SHA 2023 General Sessions

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jack Gary. Meredith Poole.

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

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

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The chronology and morphology of Spanish olive jar has been divided into early, middle, and late styles since John Goggin's typology was first proposed in 1960, and this has formed a basis for dating sites with a colonial Spanish component for many decades. However, recent research and discoveries have suggested that changes and...

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

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rikki E Oeters.

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

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

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Revenue Cutter BEAR was a ship of many lives and significant accomplishments. Orignally built as a sealer, BEAR gained distinction for its 1884 rescue of Greely Expedition survivors. Subsequent decades were spent in polar waters where BEAR operated as an Arctic U.S. Revenue Cutter and flagship for Byrd's two Antarctic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric L. Proebsting.

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

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

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Olivia Hulot. René Ogor.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only A. Dudley Gardner.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph Grinnan. Austin Burkhard.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2018, SEARCH archaeologists conducted archaeological investigations including a remote-sensing survey in the Mobile River near Twelve Mile Island, Mobile, Alabama. The survey resulted in the identification of 12 previously unknown shipwrecks and the relocation of another three previously known submerged cultural resources....

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

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sienna N Williams.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The 16th century was a time of long-distance voyaging and feats of maritime discovery that served to colonize lands across the Atlantic. Although much is known about this time period, there are gaps in our understanding of life at sea and the spatial organization of activities onboard. By using historical documents, this paper...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erin S. Schwartz.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. When several different types of buttons are recovered from an archaeological site, how can we parse and explain differences in choice and use? And what might we learn about the different people who made, used, or reused them? This paper explores these questions through study of a diverse button assemblage recovered from two women’s...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Noe.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Pruitt.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The full-time education and outreach manager at the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) responds to questions from the public through wild and wonderful emails, phone calls, and physical mail. An SAA annual meeting poster presentation from Maureen Malloy in 2013 analyzed inquiries received between 2001 and 2012, drawing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda E Ford.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The study of African American cemeteries and burial customs from an archaeological context has been growing more prevalent in the last two decades, but most focus is confined to the search of “Africanisms” in burial practices and the issues concerning the preservation of burial grounds, particularly those belonging to enslaved and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shanna L Daniel.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only James C Dunnigan.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Miguel A Fernandez.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara Simões.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn L. Ness Swanson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the early modern period, England and Spain claimed the majority of the Americas. The imperial actions and policies of one empire were often reactions to developments in the other. Those living in the colonial Americas were highly aware of and alert to these changes and, in some cases, specifically advocated for greater...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Attila Dezsi. Natascha Mehler.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1886, Elisabeth Nietzsche and her husband Bernhard Förster founded the anti-semitic colony Nueva Germania. Up to 140 settler families took part in the endeavor to realize an utopian settlement in the heart of Paraguay. Some of the families wanted to leave the German Empire out of political discontent forever, others tried to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel R Hansen.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Claire Norton.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aimie Neron.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Wilson. Stephen James.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In February 2021, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District recovered three cannon, a stocked anchor, and a number of wooden and metal materials while dredging regular maintenance areas in preparation for deepening associated with the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP). A subsequent geophysical survey and diver...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Beatriz Bandeira.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. A doctoral thesis is being completed on the analysis of the state of conservation of the shipwreck of the Galeão Santíssimo Sacramento (1668) in order to strengthen the Brazilian underwater cultural heritage. Although it is a particularist approach, the results seek to expose the interpretations of the shipwreck site formation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gregory D. Cook.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper will focus on the ongoing investigations of the Emanuel Point Shipwrecks, the oldest European wrecks in Florida, and our surveys and diver investigations for the 2022 UWF field season.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth E. Straub.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Justin Milewski.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In September 1779, French ships arrived off the coast of Georgia to join with American forces in an attempt to capture the British-occupied city of Savannah. British General Augustine Provost ordered the scuttling of multiple vessels, including the ships Venus (a transport) and HMB Savannah (an armed ship), to prevent the French...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan L Olshefski.

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

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

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Allison M Campo. Justin A Pyle.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During WWII from 20–23 November 1943, U.S. forces invaded and fought for control of the Japanese-occupied Betio Island in the Battle of Tarawa. The battle resulted in the loss of 1,020 U.S. service members, with over 400 still remaining unaccounted for. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) is responsible for the relocation,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melanie G Cootsona.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jade W Luiz.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashley McCuistion.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Connie Kelleher.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chandler Fitzsimons.

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

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

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