Society for Historical Archaeology 2022

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dominique Rissolo. Corly Huang. Qiming Chen. Vid Petrovic. Alberto Nava Blank. Helena Barba Meineke. Falko Kuester. Leanne Chukoskie.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The diverse and well-preserved assemblage of Late Pleistocene fauna, as well as the presence of a Paleoamerican individual in the submerged cave of Hoyo Negro, offer a unique opportunity for interactive game-based exploration derived from the research-oriented digital twin of the site. The game is aligned with Next Generation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan K. McNutt.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Funded by an American Battlefield Protection Program grant, aerial LiDAR, KOCOA, and historic reconstruction guided systematic metal detector surveys to identify, evaluate, and record the evidence for an ephemeral conflict site from the American Civil War. In December of 1864, during Sherman's March to the Sea, a small running...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jason P. Shellenhamer. Lisa A. Kraus.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "African American Voices In The Mid-Atlantic: Archaeology Of Elusive Freedom, Enslavement, And Rebellion" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the early nineteenth century, when African Americans were legally relegated to the extreme margins of society and the economy, Baltimore’s ship caulkers were a rare example of free blacks who dominated a skilled trade. The Ship Caulkers’ Houses, located at 612 and 614...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laurie A. Wilkie. Kelly Fong.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Diverse and Enduring: Archaeology from Across the Asian Diaspora" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The discipline of historical archaeology has not attempted to understand the Chinese Diaspora beyond the early 20th century. Therefore, dynamic geopolitical contexts and histories that mark 20th century Chinese (im)migration to the US have been ignored. In a contemporary archaeological study focused on the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph M. Bagley.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“Historical Archaeology with Canon on the Side, Please”: In Honor of Mary C. Beaudry (1950-2020)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Dr. Mary Beaudry spent decades digging, working, and eating in Boston. This paper celebrates Mary's contributions to the city, from some of the first historical archaeological excavations in Boston, to her mentorship of many working archaeologists in the region, and to her love...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Konrad A. (1,2) Antczak.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“Historical Archaeology with Canon on the Side, Please”: In Honor of Mary C. Beaudry (1950-2020)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Like no other, Mary looked beyond sherds to whole plates, cups, mugs, and jugs — and beyond these — to the vibrant assemblage of practice they were part and parcel of in everyday life. Her emphasis on mealtimes as “embodied experiences” and “total events”, where people and things...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alex DeGeorgey. Michael Newland. Dana Shew.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond the Shoreline: Heritage at Risk at Inland Sites" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Drought-like conditions in the western United States have contributed to a series of massive catastrophic wildfires. Indeed, the most destructive wildfires in California history have occurred in the past few years devastating whole communities, causing billions of dollars in damages, and resulting in the loss of life....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Edward Gonzalez-Tennant. Alexander Nalewaik. Keeley Hall. Jordan Alexander.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond the Classroom: Campus Archaeology and Community Collaboration" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Florida figures prominently in the history of African American archaeology. Emerging perspectives continue to deepen our understanding of plantation and maroon sites. However, a multiplicity of historical African American sites exist in the state. This article explores initial findings of a collaborative...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexander Nalewaik. Edward Gonzalez-Tennant.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Ocala National Forest is home to many, significant New Deal sites. Juniper Springs Recreational area is one of the first sites constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the forest (1936). Its construction was part of an early CCC experiment exploring the efficacy of federally funded tourist sites to stabilize local economies during the Great Depression. As part of this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kate Simpson.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Located in Poolesville, Maryland just west of Seneca Creek is the Seneca Stonecutter’s Cemetery—locally referred to as the “Clipper” Cemetery in reference to a surname on several of the headstones. While there are no trails or markers leading to the cemetery which lies on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, this cemetery has long been recognized as an early African...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Skic.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond Battlefields: Culture and Conflict through the Philadelphia Campaign" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The battles around Philadelphia in 1777 radically changed the life of Richard Mansergh St. George, a young Irish officer in the British Army. Wounded at Brandywine, a participant in what he described as “a dreadful scene of havock” at Paoli, and shot in the head at Germantown, St. George returned to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meredith Poole.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As individual artifacts, wine bottle seals are valued for the names and dates they that they deliver, for their utility as status markers, and for their unique beauty. Considered in large numbers across a broader spatial context, personalized bottle seals hold additional potential to reveal social interaction. Colonial...