Society for Historical Archaeology 2023

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brad Botwick.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Fish, Oyster, Whale: The Archaeology of Maritime Traditions", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Oyster fishing in Chesapeake Bay underwent significant changes during the nineteenth century. Among the most visible changes was the introduction of industrial technologies and organization. Previously, the fishery was conducted at a small scale by individuals or small teams of owner-operators. These traditional...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel R Hansen.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. At the end of Thomas Hariot’s late 16th century manuscript A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia are included three images of Picts, a people who inhabited northern Britain in late antiquity and the early middle ages, as well as two images of “neighbours unto the Pictes.” In his words, Hariot appended these...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott J Allen. Rute F Barbosa.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Colonial Ventures and Native Voices: Legacies from the Spanish and Portuguese Empires", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The study of colonial entanglements in northeastern Brazil is an underdeveloped area of historical archaeological research which has reinforced, or at least not questioned, indigenous histories as marked by conflict, acculturation, and subsequent absorption into society, leaving government...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Guido Pezzarossi. Douglas Armstrong.

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. A UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) LiDAR survey was conducted along the shore and land adjacent to the La Soye site in the Woodford Hills area of Dominica. This survey is part of the broader exploration of colonial encounters (indigenous Kalinago and European Traders) on the Caribbean Frontier. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alanna Warner-Smith.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper Bodies: Excavating Archival Tissues and Traces", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Huntington Anatomical Collection (1893-1921) is comprised of immigrants and U.S.-born persons who died in New York City. Like many anatomical collections, the common narrative is that decedents were dissected and curated because they lacked next-of-kin to bury them, a social impoverishment used to justify their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephanie J. Halmhofer.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Aquarian Foundation was a large conspiritual organization from 1927 to 1933, whose primary settlements were constructed across three islands off the south coast of British Columbia, Canada. Led by a man known as Brother XII, the self-described purpose of the organization was to transition humanity into the sixth sub-race of the fifth Root Race as described by Theosophical occultist...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Claire Norton.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Excavations with The Milot Archaeological Project (MAP) have yielded significant information on the development of the Palace of Sans-Souci in northern Haiti. Strides have been made in understanding site chronology, the material culture within the palace, and regional/long-distant economic networks. However, little is known about...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Flavin. Charlie Taverner. Marc Meltonville. Joshua Reid. Stephen Lawrence. Carlos Beloch. John Morrissey.

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. Beer was a staple of diets in the past. While its profound social and cultural significance is well established, little is known about the quality of the drink itself, particularly its nutritional characteristics. Previously, attempts to estimate calorie and alcohol content have been monodisciplinary in approach,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Furlong Minkoff. Christopher J Pasch.

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. The Montpelier Archaeology Department conducted archaeological surveys across the Home Farm at Montpelier, the plantation home of James Madison, from 2019-2022. In this paper, we will take a step back to explore how choices we–as archaeologists–made to interpret and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick H. Garrow.

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. A proposed expansion of the Florence National Cemetery triggered archaeological data recovery of a nine-acre area adjacent to the Florence Stockade. The Florence Stockade was constructed in Florence, South Carolina in September, 1864 to house Union enlisted prisoners of war. The prison was an open stockade on the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Martin U Mainberger.

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. In spring 1945, upon returning from a bombing mission targeting SS-facilities in Oranienburg / Germany, a U.S. Army heavy bomber B17 aircraft was observed to crash into a small lake north of Berlin. Two crewmembers remain unaccounted for. After the detection of the tail section of the plane in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah M. Muckerheide. Kirsten M. Hawley. Samuel I. Haskell. Charles D. Beeker.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. A 16th century shipwreck off the eastern coast of the Dominican Republic represents a rare example of an incoming European vessel during early colonization of the Americas. Examples of this vessel’s cargo include horseshoes, nails, pewter dining-ware, pestles, and nested weight sets and scales, all imported to support European occupation and profitable colonization. Indiana University’s...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aimie Neron.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. UNESCO's Decade of Ocean Sciences for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) highlights the need for collaborative approaches for ocean conservation and sustainability. Research in marine sciences should then include both cultural and natural resources. Underwater archaeology is therefore a vector of change and development for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Penny Crook. Abi Cryerhall. Eleanor C. Casella.

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. In 2020, a series of excavations by Sydney-based consultants GML Heritage followed the route of a new light railway system cutting its way through Parramatta: the second oldest city in British-occupied Australia. These works revealed a series of sites comprising military barracks, a commercial wharf,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Wilson. Stephen James.

