Society for Historical Archaeology 2023

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabrielle Miller. Stephanie Sterling.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2011 Youth Diving with a Purpose (YDWP) and the NPS partnered to create a sustainable pathway for Black youth to enter the field of maritime archaeology. In the summer of 2021, we represented YDWP as interns to continue this partnership through the ongoing search for the Guerrero. The Guerrero was a ship carrying illegally enslaved Africans to be sold in Cuba that ran aground within...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leah A. Stricker. Lauren R. Stephens.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Opening the Vault: What Collections Can Say About Jamestown’s Global Trade Network", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Jamestown collection contains proportionally few Portuguese-made ceramics. However, their presence in seventeenth century Virginia highlights the political, economic, and social dynamics between an established world power and a developing one. Global trade networks, particularly the trading...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew J. Van Slyke.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Primary source documents suggest that a hurricane wrecked seven to nine Spanish vessels of the Tierra Firme Fleet in the lower Florida Keys on 5 September 1622. Over the past 400 years, only treasure hunters have located three of the doomed fleet. Documents point to another three vessels wrecking in modern Dry Tortugas National...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan Harris.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Among the more obscure discoveries to have come to light from the extensive Parks Canada underwater excavations conducted at Red Bay, Labrador from 1978 to 1985, are the rare, if not entirely unprecedented remains of a 16th-century Iberian batel (ship's longboat). Attributable to the Spanish-Basque period of commercial whaling...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shakir Ullah. Abdul Samad Khan. Ruth L. Young. Paul Graham Newson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Tor Ghar is a remote and mountainous area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan that has received very little archaeological attention due to issues of access and security. However, as part of a recently launched project ‘British Period Archaeology and Heritage in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan’ fieldwork has been conducted in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel M. Cajigas. Elliot H. Blair.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Bronson Strip site (9Li163), located on the Holocene dune ridges of St. Catherines Island, a barrier island on the Georgia coast (USA), is a multicomponent site that includes substantial evidence for earthworks (e.g., dams and ditches) associated with tidewater, plantation-era (ca. 1790-1820), rice agriculture. While most...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Summer J. Brown. Mary E. Ibarrola. Lori Lee. James Davidson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Recent Directions in Florida’s Historical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. On the outskirts of St. Augustine, Florida, sits historic Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose. Also recognized as Fort Mose, the 18th century fortified settlement was occupied by self-emancipated Africans. Founded in 1738, the site became a vital display of the freedom secured by formerly enslaved people within Florida and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jens Auer.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Digital Approaches in Nautical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The 3D annotated scans method was developed to answer the challenge of accurately recording a large number of archaeological ship timbers within the short timeframe of development-led excavations in Northern Germany. Since then, this approach to 3D recording was refined in different projects of varying nature. In 2022, the state...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sophia G Higgs.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "I Know What You Did Last Summer: Student Contributions at Field Schools", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Starting in the late 19th century, the Tennessee State Penitentiary leased convicts for work in a private coal mine in Tracy City, Tennessee. Most laborers were black men who were either falsely convicted or arrested based on racially biased laws. Those incarcerated in Tracy City were part of a larger...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Zimmerman.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Making Waves through Play: A Historical Archaeological Examination of Archaeogaming and the Global Impact of Video Games on the Field of Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Reaching mainstream popularity in the 1990s, the 4X model of video game involves building a colonial empire through turn-based or real-time strategy. The 4X genre stands for eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate. A number of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew S Kaczor.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Cuban migration to the United States is a complex topic, politically and historically. Due to political repression, economic hardships, and promise of freedom in the U.S, Cuban people have been migrating in waves of thousands for over 60 years. Cuban citizens have made the journey both by air and sea, legally and illegally,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Pape Laity Diop.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Maritime Archaeology in West Africa", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The subject of my communication concerns the policy of repression of the illicit slave trade on the Senegambian seaboard. After three centuries of practice of a commercial activity based on the slave economy, the nineteenth century promises to be very complicated for the actors of the so-called Atlantic trade because of the major reforms...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica A Cofelice. Peter Morrison.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Begun as a family homestead in 1642, the Abraham Preble Site in York, Maine, was later fortified to serve as a militia garrison and place-of-refuge during King William's War (1688-1697), a destructive frontier conflict that pitted the English Colonists against the Native Wabanki and their French allies. Intensive archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leo A. Demski.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Arriving in 1848 for the California Gold Rush, Chinese immigrants brought many cultural traditions new to the US, including opium smoking. Although use of opium was already widespread via its medicinal forms (laudanum and morphine), smoking/ingestion was not seen as a beneficial or therapeutic activity. Instead, views of opium as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Stevenson. Madeleine Gunter-Bassett. Laure Dussubieux.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Opening the Vault: What Collections Can Say About Jamestown’s Global Trade Network", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. When English colonists settled at Jamestowne in 1607, Virginia Indians of the lower Chesapeake Bay considered copper objects to be valuable trade goods. The leaders of the Powhatan Chiefdom initially saw the English settlers at Jamestowne as a valuable source of trade copper. Scholars have...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelsey K.G. Dwyer.