Society for Historical Archaeology 2024

DOCUMENT Citation Only Terry P. Brock. Matthew E. Reeves. Mary F. Minkoff. Christopher Pasch.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Critical Archaeologies of Whiteness", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper will bring attention to possible avenues of inquiry at James Madison’s Montpelier to explore the ways that whiteness was a prevalent factor on the plantation. It will explore the plantation landscape, architecture, and material culture of the Madison family and their white employees who lived at the overseer’s house on the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Wilson.

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. Marine magnetometers are a powerful and proven tool for detecting shipwrecks during archaeological reconnaissance surveys. Marine gradiometers, composed of two or more magnetometer sensors in a towed array,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Lickliter-Mundon.

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. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) is responsible for repatriating America's missing service personnel from overseas conflicts. In the past 10 years DPAA has partnered with external organizations to increase the number of projects completed per year. These partner survey...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stefan F. Woehlke. Justin Mohammadi. Amir King. Olivia Meoni. Evan Dame.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology, Activism, and Protest", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The activist roots of North Brentwood, Maryland, were planted by its founders. The Randall Family purchased the first lot in 1891 to dodge the racial housing covenants that were spreading through neighboring developments. Decades later, North Brentwood became the first incorporated Black town in Washington D.C.’s metropolitan area, and the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher R. Sabick.

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. In the fall of 2022 archaeologists from the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum began the exploration of the abandonment site of the flag ship of the colonial naval fleet on Lake Champlain in 1776, the Row Galley Congress. Test excavations in 2022 revealed that substaintially more...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeremy R Borrelli. Jason T Raupp. Ryan Bradley.

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 2019, divers performed an initial assessment of a wooden-hulled shipwreck located during remote sensing operations in Apra Harbor, Guam. Historical research into the area suggested the site might represent the remains of the whaleship Asia, lost at Guam in 1856. Identified as a potentially significant historic site,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Horton.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Critical Archaeologies of Whiteness", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Hatteras island, on North Carolina Outer Banks is well known as the likely destination of the 1587 English Colonists when they abandoned their settlement on Roanoke island. Our archaeological investigations at the Cape Creek site since 2012 have located a sequence from the 16th-early18th c. which maps the integration of the English...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kaitlin Brown.

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. In 1963/64, James Deetz conducted an examination of the Native adobe barracks at Mission La Purísima Concepción, where he uncovered a substantial concentration of glass and ceramic vessels under the floor in one apartment unit. Subsequent reevaluation of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeneva Wright. Morris Hylton III. Caroline Watson.

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. The transition from understanding climate change vulnerability to developing possible adaptation strategies for coastal and underwater archaeological sites is challenging. Constrained resources, compliance pathways, meaningful stakeholder engagement, and the risk of maladaptation are factors...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer McKinnon. David Benavente. Toni Carrell.

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. This paper outlines an interdisciplinary, community inclusive project which brings together historians, archaeologists, biologists, conservation scientists, photogrammetry specialists, GIS specialists, veterans and Micronesian researchers to focus on archaeological and biological research of WWII underwater...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashley Lemke. John O'Shea.

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. NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration has supported diverse research projects including underwater archaeology in the Great Lakes within the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary (TBNMS). The Great Lakes have long been known to preserve historical shipwrecks in their cold, fresh, waters but OE research in Lake...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alex DeGeorgey. Ethan Bertrando.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "In the Sticks but Not in the Weeds: Diversity, Remembrance, and the Forging of the Rural American West", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The archaeological study at CA-SLO-568H in Camp San Luis Obispo uncovered a late 19th century homestead with unique features. Notably, a small stone oven was discovered, believed to have been used for distilling whiskey. Historical records of the Irish-descended landowners...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian C. Dunshee.

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 study seeks to expand the potential of information gleaned from tool marks on shipwreck timbers using the excavated remains of Blackbeard’s ship, Queen Anne’s Revenge (ex La Concorde, c.1710-1718), as a case study. The approach attempts to utilize the complementary strengths of three different techniques: Reflectance...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher M McCarron.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Communities of seafarers around the world dedicate considerable efforts and resources in keeping an image of ancient tall ship sailing by building and operating vessels that bring different sailing traditions into present day. They engage in voyages that replicate the similar environments and conditions that sailors of long ago...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian D Crane.