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 February 2021, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District recovered three cannon, a stocked anchor, and a number of wooden and metal materials while dredging regular maintenance areas in preparation for deepening associated with the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP). A subsequent geophysical survey and diver...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jasmine Lundy. Michelle M Alexander.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Islamic material culture", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The multifaith society of Medieval Spain experienced dramatic transitions between periods of Christian and Muslim political rule with shifting geographical frontiers. The coexistence of multiple faiths within this dynamic socio-political landscape influenced the practices of daily life such as cuisine. Diet and identity are inextricably linked....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Beatriz Bandeira.

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 doctoral thesis is being completed on the analysis of the state of conservation of the shipwreck of the Galeão Santíssimo Sacramento (1668) in order to strengthen the Brazilian underwater cultural heritage. Although it is a particularist approach, the results seek to expose the interpretations of the shipwreck site formation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gregory D. Cook.

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 will focus on the ongoing investigations of the Emanuel Point Shipwrecks, the oldest European wrecks in Florida, and our surveys and diver investigations for the 2022 UWF field season.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charlie Taverner. Susan Flavin.

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. Records of household management are well known to historians of consumption and offer rich evidence of what people actually ate in the past. Though their survival is erratic in early modern Europe, several examples exist from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ireland. This paper introduces the different accounts...

DOCUMENT Citation Only George M Leader. Harold Mytum. Ashleigh Neal. Pete Gethin.

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. The 2017 excavation of the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia’s burial ground (1702-1859) recovered handles and funerary artifacts from just under 500 burials. Funerary hardware recovered matches at least seven types of coffin handle grip plate from the Tuesly and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yolanda Teixeira Duarte. Ricardo Teixeira Duarte. Stephen Lubkemann.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Uncovering of the World of the São José Paquete d’África, a Portuguese Slave Ship", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper describes work by Mozambican archeologists from the Slave Wrecks Project on two terrestrial sites that represent different stages in the arduous journey of enslaved persons from Mozambique’s interior to the coast before boarding ships to the Americas or across the Indian Ocean....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Garry L Momber.

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. Sea-level fluctuations have had an impact on humanity from the earliest times, forcing people to move and adapt. While doing so, they have left tools, structures and settlements within inundated landscapes, sealed beneath anaerobic sediment. These artefacts are often exquisitely preserved cultural assets,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth E. Straub.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeologists studying colonial contexts know that these periods are often marked by rapid social and demographic change. In the southeastern United States, these changes led to the coalescence of formerly independent peoples. Interestingly, there are also rapid changes in potting practices. While these processes of coalescence...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas D Scott. Joel Bohy.

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 British Regulars retreat from Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775 is legendary in American history. One home, the Jason Russell House, has at least twenty bullet holes are still evident in the walls and around doors and windows. Other bullet-struck objects and structures from that day exist that have been studied and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephanie A Sterling.

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. The historic tidal rice plantation waterways that form a patchwork of chasms visible from space are stark reminders of the impact the rice industry had in the Lower Cape Fear, but their origins are frequently overlooked. Dug by hand by enslaved men and women these waterways became the circulatory system that led...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Justin Milewski.

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 September 1779, French ships arrived off the coast of Georgia to join with American forces in an attempt to capture the British-occupied city of Savannah. British General Augustine Provost ordered the scuttling of multiple vessels, including the ships Venus (a transport) and HMB Savannah (an armed ship), to prevent the French...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Hinterndorfer.

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. One of the primary functions of Nazi forced camps was to intern specific groups of people within an area surrounded by walls and fences and to isolate them from the outside world. These camps were subdivided to form a complex system of areas with different...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Antoinette Schapper.

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. In the 1970s, the linguist Carl-Georg von Brandenstein claimed that the Portuguese had established a "secret colony" in the Pilbara. He argued that linguistic material from Indigenous Australian languages of the northern Pilbara which looked to be Portguese in origin supported his hypothesis. Archaeological research has...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan L Olshefski.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Following the Battle of Dunbar on the 3rd of September 1650, about 4,000 Scottish prisoners of war were forced to march south to England. Their destination - the nearest building sizeable enough to imprison a vast number of individuals: Durham Cathedral. Over the span of a week, the Scots marched over one hundred miles, with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Furlow.

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. How does archaeology record the name of a warrior queen, goddess, and ordinary woman? Photos record the evolution of a sacred name across Europe. Variations of the Celtic name Boudicca ("Victorious Woman" or "Victoria") appear on gravestones and in Roman writings across a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Monika I. Therrien.