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Maritime Archeology of the Slave Trade: Past and Present Work, and Future Prospects", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The relationships cultivated by African enslaved women resulted in dissemination of new ethnic identities and social structures, which can be traced in the maritime archaeological record. Sources including artwork and ethno-historical accounts of enslaved women and their children demonstrate...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicole M Smith.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The increasing effects of global warming have dire consequences on countries like Honduras where climatic events such as super hurricanes are rapidly displacing people while simultaneously intensifying poverty and food insecurity in one of the poorest and most violent nations in the western hemisphere. In recent years, this has led to a rise in people making the brutal journey north to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marjo A. Juola.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology/Architecture", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In this case paper, I will scrutinize how an abandoned, cultural historically significant building can be seen as an undead corpse, a zombie, that has undergone a few reanimations attempts by the cultural heritage authorities. Designed by a famous Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, this cathedral like concrete structure has been a center of debate in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Inês A. Castro.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Port of Call: Archaeologies of Labor and Movement through Ports", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. It’s the late 19th century - globalization, commerce, industry, a world that moves faster, goes further, demands more. The “self” disappears in favour of a human mass. On the other side of the picture are the fishermen. An amphibious animal, simple life, simple costumes, a different notion of time, a know-how...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sandrine Baron. David L Conlin.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Underwater Archeology of a French Slave Ship In Northern Mozambique- L'Aurore", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In early 2020 archeologists from the Slave Wrecks Project recovered several samples of lead- as both musket balls and lead caulking. This paper discusses elemental composition, isotopic ratios, and other scientific properties of the lead samples. Implications for ore sources and the ship's...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Roey Nickelsberg. Thomas E. Levy. Ruth Shahack-Gross. Anthony Tamberino. Scott McAvoy. Gal Bermatov-Paz. Nimrod Marom. Ehud Arkin Shalev. Assaf Yasur-Landau.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Attention this is a Submergency: Incorporating Global Submerged Records", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Climate reconstruction records show that during the Early Pottery Neolithic Period (henceforth EPN), ca. 8200 years ago, there was a sudden change in the environment, lowering both precipitation amounts and temperatures. This change was thought to have been the cause of the abandonment of the coastal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Philip Levy.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "A Land Unto Itself: Virginia's Northern Neck, Colonialism, And The Early Atlantic", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The John Washington Site on the Potomac River was excavated in the 1930s and the 1970s. The site was occupied by English colonial settlers from the 1650s until the end of the century and conforms to reigning understandings of regional architecture and assemblages: a gentry family's modest home...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marie Trottier.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Portages and river ports, according to Christer Westerdahl, are archaeological nodes that articulate the larger maritime cultural landscape. This conceptualisation gives meaning to the small river port called Anse-aux-Batteaux, located on the Saint Lawrence River at the head of a 20-kilometer stretch of rapids and cascades....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maria Ximena Senatore. Diego Aguirrezábal.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "In Small Islands Forgotten: Insular Historical Archaeologies of a Globalizing World", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Antarctica has no native populations and is predominantly presented as wilderness, an untouched natural landscape. However, humans have been there since the South Shetland Islands were first sighted around the 1820s. Historical archaeological studies have connected these remote islands to the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jean-Sébastien Guibert.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Anémone Project Les Saintes (Guadeloupe) : Result of the first multi-year underwater archaeological excavation in the French West Indies 2015-2019", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Research on the Anemone shipwreck was conducted between 2015 and 2019 as part of the first multi-annual underwater archaeology excavation that took place in the French West Indies. It has been funded by DRASSM (French Ministry of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Pierre Drap.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Anémone Project Les Saintes (Guadeloupe) : Result of the first multi-year underwater archaeological excavation in the French West Indies 2015-2019", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. It is no longer necessary to mention that photogrammetry remains an inescapable means for underwater archaeology of shipwreck. The use of photogrammetry on the wreck of the Anémone has allowed us to follow the evolution of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Abigail C. Bleichner. Megan Lickliter-Mundon. Hannah Fleming.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Applying the Power of Partnerships to the Search for America's Missing in Action", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Since 2015, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency's Partnerships and Innovations Directorate (DPAA/PI) has successfully completed over 150 missions around the world, aided by the expertise and capabilities of more than 80 partner organizations. Included in this growing number of partners are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robin A. Beck. David G. Moore. Christopher B. Rodning. Rachel V. Briggs.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Colonial Forts in Comparative, Global, and Contemporary Perspective", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From December 1566 to March 1568, Captain Juan Pardo established a network of six small garrisons extending beyond the Atlantic Coast through modern-day North and South Carolina and across the Appalachian Mountains into eastern Tennessee. The first of these, Fort San Juan, was intended to serve as the base of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Crutcher.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Maritime Archaeology in West Africa", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Finding direct evidence of West African mariners in early modern European sources is like following a trail of breadcrumbs. African labor was vital to regional and global commerce and culture, but is often obscured by European sources. One example is the Portuguese term "grumete,” which technically means a “cabin boy,” but was then...

