Society for Historical Archaeology 2021

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah E Platt.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Urban Dissonance: Violence, Friction, and Change" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1770, the Provost-Marshal of the city of Charlestown (now Charleston, SC) advertised the land of a former gunsmith as for sale in The South Carolina Gazette. The valuable lot, situated in the center of the oldest part of the city, was described as “fifty-one feet, more or less” on front and in depth “two...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Hora. Matt Bekker.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Transitioning from Commemoration to Analysis on the Transcontinental Railroad in Utah: Papers in Honor and Memory of Judge Michael Wei Kwan" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Dendroprovenance testing has been commonly used to determine the species, provenance and cutting dates of wood from historical structures. We examined 60 core and cross-sectional wood samples from trestles, culverts, and crossties at...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Garrett R Fesler.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Urban Dissonance: Violence, Friction, and Change" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For two days in August 1831, Nat Turner, an enslaved preacher, and a core group of followers rampaged across rural Southampton County, Virginia, killing some 55 white people. Broadly speaking, Turner had initiated a social justice movement, albeit a violent one. One month later, 46 free Black residents of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher N. Matthews.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Urban Dissonance: Violence, Friction, and Change" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Recent calls for a revival of abolition (of the police, of racism, of capitalism, of America) intentionally connect contemporary movements to the legacy of abolitionism we often associate with the fight to end slavery and institute a new society defined by not only freedom but also an unbounded existence....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Ibarrola.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Black Studies and Archaeology" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In her 1997 book Scenes of Subjection, writer Saidiya Hartman examined the possibilities for resistance and transformation manifest in Black performance and everyday practice both pre and post-emancipation. Her examination is couched in a deep skepticism of the usefulness and relevance of agency in the study of slave power, questioning what...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandra Jones.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Remote Archaeology: Taking Archaeology Online in the Wake of COVID-19" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. COVID-19 has impacted the whole world in ways we could have never imagined. This global pandemic presents historic challenges for many of us in the field of archaeology included. For archaeologists, many of our projects have stopped, researchers have been pulled from their sites, and museums have closed to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Margaret Hames.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Where Accessibility and Inclusion Meet: Archaeology in the Age of Covid and Beyond" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeology is facing several significant challenges at present. As it seeks to grapple with the legacy of its past, it requires new approaches and methodologies to remain viable, inclusive, and accessible. One of the ways we might accomplish this is through the use of novel research with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kasey Diserens Morgan.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Documenting the Built Environment (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper explores how tactics of improvisation and adaptation of colonial era structures to meet modern needs have changed over time in the historic town of Tihosuco, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Until 2019, when Tihosuco was declared national patrimony due to its role in the Caste War of Yucatan (1847-1901), much of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. Scott Hamilton.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Remote Sensing in Historical Archaeology (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Fur trade posts have long been a focus for Canadian historical archaeology, specifically the compounds that were central to European occupation and commerce.  This has constrained interpretation of surrounding hinterlands, and archaeological recognition of Indigenous presence and role. While these shortcomings have...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gillian A Allmond.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Disability Wisdom for the Covid-19 Pandemic" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In May 2020, Professor Alan Penn of the British Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) told MPs that ‘science suggests that being outside in sunlight, with good ventilation, are both highly protective against transmission of the [corona]virus.’ Present-day medical researchers are not the first to link fresh...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jenn Ogborne.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Boxed but not Forgotten Redux or: How I Learned to Stop Digging and Love Old Collections Part III" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2019, the Department of Archaeology and Landscapes at Poplar Forest completed excavations of an oval planting bed in front of Thomas Jefferson’s retreat home. These excavations abutted at least three previous projects. This central oval bed was framed by two additional...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alex J. Garcia-Putnam.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Studying Human Behavior within Cemeteries (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In death, bodies that were autopsied or used for medical dissection or experimentation, are seen as transformed from individuals into specimens, their identities and personhood removed. This destructive act was commonplace across the US during the 19th century for the sake of medical advancement.  Becoming a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Raquel Fleskes. David Brown. Theodore Schurr.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pandemic Fieldwork: Doing Fieldwork During a Pandemic" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. DNA sampling from human remains is becoming a common practice in archeological studies, as genetic data provide important insights into ancestry and kinship in burial settings. To ensure the authenticity of ancient DNA results, contamination of human remains with DNA from living people must be minimized. Here, we describe...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Minkoff. Terry Brock. Matthew Reeves.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Race, Racism, and Montpelier" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeologists studying the African American experience have a responsibility to not only examine the complicated relationships and emergence of race and racism in the past, but also its legacy in the present. This is particularly true when this research is done as part of a public archaeology program, especially one that claims to engage with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Flordeliz T. Bugarin.

