Society for Historical Archaeology 2023

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark W Hauser.

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. It has long been recognized that the scale, speed, and magnitude of mobility accelerated dramatically after .ca 1500, through physical movement, communication, and crafting.  Despite this recognition, Historical Archaeology has painted itself into an epistemic corner by employing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maclaren A Guthrie. Alexandra C Kelly. Jason L Toohey.

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 American Wild West was characterized by illicit activity. During the Temperance period (1800-1933) of American history, alcohol consumption became an increasingly policed activity. This paper will present the findings of an analysis of the material culture at the Red Buttes Dugout in comparison to other known bootlegging and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sharon Burnston.

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. During the 1979/1980 Phase III excavation of the Catoctin Furnace African American cemetery, Sharon Ann Burnston served as field supervisor under the direction of the late Ron Thomas, Principal Investigator of Mid-Atlantic Archaeological Research, Inc. Her memories of the data recovery...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sebastien Pauly.

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. The French sugar activity, trade and production, is necessarily maritime because of the climate required for the cultivation of cane. It thus participates, from the 16th century, in the development of the atlantic then transatlantic economy. Having the tools necessary for the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael C. Spears. Nicholas C. Laluk. Benrita Burnette. Maren P. Hopkins.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Boarding And Residential Schools: Healing, Survivance And Indigenous Persistence", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Theodore Roosevelt Boarding School on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation was an active part of a federal policy aimed at divorcing Indigenous youth from their culture and identity. The school removed children from their families, physically disciplined them for use of the Ndee language, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Pluckhahn. Kendal Jackson. Victor D Thompson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Historical and archaeological evidence provides a compelling association of the Native town of Tocobaga with the Safety Harbor site (8PI2), in Tampa Bay, Florida. The Spanish briefly established a mission-fort at Tocobaga in 1567. Responding to abuse by the colonizers, the Tocobagans killed the soldiers and the Spanish burned the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Natascha Mehler.

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 the context of Hanseatic trade, many ships and merchants from Bremen and Hamburg sailed to the North Atlantic islands in the 16th century to bring dried fish and other goods back to northern Germany. Some of these merchants met their deaths abroad. This paper...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adelphine Bonneau. Bernard Gratuze. Alain Champagne.

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. European glass beads were intensively used for trading in the colonies of Africa, Asia and the Americas from the 16th to the early 20th century. Although found in large amounts in colonial sites, our knowledge of their production and their use in Europe is very limited. In this presentation, we discuss seven new collections...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eleanor Breen. Flordeliz T. Bugarin. Benjamin A. Skolnik.

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 1895, a group of trustees established Douglass Cemetery in Alexandria, Virginia, named in memory of Frederick Douglass and for Alexandria’s African American community. Over a century later, the cemetery faces several intersecting preservation issues that threaten the physical integrity of the site and the African...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher D. Green.

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. In 2014, the skull of the famous Kanak rebel, Chief Ataï, was restituted to the Kanak peoples by the French government. Since then, France has been at the center of international restitution debates, especially those in Benin, however less consideration has been given to restitution to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jack Gary. Meredith Poole.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Founded in 1776 the First Baptist Church of Williamsburg is considered one of the oldest Black churches in America. Oral history states that a white landowner gave the congregation its first building, which was destroyed by a tornado and replaced in 1856 with a brick church. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation acquired and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Allison Bain. Edith Gonzalez. Heather Richards-Rissetto. Rebecca Boger. Sophia Perdikaris.

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 Caribbean island of Barbuda, under the exclusive control of the Codrington family and their managers for over 200 hundred years, served primarily as a source of provisions for plantations on Antigua. The island is also home to a unique archaeological site: a purpose-built colonial...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sherene Baugher. John H. Jameson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Monuments and Statues to Women: Arrival of an Historical Reckoning of Memory and Commemoration", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. International examples of statues symbolizing oppression and dominant political power are common in today’s media headlines. Statues and monuments to women are starting to play a significant role in discussions about historical authority, representation, silenced history, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only María Cruz Berrocal.

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. Even if scarcely acknowledged by scholarship and largely unknown for public (touristic) audiences, European forts in Asia-Pacific were impressive material enterprises where many resources were invested, as nodal points to shelter and promote the territorial, economic, and religious expansion. I will review...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Worth. Caroline Peacock. Willet Boyer.