DOCUMENT Citation Only João Luís Sequeira. Susana Pacheco.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Making Waves through Play: A Historical Archaeological Examination of Archaeogaming and the Global Impact of Video Games on the Field of Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Arcanum is a steampunk fantasy role-playing game (2001). The gameplay allows the player to interact with NPCs. It has a vast world, multiple choices, and tons of dialogues regarding dualities such as science and religion, or...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elysia M Petras.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Port of Call: Archaeologies of Labor and Movement through Ports", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This presentation summarizes archival and archaeological research into 17-19th century unsanctioned networks of trade and self-liberation between the enslaved and free Black residents of British Anguilla and nearby French/Dutch St. Martin. Presenting preliminary findings from two seasons of archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Franck Bigot. Magali Veyrat.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Anémone Project Les Saintes (Guadeloupe) : Result of the first multi-year underwater archaeological excavation in the French West Indies 2015-2019", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Although more limited on the Anémone’s site, the discoveries of archaeological material in situ have also allowed us to deepen our knowledge of this wreck, particularly on aspects related to the internal functioning of this ship as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan L Olshefski.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Does a displaced individual choose to remember their past or forge a new path after facing the traumas of war, imprisonment, and forced labour? Follow the Battles of Dunbar (1650) and Worcester (1651), Scottish prisoners of war captured by Oliver Cromwell were shipped abroad to locations including New England to serve a period of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard McClary.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Islamic material culture", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper examines the intersections and interdisciplinary uses of large-scale archaeological data sets, from a huge number of sites in numerous countries, to inform the art historical study of the trade in medieval Islamic ceramics from Iran in the 12th and 13th centuries CE. By focusing on a single class of wares (mina’i or haft rang) that are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jonathan Rodriguez. Schuyler Espirit. Diane Wallman.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Archaeologies of the Long Emancipation", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For more than 50 years hundreds of self-emancipated Africans inhabited the mountainous interior of the Caribbean island of Dominica (Wai’tukubuli) where they formed various communities who actively resisted European colonialism and slavery not only to maintain their freedom, but to assist in liberating enslaved Africans throughout...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Thomin. Tristan Harrenstein. Rachel Hines.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2020 during the COVID-19 lockdown, public archaeologists across the world had to create new and innovative ways in order to engage audiences virtually. One online program developed by the Florida Public Archaeology Network (FPAN) in response to this was Archaeology Arcade. In Archaeology Arcade we digitally “sit down” with archaeologists around the world and play a video game that has...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rui Gomes Coelho.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Archaeologies of the Long Emancipation", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Plantation economies shaped the world we live in by establishing new relationships between humans, but also between humanity and the rest of the planet. This world-ecology, which Donna Haraway and others have called the Plantationocene, is grounded on modes of extraction, accumulation, and circulation that also defined the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica L Clark.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper explores the domestic architecture and material culture of the James and Sophia Clemens farm in Darke County, Ohio, United States. The Clemens were free persons of color in the early to mid-19th century, but their background was one of enslavement in Virginia. Their Antebellum Ohio farmstead is explored here as an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marianne Sallum. Francisco Noelli. Sílvia Peixoto. Ane Elisabeth Modesti Simões.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pre-Recorded Video Presentation Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This work proposes a different method, one in which historical, genealogical, and archaeological data are analyzed and interpreted through other hermeneutics and semantics in order to find lineages of women who had their names recorded. On the basis of two archaeological sites in Rio de Janeiro -...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Johana Caterina Mantilla Oliveros.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Archaeologies of the Long Emancipation", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The analysis of three models of houses in the Afro-Colombian community of San Basilio de Palenque points to developments in domestic spaces, each related to specific contexts of social, economic, and cultural transformations. Original domestic formations date from the early stages of the emergence of this maroon community. Another...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stefania Manfio. Alessandra Cianciosi.