Historical and archaeological research in Montgomery County, Maryland is helping to recover the location of lost African American burial sites. The research has been carried out by Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission staff, CRM contractors, and members of the public including descendants. The sites investigated illuminate post Civil War African American burial patterns including evidence that some African American families and institutions bought land on or near places where...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy S. Maddock.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Critical Archaeologies of Whiteness", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Depression-era company town and logging community of Apex, Arizona was staffed and occupied almost exclusively by White lumberjacks of Scandinavian descent. Archival research indicates that the community’s racial and ethnic makeup was by design, given the Saginaw and Manistee Lumber Company’s staunch refusal to hire African Americans...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jamie L. Bastide. 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. Oral traditions of folktales encourage the reproduction of appropriate social behavior. Through migration and immigration, these cultural properties were adapted to accommodate different locations and values, including gender norms as they changed over time. This paper explores how folktales can be used as an interpretive tool for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Evguenia {Jenya} Anichtchenko. Shawn Dilles. Sean Adams. Gig Decker. Tessa Hulls. William Urschel. Patty Urschel. Ray Troll.

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 September of 1908, the Alaska Packers Association ship Star of Bengal sunk near Coronation Island, Alaska, while on route from Wrangell, Alaska, to San Francisco. The ship carried a cargo of canned salmon and 111 Asian cannery workers, mostly Chinese. Of the 36 white crewmen, 21 survived, while most of cannery workers perished....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelly L Higgins.

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, New South Associates conducted a Phase I survey in the vicinity of the Fontana Dam and Fontana Village Resort. The survey area was the location of the 1940s Fontana Project Construction Camp, which housed approximately 2,000 unmarried workers and included dormitories, tents, a cafeteria, and numerous...

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. Ryan Kennedy.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "In the Sticks but Not in the Weeds: Diversity, Remembrance, and the Forging of the Rural American West", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Chinese migrants were integral to creating the American West, including building much of the Transcontinental Railroad and playing critical roles in early agricultural, mining, and fishing industries. These efforts created numerous rural Chinese communities in the American...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah J. Noe.

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. Within Alta California, research on Spanish mission sites has focused on how diverse Indigenous populations residing within mission settlements continued to incorporate traditional objects into their daily practices, as well as modify the production,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Edith Gonzalez.

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 the mid-seventeenth century, the island of Barbuda was established as a plantation under a land grant from the English Crown. Over the course of two hundred and fifty years or so, managers of the Barbuda Plantation tried various strategies to produce a profit from the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas C. Wilson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "In the Sticks but Not in the Weeds: Diversity, Remembrance, and the Forging of the Rural American West", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. While usually portrayed as a fur trading post, Fort Vancouver was established because of the agricultural potential of its surrounding prairie. The large company farm established there was modelled after English manorial farms combined with unique fur trade elements. Its...

DOCUMENT Citation Only April E. Kamp-Whittaker. Dana Shew. Kirsten Leong.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology, Activism, and Protest", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2022 the Granada Relocation Center National Historic Landmark, a WWII Japanese American incarceration center, became part of the National Park Service. This transfer was the result of generations of activism from community organizations, survivors and descendants, and 15 years of collaborative archaeological research. To facilitate the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sam M. Cuellar. Phil A. Hartmeyer.

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. Underwater archaeological investigations by NOAA Ocean Exploration are often among the office’s most watched and interacted events on expeditions with its remotely operated vehicles Deep Discoverer and Serios. The selection of underwater cultural heritage (UCH) targets are not done arbitrarily. NOAA Ocean...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Doug Hrvoic.

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. Magnetic sensors continue to be primary tools for the detection and mapping of near-surface manmade objects, as they have a unique ability to detect items that are buried, and that would otherwise be missed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark G. Hylkema.

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. Shell beads made from Olivella biplicata have been important to ancestral Native Americans of the southern San Francisco Bay for nearly 10,000 years. Variations in types and assemblages are temporally diagnostic and well documented; however, continued...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer A. Lupu. Mia L. Carey.

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 1985, archaeologists excavated the yard areas of Halcyon House, a national historical site located in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Thousands of artifacts, spanning over a century, were unearthed before the project was prematurely terminated. The artifacts remained untouched in storage for nearly 30 years. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charlotte MS Feakins.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Critical Archaeologies of Whiteness", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In northern Australia, the buffalo hide industry was prevalent from the late 19th to mid-20th century. It involved Indigenous and non-Indigenous women and men working collectively for white male shooters to exploit feral water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) for their thick hides. Indigenous peoples dominated the workforce and often excelled in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen E. Martindale.

