Society for Historical Archaeology 2021

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anastasia L Ervin.

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. Sewage districts are important municipalities that facilitate urban growth within cities and heavily impact communities. Research regarding the sewage districts is scarce in the modern contexts, and focuses on the biological and chemical processes involved in sanitizing wastewater. This study focuses on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Filipe V. Castro. Richard Furuta. Patricia Schwindinger. Ana Castelli. Nicolas Ciarlo. Ricardo Borrero. Rodrigo Torres.

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. The Nautical Archaeology Digital Library started as a set of informatic tools to facilitate the creation of a shipwreck database online, accessible by all. More than a decade alter it congregates the interest of almost 200 scholars from over 40 countries and keeps growing as a community of domain experts, committed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher J. Donnermeyer. Trent Skinner. Bobby Saunters. Brian Lay.

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. The Bridal Veil Lumbering Company harvested timber from the slopes of Larch Mountain, Oregon for half a century (ca. 1886-1936). Dozens of logging camps faded in and out of existence over the life of the company. Archaeological investigations over the last several decades have revealed the remains of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Margaret A Comer.

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. Many heritage sites in contemporary Russia that are connected to Soviet mass repression lack large permanent memorials, if there is tangible memorialization on-site at all. Instead, many such places become sites meaningful ephemeral encounters, encompassing annual and semi-annual mass gatherings as well as individual...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alicia Caporaso.

This is a forum/panel proposal presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Shipwrecks are important components of the marine environment. Like whale and wood falls, shipwrecks can support unique biological communities and serve as “stepping-stones.” Locally controlled site formation processes by which all shipwrecks deteriorate are coupled with recruitment of benthic invertebrates and fish, community succession, and anthropogenic disturbances. Understanding...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard F. Veit.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Revisiting Revolutionary America" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the summer of 1948, farmer Alfred Leone's melon patch yielded a most unusual crop, a treasure trove of colonial artifacts. Dredging the Delaware Ship channel to Philadelphia had opened the hull of a sunken ship and dredge spoil full of artifacts spewed across Leone's fields. Antiquarians and local historians descended on the site where...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Wendy van Duivenvoorde. Peter Harvey. Pete Taylor.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Contextualizing Maritime Archaeology in Australasia" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Recent archaeological fieldwork in Port Phillip, Victoria, identified a small shipwreck site near the Rye Jetty as that of the schooner Barbara. Preliminary investigations demonstrate that the vessel, built in northern Tasmania in 1841, had a deep-drafted hull with a double layer of hull planking, was sheathed with a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebekah L Planto.

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. Concealed building deposits and related apotropaic practices like “witch bottles” have received increasing attention in recent years from both archaeologists (e.g. Manning, et al 2014) and the public (Jamison 2020). Research in North American contexts has broadened understandings of such finds, challenging clear-cut...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric G. Schweickart.

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. In 1964, Colonial Williamsburg archaeologists excavating an 18th-century well uncovered an unusual and exciting cache of artifacts as they neared the bottom of the brick lined shaft. This assemblage included dozens of complete wine bottles, many of which bore the seal of John Custis IV, the owner of the property the well...

DOCUMENT Citation Only C Riley Auge. Michaela A Shifley.

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. Early anthropological studies established, without question, the pervasive importance of the cultural and gendered constructs of right/left in societies around the world as primary structuring elements behaviorally, socially, politically, and materially. Yet beyond Ira Wile’s 1934 and Rodney Needham’s 1973 volumes, we see...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brittany L. Brown.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Black Studies and Archaeology" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This study centers on four historical African American cemeteries in Jacksonville, Florida: Memorial, Sunset Memorial, Pinehurst, and Mount Olive. Collectively, these cemeteries contain thousands of African American burials. Contrary to the local government’s critique of these cemeteries as ‘abandoned and neglected’ spaces; interviews with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Barry C. Gaulton. Anatolijs Venovcevs.

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. Physical separation from friends and family, access to finite provisions and fears of food security in the time of COVID-19 has led many to rethink their priorities, adjust their activities, develop means of coping with isolation, and embrace a DIY attitude. What do historically-similar, non-pandemic related,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fraser D. Neiman. Jillian E. Galle. Elizabeth A. Bollwerk.

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 explore how the analysis of variation in tobacco pipe assemblages among excavation contexts provides insights into social dynamics on eighteenth-century slave quarter sites in the Chesapeake. We draw on data from multiple quarter sites, available on the DAACS website (daacs.org). We apply signaling theory to build a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy Smith.

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. In 1986, four canoes were recovered from Lake Phelps in Pettigrew State Park in eastern North Carolina. These canoes were treated with sugar as a bulking agent to prevent serious damage upon drying. After many years of being stored in uncontrolled conditions, some of these canoes have become unstable with sugar...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jillian E. Galle.