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 chronology and morphology of Spanish olive jar has been divided into early, middle, and late styles since John Goggin's typology was first proposed in 1960, and this has formed a basis for dating sites with a colonial Spanish component for many decades. However, recent research and discoveries have suggested that changes and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only April M. Beisaw.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology/Architecture", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. New York City demolished thousands of rural buildings to create their Catskill, Croton, and Delaware watersheds. Archaeological survey around reservoirs has been able to document the ruins that remain. But correlating foundations to specific buildings and landowners has been difficult, due to the scale of landscape transformation. Current waterways,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David J. McMahan. H. Kory Cooper.

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 incursion of colonial Russian fur hunters into the Pacific spanned more than a century, resulting in 20 principal Alaskan settlements. Russian entrepreneurs, deep-rooted in a feudal system adapted to the conquest of Siberia during the 16th-17th centuries, applied this cultural framework to 18th century...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sean Devlin. Jack Gary. Eric Schweickart. Kara Garvey. Mark Kostro.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Colonoware has been the subject of intense archaeological study since the type’s identification by Ivor Noel Hume at Colonial Williamsburg. The initial decades of analysis were dominated by debates centered on the cultural and ethnic origins of the ceramic’s production. A primary observation to emerge from this period, however, was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sean H. Reid. Oluseyi O. Agbelusi. Samuel Amartey. Francis M. Momoh.

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 will assess the current state of the maritime and cultural landscapes of the region from a historical archaeological perspective and highlight their potential for present and future research. It centers on the spatial and material practices on Bunce Island and related trade sites in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Loren Clark. George Papatheodorou. Maria Geraga. Richard Norris. Thomas E Levy.

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. Methoni Bay, in the Southwest corner of the Peloponnese, Greece, provides an excellent case study for research into how cultural landscapes interact with natural landscapes. The aim of the University of Patras – University of California, San Diego Methoni Bay Paleoenvironmetnal and Cultural Heritage...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maxime Poulain. Jan Trachet. Wim De Clercq.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Re-Visualizing Submerged Landscapes", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Medieval Bruges has been coined as “the cradle of capitalism”, a place where goods, ideas and people converged into a unique, multicultural environment. A tidal inlet, called the Zwin, linked Bruges to the rest of Europe and beyond and was dotted with several outports at its banks. Natural, political and economic factors all resulted in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brandon Mason. Christin Heamagi. 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. The Spanish Galleon Santiago de Galicia was constructed in Italy in the 1590s and sank outside the port of Ribadeo, Galicia in 1597. This important wreck, lying in 10m of water, has been investigated by a multi-disciplinary team led by Dr Miguel San Claudio since 2011. Targeted photogrammetry has been undertaken since 2015, aiming to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mia L Carey.

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. African Islam, the version of Islam brought by and retained by enslaved Africans and their descendants, disappeared as conscious practice before the eve of the American Civil War. Despite this, remnants of Islamic beliefs and practices...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caroline A Peacock.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In Spanish colonial sites, olive jars stand out among other ceramic types as important chronological markers due to their abundance and previously observed changes in form over three centuries. This plays a large role in identifying the age of sites in areas, like Florida and the Caribbean, where Spanish colonial rule persisted over those three centuries. Despite their importance as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Jackson. Steven J. Filoromo.

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. Throughout the history of humankind, rivers have been a central tool for human survival and use. These water bodies have been used as sources of drinking water, obtaining food, bathing, waste disposal, transportation, defense, and later hydropower. Evidence of this usage is still available in the floodplains and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan D. Postemski.

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. Bacon’s Rebellion (1676–1677) was the first wide-scale armed insurrection in English America. Trouble began in 1675 in Virginia’s Northern Neck with retaliatory raids between colonial militias and Native Americans. While some settlers dug in, fortifying their plantations, others rallied behind...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gaëlle Dieulefet.

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. Salt is an essential food. Among maritime populations first, then for crews especially during the Early Modern Period with the development of ocean navigation. In the diet of crews, salt is subject to an administrative organization with French Ordinance of the Navy. It allows...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Agustin Azkarate. Sergio Escribano-Ruiz. Iban Sánchez-Pinto.

