Society for Historical Archaeology 2021

DOCUMENT Citation Only Terence A Christian.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Conflict (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Battlefield preservation initiatives consistently show public benefit. The United States Federal Government generally, and the Department of the Interior (DOI) and the National Park Service (NPS) specifically, have been at the vanguard of battlefield preservation initiatives since the field’s earliest conception. Under DOI and NPS...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tane R Casserley. David Alberg.

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. Beyond NOAA's Monitor National Marine Sanctuary’s (MNMS) current boundaries off North Carolina lie waters associated with nearly 500 years of western maritime history and includes shipwrecks representing the American Civil War, U.S. naval aviation, World War I, and most prominently World War II...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica L. Yann.

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. The Fayette town site (20DE19) is the focal point of the Fayette Historic State Park in Delta County, Michigan. Fayette was an iron smelting company town during the late nineteenth-century and at least portions of several original structures remain. The site is open to the public...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Seth Mallios.

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. Even at its inception twenty years ago, the Nathan Harrison Historical Archaeology Project was focused on 2020, as this date marked the 100-year anniversary of Harrison’s passing. Archaeological insights into San Diego County’s most prominent African-American pioneer grew with each year of research, and we scheduled a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Jane Murray. Emma Dietrich.

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. Given the global pandemic, this spring the Florida Public Archaeology Network was faced with a dilemma: how to do public archaeology without the public? Staff with the Northeast and East Central Regions created a video series, Tea & Trowels, as a way to connect the public with archaeology from the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Misty Jackson.

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. American styled farming practiced by the Odawak during the nineteenth century had evolved as part of a process beginning in the seventeenth. This transition is examined within a framework of a cultural landscape study of the Waganakising Odawak that seeks to place them, their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christina H. McSherry.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Conflict (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The location of the American Civil War Battle of Gettysburg, now preserved at the Gettysburg National Military Park (GNMP), receives thousands of visitors every year. Visitors to the battlefield interact with over 1,000 monuments across the landscape that both commemorate the actions that took place and memorialize the participants...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin A. Skolnik. Samantha J. Lee.

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. From 1828 until its liberation at the onset of the American Civil War in 1861, the slave jail complex built by Franklin & Armfield at 1315 Duke Street in Alexandria, Virginia facilitated a fundamental transformation in American slavery. It was used to industrialize the domestic slave trade; however, it also...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jack A. Gary.

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. The Department of Archaeology in collaboration with the Materials Analysis Laboratory at Colonial Williamsburg conducted paint analysis on fragments of early 18th century painted redware flower urns recovered from the home and garden of John Custis IV in Williamsburg, Virginia. Cross-section, scanning electron, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Paisley.

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. Wisconsin cemeteries exhibit changes in the immigration and economic structures throughout the state’s history. Newton and Huxley Cemeteries located in southwestern Wisconsin are prime examples of how these changes are exhibited. Major nineteenth century migrant groups arriving to the area were from the eastern...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian G. Buchanan. Hope Sands.

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. Fort Spokane, located at the confluence of the Spokane and Columbia Rivers, was established in 1882 to mediate interactions between the Native Americans of the Spokane Tribe and the Colville Confederated Tribes to incoming settlers to the area. At the same time the fort reflected the burgeoning power and control of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephanie Sperling.

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. Archaeologists with Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, Department of Parks and Recreation in Prince George’s County, Maryland established a vibrant and diverse public archaeology program decades ago. As soon the pandemic hit and it became clear that our 2020 initiatives would not be...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Barbara Heath. Kandace Hollenbach. Sierra Roark. Megan Belcher.

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. We share preliminary results of a comparative paleoethnobotanical analysis of carbonized macrobotanical remains recovered from archaeological sites in Maryland and Virginia spanning three periods (1630-1660, 1661-1700, 1701-1730) and four ecological zones. Samples from contexts with defined dates and precise locations...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Spalding.

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. The Ocean Foundation (TOF) is an international community foundation based in Washington D.C., established in 2002. As the only community foundation for the ocean, its mission is to support, strengthen, and promote organizations dedicated to reversing the trend of destruction of ocean environments around the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dave Ball.

This is a forum/panel proposal presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. At the 2020 SHA Annual Conference in Boston, the SHA and ACUA UNESCO Committees co-chaired a panel discussion to address how best to incorporate cultural heritage (CH) into the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (DOS), an initiative that promotes a common framework for supporting stakeholders in studying and assessing the health of the world’s oceans. ACUA Grad...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Terry Klein.

