Society for Historical Archaeology 2023

DOCUMENT Citation Only William T. D. Wadsworth.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2022, Cold Lake First Nations (CLFN) initiated a project to relocate historic sites within the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range (CLAWR) around Primrose Lake, Alberta/Saskatchewan, Canada, an area of great cultural significance to the community and hub within their traditional homelands. The 1952 creation of the military weapons range resulted in the removal of hundreds of Indigenous people...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kisha Supernant.

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. In May 2021, the Tk’emlúps te Secwe̓pemc First Nation in British Columbia, Canada, announced that 215 potential unmarked graves were located near the Kamloops Indian Residential School using ground-penetrating radar conducted by archaeologists. While this was not the first announcement of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Abby M Stone.

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 Tristan de Luna 1559-1561 Spanish expedition carried around 1,500 total people in hopes to settle La Florida. While extensive documentary and archaeological research has been conducted on this expedition, there has been no study to date on the material culture evidence of the women and children that would have accompanied this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sanna Lipkin. Titta Kallio-Seppä. Rasmus Åkerblom. Tiina Väre. Annemari Tranberg. Juho-Antti Junno.

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. We will consider research ethics and issues related to preservation in the Finnish privately owned burial chapels. Whereas all conservation efforts and research needs to be done in accordance with laws, the intersection with preservation work and research ethics is not...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Wanner.

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. Recent studies of fire history and dendroecology, charcoal production, and vernacular architecture around Catoctin Furnace, correlated with new palaeobotanical analysis and analysis of company store ledgers, have provided unprecedented information about the ecological history of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Linda J Hylkema.

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. Fishing played a major role among aboriginal groups in California. Published sources indicate that ethnographically, groups in the San Francisco Bay region fished for coastal and freshwater fishes. They continued these practices during the Spanish Colonial period in California (AD1769-1834), despite being subjected...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Casal Fernández. Víctor J. Barbeito Pose.

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. Roman building clay constitutes an ideal material for making weights by trimming fragments of tegula, imbrex, and later to an appropriate size and shape, and adding perforations or lateral notches, for suspension. This typology of weights is documented in archaeological sites directly linked to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick B Burke. Elizabeth Moore.

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. In 2018 hurricanes Michael and Florence caused damage across wide swaths of Virginia. In response, an Emergency Supplemental Historic Preservation Fund (ESHPF) was created by the U.S. Congress and awarded to eligible states by the National Park Service. The Virginia Department of Historic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Janet Montgomery. Charlie Taverner. Darren Gröcke. Alice Rose. Flavin Susan M..

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. Bioarchaeologists exploit the geographic and climatic variation of oxygen isotopes in rainfall, and their subsequent deposition in the mammalian skeleton via ingested water, as a tool to explore residential mobility and migration. The method rests on the assumption that in most places and through much of the past...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Francesca Fernandini.

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. The praxis of archaeology performed by foreign projects in developing countries such as Peru presents a clear extractive nature: data is extracted as raw material and exported to funding institutions almost always located in the global north. This data is then analyzed and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth M Dresser-Kluchman.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Between 1762 and 1847, Salisbury Connecticut was home to Riga Ironworks, one of forty nearby blast furnaces which processed iron ore for highly prized cannons and anchors, among other objects of an emerging United States militarism. During this time, the Riga furnace supported a thriving town’s economy and identity. Today, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cassandra B. Apuzzo. H. Kory Cooper.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Fort Ouiatenon, built in 1717, was the first French fur trade post established in present day Indiana. Over 100 kilograms of waste from pyrotechnological activities were excavated from an area believed to be related to a forge during the 1970’s. Historical documents identify the presence of a blacksmith at the fort, as well as the possible use of locally available coal and iron ore. Both...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas W. Owsley. Eadaoin Harney. Inigo Olalde. Karin S. Bruwelheide. David Reich. Elizabeth A. 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. In 2015, funding was awarded to the Catoctin Furnace Historical Society to provide data-grounded interpretation of a cemetery and its skeletal remains (circa 1790-1840) previously impacted by development. Phase I involved updated analysis, including assessments of demography, bone and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicole Bucchino Grinnan. Mike Thomin.