This is a forum/panel proposal presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, we have seen a rise of anti-racist protests due to the death of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and others. The protests have brought attention to the Black Lives Matters movement, the fight for social justice, and the impact of structural racism. This forum focuses on how these events and issues have affected the work and profession of historical...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Molly S Cannon. Ethan Ryan.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Transitioning from Commemoration to Analysis on the Transcontinental Railroad in Utah: Papers in Honor and Memory of Judge Michael Wei Kwan" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Geophysical survey techniques offer unique approaches to research, preservation, and interpretation, particularly when subsurface testing is limited or untenable. Historic archaeological excavations are severely limited in Utah, given...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Luciana Alves Costa.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Black Studies and Archaeology" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. To date, the archaeology program at the Federal University of Sergipe, in northeastern Brazil, doesn’t offer an African Diaspora course at undergraduate level. Such an absence points to the epistemic violence pervasive in the teaching of archaeology, particularly blatant in a region with a predominantly Black population. In this work, I intend...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christine Thompson. Kevin Nolan. Mary Swartz. Lance Greene.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Ball State University and Wright State University are conducting archaeological research at the site of the Revolutionary War Battle of Peckuwe (1780) located in Springfield, Ohio. The largest American Revolution conflict west of the Alleghenies, the ~1200 residents of the Shawnee town of Peckuwe struggled to thwart the attack of a large Kentucky militia force of 1,050 troops led by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Penny Crook.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Towards a More Inclusive Archaeology (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In this paper I will review a sample of theoretical approaches to the concept of value derived from the social sciences through the lens of modern world archaeology. This is an era for which the relative abundance of goods tends to prejudice our conception of the complex nature of value construction. I argue that the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandria T Mitchem.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Where Accessibility and Inclusion Meet: Archaeology in the Age of Covid and Beyond" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Even prior to the COVID-19 Pandemic, archaeological fieldwork presented many barriers to access, including financial, institutional, and physical. In this paper I focus on the inherently ableist nature of archaeological fieldwork, which is caused and compounded by the mythology of the rugged...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stacey Camp. Jeffrey Burnett. Autumn Painter.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Research, Interpretation, and Engagement in Post-Contact Archaeology of the Great Lakes Region" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This talk will explore the history of children on Michigan State University’s campus through the lens of archival materials and archaeology. It will consider where and when children were present on the campus; how policies governing the presence of children have evolved and changed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Edward González-Tennant.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Hidden Battlefields: Power, Memory, and Preservation of Sites of Armed Conflict" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Landscape and violence are social processes. The complex interplay between the two is a key facet to racism and other forms of intolerance animating American history. Inspired by this session’s abstract, this paper examines the role archaeology plays in researching the violence inherent to many...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachael J Kangas.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Remote Archaeology: Taking Archaeology Online in the Wake of COVID-19" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Florida Public Archaeology Network has been working for 15 years to educate the public in Florida about archaeology. COVID-19 presented a unique obstacle to achieving this mission, making it unsafe to meet the public we serve in person for over 6 months. This paper discusses how the Southwest Region of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alyssa Rose Scott.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Disability Wisdom for the Covid-19 Pandemic" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Covid-19 pandemic has brought greater awareness to the relationship between identity and healthcare systems. Processes of identification have long been an important topic of study within archaeology, but while archaeologists often consider the intersection between race, gender, class, and other facets of identity, they fail to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mara Z Kaktins. Elyse Adams.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Collections Management in the Age of COVID-19" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. On the 16th of March our jobs as we knew them changed drastically. All employees of The George Washington Foundation were ordered to work from home with no set date to return. What was predicted to be a few weeks turned into two and a half months. For an archaeology department in a museum this posed numerous challenges including...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cherilyn A. Gilligan.