This is a forum/panel proposal presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Marion Werkheiser, SHA’s government affairs consultant, and Terry Klein, Chair of the SHA Government Affairs Committee, will examine how the results of the November 2020 elections will impact historical archaeology. Through an examination of the potential new balance of power in Washington, DC, they will highlight the opportunities to make an impact in 2021. Learn who are the key...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emma L Verstraete.

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. Over time out society has changed and evolved what is seen as ‘sick’ and what can be seen as a ‘cure’. This paper seeks to examine the health and hygiene assemblage at the Carpenter Street site, an excavation site in Springfield, Illinois. The site was used in a historic context for the initial settlement of Portuguese immigrants,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Corey Malcom.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Ship Construction and Shipwrecks: A Journey into Engineering Successes and Failures (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. On December 19, 1827, the Havana-based pirate slave ship Guerrero wrecked on a reef off Key Largo, Florida, while being chased by the British Royal Navy schooner HMS Nimble. Forty-one captive Africans drowned when Guerrero sank; the survivors were rescued. Items were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan D. Postemski.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Islands of Time (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeological studies have long highlighted rapid and radical human transformation of island ecosystems through colonization. Given their generally more limited biodiversity and size, the impact of human activity is often easier to discern on islands than on the mainland. In this paper, I examine human interaction with the island ecosystem...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charlotte G. Mills.

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. In Brazil, the largest escaped slave community in the Americas incorporated multiple settlements into a united federation. This was Palmares, named for the palm forests where they sheltered in the Captaincy of Pernambuco. Encompassing nine individual villages at its height in the mid-1600s, this community’s only...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aaron C Lovejoy. Crystal A Castleberry. Jack A Gary.

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. Excavating Experience: Exploring Delhi’s mid-century housing through literature and streetscape survey

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael J. Gall.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Revisiting Revolutionary America" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Extensively studied archaeologically and historically, the Battle of Monmouth on June 28, 1778 in central New Jersey showcased Washington’s ability to stand against the British Army and hold the field of battle. The New Jersey militia was important to this success. They harassed the British Army leading to the battle and commanded key terrain...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lisa E. Fischer. Cynthia J. Deuell. Caroline E. Gardiner. Erica G. Moses.

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 COVID-19 pandemic caused significant changes to daily life, forcing many cultural organizations that rely on public visitation to reorient their engagement efforts amidst site closures. Suddenly, communicating with audiences through the web and social media became even more vital. At the same...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sam Holley-Kline.

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. The manual labor involved in the production of archaeological knowledges tends to go unacknowledged, and archaeologists have historically had epistemological authority over the interpretation of the past. In Latin America, acknowledging Indigenous labor in archaeology often focuses on restoring...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mannat Johal.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology in South Asia" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper explores the question of labor in the study of crafted objects from archaeological contexts. Working with an assemblage of excavated ceramics from a Medieval (12th-14th century CE) settlement at Maski (northern Karnataka), it problematizes the categories proposed by the political-economy oriented framework of “craft production...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Catharine M. Wood.

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. During the 19th century, the U.S. government enacted a program of forced removal of Native Americans from their southeastern homelands to an area west of the Mississippi River known as Indian Territory. The end-points of the migration trails were known as Disbandment Sites where the tribes temporarily camped...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hemanth Kadambi.

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 India, the term Historical Archaeology usually means archaeology that privileges written evidence for documenting the past. Unlike in the Americas and Northern Europe where archaeology as a ‘discipline of things’ and ‘land(water)scapes’ has advanced an understanding of all periods, in India, this is not the case yet. Hence, periods of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Taylor N. Smith. Marinda J. Lawley. Nick N. Long.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2019 the Alabama Department of Archives and History (ADAH) in Montgomery, Alabama enlisted a group of students and volunteers to undertake a formidable amount of collections management work necessary to achieving NAGPRA compliance, while also challenging them to engage with NAGPRA legislation and ethics. This program was able to accommodate a range of education levels, institutions,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jack Pink. Julian Whitewright.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Ship Construction and Shipwrecks: A Journey into Engineering Successes and Failures (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The East Winner Bank shipwreck takes its name from the Southern sandbank on Hayling Island near Portsmouth. Examination of the wreck, its fastenings, and framing technology; indicate a 19th Century carvel-built vessel. The sandbank is an active environment, meaning the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda D. Brock Morales. Rosario Pajuelo Montes.

