2023 SHA Poster Submissions

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabrielle Miller. Stephanie Sterling.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2011 Youth Diving with a Purpose (YDWP) and the NPS partnered to create a sustainable pathway for Black youth to enter the field of maritime archaeology. In the summer of 2021, we represented YDWP as interns to continue this partnership through the ongoing search for the Guerrero. The Guerrero was a ship carrying illegally enslaved Africans to be sold in Cuba that ran aground within...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicole M Smith.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The increasing effects of global warming have dire consequences on countries like Honduras where climatic events such as super hurricanes are rapidly displacing people while simultaneously intensifying poverty and food insecurity in one of the poorest and most violent nations in the western hemisphere. In recent years, this has led to a rise in people making the brutal journey north to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Thomin. Tristan Harrenstein. Rachel Hines.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2020 during the COVID-19 lockdown, public archaeologists across the world had to create new and innovative ways in order to engage audiences virtually. One online program developed by the Florida Public Archaeology Network (FPAN) in response to this was Archaeology Arcade. In Archaeology Arcade we digitally “sit down” with archaeologists around the world and play a video game that has...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christine Thompson. Kevin C. Nolan. Lance Greene.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Continued archaeological and community engaged research at the site of the Revolutionary War Battle of Peckuwe (1780) located in Springfield, Ohio, is producing results that will help set the stage for updated battlefield interpretation. The largest American Revolution conflict west of the Alleghenies, the ~1200 residents of the Shawnee town of Peckuwe struggled to thwart the attack of a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven G Harris.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In recent years, Trent’s Cave, located on Trents Plantation (St. James Parish, Barbados), has served as a site of personal interest due to the collection of iron and steel artifacts recovered from the cavern and surrounding area. Typically, when exploring the earliest industries found in Barbados from the 1600-1800s, rarely is the attention placed on the nature of metallurgy, or where...

DOCUMENT Citation Only M. Pilar Prieto-Martínez.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Louisbourg fortress (Nova Scotia, now Canada) is an exceptional site for the study of ceramics from the first half of the 18th century. Millions of fragments and complete pieces have been documented there during archaeological excavations. In particular, the amount of Rhenish stoneware in Louisbourg, a type little studied until now, is comparatively very small (less than 10,000...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah-Marie M Lamle. Jenna Baelz. Claudia Johnson. Charles Beeker.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Shipwreck sites have long been studied archaeologically to gain insight into past cultures, trade routes, and ways of life of the people on board. However, the intersection of archaeology and biology on shipwrecks can prove to be just as significant, as shipwrecks in tropical Caribbean waters facilitate the growth of corals through increased benthic rugosity. Reefs are one of the first...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mariana E. Zechini.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Originally founded by Alexander Spotswood as a small German settlement in 1714, Germanna quickly grew into an active frontier town in Virginia. By the mid-18th century, Fort Germanna, Alexander Spotswood’s home (known as the Enchanted Castle), and a bustling town with a courthouse had all resided in the area at one point or another. In addition to these structures, various groups of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elena M Sesma. James G Keppeler.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The 2022 University of Kentucky Campus Archaeology Project was the first on-campus field school offered at the university. The site was located on the periphery of the main campus, in the rear yard of a Victorian house that was integrated into the university landscape in the late twentieth century. Prior to its use as a campus office building, the house was a private residence for decades...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel L Hines. Raven Christopher.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The I-10 Mobile River Bridge (MRB) Archaeology Project is an ongoing interdisciplinary effort to excavate and interpret 15 sites in downtown Mobile, Alabama prior to the Mobile River Bridge and Byway project. The project area spans centuries of Gulf Coast history and includes Woodland, colonial, and 19th-20th century urban components. The MRB project is contextualizing archaeological work...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elias V M Michaut.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the mid 19th century, several thousands of enslaved people from north-western Senegal fled their enslavers to seek freedom in the colonial city of Saint-Louis and in neighbouring French outposts, where slavery had just been abolished. This movement continued throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, creating a landscape of overlapping diasporas where the autonomy and agency of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian C. Petty.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The sites associated with Newfoundland and Labrador’s logging history include logging camps, roads, and sawmills, and remain in varying states of visibility upon the landscape of the island of Newfoundland. These significant interactions between people and the environment permanently shaped Newfoundland’s socio-economic topography, and physical landscape during its most active decades of...

