Beyond Battlefields: Culture and Conflict through the Philadelphia Campaign

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in 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 summer of 1777, the seat of the American Revolution shifted from New York to Philadelphia. Stretching from the Head of Elk, Maryland, to the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse, New Jersey, the Philadelphia Campaign witnessed the Continental Army and the British Crown Forces marching, camping, skirmishing, and engaging battles across portions of Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Over the last fifty years, archaeologists have studied many sites associated with the conflicts and the lives of the soldiers who were engaged in the campaign. This session, though, seeks to expand the interpretation of conflict. Through documentary research, field studies, and the application of technology, the researchers in this session will broadly examine the consequences of the campaign on the social fabric of the 18th century landscape.