Shifting Borders: Early-19th Century Archeology in the Trans-Mississippi South
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2021
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in 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 Trans-Mississippi South was a place of rapid change in the first decades of the 19th Century. The Louisiana Purchase hastened American immigration into the region, creating a complex mix of people, both indigenous and settler, and swiftly implicating the region in systems of capitalist production that would fundamentally alter the region, its people, and its environment. These papers explore sites in the region (Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas) dating to the 1800-1840 period. All are encouraged to assess our understanding of the region, its connection to the social, economic, and cultural spheres (indigenous and settler) of the area, and how archeologists have studied this context.
Other Keywords
Arkansas •
settlement •
Salt •
American West •
Louisiana •
United States •
antebellum •
French •
colonial Texas •
Austin Colony
Geographic Keywords
Arkansas •
Southeast •
Texas •
MidSouth •
U.S. Southeast •
Southern U.S.
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The Creole Village: Trans-Mississippi French Culture in the 19th Century (2021)
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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. In the 1830s, author Washington Irving traveled the Arkansas River, visiting the settlement at Arkansas Post and the new territorial capital of Little Rock. Irving recorded his observations of Arkansas Post in a short essay entitled ‘The Creole Village'. In this work, Irving describes a ‘serene...
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Early Historic Salt-making Sites in South Arkansas (2021)
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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. South central and southwest Arkansas both have an abundance of salt licks, salt springs, salt creeks, and salt marshes. Indigenous people established a number of sites for making salt, and early American settlers developed some of these sites into commercial saltworks. Smaller than the industrial...
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Expanding the Carceral State: The Early Penitentiaries of Louisiana and Arkansas (2021)
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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. As the United States expanded westward the frontier attracted new settlers, including criminals. Throughout the early 1800s state legislatures revised their criminal codes and shifted from corporal punishment to incarceration. In early 1832, Louisiana Governor Andre B. Roman called for a new...
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Strangers in the Great Bend: Settler and Native Communities in the Red River Valley of the Old Southwest at the Beginning of the 19th Century (2021)
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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,...
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Texas Roots Run East: Considering Regional Contexts In San Felipe de Austin Archeology (2021)
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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...