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "In Small Islands Forgotten: Insular Historical Archaeologies of a Globalizing World", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper illustrates the relationships between the indentured laborers diaspora, the progress in maritime technology, and crises caused by the outbreak of diseases of epidemic proportions in the British Indian Ocean colonies. The improvement of shipbuilding made the voyage faster; however,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elisabeth Waldhart.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Post-medieval Archaeology and Pollution", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Pollution as part of archaeological sites does not necessarily have to be part of the primary research question or period under study. It can also be part of the taphonomic processes that occur after the site has been abandoned by its former inhabitants, while excavations are taking place there, and when it eventually becomes a site of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cristina Incio-del-Río.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology/Architecture", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. My doctoral researh studies the processes of modernization of the rural world in the Iberian northwest, from the eighteenth century to the present, analyzing the domestic space of four different case studies. Its objective is to examine the extent to which the house participates in these processes, since it is a key element in the extension and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ayana O Flewellen. Justin P Dunnavant.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“Folkeliv” and Black Folks’ Lives: Archaeology, History, and Contemporary Black Atlantic Communities", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Black studies critical theorizations have much to offer the field of archaeology both in theory and practice. For Saidiya Hartman (2008) redress entails confronting formations of epistemic violence that undergird the archival record; it is a praxis that is always incomplete....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrícia Carvalho. José Bettencourt.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Early Modern Seaports in the Context of Global Cities Emergency. Harbour, Maritime and Landscape Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. CONCHA’s main goal is to address the different ways that port cities developed around the Atlantic from the late 15th to the early 18th century in relation to differing global, regional, and local ecological and economic environments. The project is framed around seven...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tania Andrade Lima.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of Cities: Unearthing Complexity in Urban Landscapes", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Until recently the archaeology of the African diaspora in the Americas had focused its attention primarily on the plantations. Research conducted in urban areas, however, has shown the wealth of information extractable from city subsoils. As one of the most important ports of entry of Africans during...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christine Thompson. Kevin C. Nolan. Lance Greene.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Continued archaeological and community engaged research at the site of the Revolutionary War Battle of Peckuwe (1780) located in Springfield, Ohio, is producing results that will help set the stage for updated battlefield interpretation. The largest American Revolution conflict west of the Alleghenies, the ~1200 residents of the Shawnee town of Peckuwe struggled to thwart the attack of a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William A White. III.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“Folkeliv” and Black Folks’ Lives: Archaeology, History, and Contemporary Black Atlantic Communities", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeology in the United States is slowly undergoing a paradigmatic shift. While it is difficult to discern which direction the profession will take, ethical, demographic, and economic forces are moving archaeology into a space it has not previously occupied. Decades of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bryan Lintott.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pre-Recorded Video Presentation Things and the Global Antarctica", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The mythos of Antarctica and Outer Space is imbued with an aura of adventure and association with iconic figures of exploration and science that have influenced public discourses and political decisions. Beyond these tropes in the public domain are hard geospatial-geopolitical considerations, complex logistics,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David L Conlin. Ricardo T. Duarte. Yolanda T. Duarte. Stephen C. Lubkemann. Celso Simbine.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Underwater Archeology of a French Slave Ship In Northern Mozambique- L'Aurore", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper summarizes the session, highlighting evidence, drawing implications and proposing directions for future research on the IDNM-013 shipwreck site in Mozambique.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joel A. Dukes.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Archaeology of Arms: New Analytical Approaches", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Theodore Roosevelt is quoted as saying “The Great body of our citizens shoot less as time goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys and indeed among all classes ….” Roosevelt lived at Sagamore Hill, in Oyster Bay, New York from 1880 until his death in 1919. In 2021 the National Park Service Northeast Region...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kimberly Pyszka.