SHA 2022 General Sessions

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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...