This is a forum/panel proposal presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In January 2020, at the SHA Annual Conference in Boston, over 80 attendees took the DAACS Material Culture Assessment. They were asked to anonymously identify the material, ware type, form, and decoration of 35 different artifacts. This panel begins with a summary of the DAACS MCA results, which will be a springboard for a wide-ranging discussion of how archaeologists are trained in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maria Smith.

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. In 1851, the New York State Legislature sponsored the opening of the Syracuse State School for Idiots (further referred to as the School), a publicly funded asylum school for disabled children, in hopes of creating economically productive, governable members of society. Every year, the School’s...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Crystal L O'Connor. Fraser D Neiman.

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. In 1789 enslaved chef James Hemings prepared elite French cuisine at Monticello on one of the earliest stew stoves in Virginia. His owner, Thomas Jefferson, had taken Hemings to Paris five years earlier to be trained in preparing French cuisine. Recently archaeologists at Monticello excavated Monticello's first...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jon Bernard Marcoux. Martha Zierden.

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 recent removal of a towering statue of John C. Calhoun has brought much attention to the open park known known as Marion Square in Charleston, South Carolina. Historical and archaeological research demonstrates that the removal, and the protests that led to this event are just the latest instances of social...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carl G. Drexler.

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. The Great Bend of the Red River is the junction between the American states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas. In the first decades of the 19th century, it was a place of complex connections and interactions as immigrant Native communities from the east, along with American settlers,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary J Galindo. Antonia Figueroa.

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. Six Nuevo Santander settlements were established along the Rio Grande in Texas and Tamaulipas. Laredo and Dolores were on the northern bank, while Revilla, Mier, Camargo, and Reynosa lined the river’s southern bank. Each municipality’s territory included 1767 land grants to settlers that straddled the Rio Grande. These...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Uthara Suvrathan.

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 examines the importance of historical and cartographic information contained in documents from the colonial period (18th to 20th centuries) in framing archaeological research in south Asia. Specifically, the focus is on the published account of an information gathering journey on behalf of the East India Company conducted in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Courtney L Bedrosian.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The rituals surrounding the deaths of loved ones are of paramount importance when grieving. Mortuary practices, such as congregating with loved ones, professional preparation of the body, and the memorial or graveside service, are important in informing not only the present, but the future in regards to how mass deaths are treated in times of pandemics. Comparing the funeral regulations...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lissa J. Herzing.

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. In the early 19th-century, ideologies of womanhood and domesticity were beginning to solidify in the mainstream media, in both black and white communities in New England, prescribing the roles of women. However, the ways women interpreted these ideologies in their daily lives likely differed and was complicated by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lisa Woodward.

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. The 1846 Temecula Massacre is among the few deadly conflicts associated with events tied directly to the Battle of San Pasqual, a skirmish of the Mexican-American War in California. Fought on December 7 and 8 between U.S. Col. Stephen Kearny’s military and the Californios, it is considered to be...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Chesney.

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. Founded in 1823 by Stephen F. Austin as the capital of the recently established Austin Colony in Mexican Texas the town of San Felipe de Austin was a melting pot of ideas, people, and languages from across Mexico and the United States. As the Texas Revolution drew nearer in the 1830s residents...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chandler E. Fitzsimons. Margaret A. Perry.

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. The United States’ bicentennial celebrations from 1976-1981 prompted a nationwide attempt to reconstruct and commemorate Revolutionary-era landscapes with unprecedented vigor. These efforts were particularly widespread in Tidewater Virginia. At Yorktown, the site of the final surrender of the War of Independence, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Dietrich.

This is a forum/panel proposal presented at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Climate change is place-based. As archaeologists, we have an intimate knowledge of places and their deep histories, positioning us to tell meaningful climate stories. Our experiences connect the science of climate change to the lives of people. For this session,archaeologists have submitted 3-minute videos highlighting climate stories on at risk sites around the world. These videos...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrea Lain. Michael T. Lucas. Kristin O'Connell. Susan Winchell-Sweeney.

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. New York City, Westchester County, and other downstate areas were devastated by the coronavirus pandemic during March and April of 2020. The New York State government took necessary, responsible, and decisive measures to control the spread of the virus, flatten the curve, and save lives. Businesses and state agencies closed to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew (1,2) Carter. Freya Goodsir. Bill Jeffery.

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 Second World War in the Asia-Pacific Region has left an archaeological signature of over 3800 shipwrecks on the ocean floor. Despite having been underwater for at least 75 years, these wrecks still potentially contain millions of gallons of toxic oil carried as cargo and/or bunker fuel. Corrosion rate...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher W Merritt. Michael S. Sheehan.

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. When historians and archaeologists typically analyze a historic railroad, the frame of reference generally rests on the railroad line itself, and those few and scattered places where workers lived during construction and maintenance. A...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Fracchia. Nikki Pratt. Christopher Zale. Zihan Chen.