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. Archaeological sites are dynamic spaces that continue to be modified and transformed from their initial construction through the present by their contemporary environments and communities who engage with them. As such, these sites possess a significance that transcends archaeological interpretations of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jason Raupp. Jeremy Borrelli.

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. In 1849, the North Carolina legislature appropriated $25,000 to build a series of locks and dams along the Tar River to improve navigation through the shoals of the shallow inland waterway. These developments were intended to increase the transport of cotton, naval stores, and timber to the coast by making...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn A Catlin. Douglas J Bolender.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Landscapes Above and Below in Northern Contexts (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Environmental resources are unevenly distributed, but does differential access have long-term effects on relative economic status? During Iceland's settlement in the 9th and 10th centuries, all of the island's agriculturally productive lowlands were claimed by powerful settlers. These large land claims were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tatiana Niculescu.

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. Dissent over what merits preservation and what constitutes progress undergird Alexandria Archaeology’s establishment. Our program is rooted in the urban renewal movement of the 1960s and 1970s. In demolishing several blocks and removing people of color and poor whites from the City’s downtown, officials hoped to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patricia M. Samford.

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. At Smith’s St. Leonard, the site of a Maryland tobacco plantation dating to the first half of the 18th century, a number of apotropaic objects have been discovered by archaeologists over the last two decades. Including bent silver coins, horseshoes, fossils and altered spoons and lead disks, these objects seem to embody...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kendra Lawrence.

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. The artifact assemblage from Queen Anne’s Revenge represents one of the most rich and diverse shipwreck collections from the early eighteenth century. Ongoing conservation of the artifacts continues to reveal new and compelling insight into the work and lives of sailors aboard this vessel. Among the collection is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Garrett R (1,2) Fesler.

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. Each archaeological site contains a tangible archaeological record, meaning the commingled artifacts, features, and soils that form contexts and proveniences at each site are unique and in fact existed in three dimensions in space and time. Beyond the physical description and recordation of these contexts, everything...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Athena Van Overschelde.

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. Biscayne National Park’s (BISC) Maritime Heritage Trail includes the archaeological remains of six historic shipwreck sites that are open to the public and actively interpreted. Until recently, only limited research on the sites had been completed, making their accurate interpretation a challenge. Between...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mackenzie M Tabeling.

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. While the concept of “taskscape” has been introduced and utilized within archaeological and historical study, this theoretical approach has an even greater potential to interpret complex archaeological and cultural maritime landscapes. With Somerset Place, near Creswell, North Carolina as a focus site, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca S. Graff.

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. Jimmy Blythe wrote “Mecca Flat Blues” in 1924, capturing the centrality of the building’s South Side neighborhood to Chicago’s Black community and jazz scene. Constructed in 1892 as an exemplar of courtyard-style urban living, the Mecca began as a failed hotel for the 1893 World’s Fair. Transformed into...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Colum J Coleman.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Landscapes Above and Below in Northern Contexts (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Colonialism was not the invention of the trans-Atlantic empires of the 16th century. Colonialism has existed in what is known as Western Civilization for almost as long as Western Civilization has existed; dating as far back as the Archaic Period, circa 650 to 480 BCE, of Greece. This work is to serve as a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Raul O. Palomino Berrocal.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Ship Construction and Shipwrecks: A Journey into Engineering Successes and Failures (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Port of Calvi, located in the island of Corsica, southeast of the French mainland, was for several centuries a center of maritime activity in the Mediterranean. In 1979 French submariner Antoine Roucayrol found the shipwreck named “Calvi I”, the vessel was believed to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Wade Catts.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Revisiting Revolutionary America" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The battle of Fort Mercer, or Red Bank, was fought in October 1777. An important American victory in the Philadelphia Campaign, the site was one of early and continuous monumentation and commemoration. Tourists and visitors came frequently from Philadelphia throughout the nineteenth century. Remnants of the fort’s earthen walls are extant and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Phillip J Turner. Sophie Cannon. Sarah DeLand. James P Delgado. David Eltis. Patrick N Halpin. Michael I Kanu. Charlotte S Sussman. Ole Varmer. Cindy L Van Dover.

