Society for Historical Archaeology 2024

DOCUMENT Citation Only James P. Delgado.

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 the fall of 2023, a NOAA-funded mission by the Ocean Exploration Trust and other partners conducted a series of telepresence-assisted remotely operated vehicle assessments of three sites from the pivotal WWII naval battle of Midway. The carriers USS Yorktown, HIJMS Akagi, and HIJMS Kaga, all previously...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Frank Cantelas. 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. NOAA Ocean Exploration is dedicated to exploring the unknown ocean and unlocking its potential through scientific discovery, technological advancements, partnerships, and data delivery. An increasing scientific, economic, and strategic need to understand the ocean is contributing to a growing number of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Crutcher.

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 the last 20 years, Mississippi Street in Greenville, Liberia—once a thriving neighborhood—has been completely submerged in the Atlantic. At the current rate, by the end of the United Nations Ocean Decade in 2030, sea level will have risen over 30 millimeters. The world’s wealthiest...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mikayla Roderick.

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. Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site (hereafter Hopewell Furnace) is an iconic representation of the early American industrial landscape, nestled in the picturesque rolling hills of Pennsylvania. Operational between 1771 and 1883, the Hopewell Furnace iron...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher B Lowman.

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. How can archaeological pedagogy provide students a greater understanding of the campus they call home? Archaeology classes give undergraduates a greater stake in their surroundings through combining campus history and archaeological theory, methods, and training for the field. These engagements are an opportunity to learn from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca J Webster.

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. Archaeologists studying the Chesapeake have interpreted the long 17th century as a period of certain and extended colonialism. However, by taking a sub-regional approach when examining the period, the shifts in power between Indians and settlers become more visible. In this paper, I examined...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dayan G. Weller.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. John Davenport began whaling off the coast of Monterey, California in 1854, establishing the state’s first shore-based whaling station .With the discovery of petroleum and eventual ubiquity of gas lighting through the 1860s, Californian shore whaling began as a moribund industry - the sharp decline in the value of whale oil and a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren Castaneda-Molina. John Darwent. Marcela Barron. Edgar Huerta.

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. Rancho Cañada de Pala was a 15,000-acre Mexican Land Grant established in 1839. A small section of this original ranch forms Blue Oaks Ranch Reserve in Santa Clara County. When California became a US state in 1850, the ranch was slowly subdivided into smaller segments with various...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Catherine S. Grimes.

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. Oftentimes, archeological collections will pass through multiple hands, multiple labs, and multiple instances of processing before their final curation. The 1975 to 1986 Boston African Meeting House excavation produced a large-scale collection of over 78,000 artifacts...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Calvin Mires. Benjamin Haskell. Kirstin Meyer-Kaiser.

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. When SBNMS was established in 1992 it was charged with the mission to protect all resources within its boundaries, cultural and natural, but also was mandated to permit fishing activities. This situation created a challenge for managers to protect UCH while allowing anthropogenic behavior...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicole Grinnan. Mike Thomin.

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. Toward engaging local communities and the broader public, the 2023 NOAA Ocean Exploration project “Exploring Deepwater World War II Battlefields in the Pacific Using Emerging Technologies” prioritized the inclusion of citizen scientists and the production of several public outreach products. While the history...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patricia G Markert.

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. Frontier myths rely on invisible notions of whiteness and monolithic narratives of movement. In the mid-19th century, Alsatian and German migrants arrived in Texas as part of an empresario-led colonization program. In this paper, I visit the archives, ruins, and oral histories of Alsatian Texas to...

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

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 National Park Service Submerged Resources Center and Ocean and Coastal Resources Branch conducted a joint archaeological and ecological underwater battlefield survey in 2023 of War in the Pacific National Historical Park, funded by NOAA OER. Data collected during this study was used to conduct archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Raul O. Palomino Berrocal. Piotr Bojakowski. Katie Custer Bojakowski.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The schooner Equator was built in 1888 by Californian shipwright Matthew Turner and eventually sailed by Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson during his journeys in the South Pacific. Even after those events, the ship went through multiple changes in its design and purpose until the early 20th century. In present times, the port of Everett kept it as a living testament of the maritime...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Akshay Sarathi. Piotr Bojakowski. Katie C. Bojakowski.

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 study of contemporary dhow and related watercraft construction in Zanzibar has relevance for the nautical archaeology of the Indian Ocean World. We suggest that such studies should be placed within the theoretical framework of “nautical ethnographies”, in which the social relations and processes...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Harreld. Denise Jaffke. Deborah Marx.

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 remains of the steel-hulled tramp steamship Norlina, located offshore of Sonoma County, California, were recently listed on the National Register of Historic Places at the national level due to the site’s historical and archaeological significance. The vessel served as a cargo steamship between 1909 and 1926, including service...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dela Kuma.