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 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 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 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 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 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 Ellen M. Lofaro. Jenna Domeischel.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The practice of repatriation has become increasingly nuanced as people and nations around the world have renewed their demands for the return of their cultural patrimony from international – generally, Western – museums. International repatriation has grown so significantly that a number of federal agencies have developed working groups devoted to the topic, and universities and museums...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Krista L. Eschbach.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeologists have traditionally applied a dichotomy to the classification of ceramics recovered from Northwest Florida presidios, reflecting broad assumptions about labor relations in the Spanish Southeast U.S. Ceramic sorting typically begins with the assumption that low-fired, hand-formed wares were produced by Native potters of the Southeast U.S. High-fired, wheel-thrown, or...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chloe A. Trinka. Erika K. Hartley.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.          Over twenty years of excavations at the historic site of Fort St. Joseph, an eighteenth-century mission, garrison, and trading post, have revealed thousands of glass beads. These small personal adornment artifacts can provide information about the occupants of the fort, specifically about expressions of their social identities. By expanding on previous research that focused on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carley J Divish. Hannah-Marie M Lamle. Samuel I Haskel. Charles D Beeker.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Living Museums in the Sea model was created to be a holistic approach to resource management, protecting underwater cultural resources and their associated environments. This system promotes economic benefits to the local community and knowledge of local history. Managing recovered artifacts is becoming more challenging for archaeologists with the ongoing curation crisis. This model...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Óscar Lantes-Suárez. M. Pilar Prieto-Martínez. Manuel Fernández-López. L. Hixinio Flores-Rivas.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Computed tomography (CT) is an imaging technique increasigly used in archaeology and in traditional ceramic research. Specifically, macro-CT is useful to characterize overall morphology, paste homogeneity, wall thickness, hidden cracks, contents and defects and coatings such as glazes and paints. All this aspects are very important in the field of tipology and conservation. The aim of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samuel E Bakeis. Harold K Cooper.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Fort Ouiatenon was established by the French in 1717 in what is today northwest Indiana to protect their interests in the region and engage in trade with Indigenous People in the Wabash River valley. Excavations at Ouiatenon in the 1960s and 70s recovered thousands of artifacts including many metal trade goods and numerous fragments of sheet copper and copper alloys. Copper sheet...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Manuel Piñeiro Soto. M. Pilar Prieto Martínez.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeological studies focusing on pottery of the fifteenth century onwards are still a scarce topic of research in Galicia. Even though there has been a peak on the publication of great quality works during the past years, it seems necessary to approach all this information aiming to obtain a wider portrayal. Therefore, the main goal of this study is to conduct a summary of the published...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lindsay M Wentzel.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Radford Wreck, CLS0006, is a 3.6 x 1.5 meter portion of ships’ stern located at the mouth of a shallow creek in North Carolina’s Cape Lookout National Seashore. Efforts to determine the vessel’s identity suggest the Provincetown, Massachusetts fishing schooner Seychelle a potential candidate. Wrecked on Cape Lookout during its maiden voyage to the Hatteras whaling grounds in 1879,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Barbara A Clark. Sorna Khakzad.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. A 2018 study of Northwest Florida’s cultural and natural resources, conducted by the University of West’s Florida Public Archaeology Network, revealed that the area encompasses numerous sites and entities that are significant to understanding the maritime history and cultural landscape of the region. It also highlighted the inadequate level of attention to these resources which has...

DOCUMENT Citation Only M. Pilar Prieto-Martínez. Miguel Busto-Zapico. Victor M. Díaz-Díaz. Jesús Fernández-López. Manuel Fernández-López. L. Hixinio Flores-Rivas. Oscar Lantes-Suárez. Francisco Lara-Piñera.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Decorating the roofs is a human action that has been practiced as a ritual since ancient times. A remarkable local form is found in Asturias and Galicia, which consists of crowning them with ceramics ('Spanish olive jar') from the 18th-19th centuries. These are containers manufactured in Seville during the Modern Age to the Atlantic trade. These pieces in a secondary position are reused...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bennett R. Kimbell. Emiliano Gallaga Murrieta. Jennifer Hatchett Kimbell.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The rediscovery of a model plan by the Spanish military engineer Nicolás de Lafora for the building of presidio fortifications provides an important link between the Regulations of 1772 and presidios built after that date. The plan is the only known document that presents a visual representation of the new Spanish design for fortifications in the region and was issued to presidio captains...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric Guiry. Stéphane Noël. Jonathan Fowler.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. We outline a new isotopic approach for exploring the importance of saltmarsh grazing in the past. Saltmarshes and other wetland habitats are important cultural and ecological resources because they can provide abundant, lower-input fodder for livestock and perform vital ecological services. For this reason, historical archaeological and ecological communities share a common interest in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Philip M Hulzing.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1916, workmen excavating a tunnel for the New York City subway uncovered a ship’s badly charred keel along with several Dutch artifacts. The construction foreman, unable to fully excavate the wreck, managed to retrieve the exposed part of it and document its location. The foreman believed the wreck belonged to the Tijger, a 17th century Dutch fur trading ship captained by Adriaen...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Evan P. Taylor.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For contemporary residents and descendants of former residents, the oldness of “old cities” indexes the persistence of home, memory, and attachment. This poster centers the materialization of residents’ interactions with surfaces of the old cities of Acre (Israel/Palestine) and Rhodes (Greece), which were assembled under Crusader and Ottoman rule, and through to the present. The Old City...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caroline A Peacock.

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

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

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephanie J. Halmhofer.

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

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

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