Society for Historical Archaeology 2020

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric Swanson. Hunter Whitehead.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Love That Dirty Water: Submerged Landscapes and Precontact Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. An increasing problem is occurring offshore, and our maritime heritage is a stake. The true spirit of archaeological laws offshore is challenged: protect and leave, undisturbed, archaeological resources (historical or prehistorical) to the benefit of the protection of cultural heritage of all people...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Suzanne G Cherau.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Reinterpreting New England’s Past For the Future" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Martha’s Vineyard is historically well known for its maritime economy, but what many do not know is that there was sufficient water power along inland rivers for substantial land-based industries in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Roaring Brook, originating in the hills of northwest Chilmark, was the site of several...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sam M Cuellar. Amy A Borgens.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Nuts and Bolts of Ships: The J. Richard Steffy Ship Reconstruction Laboratory and the future of the archaeology of Shipbuilding" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Despite 5,000 miles separation from the battlefields of Europe, Texas waters hide the legacy of at least 32 shipwrecks associated with WWI. To offset Allied merchant losses to German U-boats during the war, the United States Shipping Board...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Betsinger.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Roads, Rivers, Rails and Trails (and more): The Archaeology of Linear Historic Properties" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The lives of the people in Moorhead, Minnesota were changed when in 1890 the neighboring state of North Dakota became dry. Saloons expanded greatly in Moorhead, reaching 47 to serve the combined city populations of Fargo and Moorhead. These saloons were positioned nearest to the Red...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cameron Gill.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Military Sites Archaeology in the Caribbean: Studies of Colonialism, Globalization, and Multicultural Communities" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Sandy Point was an early English town on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts, the first island to be settled by both English and French, and one of the most important sugar colonies in the Eastern Caribbean. Very early in the settlement period Sandy Point rose to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Oliver. Mary Furlong Minkoff.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Plantation Archaeology as Slow Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Zooarchaeology has, historically, used approaches based in fast-science to study foodways. It can often fail to provide a comprehensive understanding of the foodways of enslaved peoples, however. This is because faunal analysis is often conducted and interpreted separately from studies of the knowledge and experience of the enslaved...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gillian Allmond.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology on the Island of Ireland: New Perspectives" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Victorian asylum is perhaps irrevocably associated in the popular imagination with high walls, bars and physical restraint, but such markers of the asylum as carceral space began to jar uncomfortably with ideals of patient liberty as the 19th century came to a close. Purdysburn, near Belfast, was an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca L Wiewel. Dawn Bringelson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archeology, Citizen Science, and the National Park Service" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Although citizen science in its current form is perhaps most associated with biological disciplines, archeologists have harnessed this powerful tool for some time. Yet citizen science in archeology presents its own challenges, including the need for more direct supervision with most data collection and the need to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Furlong Minkoff. Benjamin C Kirby. Terry Brock.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Digital Technologies and Public Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. When archaeologists and other researchers first entered into the digital world they had an “if you build it they will come” approach to public digital projects. Projects were considered public by simply being on the internet. However, as the digital field has grown it has quickly become evident that the most successful digital...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David J. Goldstein.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archeology, Citizen Science, and the National Park Service" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The National Park Service has a developing Traditional Knowledge Program that has increasingly been used in tandem with more formal park programming. This situation has been most recently deployed through youth programming. The Northeast Regional Office continues to use through its Tribal Affairs and Archaeology...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Eck.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Strides Towards Standard Methodologies in Aeronautical Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This presentation is intended to serve as a basic guide for archaeologists to the several types of military aircraft wreck sites and debris fields that may be encountered—describing both the processes that created the incidents and the processes that subsequently affected the aircraft wreckage and human...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gifford Waters.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Boxed but not Forgotten Redux or: How I Learned to Stop Digging and Love Old Collections" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Historical Archaeology program at the Florida Museum of Natural History recently launched the Comparative Mission Archaeology Portal (CMAP) as part of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant. Building off of and modifying the database created by the Digital Archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Fracchia. Sarah A. Grady. Claudia Theune. Peter Hinterndorfer. Marilyn London. Katherine Boyle. Claire Seeley.