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David R Carlson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Diverse and Enduring: Archaeology from Across the Asian Diaspora" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Previous studies of pre-WWII Japanese immigrant/Japanese American (Nikkei) archaeology have largely (but not entirely) focused on culture change, typically through theories of assimilation/acculturation, ethnic retention, and/or diaspora and transnationalism. In this paper, I propose an alternative approach to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cristina Ottey. Emma Gilheany. Megan Hicks. Eric Johnson. Christopher N. Matthews.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "African American Voices In The Mid-Atlantic: Archaeology Of Elusive Freedom, Enslavement, And Rebellion" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Founded by formerly enslaved Africans, the Dunkerhook community grew to be a thriving enclave of free people of color from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century. This paper will recount the historical significance of Dunkerhook as well as findings from a recent...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sasha K. Thompson. Emma Gilheany. Megan Hicks. Eric D. Johnson. Christopher N. Matthews.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "African American Voices In The Mid-Atlantic: Archaeology Of Elusive Freedom, Enslavement, And Rebellion" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the mid-19th century, formerly enslaved Africans founded an emergent locality at Dunkerhook, establishing a community of their own. The community flourished an African- American occupancy in the area continued to expand into the early 20th century. Recent archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard G. Schaefer. Meta F. Janowitz.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "More than Pots and Pipes: New Netherland and a World Made by Trade" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The New York City Archaeological Repository houses artifacts from sites excavated within the city under the auspices of the Landmarks Preservation Commission, including those from the New Netherland period and the early (ca. 1664-1700) English colonial town. Many of these sites were dug in the 1980s and it’s...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Natascha Mehler.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "More than Pots and Pipes: New Netherland and a World Made by Trade" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In recent years, several archaeological and historical projects have investigated the fishing and trading of German and Danish merchants and sailors with Iceland and the Northern Isles of Scotland (Shetland, Orkney). The archaeology of the Dutch in this remote part of the Old World is just emerging and indeed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles T. Gehring.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "More than Pots and Pipes: New Netherland and a World Made by Trade" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The first half of my paper will offer a brief background regarding the establishment of the United Provinces of the Netherlands during its war with the Spanish Habsburgs. It will include the chartering of the Dutch East India Company, which served as a model for the Dutch West India Company. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen A Brighton.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“Historical Archaeology with Canon on the Side, Please”: In Honor of Mary C. Beaudry (1950-2020)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Mary Beaudry’s impact on archaeology is immense and reaches all corners of the discipline. More than anything, it was her commitment to the individual and their ability to make meaningful choices throughout the course of everyday life. Ultimately, she created a dynamic landscape...

DOCUMENT Citation Only M. Jay (1,2) Stottman.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1829, an experiment to produce American whiteware began at the Lewis stoneware pottery in Louisville, Kentucky. Archaeological excavations at the pottery uncovered evidence of this effort and the subsequent attempt to enter into full scale production of domestic dinnerware and sell it to the burgeoning middle class. Excavation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael J. Gall. Wade P. Catts.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "African American Voices In The Mid-Atlantic: Archaeology Of Elusive Freedom, Enslavement, And Rebellion" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Delaware Valley’s free and enslaved Afro-Caribbean-born/relocated population is a frequently overlooked component of the micro-region’s cultural history. Caribbean-produced colonoware excavated at several sites in Wilmington and at the Garrison Energy site in Dover,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brad Botwick.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "First Steps on a Long Corridor: The Gullah Geechee and the Formation of a Southern African American Landscape" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Enslaved and Freed Africans and African Americans in the Lowcountry of the Carolinas and Georgia had a rich economic life apart from the formal and official economy. Historical sources indicate they made, gathered, raised, or provided an extensive range of products...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Furlow.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "More than Pots and Pipes: New Netherland and a World Made by Trade" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Six tobacco pipes--Native, Dutch, and English--excavated at the site of the Printzhof on Tinicum Island, capital of New Sweden Colony in the 1650s, reflects a vibrant international market along the Delaware River. English exile Edward Byrd’s funnel-angled white clay EB pipes in that collection represent (1)...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alicia Johnson.