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Conflict (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2020, the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum was awarded an American Battlefield Protection Program grant through the National Park Service to survey the Revolutionary War battlefield site at Arnold’s Bay. This site is where American troops under General Benedict Arnold burned their remaining fleet to prevent its capture by the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alasdair Brooks.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Collections Management in the Age of COVID-19" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. COVID-19 has had an inevitable impact on the management of artifact collections in both museum and archaeology settings around the world. This is as true of developing countries such as Egypt as it is in North America, Europe, or Australasia. Through a combination of professional perspective and informal personal anecdote, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John L. Seidel.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Revisiting Revolutionary America" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeological investigations in the 1980s revealed a remarkable complex of barracks, workshops, and other features at the 1778-1779 winter cantonment of the Continental Artillery at Pluckemin, NJ. Analysis of the collections has continued sporadically over the intervening years, but the use of new digital reconstructions and experimental...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher R. Sabick.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology in a Digital Age (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From 2018 through 2020, the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum hosted a number of workshops for local avocational divers to train them in photogrammetry and shipweck documentation. With support from the National Maritime Heritage Grant Program, these workshops trained more than a dozen local divers in the methods of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine M. Sims. Andrea P. White.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Adaptation and Alteration: The New Realities of Archaeology during a Pandemic" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. St. Augustine is one of the few local governments in the United States that has an archaeological preservation ordinance to protect its buried heritage. Since the ordinance was enacted 32 years ago, the development booms of 2018 and 2019 marked the greatest number of projects conducted by the City...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rikki E Oeters.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Landscapes Above and Below in Southern Contexts (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The construction of a bathymetric history of the Emanuel Point Shipwreck area, when paired with an examination of Pensacola’s maritime cultural landscape, can provide insight into the effects past maritime activities had on the submerged cultural resources present. Using ArcGIS and bathymetric data derived...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicole Bucchino Grinnan. Joseph Grinnan.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Adaptation and Alteration: The New Realities of Archaeology during a Pandemic" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In early 2020, scientific diving programs in the United States and elsewhere all but ceased operations as a novel coronavirus spread across the global community. While some programs were required to halt fieldwork, others were forced to eventually adapt to new personal health and safety needs to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Molly Webster. Veronica Kilanowski-Doroh. Kimberly Kasper. Jon Russ. Jamie Evans.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Historic glass trade beads found at plantation archaeological sites have been identified as markers of African and African American culture and expression. In the southeastern United States, the presence of beads can be attributed to inter-cultural exchange with Native Americans and/or strategically obtained through the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Since 2011, Rhodes College has located and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aja M. Lans.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Urban Dissonance: Violence, Friction, and Change" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Beginning with the recent movements #BlackLivesMatter and #SayHerName, I consider how bioarchaeology can be used to reveal the long history of violence against black women in the United States. I do so by studying the skeletal and archival remains of 79 black women who were dissected in New York City during the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tânia Casimiro. Inês Castro. Tiago Silva.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeological Studies of Material Culture (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. British transfer ware begins to be identified in the Portuguese archaeological record around 1780s. At this time it is an elite’s product and only identified in wealthy contexts. Transfer ware only started to be made in Portugal around 1850. By then lower income households were able to consume this fashionable...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Konrad A. (1,2) Antczak.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Islands of Time (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the 17th and 18th century, Curaçaoan Sephardim, enslaved Africans, freedpeople, maroons, Amerindians, pardos, and Europeans on Dutch Curaçao and Bonaire and in the Spanish Province of Venezuela created a bustling informal and moral economy centered around prized Venezuelan cacao and vital everyday necessities including simple...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Linda R. Pomper.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Documenting the Built Environment (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. An interesting assemblage of Chinese ceramics from the 16th and 17th century has been found in Panama. Many can be compared to pieces on the ceiling of a small dining room of the Santos Palace in Lisbon, which is now the French Embassy. There are 263 plates and 96 dishes, fastened by iron nails which had been made into...