Society for Historical Archaeology 2023

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew B Ballance.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. El Lazarillo de Ciegos Caminantes (1775) describes the colonial highway from Buenos Aires to Lima. Authored by a Spanish official, the document reflects a uniquely elite experience of travel. The author describes a route centered on a system of official lodging infrastructure. However, the archaeological record shows significant...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elisa Dupuis. Emmanuelle Sultan.

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. In the framework of the interdisciplinary program HABIT-ANT? (inhabiting Antarctica and being inhabited) a research axis aims to mobilize the tools of contemporary archaeology to approach the relationships to Antarctica developed on and off site. In this perspective, processes and phenomena related to habitation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica L. Yann.

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. As part of ongoing NAGPRA compliance, Michigan State University recently drafted its first official NAGPRA policy. As part of the discussions surrounding the creation of this policy, two things became clear 1) that as a university, we are committed to “working collaboratively with Indigenous...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ellen M. Lofaro. Jenna Domeischel.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The practice of repatriation has become increasingly nuanced as people and nations around the world have renewed their demands for the return of their cultural patrimony from international – generally, Western – museums. International repatriation has grown so significantly that a number of federal agencies have developed working groups devoted to the topic, and universities and museums...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jayne-Leigh Thomas.

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. For several decades, global repatriation efforts have focused primarily on the return of human remains and funerary items from archaeological contexts. A shift now has museums looking towards high profile items such as the Elgin Marbles and looted artifacts from Benin. Although immensely...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nigel Nayling.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Digital Approaches in Nautical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This presentation introduces the SHA2023 Open Symposium Digital Approaches in Nautical Archaeology, providing some initial context for the symposium’s objectives and scope, and the structure of the presentations and concluding discussion. The symposium is seen as timely given the now widespread use of digital methods for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Donald A. Gaylord. Arthur Rodrigues.

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 the 1970s, archaeologists located many of the lost buildings at the site of Liberty Hall Academy, which operated from 1782 until 1803. Their interpretation focused exclusively on the Academy Period, which left many questions remaining about a site occupied continuously from the 1740s until today in an area with indigenous...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alicia Hawkins. Heather Walder.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Glass Beads: Global Artefacts, Local Perspectives", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Tracing Wendat patterns of interaction in the 17th century AD is a long-standing research topic in Ontario and the broader Great Lakes region. To address this, new research employing both historical documentation and composition of the glass trade beads is beginning to untangle the networks of cross-Atlantic exchange that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julie Dunne. Susan Flavin. Ellen O'Carroll. Richard Evershed.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "FoodCult: Food, Culture and Identity in Ireland, c.1550-1650", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Organic residue analysis is commonly used to investigate prehistoric vessels to determine diet and animal management strategies worldwide. The technique allows the differentiation between various foodstuffs, including non-ruminant and ruminant carcass fats, dairy, aquatic and plant products. However, it is less...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Bollwerk.

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. The Enclosed Compound (44PG65) at Flowerdew Hundred plantation, located on the south side of the James River in Virginia, was an early 17th century fortified site constructed to protect its inhabitants from the local Algonquian-speaking Indians of Tsenacomoco and the perceived ever-present threat of Spanish...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Trenton Zylstra. Kelsey Rooney.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Maritime Archaeology in West Africa", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the late 1960s, a British “adventurer” purchased a small fishing boat from Senegal, used it to build a catamaran, and then sailed across the Atlantic to the US. This presentation studies the original construction of the dugout canoe, known colloquially in Senegal as a pirogue. This term, broadly applied to numerous local, vernacular...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashley Elizabeth E Mlazgar. Eva J Parra. Logan B Hick. Ian A Villamil.

