Recent Colonial Archaeological Research in the American Midcontinent

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Recent Colonial Archaeological Research in the American Midcontinent" at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The colonial era has attracted considerable archaeological interest in the American Midcontinent over the past few decades. Recent research aims to examine how that record is interpreted and the role it plays in contemporary social science inquiry. Before and during the early years of nationhood, French, French-Canadian, British, Native American, African/African American, and the Métis/métis peoples struggled to create and maintain their identities in a rapidly changing social, political, and economic world. The papers in this session explore the daily lives of these shifting colonial populations through archaeological study of gender, materiality, power, survivance, ontology, and landscape.