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. Along Florida’s Panhandle, several small, coastal communities exist today as a reminder of an earlier period in the state’s history: a time when the movement of people, goods, and information relied on waterways. The town of Apalachicola, in particular, once supported enough commodities production and maritime...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lori Lee. Mary Elizabeth Ibarrola.

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. Fort Mose was the first legally sanctioned free black community in Spanish North America. In 1693 the Spanish governor of Florida guaranteed the legal freedom of self-emancipated Africans and African Americans if they converted to Catholicism, built and occupied a fort on the frontier of St. Augustine, and fought against Spanish...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Strezewski. H. Kory Cooper. Misty Jackson. Terrance J. Martin.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Colonial Forts in Comparative, Global, and Contemporary Perspective", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Fort Ouiatenon was established by the French in 1717 in response to Indigenous demands for a fur trade post in the Wabash River valley. For over four decades Ouiatenon was the site of interaction between French, Indigenous, and Metis people. Following an attack by Kentucky militia in 1791, most of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Glenn Farris.

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. In 1812 the Russian American Company (RAC), a fur hunting monopoly headquartered at New Archangel (Sitka) Alaska, commenced construction of a fortified settlement on the coast of northern California. Although the primary purpose was to facilitate the hunting of fur bearing sea mammals, it was also meant to be...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madison J Aubey.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2019 the remains of the Clotilda were located along the Mobile River near Africatown, Alabama. As the last slave ship to enter the United States, the rediscovery of the Clotilda, coupled with the publication of Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon, caused a resurgence in attention to the Africatown community. Founded soon after Emancipation by captive Africans who arrived on the Clotilda,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Oluseyi O. Agbelusi.

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. While many archaeological studies examine the impacts of the Atlantic slave trade on West African communities, archaeological research on tension for freedom in the region has been limited. No archaeological studies have analysed how anti-slavery or struggle for abolition set the stage for colonialism in the region. This paper...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erika K Hartley. Michael S Nassaney.

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. Imperial ambitions and the search for a Northwest Passage led French explorers deep into the North American continent to establish over 100 trading posts and fortified settlements from the St. Lawrence River valley to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Fort St. Joseph was among them; it was founded in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn A. Cross.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Many cities in the U.S. have rendered landscapes of racial violence invisible by effacing such sites from their cityscapes and any memory of them from public consciousness. Martyrs Park in Dallas, Texas was the scene of an 1860 lynching, the culmination of hysteria over a rumored slave revolt. A 2018 article referred to the park,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Catherine Losier.

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. Nothing speaks more of smuggling, and illicit activities than a small forgotten island. Such is the case for Saint-Pierre et Miquelon where contraband was and still is a tradition. In the 19th century (and most probably before that), it is known that French fisherfolks were trading alcohol...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mallory Champagne.

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. 3610km separates the two administrative poles of the French-Atlantic, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon in the North and Martinique in the South. Despite the distance and conflict that plagued the open ocean and those who braved it, a cultural connectedness was borne through the networks...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily A Schwalbe.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Rice agriculture in colonial and antebellum North America transformed the coastal landscape between the Cape Fear River in southeastern North Carolina and the St. Johns River in northern Florida through the still-visible irrigation canals hand dug by enslaved Africans. These distinctive features and associated history of rice...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nathaniel P. VanValkenburgh. Katherine Chiou. Sarah Kennedy. Paul Szpak.

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. Colonial (re)settlement is a process of rearticulation in which people's relationships with landscapes and political institutions are often drastically reconfigured. These relationships include not just attachments to places and configurations of built environments, but also connections...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna J Fairley.

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. During research into Liverpool’s nineteenth-century cemeteries, archives held by Liverpool City Council relating to Toxteth Park Cemetery (established in 1856) were catalogued, resulting in the discovery of historically significant documents. Alongside early plans of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Krish Seetah.

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 colonization of Mauritius exemplifies the role played by humans in altering the ecosystems of remote islands. Previously uninhabited, it now has the highest population density of any African nation, and despite scant natural resources, also has one of the continent’s highest GDPs....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Harold Mytum.

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. Throughout the Middle Ages and into the early modern period, graves were rarely marked with a permanent stone monument and as descendants themselves died and memory of earlier generations and their burial locations were forgotten, plots could be reused. A combination of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael K. Lewis.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Prior to the construction of bridges, the most common and safest method to cross the rivers in the Canadian prairies was to be ferried a crossed, due to the severe and dangerous currents within the rivers. These ferries were locally manufactured to no standard plan, with the knowledge that the ferries would have a limited useful...