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. The field of archaeology’s future depends on the successful engagement of the public with archaeological interests, whether through supplementary research information, support for the preservation of sites and artifacts, or financial investment in projects. Many members of the public, however, do not...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Krysta Ryzewski. Rebecca S. Graff. Jan Tichy. John Cardinal. Casey Carter. Julia DiLaura. Brianna LeBlanc. Anastasia Woody.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology/Architecture", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This presentation reflects upon the scope and outcomes of a collaborative archaeological and creative project at the site of the Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead in the backlot of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD). In 2021 and 2022 research involving archaeologists based in Detroit and Chicago, artist Jan Tichy, and the MoCAD’s Teen Council...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leonie M Stevens.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. A series of cottages on the settlement of Wybalenna on Flinders Island, in Bass Strait, housed Tasmania’s exiled palawa peoples for a ten year period, from 1837, when the cottages were constructed, to 1847 when the palawa community won repatriation to the Tasmanian mainland. Judy Birmingham’s study of materials found on an amateur...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas W Richards. Patricia B Richards.

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. For the poor and indigent buried at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (MCPFC), it was the Board of Supervisors of Milwaukee County who, by the late 1800s, contracted local undertakers to supply the MCPFC with burial containers. This practice of contracting for construction of coffins...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leah E Tavasi.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. While piracy is a modern phenomenon as much as an ancient one, piratical theory has been relatively opaque until recent years. Smugglers, buccaneers, and freebooter's fluidity and capriciousness is not reflected in the black-and-white morality of a quintessential pirate. Using modern pirate theory, this paper looks at the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephanie Wynne-Jones. Elizabeth Hicks.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Islamic material culture", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Patterns of production and use of ceramics in eastern Africa offer a window into practices of consumption. Islamic glazed ceramics, originating in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, are the most plentiful evidence for trade networks and the accumulation of wealth from trade in coastal East Africa from c. AD700 onwards. Locally produced earthenwares suggest...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jo McDonald.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Seacountries of Northern Australia and Island Neighbours", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For 7,000 years the Dampier Archipelago (Murujuga) was the traditional land and sea country of the Yaburara and Mardudunhera. Ngarda ngarli have inscribed and deliberately modified this landscape for 50,000 years. After the LGM, rapid sea level rise brought demographic packing and intensive mangal-forest occupation....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jonathan Moore.

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. On May 9, 1869, Charles Francis Hall, an American explorer tracking the lost Franklin Expedition of 1845, examined a strip of sheet copper with telltale Broad Arrow markings. He was in an iglu on the sea ice off King William Island (in present day Nunavut, Canada), near to where Franklin’s...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christine D Beaule.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Environmental Intimacies: Political Ecologies of Colonization and Anti-Colonial Resilience", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The commercial production and control of ritually significant crops such as tobacco and corn had highly variable, and sometimes surprising, impacts on consumption patterns in Indigenous cultures throughout the Spanish colonial empire. This presentation will critically analyze theories...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emma Verstraete.

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. Multi-component sites are common in urban excavations because of continuous occupation. In downtown Springfield, Illinois there are 3 major areas of archaeological excavation that correspond with specific eras and inhabitants. The Lincoln Home National Historic Site focuses on pre-Civil War inhabitation in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrea P. White. Katherine M. Sims.

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. Often called the Nation’s Oldest City, St. Augustine is the earliest, continuously occupied European settlement in the continental United States. In 1986, the City of St. Augustine was proactive in creating its own Archaeology Preservation Ordinance to protect its buried heritage. This ordinance is unique because it...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aja M. Lans.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Archaeologies and Latin American Voices: Dialogues Transcending Colonizing Archaeologies", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Growing up, my father taught me to say, “I’m not Black, I’m Dominican.” But I eventually realized I am indeed also Black. I do not speak Spanish, and my Latinx heritage is recognizable only in certain spaces. I noticed the conflation of racial constructs and ethnic backgrounds...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William T. T. Taylor. Fernando Villanea.

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 introduction of domestic horses into North America had tremendous social and ecological consequences – these animals underpinned the colonial projects of European powers, while also giving rise to powerful Indigenous horse cultures. Though much attention has been paid to the spread of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Janene W. Johnston. Leah A. Stricker.

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. Jamestown, England’s first successful settlement in North America, was established in 1607 by the Virginia Company of London as an economic venture. Though the colony struggled to survive, let alone profit for the first several years, the site transformed from a precarious outpost into a vital...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Givens. Mary Anna Hartley. Sean Romo. Dan Gamble.