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Each year, the SCUBA industry creates a billion-dollar economy and numerous job opportunities; many of which are in developing countries. Popular diving attractions, such as the Thistlegorm in Egypt or the Pacific’s Chuuk Lagoon, are UCH sites and attract many visitors. Each year, the Thistlegorm generates €5,000,000 and attracts thousands to the Egypt’s Red Sea. When managed effectively,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan R Victor.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "(Re)Presenting the Past: Archaeological Influences on Historical Narratives in Video Games" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Drawing on this year’s conference theme, historical archaeology is indeed a powerful means of pulling injustices into the light of examination and of addressing them in both the past and present. The field not only provides data on the recent past but also fosters meaningful...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tara Skipton.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the late-eighteenth century, during the Spanish control of colonial Louisiana, several Maroon settlements surrounding New Orleans reached its pinnacle in terms of expanse, population, and permanence. However, due to the challenging environments and elusive nature of these sites, no one has located these settlements...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth J Reitz. Carla S Hadden. Hayden R Smith. Grant Snitker. Martha A Zierden. Angelina G Perrotti.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Emergence and Development of South Carolina Lowcountry Studies: Papers in Honor of Martha Zierden" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. We approach the emergence and evolution of Charleston (South Carolina) from the perspective of landscape modifications associated with fires, livestock, commodity production, and cultural dynamics by exploring two distinct nodes in the colonial economy: urban Charleston and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William A Griswold. Joel Dukes.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The World Turned Upside Down: Revisiting the Archaeology of the American Revolution" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Beginning in 2019, the Northeast Archeological Resources Program (NARP), in conjunction with Saratoga National Historical Park (SARA), American Veterans Archaeological Recovery (AVAR), Advanced Metal Detecting for the Archaeologist (AMDA) and other partners began a two year program of study...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madeleine McLeester. Jesse Casana. Alison Anastasio.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "New Avenues in the Study of Plant Remains from Historical Sites" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Wisconsin has over 450 documented archaeological and historical Indigenous agricultural fields. Recorded primarily in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, less than 10% of these archaeological field sites remain today. This presentation describes our ongoing efforts to document and investigate...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda E Ford.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Epitaphs, an example of the overlap of text and material culture, have been given little research focus from a linguistic standpoint and archaeology has not fully utilized written text as a branch of material culture, despite the information epitaphs provide about changes in language and social attitudes toward religion, class,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas J. Kutys. Samuel A. Pickard.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Archaeology of the Delaware River Waterfront Symposium of Philadelphia Neighborhoods" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Port Richmond neighborhood of Philadelphia arose around a crossroads village along the Delaware River, several miles north of Old City Philadelphia. With the opening of the Reading Railroad’s Port Richmond terminal in 1842, the village was transformed into a boom town with blocks of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah M. Muckerheide. Jenna H. Baelz. Charles D. Beeker.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Brass Pin Wreck, located with the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS), is representative of a 19th century composite hulled sailing vessel. This site is known by its numerous bronze pin hull fasteners and its main feature, a large iron mast. In May 2021, Indiana University’s Center for Underwater Science sent a team of divers to survey the site for the first time...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jayur M Mehta. Tara Skipton.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Evergreen Plantation is a National Historic Landmark of approximately 100 hectares and it consists of almost 40 standing structures. Twenty-two of these structures were quarters for the enslaved, and they exist in the same places at which they were first erected at the beginning of the 19th century. Oral traditions describe a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only A. Dudley Gardner.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Diverse and Enduring: Archaeology from Across the Asian Diaspora" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Over 30 years have passed since extensive excavations occurred in the Chinatown destroyed by the Rock Springs Massacre of 1885. Thanks to reanalysis of the materials recovered and excavations undertaken in 2021, we have a fresh view of what actually happened in 1885 and how the Chinatown was rebuilt. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kenneth P Cannon.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Diverse and Enduring: Archaeology from Across the Asian Diaspora" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Analysis of stable isotopes in bone collagen has been widely used to determine diet in humans and other vertebrates. The methods are well established in theory and practice. This exploratory project is focused on pig and cattle bones collected from surface contexts at Terrace to obtain δ13C, δ15N and Sr...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alex Glass. Patricia Samford.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Salvage excavations during the 1980 construction of the Federal Reserve Bank in Baltimore, Maryland identified structural features and a privy pit associated with a late 19th-century home for the elderly run by African American congregations of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The home was almost entirely supported through church...