Changes in the Land: Archaeological Data from the Northeast
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Changes in the Land: Archaeological Data from the Northeast," at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
In this session, archaeological data are used to look at the changing circumstances in the human ecology of New England, looking at the land as Cronin did in colonial New England, but expanding that to include Native lifeways as well as Historic Period adaptations across the northeastern portion of North America. As Native groups interacted with the changing post-glacial ecological landscape, they evolved long-term techniques to survive and thrive, and at the same time altered the natural world around them. So too did the multiple ethnic groups that arrived to colonize this same landscape beginning in the seventeenth century. This session uses data primarily from heritage management projects in the Northeast to look backward at the landscapes described by William Wood and Henry David Thoreau, as well as those interpreted for the thousands of years preceding.
Other Keywords
Archaic •
Historic •
Cultural Resources and Heritage Management •
Lithic Analysis •
Historical Archaeology •
Indigenous •
Human Behavioral Ecology •
Household Archaeology •
Farmstead •
Ethnohistory/History
Geographic Keywords
North America: Northeast and Midatlantic •
North America •
United States of America (Country) •
United Mexican States (Country) •
Department of Martinique (Country) •
Republic of El Salvador (Country) •
Department of Guadeloupe (Country) •
Cayman Islands (Country) •
Antigua and Barbuda (Country) •
Turks and Caicos Islands (Country)
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Always Changed But Never Gone: A Century of Farming in Southeastern Massachusetts. (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "Changes in the Land: Archaeological Data from the Northeast" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Anthony Farmstead historic site (SOM.HA.4) in Somerset, Bristol County, Massachusetts, was excavated through the data recovery level in anticipation of the construction of an electrical substation on the property. The site included remnants of an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century farmstead, including a cellar hole, well,...
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Changes along a Native Transportation Corridor in Western Massachusetts: The Fife Brook Sites and the Deerfield River (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "Changes in the Land: Archaeological Data from the Northeast" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A cluster of Native American sites was first identified in the early 1970s at the junction of Fife Brook and the Deerfield River in western Massachusetts, and was further examined 15 years ago. Recent additional work has expanded knowledge of site distribution on this portion of the Deerfield and added to the inventory of...
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Early to Late Archaic Cultural Traditions in Southeast Massachusetts (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "Changes in the Land: Archaeological Data from the Northeast" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Gulf of Maine Archaic Tradition is poorly represented in Southeastern Massachusetts. Following recent excavations in Somerset, hundreds, if not thousands of pieces of quartz chipping debris, cores, and expedient edge tools were recovered from a relatively small area of distribution. This large amount of non-diagnostic...
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The More Things Change, the More They Change: Persistence and Evolution in the Gulf of Maine Archaic Tradition (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "Changes in the Land: Archaeological Data from the Northeast" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Gulf of Maine Archaic Tradition has been defined as a persistent technological pattern that spans the Early to Middle Archaic Periods ca. 9,500-6,000 B.P. in the northeast, although sites containing this component have remained poorly documented. It is possible that human population density in New England was low throughout...
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Patriot, Federalist and Masons, Politically Oriented Artifacts from the Revolutionary War to the Federal Period Occupation of the Anthony Farmstead in Southeastern Massachusetts (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "Changes in the Land: Archaeological Data from the Northeast" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent excavations of the mid-eighteenth to mid-nineteenth century Anthony Farmstead in the town of Somerset, southeastern Massachusetts, yielded thousands of period artifacts, including numerous objects reflecting the patriotism and political affiliations of its occupants and the region as a whole. Several members of the...
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The Western Gateway: Identification and Recommendation of the Hoosac Tunnel National Register Historic District (2019)
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This is an abstract from the "Changes in the Land: Archaeological Data from the Northeast" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Hoosac Tunnel is a 7.6 km long railroad tunnel within Hoosac Mountain located in northwestern Massachusetts, extending between the towns of Florida and North Adams. The project was deemed of utmost value to encourage efficient trade between opposite sides of the Hudson River, which is why, regardless of its obstacles, the...