayana Flewellen.

In Scenes of Subjection Saidiya Hartman examines ‘forms of violence and domination enabled by the recognition of humanity’(p.6). The central theme of the text is how ‘emancipation appears less the grand event of liberation than a point of transition between modes of servitude and racial subjection’(p. 6). In this paper, I pull from Hartman’s theory of emancipation and subjugation to analyze the text and pictures on display boards that disseminate knowledge about Anna Kingsley’s life at the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather Trigg.

A critical issue for historical archaeology in the Southwest US is understanding the relationships and activities within colonizers’ households during the 17th century. These secular sites, established during the early colonial period, have infrequently been the objects of research-based archaeological inquiry, but they provide an important context for the exchange of information between ‘Spanish’ colonists and local and non-local indigenous peoples who labored in the households. Transmission of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Wilkins.

This paper explores the identification and interpretation of overseers in the archaeological record of colonial and antebellum plantations. While plantation landscapes have traditionally been split into opposing conceptions of owner and slave, white and black; this study attempts to incorporate overseers and their spaces as the intersection of those landscapes, critical to the negotiation of race and power. Archaeological studies of overseers have been relatively limited and few attempts have...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Beth Pruitt.

The Wye House Plantation sits on the Wye River, which feeds into the Chesapeake Bay and connected the planter family the Lloyds to an Atlantic trade network in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The past eight summers of excavation at the plantation have focused, not on these connections, but on questions about the lived experiences of the enslaved. The institution of slavery connected them to a diasporic community and to intersecting points of contact at plantations across Maryland’’s...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katrina Eichner.

Through a focus on material remains of sexual identity and activity, archaeologists can gain access into an often overlooked part of daily life in the past. The examination of nineteenth century sexuality and its material signatures, specifically those related to health practices and self-presentation, allows for a more holistic understanding of social relationships in the past. Specifically focusing on the practices of prostitution, courtship, and family building, this paper looks to highlight...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Allison Manfra McGovern.

Historians agree that Native American whalemen from New England were sought for employment in whaling, but disagreement remains on the social and economic impact that whaling had on indigenous lifeways. Debt, coercion, and indentured servitude were frequent conditions of indigenous whaling, but the social and economic opportunities that whaling offered to Native Americans were recognized early on and motivated many men to participate voluntarily. The diversity of indigenous experiences is a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marianne Stopp.

By the early eighteenth century, French archival records for the Strait of Belle Isle describe repeated, divisive relations between French and Inuit. This paper considers European-Inuit relations before this time and thereafter through recently collected archaeological evidence from southern Labrador as well as archival material. The archaeological data point to a more nuanced contact landscape than suggested by the written documents while the latter point to greater Inuit presence than...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Therese Dobrota.

Huntingdon Island 5 (FkBg-3), in Sandwich Bay, South Labrador is a year-round Inuit occupation used successively between the mid-16th to the late 18th century. Soil samples from three sod houses, representing different occupation periods, have been submitted for paleoethnobotanical analysis at the Memorial University Paleoethnobotany laboratory. The samples recreate a picture of Inuit plant use, mainly in connection to housekeeping practices, that spans over a period of increasing European...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emeline Raguin.

Bioarcheology is the study of human skeletal remains whose purpose is to provide biological, cultural and environmental information on past population. Thus, new specialized techniques and methodological approaches have been developed in order to get information on bone that are not possible to obtain using traditional methods. Unfortunately, many of these techniques, such as bone histology, are invasive: they will irreversibly alter the integrity of the bones. Ethical issues become important...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michel Plourde.

Le XVIe siècle fut le théâtre des premières incursions européennes documentées dans l’’estuaire du Saint-Laurent, un riche environnement maritime exploité par des Iroquoiens du Saint-Laurent et des Algonquiens. L’’adhésion des Autochtones au commerce des fourrures allait engendrer des changements majeurs au sein de leurs sociétés. Quel portrait de ces événements marquants peut-on dresser à partir des sites archéologiques fouillés au cours des 20 dernières années ? / The 16th Century was the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ross Jamieson.

As postcolonial theory has permeated historical archaeology, it could be said that it has become more and more watered down from its South Asian routes. Historians recognize scholars such as Jorge Basadre and José Carlos Mariátegui as having given voice to a uniquely Andean form of postcolonial inquiry. Does this have relevance for the practice of historical archaeology in the Andes? Or for historical archaeology more broadly?

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara Ferland.

As one of the youngest states in the Union, Arizona is often thought of as not having much in the way of historical cultural resources. The Spanish mission and presidio sites in the southern part of the state have been well documented; however the later Euro-American mining, homesteading, and ranching sites are often overlooked due to poor preservation, lack of interest, and lack of trained historical archaeologists. This paper will serve to illuminate these issues and offer potential...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Barna.

In 2007, five small porcelain. Cups were recovered from a rubbish deposit behind a cabin on a livestock ranch on the slopes of Mauna Kea volcano. At first glance, they simply confirm the presence of Japanese workers known to be on the ranch beginning in the 1890s. When considered in the context of racial and national prejudices that shaped labor relations during the 19th and early 20th century, however, they help tell a more complex story linking Hawaiian tradition, euro-american capitalists,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marine Jaouen.