DOCUMENT Citation Only JW Joseph.

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. Operating under a Black majority, South Carolina low country Blacks created a creole culture known as the Gullah Geechee, a culture that emphasized self-sufficiency and craft production. The Gullah Geechee on Antebellum plantations operated in a task labor economy that allowed them time to use on their own once...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christina G Brown.

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. The University of West Florida has recovered at least 36 glass trade beads since the discovery of the Tristán de Luna y Arellano settlement in 2015. This paper compares the bead assemblage recovered from the Luna settlement site in Pensacola, Florida, with Soto's winter encampment, the Governor Martin site, in Tallahassee,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ana Catarina Garcia.

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. In this presentation the main goal is to show the final results of a study about the emergency of three insular port towns in Azores, Madeira and Cape Verd. This research is focused on a deeper knowledge about first experiences of insular colonization in Portuguese and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Iosu Etxezarraga Ortuondo.

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. This paper aims to introduce a broad perspective on the adaptation of funerary customs of the Europeans to different contexts in western Atlantic territories. Previous work focused in featuring different burial traditions among the Basques and their manifestation in the fisheries...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chrissy A Perl.

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. Climate change and the effects it has on cultural resources worldwide is not new to the discipline of archaeology. Archaeological sites and landscapes have been at the forefront of the climate change protection efforts. In regard to artifacts, the ability to curate these items in environmentally...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Olivia M Brill.

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. An essential element of archaeology is the restoring of art or cultural heritage to the country of origin or former owners. Repatriation has had a difficult history in archaeology. Even today, not all cases are simple. One incentive of the cataloging project was preparation for the Port Royal collection to be...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Felipe Gaitan-Ammann. Daniela Trujillo-Hassan. Andrés Sarabia.

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 second half of the 19th century was an unstable period in the history of Colombia. In cities such as Bogotá, drastic political and economic reforms, inspired by radical interpretations of liberal values, allowed some privileged urban sectors to connect with global networks of production and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Lavin. Jamie May.

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 Rediscovery recently expanded “Gentleman Soldiers,” an original installation in the Voorhees Archaearium archaeology museum. Since the museum’s opening in 2006, the team has recovered scores of personal arms, armor, and accoutrements that belonged to Jamestown’s upper class. These...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David E Villa.

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 project is a study of the documentary record of the African American Dunkerhook community who lived in Paramus, NJ in the mid-19th century. Researching the lives of enslaved and free people of color requires a creative approach to documentary sources. For this project I looked at the records of people of color and white...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sören Pfeiffer.

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. Rhenish Bartmann jugs were a bestseller in European early modern times. Besides the iconic bearded men, these jugs displayed a wide variety of typical pictures, the earliest of them based on the work of the so-called „German Littlemasters“ like Virgel Solis (1515 –...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adelphine Bonneau. Katarina Batur. Irena Radic Rossi. Vincent Delmas. Bernard Gratuze.

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. At the end of 1583, the Gagliana Grossa, a Venetian merchantman, sank near the small island of Gnalić at the south-western entrance of the Pašman Channel, Croatia. Heading to Constantinople from Venice, its cargo contains, amongst other goods, several barrels of glass beads manufactured in Venice. Recovered through several...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara da Cruz Ferreira. Rodrigo Banha Da Silva.

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. During European Middle Ages, Chinese porcelain was already a known and appreciated commodity, being transported to Europe by land routes, but the influx to Europe experienced a particular increase when the Portuguese navigators managed to connect the Atlantic and the Indian Oceans. By sea it was possible to bring...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelton Sheridan.

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 present preliminary data from excavations and collections analysis at the Mission Espada in San Antonio. This is part of a larger multi-scalar project that examines the lived experiences of indigenous neophytes at Mission Espada and its associated ranch, Rancho de las Cabras in 18th century San Antonio. Exploring...

