Society for Historical Archaeology 2022

DOCUMENT Citation Only Johanna Rivera. Nicholas DeLong. Virginia Theerman. Greg Varley.

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 H.L.Hunley submarine disappeared in 1864 in Charleston after successfully attacking USS Housatonic. Researchers determined that shortly after the loss of the submarine, the bodies of the crewmembers were gradually covered with sediment, protecting their clothing from the environment. Sediment entered the submarine near the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily A. Snider. Sabrina C. Ta'ala. Joshua J. Peck. Carrie B. LeGarde.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) is tasked with the recovery and identification of missing U.S. personnel from past conflicts. Recovery efforts are a continuing joint U.S./host-nation process for more than two decades in Southeast Asia. This case study reviews distribution of Life-Support Equipment (LSE) from multiple investigations and excavations of an F-4D aircraft crash...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura E Masur.

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 pioneered the art of telling first-person narratives that enable artifacts to come alive. She taught us that although there are many mediums for archaeological writing, the primary goal of an archaeologist is to tell stories. Stories enable us to connect places and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy D. Everhart. Sarah O'Donnell. Bret J. Ruby. Andrew W. Weiland. Colleen A. Bell. Eden Hemming. Andrea A. Hunter.

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 roots of American archaeology trace back to 19th century investigations of American Indian mounds and earthworks. Many of the country’s prominent museums were founded on collections made during these early mound explorations. However, most of these collections lack provenience and provenance. Warren K. Moorehead’s work at...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lydia Wilson Marshall. Thomas Biginagwa.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Slave and ivory trader Rashid bin Masud created the caravan trading post Kikole in southwestern Tanzania in the 1890s. Like Dutch colonists in South Africa, Masud appears to have sought to tame this foreign landscape and to cultivate a resemblance to his home region (in his case, the Swahili Coast). For example, he planted coastal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Garry Wheeler Stone.

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 1774, New Jerseyans agreed: No taxation without representation. This unity disintegrated when a New Jersey Provincial Congress prepared for armed resistance to Great Britain. The population split between those that wanted to remain part of the British empire (Tories or Loyalists), those that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan M Wheatley.

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 colonization of the landscape now known as Pennsylvania drastically altered the material record found at indigenous settlement sites. European material goods became more commonplace in the archaeological record as time moved on, with the expansion of colonial settlements into indigenous lands assisting this material shift....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Courtney J. Birkett.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2010 the Fort Eustis Cultural Resources Management staff implemented a site monitoring program in which known archaeological sites at the installation are visited regularly. As erosion of archaeological sites located along the James and Warwick rivers is a long-running problem, in 2015 the measurement of erosion from known points was added to the assessment of high-risk sites. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John M. Chenoweth.

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 summer of 2019, twelve students took part in a field school excavating one of the earliest known European-descended farmsteads on Cape Cod, likely settled in 1645. Unlike most Lower Cape settlements, Nauset (later Eastham) was directly connected to the Seperatist community of Plymouth. Excavations aimed to delimit and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chuck Meide. Airielle R. Cathers. Nicholas C. Budsberg.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Fort Mose Above and Below: Terrestrial and Underwater Excavations at the Earliest Free Afro-Diasporic Settlement in the United States" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program (LAMP), the research arm of the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum, in 2021 partnered with Flagler College and the University of Florida to conduct terrestrial and underwater excavations...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John D. Broadwater.

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. The last major battle of the American Revolution took place in Yorktown, Virginia, ending with the surrender of the Southern British Army under the command of General Charles Earle Cornwallis. The remains of the British, French, and Colonial earthworks are preserved by the National Park...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zachary M. Overfield. Karissa A. Basse. Brooke Bonorden.

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. One of only two Tejano signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence, José Francisco Ruiz was a complex historical figure who navigated the cultural and political frontier of San Antonio, serving as a broker between Anglo, Spanish, and Native American spheres to further the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William L. Kidder.

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. Jacob Francis of Amwell Township, New Jersey experienced indentured servitude in New Jersey, New York, the West Indies, and Salem, Massachusetts ending on his twenty-first birthday in 1775. Overcoming resistance to Black enlistment in the Continental Army, he joined a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sierra S. Roark.

