Global Materialities: Tracing Connections through Materiality of Daily Life

Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2023

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Global Materialities: Tracing Connections through Materiality of Daily Life," at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

This session celebrates the connectivity that infuses daily life by examining global relationships at individual, community, and regional spheres. Presenters will discuss the material footprints of peoples’ local, regional, and global engagements evidenced in documentary, oral historical, ethnographic, and archaeological records. In particular, the case studies will highlight not only geographical linkages between places and peoples, but also the chronological connections that link the past to the present.

Other Keywords
Materiality • homemaking • Vandalism • Material Culture • Witchcraft • Tradition • Consumption • historical cemeteries • Identity • daily life

Geographic Keywords
Northern Ireland (State / Territory) • Ireland (Country) • Ulster (State / Territory) • Leinster (State / Territory) • Munster (State / Territory) • Connacht (State / Territory) • Ireland • Europe (Continent) • Northern California

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  • Desecration as Creation: Material Tracings of Vandalism and Witchcraft in a Northern California Pioneer Cemetery. (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Trent Trombley.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Materialities: Tracing Connections through Materiality of Daily Life", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In a small pioneer cemetery in Oroville, California a headstone marks the grave of Annie M. Silvers, who based on the dates on her headstone, purportedly lived to 230 years of age. When paired with her distinctive headstone and iconography in an otherwise Christian cemetery, it has been suggested in...

  • Mantelpieces and the Homemaking: Exploring memory through the small and ordinary, 20th century, Ireland (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian Kuijt. William Donaruma.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Materialities: Tracing Connections through Materiality of Daily Life", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. To a 20th century Irish islander, mundane objects on the mantelpiece above the fireplace are not just humdrum keepsakes, economic tools, common items, or assets; rather these objects provided a point of entry into the emotional landscape of memory, identity, and belonging in the Irish home. The...

  • Materiality of Homemaking: Dressers, Delph, and Heirlooms in western Ireland (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Meredith S Chesson.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Materialities: Tracing Connections through Materiality of Daily Life", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. What can everyday Irish dressers and delph tell us about family history, rural life, and global connections? As part of the multiyear Cultural Landscapes of the Irish Coast Project, I have researched dressers and their contents, including curated ceramic and glass vessels and other objects, to conduct...

  • Materiality, Identity & Culture: A New Narrative of Irish Food History (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel S Tracey. Meriel McClatchie. Ellen O'Carroll. Susan Flavin.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Materialities: Tracing Connections through Materiality of Daily Life", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. FoodCult is a dynamic interdisciplinary research initiative that explores diet and foodways in early modern Ireland. Drawing from FoodCult’s ground-breaking database of comparative archaeological evidence throughout the island of Ireland, this paper will showcase elements of the fundamentals of...

  • Portuguese in California (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Laurie A Wilkie.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Materialities: Tracing Connections through Materiality of Daily Life", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper will discuss examples of how Portuguese immigrants, particularly from the Azores, have shaped the economic and cultural fabric of the San Francisco Bay Area, with reference to dairy farming, off shore whaling and lime production.

  • Tracing Connections: Seventeenth-century Derry/Londonderry in global perspective (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Audrey Horning.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Global Materialities: Tracing Connections through Materiality of Daily Life", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The walled city of Derry-Londonderry was a central place in the seventeenth-century Ulster Plantation, designed as a fortified English settlement intended to operationalize English authority over the north of Ireland. Yet it also was a city in which people made their lives, subverting and transcending...