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 arrival of the first European settlers in the Southern Cone of America was followed by a settlement policy with marked military characteristics. The forts located along the waterways were the strategic enclaves from which the conquest of the La Plata Basin was developed. These forts were also the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rikki E Oeters.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Three shipwrecks associated with the 1559 Tristán de Luna expedition have been located off the coast of Emanuel Point in Pensacola Bay. These shipwrecks have borne witness to the activities occurring overhead and the development of Pensacola's maritime landscape. The landscapes to meet the evolving needs of the population drove the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shannon K. Freire. Catherine R. Jones.

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. Analysis of the twice-excavated Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (MCPFC) has documented several types and varieties of postmortem skeletal interventions attributed to autopsy and medical dissection. These interments have been associated with the local medical establishment, including...

DOCUMENT Citation Only R. Helen Farr. Maddy Fowler.

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. Multiple Indigenous stories along the northern Australian coast talk of seafaring and the coastal environments encountered and created. These stories form an intangible maritime cultural heritage of Seacountry that is entangled with narratives of sea level rise and changes in the marine environment. These narratives...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brad Barr. Joe Hoyt. Madeline Roth. Beth Crumley. John Bright.

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 Revenue Cutter BEAR was a ship of many lives and significant accomplishments. Orignally built as a sealer, BEAR gained distinction for its 1884 rescue of Greely Expedition survivors. Subsequent decades were spent in polar waters where BEAR operated as an Arctic U.S. Revenue Cutter and flagship for Byrd's two Antarctic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paulette Steeves.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Boarding And Residential Schools: Healing, Survivance And Indigenous Persistence", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Discussions on Residential Schools in Canada have been focused on a system that began in the late 1800,s. However, those discussions ignore the first 240 years of Residential School history. The first Residential School in Canada opened in 1620 in Quebec City. Minimally this history includes 886...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Pat Tanner.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Digital Approaches in Nautical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. With digital technologies for the documentation, reconstruction and analysis of archaeological boat and ship finds becoming the norm, this presentation examines those processes from the viewpoint of a shipbuilder and seafarer. It will examine what information is being documented and recorded. How that information is being interpreted...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Todd Ahlman. Gerald Schroedl.

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. Located in the northeastern Caribbean 7 miles apart, St. Kitts and St. Eustatius (Statia) had different colonial histories that led to differing militarization approaches. A former British colony, St. Kitts’ colonial economy centered on sugar cane and the island’s military landscape was constructed to protect...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric L. Proebsting.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Over the past thirty years, Poplar Forest has established a strong tradition of public outreach and education as part of its archaeological research program. Recently, archaeologists working in collaboration with Poplar Forest’s African American Advisory Group along with other staff, scholars, and consultants have guided the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelly Goldberg.

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. Early 19th century legislation by European and American powers banning the forced exportation of enslaved Africans from the continent did not bring about an end to the transatlantic slave trade. Rather, it prompted traders to explore more secluded establishments and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joel R Santos. José Bettencourt.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Re-Visualizing Submerged Landscapes", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Almost all underwater archaeologists admit that it is fundamental to use spatial analysis in their investigations. However, when looking at academic production, we may say that the use of GIS has become common, but as a method of representation and visualization of spatial data and as a basis for the production of maps. Inspired by spatial...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Denise To. Kristin Bukovec. Allison Campo. Justin Pyle.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Quality Assurance is not typically a discussion firestarter in archaeology. It is intended to provide processes to ensure proper documentation and design for quality and performance. Often found in service/manufacturing industries, it is not typically applied to academic archaeology. But at the U.S. Defense POW/MIA Accounting...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William A Farley.

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 can help us build narratives, understand motivations, decode culture, and even empathize with long-passed people. They are the material basis for our discipline and, in some ways, the thing that makes that discipline a unique avenue for exploring the past. Sometimes individual...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Olivia Hulot. René Ogor.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. On January 10, 1817, at 4 a.m., the Indian, an English three-masted ship of about 500 tons, with 193 people on board, was thrown by the storm onto the reefs of the Kerlouan coast (French Brittany). The Indian had left London under the command of Captain James Davidson, and was part of a fleet of five ships bound for Venezuela with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only A. Dudley Gardner.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Theories abound regarding defining inside and outside spaces in archaeology. In Wyoming, Chinese site formation is similar to elsewhere and so is site destruction. In Wyoming, intentional fires like in the case of the 1885 Chinese Massacre, looting of the sites, reconstruction, urban development, and infrastructure construction...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph Grinnan. Austin Burkhard.

