“Talkin’ ‘Bout a Revolution”: Identifying and Understanding Early Historic-Period House Sites
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2020
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in 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.
Over half a century of archaeological research in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic has resulted in the discovery and excavation of a relatively small number of previously unknown early Colonial-period house sites. In this session we seek to identify and address the challenges in finding, investigating, and documenting early historic-period domestic sites. Contributing factors to the low discovery rate include testing and excavation strategies, and a lack of understanding about architectural forms, household practices, and archaeological signatures of early domestic sites. Other issues are difficulty in obtaining permission and funding to pursue small assemblages and a regional bias towards pre-contact Native American archaeology. Our goal is to explore how the archaeological community can improve its abilities to locate, identify, and preserve the information from Colonial sites to better understand the lives and experiences of the 17th- and early 18th- century inhabitants of the region.
Other Keywords
Household Archaeology •
Architecture •
Material Culture •
Field Methods •
geomorphology •
Archaeological Survey •
Education •
Survey •
Geophysics •
GPR
Temporal Keywords
17th-18th Century •
Colonial Period •
17th and 18th centuries •
17th to 18th century •
17th-Century •
Contact Period/17th Century •
17th Century/Colonial Period
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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Can You Dig it? Case Studies in New England Colonial House Sites Archaeology (2020)
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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...
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Finding and Understanding the 17th-Century John Hollister Site in South Glastonbury, Connecticut (2020)
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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. The 17th-century John Hollister Site in South Glastonbury, Connecticut is arguably one of the state’s most significant because of its age, richness, and lack of subsequent disturbance. The site, which was identified through a mix of oral history, ground penetrating radar, and...
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Finding Sites in Urban Places: A 17th-Century Native American Fortified Settlement in Norwalk, Connecticut (2020)
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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. Development projects on forested or open land are usually amenable to traditional soil assessments using small-diameter, hand-powered augers. These projects generally present little difficulty in archaeological testing and can be effectively assessed using systematic shovel test pit...
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Ground-Penetrating Radar Prospection for 17th Century Archaeological Sites (2020)
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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. Early colonial archaeological sites often exhibit low artifact densities during walkover or other early-phase field investigations. Furthermore, numerous feature classes may be present but not sampled by traditional testing strategies. These are detectable with geophysical surveys,...
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Lessons Learned: Assembling and Implementing a Toolkit for Identifying Colonial Period Sites (2020)
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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. Over 20 years of cultural resource management survey in southern New England, we have learned that a suite of tools is essential to successfully identify colonial-period house sites in a variety of contexts. The “tools” range from developing an understanding of the...
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"So, What Does That Buff Colored Paste Tell You?" The Challenges And Solutions To Finding The Early Colonial Sites In The Delaware Bay Area. (2020)
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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. Unlike the Chesapeake Bay region, many of the early colonial sites in the Delaware Bay area have been over printed by industrial activities, and urbanism of the 19th century. Combined with the light footprints left by the Swedes, Finns, Dutch, English, Welsh, Natives and Africans of...
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Why 17th and Early 18th Century Sites are Under-Represented, A Delaware–New Jersey Perspective (2020)
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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. We have all missed sites or misidentified sites…so why does this happen? Early historic sites are everywhere in the Middle Atlantic, but they are not infinite. If you are conducting archaeological surveys in this region and not finding these early sites routinely, you may want to...