Merchant vessel of Swedish nationality, the Jeanne-Elisabeth was driven ashore by a storm in November 1755 on the coast of Pavalas, in Southern France. When it went down, this vessel carried a cargo of wheat from Cadix as well as 24 000 Spanish piastres coined in America. Nothing could be saved of this cargo despite attempts in 1756 to recover the silver. However, divers have located the wreck in 2007 and have begun pillaging it until the intervention of the Département français des recherches...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandre Coello.

In the past decades historians have interpreted early modern Christian missions not simply as an adjunct to Western imperialism, but a privileged field for cross-cultural encounters. Placing the Jesuit missions into a global phenomenon that emphasizes economic and cultural relations between Europe and the East, I want to analyze the possibilities and limitations of the religious conversion in the Micronesian islands of Guam and the Marianas. With the establishment of these missions Guam and the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Suzanne Spencer-Wood.

A feminist analysis reveals that changing gender ideologies, identities, and practices were integral to the material spread of Jewish communities across Greater Boston’s landscape. First, conflict was resolved between waves of immigrants of different Jewish sects, ethnicities, and classes. Then processes of change are analyzed, primarily the influences of Anglo-American culture and Protestantism on Jewish gender systems and religious practices. This research reveals the diversity and complexity...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Genevieve LeMoine. Susan Kaplan.

Inuit women were instrumental in the success of many Arctic expeditions, none more than those led by Robert E. Peary in the early years of the 20th century. But their roles, and the challenges they faced, are only infrequently documented. In 1905-06 and 1908-09 some 50 Inughuit (Polar Inuit) men, women, and children temporarily left their omes in Northwest Greenland to live and work for Peary on northern Ellesmere Island Nunavut, as he tried to reach the North Pole. Recent archaeological work at...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Terry Brock. Thank Harpole.

Inuit women were instrumental in the success of many Arctic expeditions, none more than those led by Robert E. Peary in the early years of the 20th century. But their roles, and the challenges they faced, are only infrequently documented. In 1905-06 and 1908-09 some 50 Inughuit (Polar Inuit) men, women, and children temporarily left their omes in Northwest Greenland to live and work for Peary on northern Ellesmere Island Nunavut, as he tried to reach the North Pole. Recent archaeological work at...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Monika Baumanova. Ladislav Smejda.

This paper aims to examine the spatial distribution and role of the so-called pillar tombs, commonly encountered in the stone town sites of Swahili coast. The Swahili coastal towns thrived as major trading centres in the region of littoral East Africa in the historical period of the 8th to the 17th century AD. Since the earliest archaeological research on the coast, the specific form and monumental nature of the pillar tombs made them a prominent object of study and the first feature of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ross Jamieson.

This paper aims to examine the spatial distribution and role of the so-called pillar tombs, commonly encountered in the stone town sites of Swahili coast. The Swahili coastal towns thrived as major trading centres in the region of littoral East Africa in the historical period of the 8th to the 17th century AD. Since the earliest archaeological research on the coast, the specific form and monumental nature of the pillar tombs made them a prominent object of study and the first feature of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nichole Gillis. Kristen Heitert.

The Paul Revere houselot is situated in the North End of Boston, one of the oldest English-settled areas of the city. Paul Revere purchased the property in 1770 and lived there with his family from 1770’1780, but his was not the first and certainly not the last family to occupy the parcel. Archaeological investigations within portions of the former Revere houselot resulted in the recovery of thousands of domestic, personal, and structural artifacts dating from the seventeenth through nineteenth...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Brown.

The War of 1812 was a pivotal conflict in defining both the infantile United States and laying the ground work for Canadian Confederation and the long road to Canadian Independence. In terms of nautical archaeology, little remains that allows the modern archaeologist to explore and understand this lesser known conflict. The catastrophic sinking of USS Hamilton and Scourge 200 years ago created extremely rare time capsules of material culture. Both ships came to rest intact on their keels in 90...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Boufassa Sami.

La céramique est un élément de décoration de la façade coloniale à Bejaia en Algérie. Interpréter la présence de cet élément décoratif est l’objectif de ce travail. Cela porte sur sa fonction et son utilité, sur son emplacement à travers la paroi verticale, sur son rôle comme signe qui peut véhiculer non seulement des messages mais créer surtout des ambiances. La façade sur rue a été une nouveauté dans le paysage architectural traditionnel algérien. La décoration est venue renforcer cette...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stéphane Piques.

Les potiers qui s’’installent sur le piémont pyrénéen au début du XVIe siècle profitent de la présence de marnes calcaires et de forêts abondantes pour fabriquer des poteries à décors sgraffiato et peints sous glaçure. Leurs produits alimentent le marché toulousain en aval ainsi que l’Espagne. Dès 1737, des faïenciers, surtout issus de Nevers, arrivent dans les nouvelles manufactures de faïence installées dans la vallée de la Garonne où ils fabriquent des faïences de grand feu dans le style de...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Catherine Lavier. Anne Chaillou.