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 2018, SEARCH archaeologists conducted archaeological investigations including a remote-sensing survey in the Mobile River near Twelve Mile Island, Mobile, Alabama. The survey resulted in the identification of 12 previously unknown shipwrecks and the relocation of another three previously known submerged cultural resources....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lydia Wilson Marshall. Thomas Biginagwa.

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. In the 1890s, the slave and ivory trader Rashid bin Masoud established the settlement Kikole deep in what is now southwestern Tanzania. Kikole was strategically located near Lake Nyasa, a major slaving region. Masoud’s followers residing at Kikole were typically referred to as his slaves by German colonists and missionaries. Local...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James L. Flexner. Martin J. Jones. Stuart Bedford. Frédérique Valentin.

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. In November 1866, following a failed attempt at establishing a mission on the neighbouring island of Tanna five years earlier, the Presbyterian missionary John G. Paton landed on the small coral atoll of Aniwa. The inhabitants of this Polynesian Outlier in Southern Vanuatu (formerly New...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Valentin Gérard François De Filippo.

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. Studying farming landscapes in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon opens the opportunity to emphasize how small islands supported empires. For four centuries, the history of this archipelago is linked to the European colonization of America, and trade networks that allowed European empires to blossom,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paola A Schiappacasse.

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. Isla de Cabras is a small promontory located at the entrance to San Juan Bay, in Puerto Rico. Human activity has been traced to pre-European contact periods but it is after 1600 that it played an important role in defending against military and sanitary enemies. This presentation will...

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

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Smoking is deeply connected to and embedded in the institution of slavery. Many captive people smoked tobacco, but it is unclear what additional plants were smoked and why. This paper will compare chemical residues on smoking pipes from captive houses sites located at the Fanny Dickins and Cedar Grove Plantations in Western...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joshua A Cummings. Chelsea Colwell-Pasch. Gabriel Hrynick.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During a preliminary survey for a development project along the St. Croix River in Southwestern New Brunswick a historic foundation of unknown significance was identified and registered as an archaeological site. The St. Croix River is the location of Saint Croix Island, which is an International historic site, and known as the location of an early attempt at year-round colonization by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marcus M. Key. Jr..

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 goal of this project was to determine the source of Jamestown’s Knight’s tombstone. From 1627, it is the oldest such tombstone in the Chesapeake Bay, USA region. We chose a geoarchaeological approach using the fossils contained in the stone to determine its source. We sampled two archived...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Riin Alatalu.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology, Memory, and Politics in the 2020s: Changes in Methods, Narratives, and Access", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. We know from all periods of history that political turns are accompanied by re-evaluation of heritage, especially statues commemorating political leaders or victims or heroes of wars and political crimes. The Russian war against Ukraine provoked debates on Soviet monuments in all...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sienna N Williams.

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 16th century was a time of long-distance voyaging and feats of maritime discovery that served to colonize lands across the Atlantic. Although much is known about this time period, there are gaps in our understanding of life at sea and the spatial organization of activities onboard. By using historical documents, this paper...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Judith A Bense.

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 Spanish and French were uninvited and unwelcome by Florida’s indigenous groups and they were rival European countries. As a result, fortifications were essential to protect the invasions. The size and configuration of Spanish and French colonial forts in La Florida varied through time and space depending...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandra Jones. Devante Stevens.

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 programs make a difference in how citizens perceive their cultural heritage and science. Archaeology in the Community, in partnership with SBA has been facilitating a youth field school in St. Croix, USVI. This project has operated for 5 years with the intend of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Augusto A. Salgado. Jorge Russo. Pedro Caleja. Jorge Freire. Marta Neres.

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. Traditionally, Portugal, and Lisbon, are mainly linked with the Age of Discoveries, and Portuguese scholars tend to forget the sea tragedies that occurred in the contemporary period, including those during the World Wars. Strangely, information about those recent disasters and their “cultural footprint”, has proven difficult to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hanna Steyne.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Post-medieval Archaeology and Pollution", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Nineteenth century London saw rapid population growth, leaving traditional methods of sewage removal unable to cope with the volume of waste being produced. Waves of cholera left disjointed city government unable to provide clean drinking water and remove waste. By 1858 the Thames was a gigantic sewer, which combined with unseasonable...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ricardo Teixeira Duarte. Stephen Lubkemann. Yolanda Pinto Duarte. Hilario Madiquida. David Conlin. David Morgan. Celso Simbine. Cezar Mahumane.

