Society for Historical Archaeology 2024

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul W Gates.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Exploring the Maritime Archaeology of the Richelieu River and Lake Champlain Valley: Ongoing Research", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Lake Champlain is the repository of a considerable number of submerged cultural resources and shipwrecks representing over twelve thousand years of human occupation in the region. While archaeologists have collated a substantial amount of data on the vessels, the histories of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Philip J Carstairs.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Hillier and Hanson proposed a syntax of space to understand the built environment in their 1984 book The Social Logic of Space. This syntax is expressed through a matrix or flow diagram (an access map) which represents access and movement within space. As a representational tool, access maps have been under-used, even in historical...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelly Britt.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology, Activism, and Protest", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper focuses on the ways that archaeological praxis shifts when we embrace the political nature of all archaeology. Participatory Action Research (PAR) provides a method for archaeologists to work as both archaeologists and activists with communities, connecting the past to current injustices. This better allows their work to be...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kimberly L. Breyfogle.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Conservation of Archaeological Materials from Submerged Sites", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The generation of iron sulfates and sulfuric acid in submerged organic artifacts was originally recognized in the early 2000s and has been the subject of research and concern since then. Initially thought to be the result of iron contamination interacting with PEG, it is now evident that the problem is not limited...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nikoletta D. Karapanos.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Life and Death in the San Francisco Bay: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Historic Lifeways", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Construction activity at the Legion of Honor Museum in the 1990s uncovered more than 900 burials from the former City Cemetery in northwest San Francisco. Bones from human burials that exhibited pathological conditions were accessioned at the San Francisco Office of the Chief Medical...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Margaret Hangan.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "What We Make of the West: Historical Archaeologists Versus Frontier Mythologies", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the 1920s to survive a slump in the supply of timber in the south, lumber companies moved out of the south to new timber markets in westerns states such as California and Arizona spurring a migration of highly skilled Black workers out of the south to the west. This migration, though seemingly...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Moon K. Pankam.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Approaches to Submerged and Coastal Landscapes", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. What does it mean to be haunted in a space of recurrent disaster and destruction? During this program session, I will explore how understandings of death, grief, absence, and material/immaterial haunting have developed in Phuket, Thailand in the years since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. I will also examine where these...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maclaren A. Guthrie.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Small finds from archaeological sites can share a large amount of information about the behavior, consumption patterns, and identity of individuals connected to the site. Recent excavations at James Madison’s Montpelier have centered around the Home Farm Complex. This paper intends to analyze small finds from within the Home Farm...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jade W. Luiz.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Sex work in the American west held a precarious position during expansion and as urban centers sought to establish themselves as legitimate cultural and economic centers in the nation at large. The relationship of the sex district in Central City, Colorado and its residents to their neighbors was no exception. Preliminary research...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Dale. Timothy Maddock.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "What We Make of the West: Historical Archaeologists Versus Frontier Mythologies", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Company Towns are intrinsically linked to the labor of the American West. Yet such locations are invariably idealized by the industries that created them and villainized by the laborers exploited by them, as company towns both provided resources for their residents and controlled choices. Using...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madeline Moody. Ray von Wandruszka.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. A familiar scenario in historical archaeology involves the identification of artifacts from minute quantities of associated materials that a first glance appear to be evidence poor. The artifact may be a scrap of fabric, or a generic glass bottle with a stain on the inside surface. Its identification likely depends on a judicious...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dante B Petersen Stanley.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper is an investigation into Japanese understanding of Western vessels from 1780 to 1853. From 1640 to 1853, Japan held an isolationist outlook on foreign diplomacy, slowly moving to a paradigm of limiting trade and external relations to a few locus points, with the Dutch existing as the sole accepted European presence. At...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alex DeGeorgey.