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. Over the last 28 years, the Jamestown Rediscovery archaeology team has uncovered nearly all of the original James Fort (ca. 1607). Once thought lost to erosion, the formulaic expression of this English fortification implemented in Virginia can now be reconciled in the context of the historical record and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elliot H Blair. Dennis B Blanton.

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. Simple, drawn, turquoise blue beads (Kidd and Kidd IIa40), often referred to by a number of different regional names (e.g., Ichtucknee Plain, Early Blue), are one of the most common varieties recovered on colonial sites in North America. Beads of this variety dominate the 17th century James...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Caldwell Steele. Richard R Hark.

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 Jamestowne jet crosses, currently interpreted as Spanish Catholic crucifixes, seemingly represent evidence that the early English settlers embraced a hybrid Protestant faith. However, these crosses stylistically resemble British Whitby jet witch charms, a group of artefacts that oral...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Genevieve Godbout.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology/Architecture", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1980–1982, architect John Hejduk creates The Lancaster/Hanover Masque, a series of conceptual drawings accompanied by texts, in which he imagines the built environment and daily activities of a fictional community. Hejduk uses the “masque”, a form of English court pageantry popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as a mode of inquiry to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lynn Brenda Harris.

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. Simon’s Town, in South Africa, served as naval port and harbor first for the British and later for the South African Navy. Cultural connections to other parts of Africa, United States, and the Far East are an equally important part of the historical narrative and naval identity of the False Bay. Kroomen from West...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Savannah L Bedsole.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Ongoing Care and Study Through a Digital Catalogue of Port Royal", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. At the Port Royal, Jamaica site over 20,000 English kaolin clay pipe bowl and stem fragments were recovered over the 10-year collaborative excavation between the Institute of Nautical Archaeology, Texas A&M University, and the Jamaica National Heritage Trust. These pipes are ubiquitous artifacts, excellent for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Irena Radic Rossi. Mauro Bondioli. Kotaro Yamafune.

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. At the peak of the development of Maritime Republic of Ragusa, at the end of the 15th century, the Port of Dubrovnik (Ragusa) gained its present appearance with the construction of the Kaše breakwater. Within the project APPRODI (Interreg ADRION), for the first time...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Will Williams.

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. Artifacts recovered in the summer of 2021 at 263 Dunkerhook Road suggest the 19th-century property was the location of a vibrant community social life. Recovered were numerous artifacts related to tea and alcohol use and service. The ceramic consumption pattern in this African American...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marijo Gauthier-Bérubé.

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. Beyond the distribution of goods and the mobility of individuals, trading networks also involve the dissemination of knowledge and ideas, both through passive and active processes. Because ships were central to these networks, shipwrights participated in this intellectual...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madick Gueye.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Maritime Archaeology in West Africa", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Depuis le 15ème siècle, la presqu'île du Cap-Vert est devenue un maillon essentiel dans les transactions maritimes liant la Sénégambie et le reste du monde grâce à la baie de Gorée. Cette zone a servi de points d’interactions entre la mer et la terre, entre la côte et l’hinterland et entre la Sénégambie et le reste du monde. Plus qu’un...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Krista L. Eschbach.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeologists have traditionally applied a dichotomy to the classification of ceramics recovered from Northwest Florida presidios, reflecting broad assumptions about labor relations in the Spanish Southeast U.S. Ceramic sorting typically begins with the assumption that low-fired, hand-formed wares were produced by Native potters of the Southeast U.S. High-fired, wheel-thrown, or...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hope A Bridgeman. Hunter W Whitehead.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Historic maritime activity along the Texas coast is extensive; Europeans have navigated the region the last ca. 500 years since initial Spanish exploration in the early 1500s. During this period, exploration, maritime shipping, fishing, shipbuilding, and tourism activities increased relative to coastal and port development. Notable...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nan A Rothschild. Diana Wall.

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. The landscapes of mid 19th-century Black New Yorkers in Manhattan seem to have formed in different patterns. Some people lived in segregated communities a short distance from the densely settled town (e.g., Seneca Village). Others were dispersed in the poorer part of the city among the white working...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julia King.