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel L (1,2) Hines.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Studying Human Behavior within Cemeteries (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Despite promoting K-12 education initiatives for decades, public archaeologists struggle to reach precollegiate audiences. To investigate replicable and accessible methods of archaeology education and to better understand teacher needs and motivations, I created and evaluated an educational program which engages...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ariel L. Butler.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Ethnographic methods can be used to observe and document the ways in which vulnerable populations are being affected by Covid-19. The homeless, elderly, and disabled are particularly susceptible to this highly contagious disease because of dependency of others, lack of resources, and the inability to fully grasp the severity of the disease. How individuals cope, such as going outside or...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Catherine M Gagnon.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This study seeks to understand the full extent of a chamber pot's function, focusing on seven households in Albany, New York, from the late 18th to early 19th centuries. My preliminary study suggests that the composition of the household, including total number of individuals, gender, the presence of enslaved people, and class, helps to explain the stylistic variability in and between the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maia Dedrick. Iván Batún Alpuche. Priya Blair. Gabriela Echeverria Dzib. Brooke Laskowsky. Rebeca Tun Tuz.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Oral History, Coloniality, and Community Collaboration in Latin America" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the summer of 2020 we developed a project to consider the opinions of Tahcabo residents about a new exhibit for their community museum. We worked as a binational team to invite participation in the process through digital networks, by means of a survey and asynchronous discussion groups. We...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tomás Gallareta Cervera.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Oral History, Coloniality, and Community Collaboration in Latin America" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Oral history is a method that contributes to the decolonization of contemporary social sciences. Contemporaneous Maya populations have a link to their ancestral land, and rural lifeways regardless of their colonial disconnection to the past. From 2018 we are collecting oral histories from multiple local...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aryn Neurock Schriner.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Meat and Ale (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Today, Eckley Miners’ Village in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, stands as the only mining town museum in the United States. Although the museum’s goal is to preserve and share the lived experience of the late nineteenth to early twentieth century coal patch town residents, the lives of the lowest-paid residents are overlooked....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Trevor Colaneri. Emma Dietrich.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Boxed but not Forgotten Redux or: How I Learned to Stop Digging and Love Old Collections Part III" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As photogrammetric and 3D printing technology becomes more accessible, 3D artifact replicas are now more common used at museums and in public engagement programs of all types. These items prove to be successful interpretive tools as they offer tangible experiences with items...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Enrique Aragon.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Contextualizing Maritime Archaeology in Australasia" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. ‘Social Network’ has become a popular term thanks to online tools as Facebook or Twitter, allowing us to connect with everyone. Specific to archaeology, Social Network Analysis (SNA) is well established as a method, but its theoretical application in Maritime Archaeology is an incipient initiative. This paper presents the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephanie Gandulla.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Research, Interpretation, and Engagement in Post-Contact Archaeology of the Great Lakes Region" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Located in Lake Huron, NOAA’s Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary protects one of the nation’s best-preserved and historically significant collections of submerged shipwrecks. Within its 4,300 square miles lie nearly 100 known shipwreck sites, and research indicates as many 100...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leo A Demski. Cassandra A. M. Mills.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Meat and Ale (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the Covid-19 epidemic, high demand for alcohol-based hand sanitizer has resulted in products contaminated with toxic adulterants such as methanol. Whether the contamination was intentional or accidental, there are historic parallels where contaminated alcohol was produced, sold, and consumed. This paper explores some of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacob Taylor. Veronica Kilanowski-Doroh. Molly Webster. Kimberly Kasper. Jamie Evans.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This poster will contextualize the socio-economic role of Cedar Grove Plantation in western Tennessee. This type of economic-based, historical investigation has not been conducted within this transition zone of the Lower Mississippi Delta and the Upland South. We focus on the life story of John Walker Jones before, during and after the rapid growth of Cedar Grove Plantation (1825-1865),...