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Naomi F. Miller. Chantel E. White.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "New Avenues in the Study of Plant Remains from Historical Sites" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeologists periodically encounter concentrations of uncharred plant remains. Whether excavated or never actually buried, they are a challenge for interpretation. In addition to identification, the archaeobotanical tasks include determining the agent of deposition and the source and date of the material. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Therese M Westman.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Perspectives on the Future, and the Past, of Underwater Archaeology in the Cultural Resource Management Industry" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Recently, researchers have reevaluated remote sensing techniques and what they have to offer the archaeological community, leading to new methods like the human-altered lithic detection (HALD) technique, utilizing sub-bottom profiling to identify lithic artifacts...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kimberly L. Breyfogle. Ashley H. McKeown.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From 1888 to 1954, the Danish colonial and later US governments of St. Croix operated a leper hospital on the island. Residents were often admitted for extended periods of time with many living there for decades prior to death and burial in the Christiansted Cemetery. Throughout their residency, patients likely formed family-like relationships within the hospital community and maintained...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kenneth J. Basalik.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“We the People”: Historical Cemetery Archaeology in Philadelphia" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Philadelphia was to be a “Green County Town” with wide streets and green spaces. As part of that vision five squares were created for the use of the public. In the eighteenth century some of these spaces were used as “potter’s fields”. Since burials in the squares was halted in the early 19th century, these...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas F. (1,2) Radtkey.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906 devastated over 500 city blocks within the heart of San Francisco. Landowners and developers were quick to seize the opportunity to reshape the cultural landscape of urban centers, particularly in disadvantaged and industrial neighborhoods. Archaeological excavations and archival research...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Edith L Collins. Ashley H McKeown.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From the St. Croix Leper Hospital’s founding in 1888 to its dissolution in 1954, hundreds of individuals with leprosy passed through its facilities. The hospital residents constituted a social fringe that was disproportionately comprised of people of color and about which documentation was often biased. Using a combination of primary historical sources including newspapers, photographs,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian C Burrow.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "More than Pots and Pipes: New Netherland and a World Made by Trade" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For the colonists of New Netherland there was of course no “New Jersey”. Rather there was a mostly poorly known, although readily crossed, landmass separating the North and South River foci of Dutch activity. This study provides an archaeological context for the identification and evaluation of pre-1664 Dutch...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard A Roy.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Archaeology of the Delaware River Waterfront Symposium of Philadelphia Neighborhoods" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In many ways we are what we eat. The daily practices of acquiring, preparing, and consuming food move beyond mere subsistence and take on meaning within the diverse ways we undertake them. These specific foodways vary across population, time, and space. Practices held in common can offer...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michaela C Hoots.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The focus of this poster will be the three groups of individuals who, at one point, sailed aboard Queen Anne's Revenge. This poster will answer the question of what French Navy Men, the enslaved, and pirates may have eaten during the early 18th century. As well as, how they may have prepared and served their food during sail and docking. The main method used would be Historiography and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Kostro.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. By the late eighteenth century, Virginia taverns were regularly equipped with long covered porches that served as outdoor living spaces for socializing and much-needed respite from the region's stifling heat and humidity. This paper draws on recent archaeological excavations of three eighteenth-century Williamsburg public houses:...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah J Francis.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. September 1, 1818: To the free negresse Maria Lucia 34 years old and 5 feet 4 inches tall leaving on the Schooner of Mr. Laurent for Pensacola. - New Orleans, Office of the Mayor. On September 1, 1818, the New Orleans government recorded Maria Lucia’s passport, the first granted to a free person of color. From 1818-1831, the city...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert A. Selig. Elisabeth Lavigne. Wade P. Catts.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond Battlefields: Culture and Conflict through the Philadelphia Campaign" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the fall of 1777, the Royal Navy was prevented from reaching Philadelphia by river obstructions, a small Pennsylvania Navy, and two forts. Fort Mifflin and Fort Mercer, on opposite sides of the Delaware river, served as the principal American defensive works. On 22 October 1777, Crown Forces...

