Diverse and Enduring: Archaeology from Across the Asian Diaspora

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Polk.

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 nature of living conditions for both Euro-American and Chinese Railroad Workers during the construction of the Central Pacific is generally known. Evidence suggests that worker shelter consisted of a combination of dugouts, ramshackle huts, and railroad cars. After this period, during the 1870s, there is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Claire Qualls. Ray von Wandruszka.

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. Excavations at historical Chinatowns and Chinese neighborhoods across the Western United States yield numerous artifacts that provide insights into the inhabitants’ daily lives. Often, however, time and exposure affect the artifacts in ways that obviate identification. For instance, remnants of original...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jacob M Stone.

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. This paper explores the context following Japanese-American incarceration in the United States after WWII using the Redman-Hirahara Farmstead. Built at the turn of the 20th century, this property showcases one family’s unique journey navigating this period. The Hirahara family moved into the Victorian...

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 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 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 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 Jacqueline Y Cheung. Eric Gleason.

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. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries The Dalles, Oregon was home to a small but thriving Chinese Diaspora community. This community eventually coalesced into a single block near the center of town fronting Main Street. In this neighborhood, the Chinese merchandise store arose as a profitable venture...

DOCUMENT Citation Only April E. Kamp-Whittaker. Bonnie Clark. Dana Ogo Shew.

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. Biennially field school students, researchers, and community members assemble at the Granada Relocation Center (Amache) for a five week field season culminating in a two day community open house. This diverse group surveys, excavates, and discusses the historical events surrounding the incarceration of Japanese...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chelsea Rose. Jaqueline Y. Cheung. Eric Gleason.

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. From 1875 until 1943 treaties, laws, legal opinions, administrative rules, and regulations circumscribed the free movement of the Chinese immigrants in the U.S. and strictly limited the inflow of new migrants of Chinese descent. These efforts had a profound and lasting impact on the Chinese diaspora in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Renae J. Campbell. Molly E. Swords.

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 Chinese American woman who would become known as Polly Bemis arrived in Idaho Territory in 1872. Eventually settling on the remote Salmon River with her European American husband, Charlie, Polly’s life has been the subject of literary works and even a Hollywood movie. Despite this attention, many aspects of...

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 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 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 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...