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. In early 2023, the Conservation Research Lab began work on 17 Revolutionary War-era iron cannon and associated artifacts recovered during the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project. Many of these cannon had wood tampions concreted in place, protecting the contents in the bores. This presentation will discuss the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carolyn Kennedy.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Gaspé, located in Québec, Canada, has been a hub of maritime culture in North America for centuries, and continues to be an important commercial fishing port today. Historically, Gaspé has been home to indigenous fishermen, Basque whalers, and robust French and British cod fishing communities, each with their own unique...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James B. Futty. Jillian M. Maloney. Shannon A. Klotsko. Boe J. Derosier. Teresa A. Wriston. Molly R. Casperson. JD L. Lancaster.

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. Inland reservoirs provide a unique opportunity to study submerged terrestrial landscapes and archaeological sites. These reservoirs, with their annual in-fill and drawdown cycles, serve as natural laboratories that mimic the processes of marine transgression and regression on shorter timescales. Our study focuses on geophysical...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah C Russell.

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. Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR) manages over 2.4 million acres of trust lands, which must generate revenue for the state’s beneficiaries. Therefore, DNR harvests three-billion board-feet of lumber annually. Long before these forests were managed by DNR, they...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William J Chadwick. Andrea Palmiotto. Parker J Chadwick.

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. Geophysical surveys are regularly used to examine archaeological landscapes and features. Metal detection is often used during historic aircraft crash site recovery missions to define the lateral extent of craters but do not typically penetrate beyond a meter below ground surface....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hadley F. Kruczek-Aaron. Amy Robinson. Martha Swan.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology, Activism, and Protest", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Hundreds of state and local laws and resolutions have been adopted recently to restrict how teachers teach the history of race in America. As a result, today’s teachers face undue scrutiny, critique, and punishment for how they approach Black history. It is in this volatile climate that John Brown Lives!, a human rights organization centered...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sharon N. DeWitte. Eric E. Jones. Catherine Livingston.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Since the mid-19th century, many populations have experienced changes in cause-of-death structures (often called the second epidemiological transition) characterized by a decline in infectious disease deaths and an increase in deaths from non-communicable diseases. This shift is associated with a demographic transition toward increased life expectancies. There is evidence that the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William A. White. III.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "In the Sticks but Not in the Weeds: Diversity, Remembrance, and the Forging of the Rural American West", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For over 50 years, Chinese American shrimpers processed their catches on the banks of San Pablo Bay in what is now Richmond, California. Dozens of Chinese Americans lived at the Point Molate Shrimp Camp (CA-CCO-506H) where they worked for competing shrimp processing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew M. Palus. Lyle C. Torp.

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 Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC are a special regulatory environment where much turns on the action of a state-level, intercounty commission formed in 1927 and responsible for regional planning. The disdain for African American communities in planning the DC...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Olivia L. Thomas. Trevor Gittelhough.

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 theory of maritime cultural landscapes is a multi-disciplinary framework that compiles a range of evidence to interpret locations of interest. Shipwrecks are one of five components typically utilized in constructing and understanding a maritime cultural landscape. Historic newspapers and archival sources offer clues to when and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Guido Pezzarossi.

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. As noted the uncertain position of historical archaeology in Mesoamerica, particularly in Guatemala, has reified the divide between prehispanic and later colonial native histories in the region. At the same time, the archaeology of the recent/contemporary is especially neglected, obfuscating how...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kirsten M. G. Vacca.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "What Is "Historical"?", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper examines the history of historical categorizations in the North American archaeology tradition, tracing the reconfigurations of these temporalities through time. The shifting terminology is an attempt at decolonizing the temporal categories in archaeology but only serves to mask or reframe colonial narratives while subsuming Indigenous...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katrina M Cantu. Isabel Rivera-Collazo. Jenniffer M Santos-Hernandez.

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 municipality of Cataño in the San Juan Metro Area has long been impacted by industrial pollution, beginning with early colonial gold extraction and smelting in the 16th Century, the monocultural plantation export economy, and, more recently, due to a petroleum refinery and other large-scale industrial activities. The effects of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Glenn J Farris.