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond the Battlefield: The Search for World War II’s Missing in Action by DPAA and Its Partners", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This study focuses on the archaeological forensic recovery conducted at a WWII U.S. bomber crash site in Germany. Through a multidisciplinary approach, including excavation techniques, forensic anthropology, and historical analysis, the research aims to systematically recover and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only GeorgeAnn M. DeAntoni.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Chronicles of Colonialism: Unraveling Temporal Variability in Indigenous Experiences of Colonization in California Missions", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Established in 1797, Mission San Juan Bautista was the fifteenth of the Spanish missions built in Alta California. From the time of its construction until its secularization in 1835, Indigenous peoples lived in, ate at, created homes around and fostered...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Crystal Castleberry.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Like individual people, no two communities are alike. Successful public history museums focus on building trust with and reaching out to the communities whose stories they share. But conflicts still arise, especially when an institution has in the past played a role in that community's historical erasure. This paper explores...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maria Smith.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Bureau of Labor and Statistics anticipates archaeology to grow at a 6% rate. The majority of those jobs will be in the private sector cultural resource management (CRM) archaeology. However, many students are ill -prepared for the realities of CRM work, unaware of Section 106, Phase I, etc. Often drowning in student debt, these...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jodi A. Barnes.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Co-Producing Space: Relational Approaches to Agrarian Landscapes, Labor, Commodities, and Communities", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1877, Isaac Hume acquired a hundred-foot lot on South Island at the mouth of Winyah Bay in Georgetown County, South Carolina. He was followed by Maria Smith, Robert Ellison, and other African Americans as they imagined possible futures. These Gullah Geechee fishermen,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only April M. Beisaw.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology, Activism, and Protest", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Micah White, one of the organizers of the 2011-2012 Occupy Movement, and its associated protests, emerged from Occupy so disillusioned that he published a book titled The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution. In it, White argues that activists tend to overestimate the effects of protest in the short term and underestimate them in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott R. Ferrara.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Marginalization and Resilience in the Northeast", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Agriculture in the United States is rooted in the exploitation of labor and class and carries a legacy into the present-day agricultural industry. This paper examines migrant labor camps in New York, from 1943-2000, which trapped thousands of migrant farm laborers from the American South and Caribbean into systems...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn M Brock.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Digitized materials cross the threshold from one realm to another. What emerges from this ethereal archive is suddenly both artifact and ephemera. At the NFC, the School Collection preserves material that the children of the Republic of Ireland compiled in the late 1930s. Their contributions create one of many stratigraphic layers...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chrislyn Laurie Laurore. Matthew C. Reilly. Craig T. Stevens.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Critical Archaeologies of Whiteness", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Dozoa or Providence Island has long served as a meeting ground along the West African coast. Indigenous groups traded and potentially used the site for rites associated with secret societies. The site later served as a trading outpost, with European merchants eager to exchange goods, including human cargo. In this paper, we discuss recent...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Reilly.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Critical Archaeologies of Whiteness", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The archaeological archive is a largely untapped resource related to the role that race and White supremacy played in the production of archaeological knowledge and methods. As I suggest in this paper, archaeological methods and thought were deeply, even if unconsciously, influenced by plantation logic. Specifically, race determined who...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Iness Bernier.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Cheryl Ward's studies of the Sadana wreck in the Red Sea have raised new questions about the architectural nature of wrecks discovered in the Red Sea such as Umm Lajj or Sharm-el-Sheikh. The wreck on Sadana Island, along with others discovered in ports further east, mean that we cannot rely solely on the material used in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julia A King.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeological Imaginaries, Regional Realities: 50 Years of Work in the Chesapeake", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The capture, enslavement, and sale of Indigenous people emerged early in the colonized Chesapeake Tidewater but remains understudied by archaeologists, in part because researchers have traditionally considered Indigenous enslavement as rare in the region. I use a fragmentary archive,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cherilyn A. Gilligan.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Exploring the Maritime Archaeology of the Richelieu River and Lake Champlain Valley: Ongoing Research", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. A little-known battlefield from the American War of Independence lies in Arnold’s Bay in Panton, Vermont. In October of the 1776 campaign season, British troops made their way south from Fort St. Jean in a last attempt for the year to defeat the American fleet on Lake...