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 Northern Neck of Virginia appears to have had an especially large Indigenous population at the moment of English occupation in 1607. That population grew through the 17th century as colonial authorities generally prevented settlers from moving into the region while Indigenous nations from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chermaine Liew ZheMin.

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. Bay Bulls is known as one of the oldest settlements on the island of Newfoundland. Ideally situated on the “Southern Shore” of the Avalon Peninsula, Bay Bulls harbour was used by European fishermen from countries including France, Spain, and Portugal as early as the 16th century,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabriela Oré Menéndez.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Archaeologies and Latin American Voices: Dialogues Transcending Colonizing Archaeologies", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In this presentation, I reflect on the disparities in Latin America’s archaeological application and adaptation of digital and computational technologies. Archaeological practice in Latin America exists in constant cooperation between local and foreign agents—usually from the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth C. Clay.

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. French colonial chroniclers characterized plantation slavery in Guyane as consistently lacking in funds and labor. Despite a small population and marginal profits, French enslavers sought to manifest their imaginings of a productive colony through landscapes that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Francisco Mendes. Marco Freitas. José Bettencourt.

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. The following paper intends to disclose the results of the study of some anchors sets found in archaeological contexts, datable from the 15th century onwards in the Lisbon waterfront. Through the study of these archaeological materials of various sizes and appearances, we hope both to provide some useful data for the research on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chris Dostal.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Digital Approaches in Nautical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Researchers with the Center for Maritime Archaeology and Conservation at Texas A&M University have utilized coordinate measuring machine-based 3D laser scanning to record and reconstruct four disarticulated wooden archaeological ships from Alexandria, VA between 2018 and 2022. This paper summarizes the laser scanning and data...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elisa Costa.

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 paper describes an operational working methodology to survey wooden artifacts in maritime archaeology, using photogrammetry and hand-held 3D laser scanning. These digital techniques are widely employed for a non-contact approach to the documentation of artifacts, due to their high-resolution and high-accuracy 3d recordings, which...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mariana Mateus. José Bettencourt. Gonçalo Lopes. Nuno Neto. Raquel Santos. Luís Reis.

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. The archaeological intervention of the Rua Dom Luís I, 1-18 A / Rua da Boavista, 51-59 site, gave us the opportunity to record new data related to the evolution and use of the west part of Lisbon riverfront, between the 17th and 20th centuries. The most relevant finds recorded during this intervention are related to the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jimena Lobo Guerrero Arenas.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Archaeologies and Latin American Voices: Dialogues Transcending Colonizing Archaeologies", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. A good number of museums in Europe house Latin American archaeological collections. The majority of objects that make them up were acquired by 19th and 20th European expeditions in various contexts of looting, commercial transactions, donations, gifts and more recently even...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine P Gill.

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. Colonoware, found on many sites throughout the Mid-Atlantic, a locally-made ware rooted in cross-cultural pottery-making traditions, has been recovered from Virginia’s Northern Neck. Northern Neck colonoware differs from that recovered elsewhere in Virginia in terms of temper, surface treatment,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Olivia Evans. Jamie Evans. Mary Katherine Brown. Chiara Torrini. Kimberly Kasper.

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 investigates the unmarked cemeteries of the captive and emancipated individuals at the Cedar Grove Plantation and surrounding Antebellum plantations in western Tennessee. The previous research conducted at Cedar Grove Plantation by Rhodes College focused on the daily lives and households of the captive African and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen E. Martindale.

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. CSS Georgia was a Civil War ironclad ship stationed near Fort Jackson at the mouth of the Savannah River from October 1862 until the ship was scuttled in December 1864. During the 2015 and 2017 excavations of the site, archaeologists were surprised by the large number of organic artifacts retrieved...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Diego Aguirrezábal. Bruno Gentile.

