SHA 2023 General Sessions

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew J. Van Slyke.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan Harris.

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

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

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

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

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew S Kaczor.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica A Cofelice. Peter Morrison.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leo A. Demski.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marie Trottier.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan L Olshefski.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica L Clark.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kimberly Pyszka.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sorna Khakzad Knight. Barbara Clark.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Colleen M. Betti.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick J Boyle.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael R Polk. Christopher W Merritt.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Construction of Central Pacific’s portion of the Transcontinental Railroad involved employment of thousands of Chinese workers. This exceptionally difficult and hazardous work resulted in the deaths of hundreds of workers over the five years that contract Chinese workers were part of the effort. While the bones of many of these...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Katherine Brown. Olivia Evans. Chiara Torrini. 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. This paper will evaluate the storage and everyday use ceramic assemblages from two 19th-century captive house sites, Cedar Grove and Fanny Dickins. These sites are located within the modern 18,500 acre Ames land base in western Tennessee, which historically was one of the highest producing cotton areas in the US South. Since 2011,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan M Underbrink. Caitlin Gilbertson.

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 Republic of the Marshall Islands, Kwajalein Atoll has acted as an American military base since 1944. One of the most prevalent American artifacts found in this region are Coca-Cola bottles. Coke bottles have been researched extensively, but this paper specifically discusses bottles found on Kwajalein Atoll. We looked at 493...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephanie A Sterling.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Tlingit lore describes a monster who enhabits the deep caverns at the mouth of Lituya Bay and shakes the water like a sheet creating a consistently tumultuous environment. The significance of this area encompasses both natural and cultural resources and is known for a 1700 ft tsunami that scoured the landscape. Culturally however,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chris LaMack.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeological investigations at the Iron Age hill fortress of Oğlanqala in Azerbaijan’s Naxçivan Autonomous Republic have provided key insight into political complexity in the ancient Caucasus. However, small finds and distinctive architecture attest to an equally compelling (if murkier) early twentieth century past. This paper...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul F Johnston.

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 Continental Gunboat Philadelphia was built by Gen. Benedict Arnold in the summer of 1776 and was sunk that October by the British during the Battle of Valcour Island in Lake Champlain. It was raised by local salvor Lorenzo Hagglund in 1935, came to the Smithsonian in 1963 and has been on continuous exhibition since 1964. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicolas Delsol. Jessica A. Oswald. Brian S. Stucky. Robert Guralnick. Kitty F. Emery.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Despite long term study, the history of the introduction of cattle and their management practices in the Western Hemisphere staring in the 16th century is particularly complex and there is still uncertainty around the origins and the distribution of the animals through time. While the traditional historical scholarship suggests...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John R. Bratten. Meghan Mumford.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Maritime archaeologists at the University of West Florida embarked on a project to record a collection of small boats and rafts that provided a conduit to freedom for unknown Cuban citizens. Since the 1980s, the Key West Tropical Forest & Botanical Garden has acquired 10 refugee vessels and placed them in an outside exhibit. Many...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Russell K. Skowronek. Margaret A. Graham.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. One of the most vexing problems in historical archaeology is connecting historic folk taxonomies to the material record. Language and classifications evolve often leaving a disconnect that hinders accurate interpretation of the material record. This is further compounded with translation and contemporary cognitive templates. Our...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacob Tumelaire. Roxanne Pendleton.

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 the resutls of research conducted using the faunal assemblage recovered from the Abraham Preble Site (ME 497-209) in York, Maine. The Preble's established a homestead on the site in the 1640s, with the location serving as a garrison, a tavern a family residence and an inn during its subsequent centuries of use....

DOCUMENT Citation Only 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. Artificial reefs are human-created structures such as retired ships, barges, bridges, reef modules constructed of various materials, and other objects which are placed underwater to promote marine life. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission claims that Florida’s artificial reef program is one of the most active in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Doug Hrvoic.