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. More than 12.5 million Africans were held captive on 40,000+ voyages during the transatlantic slave trade. Many did not survive the voyage and the Atlantic seabed became their final resting place. Member States of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) have a duty to protect objects of an archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timo Ylimaunu. Sirpa Aalto. Paul R. Mullins.

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. The young independent Finland created its national narrative through different kind of statues and memorials after the independence 1917. Some memorials and statues were unveiled to commemorate some 300 years old conflicts and historical figures, especially in the 1920s and 1930s. The so-called Club War...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael P. Betsinger.

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. Archaeological investigations of the Saloon Row site in Moorhead, Minnesota, have revealed a high quantity of flask artifacts. While not unusual for a saloon site, this artifact type has received little if any attention in archaeological reports of saloons. Moreover, the presence and variety of these flasks in the context of a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Angie Payne. Matt Reeves. Jennifer Glass.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Race, Racism, and Montpelier" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Montpelier Foundation in partnership with University of Arkansas’s Center for Advanced Spatial Technology are working together to make the history and archaeology of James Madison’s Montpelier estate accessible to the public in an innovative way. Funded by the Institute for Museum Library Science, this work combines 3D modeling, GIS software,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only A. Brooke Persons. Kate A. Crossan.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Islands of Time (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From 2016 to 2019, archaeological monitoring was performed within the Charlotte Amalie Historic District in conjunction with the Main Street Enhancement Project, an infrastructural project in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands. Extended monitoring and data recovery resulted in the discovery of a range of features and intact deposits associated...

DOCUMENT Citation Only C. Lorin Brace VI.

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. As monuments celebrating the Confederacy have come down in cities across the country in recent months, following the protests sparked by the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and numerous other Black Americans, debates have raged over the country’s legacies of slavery and racism. Some argue that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara Ayers-Rigsby. Rachael Kangas. Malachi Fenn. Victoria Lincoln. Micheline Hilpert.

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's Southeast and Southwest Regions are located in a global COVID-19 hotspot. As schools, library programs, and summer camps were cancelled due to the accelerated progress of the disease through Miami and other cities, the authors sought to engage children remotely...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maddy McAllister.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Contextualizing Maritime Archaeology in Australasia" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Over 1000 ship and aircraft wrecks lie scattered across the Queensland coastline. While some are infamous, others are listed as unidentified sites, known only by association to the reefs they are located on. Within the Queensland State Maritime Archaeology Collection, housed at the Museum of Tropical Queensland are over...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meredith M. Poole.

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. Descriptions of Williamsburg’s earliest excavations have thoughtlessly applied the term “unskilled labor” or “day laborers” to the local African American workforce employed to expose brick foundations between the late 1920s and 1960. Even as Historical Archaeology found its footing in the 60s and 70s, the budding...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jamie Bastide. Seth Mallios.

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. During the late 19th and early 20th century, Jim Crow and Sundown Laws dominated SouthernCalifornia. As a previously enslaved man living in a region settled predominantly by Anglo-Americans from the South, Nathan Harrison had to construct his identities within these societal pressures. Using historical documents, oral...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steve A Santucci.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Revisiting Revolutionary America" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Not just your average grandparents’ attic full of stuff: Morristown National Historical Parks 87 years of archaeological finds! Morristown National Historical Park was the first of its kind in the National Park System. Since its beginnings archaeological digs have occurred in all most every decade. The various sites that make up this National...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ole Varmer. Mark Spalding.

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. TOF mission is to support, strengthen, and promote those organizations dedicated to reversing the trend of destruction of ocean environments around the world. They on emerging threats in order to generate cutting edge solutions and better strategies for implementation. This includes facilitating the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michele Kidwell Gilbert.

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. As Chair of The National Arts Club's Archaeology Committee, it has been my privilege to organize numerous events. Offerings generally feature scholars residing near Manhattan or others coordinating travel to accommodate our schedule.    The series was cancelled in April. The Club commenced broadcasting...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zachary A. Nissen.

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. For the people of contemporary Belize, issues of heritage/ancestry are often narrated through binaries of long-term indigenous continuity or sharp, colonial discontinuity. Yet, for ordinary people these are complicated issues tied to histories of forced movement, social inequality, and violence. Today,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Li-Ying Wang. Ben Marwick.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Islands of Time (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The European expansion to the east in the 16th century led to many places becoming trading centers or European colonies, where imperial powers often caused substantial transformations of Indigenous societies. However, direct European colonial rule was rare and limited in many parts of East Asia. Long-lasting indirect impacts on Indigenous...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna S. Agbe-Davies.