La sous-direction de l’archéologie, direction générale des patrimoines, ministère français de la Culture et de la Communication, a lancé en septembre 2011 une réflexion à l’échelon national sur l’évaluation, la sélection et la conservation sélective des archives du sol. Outre un gros volet juridique, cette réflexion doit permettre d’organiser des protocoles d’évaluation et de conservation sélective du matériel archéologique en élaborant des fiches méthodologiques qui seront mises à la...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christine Jerla.

Disease contact in the Americas and its biological and cultural consequences are significant areas of research. The 1918 influenza pandemic was the most severe of the twentieth-century outbreaks, killing between 20 and 40 million individuals worldwide and over half a million Americans. For Navajo populations, it was one of the worst calamities since their incarceration at Fort Sumner in 1864. Influenza pandemics typically cause the most casualties among the very young and the very old. However,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marie-Claude Morin.

Située dans l'arrondissement de Saint-Laurent, la maison Robert-Bélanger est une ancienne maison en pierres, représentative des habitations de ferme construites sur l'île de Montréal au début du XIXe siècle. C'est l'un des rares bâtiments de ce type sur le territoire et le dernier de l'ancienne côte Saint-Louis-du-Bois-Franc. Laissée à l'abandon et non entretenue pendant quelques années, la maison fut acquise récemment par la Ville afin d'être mise en valeur pour le bénéfice de la population....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michel L’Hour. Elisabeth Veyrat.

From 1999 to 2008, a 10 years underwater archaeological excavation has been carried away, by French Ministry of Culture DRASSM and the ADRAMAR association, on two French Frigates sunk off St. Malo (France). One has been identified as the Dauphine, a light frigate built for privateering in the royal dockyard of Le Havre (1703) and sunk on December 1704. The other is known as the Aimable Grenot, a large frigate built in Granville for a private ship-owner (1747), armed for privateering then for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Grenier.

Pendant près de 15 ans, à partir de sa fondation en 1964 par Walter Zacharchuk, le Service d’archéologie subaquatique (SAS) de Parcs Canada a fourbi ses armes avec des résultats inégaux, mais qui lui permettent de développer une expertise variée et parfois avant-gardiste en fouilles archéologiques subaquatiques. La découverte du San Juan, un baleinier basque du 16e siècle à Red Bay au Labrador en 1978 allait permettre de faire fructifier cette expertise naissante. Après la découverte, le SAS...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marcelo Acosta.

Hasta el momento diferentes investigadores han tratado de explicar el concepto de reducción puesta en práctica por los jesuitas al establecer las misiones en Sudamérica. Los jesuitas trataron de reducir la movilidad guaraní que vivían en la región del rio Paranapanema. Al principio, el concepto de reducción fue aplicado como una tentativa de control espacial de las poblaciones locales concentrándolos en una misión. Usando el análisis de la organización interna de las misiones de San Ignacio...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Catherine Lavier.

En 1994, dans le chenal d’accès au port de Saint-Malo, des épaves de frégates ont été découvertes et les fouilles, dirigées par le DRASSM, ont été menées de 1999 à 2008. Issus de la Dauphine (arsenal royal du Havre, 1703/1704) et de L’Aimable Grenot, (chantier de Granville, 1747/1749), quelques 3138 objets de la vie quotidienne à bord ont été extraits de ces épaves dont 1710 en bois. Leur étude archéodendrométrique n’a pu débuter qu’en 2011, après restauration des objets. On montrera comment...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Matthews. Allison Manfra McGovern. Emily Button Kambic.

The making of communities is often treated as a quasi-natural process in which people of similar backgrounds and heritage or people living in close proximity form meaningful and mutual ties. Missing from this approach is an appreciation of the ties that bind people to others that are beyond their own control. Especially in contexts of inequality, communities form around shared interests in perpetuating, dismantling, or simply surviving the disproportionate distribution of resources. This paper...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna Agbe-Davies.

Powerful forces turn our attention to the problem of identity. A rich body of thought’ developed by archaeologists and others’ points the way toward dynamic understandings of who humans are, yet archaeology struggles to be more than a handmaiden. Arguably, the problem is one of method rather than theory: what counts as data; how we categorize things; what our problems are. This paper examines labor relations in the early Virginia colony via locally-made clay tobacco pipes. These artifacts,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stefano De Luca. Anna Lena.

The Magdala Project excavations, directed by the writers in the city of Magdala/Taricheae (which was the main urban site along the W shore of the Lake of Galilee prior the foundation of Tiberias as capital of the Region), have identified a sequence of phases of a well planned city, strictly interconnected with the development, use and abandonment of its harbour. In this sense the harbour represents an excellent archive of information about the city life. Since the archaeological remains of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara Beanlands.

Shawbrook Farm, located in the community of Poplar Grove, Hants County, is believed to be part of a former Pre-Deportation Acadian settlement, known as Village Thibodeau. The village is depicted on a number of eighteenth-century maps and archaeological testing on an adjacent property in 2004 confirmed the presence of mid-eighteenth century archaeological resources in the area. Shawbrook Farm is also the site of an early Planter settlement, being part of the lands granted to Arnold Shaw in 1760,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Linda France Stine.

A landscape approach has revealed citizens’’ ‘questions that count’ through a number of community-engaged projects in Piedmont North Carolina. This presentation illustrates how foregrounding landscape focuses public discussions, multidisciplinary research, and ultimately enhances community and professional understanding. An example research project sought geophysical and historical archaeological evidence pertaining to the 1785 planned community of Martinville, staked upon the remains of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Françoise Labaune-Jean.