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. This paper will explore pursuits of well-being, resistance, and resilience by looking at ethnohistorical and macrobotanical evidence for African American herbal medicine from the American South. Ethnographic and oral history records highlight the historical importance of herbal medicine to African American...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas Ross.

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. Archaeological studies have shown that members of diasporic Japanese communities in North America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries consumed a range of alcoholic beverages, including Western-style beer, wine, and distilled spirits alongside Japanese saké and Chinese liquor (baijiu)....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Donald A. Gaylord. Alison Bell.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Current Research on Virginia Plantations: Reexamining Historic Landscapes" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2021, Washington and Lee University opted to continue under the names of two slaveholders while pledging support for increased racial diversity. An earlier name of the institution was “Liberty Hall,” the ruins of which remain a cherished icon of collective identity rooted in the 18th-century...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Nonestied.

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 2020, Middlesex County Division of Historic Sites and History Services conducted additional research to broaden our understanding of the County’s maritime history. The navigable waterways were used since the period of earliest settlement to transport a variety of goods and people throughout the region and abroad. The Raritan...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maxwell M Forton.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Chaco Canyon has long been a home for Navajo (Diné) peoples. Despite the prevalence of Navajo sites throughout the canyon and importance of this cultural landscape to contemporary Navajo communities, their history is often underappreciated in Chaco archaeology. This is especially true for the abundant Navajo rock art incised and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amber N Vinson. Todd M Ahlman.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The St. Croix Leper Hospital operated from 1888 through 1954. During this time, St Croix was occupied by Danish and United States governments, so understanding the global influence on the site is important. Most of the buildings occupied and used by the residents are no longer extant as all but four buildings and two cisterns were removed in the 1960s for a housing complex. Turning to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chelsea M. Cohen.

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. The colonization of North American landscapes and seascapes was closely tied, connected by imperatives to expand, urbanize, and increase economic production. In North America’s Middle Atlantic, landscape colonization and concomitant urbanization led to changes in both the region’s terrain and its economic...

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

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Educational researchers have found that when undergraduate students participate in field-based learning, students frequently show increases in several socioemotional measures associated with positive learning outcomes including increases in self-efficacy and sense of belonging. We measured archaeological self-efficacy and sense of belonging among students before and after participation in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kendra P. Ellis.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Shackleford Banks, North Carolina is a 14.5-kilometer barrier island that has not been permanently inhabited by humans in over a century. These Ca’e Bankers lived, not necessarily in isolation, but in self-relying communities that used anything and everything to their advantage. They were able to survive by using what the landscape provided them through oystering, clamming, whaling,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andres Zarankin. María Jimena Cruz.

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 ideas and proposals of Mary Beaudry have left their mark, on Historical Archaeology and of course on the way we approach the works on the first human occupations, at the beginning of the 19th century, of the Antarctic continent. Groups of marine mammal hunters came to these...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Will M. Williams.

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. Using early 19th-century membership records from the Church of Paramus, this study proposes that systems of indirect enslavement used by Dutch descended families in Bergen County, New Jersey, fulfilled their domestic, farm, and possibly construction labor requirements. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hunter W. Whitehead. Charles E. Pearson.

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. In the 1970s, the United States federal government initiated a program to protect submerged cultural resources of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) from the impacts of federally permitted undertakings. The impact of permitted mineral exploitation on cultural...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jason Whitaker. Steve 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. The missions of south Texas and the Coastal Plains became home to members of hundreds of indigenous groups during the 18th century. These groups occupied a large geographic area encompassing Northern Mexico, West Texas, the Edwards Plateau, Central Texas and the Coastal Plains...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elysia M Petras.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. When read against the grain, 18th-19th century records provide ample evidence that the enslaved of British Anguilla developed maritime networks of liberation with the enslaved of the nearby island of French/Dutch St. Martin. This presentation will discuss the preliminary findings of archaeological research at the Hughes Estate...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Mather.

