Archaeology/Architecture
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2023
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Archaeology/Architecture," at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Many archaeologists work to fully integrate the study of artifacts and other refuse of daily life with more deliberate archaeological study of standing structures. Conversely, contemporary architecture theorists draw from the lexicon and methods of archaeology to interrogate such topics as urban ruins, digital buildings, and project archives. Considering archaeologists encounter constructions next to, around, and beneath the sites they excavate, where within their field of inquiry does the built environment lie? How might we harness the mutual curiosity between archaeology and architecture to enrich our understanding of the built environment? The lingering presence of structures, the market in architectural fragments, or even the narratives that haunt buildings demolished and erased, blur the meaningful yet arbitrary distinction between vestige and architecture. This distinction might also influence the focus of preservation efforts and other aspects of the heritage sector, by separating built structures from materials of archaeological interest associated with them.
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Afterlife Of Abandonment – Reanimating The Old Toppila Pulp Mill Silo With Zombie Metaphor (2023)
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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...
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An Archaeology Of Modernization: The Cultural Transformation In Galicia (NW Spain) Through Architecture And Domestic Material Culture. (2023)
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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...
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Building a Plantation: Architecture, the Built Environment, and Living Spaces at Bacon’s Castle, Surry County, Virginia (2023)
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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...
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Considering Architecture and Urbanism at Mound Key, the Capital of the Calusa during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (2023)
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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....
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Invisible Intentions and the Built Environment of a Detroit Backlot: Archaeological and Creative Interventions at the Mike Kelley Mobile Homestead Site (Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit) (2023)
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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...
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John Hejduk's Masque as a Mode of Archaeological Inquiry (2023)
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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...
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Lost Buildings, Vanished Institutions: Making Sense Of Nineteenth-Century Soup Kitchens (2023)
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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...
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Migrant Invisibility in the Industrial Built Environment (2023)
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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...
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The Politics of War Ruins: Architecture and Memory of French Villages Destroyed by War (2023)
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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...
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Revisiting a Demolished Community: Correlating Archaeological Foundations to Archival Images (2023)
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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,...