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Strides Towards Standard Methodologies in Aeronautical Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For the last three years, the University of Maryland, College Park, has partnered with the Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) and the University of Vienna to seek out and recover missing US airmen from World War II. Through archaeological field schools utilizing forensic protocols, our...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher N King.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Medieval to Modern Transitions and Historical Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The merchant’s household was a vital nodal point in emergent global networks of commodities and cultural exchanges as both provider and consumer of exotic, luxurious and fashionable objects, and the early modern period witnessed profound changes in the role of domestic space in the construction of social networks,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Booth.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“And in his needy shop a tortoise hung”: Construction Of Retail Environments And The Agency Of Retailers In Historical Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Apothecaries in the early modern world existed somewhere between medical professional and shopkeeper and were conduits for the importation and consumption of plants and other materials from across the world. Due to the inability of most customers...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Simon Goldstone.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "African Diaspora in Florida" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Detached kitchens associated with plantation main houses during the antebellum era are recognized places of intersectionality, wherein a single building served multiple functions – as domestic space for enslaved labor (typically a woman and her children), food preparation for the white enslaver’s family, and various other activities. In Florida,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chris LaMack.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Before, After, and In Between: Archaeological Approaches to Places (through/in) Time" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth centuries the Catawba, members of a South Carolina Piedmont Native American nation, were well-known in the Carolina backcountry as manufacturers of well-made, inexpensive ceramics. However, at precisely the moment that Catawba ceramic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chris LaMack.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Before, After, and In Between: Archaeological Approaches to Places (through/in) Time" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth centuries the Catawba, members of a South Carolina Piedmont Native American nation, were well-known in the Carolina backcountry as manufacturers of well-made, inexpensive ceramics. However, at precisely the moment that Catawba ceramic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mercedes E Harrold.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Roads, Rivers, Rails and Trails (and more): The Archaeology of Linear Historic Properties" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In St. Johns County, there are 64 historic linear resources recorded in the Florida Master Site File, including bridges, roads, and railways. Linear resources played an important part in our history. The rivers, roads, and railways brought people to settle and visit the area. The rivers...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Casey E Bleuel.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Plus Ultra: An examination of current research in Spanish Colonial/Iberian Underwater and Terrestrial Archaeology in the Western Hemisphere." , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Probate records, documents including wills and estate inventories and auctions, are excellent tools for historical archaeologists who seek to better understand the material possessions of past peoples. Probate and archaeological data...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles A. Bello. Anna Cordova.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Glen Eyrie Middens: Recent Research into the Lives of General William Jackson and Mary Lincoln “Queen” Palmer and their Estate in Western Colorado Springs, Colorado." , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2014 the City of Colorado Springs requested FEMA funding for a storm water detention pond along Camp Creek in Garden of the Gods Park. In 2016, the Natural Resources Conservation Services (NRCS) began...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca Graff.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Slow Archaeology + Fast Capitalism: Hard Lessons and Future Strategies from Urban Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Nelson Algren (1951) famously titled Chicago the "city on the make”: an urban center self-servingly and frenetically driven by its hustlers. In cities like Chicago, a similar ethos can propel construction projects, often at the expense of cultural resources and archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas Zeitlin. John T. Crawmer.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Camp Security is a prisoner-of-war camp established during the Revolutionary War and the only such camp to survive modern development. From July 1781 and May 1783, the camp housed 1600-1800 British POWs captured at the Battles of Saratoga and Yorktown. Efforts to locate residential areas in the complex have been ongoing sporadically since the 1970s, but the exact location of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Langley. Raymond L Hayes.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Flint rock and tools (eg., gunflints, projectile points, ballast) are sometimes found during archaeological surveys. However, identification can be difficult for field archaeologists who have not studied lithic geology (Langley et al., 2016). An assortment of 100 numbered geological specimens from various sedimentary strata in Europe and America will be available for visitors to inspect...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah P. Sportman. Ross K. Harper.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“Talkin’ ‘Bout a Revolution”: Identifying and Understanding Early Historic-Period House Sites" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Well-preserved Colonial-period house sites have been discovered in agricultural fields, beneath deep fill deposits, in urban areas, next to major roadways, and under suburban lawns. The 17th- and 18th- century house sites discussed in this paper demonstrate that early colonial...