DOCUMENT Citation Only R Grant Gilmore III. James M L Newhard. M Scott Harris.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Emergence and Development of South Carolina Lowcountry Studies: Papers in Honor of Martha Zierden" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In Spring 2021, faculty and students executed a Phase III data recovery on the College of Charleston of campus in preparation for the installation of a United States Department of Energy supported solar pavilion. Recovered artifacts date as far back as the 1720s while...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary K Praetzellis. Adrian C Praetzellis.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“Historical Archaeology with Canon on the Side, Please”: In Honor of Mary C. Beaudry (1950-2020)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. I met Mary B. at the 1985 Boston SHA meeting. She was the conference organizer, but nevertheless womaning the registration table when I picked up our packets just before the free reception. Mary recognized my name—which made me feel important—and proceeded to tell me what was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only JoAnna L. Flowers.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Michael Tabler, a white former slave owner escaped to southeastern Ohio with his wife Hannah and their six adult children in the early 1830s. All were former slaves that he emancipated due to the “affection he had for them.” Purchasing a mill, they settled into a community later known as "Tablertown." Over time, others of mixed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan D. Postemski.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The primary goal of settlement ecology is to understand how and why people decide to settle a particular landscape. Although often applied to farming communities, this approach can be applied to any society because all settlement patterns are produced through human decision-making. Adopting a settlement ecology lens, I examine how...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather B Trigg.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "New Avenues in the Study of Plant Remains from Historical Sites" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 17th-century New Mexico, subsistence activities were the major ways Spanish colonists engaged plants and created landscapes. Colonists’ relationships with plants were developed through a combination of existing notions of human-environment interactions and the creation of new practices that suited the social...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew C Pawelski.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Just a few hundred yards off Currituck Beach, North Carolina, in January of 1878, the steamship Metropolis—the former and rebuilt Union gunboat USS Stars and Stripes—ran aground while transporting 250 laborers and materials to Brazil for railroad construction. In the disaster, 85 of those on board lost their lives in full view of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ben Ford. William Chadwick.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Newport village was founded circa 1787 to facilitate movement of people and goods from Pennsylvania’s early road system to its riverine highways. The town was largely abandoned by 1840, but contained several taverns, residences, and blacksmith shops, as well as infrastructure for loading boats on, and crossing over, the adjacent Conemaugh River. At its height, approximately 30 families...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrea L. Anderson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "More than Pots and Pipes: New Netherland and a World Made by Trade" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper is an examination of the documented historical experiences and material culture of armed conflict in the North Atlantic World within the gender perspective. Through the lens of conflict-based contexts, I explore how gender-based differences in status and power shaped the lives of women from diverse...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessi Halligan.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Perspectives on the Future, and the Past, of Underwater Archaeology in the Cultural Resource Management Industry" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As offshore wind farm development continues to expand, there is an increasing need for archaeologists with the training and experience to assess our nearshore continental shelves for evidence of drowned landscapes with potential for preserved cultural resources....

DOCUMENT Citation Only M. Denise Dennis.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The World Turned Upside Down: Revisiting the Archaeology of the American Revolution" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. My presentation will discuss a rare, if not unique, Revolutionary War artifact, the Gershom Prince Powderhorn. Gershom Prince was an African American soldier who served in the French and Indian War and the American Revolution under Capt. Robert Durkee of the Connecticut Line. Prince was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melissa A Timo. Maeve Herrick. Descendants of the Enslaved Community of Clearview Plantation.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2019, an enslaved community’s cemetery came under threat in advance of a solar farm installation. What could have ended in yet another tragedy for a traditionally African American cemetery instead instigated a local movement with the help of GPR, archaeological field work, historical research, oral histories, inclusion, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chelsea Coates. Floyd Mansberger. Christopher Stratton.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. On August 14, 1908, racial tensions in Springfield ignited over allegations of the rape of a white woman by a Black man. After two days of rioting, two Black men had been lynched, and 40 dwellings destroyed. As a result of this event, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was established. This poster discusses excavations of House E, occupied by a young...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kaylee Jellum. Riley Mallory. Kelby Wittenberg. Siobhan M. Hart.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This poster reports the results of ground-penetrating radar (GPR), metal detection, excavation, and artifact analysis of an 18th century farmstead and late 19th century estate at the Denton Home Site in Greenfield, New York. Beginning in 1775, the area was home to Revolutionary War veteran Preston Denton, his wife Esther Deyoe Denton, and their six children. A century later, Henry Hilton...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carolyn Horlacher. Lindsey Adams.