DOCUMENT Citation Only 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. Carbon City was the first coal mining town established along the UPRR in what was then Wyoming Territory. A company town from the start, Carbon offers an intriguing case of how non-Indigenous settlers were incorporated into global networks through labor migration, industrial extraction, and commodity consumption in Carbon during...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adele A Zubrzycka. Jon M Prangnell. James L Flexner. Zia Youse.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Sugar, its cultivation, production, trade, and consumption, is intricately linked to past and present global colonial landscapes. In Australia, its growth and manufacture throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries held strong and often overlooked associations with the American Civil War, Atlantic slave trade and abolition of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kimberly Smith. Amanda Evans.

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. Offshore wind developments globally, have increased dramatically as the EU and the US aim for 2050 carbon neutrality. The US has signed EOs calling for a "new American infrastructure and clean energy economy" and for 30 gigawatts of Offshore Wind by 2030. These developments are beholden to federal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Barbara J. Heath.

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. Early records from Chicacoan, the first permanent English community on Virginia’s Northern Neck, refer to residents “going to Virginia,” in spite of living within that colony’s established boundaries. Settling land that the colonial government had forbidden its citizens to occupy, and openly...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Martin Goldberg.

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 Galloway Hoard is the richest and most varied assemblage of hoarded objects surviving from Viking-age Scotland. Beyond the silver bullion so often found in Viking-age hoards there is also an unusual assemblage of Anglo-Saxon metalwork, ecclesiastical items, heirlooms, and the rare...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andreia Martins Torres.

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. This paper focuses on the analysis of a thype of golden glass beads that has been recovered in different archaeological excavations carried out by INAH in Mexico City, to question two widely held ideas about these objects in New Spain. First, it focuses on the contexts in which they have appeared to challenge the idea that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gilly Carr. Steve Cooke. Margaret Comer.

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. As the seventy-fifth anniversary of the end of World War II and the end of the Holocaust and the genocide of the Roma, 2020 was expected to be filled with Holocaust memorial ceremonies, cultural events, and educational programming. However, as the COVID-19 pandemic began in Europe,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sofia Simões Pereira.

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. In the 1960s, a set of bronze cannons was discovered by an amateur diver in the Cabo Raso area of Cascais. In the years that followed, the archaeological site was the target of several "well-intentioned" lootings or recoveries. It was only in the 1980s that pioneering underwater archaeological work was carried out, promoted by the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Catherine R. Jones.

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 the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, changes in philosophical and medical knowledge resulted in new relationships between the living and the dead in the Western world. This resulted in new strategies of deciding who was part of a community and how best to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jaime M Donta.

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 Anthony Farmstead site (SOM.HA.4) in Somerset, Bristol County, Massachusetts was excavated as part of a mitigation project for proposed utility infrastructure upgrades. Documentary research established that the farmstead was settled in 1757 and passed father-to-son through multiple generations of a prosperous New England Yankee...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brendan P. Foley.

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 royal Danish-Norwegian flagship Gribshunden (or Gryffen) was launched in 1485 as one of the earliest purpose-built warships in northern Europe. King Hans uniquely employed the vessel as his “floating castle”, combining hard and soft power functions into a mobile seat of government. After a decade in active service, the ship was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jodi A. Barnes.

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. In the late 19th and early 20th century, wealthy White sportsmen traveled to the former plantations of the South Carolina Lowcountry to hunt and fish. They depended upon local Black guides who knew the land and fishing holes to ensure a successful outing. Prior to the Civil War, fishing was an important social,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lawrence E Babits.

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. This paper is a chronological overview of how gun powder weapon systems were activated and how the military’s adoption on new weapons affected troops in the field and their tactics. Once a weapon was loaded, igniting the black powder to discharge the projectile, became a key part of making guns practical. As changes occurred...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dan Trepal. Krysta Ryzewski. Don Lafreniere. Julia DiLaura. Virginia Nastase.

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, archaeological, and geospatial data concerning the rapid growth of American cities exist in disparate and fragmentary forms. With archival and archaeological collections housed separately in local and state repositories, and with few collections digitized, scholars are limited in their ability to conduct comprehensive...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sue O'Connor.

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. Once characterised as a cultural backwater due to the lack of traditional markers of modern human behaviour, the last few decades have seen Southeast Asia’s archaeological record re-evaluated following finds of the world’s earliest evidence for rock art and Pleistocene fishing technology. Now research in the islands of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Zwick.