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christine M Ames.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. A modest, one-story frame Shotgun style house located in the historic Capitol Hill neighborhood in Southeast Washington, D.C. was once home to German immigrant families and their descendants from the first half of the 19th century through the 20th. Archaeological investigations within the footprint of the house uncovered a backfilled, brick-lined cellar, full of fragmented household...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Larry McKee.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For Andrew Jackson, the centerpiece of his plantation, The Hermitage, was his family’s imposing Greek Revival mansion. As with most plantation “big houses,” the floorplan was designed to balance the desired comforts and privacy of the Jackson family with the need for near constant access by enslaved laborers taking care of the household. For the Hermitage mansion, the kitchen and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott R Sorset.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Advances in software combined with modern high-end computing have made the ability to create highly accurate maps and models of deepwater shipwrecks a reality. The capacity to create scaled and measurable models restore one of the fundamental tenants of mapping sites in terrestrial archaeology, but in an environment that was previously restricted by cost, time, access, and accuracy....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bradford M. Jones.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Plus Ultra: An examination of current research in Spanish Colonial/Iberian Underwater and Terrestrial Archaeology in the Western Hemisphere." , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Between 1972-1975, four obsidian blades from the 1554 shipwreck of the Spanish ship the San Esteban (41KN10) were recovered by archeologists off the coast of South Padre Island, Texas. Chemical sourcing of the specimens by the Missouri...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeremy Borrelli. Nathan Richards. Jason, T. Raupp.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "East Carolina University Partnerships and Innovation with Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The 2019 ECU Program in Maritime Studies Fall Field School was a collaborative research project with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) on sites located at Kwajalein Atoll. The primary focus of the project was the investigation of an archaeological site of interest to DPAA,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kendy Altizer.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) has revolutionized the way archaeologists explore historical landscapes. Its utility lies in its non-invasiveness and is a way to efficiently target specific areas for archaeological inquiry without destructive and time consuming ground disturbing activities, such as systematic shovel probe survey, prior to large scale excavation. When used in tandem with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zoe Moscrip. Martin J Read.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Citizen Science in Maritime Archaeology: The Power of Public Engagement for Heritage Monitoring and Protection" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Cattewater Protected Wreck is believed to be the remains of an unidentified armed wooden Tudor merchant vessel. The excavation archive has been used to research the site, allowing new interpretations to be made. It can be difficult to generate community interest...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Costello.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Meanwhile, In the NPS Lab: Discoveries from the Collections" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The National Park Service preserves collections of archeological artifacts recovered at Civil War battlefield sites. The advent of photography just before the Civil War revolutionized the way soldiers’ experiences were documented and shared. These historic photographs also provide modern day scholars and researchers...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Margaret E. Leshikar-Denton.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The story has been passed through generations. it was the wreck of ten vessels at once, comprising one of the most dramatic maritime disasters in Caribbean naval history. Historical documents and remains of the ships confirm that the narrative is more than folklore. It is based on the loss of HMS Convert, formerly L’Inconstante, a recent prize from the French, and nine of her...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lillian Azevedo.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2010, ten limestone markers were erected as part of the Anguilla Heritage Trail, a publicly funded initiative designed to recognize aspects of the Island’s local heritage with a system of permanent stone plaques. Sites selected by public vote included historic structures, archaeological sites, a private museum, and maritime landscapes. On September 6, 2017 Hurricane Irma struck...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Della A Scott-Ireton. Nicole Grinnan.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Citizen Science in Maritime Archaeology: The Power of Public Engagement for Heritage Monitoring and Protection" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Citizen science in maritime archaeology has the potential for astounding benefits. Not only do sport divers participate in authentic data gathering and educational opportunities about the values and ethics of underwater archaeology, they also become critical vectors...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah J Noe.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper examines faunal remains recovered from three middens located next to the Native American barracks at the Spanish mission site of Santa Clara (1777-1836) located in Alta California. Mission Santa Clara contained a diverse population of differing Native American groups including predominantly Ohlone speakers,Yokuts-speaking people, and later in time Miwok individuals. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ivana M. Ivanova.