En 2008 et 2011, deux interventions ont permis de mettre au jour des rejets de productions correspondant à des faïenceries situées au nord/est de la ville de Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine), en périphérie du faubourg moderne. Le dernier en date a livré ces rejets en comblement d’une cave se rattachant à la faïencerie dite du Pavé Saint-Laurent située immédiatement au nord du terrain fouillé et fondée en 1748 par Jean Forasassi dit Barbarino. Une partie des installations de cette dernière avait été...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Di Hu.

Historians of the late colonial Andes focus on this time period as a watershed for innovations in identity, resistance, and economics that famously culminated in the great Andean rebellions of the 1780s. Strangely, there has been little investigation of the role that material culture played in such transitions. This paper will briefly review some of the archaeological and historical evidence from an important textile workshop, Pomacocha, in highland Peru. Such evidence suggests that changes in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin Smith.

Among the most enduring questions historical archaeologists face are how to disentangle relationships between written and archaeological records, especially in the complex narratives and material records of first contact situations. The Norse discoveries and explorations in North America surely rank among the most contentious of these. While excavations at L’’Anse aux Meadows firmly documented a Norse exploration base in Newfoundland, questions remain about the nature and extent of that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Xabi Agote.

La txalupa des basques , ou baleinière à rames et à voile de 28 pieds, constitue l’embarcation la plus universelle de l’humanité et aussi la moins connue à cause de la confusion générale de la terminologie : à peu près jamais associée aux basques, elle apparaît tantôt comme chalupa, chaloupe, shallop, sloop, viscayenne, chalupka etc. Elle semble être apparue il y a environ un millénaire, et devint à travers le temps l’embarcation de choix de la majorité des marines du monde comme...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Miller.

Fort St. Pierre was a short lived establishment along the Yazoo River in the Lower Mississippi River Valley existing from 1719-1729. An uprising by neighboring Native warriors set the fort ablaze, which ultimately led to its demise. The region was never resettled following the attack. Excavations during the 1970s revealed a glimpse of Fort St. Pierre’s role in the early years of France’s colonial Louisiane settlement within North America. Lead fabric seals from the site demonstrate the fort...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Magali Veyrat.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kimberly Pyszka.

With its establishment in 1706, the South Carolina Anglican Church became an important and influential organization in the colony. In this presentation, discussion will focus on archaeological research conducted at the site of one of the earliest Anglican churches in South Carolina, St. Paul’s Parish Church. Research at St. Paul’s provides an opportunity to discuss the larger and often unseen roles of the Anglican Church in the development of the colony, beyond its religious and political ones....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Genevieve Treyvaud. Michel Plourde.

Since 1979, the Grand Council of the WabanAki First Nation, mandated by the two band councils at Odanak and Wolinak, has had a mission to ensure a future for the Abenaki nation by offering various operations related to documentation of the past and enhancement of the culture. Thus it seemed natural to integrate archeology in this process. In collaboration with the Abénakis Museum, the band council of Odanak and Canadian Heritage, we developed an archaeological research project to participate in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Guillaume Demeure.

Depuis quelques années les nombreux chantiers archéologiques menés à La Rochelle (Charente-Maritime, France) ont permis la mise au jour et l’étude de plusieurs éléments appartenant au système défensif de la ville à l’époque Moderne. L’enceinte héritée du Moyen-Âge et réaménagée au XVIe siècle ainsi que l’enceinte de sureté huguenote édifiée entre 1596 et 1611 étaient déjà connus grâce aux plans anciens et aux sources en archive. Cependant, les études archéologiques, bien que souvent réalisées...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Martin Elouga.

Il nous semble impératif de définir le champ épistémologique de l’archéologie historique au Cameroun. Des étudiants, ainsi que certains enseignants, mènent de plus en plus des recherches sur des thèmes se rapportant au champ de l’archéologie historique. Mais, c?est l’archéologie historique, telle qu’elle a été définie aux Etats Unis d’Amérique, donc dans un contexte différent de celui du Cameroun. Pourtant, ces étudiants et enseignants ont besoin d?être situés par rapport à l’extension...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Hess.

Le village de potiers de la Chapelle-des-Pots (France, Charente-Maritime) a produit entre le XIIe et le XXe s. un vaste répertoire de formes diffusées localement mais aussi exportées, notamment en direction du Nouveau Monde.Les musées de la Ville de Saintes conservent une importante collection reflétant cette production. En présentant ces formes traditionnelles et en tentant de faire la part des exportations, de cerner les choix formels qu’elles impliquent éventuellement, nous nous proposons...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sebastien Pauly. Tristan Yvon.

Avec l’implantation coloniale française aux petites Antilles durant la première moitié du XVIIe siècle, de nouvelles activités économiques tournées vers le commerce d’exportation émergent en fonction des ressources locales. Ainsi, la canne à sucre est l’objet d’une industrie florissante. Celle-ci nécessite, lors des opérations de raffinage ou de terrage, un grand nombre de céramiques spécifiques : les pots à mélasse, destinés à recevoir le sirop qui s’écoule des pains de sucre lors de leur...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashley Dumas. Gregory Waselkov.