DOCUMENT Citation Only D. Brad Hatch.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Digging Deep: Close Engagement with the Material World" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Traditional crafts associated with Virginia Indian tribes have drawn the attention of colonizers, collectors, anthropologists, and material culture researchers for hundreds of years. The vast majority of these crafts have a connection to traditional foodways systems and serve as major aspects of tribal identity and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily D. Dylla.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Gender in Historical Archaeology (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Gender roles were an especially visible aspect of Spanish Colonial evangelization in Alta California. Part of the worldview Franciscan missionaries attempted to impart to Indigenous neophyte communities was a particular model of manhood, rooted in medieval European ideology and medicant philosophy. Missionaries also...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew R. Beaupre.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Shifting Borders: Early-19th Century Archeology in the Trans-Mississippi South" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the 1830s, author Washington Irving traveled the Arkansas River, visiting the settlement at Arkansas Post and the new territorial capital of Little Rock. Irving recorded his observations of Arkansas Post in a short essay entitled ‘The Creole Village'. In this work, Irving describes a ‘serene...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin J D'Gluyas.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Environmental and Social Issues within Historical Archaeology (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Criminal children formed a notable proportion of the convict population transported to colonial Australia. During a global shift in the ideology of the treatment of criminal youth, an experimental institution for the training and reform of colonial boy prisoners was established at Point Puer in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Victoria R Gum.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Returning to Colonial Williamsburg (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper presents a method of dating and sourcing English delftware (or tin-glazed earthenware) based on hand-painted decorations. Five English delftware teabowls from Custis Square in Williamsburg, Virginia were analyzed during this project. Their hand-painted chinoiserie designs were broken down into specific...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandra Refosco.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Integrating Cultural Heritage Into The Work Of The Ocean Foundation" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Deep Seabed Mining (DSM) is an emergent, international industry targeting mineral deposits from the seafloor (e.g., manganese, copper, cobalt, zinc, and rare earth metals). Regulations for mineral exploitation have not yet been established but are currently being developed by the International Seabed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen Kwan. Margaret Yee.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Transitioning from Commemoration to Analysis on the Transcontinental Railroad in Utah: Papers in Honor and Memory of Judge Michael Wei Kwan" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the years leading up to the 150th Anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad’s completion, the Chinese Railroad Workers Descendants Association (CRWDA) formed in order to organize the celebration of the contributions of the Chinese...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alice W Merkel.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Remote Archaeology: Taking Archaeology Online in the Wake of COVID-19" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In response to the 2020 COVID-19 global pandemic, Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum in Southern Maryland saw a dramatic shift towards digital content creation as a method of engaging the public. This shift was a dramatic one for small museums like ours- that hold educational programs, in-person tours and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Irwin. Christopher Nicholson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Collections Management in the Age of COVID-19" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Cultural heritage managers continually face deadlines and milestones that digital resources help to meet them. Yet, many materials related to past assessments, surveys, or excavations are in hard-copy form only. They are difficult to access when SHPO offices, archives, or other hard-copy repositories are closed. In the current...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Freeman. Kerry Gonzalez.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology in a Digital Age (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2017 the SHA Collections and Curation Committee formed a sub-committee to collect information about archaeological repositories across the United States. This year-long survey resulted in the recordation of 102 repositories, with each state in the US having at least one respondent. The data obtained for this work...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John K McCarthy.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology in a Digital Age (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This presentation considers the value of 3D digital libraries to support maritime archaeological investigations of historic vessels, focussed on Dutch ocean-going merchant ships (1595 to 1800). During this time the Netherlands rose to become a leading maritime power. Despite prolonged scholarly interest , typological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kirsten M. Hawley.

This is a forum/panel proposal presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Underwater archaeology is often only accessible to those who can snorkel or SCUBA dive. As we move into the age of digital heritage and online conferences, many archaeologists have used a variety of tools to provide wider access to submerged archaeological sites and the information that they hold. These tools have only become more important during the COVID-19 quarantine, as in many...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lexie Lowe.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Where Accessibility and Inclusion Meet: Archaeology in the Age of Covid and Beyond" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Discussions concerning accessibility to publications and data have encouraged many within the archaeological community to consider the potential that digital technologies have in supporting a more inclusive field. The current global pandemic has only accentuated the relevance--or rather, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jodi Barnes.