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 Grand Marais community in northeastern Minnesota (USA) is centered on a natural harbor in the rocky shore of Lake Superior. This paper describes a current effort to evaluate the harbor as a maritime cultural landscape and historic district for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, with elements including...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tori L. Galloway. Samuel I. Haskell. Charles D. Beeker.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Spanning less than 50 miles of Lake Michigan coastline, the State of Indiana has the smallest territorial waters of any Great Lakes states with only 225 square miles of bottomland. Indiana’s small coastline represents a wealth of maritime heritage and culture that has shaped the history of Northern Indiana and one of the most...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric G. Schweickart.

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 excavations of the Powhatan Park site (44WB0138) on the outskirts of Williamsburg, Virginia in 2020 archaeologists working for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation recovered an unusual artifact. The mid-19th century clay tobacco pipe stem with a maker’s mark indicating that it was manufactured in the L. Fiolet factory in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Elizabeth Fitts. Melissa Timo. Allyson (1,2) Ropp.

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 Coastal Historic Cemetery Survey Project undertaken by the NC Office of State Archaeology (OSA) is designed to identify, document, and assess the condition of historical cemeteries on state lands in nine coastal NC counties impacted by 2018’s Hurricanes Florence and Michael. Although all cemeteries remain threatened in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric C. Poplin. Jeff Sherard.

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. Excavations at the IAAM Site on the former Gadsden’s Wharf exposed elements of a 1790s storehouse and a mid-19th century East Point Rice Mill identified during historic research and earlier test excavations. Excavation of a privy associated with the rice mill recovered a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily L. Swain.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, DC admitted its first patients in 1855. After a patient with no relatives died the following year, a cemetery was established on a hillside overlooking the Anacostia River. During its short two decades of use, civilian and Civil War veteran patients were buried there. However, few...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melanie S. 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. Patent medicine is an unregulated proprietary product made and marketed under a patent and available with prescription. By the middle of the 19th century patent medicines had become a major industry in America. This paper examines the use of patent medicine and other personal wellness products within an urban San Francisco...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather L Olson.

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. In the early 1980s, archaeological excavations in downtown Providence, Rhode Island located the remains of early 19th century Snowtown, a mixed-race neighborhood most notable for a riot in 1831 between free African Americans and working-class whites. Recent collections...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul R. Huey.

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 Dutch West India Company constructed Fort Orange in 1624 on the west bank of the Hudson River about 150 miles north of Manhattan Island. In 1647 the Company began allowing private traders to build houses within the fort. Dutch deeds specified the locations of the private houses. Excavations revealed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Dale.

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 the past decade, the archaeology of the Chinese diaspora has embraced new methods, theories, and questions for investigating the lives of the men, women, and children of America’s 1800s and 1900s Chinese populations. As with archaeology in general, however, Chinese diaspora archaeology has largely...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin D. Akey. Aubree S. Marshall. Jeffrey J. Burnett.

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. This talk will explore the history of temporary post-World War 2 veteran student and family housing on Michigan State University’s campus through archival documents and archaeological materials. It will consider how material culture recovered from a trash dump with artifacts dating from the early 1940s to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Danny Zborover.

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 Spanish Derrotero General del Mar del Sur atlases and their English derivatives, the Hack atlases, contain a trove of cartographic and historical information regarding the Pacific coasts of the Americas. Scattered today in repositories worldwide, these 17th century pictorial and annotated volumes depicted all the major towns,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kimberly Pyszka.

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. Occupied from 1707-1715, the St. Paul’s Parish parsonage served as the residence of Anglican missionaries assigned to nearby St. Paul’s Parish Church. Due to its short occupation time and sudden destruction due to a fire, the site offers a snapshot of early colonial life in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brigid M. Ogden.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Over the course of British settlement in Tidewater Virginia, colonists were challenged to adapt European farming and husbandry practices to suit the environment of the New World. Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, these practices continually evolved as Virginia shifted from a tobacco- to wheat-based agricultural system. In...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anthony H Gilchrist.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This project will examine the use of stereo GoPro cameras for the purpose of scaling 3d photogrammetric models underwater. These cameras will be set to take images simultaneously at the same angle, 25 centimeters apart therefore creating a scale bar between each set of images. This project also seeks to remotely model shipwrecks...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Diana Loren.