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the early colonial period of New Mexico (1598 - 1680), colonists steadfastly clung to their Spanish identity to uphold ethnic hierarchy. Certain crops, notably wheat, were important to the reinforcement of that identity, and the Spanish attempted to grow them despite environmental difficulties. After Spanish reoccupation in 1692, the goals of the Spanish Empire shifted to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles R. Cobb. Brad R. Lieb. Benny Wallace.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Memory, Archaeology, And The Social Experience Of Conflict and Battlefields" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1541 the first recorded conflict between Chickasaws and invading Europeans led to the expulsion of Hernando de Soto’s army from northeastern Mississippi. Nearly two centuries later, the Chickasaws overwhelmingly defeated two French-led forces that aimed to destroy the Chickasaw Nation....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Valerie M.J. Hall.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Recent excavations at Monticello’s South Pavilion provided researchers the opportunity to analyze faunal remains from fill which originated in the plantation’s first kitchen yard and environs. Preliminary analysis suggests food procurement on the site fits patterns seen in newly-established plantations across the Chesapeake region, in which the percentage of wild game brought to the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Doug Hrvoic.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Plus Ultra: An examination of current research in Spanish Colonial/Iberian Underwater and Terrestrial Archaeology in the Western Hemisphere." , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. A new diver-held magnetometer was developed that directly senses the total magnetic gradient, and therefore effectively provides a direct signal if a magnetic (e.g., ferrous) object is in its vicinity, regardless of other ambient...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Natalia Galeana. Seth Mallios.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "On the Centennial of his Passing: San Diego County Pioneer Nathan "Nate" Harrison and the Historical Archaeology of Legend" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Three of the more enigmatic finds from the Harrison site were small, flat, cylindrical sealed metal containers. The first was an unlabeled brass tin that appeared to contain a white cosmetic. In addition, excavators found two similarly shaped iron...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ray von Wandruszka.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Glen Eyrie Middens: Recent Research into the Lives of General William Jackson and Mary Lincoln “Queen” Palmer and their Estate in Western Colorado Springs, Colorado." , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeological excavations often produce artifacts that defy visual identification. Usually these are bottles, jars, or other containers with contents that are no longer recognizable. The analysis of such...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Valerie E. Bondura.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Gender Revolutions: Disrupting Heteronormative Practices and Epistemologies" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper draws on theory from radical feminist Chicana philosophers, especially Gloria Anzaldúa, to interpret historical archaeological evidence of Chicana lives in the 18th-20th century Northern Rio Grande region of New Mexico. I use pottery analysis, ethnoarchaeological research, ethnographic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexis K Ohman.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Shirley Heights (1791-1854) was a military fort located on the former British Caribbean colony of Antigua, constructed during a period of rising tensions from French invasions of British territories and increased resistance of enslaved Africans. Excavations conducted at the Blockhouse of Shirley Heights in 2018 sought to add to the growing body of research on Antiguan military sites...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marco A Ramos Barajas.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Revolutionizing Approaches to Campus History - Campus Archaeology's Role in Telling Their Institutions' Stories" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper examines the Chinese Brown Glazed Stoneware (CBGS) ceramic depositions found at the Chinese fishing village of Point Alones near Monterey Bay, California. Point Alones was the site of the Chinese village where now Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine...

DOCUMENT Citation Only A. Dudley Gardner.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Arming the Resistance: Recent Scholarship in Chinese Diaspora Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. When the Rock Springs Chinatown was looted and burned to the ground on September 2nd 1885, goods and people were scattered and lives were destroyed. The burial of the dead, the salvaging of possessions, and reconstruction of lives was stymied by political constrains. As a result, reconstructing the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Linda R. Pomper.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Sherds of Chinese porcelain have been found in New Mexico, which was settled by the Spanish as early as 1598. The porcelain had come to Acapulco via the Manila galleon trade, and then arrived in New Mexico on the Camino Real. A site at San Lazaro has been erratically excavated, but is stilll worthy of study. Some of the sherds found at the site are not surprising: blue and white...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chris Merritt.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Arming the Resistance: Recent Scholarship in Chinese Diaspora Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As a build up to the 150th Anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad's completion on May 10, 1869, the Utah Division of State History and the Bureau of Land Management partnered to highlight the unique archaeological landscapes of this construction effort, now located on public lands in northeastern...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ethan A. Bean. Eva E. Falls. Christine H. Heacock.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Roads, Rivers, Rails and Trails (and more): The Archaeology of Linear Historic Properties" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Historic Military Railroad Corridor at Fort Belvoir (formerly Camp A.A. Humphreys), Virginia is a National Register listed linear resource consisting of a four-mile-long main line track bed, five-and-a half miles of sidings, and forty-one associated buildings, sites, and structures....