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 looks at local taste practices in southeastern Ghana during the 19th and 20th centuries, using Black feminist and Indigenous archaeology perspectives. Despite the end of the Atlantic Slave trade, the internal trade of enslaved people continued until the 1850s. During this time, the demand for botanical commodities like...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Francisco Rivera.

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 Ollagüe, a Quechua Indigenous community in northern Chile, abandoned agropastoral and industrial sites exist alongside each other as witnesses of the complex nuances of capitalist expansion and industrializing projects. Sulfur and borax mining modified agricultural...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Barbara A Clark. Tristan J Harrenstein.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2022, the Florida Public Archaeology Network created a podcast, “Archaeology Books for Fun”. The pivot to virtual programming was first recognized as a valuable method to reach the public during the pandemic, but has remained popular. Thus, in a continued effort to meet people where they are, staff decided to experiment with podcasting. Opting to follow a book club format, this podcast...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Luke Pecoraro.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Fieldwork at Drayton Hall has taekn place since the plantation was acquired by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1974 and continued through short excavation campaigns to present. A renewed emphasis for archaology is currently underway, with a strategic plan to more holistically explore the landscape and the service areas within the main house. This poster will illustrate the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James W Meierhoff.

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 1879 the Guatemalan Secretary of Agriculture Salvador Valenzuela saw the damage at the ruins of Tikal caused by the removal of carved wooden lintels and observed that; “The beams of the doors of these towers… were pulled out by a foreign doctor [Gustave Bernoulli] the year before last, and that which time and nature could not...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lindsay Doyle.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper presents the products of a summer field season with the 2023 Urban Archaeology Corps (UAC) program. Ten students from the Albany metropolitan area trained and participated in archaeological survey and research at the Martin Van Buren National Historic Site (MAVA) in Kinderhook, New York. The students conducted this work as employees of the National Park Service. After a week of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandra M McDougle.

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. The ongoing work at the Catoctin Furnace Historical Society offers a powerful example of the complexities of Descendant Community engagement. Biological descendants of the 18th and 19th century Black Ironworkers of the Catoctin Iron Furnace in Western Maryland have recently been identified using genealogy and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Raymond L. Hayes. Cameron Gill. Dennis Knepper. Francois van der Hoeven.

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 1624-25, Thomas Warner established an English colony on St. Kitts. Concurrently, French brigantines anchored there. The settlers were resisted by indigenous Caribs, but joined forces to crush native uprisings. France occupied both northern and southern quarters of the island; England controlled the central half. Fig Tree...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kisha Supernant.

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. The Métis are a post-contact Indigenous people who emerged from early encouters between Indigenous communities and non-Indigenous fur traders in what would become the Canadian west. The imagining of the Canadian West by historians and archaeologists, however, has perpetuated myths around early...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer E. Mack. Lida Gibson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From 1855 to 1935, the Mississippi State Asylum occupied a tract of land north of downtown Jackson. Graves discovered during construction in 1992 and 2012 on the University of Mississippi Medical Center campus represent a burial ground established for patients who died in the asylum. The current cemetery excavation has found ample...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Miriam Entin.

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 the 1840s, Jewish Five Points resident Harris Goldberg discarded trash behind his 472 Pearl Street home. 150 years later, archaeologists recovered remnants of a roast beef dinner, fragments of glass tableware, and even the skull of a household pet parrot. Another interesting discovery was that of several lead...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meghan Campbell Caves.

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 summer of 2021, I reanalyzed the privy assemblage associated with the Teager/Weimer site located in Arlington, Washington. Within the assemblage, there is a Heinrich Fiehn Ocarina from the late 19th century, which represents a unique artifact well suited to the biographical method of analysis. The biographic approach...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kacey C. Grauer.

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 explores how water contributed to community resilience throughout centuries of occupation at the Maya site of Aventura, Belize. While human-landscape relations changed with shifting sociopolitical and ecological contexts, water and ancestors remained consistently important. During Classic Period occupation, households...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paulina F. Przystupa.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Viewshed analysis is a powerful tool employed by archaeologists to understand the experiences of people in the past. At their core, such analyses estimate what parts of the landscape people could see from specific locations. To do this, these models accept assumptions about similarities between past and present landscapes and statistical complications involved in quantification, such as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marijo Gauthier-Bérubé.

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. Since 2016, the Fort Saint-Jean Museum has been involved in an underwater archeological project on its riverfront to document its submerged cultural heritage. The first phase of the project (2016-2018) led to the discovery of two new archeological sites and the monitoring of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joshua L. Marano. Devon Fogarty.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. While mostly known for its use as a military prison during the American Civil War, the islands and waters surrounding Fort Jefferson within what is now Dry Tortugas National Park were utilized for a variety of purposes throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. As the population of Fort Jefferson swelled with military personnel,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelly R Monteleone. Kristof Richmond. Vickie Siegel. Nancy Bigelow. Vera Pospelova. Tyler Haden. Mimi Alexander. Taylor Heaton. Jason Gulley. Tamara Adame.