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. Multiple documents demonstrate the strong impact of human activities since at least the first decades of the 19th century in waters near the South Shetland Islands. These activities generated a specific material culture directly linked to fishing, hunting, and survival strategies that are still preserved. In...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kate M Ganas.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As a discipline, maritime archaeology has prioritized the study of ship construction methods/design over the wealth of material culture associated with shipwrecks. However, shipwreck assemblages offer a unique opportunity to understand shipboard culture. The Emanuel Point II (EPII) shipwreck of the failed 1559–1561 Luna expedition...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Phil A. Hartmeyer. Frank Cantelas. Mashkoor Malik. Adrienne Adrienne.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Re-Visualizing Submerged Landscapes", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. NOAA Ocean Exploration is the only federal program dedicated to exploring the deep ocean, closing prominent gaps in our basic understanding of US deep waters and the seafloor and delivering the ocean information needed to strengthen the economy, health, and security of our nation. Since 2001, NOAA Ocean Exploration has funded maritime...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Reilly. Caree Banton. Craig Stevens. Chrislyn Laurore.

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 2022 bicentennial of the arrival of Black Americans to West African shores was a moment of reflection for many Liberians. In the wake of civil war, many questioned the celebratory tone of the occasion and challenged settler heritage narratives. At the same time, Providence Island featured prominently in official programming,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Denise Jaffke. Chris Corey. Jim Wood. Alyssa Scott.

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. The Holmes' Colfax quicklime manufacturing site, located near Colfax in Sierra Nevada, was uncovered as a result of the River Fire in 2021. While the site is certainly important for addressing questions about technology, perhaps the more impressive aspect is the density and diversity of the artifact...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Konrad A. Antczak.

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. The Venezuelan Caribbean, while being an expansive and influential space, has been an understudied region, underrepresented within Caribbean and Atlantic-world historiography. Various small islands in the long chain of archipelagoes and insular territories that dot this maritime region —...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chloe A. Trinka. Erika K. Hartley.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.          Over twenty years of excavations at the historic site of Fort St. Joseph, an eighteenth-century mission, garrison, and trading post, have revealed thousands of glass beads. These small personal adornment artifacts can provide information about the occupants of the fort, specifically about expressions of their social identities. By expanding on previous research that focused on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather M Walder. John L Creese. Marvin DeFoe.

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. Gete Anishinaabe Izichigewin Community Archaeological Project (GAICAP) is a collaborative undertaking of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa’s Tribal Historic Preservation Office (THPO) and academic archaeologists in northern Wisconsin. In 2021 and 2022, extensive shovel-test survey...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carley J Divish. Hannah-Marie M Lamle. Samuel I Haskel. Charles D Beeker.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Living Museums in the Sea model was created to be a holistic approach to resource management, protecting underwater cultural resources and their associated environments. This system promotes economic benefits to the local community and knowledge of local history. Managing recovered artifacts is becoming more challenging for archaeologists with the ongoing curation crisis. This model...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mikael J Haller.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Investigating Cultural Aspects of Historic Mortuary Archaeology: Perspectives from Europe and North America", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In addressing attitudes towards death, we recorded gravemarker design and style at the Halifax Old Burying Ground, Nova Scotia, Canada ([HOBG] in operation from CE 1750 to 1845). In additional to detailing general mortuary trends, we were particularly interested in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandria T Mitchem.

