Landscapes Above and Below in Southern Contexts (General Sessions)

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 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 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 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 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 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...

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,...