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. Here we document the last quarter century struggle to protect and study Mozambique Island’s Underwater Cultural Heritage --by mobilizing a coalition of Mozambican archeologists and international collaborators and fostering local community involvement--to confront the formidable challenges and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Joplin Davis. Alex Valladares.

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. Field schools are as diverse as the students enrolling in them. This paper examines the perspective of students and graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) participating in the joint University of Central Florida – US Forest Service field school in the Ocala National Forest (ONF). Field schools remain the primary way to apply...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erin S. Schwartz.

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 several different types of buttons are recovered from an archaeological site, how can we parse and explain differences in choice and use? And what might we learn about the different people who made, used, or reused them? This paper explores these questions through study of a diverse button assemblage recovered from two women’s...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Campbell. Andrzej W. Święch.

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. DPAA expeditions have been conducted in Poland since 2019, carried out the land research in West Pomerania and Lower Silesia. In cooperation with Cranfield University first underwater expedition was planned at 2022 in West Pomerania. The project focuses on three B-17s lost in 1944 during bombing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only R. Helen Farr. Anthony Fogg. Justin Dix.

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. Within maritime archaeology the notion of the sea as a barrier has been replaced with discussion of connecting seas and nowhere is this more important than in discussions of movement of people through Wallacea into Sahul in deep time. Understanding of movement and activity within this region necessitates...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dominique Rissolo. Vid Petrovic. James C. Chatters. Alberto Nava Blank. Scott McAvoy. Danylo Drohobytsky. Samuel Meacham. Julien Fortin. Helena Barba Meinecke. Roberto Junco. Falko Kuester.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Re-Visualizing Submerged Landscapes", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The submerged cave systems of the eastern Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, provide access to well preserved prehistoric deposits that reveal a wealth of information about the ecology of the region and its Paleoamerican inhabitants. Ongoing interdisciplinary research efforts aim to identify and reconstruct the processes that have formed and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Noe.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Colonization significantly impacted Indigenous foodways in Alta California, resulting in the intentional rearticulation of certain practices amidst new economic, political, new social realities. Recent excavations at the ranchería at Mission Santa Clara de Asís (CA-SCL-30H) yielded faunal assemblages associated with subsistence...

DOCUMENT Citation Only José Bettencourt. Jorge Freire. Augusto Salgado. António Fialho.

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. On early modern age Tagus bar became an important transition point between river and ocean navigation for ships coming from all parts of the world. The research carried out there since 2018 included the monitoring of Bugio 1 (c. 1700) and the prospection of a large area. This work allowed us to record other contexts, with a material...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Davina R Two Bears.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Boarding And Residential Schools: Healing, Survivance And Indigenous Persistence", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As a Diné (Navajo) archaeologist I aim to decolonize the field of archaeology by researching my tribe’s history for the benefit of the Navajo people and others. The Old Leupp Boarding School was a federal Indian boarding school in operation on the southwest Navajo Reservation in northern Arizona,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica L Skinner. Patricia B Richards. John D 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. Amid the incidental objects that shape everyday life, medical devices and implants stand out as artifacts that are so integral as to be subsumed within the body entirely yet reach beyond the individual to the world at large. These sweeping entanglements span both space and time, extending...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katie E. Kearns.

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. Sweathouses are small vernacular saunas which were used in the 19 th Century to alleviate the symptoms of rheumatism and other illnesses. Their existence reflects the reliance that many people had on traditional forms of medicine up until the turn of the 20 th century, especially in poorer, rural communities, where modern medicine was not...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aubrey L. O'Toole.

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. Recurring tension and outright warfare between the Netherlands and Britain in the 17th century did not prevent Dutch ships from transporting desirable goods from their far-flung trading outposts to the expanding North American colonies. An examination of material culture and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Inês Mendes da Silva.

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. Throughout times historiography has put the centre of attention of Ribeira das Naus, the company responsible for Portugal's expansion, on its warehouses at Terreiro do Paço and surrounding neighbourhoods. In fact, Ribeira das Naus was but the visible face of an enormous chain of production along the Tagus River that, between the XVI...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kamau Sadiki.

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. Traditionally archaeologist and conservationist physically probe and interrogate the cultural materials of the TransAtlantic Slave Trade seeking insight and meaning into the peoples of the time period or the context in which the material exist. This physical approach is a intensely tactile and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Roberto Junco. Silvina Vigliani.