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. The Wadden Sea can be regarded as a traditional zone of transport geography as defined by Christer Westerdahl, a maritime cultural landscape in its own right, which necessitated a distinctive way to interact with the sea. This is reflected in navigation, shipbuilding, coastal management, and a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Konrad A. Antczak.

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 saltpan of the largely forgotten Venezuelan island of La Tortuga was during the seventeenth and eighteenth century central to the functioning of the British Atlantic economy. I retrace the itineraries of the free solar sea salt that was harvested by Anglo-American seafarers at...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cayla B. Colclasure.

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 presents preliminary research on the prison labor camps erected for the construction of the Western North Carolina Railroad (WNCRR) during the late 1870’s and 1880’s under the convict leasing system. This system proliferated across the American South following the Civil War and the emancipation of enslaved people. While...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kateryna Goncharova.

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. Since the war's start, UNESCO reports that over 150 cultural sites have been partially or totally destroyed in Ukraine. This destruction of cultural heritage was discussed at the UN Security Council; expeditions were sent to investigate the scale of damage and further steps on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Suzie E Thomas.

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. In the past decade, the scope of heritage crime as a global research field has developed significantly. The term has increased in usage, and the crimes that it has been used to describe have also diversified. In this paper I consider the issue of heritage crime in rural areas, considering the diversity not...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine G Watson.

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. North Shields Fish Quay has a long history as a flourishing fishing port. However, by the end of the 20th century, its reputation was of disuse and dereliction. Significant heritage-led regeneration prompted it to emerge as an attractive commercial and residential quarter. This relied heavily on the use of fishing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Henrietta L Hammant.

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. Popular interest in figures like Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Sir Ernest Shackleton can mean that museum collections relating to the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration (broadly categorised as the late 19th – early 20th century) risk representing explorers as working alone to achieve heroic feats. In reality,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashley H McKeown. Todd M Ahlman. Kallista Karastamatis. Kathryn Ahlman.

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 the 18th century, formerly enslaved Crucians self-liberated and developed a community in the northwest hills of St. Croix. The rugged hills of St. Croix provided an ideal location for self-liberated Crucians to avoid detection and establish settlements. Archaeologists and historians have discussed the maritime marronage of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lindsey Howell Franklin. 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. The New York Times offers a browser-based archive of all newspaper issues from 1851 to 2002 called TimesMachine which allows users to query the database through keywords, date, and other search criteria. Members of the AerAqua Project, a research-based 501(c) non-profit organization, have utilized this online research tool to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily L. Haines.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From the early nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century, the settlement that would become the Canadian city of Edmonton, Alberta, was composed primarily of an historical era Indigenous people called the Métis. Despite their history and enduring presence in Edmonton, the Métis are positioned as peripheral in narratives of Edmonton’s development from historical and archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Clifford J Pereira. Caesar Bita.

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 Chinese navigator Admiral Zheng He led seven epic voyages into the Indian Ocean, reaching the shores of North-Eastern Africa. Chinese historical documentation records his visit to Malindi on the Kenyan coast in 1417-19. Since 2000 there have been several spectacular announcements in Kenya and China that have...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter B. Campbell.

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. People have been observing submergence and finding underwater sites for centuries. Early examples of Abbot Ealdred of St. Albans (1006), Nâsir-i-Khusrau (1047), and Benjamin of Tudela (1173), reveal how Christian, Muslim, and Jewish worldviews informed interpretations of submerged sites, as Renaissance...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bethany Becktell.

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. In 1655, Port Royal, Jamaica was captured as a consolation prize for Lord Oliver Cromwell after the Spanish soundly defeated an English attempt to conquer Hispaniola. Throughout the rest of the 17th century, Port Royal quickly grew to become the second largest mercantile center in the English colonies and served...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Raquel Machaqueiro.

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. Lisbon is full of sites celebrating the Portuguese former empire: from the Empire Square and the Discoveries Pattern in Belém, to the city’s toponymy celebrating the empire’s heroes, the public space is a constant reminder of a glorious past. Contrasting with the high visibility of this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David W. Morgan. Dave L. Conlin. Marc-Andre Bernier.

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. SWP is an international network investigating the global history/legacies of the African slave trade. It was launched in 2008 in recognition that archeology had mostly ignored thousands of wrecks of ships once engaged in the slave trade. While performing this research, SWP diversifies the field...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lindsay A. Randall. Bethany Jay.