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Hanks.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "From Whalers to World War II: Guam Underwater Archaeology", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In February 2023, a research team completed the first comprehensive and systematic marine remote-sensing survey of the WWII invasion beaches on Guam. The Asan and Agat units of War in the Pacific National Historic Park (WAPA) were forever changed in July 1944. The invasion beaches are not only the center of a WWII...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephanie J Halmhofer.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "What We Make of the West: Historical Archaeologists Versus Frontier Mythologies", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This presentation will shed light on the Native Sons of British Columbia (NSoBC), an influential 20th century fraternal nativist organization in British Columbia (BC) who in 1925 successfully lobbied for the creation of BC’s Historic Objects Act, the first broad heritage protection legislation in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jillian Schuler.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "From Whalers to World War II: Guam Underwater Archaeology", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2022, a team of archaeologists investigated a late 18th- century/early 19th-century wreck site located in Apra Harbor, Guam. The wreck is thought to represent those of the remains of the whaleship Asia, a French whaler that wrecked off the coast of Guam in 1856 and became famous as the backdrop of Dr. Felix Maynard...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nina M Schreiner.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Critical Archaeologies of Whiteness", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Building on decolonizing and postcolonial frameworks that highlight white supremacist ideologies within the disciplinary formation of archaeology, this paper addresses informal collecting practices of middle-class white families in the nineteenth century. By tracing a family of civil engineers across the Eastern United States, I connect...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brad Loewen.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Canada has a remarkable record of Basque wrecks from the 16th to 18th centuries. On sites from Labrador to Chaleur Bay, archaeologists have investigated eight ships and four small boats built in different ports of the Basque Country. If we include earlier presumed Basque wrecks in Europe and the Caribbean, the record covers 300...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Raymond Phipps.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Built in 1874 as a British barkentine-rigged crew steamer, Bear served as a sealer for ten years. In 1884 the United States government conscripted Bear for the rescue of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition. For the next 80 years Bear served as a cutter for the United States Revenue Cutter Service, a museum ship for the city of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Raymond Phipps. Phil A. Hartmeyer. Frank Cantelas. Trish Albano.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Exploration-Forward Archaeology Through Community-Driven Research", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The NOAA Ocean Exploration’s Explorer-in-Training (EiT) program provides opportunities for emerging scientists to learn valuable career-oriented skills. For summer 2023, NOAA Ocean Exploration offered its first 10-week EiT internship for underwater cultural heritage (UCH) to train next generation marine...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Diane Wallman.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "A Tribute to the Legacy of Leland Ferguson: A Journey From Uncommon Ground to God's Fields", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In his research, through his mentorship and throughout his life, Leland Ferguson emphasized the power of narrative and visual arts to enhance our connections with the past. He consistently highlighted and incorporated artworks in his presentations, publications, and personal expression....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicole G Simon.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Despite being such a well-recorded event in Canadian history, the number of Klondike Gold Rush dead remains unknown. This paper aims to rediscover the dead of the Klondike Gold Rush and unravel why the history of so many intrepid individuals became lost to time. Relying upon evidence from journals, newspapers, death records and correspondence, alongside online cemetery databases, it is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joe A. Downer.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. An often forgotten (and sometimes mythologized) place at George Washington’s home, the cellar at Mount Vernon has been the focus of recent intensive archaeological and architectural research. A multidisciplinary team of archaeologists and architectural historians have been excavating and analyzing the mansion basement since 2017 in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Seth W Mallios.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Nathan Harrison Historical Archaeology Project, a 20-year undertaking that sought to understand and communicate the life and legacies of San Diego County’s first African American homesteader, employs orthogonal thought and archaeological, anthropological, and historical tools of analysis to bring marginalized voices to diverse...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric J Bartelink. P Willey. Peter Gavette. Colleen F Milligan.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Life and Death in the San Francisco Bay: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Historic Lifeways", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2010, human and faunal remains and medical waste were inadvertently discovered in a pit behind the historic military hospital at Point San Jose (now Fort Mason), San Francisco. The contents of the pit dated to the 1870s. In partnership with the National Park Service, Chico State...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Abigail L Bennett.