From the Famed to the Forgotten: Exploring San Antonio’s Storied History Through Urban Archeology

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in 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.

Birthed from Spanish colonization on the backs of Native laborers and claimed by no less than four nations over its 300-year history, San Antonio is a city defined by cultural pluralism and struggle. Situated at the confluence of Native American, European, Tejano, Mexican, and Black cultures, it has witnessed colonization and missionization, myriad skirmishes and wars, and racial subjugation and emancipation. Due to large-scale municipal redevelopment and improvement projects, extensive archaeological work has been conducted within San Antonio over the past decade. This symposium highlights some of the work exposing the material remains of different occupational eras and subpopulations. Bound together by the unique development of San Antonio, these papers illuminate the city’s famed and forgotten histories alike.