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sheri L Kapahnke.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Current Research at the Conservation Research Laboratory at Texas A&M University" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Several fragmented clay tobacco pipes were excavated from Savannah Harbour along with remains of the 1862 CSS Georgia. The nature of the underwater excavation leaves these pipes with little context. It is unclear whether they belong to the CSS Georgia artifact assemblage, or were disposed of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kyla Cools.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The anthracite coal region is known as the unhealthiest and unhappiest in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. This reputation, however, is not merely a contemporary phenomenon that has manifested within the twenty-first century; rather, it is the result of historically rooted processes that have had disproportionate and long lasting impacts on the health and well-being of coal mining...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shawn Joy.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Love That Dirty Water: Submerged Landscapes and Precontact Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Predicting the cultural material typology of eastern coastal Paleoindians is a challenge due to sea-level rise since the LGM. In the Americas, archaeologists have identified only a handful of unequivocal coastal Paleoindian sites. The location of these sites are on the west coast of the Americas, where...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erika Ruhl.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. When is a sock more than simply a sock? Two types of clothing are present in this dataset of pre-modern northern Finnish burials: (1) repurposed items used in life and repurposed as burial clothes (2) remade items crafted from second-hand materials specifically for burial. Despite ostensibly serving the same purpose, repurposed items remain functional, while remade items are often...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Siobhan M. Hart.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Perspectives from the Study of Early Colonial Encounter in North America: Is it time for a “revolution” in the study of colonialism?" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the last two decades scholars have rejected the bifurcation of “continuity” or “change” in studies Indigenous experiences of early colonialism in North America. Instead, archaeologists increasingly favor process and practice approaches,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas J Bolender.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Medieval to Modern Transitions and Historical Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper explores the implications of an archaeology of colonialism and modernity in Iceland. Colonialism in ‘Old Society’ Iceland was realized in the regulation of trade, and informal and formal administration by Norway, England, and Denmark. Colonial administrators and foreign tourists often viewed Iceland as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kotaro Yamafune.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Nuts and Bolts of Ships: The J. Richard Steffy Ship Reconstruction Laboratory and the future of the archaeology of Shipbuilding" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Past decade, photogrammetry has become one of the most frequently used recording methods on archaeological research projects. This quick and inexpensive tool has conveyed advantages on recording underwater sites. Using photogrammetry,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brendan J. M. Weaver.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Last year, 2019, marked the quadricentenary of the communities of San José and San Pablo of Nasca’s Ingenio Valley, founded as vineyard haciendas by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1619. For nearly a decade, the Haciendas of Nasca Archaeological Project has carried out ethnohistorical and archaeological research in close collaboration with the communities of the former estates in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph M. Bagley. Jocelyn S Lee.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. A significant Chinese immigrant wave began in Boston during the 1870’s. Throughout the next decade, a centralized Chinese community began to form downtown on Harrison, Essex, and Beach Avenues. This neighborhood allowed residents to converge on Sundays, meet with friends, buy food and supplies, and seek solace through gambling and opium. Recently, Boston’s Chinatown residents requested an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Veronica Peterson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Arming the Resistance: Recent Scholarship in Chinese Diaspora Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Models of community archaeology generally use collaboration as a foundation for a future commemoration. In practice, the process of collaboration is itself an act of commemoration. The Arboretum Chinese Labor Quarters, on Stanford University’s campus, is a site where Chinese employees lived as they...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven G Harris. Douglas Armstrong.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Trents Cave, Barbados is a site hidden between the previous enslaved laborer settlement (1650-1838) and the planter’s compound (1627-present) at Trents Plantation. Containing caches of various metal artifacts, Trents Cave is believed to be a site of special purpose, where selection and use of ferrous materials was conducted by people of African descent as a form of ritual and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lotte E Govaerts.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In this paper I compare six nineteenth-century Missouri River trade post sites in present-day North and South Dakota. This was done using artifact collections generated in the mid-twentieth century during large-scale archaeological salvage operations. The United States colonized the region during the period studied, resulting in significant environmental and demographic changes....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peggy Humes. Crystal L. Ptacek.