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Life and Death in the San Francisco Bay: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Historic Lifeways", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The purpose of this study is to explore the embodied evidence of structural violence through a bioarchaeological analysis of 16 commingled, fragmented, and pathological human remains. This exploration reveals how mid-nineteenth century San Francisco society marginalized individuals in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Will M Williams.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Marginalization and Resilience in the Northeast", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. References to the Black community living along Dunkerhook Road in late 19th and early 20th century Bergen County, NJ newspapers often provided a narrow and paternalistic lens through which to view the community. Commonly reported were their social and church activities, and two residents of the road, Catherine...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristen R. Fellows. David R. Hubin.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Co-Producing Space: Relational Approaches to Agrarian Landscapes, Labor, Commodities, and Communities", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Bonanza farms are iconic of and central to the white settlement of North Dakota, but were surprisingly short lived (beginning in the 1870s, larger holdings were being dissolved by the 1890s). These large agroindustrial operations cultivated tens of thousands of acres in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lily R Singman-Aste.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The kingdom of Dahomey, active in what is now the republic of Bénin in seventeenth through nineteenth century West Africa, was a rich and complex society governed by a royal palace (Monroe 2014). In 2000, excavations that began at the kingdom’s royal palace complexes as a part of the Abomey Plateau Archaeological Project revealed a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charlotte A K Jarvis.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Although excessive alcohol consumption among mariners is a stereotype, there has been surprisingly little critical scholarly work on the subject or analysis of its archaeological footprint on shipwrecks. During the Age of Sail, the Netherlands issued alcohol rations of genever (jenever in Dutch) to crew members in the Admiralty,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelly E. Goldberg.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "A Tribute to the Legacy of Leland Ferguson: A Journey From Uncommon Ground to God's Fields", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Throughout his career, Leland Ferguson pushed against a priori notions of the ways in which archaeology should be conducted, whom it should be conducted by, and how it should be interpreted. He championed a multidisciplinary methodology that diversified informative data sources as well...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maia Dedrick.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Gateways to Future Historical Archaeology in Mexico and Central America", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The history of archaeological practice in Mexico and Central America reveals strong imperial desires to claim artifacts, monuments, and heritage for foreign powers. As a still emerging area of study, regional historical archaeology has the potential to help forge a different path for archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah E. Cowie.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology, Activism, and Protest", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Research that purposefully redistributes authority can have more ethical and innovative results than standard hierarchical research models. This paper summarizes the results of projects “with, by, and for” (sensu Atalay 2012) Native American communities who had more authority in decision making than standard projects typically do. First, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Raul O Palomino Berrocal.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The port of Callao was founded in the 1530s along the foundation of the capital city of Lima in Peru by the Spaniards during the conquest of the Inca Empire. Since its early days as the only harbor for the viceroyalty, Callao had an important role within the economy and political hegemony. Due to this relevance, constant maritime...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Will McCollum.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pre-Recorded Video Presentation Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Birmingham was founded in 1873 to be the industrial capital of the New South, built up as it was around rich mineral reserves in Central Alabama. The workforce that propelled Birmingham’s extractive development was majority-Black, most workers having migrated to the city from agrarian plantation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kate Ellenberger.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology, Activism, and Protest", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In this paper I will discuss the artifacts, digital data, and community relationships accumulated over three years of documenting police violence against protestors in my local community. Over the course of this project I have become expert at identifying chemical weapons parts, have learned to safely store explosive objects outside of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sean E Devlin. Emily Zimmerman.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Serving as connections between the natural and human-built world, garden landscapes speak loudly to the social purposes and the intentionality of their creators. Traditional analysis of colonial era gardens in the Chesapeake have focused on gardens as one means by which members of the elite expressed their social power over the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only D. Blair Moore.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "From Whalers to World War II: Guam Underwater Archaeology", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The CHamoru people of Guam have a long maritime tradition of utilizing the ocean and in particular the local reef systems to support their spiritual and physical health. During World War II, Guam was a strategic location for both sides of the war. When the Japanese seized the island in December 1941, they fortified the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary C Norton.