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Leaders of religious institutions created cultural landscapes that materially expressed their ideologies, identities, goals, and power. Decisions related to structure location, architectural style, and overall visual appearance were not random. Rather, they were well-thought-out and deliberate choices made by religious leaders for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca Gowland. Anwen Caffell. Malin Holst. Michelle Alexander. Sally Robinson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper Bodies: Excavating Archival Tissues and Traces", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The skeletal remains of 154 individuals, including 22 of known identity, were excavated from a rural churchyard in Yorkshire, England. A community-led investigation into the lives of these people was undertaken by the Washburn Heritage Centre Team, some of whom were descendants of the named individuals, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shannon A. Novak.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper Bodies: Excavating Archival Tissues and Traces", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1923, on a sugar plantation in British Guiana, 23-year-old overseer Leslie H.C. Phillips witnessed an elaborate ritual performed by hundreds of indentured laborers from southern India. The event propitiated the goddess Kali in variable shapes and forms. If the “Kali-Mai Puja” was mysterious and in need of interpretation,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nigel Jeffries.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of Cities: Unearthing Complexity in Urban Landscapes", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Nearly 20 years have passed since a raft of foundational and influential studies on urban archaeology on 19th–century cities from the United States and Australia were published. Many of the individuals involved in these works where drawn together and present at a meeting in 2008 at the University of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James M. Davidson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Recent Directions in Florida’s Historical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The archaeological study of enslavement in the United States began in the late 1960s, with excavations by Charles Fairbanks at Kingsley Plantation and the Rayfield Plantation. In both instances, evidence of firearms was recovered, suggesting that Africans were armed. As more plantation spaces were excavated in the ensuing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Schmader.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Colonial Ventures and Native Voices: Legacies from the Spanish and Portuguese Empires", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In early 1540, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado led a large exploration from Mexico’s west coast into the American Southwest, searching for an overland route to Asia. Coronado enlisted 360 Europeans and 1,300 or more Mexican Indigenous soldiers (indios amigos) to achieve Spain’s goal of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Diana Gonzalez-Tennant.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Recent Directions in Florida’s Historical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Digital archaeology provides a powerful method for communicating the threats associated with natural disasters and sea level rise to the public. Static graphics often fail to capture public imagination, and attention to these issues is increasingly problematic as threats are unnecessarily politicized. Digital archaeology,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric A. Rodríguez-Delgado. Katrina Cantu.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Re-Visualizing Submerged Landscapes", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Developing accurate reconstructions of changes in coastal geomorphology is critical to understanding how past sea-level rise inundated landscapes and influenced human activities. Previous approaches to coastal reconstructions have often been limited to “bathtub” reconstructions that use regional or global eustatic sea-level curve values to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sorna Khakzad Knight. Barbara Clark.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Northwest Florida encompasses unique maritime natural-cultural resources that have played major roles in the development of North America and its history. These resources contribute to tourism, education and recreation, and therefore, are important for Florida's socioeconomic development. As at the state level, Florida is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Celso Simbine.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Maritime Archeology of the Slave Trade: Past and Present Work, and Future Prospects", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper discusses the results of a recent investigation of ceramics from Mozambique Island. This contributes to and builds upon previous archaeological work that has made a start on describing and dating the ceramic sequence and linking it to the history of the southeast African coast over...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chelsea M. Cohen.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Port of Call: Archaeologies of Labor and Movement through Ports", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. While sailing and dock work are both tractable through archaeological and archival records, the process of building out docks and wharves remains obscured. The moderation of meeting between land and water was formative in urban port placemaking, directly impacting the size of ships and quantities of storage a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven G Harris.