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The process of cooking creates more than a meal: cooking provides a glimpse into how the resource availability of wild and domesticated plants played a prominent role in peoples’ diets, medicinal regimes, and their choice of fuels. This paper will compare the preliminary results collected from macrobotanical remains from Thomas Jefferson’s first kitchen at Monticello with a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin P Smith.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Medieval to Modern Transitions and Historical Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Research on North Atlantic societies’ transitions from medieval to early modern cultures has recently become more theoretically engaged and informed. In Iceland, historical research has framed the most important processes in this transition as changes in religious affiliation and in the trading partners that linked...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Watkins-Kenney.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. When physical remains of the past are discovered underwater preservation actions needed may be obvious to archaeological conservators. Deciding actions taken, however, often falls to public agency managers. By general organization theory effective management requires understanding of context. A conceptual framework to help conservation managers understand contexts within which their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Courtney H. Buchanan. Jennifer E Perry.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As the largest of the Channel Islands off the coast of Southern California, Santa Cruz Island was home to ranching, farming, hunting, fishing and abalone diving, military activities, oil exploration, tourism, scientific inquiry, and conservation/restoration from the 1830s through the 1980s. Our work has focused on archaeologically documenting the material correlates of these...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carl Carlson-Drexler.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“We Go to Gain a Little Patch of Ground. That hath in it no profit but the name”: Revolutionary Research in Archaeologies of Conflict" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In challenging the battle-focused perception of Conflict Archeology, we need to consider the deep reach of warfare and social strife to areas away from the front lines. Archeologists have been trying to consider civilian connections to war in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Beaudoin.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Bridging Connections and Communities: 19th-Century Black Settlement in North America" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Little River Settlement was a 19th-century planned community established to provide farmland to Black families in Windsor, Ontario. The community failed for a variety of reasons by the mid-to-late 19th-century and the residents dispersed to other local Black settlements or relocated to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steve Nagiewicz. Peter Straub.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Citizen Science in Maritime Archaeology: The Power of Public Engagement for Heritage Monitoring and Protection" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. An obscure historical on October 6-13th, 1778 along the Mullica River in Port Republic, New Jersey, resulted from the actions of local privateers in confiscating British merchant ships. British General Sir Henry Clinton decided to move against this “Nest of Rebel...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James A. Gazaway.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This poster recounts the 2017-2018 conservation process of a Spanish breastplate recovered after being submerged for over 400 years from the wreck site of the Emanuel Point I . The Emmanuel Point I is the name given to the first Spanish ship from the Luna Colony of 1559-1561, found by divers from the State of Florida and the students/staff of Archaeology Department of the University of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dan Gamble.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Excavating the Foundations of Representative Government: A Case Study in Interdisciplinary Historical Archaeology." , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.                 In 1627, a gravestone was laid over the remains of Sir George Yeardley, who served as Governor of Virginia during the meeting of the first legislative assembly in 1619. Called the Knight’s Tomb, this stone was unique, being one of the first of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madeline E. Laub. Adam Fracchia.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Archaeology in Annapolis (AiA) project was started in 1981 by Dr. Mark Leone and has used critical archaeology to understand the history of Annapolis, Maryland. The project has expanded to Maryland’s Eastern Shore including Wye House, Wye Hall, and the Hill Community in Easton. In addition to the ground-breaking scholarship and data generated, the legacy of this program lies in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sebastian Salgado-Flores. Susan R Snow. Annette B. Romero.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Plus Ultra: An examination of current research in Spanish Colonial/Iberian Underwater and Terrestrial Archaeology in the Western Hemisphere." , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper presents the results of recent archaeological testing and summarizes the findings of several decades of CRM excavations at the Franciscan Mission Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción de Acuña, which was re-located to San...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emma L Verstraete.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Frequently, discussions of the artifact assemblages uncovered at presidential sites focus only on the households of the president's that the site commemorates. By excluding the surrounding residential sites, researchers sacrifice valuable information regarding typical consumption and use behaviors in the area. The analysis presented seeks to utilize the extensive excavations of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Martins Gusmao. Ricardo dos Santos Guimaraes.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. At the end of 2017, the Brazilian Navy launched a major campaign for awareness and protection of underwater cultural heritage located within jurisdictional waters of Brazil. This campaign is intended to share with the public the need to preserve and protect submerged archaeological sites, mainly shipwrecks, which in the past have been subjected to looting and improper exploitation. With...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Colin Rynne.