Military Sites

Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2019

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Military Sites," at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Military Sites

Other Keywords
Fort • Military • 20th Century • Households • Public Archaeology • Civil War • Lifeways • Memory • Metal • assemblage

Temporal Keywords
Early 20th Century • Civil War • 19th Century • 18th Century • 1740s-present • 19th century Euroamerican

Geographic Keywords
Coahuila (State / Territory) • New Mexico (State / Territory) • Oklahoma (State / Territory) • Arizona (State / Territory) • Texas (State / Territory) • Sonora (State / Territory) • United States of America (Country) • Chihuahua (State / Territory) • Nuevo Leon (State / Territory) • Delaware (State / Territory)

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  • Fight or Flight at Fort Fair Haven: A U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 Settlers' Fort and the Historical Imagination (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacob G Dupre.

    This is an abstract from the "Military Sites" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Given relatively little attention in the broad study of United States history, the U.S.–Dakota War of 1862 nonetheless sparked a momentous chain of events that still resonates in the state of Minnesota and beyond. One important aspect of this conflict included fortifications built by Euro-American settlers in defense of desperate Dakota attacks. One such settlers’ fort...

  • Guarding the Past: 20th Century Archaeology on Military Lands (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Regina Meyer.

    This is an abstract from the "Military Sites" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Camp Crowder is a Missouri Army National Guard Training Site located in Neosho, Missouri. Originally called Fort Crowder, it was built in 1941 as a training site for the US Army Signal Corps.  The Army acquired individual properties in 1938 and construction of the camp started in early 1940.  Numerous farmsteads were left abandoned throughout the southern portion of...

  • Leetown: A Hamlet’s Role in the Historical Battle of Pea Ridge and Beyond (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Victoria Jones.

    This is an abstract from the "Military Sites" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Leetown, a hamlet found within Pea Ridge Military Park was the focus of the University of Arkansas’ 2017 summer field school. This study was possible with the cooperative effort between the University of Arkansas, the Arkansas Archeological Survey, and National Park Service’s Midwest Archeological Center. By using techniques within geophysical analysis and archeological...

  • Looking at Fort George, Scotland, Though Metal Artifacts (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura R Reed.

    This is an abstract from the "Military Sites" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Built outside of Inverness, Scotland, Fort George’s construction was started shortly after the end of the last Jacobite Rebellion in 1746.  The massive show of force has never been engaged in any combat but has served as a barracks and training site for the British Army since it’s completion in 1769.  This paper looks at the construction and use of Fort George though an...

  • A Military Site Case Study of Agency and Practice (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Clouse.

    This is an abstract from the "Military Sites" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The military is a hierarchically organized social network defined by rules and regulations, but it is through agency and practice that its structure is actuated. Despite expectations of conformity and uniformity of actions, significant variability in agency occurs. Agents in a military context possessed shared practice, evident in martial drills, use of weapons, and...

  • "Remember Paoli!" The Intersection Between Memory and Public Archaeology (2019)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew A. Kalos.

    This is an abstract from the "Military Sites" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In September of 1777, the British and Continental Army engaged in a series of battles, known as the Philadelphia Campaign.  Although not the largest battle of the Revolution or the Philadelphia Campaign, the Battle of Paoli rose to iconic stature among the soldiers and the citizens of Southeastern Pennsylvania.  Then as word spread throughout the Colonies about the...