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In recent years, Trent’s Cave, located on Trents Plantation (St. James Parish, Barbados), has served as a site of personal interest due to the collection of iron and steel artifacts recovered from the cavern and surrounding area. Typically, when exploring the earliest industries found in Barbados from the 1600-1800s, rarely is the attention placed on the nature of metallurgy, or where...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Audrey R. Dawson. Kimberly K Cavanagh. Eric Plaag.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Barnwell Archaeological Research Project is a multi-disciplinary endeavor incorporating archaeological excavations, historical and archival research, and geological dating analysis exploring a tabby structure located at the Barnwell Site (38BU90), Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, USA. Undertaken at the request of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nigel Jeffries.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Bartmann Goes Global - Exploring the Cultural Contexts, Meaning and Use of Bellarmine Jugs Across the Globe", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The English seemingly had a distinct and unique relationship as consumers of the Frechen stoneware during the early modern period. The widespread trade and use of the vessels centred on London, the Eastern and South-east regions of England in particular led to their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mia L Carey.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Urban Preservation Challenges in a Global Perspective", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2015, the District of Columbia’s Historic Preservation Office and a team of professional and volunteer archaeologists excavated 3324 Dent Place, NW in an affluent neighborhood in Upper Georgetown. The property was purchased by Yarrow Mamout, an emancipated African Muslim in 1800. Mamout lived on the property until his...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anne E. Wright. Jeneva P. Wright. Josephine Ketten.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Methods for Monitoring Heritage at Risk Sites in a Rapidly Changing Environment", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As part of an interdisciplinary marine science “Women Wounded Veterans in National Parks” program, a group of women veterans assisted National Park Service (NPS) underwater archaeologists with a pilot citizen science submerged cultural resources monitoring effort at Dry Tortugas National Park....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caroline Borges. Diane Wallman. Jonathan Bethard. Claudia Cunha. Ana Lucia do Nascimento Oliveira. Suely Cristina Albuquerque de Luna.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Port of Call: Archaeologies of Labor and Movement through Ports", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This research focuses on the city of Recife, Pernambuco, Northeast Brazil, from the 16th to the 18th centuries. Recently archaeological excavations inside the Port of Recife revealed that the occupation of the area was first established as a fortress in the 16th century. Later, the area became one of the main...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marissa G Triola.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Maritime Archaeology in West Africa", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Manillas and cowry shells served as alternative currencies in the trans-Atlantic trade in West Africa. Cowries are marine snails native to the Indian Ocean whose shells were brought into West Africa by trans-Saharan traders and adopted as an everyday alternative currency exchangeable for anything from food to slaves. Manillas are brass...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jette Linaa.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Poverty And Plenty In The North", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The 16th and 17th century saw a growth in the urban poor, many of whom were parts of a mass migration from countryside to cities. Many of the newcomers were poor trying to escape a poverty induced by epidemics, wars, climate change or political unrest. Some managed to settle in the cities for life, while others faced a life in constant...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Carlos Del Cairo Hurtado. Jesus Alberto Aldana Mendoza. Victoria Báez Santos. Juan David Sarmiento Rodríguez. Carla Riera Andreu.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "In Small Islands Forgotten: Insular Historical Archaeologies of a Globalizing World", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Interdisciplinary approaches from maritime, coastal, island, nautical and underwater archaeology have been developed in recent years in Colombia, particularly on the island of Tierrabomba in Cartagena de Indias, the islands of Providencia and Santa Catalina and La Guajira Peninsula...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Beverly A. Straube.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Bartmann Goes Global - Exploring the Cultural Contexts, Meaning and Use of Bellarmine Jugs Across the Globe", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Bartmann jugs from England’s first successful transatlantic settlement at Jamestown, Virginia, are an incomparable resource for creating a much needed typochronology of the ware. Archaeological excavations since 1994 on the site of James Fort, Virginia, have produced...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brad Loewen.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Sal, Bacalhau e Açúcar : Trade, Mobility, Circular Navigation and Foodways in the Atlantic World", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the centuries before Europeans arrived in their lands, Indigenous societies around the Gulf of Saint Lawrence gradually renounced the long-distance exchange and mobility that had characterised their more distant past. Beginning in the Middle Woodland period, we may infer...