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Archaeology of the Delaware River Waterfront Symposium of Philadelphia Neighborhoods" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Childhood mortality was a fact of life in the nineteenth century, with children succumbing to illnesses and issues at rates far greater than those seen today. The historical research done in conjunction with the archaeology for the I-95/Girard Avenue Interchange Project has identified...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Terrance M. Weik. Eric E. Jones.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "First Steps on a Long Corridor: The Gullah Geechee and the Formation of a Southern African American Landscape" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The goal of this project is to explore ways racism, Gullah countermeasures, and reparatory actions reshaped places, spatial practices, and human relations on Hilton Head Island, from the 1800s onward. A GIS spatial analysis of maps, archival sources, oral histories,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jillian M Schuler.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The World Turned Upside Down: Revisiting the Archaeology of the American Revolution" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. By the time General Charles Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown in October 1781, the majority of his coveted shipping fleet laid abandoned at the bottom of the York River. In 1978, the Yorktown Shipwreck Archaeological Project was launched with the intention of surveying several of these...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathleen D. Morrison. Jennifer Bates.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "New Avenues in the Study of Plant Remains from Historical Sites" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Rice and other water and labor-intensive foods form the core of elite South Indian cuisines, the food of both gods and high-status individuals. Rice is synonymous with food in several South Indian languages and yet rice-based cuisines were (and are) not universally available. In the semi-arid interior, the costs...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Todd Ahlman. Ashley H. McKeown.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1888, the Danish government established a leper hospital on the Caribbean island of St. Croix, that was rebuilt in 1909, updated and expanded in the 1930s as part of the New Deal, and closed in 1954. In the 1960s, some buildings were removed, and others reused as part of the LBJ Gardens housing development that was occupied until around 2014. Archaeological, geophysical, and historical...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather A. Wholey. Joanna Mauerer. Daria Nikitina. Megan Heckert.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The archaeological sites, historic locations and districts, and National Register properties along Delaware Bay’s Scenic Heritage Byways hold the stories of centuries of connections between the communities, cultures and resources of the largest preserved coastal marshes along the East Atlantic coast. Probablistic projections of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meg Gaillard. Karen Smith.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond the Shoreline: Heritage at Risk at Inland Sites" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) Archaeology team has provided public outreach opportunities in the field for over two decades, but it was not until 2014 that the SCDNR Archaeology Internship Program was established. Over the last seven years, the program has grown from accepting one intern per...

DOCUMENT Citation Only June F Weber. Effie F Athanassopoulos. Amy S Neumann. Jade L Robison.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. An archaeological perspective on trade and industry in urban Nebraska has not yet been well defined. Comparative analyses of several collections excavated on the present-day University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus have begun to reveal the intricacies of local industry in conjunction with larger national trends. These collections...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Isola. Seth Mallios.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the late 19th century, San Diego County became the largest honey-producer in the state, and California led the nation in its production. This paper investigates historical, cultural, and environmental transformations in the region during a time in which drought curtailed cattle and sheep ranching and bee keeping boomed in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah C. Heffner.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Boxed but not Forgotten Redux or: The Importance and Usefulness of Exploring Old or Forgotten Collections" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The 1969 excavation of Yreka, California’s third Chinatown is one the earliest archaeological investigations of a Chinese community in California and one of the first large-scale historical archaeological salvage projects in the State. The Yreka excavations took place at...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Olivia Brill.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Current Research at Texas A&M University's Conservation Research Laboratory" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Fraudulent medical devices or treatments, or quackeries, were initially brought to the United States by British salesmen. After the War of 1812, American quack treatments, commonly called snake oil, were concocted and reached their peak during the Civil War. Texas, which joined the United States in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Wade P. Catts. William Liebeknecht. Kevin Bradley. Brian D. Crane. D. Brad Hatch.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "More than Pots and Pipes: New Netherland and a World Made by Trade" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Fort Casimir was a 17th-century fortification defending the town of New Amstel, today’s New Castle, Delaware. Casimir was the center of power for the Dutch West India Company, and later, the City of Amsterdam on the South (Delaware) River. The fort changed hands four times – built by the Dutch in 1651,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin A. Gulihur. Ann M. Scott. Victoria C. Pagano.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "From the Famed to the Forgotten: Exploring San Antonio’s Storied History Through Urban Archeology" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. A native of Kentucky, Young Perry Alsbury moved to Texas in the 1820s. Here, he served in the Texas Revolution as a member of Deaf Smith's spy company and participated in burning the bridge over Vince's Bayou during the Battle of San Jacinto to prevent the retreat of Santa...