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. From her work on Spencer-Peirce-Little House to her groundbreaking publication Findings, Mary Beaudry’s focus on small finds has influenced a generation of scholars. Because small finds, such as artifacts of clothing and needlework, are relatively uncommon in most archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marco G Meniketti.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Enslaved and free black mariners were an integral component of the Atlantic economy from early in the colonial project. Historians in recent years have artfully demonstrated the presence and significance of black mariners, particularly in the Caribbean. Archaeology has been less adept. Success of colonies was as dependent on black...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lindsay M Wentzel.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Despite whale oil flickering out of public demand following the 1859 discovery of petroleum, American whaling operations continued to innovate hunting strategy and vessel usage, while broadening and diversifying maritime assets and identity in an effort for self-preservation. This paper aims to evaluate this period of decline in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeremy Borrelli. Stephen Atkinson. Jason T. Raupp.

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 remains of La Fortuna, a Spanish privateer that sank in 1748 off the 18th century port at Brunswick Town, North Carolina, represents just one of the potential submerged cultural resources associated with the famous archaeological site. Due to Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson Historic Site’s proximity along the Cape Fear River to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dan Hicks.

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 practiced the kind of historical archaeology defined not merely by the presence of texts, but by the excavation of language. Departing from the cognitive archaeology of Jim Deetz, but retaining his sense for spinning a good yarn, her interest was more in using words...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael S Zimmerman.

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 April of 1972, during the construction of a new home, a considerable number of pre-Contact and 17th century historic artifacts were uncovered. Excavations under then assistant director of Plimoth Plantation, James Deetz, revealed the remains of the lost homesite of Isaac Allerton, a merchant and representative to the Plimoth...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael J. Prouty.

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 2018 Alpine Archaeological Consultants, Inc. excavated a 1912 to 1933 historical cattle line camp site on the Dolores Plateau in northern Dolores County, Colorado. The line camp is part of the Bankston Spring site which is a large multiple component site that dates from the Archaic and into more recent history. The line camp is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amber Cabading.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Spanish Plate Fleets departing Havana, Cuba faced many hazards while on their voyage back to Spain. The greatest danger, however, were unexpected tropical storms and hurricanes, which could wreck entire convoys. As a result of such storms, Spain suffered three massive fleet destructions. Since the loss of even one galleon could impact the Spanish economy, Spanish-American authorities...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Courtney H Buchanan. Jennifer Perry.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa Island, two islands in California's Channel Islands National Park, were the homes of ranching operations from the mid-nineteenth century through the close of the twentieth century. The Channel Islands were home to the Chumash and their ancestors for over 10,000 years, until Spain claimed them as part of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexander G Michnick.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This study examines the history and artifact assemblages of the fur trade post sites of Rix Robinson (1789-1875) and Daniel DeMarsac (1812-1880). Operating in the Grand River Basin of the present-day state of Michigan between 1821-1857, these two traders are historical examples of independent enterprises competing with the incursion of the American Fur Company during the later period of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stefanie M. Smith. Natalie Adams Pope.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Data recovery excavations were completed at the former City Farm property in Newport News, Virginia with the goal of documenting the remains of the historic Warwicktowne settlement. Warwicktowne was established by the Virginia Company for use as a major port in 1680 and functioned as a judicial center until the Warwick County...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelly Palich.

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 Patapsco Female Institute (18HO143) in Ellicott City, Maryland, once stood as a beacon for female education throughout the nineteenth century. By the late 1960s, the “temple on the Hill” had fallen into complete ruin, and Howard County purchased the property in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. Ryan Kennedy. Brian M. Kemp.

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. Late-19th-century Chinese diaspora faunal assemblages from the American West often include a diverse range of fish species imported from many different locations. In these contexts, fish bones serve as evidence not only of the wide-ranging trade networks that connected Chinese diaspora communities, but also of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lisa Matthies-Barnes.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Social scientists of the mid-19th to early 20th century asserted that the mythos and practices of the Black American south were merely a memetic repository of British folk tradition. Later, West African magico-religious folk practices were recognized in the lifeways of Black Americans, with archaeologists exploring the associated...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erik S. Kreusch. Joseph Balicki.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. On the night of July 2, 1863, a depleted force of the Federal Army’s XII Corps faced a Confederate force three times their number in effort to cut the Union supply lines and overwhelm the Federal Army from the rear. For two days, the only thing that stood between the Federal rear was the men of Brigadier General George Greene’s...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joel Dworsky.