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. The second decade of the 20th century saw a Great Migration of African Americans to cities like Chicago. The city’s existing African American community expressed concern for the welfare of “our girls” in a strange, potentially dangerous, new place, and worked to ease their transition to a new way of life. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah James.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Race, Racism, and Montpelier" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Vesselization is an essential method for more accurately understanding the number, form, and use of vessels at a site. When paired with new technologies, like GIS, it can be used to understand how people’s behavior and interactions with the landscape affect how vessel sherds are deposited. Working with legacy data, I used GIS to identify vessels...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jean-Sébastien Guibert. Franck Bigot. Hélène Botcazou.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Ship Construction and Shipwrecks: A Journey into Engineering Successes and Failures (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. After five years of field work on Anémone wreck site, this paper aims to present a multi years excavation project begun in 2015 and funded by DRASSM (French Ministry of Culture), Guadeloupe Région, DMPA (French Ministry of Army). The wreck is definitively identified as the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew J Anklam.

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. Isle Royale located in Lake Superior was one of the centers of the nation’s first copper rush. Copper veins drew mid-19th century miners looking to stake a claim. By the mid-1850s these initial attempts at mining failed as the remote location and logistical hurtles made extracting...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lynn Evans.

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. Michilimackinac is the site of one of the longest ongoing archaeological projects in North America. Could it continue in a pandemic? Because most of our funding comes from park admission fees and museum store revenue, our project is dependent on Colonial Michilimackinac State Historic Park being open to the public. Once...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew J Robinson.

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. The year began with a successful conference in Boston, but quickly turned as the globe was thrown into the grips of a pandemic by March. As universities, cities, states, and countries began to close and lock down, so did many field schools and excavations. However, not all archaeology has stopped. Construction projects...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Delande C. Justinvil.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Black Studies and Archaeology" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. “The despair and deplorable conditions within which the black community continued into the realm of death and burial.” While Steven J. Richardson offered these words in 1989, their essence still rings true today. Over the past decade, skeletal remains of nearly thirty individuals have been discovered underneath the 3300 Block of Q Street in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Trevor C Winton.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Contextualizing Maritime Archaeology in Australasia" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The application potential of parametric seismic profilers (SBPs) to in-situ management of underwater archaeological sites at risk from degradational loss of shallow-buried materials is presented. This approach is based on the process driven in-situ preservation and research frameworks advocated by the UNESCO 2001 Convention...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Hauser. 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. Trinidad, Gudeloupe; Suriname, and Jamaica; Maurituius, Reunion, Singapore and the Cape, Fiji, Singapore, malyasia and the Phillipines. All of these are places that share one apparent factor. South Asians, of multiple denominations, genders and castes circulated in the Indian, pacific, and Atlantic oceans as enslaved and indentured...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erin P Riggs.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology in South Asia" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Readings of material heritage are always entangled with understandings of who rightfully belongs. In India, colonial archaeology was used to legitimize subjugation in the past while nationalist archaeology today is used to justify the marginalization of minorities. The narratives surrounding modern day material patterns, while rarely the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Linnea Z Kuglitsch.

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. Archaeological studies into disability in the past often on the physical fabric of the body—sometimes, to the exclusion of the social and emotional dimensions of living with it. This paper examines the tensions between ability, health, and work among attendants ( nurses) at the Western Washington Hospital for the Insane at the turn...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brandon Herrmann.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Over the last thirty years, there has been a wealth of studies on the archaeological and nautical history of sixteenth-century shipwrecks in Pensacola Bay. This poster focuses, however, on the crew and passengers' personal possessions on the ships of the 1559-1561 Tristán de Luna y Arellano expedition. Surviving artifacts assisted this analysis in developing a comprehensive study of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Comer.

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. Archaeological finds are poetic expression. Discovery, analysis, and interpretation engage our emotions in a rational and structured way, just as poetry can. However, it is seldom that we reach out to poets and ask that they process archaeological experiences through a lens of poetic expression as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marianne Sallum. Francisco Silva Noelli. Tânia Casimiro.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. A lot has been said about the globalization and consumption of Portuguese redwares and the relation in the daily life of different people around the world in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. However, in spite of these approaches the basic definition of what was made in Portugal, the morphological specifications, and their meanings are still in development. This poster will focus on a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca L Wiewel. Adam S Wiewel. Gosia J Mahoney. Dawn R Bringelson.