After LaSalle’s Texas debacle in the 1680s, French colonization of the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico focused initially at Fort Louis de la Louisiane and the surrounding settlement known today as Old Mobile (1702-1711). The French established other forts in succeeding decades throughout La Louisiane to protect their own settlements, strengthen Indian alliances, and hinder English encroachment. Among these was remote Fort Tombecbé (1736-1763), at the eastern frontier of Choctaw country....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jim Bruseth.

In 1686, the French exploration vessel La Belle went down in Matagora Bay off the coast of what is now Texas. Three-hundred and ten years later, the small 45-ton vessel resurfaced from the bottom of the waters of the Gulf of Mexico under the trowels of underwater archaeologists working inside a coffer dam. Drawing from the experience of other previous large-scale excavations, Texas Historical Society’s La Belle project provided new innovations of its own. This paper will discuss various...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Eric Schweickart.

Over the course of the eighteenth century, individuals around the world began to embrace new ideas regarding the meanings inherent in the act of consuming household goods. As novel ways of signaling wealth became popular at all social levels, the production and acquisition of more commodified objects increased. This paper introduces a methodology for understanding a particular household’s ideological views through the classification of their ceramic vessels based on how commodified the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brent Fortenberry.

Bermuda was settled in 1612 by the Virginia Company Colonists of England’s expanding colonial realm. While still a British Overseas Territory, Bermuda finds itself caught between its colonial past and its (post?) colonial present and future. From Royal Forts to Watch Houses, the vestiges of the British colonization still saturate its shores. Ironically it is primarily the remains of the historic colonial landscape that are the means and infrastructure for the island’s economic survival through...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Bowes.

Harriet Tubman was an African American slave, activist, and American heroine. In 1859 she purchased a farm in Auburn, NY and over the fifty-six years of her residence she opened her home to family and to the public. The farm is just a small part of Tubman’’s legacy but it allows us to connect with her and those who also lived on the property. Years of archaeological excavation on Harriet Tubman’’s farm have yielded a wealth of data, however only recent excavations have utilized environmental...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madeline Roth.

In the spring of 2012, students from St. Mary’s College of Maryland began directed surveying Cremona Estate, located on the Patuxent River in Southern Maryland. The property was originally purchased as a plantation in 1653 by John Ashcom; a protestant living in the Catholic controlled colony. Research was undertaken to enhance understanding of Cremona’s historical role. Students initiated preliminary investigations of locus three, colloquially termed ‘Brickfield’ for the relatively high...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather Olson. Kate Erickson.

The Paul Revere House, located in an area colloquially referred to as Boston’s ‘North End,’ sits in one of the oldest, continuously occupied areas of the City. The surrounding neighborhood has undergone significant cultural and geographical changes over the centuries, and this paper will attempt to discern some of those changes through the archaeological record. An examination of select materials recovered from a clay- and wood-lined barrel privy identified within the boundaries of the original...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ruth Maher.

The peopling of landscapes tends to be viewed as passive and economically focused. In other words, peoples of the past moved into their surroundings for economic benefits and chose land for its agricultural potential alone. Although this research does not intend to argue against the economics of land use and agricultural choices, it does argue that landscapes are not passive backdrops to societal formation and identity. Indeed landscapes play an active role in cosmology, gender, status, age and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jane Lydon.

I begin by exploring the transformation of photos by living Australian Aboriginal relatives and communities, from historical signs to powerful entities that express family relationships and history. In recent years photographs have come to be considered by some theorists as objects, a shift linked to a new emphasis on how they are used rather than what they mean. This move has been stimulated in part by posthumanist approaches that argue for the agency of the non-human, as well as challenges to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Manel Ollé.

Restoration of a complex way of making history about the Spanish presence in Taiwan, using both archaeological and documentary evidence, entails establishing a dialogue between this evidence and different interpretive scenarios. The particular singularity of a colonial location is meaningful as far as it is projected against the background of potential different narratives, in which it can play a more or less central role. A first fundamental analysis must examine the local sphere, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ronald Williamson. Meghan Burchell. William Fox. Sarah Grant.

Appearing on Great Lakes sites as early as Archaic times, marine shell artifacts are only present sporadically in southern Ontario, with the exception of rare mortuary contexts, until the sixteenth-century. By the end of the century, large numbers were entering Ontario as evident at the Skandatut site and its associated Kleinburg ossuary, thought to represent the last Wendat occupation of the Humber River drainage. The presence of European metal and beads made of steatite also increases with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Poulsen. Joseph Bagley.

The archaeological study of Boston has provided unique insights into the lifeways of a 400-year old urban metropolis and contributes greatly to urban archaeological method and theory. Thirty years of survey at the African Meeting House re-defined what it meant to be a free person of African ancestry in the mid nineteenth century, while the Faneuil Hall excavations produced mountains of artifacts dating to the City’s first 100 years. The monumental excavations conducted as part of Boston’s ‘Big...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Warren. Robert Church. Robert Westrick.