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 Argos diver-held magnetic graditometer was initially conceived during the Lost Ships of Cortes (LSOC) Project in Villa Rica Mexico in 2018. Using a new method of determining the Total Magnetic Gradient (TMI), it allowed (in 2019 and 2020) the detection and recovery of multiple iron artifacts in a challenging environment where...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dana J Carris.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Nestled in the heart of Central New York, the Finger Lakes have a rich maritime history that has been underrepresented in archaeological study. These eleven lakes have acted as thoroughfares since the Pre-Columbian period through modern day and have supported a wide variety of watercraft. Although many shipwrecks and submerged...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha M Ellens.

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 examines Montserrat’s citrus lime industry (ca.1852-1928) as a case study for understanding the ways new Caribbean agro-industries impacted the lives of island residents and changed the physical landscape in the wake of emancipation. The lime industry marked a major period of transformation for the Caribbean island and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ted L Gragson. Michael R Coughlan.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Every summer since at least AD 1000, hundreds of Basque herders from dozens of villages across the 1500 km2 Soule Valley in the French Western Pyrenees have converged with thousands of sheep on 90 km2 of high mountain rangeland in the parish-community of Larrau. The summer convergence of herders and sheep over the last millennium...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John M. Chenoweth.

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 Plymouth Colony is often thought of very differently from that of Massachusetts Bay, the latter intended to be a “City on a Hill” or example for the world, while the former emphasized separation from it. While an over-simplification, the archaeology of these Colonies has largely entailed this distinction, with Plymouth Colony...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chelsea Rose. Tiah Edmunson-Morton.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Largely assumed to consist of a male dominated workforce and clientele, in reality, many early Oregon breweries were family affairs. The Eagle Brewery and Saloon, one of the first breweries in Oregon, was run by German immigrants Joseph and Fredericka Wetterer. They sold lager beer, distilled whisky and brandy, and had a small...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandra D. Bybee. Victoria M. Swenson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Mortuary artifact assemblages, including materials used to mark grave locations, hardware used in the construction of coffins and caskets, and items used to clothe and decorate the dead, range temporally, geographically, and culturally based on a variety of factors, including manufacturing advancements, access to goods, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ruth M Mitchell.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From 1774 to 1813 most of the town known as St. Mary’s City was owned by John Mackall. Upon his death in 1813 he owned over 1,700 acres, and his inventory names 40 enslaved people. The same land was later owned by John Brome, who had 58 enslaved individuals by 1860. Where on the landscape did the enslaved live, and what is the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lukas Holata. Josef Brosta. Miroslav Procházka.

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 Gulag camps represent unique archaeological sites; due to their remoteness, dozens of them are preserved in Siberia in exceptional quality – with still-standing buildings, interior furnishings, and numerous artifacts often found as de facto refuse. Together with a rich collection of prisoners' memories, it provides detailed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Claire E. Zak.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. To date, little research has been conducted on the conservation of waterlogged paper due to the typical lack of preservation of thin organic material on shipwrecks. The purpose of this report is to discuss the conservation of waterlogged paper artifacts from Brother Jonathan, a shipwreck sunk in 1865 in the Pacific Ocean off the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shannon Mascarenhas. Crystina Friese.

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 the results of research conducted using the ceramic assemblage recovered from the seventeenth-century Abraham Preble Garrison Complex (ME 497-209) in York, Maine. Excavations conducted in 2021-2022 yielded thousands fo ceramic sherds from as many as nine cellar holes and other architectural features within the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Saara E Tuovinen.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Today more people reach old age than ever before and it is providing us with new challenges and options. The aged persons have been around before our times as well and in this changing world it is important to understand the past of aging and how it affected individuals and society back then. This paper is about older adults and...

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew B Ballance.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Donald A. Gaylord. Arthur Rodrigues.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the 1970s, archaeologists located many of the lost buildings at the site of Liberty Hall Academy, which operated from 1782 until 1803. Their interpretation focused exclusively on the Academy Period, which left many questions remaining about a site occupied continuously from the 1740s until today in an area with indigenous...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leonie M Stevens.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leah E Tavasi.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hope A Bridgeman. Hunter W Whitehead.