This is a forum/panel proposal presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Disaster capitalism takes place as private industries spring up to directly profit from large-scale crises, like natural disasters or wars, while exploiting and exacerbating existing inequalities. In the United States, the current administration’s Executive Order waiving environmental review is one example of disaster capitalism in that it removes regulations to spur economic growth....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madison Aubey. Kellen Gold. Kelly Britt.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Urban Dissonance: Violence, Friction, and Change" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. While the history of mass protest can take many forms in a variety of environments, urban spaces provide an ideal location to exert dissent. Due to urban spaces’ concentration of political, economic and social power, as well as sheer density of people, they can quickly take on material and symbolic importance...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura McAtackney.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Urban Dissonance: Violence, Friction, and Change" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Belfast is a city that has been made and remade through cycles of violence in its 400-year history. This has been through both conscious and unconscious means, from bombings and riots to the forced movement of communities into newly environments. The material memory of conflict is retrievable in various forms in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aleck Tan.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Islands of Time (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Of the 59 recorded Manila galleon shipwreck incidents between 1565 and 1815, only seven shipwreck sites have been identified today. Two 17th-century Manila galleons, Santa Margarita and Nuestra Señora de la Concepción (Concepción), are in the Northern Mariana Islands. Both sites, however, have been impacted by post-wrecking activities of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James G. Gibb.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Meat and Ale (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Early Colonial (1650s through 1750s) sites on Maryland’s Western Shore occupy several distinct ecosystems, each offering opportunities for, and imposing constraints on, provisioning strategies. Faunal data assembled from eight Maryland sites along the Chesapeake Bay measure that variability as the first phase in a larger study...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Beverly J. Watkins.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Shifting Borders: Early-19th Century Archeology in the Trans-Mississippi South" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. South central and southwest Arkansas both have an abundance of salt licks, salt springs, salt creeks, and salt marshes. Indigenous people established a number of sites for making salt, and early American settlers developed some of these sites into commercial saltworks. Smaller than the industrial...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin Zant.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Outreach and Education: Bringing it Home to the Public (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Over the past thirty years, the Maritime Preservation Program at the Wisconsin Historical Society has focused on implementing a diverse outreach program that fosters a preservation ethic and responsible site visitation as an important aspect of submerged resource preservation. While the initial focus...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kate L McEnroe.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeological Studies of Material Culture (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Textiles are infrequently present in the archaeological collections at Colonial Williamsburg Foundation due to their poor preservation. Contributing factors include the inherent fragility of organic material, the prevalence of pest activity, and the frequently damp and acidic soils of Williamsburg, Virginia....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Research, Interpretation, and Engagement in Post-Contact Archaeology of the Great Lakes Region" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Lorain Campbell, the director of the Troy Historic Village in Michigan, asked me to direct excavations at the site of the Methodist-Episcopal Parsonage and Church that had been moved to the village. I invited my colleague Richard Stamps to co-direct the excavations with Oakland...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher J Pasch.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Race, Racism, and Montpelier" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. While the presence of enslaved African Americans in plantation museums is being increasingly acknowledged and presented, interpretations of their lives are still kept largely to the areas in which they lived and labored. Slave quarters, kitchen, vegetable gardens, trash deposits, and barns are data rich and provide invaluable insights into the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Payton Gagliardi.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The internet has come to define contemporary American life, altering our working, shopping, and leisure habits with implications for the material world. This is particularly apparent during the Coronavirus pandemic when social distancing was mandated for public safety. I collected data on national market trends to identify patterns of internet use for work, social interaction, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Nassaney. Courtney Bedrosian. Ariel Butler. Zachary Fagerlin. Payton Gagliardi. Joanne Jeya. Sarah Linkous. Nikolajs Pone.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Ethnoarchaeological methods of data collection and analysis can provide insights into the ways in which people are adapting and responding to the shifting rules, requirements, and regulations established for public safety during the Covid-19 era (March 2020-present). Students in an experiential learning class (ANTH 4970) at Western Michigan University (WMU) in July and August 2020...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael M. Gregory. Jane D. Peterson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of Neighborhoods and Communities (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Chicago’s Bronzeville Neighborhood generated and preserved deposits dating to the Civil War when Camp Douglas--a training/POW facility--existed in the area. In part, these deposits document the origins of the Lost Cause narrative, the consequences of the Jim Crow South, and the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nikolajs M Pone.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an era of unprecedented fear, anxiety, and paranoia throughout the world. A hallmark of prevention and precautionary methods against COVID-19, and perhaps the most recognizable symbol of the COVID-19 era, is the face mask. Facemasks became a widespread phenomena in the U.S. in early April, 2020 when the pandemic began to accelerate. This phenomena has...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kurt Bennett.