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jenny Ni.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Survey in the Rio Grande Gorge of New Mexico over the past decade has revealed a robust corpus of Plains Biographic rock art depicting the coups and accomplishments of human warriors. While horses are equally present, most of them are secondary to the narratives depicted and appear as ridden mounts or captured wealth. However, an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Vincent Capone. Stephen Nagiewicz. James Delgado. Martin Klein.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The British in World War I were the first to recognize the applications of this new sound technology which would later be embraced by other militaries and would eventually find commercial applications mapping the seafloor for natural resources, which drove the technology into more compact, powerful sonar devices, but also add...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shawn Joy. Morgan Smith.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Perspectives on the Future, and the Past, of Underwater Archaeology in the Cultural Resource Management Industry" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Offshore wind is increasingly important in reducing carbon footprints and improving energy security. Improving the industry’s capabilities in cultural preservation is critical for renewable energy development. The human-altered lithic detection (HALD) method of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cameron E Moon.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "First Steps on a Long Corridor: The Gullah Geechee and the Formation of a Southern African American Landscape" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Hutchinson House on Edisto Island, constructed in 1885 by Henry Hutchinson, stands as a testament to the perseverance of African Americans who asserted their independence from White control after the Civil War. Henry Hutchinson’s father, James Hutchinson, was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard F. Veit. Adam Heinrich. Sean McHugh. Steve Santucci.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The World Turned Upside Down: Revisiting the Archaeology of the American Revolution" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. After 80+ years of archaeology at campsites from the American Revolution is there really anything left to be learned from more excavation? Shouldn’t these sites be left alone before they look like the archaeological equivalent of Swiss cheese? This paper, based on three recent seasons of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ronald Grayson. Nichole Sorensen-Mutchie.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From 1943-1946, Fort Campbell housed three separate German POW camps. An early cursory examination assumed all sub-surface archaeological deposits were destroyed by camp demolition and subsequent land use. No further investigations were conducted, and the POW camps were largely forgotten. That is, until a new housing development...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca Webster. Meghan Dadmun. Gracie Shepard. Barbara Heath.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In recent years, Chesapeake archaeologists have placed more emphasis on the unique cultural landscape of the Potomac River Valley, including studies on sub-regional British community formation. However, one area that has been undertheorized in the sub-region is Indigenous community formation during the colonial period. In this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian C Burrow.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "African American Voices In The Mid-Atlantic: Archaeology Of Elusive Freedom, Enslavement, And Rebellion" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Stoutsburg-Sourland African-American Museum (SSAAM), was established in a former AME church in Skillman, NJ, in 2014. Its Mission is to tell the story of the unique culture, experiences, and contributions of the African American community of the Sourland Mountain...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine G. Parker. Brigid M. Ogden. Jordan L. Schaefer. Rebecca J. Webster.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond the Shoreline: Heritage at Risk at Inland Sites" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper explores the relationship between historical conditions of inequality in the archaeological record and climate-induced coastal erosion in the Southeast and Middle Atlantic regions. Recent studies have demonstrated that a significant number of archaeological sites will be affected by rising sea levels and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jaime L Bach.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond the Shoreline: Heritage at Risk at Inland Sites" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. While the dramatic effects of climate change can easily be observed along coastal areas, environmental impacts are not often recognized at inland sites. The variety of conditions created by a changing climate have the potential to affect previously stable sites beyond the shore.  This paper will review significant sites...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica E Edwards. Travis G Parno. Stephanie Stevens. Christopher Coogan. August Rowell. Kyle Vanhoy.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In July of 2020, archaeologists at Historic St. Mary’s City began excavations over a large cellared structure located via geophysical survey within the palisade of the ca. 1634 St. Mary’s Fort. As one of the only cellared buildings identified in the fort, the expectation was that this might have been one of only two important...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth D. Meade. Rachel Watkins.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "African American Voices In The Mid-Atlantic: Archaeology Of Elusive Freedom, Enslavement, And Rebellion" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The tensions resulting from American archaeology’s post-colonial roots are exposed in unique ways during the archaeological investigation of burial places associated with enslavement. In the aftermath of the investigation of Manhattan’s African Burial Ground, advisory...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicole Bucchino Grinnan. Ashley Lemke. Jay V. Haigler.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "What’s in a Name? Discussions of Terminology, Theory and Infrastructure of Citizen Science in Maritime Archaeology" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The lack of broad representation in the archaeological community has been well documented and acknowledged over the last several decades. Recent social upheavals in the United States have rightly drawn renewed attention to this issue and, as a result, many...