In 2008 the Minerals Management Service, now the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, sanctioned a deepwater study in the Gulf of Mexico. Officially designated the ‘Deepwater Program: Exploration and Research of Northern Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Natural and Artificial Hard Bottom Habitats with Emphasis on Coral Communities: Reefs, Rigs, and Wrecks’, the project was more commonly referred to as the Lophelia II Project. The ‘Wrecks’ component of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary-Cate Garden.

The places and spaces that we mark as ‘home’ are filled with ‘’stuff’--objects imbued with value that make up our lives and help to define our spaces. From treasured objects to clutter, this is the material culture of everyday life (e.g. Miller 2009). This paper will ask what happens to these objects when people are compelled to leave their homes? What is kept and what is lost? A major infrastructure project currently underway in the Province of Ontario is resulting in the displacement of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marijo Gauthier-Bérubé.

The Machault is a French frigate discovered in Chaleur Bay, Canada who sunk in 1760 during the Seven Years War. Found and excavated by Parks Canada underwater archaeologist in the 1970s, the Machault had a well-preserved cargo that has been extensively studied. The remains of the ship itself have never been studied in depth. Machault inherited of centuries of naval knowledge but the frigate also bears witness to a major forestry crisis in 18th century France and Europe. Built in Basque port of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dale Bonald.

Recent consulting research at a number of Euro-Canadian homestead sites in Eastern Alberta has shed light on a number of aspects of these early 20th Century sites, including consumerism, globalization, family life, and perhaps even caching or hoarding behaviours. Unfortunately, only so much can be understood when only a tiny portion of the site can be excavated ahead of proposed developments. Through online and text-based research, however, in addition to astute onsite observations and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Kaplan.

Investigations of the Labrador Inuit-European contact period focus on a diversity of topics, including environmental, economic, technological, spiritual, and social factors. In contrast, an economic lens dominates discussions of when and why Thule groups settled Labrador. In addition, some researchers are questioning whether the settlers were ‘really’ prehistoric Thule groups, or had knowledge of or contact with Europeans before settling Labrador’s shores. This paper uses archaeological and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Wim De Clercq. Davy Herremans.

Since the growth of urban archaeology in the 1970s, there has been a growing awareness of the significance of medieval and early-modern archaeological heritage in Flanders (Belgium).. The traditional entwinement of (post-)medieval and urban archaeology however, also resulted in the archaeology of the rural life remaining under-developed for a long time. With the application of the Valetta convention (only as late as 2000) a general increase in archaeological operations issued in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eliza Leong.

This paper questions the discursive manipulation of memory work at the historic houses on the island Taipa in Macau. The houses of the Casas Museu da Taipa used to be the property of Portuguese families. I will talk about the objects which are connected with the Portuguese women. By examining these objects, I will explore how these women positioned themselves in social categories influenced both by Western Europe where they came from, and Macau to which they migrated. I focus on the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bryn Tapper.

The analysis of the spatial distribution and chronological evolution of the fishing rooms and their environs is used to investigate how the local environment and topography, marine and terrestrial, dictated where sites were selected and subsequently established. Seasonal occupation led to an intense exploitation of natural resources (for bait, wood and water) and necessitated the installation of a navigational and cognitive infrastructure to sustain the industry. The concept of the historic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristina M. Garenani.

After Ireland gained autonomy in the early 20th century, the desire to reinforce a unified national and cultural identity led (in some instances) to the misrepresentation of archaeological sites, their associated landscapes, and the historical narratives within which they first originated. The ecclesiastical site of Clonmacnoise, County Offaly, Ireland, is one example of how modern nationalism and cultural identity can influence the presentation, preservation, and display of such sites and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joanna Dabal.

Gda’sk, Poland was the biggest south Baltic port during the post medieval period. Inland excavation bringing remains of port life including shipyards areas and boats buried in old mouths. Except those obvious categories connected with maritime archaeology there are many items connected with sea life. In these paper there will be shortly introduced research status of three shipyard sites located at st. Lastadia, st. Walowa/Old Shipyard and Shipyard Square. Examples of boats found in mouth of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gregory Cook.

Syracuse University’s Central Region Project in Ghana began in the late 1990s as an effort to expand Dr. Christopher DeCorse’s research at Elmina Castle and elsewhere by studying the broader trade networks in the region. One of the central goals of examining areas ‘beyond the castle’ was to include sites in the coastal hinterland as well as offshore. This has been successful, with multiple seasons of fieldwork leading to the discovery of new sites and greater understanding of the dynamic trade...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ira Dillenia.

Historically, Morotai had significant position in history of world war II, so variety of underwater archaeology remains, such as ancient military shipwrecks, ancient military aircrafts, old military harbors and lighthouses can be found in coastal and small island areas all around Morotai. They can be exploited of historical science, as well as for utilization of economically while supporting efforts to conserve, such as tourism, including marine tourism (diving, snorkeling and other special...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexis Catsambis.

The Maritime Heritage Questionnaire (MHQ) formed part of the author's doctoral research on coastal and submerged heritage management and consisted of a multi-faceted survey intended to capture the activities, impact and influence of the more than 75 institutions that contribute to the United States' maritime heritage preservation framework. The survey, a state-of-the-field assessment comprised of 30 carefully considered questions, was divided into sections addressing organizational information...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kurt Jordan.