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology on the Island of Ireland: New Perspectives" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Right up until his death in 1643, Richard Boyle, 1st earl of Cork, could rely upon an ethnically diverse native tenantry and militia to consolidate and defend his interests. At least a quarter of the tenants contributing to his two well-equipped and trained militias were of native origin. Throughout the 1630s...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christophe R. Lindner. Ethan P. Dickerman.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. A 1767 slave-owning Calvinist minister’s cellar in Germantown NY holds a fireplace with punctate figures in its wooden frame: sailboat, smoking pipe, and BaKongo cosmogram. Beneath the adjacent hearthstones, amidst rubble fill, student excavators plotted clusters of symbolic objects: quartz crystals, blue glass beads, buttons, a shale pebble etched with two ‘X’ marks. The symbolically...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aaron Howe.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of Capitalism’s Cracks" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Using a methodology developed within Capitalism’s cracks I weave together the past, present and future realties of Washington D.C.’s street homeless communities. The mutual aid developed within these communities has proven to reproduce alternative social relations. Appropriating, rather then consuming, the waste spaces and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Kolb.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Apprenticeship systems are essential to the development of craft specialization, yet archaeologists have only recently begun to advance general models of these systems in addition to measurements of skill. This presentation will use a blacksmith shop at the Chittenango site located in upstate New York as a case study. Developing criteria for the measurement of skill was key in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael L. Brennan. Art Trembanis. James P. Delgado. Carter DuVal.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Mapping Crossroads: Archaeological and High Resolution Documentation of Nuclear Test Submerged Cultural Resources at Bikini Atoll" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. An expedition to Bikini Atoll conducted the first comprehensive sonar survey of the target area from Operation Crossroads that detonated two nuclear weapons against a moored fleet of warships. In addition to documenting the 12 shipwrecks sunk by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gerald F. Schroedl. Todd Ahlman.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Military Sites Archaeology in the Caribbean: Studies of Colonialism, Globalization, and Multicultural Communities" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Brimstone Hill Fortress (1690-1854) on the northwest coast of St. Kitts constitutes a militarized landscape that protected the harbor at Sandy Point, provided covering fire for nearby Charles Fort, afforded refuge for the island’s inhabitants, and suppressed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen P Weise.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Lives Revealed: Interpreting the Human Remains and Personal Artifacts from the Civil War Submarine H. L. Hunley" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2000, Civil War submarine H. L. Hunley was raised from the seabed off Charleston, S.C. As recovered, the sub was a well-preserved time capsule for the crew of eight men, who conducted a successful attack on USS Housatonic February 17, 1864. One crew member,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only V. Camille Westmont.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Community Archaeology in 2020: Conventional or Revolutionary?" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeologists from the University of Maryland have been carrying out excavations in Northeastern Pennsylvania coal company towns since 2009. Since 2013, there has been a concerted effort within this work to use public archaeology and archaeological interpretations to effect social change in the surrounding...

DOCUMENT Citation Only douglas shaver.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Roads, Rivers, Rails and Trails (and more): The Archaeology of Linear Historic Properties" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Douglas Shaver, MS, RPA (Burns & McDonnell) CRM and the Significance of Identifying and Mapping Historic Extant Trail Remnants: A Study in Mapping the Santa Fe Trail through the State of Kansas Utilizing Available LiDAR Data and GIS Mapping. A key early role in any CRM project is the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kimberly M Smith.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Women’s Work: Archaeology and Mothering" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This presentation, ne discussion, will focus on the logitstics of being a mother in CRM archaeology. It is an attempt to open the dialogue on the struggles of being a mother in an industry where fieldwork and breastfeeding can often be difficult. Where acceptance of the necessary time off for doctor's visitation or sick children can...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laurel Seaborn. Calvin Mires. Charles Wainwright. Victor Mastone.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Citizen Science in Maritime Archaeology: The Power of Public Engagement for Heritage Monitoring and Protection" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2018, SEAMAHP along with Massachusetts Board of Underwater Archaeological Resources began investigating the wreck of passenger steamship City of Rockland (1901) working together with citizen scientists, and students from Salem State University. This passenger...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth D. Meade. Douglas B. Mooney.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Advocacy in Archaeology: Thoughts from the Urban Frontier" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The pace of development in the northeastern US has resulted in the obliteration of cemetery sites for centuries. As populations swelled and cities expanded, formerly sacred burial locations have become valuable land ripe for development. As a result of loopholes in environmental review laws, gaps in social memory/the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richie Roy.