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. This presentation deals with an analysis model for the archaeological study of the colonial port of Acapulco with an emphasis on the temporality of the landscape, that is, that which emerges from those who, through their activities, carry out the process of social life, being intrinsic to the conformation of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew C. Greer.

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. One of the benefits of archaeology is our ability to use individual artifacts to tell complex narratives that alter how people view the past. For instance, local ceramic production in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley has long been seen by both scholars and the public as something inherently white,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Pruitt.

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 full-time education and outreach manager at the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) responds to questions from the public through wild and wonderful emails, phone calls, and physical mail. An SAA annual meeting poster presentation from Maureen Malloy in 2013 analyzed inquiries received between 2001 and 2012, drawing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas C Laluk. Michael C Spears. Benrita Burnette. Maren P Hopkins.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Boarding And Residential Schools: Healing, Survivance And Indigenous Persistence", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Indigenous boarding school experiences in North America are dynamic and diverse, ranging from traumatic and isolating to adventurous and amplifying. Recent partnerships and collaborations between Indigenous communities and researchers are providing new insights into the complex histories of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Holly Herbster.

This presentation highlights an ongoing collaborative, community-based archaeological project at two sites in Little Compton, Rhode Island associated with eighteenth and nineteenth century Native/Afro-American families. Primus Collins, a freed black man, purchased his property in 1836 and his daughter Lucy Collins remained in the house until her death in 1893. Henry Manton’s enslaved mother sent him north in the 1860s and he and his Native American wife raised twelve children in the home Henry...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda E Ford.

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 study of African American cemeteries and burial customs from an archaeological context has been growing more prevalent in the last two decades, but most focus is confined to the search of “Africanisms” in burial practices and the issues concerning the preservation of burial grounds, particularly those belonging to enslaved and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shanna L Daniel.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) Underwater Archaeology (UA) Branch has overseen and treated thousands of artifacts from Navy’s sunken and terrestrial military craft (SMC) these past 25 years. With the firepower that U.S. Navy has been known for, it is not uncommon for various types of weapons, arms, and ordnance to enter...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nala K. Williams.

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. Black women archaeologists care deeply for one another, the artifacts and sites they study, and the global Black community. An ethic of care and notion of obligation are important, undertheorized anti-racist practices that mediate Black...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James C Dunnigan.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Ideal for both the French and British, the location of Fort Michilimackinac was selected to serve as a key entrepôt for European goods from the colonized east coast to be traded for furs from the Upper Country. The diverse population that formed around Michilimackinac included French and British soldiers, traders, craftsmen, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Wendy van Duivenvoorde. Mark Polzer. Mick de Ruyter.

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. Recent archaeological fieldwork in Lipson Cove, South Australia, recorded the small intertidal shipwreck of the ketch Three Sisters. Preliminary investigations demonstrate that the vessel, built in Hobart, Tasmania in 1874, had a double layer of hull planking and was constructed with wood from all...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark J. Wagner.

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 name “Fort Kaskaskia” has been applied to two adjacent colonial forts in Illinois, one French (11R326) and one American (11R612). Through time the separate identities of the two forts became conflated into one (11R326), whose still visible remains have served as a focal point for American commemorative...

DOCUMENT Citation Only 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. Coffin hardware recovered from historic cemetery excavations serve as temporal, economic, and social markers. The Milwaukee County Poor Farm cemetery burials were carried out by County officials as part of a county-mandated and county-funded program. While most coffins and coffin hardware...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven J Filoromo. Elliot H Blair.

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. During the late 19th Century, communities around Sapelo Sound in coastal Georgia, USA, reconfigured the social and physical landscapes to participate in the international timber economy. During this period, those living at the North End Site (9MC81) on Creighton Island, GA, reconfigured the former plantation into...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maria Victoria Nuviala Antelo. Maria Violeta Nuviala Antelo. Maria Ximena Senatore.

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 prevailing image of Antarctica as a natural and pristine territory has been reinforced by the Treaty System policies on environmental protection toward the minimization of human impact. In this framework, humans have been perceived as transient visitors and 'things' as removable objects. This presentation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Travis G Parno.

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. Guido Pezzarossi (2018) has described colonial forts as “possessive,” in the sense that they were designed and implanted to stake claim to territory and control the movements of people into and around them. Yet for all their projected power, early colonial forts were perched precariously within lands rich...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dan W Gamble.