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 effects of the pursuit of Natural History were manifold. Occurring simultaneously with imperial expansion and settler colonialism, the act of collecting and transporting natural specimens rewrote political, intellectual, and ecological landscapes. This paper focuses on the impacts of plant collecting on natural environments, by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Óscar Lantes-Suárez. M. Pilar Prieto-Martínez. Manuel Fernández-López. L. Hixinio Flores-Rivas.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Computed tomography (CT) is an imaging technique increasigly used in archaeology and in traditional ceramic research. Specifically, macro-CT is useful to characterize overall morphology, paste homogeneity, wall thickness, hidden cracks, contents and defects and coatings such as glazes and paints. All this aspects are very important in the field of tipology and conservation. The aim of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard T. Griffiths.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Globalisation of Sino-foreign Maritime Exchange: Ocean Cultures", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the year 2020 the world was hit by a devastating pandemic. Centuries later a team of marine archaeologists set out to establish the truth behind the myth that China had once recreated a maritime silk road stretching from the East China Sea, through the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean and ending on the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Philip J Carstairs.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology/Architecture", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Soup kitchens, the charitable provision of food, principally soup (often accompanied by bread), became widespread in late-eighteenth century Britain. During the following century, soup kitchens fed between 10 and 30% of the population during wintertime. They were a vital resource in the survival strategy of the poor. Almost all of the thousands of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles Beeker.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Today the most populous island in the Caribbean, Hispaniola was the epicenter of 15th and 16th century contact between peoples of the Old and New World. From Columbus’ first landfall in 1492 to the middle of the 16th century, Hispaniola was the base and administration center for the entire Spanish Caribbean. The early maritime...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Crystal Castleberry.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As part of a public history site, Colonial Williamsburg’s archaeology department is in constant contact with visitors of all ages and backgrounds. This contact has revealed rising interest in archaeology and its place in historical research and social justice among young people. In 2015, we began a program that invited children to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Diogo V. Oliveira.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Africa’s Discovery of the World from Archaeological Perspectives: Revisiting Moments of First Contact, Colonialism, and Global Transformation", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Cultural heritage and patrimony face myriad threats across the globe. Around the world, governments and institutions continue to affirm an inherent desire to protect cultural heritage, yet actions speak louder than words. Climate...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Linda A Seminario.

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 study explores the relationships between food choice and resistance at a 19th century plantation in the United States. In 2017, archaeologists excavated two features at the Belle Grove enslaved quarters in Middletown, Virginia— a root cellar and borrow pit that was filled in when a log cabin burned down. By using comparative...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tomos Ll Evans.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Africa’s Discovery of the World from Archaeological Perspectives: Revisiting Moments of First Contact, Colonialism, and Global Transformation", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Late 19th century British colonial authorities in Lagos sought to extend imperial hegemony over the Yorùbá kingdoms to the north as part of ongoing efforts to control trade in the interior of what is now Nigeria. The Ìjẹ̀bú Kingdom’s...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ursula K Frederick. Anne Clarke.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Seacountries of Northern Australia and Island Neighbours", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The sea country of Groote Eylandt was formed by ancestral beings who made a vast interconnecting network of islands and waterways; the saltwater that defines the contours of the land has also profoundly shaped Groote Eylandt culture, history and archaeology. Rock paintings of boats and fishing scenes occur from beach to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian Kuijt. William Donaruma.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Materialities: Tracing Connections through Materiality of Daily Life", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. To a 20th century Irish islander, mundane objects on the mantelpiece above the fireplace are not just humdrum keepsakes, economic tools, common items, or assets; rather these objects provided a point of entry into the emotional landscape of memory, identity, and belonging in the Irish home. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christian Röser.

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. Due to its high production numbers and widespread distribution, many scholars who study early modern ceramics are familiar with the Bartmann Jug in one way or another. Nevertheless, it remains a phenomenon that is difficult to grasp: depending on place and time, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Miriam A. W. Rothenberg. Alex Marko. Daniel Plekhov.

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 remarkable site of God’s Little Acre (GLA), the historic African and African American section of Newport’s Common Burial Ground, comprises the largest surviving corpus of gravemarkers from a colonial era African cemetery anywhere in the United States. In 2019, members of the Rhode Island Historic Cemetery Advisory Commission...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Massimiliano Secci. Irene M. Katsouri. Stella Demesticha.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Funded by the Honor Frost Foundation (HFF), the Mare Cyprium Project is a digital archaeology public outreach exercise. It integrates data produced by the Maritime Archaeological Research Laboratory (MARELab), University of Cyprus (UCY) into a series of digital multimedia applications (DMAs). The main aim is to promote the value...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara J. Rivers Cofield.

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. Perhaps following the example of the Spanish who imported horses in the 16th century, the Virginia Company included horses as essential to pack for their colonization venture. However, the primary benefit of carrying horses across the Atlantic before 1609 turned out to be the meat they offered...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Athena Trakadas. Azzedine Karra. Crystal El Safadi. Lucy Blue.