With a paucity of written records, archaeology-centered activities offer a unique lens to explore sites of the African Diaspora throughout the Northeast and understand the lives of those who inhabited them. The first step is to engage middle and high school educators in understanding the power of material culture. The authors will share their strategies for training educators to use the methods and findings of archaeological inquiry to engage students in significant and meaningful conversations...

DOCUMENT Citation Only René Ndiana Faye.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pre-Recorded Video Presentation Global Black Archaeologies: Mobilizing Critical, Anti-Racist, De/Anti-Colonial, and Black Feminist Archaeologies in Uncertain Times", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The proposed study falls within a chronological range from the end of the 19th to the 21st century. This period is marked by the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, colonization, African resistance, the...

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

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Geophysical survey techniques provide important tools to meet the goals of both academic research and public archaeology. In the Historical Households of Central New York Archaeological Project, we used geophysical and remote sensing methods to document the construction sequence and synthesize historical records (including drawings, maps, and written accounts) with the standing structures...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin P. Carter.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Vast tracts of forest were cut down and converted into charcoal to fuel the iron industry of the United States during the 19th century. These landscapes tended to occupy "waste lands"- hilly, rocky, and poorly-watered (i.e., nonarable) land. Once used, the land was a tangled patchwork of brambles, scrub brush and young trees. At Six Penny Creek, Pennsylvania, a small, rural Black...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shawn Joy.

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. Offshore wind is increasingly essential in reducing carbon footprints and improving energy security. Improving the industry’s capabilities in cultural preservation is critical for renewable energy development. The human-altered lithic detection (HALD) method of mapping submerged archaeological sites has...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard M Loza.

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 September 1559 hurricane devastated the Tristán de Luna fledgling settlement and fleet of ships at anchor off modern-day Pensacola’s Emanuel Point and Scenic Highway area. Utilizing historical documents to guide research, the University of West Florida will perform a remote sensing survey southeast of the current Emanuel Point...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan T. Hicks.

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. In the late 19th century, farmers in Þíngeyjarsýsla, Northern Iceland collectively organized in order to claim greater sovereignty over their interactions with international capitalist markets in an economic scene dominated by Danish merchants. This Kaupfélag movement soon became an island-wide phenomenon. This paper...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kia L. Taylor Riccio.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As part of the La Soye research project, this poster explores the socioecological dynamics of the Kalinago people, European colonists, and island ecologies during the early-modern era. Through the GC-IRMS and starch analysis of a collection of earthenware potsherds, this paper reconstructs the dietary patterns of La Soye’s inhabitants. Preliminary data suggests that the inhabitants were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alice K Rose. Janet Montgomery. Darren R Gröcke. Susan M 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. This paper presents preliminary results of isotopic analysis of early modern individuals excavated from archaeological sites in Ireland, generated as part of the FoodCult project. A variety of populations from across Ireland are represented, allowing for discussions regarding the social and cultural meaning of food...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dennis B. Blanton. Elliot H Blair.

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. Since the beginning, excavations of the Jamestown Rediscovery Project have yielded large numbers of glass beads that traditionally are anticipated in early sixteenth century contexts, and very often with Spanish affiliations. New elemental and qualitative analyses bring understanding to this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gwendolyn R. Jones.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Patch towns in American coalfields are infamous for their feudal practices in the 19th and early 20th centuries, which kept mine workers and their families tied to the town. The coal companies’ most well-known means of control was debt bondage, which centers men’s labor as the deciding factor in a family’s (im)mobility. In the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tânia Casimiro. Susana Pacheco.

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 Portuguese endeavor in the Atlantic started in 1415. By the time the Portuguese reached Brazil (1500) they had already settled in four Atlantic Archipelagos, and several places in Africa and were starting to establish a permanent presence in the Indian Ocean region which lasted for several centuries. On...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tânia Casimiro.

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. Blue on white tin-glazed earthenware was made in Europe since the medieval Muslim occupation. The early modern production passes by different styles, however, somewhere around mid-16th century the decoration of European tin-glazed earthenware started to resemble, if not clearly imitate, Chinese porcelain....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ruth Trocolli. Christine Ames. Nicole C Grigg.