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Hidden In The Hollinger: What We Can Learn From Archeological Legacy Collections In The National Park Service", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As a response to New Deal construction, the Archeological Research Unit (ARU) was largely created to conduct salvage archeology in the Southeast. Since forming out of the ARU in 1966, the National Park Service’s Southeast Archeological Center (SEAC) continues to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only MyKayla Williamson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Marginalization and Resilience in the Northeast", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper investigates the historical significance of unity, resistance, and leadership within the early African Methodist Episcopal Church. By employing methodological frameworks that incorporate anthropological theory, Black and African-descendant feminisms, critical race theory, and ethnohistory, the study...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael R. Polk.

Construction of the Central Pacific Railroad portion of the Transcontinental Railroad relied heavily on labor by young overseas Chinese men who were hired and transported from southern China to the mountains and deserts of California, Nevada and Utah over a few months' time. Construction of the railroad predated widespread use of steam driven excavation machinery, thus the railroad largely depended on the manual labor of these men. Often working in extreme conditions, many workers died along the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lucas S. Simonds. Darby Filimoehala. Timothy M. Rieth.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper discusses slingstone caches in the Mariana Islands as a possible post-Contact development around the time of the CHamoru-Spanish Wars in the late 17th century AD. This includes data on slingstone caches associated with human burials from a 2020 excavation on the island of Saipan and a comparison with similar finds at a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chelsea Cohen.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Co-Producing Space: Relational Approaches to Agrarian Landscapes, Labor, Commodities, and Communities", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As the forests of the Chesapeake were cleared for tobacco and wheat agriculture, timber consumption reformed both agricultural and port landscapes. The systematic clearing of timber opened land for Euroamerican-style open-field agriculture while directly contributing to the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Della A. Scott-Ireton. Michael Thomin. Nicole Grinnan. Jennifer McKinnon.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Exploration-Forward Archaeology Through Community-Driven Research", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The 2023 NOAA Saipan project included a significant public outreach component. A major part of the grant focused on re-visiting sites included in the WWII Battle of Saipan Maritime Heritage Trail to conduct monitoring and update site plans. Since these sites first were documented to create the Trail in 2008,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin L. Calvert.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Where today is a grove of trees and a mountainous mine tailing, was once the brothels of Central City. Once a prominent and affluent mountain mining town, now a sleepy casino town, the brothels served the needs of the surrounding mining towns. Despite being pushed ‘out of town’ soon after establishment, these businesses were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marie C Duggan.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Chronicles of Colonialism: Unraveling Temporal Variability in Indigenous Experiences of Colonization in California Missions", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Through the economic lens, Missions I: 1769-1810 were different than Missions II: 1811-1834. In Missions I, production on missions was by and for native congregations, native people moved back and forth between the space of the unconverted and the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Isabel C. Rivera-Collazo.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Since the earliest times in human history, people have lived along coasts and relied on marine resources for subsistence, raw materials, maintaining social links, and for transportation. The identity of many communities globally is directly linked to their relation to the sea and the oceans. The tangible components of their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nolan E Swaim.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. After their invention during the twentieth century, fiberglass boats grew in popularity due to their quick and long-lasting construction method. Through time these vessels have littered coastlines after natural disasters, leaving them derelict for years resulting in boneyards. While boneyards impede the environment and boat traffic, they also represent past community activity. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth L. Boroski.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. African cultural practices observed in the Diaspora were once simplistically viewed as evidence of static African representations within the Americas, ignoring the dynamic cultural processes experienced by all parties involved in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Interactions among European, African, and indigenous cultures...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Edward Gonzalez-Tennant.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Tejanos – descendants of Spanish, Mexican, and Mestizo settlers – have crafted an enduring legacy in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Until recently, historical scholarship has minimized this history by focusing on myths about the 'taming' of the region by Anglo migrants. In 2023, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley hosted the region's first archaeology field school since the 1970s at a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tiffany M Lindley.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The story of the Battle of the Alamo is known to many. However, what may not be known is that the site of the Alamo was, and continues to be, an economic hub for the city of San Antonio. Recent investigations by Alamo archaeologists have shed more light on the bustling commercial history of the site. Spanish Colonial artifacts were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Russell N. Sheptak.