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. Throughout the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), natural and anthropogenic factors are impacting the coastal archaeological record. Documenting and monitoring the threats to these non-renewable Maritime Cultural Heritage (MCH) resources is an essential contribution to the management process....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah C Watkins-Kenney. Lynn B 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. Casks were containers for provisions, supplies, and trade goods aboard ships in the Atlantic world for over 2000 years. On eighteenth century ships engaged in the “Triangle of Trade” the number, capacities, and contents of casks carried depended on stage of the voyage. Identifying a historic shipwreck as a slave-trade vessel may...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stefania Manfio.

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. Analyzing slavery through the lens of shipwrecks makes a significant contribution to the understanding of labor migration. The 'vessel' was a vehicle of culture contact, and the study of the artifacts found in the shipwreck can give us significant information on life at sea. Accordingly,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen C Lubkemann. Paul Gardullo. Gabrielle Miller. Kate McMahon. Jaco Boshoff. Kamau Sadiki. Jay Haigler. Cezar Mahumane. Celso Simbine. David Morgan. Ricardo Duarte. Yolanda Duarte. Raquel Machaqueiro. Meredith Hardy.

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 offers a critical overview of maritime archeology’s limited history of engagement with the slave trade and offers an agenda for an invigorated and socially engaged maritime archeology of the slave trade that can contribute to debates in historiography and to decolonizing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gilson Rambelli. Julio Cesar da Silva Marins.

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 research intends to locate the remains of the slave ship Camargo, that wrecked in the region of Bracuí, in Angra dos Reis Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in December 1852. The wrecking of this ship, built in Maine (USA), was deliberate, after the clandestine landing of approximately 540...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joana Baço. Gonçalo C. Lopes.

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. Starting from the concept forged by Westerdahl in 1992 and during a mission in São Tomé and Príncipe in February 2020, in the framework of the “CONCHA Project - The construction of early modern global Cities and oceanic networks in the Atlantic: An approach via Ocean’s...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paulo F. Bava-de-Camargo.

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 LAqua Project - Salvaguarda e divulgação do património cultural subaquático do Concelho de Lagos - aims to locate the underwater archaeological finds that have been reported to the DGPC/CNANS, but that still lack georeferencing. It is also intended to evaluate its characteristics and the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Abhirada Pook Komoot.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Globalisation of Sino-foreign Maritime Exchange: Ocean Cultures", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Dvāravatī (6th – 11th century CE) was described in Chinese historical texts as a distinctive cultural polity in a strategic location in present-day central Thailand. The accessibility between continental landmass and water communications resulted in the interconnection with regional and overseas exchange...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robyn Pelling. Marie Meranda.

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 Amalfi coast, with its jagged peaks creates a series of village enclaves nestled into the small, relatively flat river valleys along the peninsula. Although geographically isolated, the towns along the peninsula have a network of interconnectivity stemming from their outward maritime focus. Even today, many locals and visitors...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marianne Franklin. AJ Van Slyke. Dorrick Gray. Morgan Smith. Shawn Joy.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Environmental Intimacies: Political Ecologies of Colonization and Anti-Colonial Resilience", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Legacy Project uses modern techniques of geo-archaeology to recreate prehistoric maritime landscapes, combining cultural ecology, history and archaeology to reimagine future stewardship. Reinterpretation of all phases of the area's occupation, looks beyond the scope of traditional...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marie Meranda. Megan Bebee.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Colonial Encounters on the Caribbean Frontier: Archaeology at LaSoye, Dominica", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper focuses on the maritime components of the LaSoye archaeological project. Excavations from the terrestrial site, LaSoye 2, in 2018 and 2019 revealed that this site was occupied within the 16th century. An initial underwater survey via snorkel and scuba were conducted in 2019 to establish...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kari Uotila. Maija Helamaa. Georg Haggrén.

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. Large scale (c. 2 hectare) town excavations were carried out at the Market Square in Turku in 2018-2022. The excavations in revealed well preserved layers and structures more than 20 different town plots inhabited by mainly merchants, craftsmen and military and civil officers. The excavation area is mainly moist clay and organic material is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Camille Westmont.