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. Under Spanish rule, the mission Indians of California were called “neofitos,” neophytes who remained incomplete in their transformation to being Christian subjects of the king of Spain. With the culmination of the Mexican Revolution in 1821 it seemed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ellen Chapman.

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. This presentation explores the potentially transformative impact of financial settlements on the perceived value of the quality of archaeological work and archaeological sites themselves. In cases where project proponents do not value archaeological quality and have...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Allyson G Ropp.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Depending on the environmental parameters of an aquatic system, wooden shipwrecks undergo site formation processes that contribute to their overall deterioration and, occasionally, the complete loss of structures from the archaeological record. Considering our aquatic systems are rapidly changing due to climate change and other...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Harold Mytum.

Analysis of the church and graveyard memorials at Termonfeckin, Co. Louth reveals a complex web of identities within an overall community context of shared burial space. Each monument was commissioned independently by the family but in the context of what a local carver could produce and what was deemed appropriate and affordable in its community context. Families made a placemaking statement by erecting a memorial, defining the burial plot when most were not permanently marked. Issues of class,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Taylor W Brown.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Prohibition is often remembered as the wild and roaring Jazz Age, filled with flappers, mobsters, federal agents, and hidden speakeasies. In today’s imagination, despite strict anti-alcohol laws, booze flowed freely in the streets and people drank with reckless abandon. But how did resistance to Prohibition manifest in Pensacola,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amy E Gusick. Jillian Maloney. Roslynn King. Andrew Mendoza. Steven Constable. Shannon Klotsko. Todd Braje. Jon Erlandson. David Ball.

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. Sea-level rise following the Last Glacial Maximum submerged millions of square kilometers of coastal landscapes around the world, complicating efforts to understand the paleolandscapes, paleoecology, human dispersals, and the cultural history of these now drowned regions. This situation is particularly...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexander W. Anthony. Stephan Hassam. Sarah Hassam. Sara Mitrovic.

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. This paper introduces the preliminary results of the Central Mediterranean Penal Heritage Project, its mission to archaeologically investigate the inhumanities of confinement through material evidence and digitally preserve the heritage of penal sites in the region, often overlooked in historical...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dania Jordan.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology, Activism, and Protest", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Oakland Museum of California’s “Power to the People'' exhibit celebrates the Black Panther Party (BPP) and its influence on contemporary social movements, such as Colin Kaepernick’s Know Your Rights Camp (KYRC) and Autopsy Initiative, which pays for autopsies in suspected cases of police brutality. This form of mass murder of African...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elena M Sesma.

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. Fall 2023 marks the second season of the University of Kentucky Campus Archaeology project. The project focuses primarily on a late-19th century house and surrounding lot on the periphery of campus. The building has served as a private family home, student housing, and eventually became university office and classroom space....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah E. Miller. Lori Lee.

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. In 2017 the United Nations General Assembly declared the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030). In response, the newly formed Heritage at Risk Committee sponsored its first session in partnership with UNESCO committee in 2018 in New Orleans. In that session Miller...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jean-Sébastien Guibert. Christopher K. Waters. Lynn Harris. Franck Bigot. Margaux Tronchet.

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 aim of this paper is to present the results of research carried out on the wreck of Tank Bay 1 located at English Harbour (Antigua & Barbuda). Initial analyses confirm the identification of the remains as those of the Lyon, ex Beaumont. This French East India Company ship was built in Lorient in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Advaith Sethuraman. Anja Sheppard. Onur Bagoren. Katherine A. Skinner.

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. Recent advances in sensor technology and marine robotic platforms have enabled efficient data collection over large areas across oceans, lakes, and coastal regions. These efforts have resulted in massive amounts of data that contain rich information relevant to ocean exploration. However, processing these large...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carrie A. Christman.

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 2020 and 2021, Commonwealth Heritage Group monitored construction at the historic Main Factory complex of the Pullman National Monument for site development for a museum. Coordinating with the IDNR and the NPS, Commonwealth documented significant resources related to the Pullman period (1880–1897). A landscaping wall associated...

DOCUMENT Citation Only J.W. Joseph.

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 was a mentor, colleague, and friend who influenced my work with the African American past and colonoware in particular.  In this paper I reflect on those interactions and the intersections between Leland’s colonoware research and my own. I consider this research from the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Loren Clark.