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Gateways to Future Historical Archaeology in Mexico and Central America", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. No settlement is an island. This paper presents results from ongoing research on the historical archaeology of Central America, showing how understanding one site on Honduras's Caribbean coast, the fortress and town of Omoa, requires investigation of settlements in other areas. Our excavations of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David T. Palmer.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Co-Producing Space: Relational Approaches to Agrarian Landscapes, Labor, Commodities, and Communities", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century transformation of c. 120,000 acres of cypress and bottomland hardwood forests in the coastal region spanning southern North Carolina to northern Florida, (the Lowcountry), for commercial rice production was only possible...

DOCUMENT Citation Only George Schwarz.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Needle, Meet Haystack: The Role of Magnetometers in Underwater Archaeological Research and the Evolution of Interpreting Magnetic Data for Cultural Resource Investigations", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Commodore Joshua Barney’s Chesapeake Flotilla was composed of a collection of shallow drafted gunboats and barges designed to stave off British invasions into the Chesapeake during the American-British War...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda M Evans. Ramie A. Gougeon. Louise Tizzard. August Costa.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Exploration-Forward Archaeology Through Community-Driven Research", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As part of a NOAA OER grant funded project, the authors of this paper acquired geophysical and geotechnical data over multiple submerged and buried paleolandscape features in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico. The project resulted in the acquisition of over 1,200-line kilometers of sub-bottom data (including both...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laurie Wilkie.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "A Tribute to the Legacy of Leland Ferguson: A Journey From Uncommon Ground to God's Fields", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Leland Ferguson's archaeological work remains remarkable for its empathy towards persons, be they represented by archaeological remains, stakeholders, students or colleagues. In recent considerations of how archaeology might better engage with critical disability studies, I found myself...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marianne Sallum. Francisco Silva Noelli. Tânia Casimiro. Mercedes Okumura.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The majority of the research made concerning colonial interactions in the Americas is centered on African diasporas, and little attention has been given to the relations between Europeans and Indigenous people. This paper aims to discuss the relationship between ceramic techniques in Brazil and Portugal in the colonial period,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy Scarlett.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Cultural Heritage Laws and Policies, Political Economy, and the Community Importance of Archaeological Sites", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Keweenaw Energy Transition Lab at Michigan Technological University is supporting efforts to adapt heritage mines into grid-scale, closed-loop pumped hydropower facilities. Archaeological research supports planning and decisions at all levels, from site selection,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Abigail C. Bleichner. Sam M. Cuellar.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Exploration-Forward Archaeology Through Community-Driven Research", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In May 2023, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency partnered with NOAA Ocean Exploration to complete its first funded partner mission to the far reaches of the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. As part of the Seascape Alaska 1: Aleutians Deepwater Mapping expedition, NOAA, DPAA, and the veteran-owned remote sensing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Raul O. Palomino Berrocal.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the 16th and 17th centuries the classic Iberian ship concept was characterized by the nao (carrack) and galleon. These types of vessels eventually became popular throughout Europe since they were essential for the transatlantic journeys because of the exploration, commerce, and conquest of the New World. After decades of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nathan T Richards. Jason T Raupp. Allyson Ropp. Jeremy Borrelli.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the summer of 2022, the Program in Maritime Studies held its annual summer field school in the Mallows Bay-Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary. The project focused efforts on recording Maryland shipwrecks 18CH506 and 18CH511 (previously identified as Aowa and Bayou Teche, respectively). Corresponding to wooden-hulled cargo...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elysia Petras. Brandi MacDonald. Stuart Wilson. Frank Roulstone.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In this paper I will present the results of Neutron Activation Analysis on 14 low-fired coarse earthenware sherds excavated at the Jackson Wall Manor site in the Newlands neighborhood of Grand Cayman. The present day site contains the remains of a staircase of what was once a large manor. The results of the first season of field...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Annaliese Dempsey. Angela Paola.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Conservation of Archaeological Materials from Submerged Sites", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Late Bronze Age Uluburun shipwreck sank ca. 1325 BCE and was excavated by the Institute of Nautical Archaeology from 1984 to 1994. It yielded a large assemblage of raw metal, including around 1 ton of pure tin in the form of ingots. Artifacts of pure tin are rare from any context, and especially from an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shanna L Daniel.