Port of Call: Archaeologies of Labor and Movement through Ports

DOCUMENT Citation Only Inês A. Castro.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Port of Call: Archaeologies of Labor and Movement through Ports", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. It’s the late 19th century - globalization, commerce, industry, a world that moves faster, goes further, demands more. The “self” disappears in favour of a human mass. On the other side of the picture are the fishermen. An amphibious animal, simple life, simple costumes, a different notion of time, a know-how...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elysia M Petras.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Port of Call: Archaeologies of Labor and Movement through Ports", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This presentation summarizes archival and archaeological research into 17-19th century unsanctioned networks of trade and self-liberation between the enslaved and free Black residents of British Anguilla and nearby French/Dutch St. Martin. Presenting preliminary findings from two seasons of archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chelsea M. Cohen.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Port of Call: Archaeologies of Labor and Movement through Ports", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. While sailing and dock work are both tractable through archaeological and archival records, the process of building out docks and wharves remains obscured. The moderation of meeting between land and water was formative in urban port placemaking, directly impacting the size of ships and quantities of storage a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caroline Borges. Diane Wallman. Jonathan Bethard. Claudia Cunha. Ana Lucia do Nascimento Oliveira. Suely Cristina Albuquerque de Luna.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Port of Call: Archaeologies of Labor and Movement through Ports", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This research focuses on the city of Recife, Pernambuco, Northeast Brazil, from the 16th to the 18th centuries. Recently archaeological excavations inside the Port of Recife revealed that the occupation of the area was first established as a fortress in the 16th century. Later, the area became one of the main...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda D. Roberts Thompson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Port of Call: Archaeologies of Labor and Movement through Ports", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The city of Savannah, along the coast of Georgia in the southeastern United States, was and still is an important coastal port. It was the destination for commerce and trade for those who operated plantations to sell cotton and other crops, as well as everyday supplies. To be this economic hub required that there...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael A Rivera.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Port of Call: Archaeologies of Labor and Movement through Ports", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. It has become increasingly common to understand Vikings, or medieval Scandinavians, beyond their role as raiders of the Medieval Period and to see them in other jobs, such as skilled traders. This is made clear through the many trading centers throughout the Northern European region. Many of these centers arose...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicole Bucchino Grinnan. Mike Thomin.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Port of Call: Archaeologies of Labor and Movement through Ports", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Along Florida’s Panhandle, several small, coastal communities exist today as a reminder of an earlier period in the state’s history: a time when the movement of people, goods, and information relied on waterways. The town of Apalachicola, in particular, once supported enough commodities production and maritime...

DOCUMENT Citation Only JW Joseph.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Port of Call: Archaeologies of Labor and Movement through Ports", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Operating under a Black majority, South Carolina low country Blacks created a creole culture known as the Gullah Geechee, a culture that emphasized self-sufficiency and craft production. The Gullah Geechee on Antebellum plantations operated in a task labor economy that allowed them time to use on their own once...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lynn Brenda Harris.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Port of Call: Archaeologies of Labor and Movement through Ports", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Simon’s Town, in South Africa, served as naval port and harbor first for the British and later for the South African Navy. Cultural connections to other parts of Africa, United States, and the Far East are an equally important part of the historical narrative and naval identity of the False Bay. Kroomen from West...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aviva Pollack. Rafael Vereecken. Vincent Torres.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Port of Call: Archaeologies of Labor and Movement through Ports", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Two associations of academics, craftsmen, and enthusiasts determined to progress in experimental archaeology and research methods are reproducing a Hellenistic-Greek city near the coastal colony of Massalia (Marseille). The reconstruction will include sports, religious, civil, and cultural buildings with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ben L. Ford. Carrie Sowden.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Port of Call: Archaeologies of Labor and Movement through Ports", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The ports of Toledo (Ohio), Oswego (New York), and Thunder Bay (Ontario) span the Great Lakes, saw different periods of development, and illustrate a variety of port infrastructure seen through archaeology and existing historic structures. By comparing the built environment of these ports, it is possible to see...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Jackson. Steven J. Filoromo.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Port of Call: Archaeologies of Labor and Movement through Ports", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Throughout the history of humankind, rivers have been a central tool for human survival and use. These water bodies have been used as sources of drinking water, obtaining food, bathing, waste disposal, transportation, defense, and later hydropower. Evidence of this usage is still available in the floodplains and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven J Filoromo. Elliot H Blair.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Port of Call: Archaeologies of Labor and Movement through Ports", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the late 19th Century, communities around Sapelo Sound in coastal Georgia, USA, reconfigured the social and physical landscapes to participate in the international timber economy. During this period, those living at the North End Site (9MC81) on Creighton Island, GA, reconfigured the former plantation into...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephanie A Sterling.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Port of Call: Archaeologies of Labor and Movement through Ports", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The historic tidal rice plantation waterways that form a patchwork of chasms visible from space are stark reminders of the impact the rice industry had in the Lower Cape Fear, but their origins are frequently overlooked. Dug by hand by enslaved men and women these waterways became the circulatory system that led...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelsey Rooney.

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