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. It is easy to forget the fact that the ability to access submerged sites has come relatively recently within the field of archaeology. Because of this, we often find ourselves seeking to drive the field forward through the development of new methods and technologies. While it will always be imperative that maritime archaeologists...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Mrozowski. Audrey Horning.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Arriving in the early 19th century, Irish laborers built the first canals and mills of Lowell, Massachusetts. Recently completed excavations at the former site of the Patrick Keyes Store in Lowell – a collaborative project between the Fiske Center of the University of Massachusetts Boston, Queens University, Belfast Northern...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emma C Gilheany.

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 examines the results from a multi-modal survey conducted on the northeastern-most coast of North America. It focuses on the assemblage of a Cold War radar base constructed near the community of Hopedale, Nunatsiavut, the Inuit self-governing region of Labrador, Canada. This assemblage reveals the dual...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Diana Gonzalez-Tennant. Edward Gonzalez-Tennant.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Cedar Key is located two hours north of Tampa along Florida’s Gulf Coast. While the town is overwhelmingly White today, it was home to a vibrant African American community between Reconstruction the early 20th century. This poster discusses a mixed methods project combining archival research, field mapping, ground penetrating radar (GPR) survey, and photogrammetry to document the presence...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Monique LaFrance Bartley. Anne E. W. Nunn.

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 NPS Submerged Resources Center and Ocean and Coastal Resources Branch conducted a joint underwater battlefield survey at War in the Pacific National Historical Park, Guam in 2023, supported by NOAA OER. The study collected remote sensing data to identify cultural resources relating to the 1944 American...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah M Muckerheide. Charles D Beeker.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Indiana University is conducting underwater archaeological investigations on a mid-16th century Iberian transatlantic merchant ship in collaboration with the Dominican Republic Ministry of Culture. The site was impacted by commercial salvage from 2011 to 2013. However, current investigations indicate significant site integrity,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Szymon Mosakowski.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Located in Poland the island called Ostrów Lednicki is one of the longest ongoing underwater archaeological projects in Europe, lasting for 40 years. This continuous research has provided invaluable information on the history of the region and deepened our knowledge of the early Middle Ages and the Piast dynasty that ruled at the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Vicky Oelze. Wang Xueye.

For two decades, isotope biogeochemistry has allowed for the identification of first generation victims of the transatlantic slave trade in the Americas based on highly radiogenic strontium isotope ratios discovered in archaeological human remains from slavery contexts. However, as strontium isotope baseline data from most of Africa was absent these high strontium ratios were merely linked to sub-Saharan Africa at large, with little to no possibility of nuance regarding the actual regions...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Deborah Chatr Aryamontri.

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 history of safeguard, conservation and preservation of Cultural Heritage in Italy boasts a long tradition that goes back to the early 15th century. Since then, Italy has always been at the forefront in theoretically defining the concept of Cultural Heritage and in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ethan A Bean.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2019, as part of the Wolf Trap Alternate Placement Site Northern Extension (WTAPSNE) Project, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Baltimore District (USACE) contracted Stell Environmental and SEARCH, Inc. to conduct an underwater investigation testing for the presence of resources eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. Utilizing side scan sonar and magnetometry, SEARCH,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hunter W. Whitehead. Ryan Dodd.

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. An archaeological remote-sensing survey was conducted in search of the U.S.S. Firebrand, formerly known as the Dorada, situated on or near Square Handkerchief Shoal offshore Pass Christian, Mississippi....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dale Rosengarten. Theodore Rosengarten. Andrew Agha.

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. Strength was a key word in Leland Ferguson’s lexicon. Awed by the survival of the people forced into slavery on plantations in the Carolinas and Virginia, Leland asked, “Where did their strength come from?” He found answers in the stories they left in the ground and nailed shut the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marley R Brown III.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Over a career stretching nearly fifty years, Kathleen Bragdon produced a rich legacy of scholarship devoted principally to understanding the cultures of the indigenous peoples living in southern New England and the complexities attending their persistence. Bragdon's major accomplishments centered on the sophisticated ethnographic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey J Burnett.

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 reflects on and shares insights from the Oak Bluffs Historic Highlands Archaeology (OBHHA) project, a community-based historic landscape study that maps the construction and growth of an early-20th Black vacationing community in the Highlands area of Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts. The project focuses on the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven J. Filoromo. Paul D. Jackson.

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. Throughout southern Louisiana, the lands were subject to intensive agricultural cultivation, be it through cotton or rice, but mainly, sugar. The sugarhouse was a central node to early industrial production in the US Southeast for the many enslaved laborers and immigrant...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura W. Ng.