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

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

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper investigates the unmarked cemeteries of the captive and emancipated individuals at the Cedar Grove Plantation and surrounding Antebellum plantations in western Tennessee. The previous research conducted at Cedar Grove Plantation by Rhodes College focused on the daily lives and households of the captive African and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kate M Ganas.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandria T Mitchem.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The effects of the pursuit of Natural History were manifold. Occurring simultaneously with imperial expansion and settler colonialism, the act of collecting and transporting natural specimens rewrote political, intellectual, and ecological landscapes. This paper focuses on the impacts of plant collecting on natural environments, by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles Beeker.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Crystal Castleberry.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Linda A Seminario.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This study explores the relationships between food choice and resistance at a 19th century plantation in the United States. In 2017, archaeologists excavated two features at the Belle Grove enslaved quarters in Middletown, Virginia— a root cellar and borrow pit that was filled in when a log cabin burned down. By using comparative...

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

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The remarkable site of God’s Little Acre (GLA), the historic African and African American section of Newport’s Common Burial Ground, comprises the largest surviving corpus of gravemarkers from a colonial era African cemetery anywhere in the United States. In 2019, members of the Rhode Island Historic Cemetery Advisory Commission...

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

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah C Watkins-Kenney. Lynn B Harris.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Casks were containers for provisions, supplies, and trade goods aboard ships in the Atlantic world for over 2000 years. On eighteenth century ships engaged in the “Triangle of Trade” the number, capacities, and contents of casks carried depended on stage of the voyage. Identifying a historic shipwreck as a slave-trade vessel may...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robyn Pelling. Marie Meranda.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Amalfi coast, with its jagged peaks creates a series of village enclaves nestled into the small, relatively flat river valleys along the peninsula. Although geographically isolated, the towns along the peninsula have a network of interconnectivity stemming from their outward maritime focus. Even today, many locals and visitors...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Efrain Ocasio.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the mid-19th century, midwives were local women, usually with children of their own, who had learned midwifery as apprentices. Observing and helping with deliveries accumulated their skills and exposed them to the variety of problems they would face when working on their own. Dunkerhook, a community established by formerly...

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

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Floyd R. Mansberger. Christopher Stratton.

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 builds on the historic context and project history presented in the earlier paper by Christopher Stratton, and describes the results of the archaeological mitigation conducted on four city lots occupied by Portuguese immigrants in Springfield (Illinois) beginning in the 1850s and continuing through the early years of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Stratton. Floyd R. 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. The first Portuguese arrived in Springfield (Illinois), from the Madeira Islands, in 1849, and by 1855 some 350 Portuguese were living in the city. They were exiles, who had been driven out of Madeira due to their conversion to Presbyterianism. Springfield’s Portuguese enclave was one of the first to be established in the Midwest...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Taylor Bowden. Brigid M. Ogden. Elizabeth Tarulis.

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 an analysis of a tentatively identified animal membrane condom from the colonial Oxon Hill Manor Site (18PR175) in Maryland using Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) to identify the taxon from which the artifact was made. Taxonomic identification of the condom allows for more in-depth exploration of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robyn S Lacy.

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 archaeology of colonial settlements and burial grounds is a popular avenue of historical archaeology, but consideration of the different cultures represented in these spaces is not regularly considered. The development of the burial landscape in 17th- and 18th-century northeast North America included not only the white European...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erin W 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. In November 1542 King Charles I passed the “New Laws” outlawing Indigenous slavery in the Spanish Empire. Yet, the laws left legal justifications for enslaving indigenous peoples, most significantly “just war.” Thus the New Laws did not end the Indigenous slave trade but moved it from the core of the empire to its periphery; to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carin E Bloom.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Interpretations at historic house museums are often so localized and detailed to cities or individuals that it is hard for visitors to grasp the truly global nature of human settlement throughout history. Charleston, South Carolina was a major port city in the 19th century; full of opulence, worldly society, and human oppression,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Utley.