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. Many unique and one of a kind artifacts have been recovered over 20 years of excavation at the site of James Fort. Each artifact tells a story about the people and the lives that were led at the site. One artifact that stands out both for its function and the questions it raises is book...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Miguel A Fernandez.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. On 16 February 1853, the SS Independence struck rocks off the southern tip of Isla Margarita, Baja California, took on water and burst into flames before Captain Sampson could beach her. 140 passengers and crew perished of the 430 on board. The survivors were stranded on the island for three days before whaling ships came to their...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Pero Prebeg. Smiljko Rudan. Simun Svilicic. Irena Radic-Rossi.

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 hull of a ship at an archaeological site is almost always incomplete, so the resulting reconstructed hull lines inevitably include some uncertainties. These uncertainties contain the potential to improve the ship's theoretical performance. Hull definition based on analytically defined waterline curves allows easy generation and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara Simões.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Cacheu was one of the largest Senegambian ports involved in the transatlantic trade of enslaved people. After the 1830s, despite abolitionist efforts, clandestine traders encouraged the emergence of illegal trade sites away from the control of colonial authorities, and slavery persisted. Some of those sites are now occupied by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan T Andrews. Emma K Derry.

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. Previous faunal analysis at Jamestown focused on the first years of settlement, the Starving Time, and the post 1620s. A gap existed during the period immediately following the Starving Time when martial law, conflicts with Virginia Indians, and the reintroduction of livestock affected the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn L. Ness Swanson.

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 early modern period, England and Spain claimed the majority of the Americas. The imperial actions and policies of one empire were often reactions to developments in the other. Those living in the colonial Americas were highly aware of and alert to these changes and, in some cases, specifically advocated for greater...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles M Haecker.

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. The 1540-1542 expedition of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado was a military force comprised of some 1,500 Spanish soldiers, Indian allies and camp followers. the expedition's ill-fated trek through northern Mexico and the American Southwest undoubtedly generated scores of encampment and battle sites. Several of these...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Audrey Horning.

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. The walled city of Derry-Londonderry was a central place in the seventeenth-century Ulster Plantation, designed as a fortified English settlement intended to operationalize English authority over the north of Ireland. Yet it also was a city in which people made their lives, subverting and transcending...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter B. Campbell.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Cultural Heritage During Crises: Crime, Conflict, and Climate Change", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The study of antiquities trafficking has a legnthy history, but engagement has significantly increased following the coverage of cultural heritage exploitation by Islamic State from 2006-2019. The resulting growth in the field – including criminologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, legal experts, law...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Attila Dezsi. Natascha Mehler.

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 1886, Elisabeth Nietzsche and her husband Bernhard Förster founded the anti-semitic colony Nueva Germania. Up to 140 settler families took part in the endeavor to realize an utopian settlement in the heart of Paraguay. Some of the families wanted to leave the German Empire out of political discontent forever, others tried to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tünde F. Komori.

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. The proposed presentation examines the possible ways of reconstructing maritime trading connections between China and the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, on the basis of interpreting a unique Chinese porcelain plate unearthed in Ottoman Hungary. The blue and white plate features a qilin...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard F Veit. Richard Hunter. Jim Lee.

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. Archaeological excavations at the William Trent House in Trenton New Jersey have revealed thousands of pre-contact and historic artifacts reflecting the occupation of this site from deep prehistory to the present. This site is one of the Delaware Valley’s most significant historic sites. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Frederick H. Hanselmann. Austin Burkhard. Jason J. Nunn. Arthur C.R. Gleason. Jessica Keller. D. Blair Moore.

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. Near the end of WWII, a B-25G departed an airfield in Trinidad for a 50 mile, 4-hour long photographic mission to Tobago. After hearing an airplane overhead, eye witness accounts detailed a craft with potential engine problems that turned into a ball of smoke and flame that plummeted from an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen P Rowland.

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. Recently, several British post-medieval burial grounds have been archaeologically excavated prior to development. The most northerly, Trinity Burial Ground in the East-Yorkshire city of Kingston upon Hull, was utilised 1785-1860 as an off-site expansion to a small...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nigel Sadler.

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. In 1841 the Cuban slaver Troubadour wrecked off the coast of the Turks and Caicos Islands. This incident escaped modern historical scrutiny until 2000 when the Turks and Caicos National Museum included it in their UNESCO Slave Route Project entry. It wasn’t until it was listed along other...