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. Historically, Chinese Americans in the Southwestern United States were less visible than their West Coast counterparts, as only a handful of Chinatowns existed in the region. Although Chinatowns were few and far between, Chinese Americans often formed dispersed communities where they often labored...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha M Ellens.

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. This paper presents an historical archaeological analysis of Montserrat’s late 19th to early 20th-century citrus lime industry, which emerged in response to the demise of the sugar-based plantation economy on the Caribbean island. Following the networks of lime circulation,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian Straughn.

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 William Pereira’s grand architectural interventions in higher education, the land that would become the UCI campus housed an outpost of the Irvine Ranch operations. Colloquially known as “The Farm,” this area’s incorporation as part of the campus has served as an interim space. This paper details the design and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laylah A Roberts.

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. The National Parks Service has numerous legacy collections from archeological excavations put in place by programs under Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. The two that are most prevalent in the National Parks museum collections are from the Works Progress...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Theresa Singleton.

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. One of Leland Ferguson’s goals when writing Uncommon Ground was to present his archaeological findings on colonoware and of the South Carolina Lowcountry to a general audience in a similar vein as that of James Deetz’s In Small things Forgotten. Unlike Deetz, his study centered on the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karin Larkin. Michelle Slaughter.

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. The University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) has been designated as the “growth campus” of the CU system. UCCS occupies land once home to indigenous tribes, sheep herders, and a tuberculosis sanatorium. As a result, UCCS administration turned to the Anthropology department to help mitigate the impacts of growth on our...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard F. Veit. Christopher Matthews.

Antebellum grave markers for African Americans are uncommon as most individuals were buried without benefit of formal gravestones. However, some of those which survive are extraordinary. The markers examined here commemorate Caesar Drake, a Revolutionary War soldier; Elisha Gaiter a sailor; and Anthony Clapp, a musician. Individually, they illustrate the lives of three exceptional people; collectively they highlight the grit, resilience, and courage of individuals who, in spite of the structural...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Agha.

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. As his student and friend, Leland asked me to walk and talk with him and contemplate the world around us. He taught us how to look at things differently, with patience and attention. He made me ponder not just archaeology in the field, but life. Through Leland's subtle cues I have...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Warner. Katrina C.L. Eichner.

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. During Fall 2019, the University of Idaho offered an eight-week methods course focused on surveying and excavating the grounds of a local high school in downtown Moscow, Idaho. In walking distance from UI's campus, Moscow High School offered a unique setting for affordable hands-on training during the regular semester schedule....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dominic A Fargnoli.

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. This study seeks to combine a Levels of War approach and a Geographic Information Systems analysis to better understand the Battle of Roi-Namur that was part of Operation Flintlock of WWII. The Levels of War framework will be utilized to assign all components of the battle to its various levels which establishes a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rosemary A. Joyce. 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. Drawing on field excavations conducted in 2008 and 2009, and extensive research in documentary archives, we present an overview of the lives of people who were residents of the Spanish colonial town of Omoa, which developed adjacent to the Fortaleza de Omoa in the last half of the eighteenth century. Omoa...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Todd M. Ahlman. Ashley McKeown.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Historical documents suggest the patients of the St. Croix Leprosy Hospital lived a tough life. The first facility was understaffed, overcrowded, in disrepair, and not conducive to healthcare. The second facility, according to US government reports in the 1930s, always suffered from neglect and it was not clear if the patients lived a decent life or a dull existence. Newspaper accounts in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alex Claman. Vasko Demou. Alex R. Knodell.

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. In the course of the 2022 season of the Small Cycladic Islands Project (SCIP), team members documented three stone-built lighthouses in the Milos-Kimolos vicinity; two on the islets of Agios Efstathios and Mikri Akradia, and another on the island of Polyaigos. The three lighthouses, originally built...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Georgia Holly.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Dr. Georgia Holly will discuss the preliminary results from the UKRI Funded Project: Linking Nature and Culture for Sustainable Livelihoods: Establishing an MPA at the Island of Mozambique. In this talk, Georgia will discuss the links between the marine environment, shipwrecks, living heritage, and community on the Island of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only A. Dudley Gardner.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "In the Sticks but Not in the Weeds: Diversity, Remembrance, and the Forging of the Rural American West", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Sometime in 1869, the Almy Chinatown began to emerge; by September of 1885, it had vanished. The Chinese community in Almy may have been home to over 200 Chinese at its peak, with most of its residents working as coal miners. The coal mines at Almy were dangerous: the first...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anastasia Panagakos. Amanda Paskey.