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Conservation of Archaeological Materials from Submerged Sites", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) Underwater Archaeology (UA) Branch provides a unique look into the United States Navy’s history through the management, research, preservation, and interpretation of its sunken and terrestrial military craft (SMC). The archaeological material recovered from SMC sites is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Misty M. Jackson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Cultural Heritage Laws and Policies, Political Economy, and the Community Importance of Archaeological Sites", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The problem of the client as the selector of the consultant is not a new one. While SHPO consultant lists were designed to help with the problem of allowing developers access to qualified providers, the process of self-certification does not necessary work as intended....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Suzanne Spencer-Wood.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Critical Archaeologies of Whiteness", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Most social reformers were Anglo-American middle-class whites, who found they could not impose their privileged racist and classist ideas of “proper” housekeeping, cooking and mothering etc. on poor whites, minorities and immigrants, because participation in reform programs was voluntary. Amazingly, reform women quoted negative as well as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Georgia Holly.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "UN Decade for Ocean Science's Heritage Network: Historical Archaeology's Contribution", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Dr. Holly, Project Manager of the Ocean Decade Heritage Network's Cultural Heritage Framework Programme (CHFP), will introduce the primary aims, objectives, and methodologies of the programme. The CHFP is an official action of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Natalie P Adams Pope. James A Stewart.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "A Tribute to the Legacy of Leland Ferguson: A Journey From Uncommon Ground to God's Fields", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the last quarter of the twentieth century, the South Carolina Lowcountry became a focus of archaeological research into the lives of enslaved African Americans toiling on plantations. Dr. Leland Ferguson was a primary leader in this field of study and used his observations from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabrielle F Hunkele.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pre-Recorded Video Presentation Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The task of curation collections recovered resulting from CRM projects can often be a costly and time-consuming endeavor. For these reasons, and along with others, many CRM firms become their own repositories, often with numerous forgotten about boxes in storage spaces or basements. This study...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher N. Matthews. Noelle L. Williams. James Amemasor. Michael J Gall.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology of Marginalization and Resilience in the Northeast", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2023, the city of Newark, NJ unveiled, Shadow of a Face, a new monument dedicated to Harriet Tubman and the activists of the underground railroad. The monumengt was placed in the space previously occupied by a monument to Christopher Columbus. Unlike this and other mmonuments in the city the Tubman memorial...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aleck Tan.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Exploration-Forward Archaeology Through Community-Driven Research", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. While shallow-water World War II underwater cultural heritage (UCH) related to the Battle of Saipan has been researched extensively, there is little known about deep-water UCH from the battle. During Ships of Discovery’s 2023 NOAA Saipan project, numerous methods were used for the location and identification of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Pietruszka.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Exploration-Forward Archaeology Through Community-Driven Research", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In February 2022 members of Scripps Institution of Oceanography conducted an exploratory ocean survey using autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) to locate and document multiple U.S. WWII B-29 aircraft that crashed offshore Tinian and Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anastasia L Ervin.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Historical archaeology provides a unique insight into twentieth century critical infrastructure because it allows for a holistic analysis of the infrastructure as it was physically manifested within urban societies. This paper presents the case studies of three sewage treatment plants in Central Illinois during the twentieth...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandra L Tyas.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper aims to discuss the current state of maritime archaeology within Iceland, and highlights the challenges within the field which need to be overcome in order to improve the management of sites. The management and monitoring of underwater sites in particular in Iceland is severely deficient due to a number of factors, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kimberly Pyszka.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "At Stake in the Quad: Archaeologies on/of Campus", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Prior to its 1967 founding, the lands of Auburn University at Montgomery (AUM) were agricultural fields cultivated by enslaved laborers, and later tenant farmers. Maps, photographs, and above-ground features have led to the identification of three mid-20th century residential sites. By using our campus as an outdoor classroom,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dean M. Blumenfeld. Eunice Villaseñor-Iribe. Christopher T. Morehart.