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 2017 AECOM undertook a Phase I – III archaeological project at the Brumbaugh-Kendle-Grove (BKG) Farmstead (18WA496), in advance of a demolition project. The project area, owned by the Hagerstown Regional Airport, encompassed the core of a historic farmstead, including the dwelling house, barn, and outbuildings. AECOM’s...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brianna LeBlanc. Jessica Old.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Through the transfer of land by Charles I in the 17th century, the Calvert lineage set out to evoke a manorial system, exceeding that of the English practice. With intent to raise the social stature of Maryland, settlers were promised land grants based upon the amount of people brought to the New World in their charge. Through this grant, these landowners would subsequently create a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tessie D Burningham.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1893 the Saltair resort was built on the shores of the Great Salt Lake and attracted visitors from across the state of Utah. Owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS), which was heavily influenced by the temperance movement, the question of whether alcohol should be served was a controversial subject for owners and visitors alike. The Church wanted a wholesome...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Spirek. Michael Scafuri. Scott Harris. Kimberly Roche. Nicholas Nelson-DeLong. Athena Van Overschelde. William Nassif.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. On the night of 17 February 1864, USS Housatonic while on blockade duty off Charleston Harbor was attacked and sunk by a spar-torpedo delivered by the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley during the American Civil War. The ill-fated blockader became the first surface warship sunk by an underwater vessel. In 1999, a partnership of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabrielle C. Purcell.

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. This paper examines the routes European-introduced foods traveled into Cherokee towns during European colonization (the sixteenth- to eighteenth-centuries). We know that peaches, cowpeas, watermelons, and sweet potatoes were all new foods Cherokees adopted from Europeans. However, I argue that each food was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Lucas.

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. Examples of European ceramics carved into roughly circular pieces, are found on archaeological sites throughout the Atlantic world. Most scholarship to date focuses on “gaming pieces” created and used by enslaved people on plantations in the Caribbean and southern North America during the 18th and 19th...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth G. Tarulis. Keri E. Burge. Barbara J. Heath.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Current Research on Virginia Plantations: Reexamining Historic Landscapes" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Coan Hall is a 17th-century multicomponent site along the Coan River in Northumberland County, Virginia. John Mottrom and members of his household were the first English colonists in the area, moving into the homelands of the Sekakawon. By the time of Mottrom’s death in 1655, a manor house, plantation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tatiana L (1,2) Watkins.

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. In the late nineteenth century, members of the Chinese diaspora operated mining companies that occupied many gold-bearing deposits in Grant County, Oregon, including within the confines of the now Malheur National Forest. One of the many companies who leased claims was the Ah Yee Mining Company, operating in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlyn-Jean Ward.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Landscapes are one aspect of a property that can be expanded, broken up, and altogether changed to suit the intended use. However, they can also be manipulated in such a way as to block, hide, and oppress those who move around that space. It is all too common a theme seen on historic properties where the enslaved, servants, and the workers are forced to move around behind the scenes in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David E. (1,3) Leslie. Peter A. (2,3) Leach.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeological and Historical Services, Inc. (AHS) conducted an underwater Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) survey of Barnstable Pond, in Marston Mills, Massachusetts. The pond was impounded in the late 17th century in support of local industries and has remained continually impounded. The GPR survey allowed AHS to image the pond...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph Grinnan.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2018, SEARCH archaeologists conducted multiple marine remote-sensing surveys utilizing a magnetometer, side-scan sonar, and sub-bottom profiler near Mobile, Alabama. The surveys focused on relocating and assessing the condition of three Civil War-era ironclads: USS Tecumseh near the mouth of Mobile Bay, and CSS Huntsville and CSS Tuscaloosa approximately five miles north of Mobile in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah-Marie M (1,3) Lamle. Jenna (1,2) Baelz. Charles Beeker.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Due to the prolonged impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic hindering management efforts within the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS), Indiana University Center for Underwater Science directors and scientific divers selected two shipwrecks on the upper Keys portion of the FKNMS Shipwreck Trail to asses the conditions of the sanctuary in May of 2021. The sites surveyed were the City...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jasmine J (1,2) Heckman. Molly E (1,2) McMurphy. Andrea K (1,2) Gregory.

