“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)
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-7 of 7)
- Documents (7)
- Can You Dig it? Case Studies in New England Colonial House Sites Archaeology (2020)
- Finding and Understanding the 17th-Century John Hollister Site in South Glastonbury, Connecticut (2020)
- Finding Sites in Urban Places: A 17th-Century Native American Fortified Settlement in Norwalk, Connecticut (2020)
- Ground-Penetrating Radar Prospection for 17th Century Archaeological Sites (2020)
- Lessons Learned: Assembling and Implementing a Toolkit for Identifying Colonial Period Sites (2020)
- "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)
- Why 17th and Early 18th Century Sites are Under-Represented, A Delaware–New Jersey Perspective (2020)