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. Water is undoubtedly an essential element for human life. In cities, it creates and configures an infrastructure that involves nature, networks, materials, discourses, and trades, for its use and disposal. This conference will approach the analysis of the archaeological landscape constituted by the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only 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. Florence Martus, the “Waving Girl,” and the personified bronze statue erected to her memory, is an international symbol, local memorial, and modern tourist attraction with an inspiring story of real life and legend. The noble ideas expressed by the Waving Girl monument, said the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jay Haigler.

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. Competition for financial support of research projects is increasing. As the number of promising research projects increase over time, ‘single-source’ funding is not effective providing sustainability. For organizations with a vested interest in research, community engagement and capacity...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Terry P. Brock.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Materialities of (Un)Freedom: Examining the Material Consequences of Inequality within Historical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In his 1829 Appeal, David Walker argued for African Americans citizenship, asking, "will they drive us from our property and homes, which we have earned with our blood?" The Appeal was part of a larger resistance in Black political thought against the racist political...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel T Elliott. Rita F Elliott.

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. During the American Revolution, the town of New Ebenezer, Georgia alternated between British and Patriot headquarters. In 1779 British forces built seven redoubts surrounding the town. In 1782, Continentals entered Ebenezer and began to reclaim Georgia. Archaeologists have studied eight military locations in addition to other...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah M. Pickman.

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. Human experiences of Antarctica have often been mediated through scientific expeditions, which can operate only with a full complement of equipment. The importance of some of this equipment, such as scientific instruments, is readily apparent. Yet what can we learn from examining more mundane gear that is no...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelsey Rooney.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Port of Call: Archaeologies of Labor and Movement through Ports", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This presentation compares West African ports and their attendant infrastructure. As Atlantic trade intensified along the West African shore during the 17th and 18th centuries, Europeans relied heavily on local Africans for their seafaring knowledge and for their help in ferrying cargo and captives between ship...

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

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. LEGO, the world’s biggest toy brand, offers numerous play themes involving underwater adventure, with ubiquitous submarine gadgets and the ever-present danger of sharks, and where treasure is synonymous with shipwrecks and mysterious ancient ruins and is the ultimate reward for the most intrepid. More than twenty years after the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rhianna M. Bennett. Krystiana L. Krupa. Kate Minniti. Alexander Vandewalle.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Making Waves through Play: A Historical Archaeological Examination of Archaeogaming and the Global Impact of Video Games on the Field of Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Last of Us (2013, Naughty Dog) and its 2020 sequel transport players to a post-apocalyptic version of the United States, twenty years after the outbreak of a deadly virus. Gameplay is set in the remnants of what was once a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carlos Tejerizo-García. Antonio J. Romero-Alonso.

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. The recent development of Contemporary Archaeology in the Iberian Peninsula has prompted the progressive incorporation of well-known archaeological methodologies to delve into recent historical processes. This is the case, for example, of taphonomic and zooarchaeological analysis, even though...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Allison M Campo. Justin A 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. During WWII from 20–23 November 1943, U.S. forces invaded and fought for control of the Japanese-occupied Betio Island in the Battle of Tarawa. The battle resulted in the loss of 1,020 U.S. service members, with over 400 still remaining unaccounted for. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) is responsible for the relocation,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin Zant. James Skibo. Amy Rosebrough. Tamara Thomsen.

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. Wisconsin’s inland waterways have been used as transportation corridors and places to collect resources for thousands of years. Despite this, prehistoric maritime landscapes are often missing from the archaeological record due to a lack of material evidence. Instead, village and ritual sites are simply...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melanie G Cootsona.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Domestication has been traditionally rigidly defined, excluding a larger spectrum of species managed by Indigenous groups throughout the world. For example, the management of Caribou by the Sámi, or keeping of Cuy (guinea pigs) by Indigenous Peruvians. In this paper I expand this spectrum of animal domestication to include species...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jade W Luiz.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For decades the archaeological community has worked towards a more publically-minded and inclusive discipline that strives for collaboration with the communities that it serves. Many of these discussions rightly center the descendants of the groups under study, or the people who live where archaeology is being conducted. Some...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sandra Montón-Subías.

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 this paper, I build off of archaeological buttons uncovered at the San Dionisio cemetery (Guåhan, Månislan Marianas) by the Aberigua project. Aberigua investigates the different strategies that 17th-century Jesuit missions implemented in the colonization of the Indigenous CHamoru being....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jonny Geber. Jenny Bergman.