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. Existing collections have long been the forgotten byproducts of archaeological research. Federal collections were generally analyzed and then delivered to repositories for long-term curation, where they remained, overlooked, “in perpetuity”. For decades, curation-minded...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julia R. (2,1) Joblinski. Robert C. Chidester.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This poster aims to explore the relationship between the material culture associated with industrial and domestic uses at two archaeological sites in Findlay, Ohio. Both sites - 33HK0777, a cigar manufacturer and 33HK0810, a mattress factory and furniture repair shop - began as light industrial ventures in the late 19th century and were converted to residences by the mid-20th century....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eileen A Brickell. Todd Ahlman.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) at the St. Croix Leper Hospital in the U.S. Virgin Islands has revealed new data for comparison to other locations in the Caribbean. At leper asylums/hospitals on St. Kitts, St. Eustatius, and Hassel Island, St. Thomas individuals with leprosy were buried in cemeteries on the grounds of these leper facilities. Based on public records in local newspapers,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth C. Clay.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Plantation landscapes in French Guiana are almost entirely obscured by the dense rainforest vegetation that overtook the region in the decades following emancipation in 1848 when the search for gold and other economic initiatives gradually replaced plantation agriculture. While remote sensing has revolutionized archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sydney M Swierenga.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During World War II, over thirty US aircraft carriers supported the war effort but none were more unique than USS Wolverine and USS Sable. Converted from the luxurious Great Lakes passenger steamships, SS Seeandbee and SS Greater Buffalo, into aircraft training carriers, the ships underwent remarkable transformations at a time when America was facing material shortages and desperately...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mick de Ruyter. Emma Webb. Wendy van Duivenvoorde.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. When the two ships of the French exploratory expedition under La Perouse were wrecked in Vanuatu in 1788, the survivors built another vessel from salvaged components and attempted to sail back to France. They never made it, and the expedition was lost without trace until the shipwrecks were discovered in Vanuatu in 1827. The fate...

DOCUMENT Citation Only 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. The Smithsonian Environmental Archaeology Laboratory explores the growth and decline of factory-scale shell-button making in portions of Delaware and Maryland. Discovery of two new sites provides a more comprehensive view of the short-lived industry and supports hypotheses concerning the scale of the activity and the shift in raw...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Casey (1,2) Campetti. Joseph Balicki. Joel (1,3) Bohy.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Arnold's Bay Project" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Since 2011, Advanced Metal Detecting for the Archaeologist (AMDA) has conducted over 15 trainings across the United States, providing instruction in metal detecting for professional archaeologists, THPO staff, and avocational detectorists. Courses include technical training with both classroom and field instruction, with a focus on commitment to ethical...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin J. Heckman. Katherine (2,1) Seeber.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeological research at Historic Mitchelville Freedom Park (HMFP) in Hilton Head Island, S.C., (the first free Black town in the South) has been conducted using collaborative community-based research with the local descendent community. Over the course of the summer 2019 field work at HMFP, the research team surveyed visitors...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher P Morris. Lauren J. Cook.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Rocked by historic Superstorm Sandy a New Jersey Shore community was depending on a consortium of State and Federal Agencies to rebuild its lifeline roads and a new seawall to protect its homes and beaches. When contractors installing that seawall encountered what turned out to be historic shipwreck remains it would take...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Margaret A Comer.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Adding to the vibrant conversation around memorial museums, memorials, and dark heritage sites, this paper will examine and scrutinize the portrayals of aspects of violence (including portrayals of perpetrators and victims) at a selection of mass graves in Ukraine and Russia that witnessed either Nazi or Soviet mass killings...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin M McKain. Alexandra Crowder.

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. Privies were a necessary part of daily life for the inhabitants of nineteenth century Philadelphia. Home to everything from human excrement to trash, the contents within privies unveil the history of the people who lived there. Archaeobotanical assemblages discovered in privy samples...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sophie M. Minor.