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Contextualizing Maritime Archaeology in Australasia" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper explores changes in design and construction technologies relating to British colonial-built ships in the nineteenth century. HMS Buffalo and Edwin Fox were built on the banks of the River Hooghly, India, with teams of local and foreign labour. HMS Buffalo was constructed in 1813 and served the British Navy before...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Terry P. Brock.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Race, Racism, and Montpelier" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For decades, archaeologists have examined the design and orientation of plantation landscapes to understand the way plantation owners use space to shape and manipulate dynamics of power between enslaved and free people. At Montpelier, archaeological excavations and survey has revealed a great deal of evidence relating to the arrangement of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sumedha Chakravarthy.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology in South Asia" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. People engage with material landscapes in embodied, emotive ways. Experience is shaped not only by physical realities, but also by social positionality and individual perspective. Archaeologists often use oral history, ethnoarchaeology, or phenomenology as a means of considering human engagement with material landscapes. Literature also...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brett J. Derbes.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Shifting Borders: Early-19th Century Archeology in the Trans-Mississippi South" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As the United States expanded westward the frontier attracted new settlers, including criminals.  Throughout the early 1800s state legislatures revised their criminal codes and shifted from corporal punishment to incarceration.  In early 1832, Louisiana Governor Andre B. Roman called for a new...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kenneth P Cannon.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Transitioning from Commemoration to Analysis on the Transcontinental Railroad in Utah: Papers in Honor and Memory of Judge Michael Wei Kwan" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Analysis of stable isotopes in bone collagen has been widely used to determine diet in humans and other vertebrates. The methods are well established in theory and practice. This exploratory project is focused on pig and cattle bones...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kirby E Farah.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Oral History, Coloniality, and Community Collaboration in Latin America" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the small central Mexican town of Xaltocan, a complex web of written and oral histories, material culture, and modern political and social movements have shaped a local heritage that celebrates the town’s long history. Archaeological research, which has intensified at Xaltocan over the past 30 years,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah L. Surface-Evans.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Research, Interpretation, and Engagement in Post-Contact Archaeology of the Great Lakes Region" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeological inquiry into health is typically centered on ableism, which views healthiness and non-(dis)abled as the norm. To see beyond these normative perspectives, I propose a view of (dis)ease and (dis)ability as “wellbeing”. Wellbeing should be conceived as a complex...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adrianne S. Walker.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Adaptation and Alteration: The New Realities of Archaeology during a Pandemic" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The impacts of Covid-19 are innumerable for sites and museums and a serious conundrum resulted for places already in jeopardy from factors like budgetary cutbacks and limited resources. A case study for this conundrum is presented with Arcadia Mill Archaeological Site in Milton, Florida. Owned by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura E. Heath-Stout.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Disability Wisdom for the Covid-19 Pandemic" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Scholar-activists have been critiquing equity issues around gender, race, sexuality, and socioeconomic inequality for the past several decades. With few exceptions, however, this literature rarely addresses disability and accessibility issues. In this paper, I explore the experiences of academic archaeologists with disabilities,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew R. Virta.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of the Mid-Atlantic (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. A major rehabilitation project was undertaken from 2017-2020 at Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial, a National Park Service site preserving portions of an antebellum plantation in Arlington County, Virginia. The site includes the mansion, dependencies, and immediate grounds constructed between 1802 and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Zimmerman. Andres Montenegro-Rosero.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Outreach and Education: Bringing it Home to the Public (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Gamification, a “complex and controversial concept” (Tulloch 2014: 317), is commonly considered an effective tool for student engagement in the archaeology classroom, by providing elements of gameplay: rules, rewards, punishments, competition, and narrative. However, games and gamification have a role...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian D Crane.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Studying Human Behavior within Cemeteries (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Historical and archaeological research in Montgomery County, MD is exploring the relationships between burial grounds and surrounding landscape features in order to better understand these sites and find graveyards whose locations have been lost. The topographic settings of family burial grounds and their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ray Sarnacki. Jim Gibb.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of the Mid-Atlantic (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeologists collect and store a great deal of information from sites, but the underlying, non-agricultural data are not readily available to other researchers. Layers of information are contained in a loose web of paper forms, digital data spreadsheets or PDF files, if they can be accessed at all. We discuss a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cheryl White.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeological Studies of Material Culture (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Glass trade beads are a staple in archaeological sites throughout the New World. Their appearance often raises questions about broad stroke themes such as trade, adornment, iconography, and burial practices. In the northern Amazon of South America, glass trade beads are found in juxtaposition to settlements...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan B Langley.