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Severin Fowles.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Spanish colonialism in the American Southwest was at once a military and a missionary project. Consequently, the Indigenous rejection of imposed Catholic traditions was a vital part of many early anti-colonial efforts—notably during the coordinated revolt of 1680, which succeeded in purging the region of both the settlers and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steve A. Tomka.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "From the Famed to the Forgotten: Exploring San Antonio’s Storied History Through Urban Archeology" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. At its final site, Mission San Antonio de Valero was occupied from 1724 to 1793. Members of more than 100 indigenous groups resided in the mission during this 69 year period. Five pottery making traditions were represented within these ethnic groups. Petrographic and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David B Landon. Christa M Beranek.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“Historical Archaeology with Canon on the Side, Please”: In Honor of Mary C. Beaudry (1950-2020)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. One of Dr. Mary Beaudry’s long-term research interests was in the archaeology of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. This paper traces some of the history and legacies of that interest, including Mary’s research on Deetz’s archaeological collections in the 1980s, her...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amy E Broussard. Olivia Williamson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Excavation around a mid-nineteenth century family cemetery revealed a much more complex series of graveshafts than assumed from the surface. In this presentation we analyze the orientation and distribution of approximately ninety unmarked graveshafts found in a cultivated field surrounding the extant cemetery.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark (1,2) Cassello.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. President Obama established the Pullman National Monument in 2015. He described Pullman as a “milestone on our journey toward a more perfect union” and directed the National Park Service (NPS) to interpret the industrial and labor history of the site, including “the rise and role of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.”...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carl G. Drexler. Emily L. Beahm. Carol E. Colaninno. Shawn Lambert. Cassidy Rayburn. Clark Sturtevant.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The advancement of archeological field training involves the incorporation of new methods and the refinement of pedagogical techniques to ensure that students have inclusive, supportive experiences that prepare them for a career in the field and promote a sense of belonging and identity within the profession. This poster provides an overview of an ongoing effort to study how archeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Don Hann.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Diverse and Enduring: Archaeology from Across the Asian Diaspora" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. John Day Chinatown was established to support a booming placer gold mining industry in the 19th century. The standard story about the formation of the Chinatown is a victim narrative based on the Chinese being forced to move there after a fire in 1885 destroyed the original Chinatown in Canyon City, located a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lorena Medina Martínez.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Through historical archaeology, we can analyze material remains of past societies beyond its materiality and description to reach its context and understand facets of economy, religion, politics, identity, and culture. Here, I am presenting an investigation in which, analyzing the remains of the first cathedral of New Spain,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jade Luiz.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“Historical Archaeology with Canon on the Side, Please”: In Honor of Mary C. Beaudry (1950-2020)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Slowly, twenty-first century Americans are beginning to accept the reality that sex work is real work. As a component of this, scholars exploring historical sex work in Boston explore this reality within the context of nineteenth century concepts of labor, acceptable versus...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John T. Crawmer. Jane C. Skinner. Nicholas Zeitlin.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Camp Security was a Revolutionary War prison camp that housed as many as 1,800 British POWs. Efforts to locate residential areas in the complex have been ongoing sporadically since the 1970s, but the exact location of the camp stockade is still unknown. In this paper, we explore the effectiveness of previous methodologies and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nichole Doub. Kerry Gonzalez.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Boxed but not Forgotten Redux or: The Importance and Usefulness of Exploring Old or Forgotten Collections" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Even a small collection survey can be a daunting prospect. Multiply that by 5 collections stores, 4 stake holding institutions, 42 archaeological sites, and more than 100,000 artifacts and that generally describes the Skiffes Creek Archaeological Collections Curation and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Luke Pecoraro.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“Historical Archaeology with Canon on the Side, Please”: In Honor of Mary C. Beaudry (1950-2020)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The scope and nature of Mary Beaudry’s contextual approach towards the archaeology of households is a significant legacy of her contribution to historical archaeology both in the United States and abroad. As a student and friend of Mary’s, overtime I came to recognize that the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Ioset.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Current Research at Texas A&M University's Conservation Research Laboratory" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2019, the Last Schooner Project surveyed the two-masted schooner Katie Eccles in eastern Lake Ontario, producing a 1:1 scale-constrained photo model of the site with an aim of reconstructing the lines of the hull. This paper will discuss the methodology used in reconstructing the hull form of the...