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 completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869 marked a transition point for the transport of goods away from steamship via San Francisco and towards direct links with New York and Boston. The Enterprise Hotel site, dating from the late-1860s to early-1880s, and located along...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Mather.

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. The steel schooner-barge Madeira was among the first of Minnesota’s Lake Superior shipwrecks to be listed in the National Register of Historic Places, in 1992. Easily accessible to divers and at times visible from shore, the wreck has long been a popular destination. The dramatic events of the infamous 1905 Mataafa storm and the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gordon P Watts.

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. As a consequence of professional acknowledgement of the historical importance and archaeological value of submerged cultural resources the role of magnetic remote sensing has increased significantly....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Piotr Bojakowski. Katie Custer Bojakowski.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Equator was designed and built by one of the most prolific American shipwrights, Matthew Turner, as a two-masted schooner in Benicia, CA, in 1888. Shortly thereafter, it was chartered by Robert Louis Stevenson for his cruise among the islands of Samoa and Kiribati. In 1897, it was sold and converted to a steam tender for Alaskan...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katie Custer Bojakowski. Piotr Bojakowski. Nathaniel Howe.

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 Equator was built as a two-masted schooner in 1888, it was significantly altered throughout its long career. In 1897, Equator was sold and converted to a steam tender: boilers and a steam engine were installed, the transom was rebuilt, and a new deckhouse was added with a pilot house and funnel atop. In 1915, a new engine...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David W. Babson.

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. From 1985 to 1987, Leland Ferguson and I prepared a detailed interpretive map of 18th to 19th century rice plantations along the East Branch of Cooper River, northeast of Charleston, S.C. We drew the layout of these plantations onto an overlay of U.S.G.S topo maps. Leland's first...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Margaret A Morris. Isabel Rivera-Collazo. John A Hildebrand.

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. We examine the submerged continental shelf of southern California to expand our baseline knowledge of the local environment throughout the late Pleistocene and Holocene when humans migrated along the Pacific Coast. We investigate a now-submerged channel offshore the present-day San Dieguito Lagoon in Del Mar, California, focusing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Arturo Rey da Silva.

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. Marine Cultural Heritage, including tangible and intangible traces of human interaction with the marine environment, is largely affected by increasing development factors and global challenges. Its study and protection have been influenced by the Cartesian divide between nature and culture,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Evan J Kovacs. Calvin Mires. David Ullman. John Ben Roberts.

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. Starting in 2022, DPAA has partnered with Marine Imaging Technologies, to conduct phase I and II projects in Guam, Chuuk, and Philippines, looking for and documenting various WWII aircraft. Some of these sites present logistical challenges, such as high seas, fast currents, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin R Field.

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 study explores childhood through materiality and the death event, focusing on the sentimentalization of children through funerary elaboration, the dressing of the corpse, and the inclusion of material objects in the grave. Specifically, I will explore the burial contexts of children (ages 0-15) from the 19th and early 20th...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cristina L Bueso.

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. Located on what was considered “undesirable” land, a community founded by formerly enslaved Africans in the mid-19th century was able to thrive in the last northern state to abolish slavery. This paper will utilize the historical record as well as findings from a recent archeological survey to examine the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel L Hines. Ryan Morini.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Two recent concurrent projects, the I-10 Mobile River Bridge Archaeology Project and the Down the Bay Oral History Project, created complementary datasets about the history of the Down the Bay neighborhood in Mobile, Alabama. The archaeological and oral historical work enrich one another; interviews with community members and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicolas Lessard. Adelphine Bonneau. Aude Mongiatti.

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. One of the first French colonial attempts in North America led to the construction of a fort close to the current Quebec City, by Jacques Cartier and Jean-François de La Rocque de Roberval between 1541 and 1543. French settlers, under the command of François Ier, aimed to find precious metals in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Austin L Burkhard. Joseph Grinnan. Frederick H Hanselmann.

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. Geophysical surveys utilize a suite of equipment to identify and locate submerged archaeological sites. Although the marine magnetometer has been an integral tool in locating shipwreck sites, the primary tool typically employed in the search for aircraft sites is acoustic imagery...