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. Despite promises of freedom and citizenship for Black people in the United States following the Civil War, legal and cultural systems arose almost immediately to ensure Black citizens, particularly those in former Confederate states, would never achieve parity with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meredith S Chesson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Materialities: Tracing Connections through Materiality of Daily Life", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. What can everyday Irish dressers and delph tell us about family history, rural life, and global connections? As part of the multiyear Cultural Landscapes of the Irish Coast Project, I have researched dressers and their contents, including curated ceramic and glass vessels and other objects, to conduct...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel S Tracey. Meriel McClatchie. Ellen O'Carroll. Susan Flavin.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Materialities: Tracing Connections through Materiality of Daily Life", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. FoodCult is a dynamic interdisciplinary research initiative that explores diet and foodways in early modern Ireland. Drawing from FoodCult’s ground-breaking database of comparative archaeological evidence throughout the island of Ireland, this paper will showcase elements of the fundamentals of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah Lau. Lacey B. Carpenter. Christian Goodwillie. Erika Sanchez Goodwillie.

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. Central New York has experienced cycles of economic prosperity and stagnation. We examine these cycles in the 19th and early 20th centuries through the lived experiences of residents on one plot of land: the Barnabas Pond Farmstead. Originally delineated and constructed between 1797 and 1805 by settlers from Connecticut, the homestead was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Everett J Bassett.

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. Although the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre site, where approximately 120 emigrants were murdered by Mormon militia in Utah, is considered a seminal event in American history, the accurate location of the event was not well understood. This, along with a highly conflicted and suspect historic record, allowed interpretation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fiona Beglane.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "FoodCult: Food, Culture and Identity in Ireland, c.1550-1650", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper will examine the consumption of meat and dairy products in early modern Ireland from a zooarchaeological perspective. It will present preliminary results from the interdisciplinary FoodCult project, which is exploring the diet and foodways of diverse communities in early modern Ireland. Meat has always...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Efrain Ocasio.

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 the mid-19th century, midwives were local women, usually with children of their own, who had learned midwifery as apprentices. Observing and helping with deliveries accumulated their skills and exposed them to the variety of problems they would face when working on their own. Dunkerhook, a community established by formerly...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ramona Harrison.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Governance and Globalization in the North Atlantic", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper presents a interdisciplinary perspective on the long-distance market relations between and within the regional Hinterlands of an Icelandic trading station, and the socio-economic organization and structures in place.   While the main part of the presentation will focus on the 12th to 14th century evidence from both...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Marius Veth.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Seacountries of Northern Australia and Island Neighbours", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Most of the curated seascapes noted from ethnohistoric records come from the tropical north of Sahul and Wallacea. Whether these marine estates are vestiges of maritime expansions or autochthonous remains an intriguing question given recently described marine interaction zones from the southern islands of Wallacea, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Comer. Margaret Comer.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Retrospective: 50 Years Of Research And Changing Narratives At Catoctin Furnace, Maryland", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. On February 11, 1972, Catoctin Furnace was inscribed on the National Register of Historic Places, and the Catoctin Furnace Historical Society, Inc., was chartered on February 8, 1973. An initial cultural resources study undertaken by Contract Archaeology, Inc., of Alexandria, Virginia,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timo Ylimaunu. Paul R. Mullins.

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. Finland was a part of Swedish kingdom some 700 years during the Medieval and early modern periods, before 1809. The country became an autonomous Grand Duchy of Russia as a consequence of the Napoleonic Wars 1809. The Finnish senate declared country’s independence at the December 1917. The new country and the nation had a necessity to find its...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samuel E Bakeis. Harold K Cooper.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Fort Ouiatenon was established by the French in 1717 in what is today northwest Indiana to protect their interests in the region and engage in trade with Indigenous People in the Wabash River valley. Excavations at Ouiatenon in the 1960s and 70s recovered thousands of artifacts including many metal trade goods and numerous fragments of sheet copper and copper alloys. Copper sheet...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kirsten M Hawley. Charles D Beeker. Claudia C Johnson. Shelby Rader.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Geochemical analysis methods such as trace element and stable isotope analyses have been refined in recent years to better address archaeological questions pertaining to clay sourcing as well as ceramic trade and transport. However, these analyses are rarely applied to studies of ceramics from submerged sites due to increased...