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. Joppa Town was a bustling port in the 18th century and the county seat of Baltimore County. The influential town included a jail, courthouse, church, warehouses, and residences. Like so many colonial ports, silting of the harbor doomed access to the town, and by 1768, the county seat was transferred to Baltimore...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Taylor W Brown.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Race, Racism, and Montpelier" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Medicine is rarely neutral or objective. This was especially true in the 19th century, as physicians worked to encode slavery in the very biology of Black enslaved people. The accounting logs of President Madison’s physician paint a one-sided picture of the health of the enslaved community at Montpelier. These logs argue that their bodies were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca J. Webster.

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. In 1644, a group of men met a Coan Hall, located in Northumberland County, Virginia, to plan what would come to be known as Ingles Rebellion, the Protestant-led overthrowing of the Catholic Maryland government. Three-hundred-and-seventy-five years later, a French-manufactured, copper-alloy “Jesuit” ring with an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kyle W. Edwards.

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. Recent archaeological research at James Monroe’s Highland has focused on reconstructing and interpreting the plantation landscape as it existed during Monroe’s ownership of the property. While archaeological data has provided clarity to our understanding of the Monroe Period, it has also revealed the way in which...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Olivia L. T. Fuller.

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 United States and British Virgin Islands are popular tourist destinations with their picturesque beaches and turquoise waters but as Caribbean colonies of various Euro-American nations, these islands were primarily comprised of sugar and cotton plantations. Transportation of products to markets in Europe,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dudley Gardner.

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. Archaeological excavations in Wyoming have helped to illuminate where Chinese people lived and what their lives looked like in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, but physical remains of historic Chinese sites dating between 1867 and 1949 are rare. Understanding why historic structures and cemeteries in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meghan J. Dudley. Paige Ford. Allison Douglas.

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 is the case with many other archaeology education organizations in the age of COVID-19, the pandemic has forced the Oklahoma Public Archaeology Network (OKPAN) to deliver our educational programming in a virtual world. We recognized that our new digital initiatives needed to maintain the tangible and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melissa A Timo.

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 North Carolina Office of State Archaeology and the North Carolina African American Heritage Commission have partnered to develop the NC African American Cemeteries Project. Over the last two years, the work has been primarily focused on offering community-driven, in-person workshops. This paper will...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine M Kinkopf.

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 highlighted that Disabled people are not specially adapted to pandemic lifestyles, and in fact are disproportionately at risk in the contemporary pandemic landscape. In medieval Europe, broadly, a series of Yersinia (Black Death) infections transformed the social landscape. Prior to the Black Death,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael P Roller.

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 as long as work and inequality have been intertwined, there has been conflict over the issues of working and living conditions, pay, competition, power, and sovereignty. While often peaceful, sometimes this conflict has erupted into lengthy extensive violence between opposing sides. Place-...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul W Gates.

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. The Pine Street Barge Canal Breakwater Ship Graveyard in the waterfront of Burlington, Vermont contains a small assemblage of abandoned vessels along the shores of Lake Champlain. Representing a span of time dating from the early half of the 19th century into the middle of the 20th century, the ships within...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jonathan Gardner.

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. This paper examines how (post)industrial spaces become labelled as disused ‘wastelands’, or ‘brownfields’ in processes of urban redevelopment. Taking a broad overview of different examples across sites in Edinburgh and London (UK) I ask how understandings of waste and value are produced and contested through...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julia A King.

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. What does one do with artifacts recovered from disturbed proveniences? Or with artifacts recovered almost a hundred years ago and now sitting in museum collections? Are reasonable, responsible inferences possible? Space and form may help achieve what lost levels cannot: this paper considers the case of the mysterious...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aaron Brien. Marty Lopez. Kelly Dixon.

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. By the mid-19th century, waves of settlers along the Overland Trail invaded Indigenous North Americans’ traditional homelands and hunting grounds. This pushed people like the Sioux westward as colonists threatened game, timber, water, and other resources. The U.S. called for a council resulting...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas K. Smit. Charlotte Williams.

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. This paper will examine labor relationships between a mostly North American archaeological project, Proyecto de Histórico-Arqueológico-Santa Bárbara (PIHA-SB) and the local descendent community of Santa Bárbara. Since 2013, PIHA-SB has worked collaboratively with Santa Bárbara through an archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Danielle Raad.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Conflict (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Mount Holyoke, a mountain in Western Massachusetts, is the site of ten World War II casualties. Without excavating, I interrogate how the physical remains of a 1944 plane crash exist in the present and actively shape the lived experiences of residents and visitors. The mountain is a mnemotopos, a place of memory and materialization...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mick de Ruyter.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Contextualizing Maritime Archaeology in Australasia" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1929, the steel-hulled barquentine Alexa was destroyed by fire while loading copra, a notoriously unstable cargo, in Butaritari, Kiribati. The ship was the last commercially operated square-rigged sailing vessel on Australian articles. The Dutch-built, Chinese-owned, New Zealand registered, multi-nationally crewed ship...