Archaeology of Meat and Ale (General Sessions)

Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2021

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Archaeology of Meat and Ale (General Sessions)," at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Other Keywords
Mining • Immigration • Tavern • Labor • Prohibition • Production • Colonial Period • alcohol • Drinking • Revolution

Geographic Keywords
North America • Midwest • Northeastern United States • SE US • Middle Atlantic USA

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  • Community and Consumption: Immigrant Lives at Eckley Miners' Village (2021)
    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....

  • Contaminated: Archaeological Perspectives on Adulterated Alcohol Products in Turn-of-the-Century America (2021)
    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...

  • Early Colonial Meat Provisioning On Maryland’s Western Shore (2021)
    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...

  • Mobility, Drinking, and Prohibition in the Fargo-Moorhead Border Complex (1870-1940) (2021)
    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...

  • Seditious Sentiment along the Cape Fear: New Discoveries at Brunswick Town (2021)
    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...