Documentary and archaeological evidence suggests that there was significant diversity within Postcolumbian Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) communities living in what is today New York State during the 1600-1779 period. Previous scholars have emphasized atypical burial practices, skeletal evidence, architectural techniques, and ceramic styles, usually seeing these divergent practices as evidence for the presence of outsiders. While Haudenosaunee groups certainly incorporated significant numbers of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Heffner.

MARS, an acronym for the Mathewson Automated Retrieval System, is a mechanical system that houses older, seldom-used books, journals, and other materials, in the University of Nevada, Reno’s (UNR) Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center. Robotic arms can be programmed to store and retrieve one of over 700,000 items located in storage bins of various sizes and shapes. In addition to housing rarely-used print materials, MARS is home to over 1800 boxes of archaeological materials. In 2010, in response to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Dobbs.

The excavation of the Tudor warship Mary Rose lost in 1545 in the Solent, near Portsmouth, remains to date the largest underwater archaeological excavation in the United Kingdom and possibly the world. This project had a huge impact in the development of the discipline of underwater archaeology in the UK and abroad, and it influenced a generation of archaeologists and avocational archaeological divers who were trained on the site. The newly opened permanent museum shows how successful the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Annelise Morris.

This paper explores the material aspects of memorialization through the lived practice of an archaeological excavation centered around the site of the Homeplace. Utilizing bell hooks’ articulation of the Homeplace as a site of support and resistance, the project explores the material culture of three generations of occupation at the Homeplace, from the mid-19th century to the present. Within this, I will discuss the experience of memorialization in this public archaeology project made up of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Corbin. Ricky Hoff. Mark Cassell.

Between 1905 and 1951, the U.S. Department of the Interior was solely responsible for the education of Alaska Natives. The architecture and ideology of Native education in Alaska was created and implemented by the federal government, first by Bureau of Education after 1905, and after 1931 by the Office of Indians Affairs and its administrative descendants (Alaska Indian Service, Alaska Native Service, and finally the Bureau of Indians Affairs). This poster describes continuity and change in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ralph Mills.

Miniature objects are often bought to act as mementos and souvenirs. They memorialise past events in people’s lives. But perhaps all miniatures have some sort of memory attached to or invested in them, which might partly explain why they are so mysteriously popular. In this paper I look first at the concept of ‘material memories’ using examples from my historical archaeology collaborations in England and Portugal. I then focus on the objects I am particularly interested in, small-scale...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Hauser.

Sidney Mintz and Richard Price famously observed that the central contradiction of race based slavery was that ‘slaves were legally defined as property; but being human they were called upon to act in sentient, articulate and human ways’ (Mintz and Price 1992: 25). This observation brings to light a central question that archaeologists concerned with the colonial Caribbean have been grappling with for the past two decades. During a time in which slavery was the dominant social form, what was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph Blondino.

In the summer of 2012, Dovetail Cultural Resource Group conducted Phase II investigations at Accokeek Furnace, an 18th century ironworks in Stafford County, Virginia. While the furnace’s historical claim to fame may be its association with George Washington’s father, Augustine, it was well-known during its heyday as a large, profitable, and well-managed operation producing some of the highest-quality iron of any of the local works. Although the complex around the furnace comprised hundreds of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy Pugh. Prudence Rice.

Cultural contact and colonialism produce novel, hybrid material assemblages that embody and document situations rife with cultural entanglement and complex power relations. The Maya of Petén, Guatemala were free from Spanish control, but in distant contact with the Spaniards from 1525 until their conquest in 1697. After the conquest, the Spaniards resettled populations into congregaciones to govern and convert them. Contact and colonialism resulted in some replication of Spanish artifacts and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William White.

Prior to the Civil Rights movement, most cities in the United States had at least one racially segregated neighborhood--a place where the ‘”others”’ lived. This was typically a geographic location designated by the Euroamerican community and accepted as an enclave by non-Euroamericans. In Boise, Idaho, non-Euroamericans lived in the River Street Neighborhood, a place where African Americans, Basque, Japanese, and Eastern Europeans established homes and businesses. While the boundaries of this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steve Lenik. Zachary Beier.

Archaeological research at Caribbean military sites has investigated the lives of free and enslaved military personnel in the context of each outpost’s strategic significance in defending imperial domains. Relatively little work has explored the militia infantry, artillery, and engineers stationed in British Caribbean colonies from the late 19th to the mid-20th century. During this period, Rocky Point Battery, later Fort Rocky, was built near Port Royal, Jamaica to defend Kingston Harbor....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Diana Gonzalez-Tennant. Edward Gonzalez-Tennant.

The site of Fort Charles, first set aside as a military outpost during the early 1600s, is home to one of the earliest British forts in the Caribbean. Following unsuccessful attempts to colonize the North American mainland, the British quickly turned their attention towards the Caribbean and established settlements in St. Kitts and Nevis during the 1620s. Today, these settlements remain occupied by a diverse group of descendants. This paper presents an overview to the Fort Charles Archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Cleek.