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. Damaging flood events along Hoover Creek at Herbert Hoover National Historic Site in West Branch, Iowa have prompted plans for major construction within this historic neighborhood. In advance of the flood mitigation project, archeologists at the Midwest Archeological Center (MWAC) undertook a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Swadhin Sen.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology in South Asia" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The disciplinary traditions of the practice of archaeology and history, formed in colonial Bengal, have developed specific normalcies. Despite the initial divergent trajectories and institutions, both disciplines have inherited and essentialized an entangled relationship, especially about the periods which are categorized as ‘historical’....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dan Trepal.

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. The Flint Archaeology and Spatial History (FLASH) Project is an interdisciplinary collaboration between archaeologists, historians, and geographic information scientists. The project employs a series of publicly web-accessible GIS-based tools to augment public engagement, teaching, and research...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Thomin.

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 Destination Archaeology Resource Center (DARC), located in Pensacola, Florida, is an archaeology museum open to the public. It is managed by the University of West Florida's Florida Public Archaeology Network Coordinating Center, and it features exhibits that highlight the diverse archaeology across...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Reeves. Mary Furlong Minkoff. Terry Brock. Chris Pasch. Hannah James. Taylor Brown.

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 Montpelier Archaeology Department has a long tradition of publicly engaged participant programs that feature hands-on learning. At the time of writing this abstract, we had decided to move forward with our week-long public programs. We adapted by changing our field procedures to ensure proper...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan A Conger.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Landscapes Above and Below in Northern Contexts (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Usually considered a macro-scale phenomenon, world-system expansion is enacted at the local scale, in the context of local sociopolitical histories. I analyze the composition and distribution of European-manufactured trade good assemblages from 90+ Iroquoian sites (12,000+ artifacts) in Southern Ontario and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew C. Greer.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Black Studies and Archaeology" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Studies of plantation landscapes often focus on how enslavers used panoptical lines of sight to control and discipline enslaved people. While this provides powerful ways of theorizing plantations, other aspects of plantation landscapes have gone understudied. More specifically, if we combine archaeological landscapes studies with Black studies’...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael R Polk.

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. Archaeological research of a railroad, while not dissimilar to researching the history of a place, has unique aspects that make it challenging if one is not familiar with the subject. When envisioning a railroad, most people think of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel E. Bishop.

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 explores a new methodology for retrieving three-dimensional geometry from historical photographs using the iWitness photogrammetry program. Two shipwrecks raised in the early-twentieth century from Lakes Champlain and George (in New York) are examined as case studies for this methodology. As one...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Travis L Corwin. Eric Prendergast.

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. Destruction is inherent in archaeology, but in the ever-changing urban landscape this destruction can erase a site’s place and memory within the landscape, often by compliance archaeologists making way for new development. In recent years archaeologists have utilized photogrammetry to document at risk sites and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William T. Nassif.

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 purpose of this paper is to gather historical and archaeological data to illuminate potential relationships between economic trends in the construction of wharf structures and enhance our understanding of the multitude of factors that drive the growth and decline of port communities. To do this, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandra M McDougle.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Black Studies and Archaeology" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1793 the Vincendiere family fled Saint Domingue with 12 of their enslaved, and settled on a plantation in Frederick, Maryland known as “L’Hermitage". Previous archaeological interpretations at L’Hermitage focused on the Vincendieres attempts at a French-Caribbean model of enslavement in a predominantly German-Protestant community, as well as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer A. Lupu.

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. As the nation’s capital, Washington, DC was designed and governed as an intended ideological model for the nation. In this paper, I contextualize and explore the history of Washington, from its initial plan, which sought to use elevation and lines of sight to center built symbols of democratic governance,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melissa Zabecki. Michelle Rathgaber.

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 Arkansas Archeological Survey is both a research and public outreach entity that works through a close relationship with the Arkansas Archeological Society engaging the public of Arkansas and the surrounding region in local archeological research. In a normal year we would host a training program in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dena Doroszenko. Tiffany Torma.

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. Our focus on managing the Trust's provincially significant archaeological collections since March 2020 has been via remote access until the province reached Stage 3 of its re-opening in August. Remote access created new opportunities to focus on policy development, discussions and development of an OPAC for our website with our...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William T. D. Wadsworth. Kisha Supernant. Vadim Kravchinsky.