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Urban Archaeology: Down by the Water" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Urban landscapes are some of the most intensely modified contexts in which archaeological sites are located. These modifications can dramatically impact the preservation of sites. Methodologically characterizing such changes allow archaeologists to strategically direct their efforts away from areas where disturbance has erased most...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meredith M. Poole.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the first half of the 18th century, Williamsburg resident John Custis, Governor’s councilmember and scientific gardener, filled 69 pages of a Commonplace Book with remedies for afflictions ranging from worms and epilepsy to “after pains in the childbed”. Were these receipts—more than 180 of them--- products of Custis’s personal experience and anxiety? A reflection of his...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David R Carlson.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The archaeology of the Japanese Diaspora is an emerging field that focuses on the experiences and material culture of Nikkei (individuals with Japanese heritage) across the world. This paper adds to this growing literature by reporting on the results of fieldwork at the Japanese Camp at the Barneston Townsite (45KI1424). Investigated as part of the Issei at Barneston Project (IABP),...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily R. Schumacher.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Military Sites Archaeology in the Caribbean: Studies of Colonialism, Globalization, and Multicultural Communities" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Although often left out of mainstream narratives of European expansion and empire, the Scandinavian nation of Denmark was an active agent of colonialism from the seventeenth to the twentieth century with possessions in the Caribbean, the African continent, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aoife M Daly.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1626, a ship making its way to Virginia reached land at Cape Cod. On board were two Englishmen and many Irish servants. The ship was damaged and the travelers were allowed to stay at the plantation at Plymouth while they awaited passage south. After a storm in 1863, at ‘old ship harbor’, a shipwreck was exposed and the remains lifted. This ship, named the Sparrow-Hawk, was hailed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Blair Atcheson. Alexis Catsambis.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From 1942 to 1945, the U.S. Navy conducted extensive Carrier Qualification Training in Lake Michigan. The training program was highly successful with only 120 aircraft lost in the lake, a considerably low number when taking into account the 120,000 successful landings and 35,000 pilots qualified. As a group, and individually, these wrecksites represent an important and unique piece of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Raymond Sumner.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Julesburg Station (5SW26) and Camp Rankin (5SW24) are located in northeastern Colorado along the South Platte River.  In January and February 1865, they became the focal point of the Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Lakota response to the Sand Creek Massacre.  During this period ranches and stage stations along 150-miles of the Overland Trails were raided and attacked in response to the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Catherine Losier.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Comparative Perspectives on European Colonization in the Americas: Papers in Honor of Réginald Auger" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The imperialistic project of France during the colonial era was based on the strong interdependency between the Métropole and its colonies spread all around the globe. Interestingly, the cultural areas in which Professor Réginald Auger worked during is career allow to take a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meghan C.L. Howey.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Public Archaeology in New Hampshire: Museum and University Research" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Great Bay Archaeological Survey (GBAS) explores early colonial settlements in the Great Bay Estuary (1620-1750 AD). Public and community are buzzwords in conversations around the future of archaeology because there is a sense we must have real buy-in from the broader public to remain relevant. However,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julian D Richards. Debbie Maxwell. Toby Pillatt. Gareth Beale. Nicole Smith.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Mortuary Monuments and Archaeology: Current Research" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Discovering England's Burial Spaces (DEBS) is an Historic England funded project hosted by the Centre for Digital Heritage, Digital Creativity Labs and the Archaeology Data Service at the University of York, in collaboration with the Universities of Glasgow and Liverpool. We are working with community groups to develop new...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Haeden E Stewart.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of Capitalism’s Cracks" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In an age of virulent exploitation and ecological devastation, the decaying waste of capitalist production does not just reflect unjust relations of production, it also serves as a medium for toxic pollutants that harm vulnerable communities and landscapes. Focusing on the negativity embodied in decay, critical theory has also...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Carballo.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Plus Ultra: An examination of current research in Spanish Colonial/Iberian Underwater and Terrestrial Archaeology in the Western Hemisphere." , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Through its focus on changes in human societies over the longue durée and the materiality of our existence, archaeology offers a valuable perspective on historic cross-cultural encounters viewed as deep history with tangible...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chanelle Zaphiropoulos. Timmy Gambin.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Since 1942, the HMS Olympus has rested at approximately 130 meters beneath the surface and has become a thriving deep water reef environment. Since the submarine's rediscovery, it has been visited by teams of technical divers lead by Professor Timmy Gambin. Given its depth, researchers have only a short period of bottom time during which they may examine the wreck's condition. On...