DOCUMENT Citation Only M. Pilar Prieto-Martínez.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Louisbourg fortress (Nova Scotia, now Canada) is an exceptional site for the study of ceramics from the first half of the 18th century. Millions of fragments and complete pieces have been documented there during archaeological excavations. In particular, the amount of Rhenish stoneware in Louisbourg, a type little studied until now, is comparatively very small (less than 10,000...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer A Lupu.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of Cities: Unearthing Complexity in Urban Landscapes", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Known as the “Federal City,” Washington, DC has undergone extensive archaeological excavation and analysis, in part due to American law that requires pre-construction testing for federal government-related construction projects. However, this wealth of data is understudied and rarely revisited after...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alyssa C. Bader. Aimée E. Carbaugh. Jenny L. Davis. Krystiana L. Krupa. Ripan S. Malhi.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Reimagining Repatriation: Providing Frameworks for Inclusive Cultural Restitution", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Biological samples collected from the physical remains of Indigenous Ancestors have been regarded by institutions and researchers as an inanimate resource, independent of the individual from whom they were removed. These Ancestral samples are used in destructive archaeometric research such as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah-Marie M Lamle. Jenna Baelz. Claudia Johnson. Charles Beeker.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Shipwreck sites have long been studied archaeologically to gain insight into past cultures, trade routes, and ways of life of the people on board. However, the intersection of archaeology and biology on shipwrecks can prove to be just as significant, as shipwrecks in tropical Caribbean waters facilitate the growth of corals through increased benthic rugosity. Reefs are one of the first...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabby O Hartemann.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pre-Recorded Video Presentation Global Black Archaeologies: Mobilizing Critical, Anti-Racist, De/Anti-Colonial, and Black Feminist Archaeologies in Uncertain Times", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Through their increasing occupation of a very much still hegemonically white and western field of knowledge, Black and Indigenous archaeologists have raised concerns about the inherent complicities of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alicia D Odewale. Parker VanValkenburgh. Nkem Ike. Amber Vinson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Materialities of (Un)Freedom: Examining the Material Consequences of Inequality within Historical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In this paper, we present an archaeology of anti-Black violence and economic inequality in early 20th Century Tulsa, Oklahoma. Here, white jealousy, hatred, and class resentment exploded in the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, leading to almost unimaginable consequences for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jonathan Gardner.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Post-medieval Archaeology and Pollution", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In this paper I explore changing valuations of oil shale waste – blaes– in West Lothian, Scotland. Around 150 million cubic metres of blaes remains here in vast heaps called bings, the remnants of a short-lived but globally significant oil industry, active between 1851 and 1962. While the bings are relatively nontoxic, they are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth D. Meade.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Artifacts are More Than Enough: Recentering the Artifact in Historical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Chocolate is one of very few things that can bring joy to nearly everyone and yet, little evidence of the consumption of chocolate has been documented in of New York City’s historical archaeological record. A 2016 CRM investigation documented 19th century shaft features in the rear yards of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tessa Somogyi. Kelly Gardner. Elizabeth A. DiGangi.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper Bodies: Excavating Archival Tissues and Traces", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This presentation will focus on a medical school bone box that was recently discovered in the basement of the Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science and Technology in Syracuse, New York. We view the isolated bone box as an archive in and of itself and reflective of the consequences of structural violence on living people....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Suanna Selby Crowley.

Often characterized as the hub of the American abolitionist and human rights movements, the Northeast United States has a more complex legacy. Evidence of enslavement and systemic oppression is plentiful, revealing a more accurate picture of the brutal conditions under which enslaved Africans and Indigenous peoples lived. Popular views ignore or underplay this disturbing legacy. However, immunity from critique is waning and re-examination with fresh data is underway. A new generation of scholars...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ranjith M. Jayasena.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Colonial Forts in Comparative, Global, and Contemporary Perspective", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeological research has exposed the remains of multiple 17th- and 18th-century fortifications built by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) from the Cape of Good Hope to the Far East. This data allows us to look at the types of forts employed by the Dutch, at the origins of their architecture, and at the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Diego Carabias. Nicolás C. Ciarlo. Renato Simonetti. Leonor Adán. Marcelo Godoy. David Letelier.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The settlement of Valdivia and its harbor, located on the west coast of South America (Lat. 39°48’S), was of strategic importance for the Spanish Empire. This study aims to explore and visibilize diverse archaeological evidence related to eighteenth century activities presently located in aquatic environments of the ‘Plaza de...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert C. Chidester.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Colonial Forts in Comparative, Global, and Contemporary Perspective", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Fort Miamis, a British military outpost built in 1794 near present-day Toledo, Ohio, was an attempt to establish the British Empire and British identity in hotly contested territory. Poorly located and poorly constructed, the fort was never actually completed before it was turned over to U.S. forces in 1796....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ruth Young. Shakirullah Khan. Abdul Samad. Paul Newson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In this paper, we will present key results from fieldwork for the first project to record and explore the British Period in the modern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in what is now Pakistan. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (located in the north west of modern Pakistan), remained outside formal British control until the second half of the 19th...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Colleen M. Betti.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. When excavating three late 19th -mid-20th century Black schoolhouse sites in Gloucester, Virginia, expected pencils, writing slate, and ink wells were recovered. But in addition to the educational artifacts, a significant amount of personal adornment artifacts was found, including jewelry, buttons, makeup, and hair combs....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick J Boyle.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The mid-Atlantic oyster industry of the United States greatly expanded in the 19th century from advancements in oyster fishing equipment. As a result, the traditional sailing vessels used in the Chesapeake Bay region were modified specifically to dredge for oysters. A variety of new boat types were created that were capable of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebekah L. Planto.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology/Architecture", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In North America, recent-historical archaeology and architectural history tend to occupy separate spheres compared to, for instance, buildings archaeology in the UK. Partial exceptions include places like the Chesapeake, where the two disciplines have shared roots at institutions like Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown, and St. Mary’s City. But at more...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brígida Baptista. Ana Catarina Garcia. Filipe Castro.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Lisbon, The Tagus And The Global Navigation", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Between 2016-20017 the archeological intervention in Campo das Cebolas, in Lisbon, revealed the remains of 8 Tagus river traditional boats from the 19th century. After the intervention all timbers were maintained in tanks with appropriate conservation environmental conditions. In 2020, during pandemic quarantine a team of four...

