Before, After, and In Between: Archaeological Approaches to Places (through/in) Time

Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2020

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in 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.

American history is demarcated by sharp divides of before and after – before and after European contact, the American Revolution, and the Civil War. While these major events, and smaller ones as well, shaped the physical, economic, social, and cultural contours of life in and outside the United States, ordinary people maintained practices of everyday life during these events and often continued living in the same homes and areas that they did before the change occurred. History can be easily divided into different eras, but archaeological sites and the people who lived on them cannot. These papers interrogate time, place, and change in creative ways, examining different sites that were occupied by the same individuals or groups before, after, and sometimes during a specific event. The authors illuminate the complex relationships between local, national, and global currents of change and how these relationships might be interpreted through the archaeological record.

Other Keywords
Ceramics • Plantation • Slavery • African American • industrial • Landscape • Catawba • land-leasing system • History • 20th Century

Temporal Keywords
20th Century • 18th Century • 1760-1820 • 19th Century • Late 18th to Early 19th Centuries • 17th century CE / early modern • 1790s - 1860s • 1100-1750

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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  • The Architecture of Destruction: A Study on the Evolution of a 20th Century Black Powder Mill in Western Pennsylvania (2020)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashley S McCuistion.

    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. The production of black powder has driven some of the most significant events and industrial advancements in American history, yet research on the subject remains limited. The DuPont Powder Mill in Fayette County, Pennsylvania provides valuable insight into the history of the black powder...

  • Buying Pottery, Leasing Land, And Marketing A Nation: Investigating Euroamerican Ceramic Use In The Catawba Nation Before And After Land-Leasing (2020)
    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...

  • Buying Pottery, Leasing Land, And Marketing A Nation: Investigating Euroamerican Ceramic Use In The Catawba Nation Before And After Land-Leasing (2020)
    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...

  • Examining History and Material Practice at George Washington’s Mount Vernon (2020)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Sean (1,2) Devlin.

    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. Historical archaeologists’ recent turn towards the consideration of temporality speaks directly to an interest in critically reflecting on the immanence of narrative historical events for daily practices within specific households or communities. George Washington’s Mount Vernon provides a...

  • Ghosts in the Walls: Materiality, Temporality, and Identity at a Distributed Site (2020)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebekah L. Planto.

    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. Bacon’s Castle in Surry County, Virginia, is rife with paradoxes. Home to over three centuries of plantation households, it owes its popular name to a man who never set foot there. Despite surviving as the “oldest brick dwelling” in English North America, lack of scholarship has rendered it...

  • Lewis Doesn’t Live Here Anymore: Fairfield Plantation after the Burwells (2020)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Thane H. Harpole. David Brown.

    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. Visitors to Fairfield plantation are intrigued by the magnificent c. 1694 brick manor house, the Burwell family who planned it, and the enslaved Africans who largely built it. The powerful Lewis Burwells and their families (five generations with the same name) helped shape 18th-century...

  • Maize, Mast, and Other Plant Resources from the Late Prehistoric and Contact Period North Carolina Piedmont (2020)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Sierra S. Roark.

    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. The Contact period is often designated as a significant temporal marker for American archaeology. Excavations led by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under the Siouan Project have produced an extensive number of archaeobotanical samples from late Prehistoric and Contact period...

  • Painted, Molded, Printed, Sponged: Ceramics From Two Communities At One Site (2020)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Alison Bell. Donald Gaylord. Karen Lyle.

    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. In 1793, trustees of Liberty Hall Academy – the forerunner of Washington and Lee University (W&L) – built a steward’s house for student dining near the main academic structure. When the latter burned in 1803, the institution moved to its current location. The former campus became a...

  • Paternalism and Changing Perceptions of Enslaved Individuals (2020)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas J Cuthbertson.

    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. The paternalism movement as it relates to the institution of slavery describes the trend of treating enslaved individuals "well" with the aim of convincing them that staying with their captors is their most appealing option, thereby reducing rates at which those individuals ran away rom the...

  • Slate Pencils and Stoves: The Impact of the Rosenwald Fund on Schools in Gloucester, County Virginia (2020)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Colleen Betti.

    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. The creation of the Rosenwald Fund in 1917 seems like a small event, but had a large impact on portions of the population. The fund helped rural African American communities in the South build over 5000 state of the art schoolhouses in their communities, often replacing old structures that...

  • A Tale of Many Gloucestertowns: Archaeological Clues to the Pre- and Post-Revolutionary War Landscapes at Gloucester Point (2020)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna Hayden. Thane H. Harpole.

    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. Large-scale archaeological excavations on the campus of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science from 2016-2017 revealed hundreds of cultural features, excavation of which shed light on the long span of historical occupation at Gloucester Point. In-depth analysis of the spatial, temporal,...

  • "They Considered Themselves Free": Defining Community and Freedom at Buffalo Forge in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia (2020)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Erin S. Schwartz.

    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. On Saturday, May 27th, 1865, Buffalo Forge ironmaster Daniel C.E. Brady noted in his journal: “All hands quit work as they considered themselves free.” This seemingly isolated, abrupt moment in time belies several overlapping periods of transition, tension, and community self-determination...