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Many have argued that the hacienda of colonial Mexico represents the emergence of commercial enterprise through privately owned landed estates. However, these estates were notstrictly economic units, but comprised a diverse social and political institution engaged in a complex interplay with the broader cultural landscape, transforming local environments and drastically reshaping...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard T. Fitzgerald. Jelmer Eerkens. Candice Ralston. Heather Martin. Vicky Oelze. Krithi Sankaranarayanan. Cara Monroe.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Life and Death in the San Francisco Bay: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Historic Lifeways", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The search for the precise landing spot of Sir Francis Drake on the western coast of North America has lasted centuries. The discovery of sixteen-century Ming Dynasty porcelain and other European artifacts located at Point Reyes National Seashore has long been at the center of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kalani Heinz.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "What Is "Historical"?", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The separation of the past into “pre-historic” and “historic” has often been criticized for creating an artificial division that prioritizes Eurocentric written histories over Indigenous oral histories. However, this bias towards Eurocentric histories persists even when Indigenous written histories are available. In Hawaiʻi, texts that are written in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madeline Roth.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary protects the prolific marine resources of Washington State. While shipwrecks are only a small portion of the sanctuary’s cultural heritage, their evaluation nevertheless presents opportunities to better understand the colonization of the Pacific Northwest. Of the dozens of shipwrecks lost...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alicia Johnson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Each year, the SCUBA industry creates a billion-dollar economy and numerous job opportunities; many of which are in developing countries. Popular diving attractions, such as the Thistlegorm in Egypt, or the Pacific’s Chuuk Lagoon, are UCH sites and attract many visitors. Each year, the Thistlegorm generates €5,000,000 and attracts...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Francisco Rivera.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In Quebec’s Lower North Shore, the village of Rivière-Saint-Paul is on the periphery of the world’s major industrial centers. Part of a globalized world defined by industrial and capitalist expansion since the nineteenth century, its maritime spaces concentrated regional labor forces and transformed resources wrested from the sea,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Trinity L Hunter.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2006, the state of Idaho began its largest archaeological project to date: the Sandpoint Archaeology Project. Emerging from 500 units, over 550,000 artifacts tell the story of the town’s “Restricted District,” home to two houses of sex work, two saloons, and a dance hall. The adjacent proximity of a brothel and a bordello allows...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jack A Gary.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1805 the congregation of Williamsburg’s First Baptist Church established their first permanent building on a marginal piece of land within the city limits. The church, composed of enslaved and free Blacks, worshipped in two different structures here for 150 years and established a cemetery that was used in the first half of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kyle T Lent.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond the Battlefield: The Search for World War II’s Missing in Action by DPAA and Its Partners", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. DPAA's mission is to provide the fullest possible accounting for America's MIA service personnel. A goal of the archaeology that DPAA and our partners conducts is to ultimately recover osseous remains and other material evidence to make a legal identification of our nation's...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lisa Overholtzer.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Gateways to Future Historical Archaeology in Mexico and Central America", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Historians and archaeologists of colonialism in the Americas have increasingly sought to interrupt conqueror:conquered and European:Indigenous binaries, yet to date we have learned little archaeologically of the Indigenous groups who enabled Tenochtitlan’s defeat. This talk presents findings for a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James C. Chatters. Alejandro Alvarez. Alberto Nava-Blank. Sam Meacham. Dominique Rissolo. Helena Barba-Meinecke.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For 25 years, divers exploring caves in Quintana Roo, Mexico, have been finding remains of humans who entered in the late Pleistocene or early Holocene. One of these was a young woman (Naia) of terminal Pleistocene age found with fossils of extinct mammals in the pit or natural trap of Hoyo Negro, 600 meters from a ground-level...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Gearhart.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Needle, Meet Haystack: The Role of Magnetometers in Underwater Archaeological Research and the Evolution of Interpreting Magnetic Data for Cultural Resource Investigations", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper traces the arc of the author’s experience from 1985 to the present, interpreting marine magnetometer surveys in search of shipwrecks. During that period, technological advancements in positioning...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric Rodriguez-Delgado.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Approaches to Submerged and Coastal Landscapes", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Throughout Caribbean prehistory, the construction of public architecture in ceremonial contexts is linked to expressions of status and power over local communities and resources. The appearance of these features such as mounds and ballcourts (bateyes) are largely associated with the Early to Late Ceramic Period – broadly defined...