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. Archaeological remote sensing is becoming increasingly popular among Indigenous communities who are concerned about their material past but would like to limit destructive excavation. During the nineteenth century, the Métis, a distinct Indigenous nation, adopted a mobile lifestyle centered around bison hunting,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Terrance M. Weik.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Black Studies and Archaeology" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Recent U.S. protests over George Floyd’s death and racial health disparities emerging from COVID 19 are the latest of many calls for anti-racist justice that have been pondered by Black studies and activists for a long time. These pressing traumas have led people to call into question their beliefs about their capacities for survival and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lesley Haines. Hannah Fleming. Laurie King. Molly McGath.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In many ways, USS Monitor, the first iron vessel built by the Union during the American Civil War and commissioned in 1862, was the first mass-produced ship; component parts were bought straight off showroom floors, or were built at various industrial facilities throughout the U.S. Northeast. This led to varied rubber gaskets being used, potentially interchangeably, in different contexts....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Brown. Geoffrey Fouad. Richard Veit.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Revisiting Revolutionary America" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Continental Army occupied a strategic section of the Watchung Mountains of New Jersey during the spring of 1777 and winter of 1778-79. More than 5,000 soldiers were encamped over a 10-square-mile area of Washington Valley in Somerset County. During what is known as the Middlebrook Encampments, the soldiers modified the terrain in this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meghan M Mumford.

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. As the general population learns to adjust to the “new normal,” the University of West Florida (UWF) Archaeology Institute Collections Management team has adapted to face new and old challenges alike. The initial closure of the UWF campus and subsequent limited access to curational facilities...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas D Scott. Joel Bohy.

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. The British Regulars retreat from Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775 is legendary in American history. Colonial militias and the famous Minute Men ambushed the British column along the retreat route back to Boston. Colonists’ usws local homes as ambush points. The British reached the Village of Arlington,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael J. Meyer.

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 past 15 years, the Missouri Department of Transportation has conducted multiple archaeological investigations, including several large-scale data recovery projects, along major highways in St. Louis county and city. Each succeeding project has had to overcome new and seemingly unique obstacles in order to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric Larsen.

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. "Salubria" is the oldest brick structure in Culpeper County, Virginia. The 1757 house, today, is unique in its presentation and interpretation. Preliminary archaeology, done in 2019, focused on the landscape surrounding the structure. In contemplating the season's results over the spring months of the Pandemic,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabby Omoni Hartemann.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Black Studies and Archaeology" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Considering the urgent need to decolonize the field of archaeology, this work attempts to reformulate theoretical and methodological archaeological approaches based on Afroguianese and Afrodiasporic conceptions of time, space, materiality and knowledge. This re-understanding of the field of archaeology was provoked and defined by my own place as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christina Altland. Elsa Sangouard. Hannah Fleming. Molly McGath. PhD.

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. Princess Carolina was an 18th century transatlantic trading vessel that was partially excavated and conserved in the early 1980’s. In 1985, over 330 timbers from the ship’s bow structure were brought to The Mariners’ Museum and Park where they have remained in storage since. In...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles R. Ewen. Mackenzie Mulkey.

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. Stanley South’s decade of investigations at Brunswick Town, NC became iconic to historical archaeologists through his numerous publications. When Stanley moved on at the end of the 1960’s, so did the profession, and the sustained archaeological program ceased. Recent work by East Carolina archaeologists and students has revived...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nkem Michell Ike.

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. Many urban centers bear the scars of anti-Black violence and race massacres. Predominately Black spaces have been especially susceptible to various forms of racial unrest at the hands of their white counterparts. Massacres such as those in the Snowtown neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island in 1831 and the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric E. Jones. Emma Grace Sprinkle.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This research combines agricultural census data, GIS-based spatial analyses of historic maps, and historic accounts to examine how and why farmers in Fenner, NY transitioned from subsistence to commercial production during 1855-1875. Traditional explanations cite the burgeoning consumer economy and progressive farming movements pushed by corporate entities as factors and propose farmers...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hayden F. Bassett. Madeleine Gunter Bassett.

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. Between the 1730s and the 1820s, European settlement expanded into Virginia’s southern Piedmont and Appalachian Mountains. The mountainous terrain of southwestern Virginia was a stark contrast to the long-settled coastal plains, with new ecological and sociocultural conditions challenging established forms of...