Considering Frontiers Beyond the Romantic: Spaces of Encroachment, Innovation, and Far Reaching Entanglements

Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2020

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Considering Frontiers Beyond the Romantic: Spaces of Encroachment, Innovation, and Far Reaching Entanglements," at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

So-called “frontier” landscapes stage interactions between multiethnic Indigenous and colonial populations. These landscapes afforded a fluid space for frontier populations to negotiate the creation and expansion of economic networks, technological hybridization and innovation, and amend expected gender and societal roles. Persistence and shifts in consumption patterns, social organizations, and habitual practices by these communities through conflict and confluence frequently leave behind a defined material footprint of these dialogues and their far-reaching entanglements with other peoples, places, and legacies of previous encounters. In this vein, we follow William Cronon and others that conceptualize frontiers not as isolated space unmoored from the rest of the world, but as entangled in a mutually constituting relationship with the “metropoles” that they are influenced by and have influence over. This session broadly examines the architecture, material culture, and landscapes created through ambivalent, cooperative, and violent interactions between the diverse populations spanning frontiers and metropoles.

Other Keywords
Zooarchaeology • Lead Mining • Missions • Colonialism • Indian Removal • Domesticity • Glass • Gender • Drinking • Frontiers

Temporal Keywords
19th Century • Historic Period • 16th Century • Historic • 18 – 20th centuries. • 1700s/contemporary • 1780-1830

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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  • Exchange, Entanglement, and ‘Freedom’: British Anti-Slavery and Nascent Colonialism in coastal Sierra Leone in the Age of Revolution. (2020)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Oluseyi, O. Agbelusi.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Considering Frontiers Beyond the Romantic: Spaces of Encroachment, Innovation, and Far Reaching Entanglements" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper examines the history of slavery, abolition, and the transition to nascent colonialism in coastal Sierra Leone from the lenses of the longue durée of history and entanglement concept. It draws on multiple lines of evidence to explore the role of material...

  • Hedged Bets and Serious Games: Native Responses to Settler Colonialism and Indian Removal in the 19th-Century Middle West (2020)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Addison P. Kimmel.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Considering Frontiers Beyond the Romantic: Spaces of Encroachment, Innovation, and Far Reaching Entanglements" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Until their settlement was burned by the Illinois militia in 1832, Native people—mostly Ho-Chunks—made their homes in a village along the Rock River in Northern Illinois. This settlement’s inhabitants were well aware of the threats posed by settler colonial...

  • Innovation, Entrepreneurialism, And Entanglement: A Case Study Of Chinese-run Extractive Industries And Resource Frontiers In The American West (2020)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only J Ryan Kennedy.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Considering Frontiers Beyond the Romantic: Spaces of Encroachment, Innovation, and Far Reaching Entanglements" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The American West has long been synonymous with frontier romanticism, due in large part to the lingering popularity of Frederick Jackson Turner’s Frontier Thesis. Such viewpoints belie the complexity of frontier landscapes where indigenous, migrant, and colonial...

  • The Intersection of Archaeology and Patriotism: Investigations at the San Antonio Mission Complex (2020)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelton M. Sheridan.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Considering Frontiers Beyond the Romantic: Spaces of Encroachment, Innovation, and Far Reaching Entanglements" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In this paper I argue that the concepts of nostalgia, remembering, forgetting, and collective cultural memory are strategically employed in official historical discourse to perpetuate certain social projects. These practices are carefully cultivated in the state of...

  • Miner’s Delight: An Investigation into the Material Culture of Social Drugs on the Frontier (2020)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas DePalma.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Considering Frontiers Beyond the Romantic: Spaces of Encroachment, Innovation, and Far Reaching Entanglements" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The early 19th century saw an influx of settlers, miners, and profiteers from both the established United States and foreign nations into the western frontier in search of wealth through the mining and smelting of lead. What they brought with them were consumption...

  • Native American Lead Mining on the Volatile Frontier of the Expanding American Empire. (2020)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Philip G. Millhouse.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Considering Frontiers Beyond the Romantic: Spaces of Encroachment, Innovation, and Far Reaching Entanglements" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the early 19th Century Native American people in the Driftless Region were participating in the industrial level mining of lead to fuel global markets. This success drew the attention of the growing American polity and led to the familiar process of intrusion,...

  • To Possess the Cultural Capital to Carve Dolomite Marbles and Exchange Blue Beads: Constructing Community and Creating Spaces of Multicultural Encounters on the Nineteenth Century Wisconsin Frontier (2020)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Dana Olesch. Guido Pezzarossi.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Considering Frontiers Beyond the Romantic: Spaces of Encroachment, Innovation, and Far Reaching Entanglements" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The midwestern “frontier” of the United States formed and was transformed by the lead mining rush of the nineteenth century. Dependent on the volatile market for and production of lead and shaped by the diversely positioned tastes, practices and motivations of the...

  • Women in 16thCentury San Juan, Puerto Rico: Material Culture and Gender Role Contradictions (2020)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Julissa A. Collazo López.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Considering Frontiers Beyond the Romantic: Spaces of Encroachment, Innovation, and Far Reaching Entanglements" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper will address women’s role in 16thcentury San Juan, Puerto Rico, through documentary sources produced by the Royal Treasury. Their role made part of the sociocultural transformations that were caused by the intensity of the Spanish conquest in the so called...