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 battle of Gettysburg took place from 1-4 July 1863. The battlefield itself covers over 9.36 square miles. The battle for the Union left on Little Round Top took place on Day 2. The Confederate approach to Little Round Top was along a lower ridge line of Big Round Top, overlooking Devil’s Den, through an area called the Devil’s...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nathan Scholl. Kimberly Smith. Kerry González.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Early EuroAmerican settlement of the Kennebec River Valley in Maine above the Waterville area settlement did not occur until the late eighteenth century. This region of the state of Maine was still considered frontier land until this general time period. Early settlers were initially tied to the river for commerce and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric Schweickart. Jessie Dick.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Williamsburg’s octagonal powder magazine building has been one of the town’s most recognizable landmarks since the early 18th century, outlasting most of Williamsburg’s other public architecture. One common refrain by visitors to town in the 19th and 20th centuries, after the building ceased to function as a public magazine, is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Archambault.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From the end of the 19th century and under the influence of the hygienist movement, the relationship of individuals to what is considered to be waste has changed drastically. Privy and other open-air structures are banned by public health, leading to the development of new waste management techniques. In addition to creating more...

DOCUMENT Citation Only George Schwarz. Kevin Crisman. Chris Sabick.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Phoenix (1814-1819) is the earliest archaeologically-studied steamboat, built just 8 years after America’s first commercially-successful steamer, North River. Phoenix operated for five seasons until it suddenly burned and sank in Lake Champlain, Vermont, in September 1819. In the 2010s, the hull was documented and studied by the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Mrozowski. Lindsay Montgomery.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Indigenous histories are rooted in movement—movement between places, movement across sacred sites, and movement to ecological niches. Drawing on comparative archaeological evidence of the long-term use of landscapes in both the American Southwest and Northeast, this paper explores the concept of placed-based histories. The factors...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marine Jaouen. Sébastien Berthaut-Clarac. Michel Goury.

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 Port de Pomègues 4 wreck is characterized by the port side stern of a ship estimated to be about twenty meters long. The remains of this oak hull sheathed with lead sheets lie at a depth of 4 m on the northern coast of the island of Pomègues in the Rade de Marseille (France), a shelter dedicated to the anchorage of ships in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Myles Sullivan.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. British Florida was a short-lived colonial enterprise bound up in global conflicts from 1763 to 1784. While brief, it offers a striking opportunity to engage in a comparative colonial archaeology when considering the port town of St. Augustine’s long Spanish occupation dating back to 1565. Concepts such as creolization and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Janete Matusse. Cezar Mahumane. Celso Simbine. Hilario Madiquida.

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 last years, the Mozambique coast has been affected by several cyclones and tropical depression that directly affect the Maritime and Cultural Heritage (MUCH), especially in the northern of the country. In order to deal with underwater site degradations, previous projects conducted over this heritage attempted to mitigate...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexander J. Smith.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Frost Town Archaeology is a public-facing project that integrates community-based practices, affordable undergraduate training, and ecological study in the Finger Lakes Region of Western New York. Frost Town itself was a small logging village founded in the late 18th century and almost entirely abandoned in the early 20th century....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lindsay Bloch. Charles Cobb. Nicolas Delsol. Gifford Waters.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. We have conducted pXRF analyses on over 300 metal artifacts from Spanish colonial sites in the Americas that date from the 1500s to 1700s. Most are from the American Southeast, but the sample also includes locations in South America and the Caribbean. Sites encompass Indigenous towns visited by Spanish expeditions to presidios. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anthony H Gilchrist.

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, a survey conducted on shipwrecks in Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire, USA, found that many of these sites were at risk of destruction from recreational divers and fishermen. A subsequent survey conducted in the summer of 2021 found a reliable, low-cost method of recording these shipwrecks to conserve as much data as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph Cozzi.

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 reconstruction of the bow of the Emanuel Point Ship (EP1) is undertaken in an attempt to establish the vessel's length of keel. This is a crucial step in determining the vessel's size, which may help to identify which of the vessel's lost during Tristan de Luna's 1559 expedition is represented by the remains of Emanuel Point 1.

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 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...