Environmental and Social Issues within Historical Archaeology (General Sessions)

Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2021

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

Other Keywords
childhood • Education • Mining • Environment • disability • Institutions • juvenile reform • Corral Redondo

Geographic Keywords
Andes • South America • La Libertad (State / Territory) • Puno (State / Territory) • Republic of Peru (Country) • Bolivar (State / Territory) • Loja (State / Territory) • Canar (State / Territory) • Guayas (State / Territory) • Piura (State / Territory)

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  • Criminal Boys in a Remote Landscape: The Archaeology of Point Puer (1834-1849), an Experimental Reform Institution in Colonial Australia (2021)
    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...

  • Historical Gold Mining and Environmental Impact in the Ocoña Valley of Southern Peru (2021)
    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...

  • Step by Step: The Curative Violence of Stockings and Shoes at the Syracuse State School (2021)
    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...