Northeast Region National Park Service Archeological Landscapes and the Stories They Tell
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2020
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Northeast Region National Park Service Archeological Landscapes and the Stories They Tell," at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
With the many historic events and cultures represented within National parks it is challenging sometimes for NPS to make decisions about which stories to highlight to the public. Choosing specific periods to highlight can come at the expense of others. When a park’s period of significance is narrowly defined it can be challenging to find spaces to interpret important events, people, or cultures outside the established period. The danger in choosing which stories to tell means other equally significant stories may become blurred, or at worst, ignored. There is a movement within the NPS to address this with the goal of creating spaces for additional stories to be told to the public. The Northeast Region Archeology Program supports these efforts through landscape scale archeological investigations – an approach that allows reconstruction of past landscapes with an emphasis to examine broad scales of change over time using state-of-the-art methodologies and technology.
Other Keywords
Landscape •
Battlefield •
Revolutionary War •
Saratoga •
Remote Sensing •
Interpretation •
Cultural Resource Management •
Climate Change •
African-American •
Resource Management
Temporal Keywords
Revolutionary War •
Pre-Contact •
19th Century •
18th Century •
17th Century •
Seventeenth Century •
Contemporary •
18th-19th century •
French Colonial •
1863-present
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Nuevo Leon (State / Territory) •
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The Angela Site: Exploring Race, Diversity, and Community in EarlyJamestown (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Northeast Region National Park Service Archeological Landscapes and the Stories They Tell" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation in cooperation with the National Park Service, Colonial National Historical Park is investigating the life of one of the first African women forcibly brought to English North America in 1619. The current archaeology project builds on nearly a century...
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The Archeology and Interpretation of Native Americans at Valley Forge National Historical Park (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Northeast Region National Park Service Archeological Landscapes and the Stories They Tell" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Valley Forge National Historical Park in Pennsylvania commemorates the 1777-1778 winter encampment of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. The enabling legislation directs the National Park Service to preserve the natural and cultural resources of, and educate the public...
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The Barber Wheatfield Saratoga National Historical Park: Landscape of War and Discovery (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Northeast Region National Park Service Archeological Landscapes and the Stories They Tell" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In May and June of 2019, Saratoga National Historical Park (SARA) and the Northeast Region Archaeology Program (NRAP) partnered with several groups including American Veterans Archaeological Recovery (AVAR), American Battlefield Trust (ABT), Advanced Metal Detecting for the...
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Beyond the Overseer’s House: Centering the Stories of the Enslaved Community at White Hill Plantation (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Northeast Region National Park Service Archeological Landscapes and the Stories They Tell" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Of the larger 18th century plantations overlooking the Appomattox River, White Hill was positioned on the edge of the city of Petersburg, Virginia. The preservation and interpretation of White Hill Plantation is on the fringes of the enabling legislation that established Petersburg...
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Boston Massacre Bullets: Using Live-Fire Validation Techniques to Refute a Myth (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Northeast Region National Park Service Archeological Landscapes and the Stories They Tell" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Boston Massacre occurred at the Custom House on King Street on March 5, 1770 when British regular troops fired on colonists. Five colonists were killed and six wounded. One British officer and eight soldiers participated in the event. How did eight soldiers firing only one shot kill...
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Intertwined Landscapes of Memorialization at Booker T. Washington National Monument (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Northeast Region National Park Service Archeological Landscapes and the Stories They Tell" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The site of Booker T. Washington’s birth and enslavement in Hardy County, Virginia has been honored since 1945 when the farm was purchased to serve both as a memorial and as a school. Eventually incorporated into the National Park system in the 1950s, this site has been the focal point...
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Landscapes of Memory and Meaning at Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Northeast Region National Park Service Archeological Landscapes and the Stories They Tell" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. New NPS unit Katahdin Woods and Waters is establishing a management framework to help shape visitor’s experience and manage cultural and natural resources. As part of long-term management planning for Katahdin’s resources, a Northeast Region team in partnership with members of the...
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"Madly and blindly in the face of furious fire" Archaeological Survey of the Barber Wheatfield, Saratoga National Historical Park (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Northeast Region National Park Service Archeological Landscapes and the Stories They Tell" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The incredible events that occurred at Barber Wheatfield on October 7th, 1777 during the second Battle of Saratoga and the landscape of rolling hills and small farms make it a pivotal location in understanding the day's outcomes. This paper discusses the results of an archaeological...
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Revealing the Hidden Landscape: Saint Croix Island International Historical Site beyond French Colonial Settlement (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Northeast Region National Park Service Archeological Landscapes and the Stories They Tell" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Baseline documentation and climate change research focus on identifying and interpreting archeological remains to help guide immediate- to long term treatment and preservation of the actively eroding Saint Croix Island. The integrated high resolution remote sensing surveys on the...
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Saint Croix Island: A 400 Year Climate Change Story (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Northeast Region National Park Service Archeological Landscapes and the Stories They Tell" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Saint Croix Island, in the Saint Croix River, on the international boundary between New Brunswick and Maine represents 400 years of climate change stories. Today, the island is the Saint Croix Island International Historic Site managed by NPS. The 6.5 acre island is in the...
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Siege Lines: Layered Landscapes and Difficult Histories on Yorktown Battlefield (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Northeast Region National Park Service Archeological Landscapes and the Stories They Tell" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Slabtown, Virginia (also known as Uniontown) was an African-American settlement established in 1863 on the site of Yorktown’s Revolutionary War battlefield by formerly-enslaved individuals who achieved freedom by crossing Union lines (so-called “contraband”). Slabtown/Uniontown remained...
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Werowocomoco: Competing Narratives at the Center of Tsenocomacah (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Northeast Region National Park Service Archeological Landscapes and the Stories They Tell" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The dominant narrative of Werowocomoco connects with the nationally significant story of Powhatan Chief Wahunsenacawh, his daughter Matoaca (Pocahontas), and Englishman Captain John Smith in 1607. It highlights an important moment in the connection and clash of cultures during a...