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. One of the late nineteenth-century skulls in the anatomical collection at Lund University (Sweden) belongs to a middle adult woman (28-45 years of age); according to the archival documentation (including writing on the skull) she was a 28-year-old Sámi woman named Maria Grann. Media reports in Sweden have generally...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashley McCuistion.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Established in 1760 with support from a London-based philanthropy called The Associates of Dr. Bray, the Williamsburg Bray School was one of the earliest institutions dedicated to the education of free and enslaved African American children in America. The school’s curriculum was designed to teach students Anglican catechism and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph Balicki.

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. Williams Patent bullets (types I, II, and III) are the second-most common bullet type found on American Civil War military sites. Between December 1861 and January 1864, when the Army cancelled manufacturing contracts, an estimated 102,500,000 Williams Patent Bullets had been purchased by the United States Army. Despite their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alison Bell.

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. Toni Morrison wanted to see books “where the gender of the narrator is unspecified. Gender, like race, carries with it a panoply of certainties.” What panoply of certainties do readers mobilize when thinking a character is female? What tacit knowledge do archaeologists bring to a site when...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Camilla J Nichol.

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 historic sites on the Antarctic Peninsula cared for by the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust offer a series of snapshots of the British scientific history in Antarctica between 1944 -1993. On the face of it, these histories appear straightforward; their narratives emerging from the rich assemblages of artefacts...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laia Colomer.

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. In Spring 2020 we witnessed radical acts of public engagement with cultural heritage: political activists from the Black Lives Matter-movement tumbled down monuments and statues of eminent men due to their racist colonial past. The actions were a bustle about the deep-rooted...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephanie Wicha. David L Conlin.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Underwater Archeology of a French Slave Ship In Northern Mozambique- L'Aurore", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2020 a tam of archeologists from the Slave Wrecks Project recovered several samples of wood from the !DM-013 shipwreck in Mozambique. This paper discusses scientific results and implications for possible origin and identity of the shipwreck. Implications for future research will also be...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura McAtackney. Krysta Ryzewski. Meredith Hardy. Pardis Zahedi.

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. This paper will present initial findings from fieldwork on St Croix as part of a Danish-funded, multi-year, heritage project that began in early 2020. When funded, this project was intended to work with the NPS, who have established projects on the island, to examine the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric Tourigny.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Fish, Oyster, Whale: The Archaeology of Maritime Traditions", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Bivalves played an important role in the diets and foodways of 19th-century North America, spawning an international industry based along the Atlantic coast that benefited from improved transport links to the interior of the continent. A case study from nineteenth-century Upper Canada demonstrates the important role...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Connie Kelleher.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. There are some 1,000 wrecks in Irish waters dating to the period of World War I, ranging from merchant, naval and civilian vessels and aircraft. While we know of the horrors of war relating to the conflict on land, far more lives were lost at sea, with many of these wrecks being their final resting places. Much of the naval...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joel R Santos. Inês Castro. Tiago Silva.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Maritime Archaeology in West Africa", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. When was Australia “discovered” by the European? When did the European trade with America become more significant? How did the Industrial Revolution change the world? These are some of the questions that we believe are possible to answer without leaving the beaches of Cape Verde. The Cape Verde archipelago was a very strategic place in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Calvin Mires.

In 1898, the passenger steamship, Portland, sank with approximately 200 people onboard. In lieu of a physically accessible memorial on land, the narrative that emerges following a ship’s sinking becomes the memorial, with archaeology often informing the ways meaning-making is negotiated in the wake of traumatic events. As part of the symposium, “Confronting the Deep North: Addressing the Legacies of Injustice through Education of African Diaspora Sites in the Northeast of the United States,”...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jaco Boshoff.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Uncovering of the World of the São José Paquete d’África, a Portuguese Slave Ship", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Wrecking of the São José Paquete d’África on the Cape coast in December 1794 was not seen as different from any other shipwreck at the time. History only recorded the basic details of the incident relegating it to no more than a footnote. In the 1980’s treasure hunters misidentified the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chandler Fitzsimons.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Yorktown, Virginia occupies a substantial space in the American national historical consciousness: it was the location at which the British Army surrendered to George Washington’s Continental Army, effectively ending the Revolutionary War and establishing American independence from Great Britain. The battlefield was once again used...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Terrance J. Martin. Christopher Stratton. Floyd Mansberger.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Recent archaeological mitigation of four city lots in Springfield, Illinois, provides information on Portuguese immigrants from Madeira who came to central Illinois during the 1850s. Dozens of privy pits spanning the mid-nineteenth through the early twentieth century yielded more than 13,000 animal remains that reveal insights into...