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 many scholars have noted, archives reflect the social context within which they were assembled as well as the personal experiences of those who created the collections. The archival materials associated with Fort Snelling in Minnesota are no exception. In the context of this site, I will discuss the archived papers of Lawrence...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer E. Jones. Della Scott-Ireton. Jason Raupp.

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. Questions have arisen concerning the semantics of and theory behind citizen science in maritime archaeology. Shifts from the use of the term “citizen science” to community and/or public archaeology have led to interest in further understanding the purpose and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mason D. Miller.

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. This paper details the development history of Stinson Municipal Airport in southern San Antonio, Texas. Founded by barnstormers in 1915 on an experimental sewer farm tract, Stinson would soon expand into what was originally part of the City’s adjacent San Jose Burial Park -...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melissa Ziobro. Richard Veit.

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. The Parker Homestead in Little Silver, NJ, housed the Parker family from 1665-1995. It is the perfect setting for thoughtful conversations about Elusive and Enduring Freedoms. For example, the site sits just 20 miles from the famed Monmouth Battlefield, in a county that saw plenty of other skirmishes and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James A. Delle.

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 aftermath of the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, profiteering vigilantes and corrupt local officials consipred to kidnap and enslave African-American people in the border states of the Mid-Atlantic. Banding together in mutual aid and vigilance societies,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph M. Prego.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Philadelphia has always been an important cultural hub for the African American community of the Delmarva. Prior to Emancipation, there was a notable free African American population within the region, a population which began developing their own economic network during the early 19th century. This network ran parallel as a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Amemasor.

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 American experiment in liberty was imperfect from the start: the Revolution advanced ideals of universal human equality, but left intact the economic and social underpinnings of slavery. Those ideals nevertheless had their effects on all sides: enslaved people and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nick Weksellblatt. Erin Meyer. George M Leader.

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. Built around 1720, at its largest, the William Green Plantation covered 360 acres just outside of Trenton, New Jersey. Recently, archaeological excavations at the last remaining building, the original farmhouse, have identified artifacts spanning the entirety of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin Zant.

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. Over the last thirty years, the Maritime Preservation Program at the Wisconsin Historical Society has developed productive long-term relationships with several avocational maritime archaeological organizations in the Great Lakes region. A cornerstone of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marie-Lorraine Pipes.

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. Invisible yet famous, a small number of enslaved Africans were brought to Fort Orange in the seventeenth century. Their presence is known yet no objects have been tied to them. This paper explores the possibility that some worked bone objects made from domesticated mammals were crafted by enslaved Africans....

DOCUMENT Citation Only William B. Liebeknecht.

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. During the early colonial period Governmental authorities recognized the physical dynamics of free-ranging forms of various livestock set against the backdrop of a wolf-laden wilderness, was or could be a costly nuisance and thus ordered wolves to be hunted and trapped in order to mitigate the problem. In May...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandra Crowder.

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. Working-class women in nineteenth-century Philadelphia were important participants in the city’s economy and labor force. In addition to generating necessary sources of income, partaking in the workforce may have also provided economic mobility and independence. Increasing numbers of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Crystal A Castleberry. Jack Gary.

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 August of 2020, Colonial Williamsburg’s Department of Archaeology began investigating the original site of Williamsburg’s historic First Baptist Church, one of the nation’s earliest congregations founded by free and enslaved people of African descent. The project has, from the beginning, been a partnership with the First...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica L Clark.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. "WWI and the Philadelphia Navy Yard: Modernization of the US Navy," was completed as a public education and outreach initiative for the Philadelphia Navy Yard Annex by Ohio Valley Archaeology, Inc. through the National Park Service's Teaching with Historic Places program. The program highlights NRHP-listed properties across the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul G Cochran.

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. At the Texas A&M Conservation Research Laboratory, we pride ourselves on the breadth and quality of our research capabilities. Among these capabilities, x-ray fluorescence allows us to study the elemental composition of objects under our care. We use this tool to accomplish a number of goals, such as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam R. Heinrich. Michael Gall.

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. Archaeological investigations at Locus 1 of the Rumsey/Polk Tenant/Prehistoric site (7NCF112) in St. Georges Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, United States have found spatially distinct features and artifacts that provide information about the lives of eighteenth–...