This is a forum/panel proposal presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The writer, William Arthur Ward, stated, “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” With the Corona pandemic, its effects on the economy and concomitantly government budgets, as well as the potential threats to preservation posed by changes to the National Register of Historic Places and the National Environmental Policy...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Courtney J. Birkett.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Fort Eustis, a military installation in southeastern Virginia, contains a number of earthworks dating to the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War. It has also been the location of extensive bulldozer training, which has left behind anomalous mounds of soil. Because of this, more than one site has been erroneously identified as a Civil War earthwork. By examining aspects of these...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anand V Taneja.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology in South Asia" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In this paper I will look at stories of three jinn-haunted ruins in contemporary South Asia: The Moti Masjid in the Lahore Fort, parts of the abandoned Mughal capital of Fatehpur Sikri, and the ruins of Firoz Shah Kotla in Delhi. All three are associated with South Asia’s pre-colonial Muslim rulers, and all three are sites associated with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Button Kambic.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Hidden Battlefields: Power, Memory, and Preservation of Sites of Armed Conflict" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For over 20 years, the National Park Service's American Battlefield Protection Program has funded projects devoted to planning, interpreting, and protecting battlefields and other sites associated with armed conflicts that shaped the growth and development of the United States. This symposium...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Krysta Ryzewski.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Research, Interpretation, and Engagement in Post-Contact Archaeology of the Great Lakes Region" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This presentation recounts the origins of historical archaeology as both a profession and a practice based on the work of the first generation of urban archaeologists in Detroit. Last year, 2020, marked the 60th anniversary of the first professional historical archaeology...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Selvakumar Veerasamy.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology in South Asia" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Understanding India and its culture was a colonial enterprise that was initiated in 18th and 19th centuries. The notions concerning identities which were constructed during the colonial times have considerably influenced the interpretations of archaeological remains in several contexts, including the recently introduced DNA studies that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Danny Zborover. María Cecilia Lozada. Alex Elvis Badillo.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Environmental and Social Issues within Historical Archaeology (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Located at the heart of the ‘Nazca-Ocoña Gold Belt’, Corral Redondo represents one of the most enigmatic archaeological sites in southern Peru. While the site shot to fame after the well-publicized looting of spectacular prehispanic artifacts in the 1940’s, our recent archaeological project...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zoë Crossland.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Black Studies and Archaeology" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Drawing on work by Alexander G. Weheliye and Achille Mbembe this paper considers the ways in which Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben’s notions of biopower and biopolitics have been theorized in relation to Western European modernity and forms of sovereignty over life. What kind of challenge is posed to these genealogies when we consider...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara Rivers Cofield.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Digging Deep: Close Engagement with the Material World" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Horseshoes are common finds on post-contact sites in the Chesapeake and elsewhere. While they are typically interpreted as artifacts of transportation or agriculture, horseshoes also served magical functions such as warding off evil and bringing good luck. This creates an interpretive problem for archaeologists as the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anatolijs Venovcevs. Matthew Magnani. Natalia Magnani. Stein Farstadvoll.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pandemic Fieldwork: Doing Fieldwork During a Pandemic" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Over the last few decades, archaeologists have turned more attention to studying material signatures of recent events including migration, homelessness, and the aftermaths of disasters. In March 2020, a group of contemporary archaeologists and anthropologists in Tromsø, Norway found themselves in the middle of one such...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Manon Savard. Nicolas Beaudry. Roxane Julien-Friolet.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of Neighborhoods and Communities (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. By the turn of the 20th century, the shores of the St. Lawrence estuary had become prime locations for members of Montreal's English-speaking elite who sought to escape the city's pace of life and unhealthy air. After seaside resorts and hotel complexes served by steamboats, the development of the...