Portions of a Ralph Stevenson and Sons Millennium pattern platter were recently identified in archaeological collections from the home of the Jewish mercantile family of Abraham and Fanny Block (3HE236-19) in Washington, Arkansas. This platter illustrates and cites the Old Testament, Isaiah Chapter 11, verse 6, showing predators and prey dwelling peacefully together, but also has a vignette of a man kneeling in prayer, and a quote from the Christian prayer, the Our Father. While it is unknown...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Mrozowski. Heather Law Pezzarossi.

This paper explores the complementary concepts of mobility and historical gravity that are part of the larger issue of theorizing space in Historical Archaeology. Within the context of a collaborative project involving The Fiske Center for Archaeological Research at the University of Massachusetts Boston and the Nipmuc Nation, these two concepts ‘ mobility and historical gravity ‘ have been instrumental in developing our current understanding of the manner in which colonialism has influenced...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Allison Young.

The Second World War was a transformative global conflict with lasting impacts for all nations involved. The military operations of the conflict resulted in the capture of thousands of prisoners of war (POWs) by both the Axis and the Allies. The taking of prisoners had major logistical implications for these modern militaries. The prisoners needed to be housed in a secure location for the duration of the conflict. The archaeological investigation of World War II POW camps is an emerging research...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Annie Dumont. Philippe Moyat. Agnès Stock.

An underwater survey in the Doubs River uncovered well-preserved remains of a floating post-medieval mill. The site consists of piling rows (“bouchot, benne, or banne” in Old French) and two boat hulls (Corte and Forain) supporting the machinery. Seven consistent C14 dates were obtained from the pilings, ranging from the fifteenth century to the first half of the seventeenth century. A sample from one of the two boat hulls is dated in the same interval. Two test pit excavations have yielded...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Roller.

The shanty town of Lattimer No. 2, in the Anthracite Coal Region of Northeast Pennsylvania, began as an ephemeral settlement of new immigrant workers. Italian families coming to the US between about 1880 and 1900 created a community on the periphery of a company town. The 20th century brought changes in identities, wrought in material ways. Giorgio Agamben proposes that the dominant paradigm of modernist biopolitics is that of ‘the camp’, a paradoxical space in which individuals exist within ‘a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Uzi Baram. Lynda Carroll.

The 2000 volume ‘A Historical Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire: Breaking New Ground’ highlighted the challenges of applying the methods and theories from historical archaeology to the eastern Mediterranean, and situated the archaeological study of the Ottoman Empire in global perspective. Starting with exposing the nationalist dynamics that obscured the archaeological finds from the recent past, research quickly expanded to analysis of global commodities, archaeologies of colonialism and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Craig Cipolla.

This poster summarizes the 2013 season of the Mohegan Archaeological Field School, a collaborative endeavour between the Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut and the University of Leicester. This summer the school brought together an incredibly diverse group of participants from across the globe, including Indigenous, American, and British students and staff. Participants worked together to study evolving relations between Mohegan, Anglo, and Anglo-American occupants and visitors to the Cochegan Site in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Beaupre.

This paper serves as the preface to the symposium More than Ramparts & Redoubts: Forts and Families of New France. The paper is designed to offer an introduction to the symposium paper topics on current research at the fortifications of New France, and the authors own theoretical and methodological outlook on the future of ‘military archaeology’. This preamble is then followed by a case study from the excavations of Fort Saint-Jean, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec. Fort Saint-Jean remains a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sherene Baugher.

For many cities in the United States urban archaeology is undertaken because of federal government mandates. Since 1978, New York City has also had local municipal mandates requiring archaeology on specific development projects. The staffs of the Department of City Planning and the Landmarks Preservation Commission have overseen the protection of the city’’s archaeological resources. Many high profile excavations have taken place from early Dutch sites to sunken ships. Over the last three...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Maus. Charles Beeker.

Caballo Blanco Reef, located offshore of Isla Saona on the south coast of the Dominican Republic, exhibits a dense assemblage of submerged cultural resources spanning the breadth of European presence in the Americas. Most significant are two concentrations of jettisoned wrought-iron artillery and associated anchors that together are identified as a Columbus-era grounding site. Analysis of the anchor morphology provides insight into the characteristics diagnostic of the time period. Furthermore,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Teresa Dujnic Bulger.

This paper will focus on rethinking how we consider family as part of the apparatus for combatting racism in 19th-century New England. This institution has been documented as a vital force for the survival of African American men and women who faced racial hostility throughout the United States, in both enslaved and free contexts. Inspired by black feminist theorists such as E.F. White and Gloria Joseph, this paper asks how same-sex relationships within families contributed to the strength of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Freeman. Eleanor Breen.

The Mount Vernon Midden Project website showcases archaeological collections from Mount Vernon, George Washington’’s Potomac plantation. The midden website presents over 700 selected objects, each with catalog information, images and ‘public text.’ Additionally the objects are tagged, and linked to thematic articles (gender, consumerism etc.) and object types (shot, beads, tea etc.). The archaeological collections are also integrated with several primary documentary sources: ‘ a local account...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carol Nickolai.

It is easy to consider people primarily, or even only, by their dominant identity. If we do this in the present, how much more do we do it with the past? Too often women’s lives are examined only in reference to their most prominent activity or identity, for a women’s suffrage activist that political campaign becomes the focus of question and interpretation leaving aside everything other part of her life. When forming questions about women’s (and men’s) lives, we need to examine all aspects of...