DOCUMENT Citation Only B E Charles.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "In Small Things Remembered II: An Archaeology of Affective Objects and Other Narratives", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Mortuary treatment in a capitalist society can be cost-prohibitive and a source of shame or guilt for those unable to pay for a proper burial. Coroner reports from Milwaukee County describe the recovery of miscarried, stillborn, or infant remains from outdoor locations, often concealed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Clifford J Pereira.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“Folkeliv” and Black Folks’ Lives: Archaeology, History, and Contemporary Black Atlantic Communities", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Today the Cape Verde islands are an independent country with a distinct culture encapsulated in the Kruolu/Kriol language. In the colonial past this culture extended to regions of coastal West Africa through a trading network whose reach was beyond that of Afro-European...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Magali Duchesne Lachèvre. Boris Lesueur. Franck Bigot.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Anémone Project Les Saintes (Guadeloupe) : Result of the first multi-year underwater archaeological excavation in the French West Indies 2015-2019", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During excavations realized on this wreck, archival research proved to be preponderant for ship identification, as archives were collated with in situ observation to identify clearly the remains. Comparing them with the results of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Valerie A. Johnson. Amber Pelham. Lynn Harris. Kim Kenyon. Justin McIntyre.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Maritime Archeology of the Slave Trade: Past and Present Work, and Future Prospects", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Several projects and research-in-progress address slave trade in North Carolina. Port records yield information about human cargoes entering local customs districts with details about demographics and venues, with strong links to West Indies slave trade depots. Other projects include...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jean-Sébastien Guibert. Guillaume Martins. Gerardo Leal.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Anémone Project Les Saintes (Guadeloupe) : Result of the first multi-year underwater archaeological excavation in the French West Indies 2015-2019", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The wreck of the Anémone has yielded equipment that allows its identification, such as its 12-pound carronade (model 1818), or that is rarely observed, such as its rudder, which is exceptionally well preserved, its sheathing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Liz M. Quinlan.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Fish, Oyster, Whale: The Archaeology of Maritime Traditions", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Late Norse site of Earl’s Bu is a high status farmstead site located in Orphir on Orkney’s Mainland. Described in the 13th-century Orkneyinga Saga, the site served not only as Earl Harald’s residence, but hosted a series of documented feasts, the largest of which reportedly took place at Christmas in 1135 CE....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mariana E. Zechini.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Originally founded by Alexander Spotswood as a small German settlement in 1714, Germanna quickly grew into an active frontier town in Virginia. By the mid-18th century, Fort Germanna, Alexander Spotswood’s home (known as the Enchanted Castle), and a bustling town with a courthouse had all resided in the area at one point or another. In addition to these structures, various groups of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin E Hall.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "A Land Unto Itself: Virginia's Northern Neck, Colonialism, And The Early Atlantic", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Since 2016, more than 20 Indigenous sites have been tested in the Northern Neck. Two sites, Baylor and Camden, stand out for the thousands of Indigenous ceramics present. A trend seen nowhere else in the Northern Neck, it is seen at Posey, a site along the Potomac in Maryland. This paper...

DOCUMENT Citation Only José M Matés Luque.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Transient legacies of the past: Historical Archaeology in the Intertidal Zone", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For the last few years, we have started recording wrecks abandoned in the intertidal zone. This is an individual project done with the help of volunteers so recording speed is slow. We also have limited resources available; we cannot record all the wrecks and some interfere with others. Besides,...