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. Studying the immigrant experience in urban archaeological contexts can be a challenge. Sites with immigrant residents often included tenants rather than property owners and were subject to high turnover. Washington, DC has always been a transient city and presents a particular global perspective where opportunities and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cécile Sauvage. Elise Nectoux. Eric Rieth.

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 archipelago of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon is the only French colony that is entirely devoted to the exploitation of cod fishing rights on the Grand Banks. Since the 17th century, it was the technical base of this activity and thus the starting point of the world cod trade. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ayana Omilade Flewellen.

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. Structures built by Black hands to withstand hurricane-force winds and the brutalities of African enslavement are still standing, scattered across rolling hills, valleys, and urban centers on the island of St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. On these landscapes, many structures are either left in ruins or renovated over time for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Beatriz Marín-Aguilera.

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. Chile was the most important and complex borderland of the Spanish Empire (1550–1818), in which colonial power and Indigenous resistance were contested over centuries. Spaniards struggled to subjugate the Reche-Mapuche –the local population–, and eventually conceded their independence upon the acknowledgement...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Moussa Wele.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Maritime Archaeology in West Africa", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. There is a great wealth of UCH lying off Africa Atlantic coast and in the continent's inland waters, all speaking to the cultural identity of the coastal communities, but also witness to long history and the many maritime links to other parts of the world.In 2018 the UNESCO Regional Office in Dakar launched an initiative that articulates...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melissa A. Timo.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. With the rise in the popularity of genealogy and the threats of increased development and climate change, historic cemeteries have come to the forefront off public attention. To better support the citizens of North Carolina, the NC Office of State Archaeology has embarked on a project to assemble previously completed state, county,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ann E. Killebrew. Jane C. Skinner.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Napoleon’s famous 1799 defeat at the walls of Ottoman Acre marked a turning point in the French campaign to control the Middle East, an event that lives on in the memory of the citizens of modern Akko. Visitors to the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Acre, Israel can follow a walking route exploring several locations relevant to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emma Dietrich. Emily Jane Murray.

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. Impacts from the climate crisis extend past site boundaries and into their material collections. Artifacts are being washed away before sites can be properly documented and collected. Meanwhile, curation facilities, already under duress from the curation crisis, are experiencing more pressure from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John W. Cardinal.

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 explore both the historical texts associated with Fort Lernoult in Detroit, Michigan, revealing how the interpretation of a site can changes through time and among perspectives, as well as analyzing the accuracy of the piles by examining the presence and location of tree nails recovered during the excavation. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Evan J Kovacs. Calvin Mires. Ben Roberts. David Ullman.

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 2022, DPAA partnered with Marine Imaging Technologies, to conduct a phase I archaeological survey off Guam’s coastline for three WWII aircraft. The reported locations for these sites were in areas of high seas, fast currents, and strong winds that had posed hazards and losses for previous...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caroline Gardiner. Jessica Mundt. Julianne Danna. Sharon Knobbe.

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 Veterans Curation Program (VCP) is both a temporary employment program for veterans and an interim repository for archaeological collections while they undergo rehabilitation. During each session, veteran technicians help care for at-risk artifact and associated archival collections from the U....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katharine E Kolpan.

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 majority of Sarajevo’s Jewish population arrived at the invitation of Sultan Bayezid II of the Ottoman Empire after being expelled from Spain and Portugal by the Inquisitions of the 1490’s. The city’s thriving Jewish population interred their dead in the Old Jewish Cemetery until most of Sarajevo’s Jews were exterminated in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas C. Wilson.

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. Acquisition of animal pelts, including sea otter and beaver, drove the initial wave of 19th century mercantile colonial settlement of the Pacific Northwest. This vast area, comprising Canadian British Columbia, and Idaho, Oregon, and Washington of the United States, contained an extraordinary diversity of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William T. Billeck.

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. During the first half of the 19th century and perhaps slightly earlier, Indigenous individuals in the Plains region of North America began making their own glass beads by recycling beads obtained through trade. They crushed glass beads and reformed the crushed glass into different beads that are visually distinctive, fusing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Francisco Rivera.

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 Alto Cielo Archaeological Project, conducted in the Quechua indigenous community of Ollagüe in northern Chile, aims to document the industrial ruins of sulfur extraction dating from 1887 to 1993. While this high-altitude region was historically a point of transit, it has often been understood as an "empty space" due to its...