Archaeology/Architecture

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marjo A. Juola.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology/Architecture", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In this case paper, I will scrutinize how an abandoned, cultural historically significant building can be seen as an undead corpse, a zombie, that has undergone a few reanimations attempts by the cultural heritage authorities. Designed by a famous Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, this cathedral like concrete structure has been a center of debate in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cristina Incio-del-Río.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology/Architecture", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. My doctoral researh studies the processes of modernization of the rural world in the Iberian northwest, from the eighteenth century to the present, analyzing the domestic space of four different case studies. Its objective is to examine the extent to which the house participates in these processes, since it is a key element in the extension and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebekah L. Planto.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology/Architecture", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In North America, recent-historical archaeology and architectural history tend to occupy separate spheres compared to, for instance, buildings archaeology in the UK. Partial exceptions include places like the Chesapeake, where the two disciplines have shared roots at institutions like Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown, and St. Mary’s City. But at more...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Victor Thompson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology/Architecture", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1566, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés arrived at Mound Key, the capital of the Calusa kingdom. What he saw there was unlike anything else he would encounter in La Florida, a capital teaming with people and complex architecture that was essentially a terraformed anthropogenic island constructed mostly of mollusk shells situated in the middle of Estero Bay....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Krysta Ryzewski. Rebecca S. Graff. Jan Tichy. John Cardinal. Casey Carter. Julia DiLaura. Brianna LeBlanc. Anastasia Woody.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology/Architecture", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This presentation reflects upon the scope and outcomes of a collaborative archaeological and creative project at the site of the Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead in the backlot of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD). In 2021 and 2022 research involving archaeologists based in Detroit and Chicago, artist Jan Tichy, and the MoCAD’s Teen Council...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Genevieve Godbout.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology/Architecture", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1980–1982, architect John Hejduk creates The Lancaster/Hanover Masque, a series of conceptual drawings accompanied by texts, in which he imagines the built environment and daily activities of a fictional community. Hejduk uses the “masque”, a form of English court pageantry popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as a mode of inquiry to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Philip J Carstairs.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology/Architecture", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Soup kitchens, the charitable provision of food, principally soup (often accompanied by bread), became widespread in late-eighteenth century Britain. During the following century, soup kitchens fed between 10 and 30% of the population during wintertime. They were a vital resource in the survival strategy of the poor. Almost all of the thousands of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah F Scarlett.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology/Architecture", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The industrial-era migration experience has long been a focus for historical archaeologists and historians of architecture alike. But how can methods from both archaeology and architecture be used to illuminate ethnic identity when typologies fail and standard built environment patterns prove invisible? This paper presents a work-in-progress...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Kryder-Reid.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology/Architecture", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Within the vast landscape of war destruction, a small number of places are preserved as heritage sites honoring both the physical space and the memory of what happened there. In this sense, they are distinct and local, related to particular events and experiences of war violence. They also participate in the broader space of war memory. These...

DOCUMENT Citation Only April M. Beisaw.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology/Architecture", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. New York City demolished thousands of rural buildings to create their Catskill, Croton, and Delaware watersheds. Archaeological survey around reservoirs has been able to document the ruins that remain. But correlating foundations to specific buildings and landowners has been difficult, due to the scale of landscape transformation. Current waterways,...