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. Our Submerged Past’s NOAA OER-funded project surveyed, mapped, and sampled caves and overhangs on the continental shelf west of Prince of Wales Island in southeast Alaska. Sea levels were as much as -165 m lower during the last glacial maximum exposing a large continental shelf. The project goal is to identify...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Garry L Momber.

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. Human colonisation and dispersal out of Africa and to the far reaches of Europe followed major inter-glacial events as the climate warmed, but before the ice thawed and sea level rose. The relationship of the archaeology with the landscape that was left behind provides a cultural and datable resource that can be interrogated to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kalina Kassadjikova. Mark Horton. Cat Jarman. Lars Fehren-Schmitz.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1997, human bones were discovered ashore Rapparee Cove in North Devon, United Kingdom. Since then, much news coverage and public speculation has suggested that the remains belong either to French soldiers or enslaved African-descended rebels from St. Lucia who had drowned when the London had shipwrecked off the coast two centuries earlier in 1796. A decades-long international custody...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shawn Joy.

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. In 2022 the Peerside Program was founded at the Florida Institute of Oceanography. Peerside's mission is to broaden access and ongoing involvement with Earth's ocean environment through an innovative program that increases and sustains social, educational, technical, and professional support and building community for ocean...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth A Bollwerk. Lindsay C Bloch.

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. Locally produced, lead-glazed coarse earthenware ceramics are ubiquitous in archaeological assemblages from Chesapeake households. Between the 17th-19th centuries, ceramic industries in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Alexandria, and eastern Virginia thrived despite the popularity of imported European...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexander B Vail. Eli Suzukovich III.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "What Is "Historical"?", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The removal of indigenous peoples from the American midwest in the 18th and 19th centuries contributed to the erasure of indigenous lifeways, languages, and sovereignty from public and historic discourse by obscuring indigenous spaces from the visible landscape. Northwestern University was founded on indigenous land in 1850 and has paved over important...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amy A. Borgens. Hunter W. Whitehead. J. Barto Arnold. Ervan Garrison. Robert L. Gearhart. Jack B. Irion.

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. The complexity of discovering buried shipwrecks has long-inspired archeologists to seek improved survey methods and data interpretation to increase detection of these archeological sites. Technological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew C. Greer.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Critical Archaeologies of Whiteness", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeologists have studied race in Antebellum Virginia for decades. But these works have focused predominantly on Blackness, and to a lesser extent Indigeneity. Whiteness, however, has been largely ignored, and the few works that have addressed white racial identities have addressed notions of whiteness among local elites instead of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lori Lee.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Fort Mose was the first legally sanctioned free black community in what later became the United States. Consequently, it was an experiment in freedom shaped by Spanish colonialism and African responses to it. Inhabitants of Fort Mose, including men, women, and children, lived their lives on a frontier and faced multiple challenges...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sophia Hudzik.

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 a framework of the experience of ancient cultural heritage from the perspective of the potential stakeholders within the surrounding community of the Villa of the Antonines Archaeological Excavation. As the excavation continues to grow in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maggie S. Joyce.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Strawbery Banke Museum is a living history museum in Portsmouth, NH that features historic buildings and curates a wide range of archaeological artifacts. This poster will demonstrate a collaboration with the museum and the University of New Hampshire’s CatLAB to create 3D models of artifacts and historic spaces at the museum utilizing photogrammetry, where a software processes...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kotaro Yamafune.

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. Photogrammetry-based 3D recording was conducted on nine submerged WWII American and Japanese wrecks in 2017 and again in 2023. The authors used the scaled 3D models in CloudCompare, a point cloud analysis software, to visualize and quantify the differences between the two years. In this paper, the authors will...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alyssa M Carpenter.

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. A total of nineteen cannons were recovered from the Savannah River during the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP) in 2021. It had been assumed that these cannons were from a British scuttled ship during the American Revolutionary War in 1779. Seventeen of these cannons were later transported to the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tara Tetrault. Suzanne Johnson.

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 Sugarland Community near Poolesville, MD was founded in 1871. At its peak, Sugarland was the largest early African American community in Montgomery County Maryland.Sugarland had a church, community hall, governing group of elders, grocer, a local band, and a school.The Dorsey farm is a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Annabelle J. Lewis.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For nineteenth century Americans, death played a major social and economic role in daily existence. This poster draws attention to the idea that the life history of mortuary goods begins before they were used in mourning and burial practices. They first had to be manufactured and purchased, extending the networks through which they moved and communicated meaning. Combining archival...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marie Trottier.

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 Anse-aux-Batteaux site on the Upper St Lawrence contains the submerged remains of a short-lived 19th-century river port, notably three wharves and five abandoned ships within an area of 1 hectare. The Université de Montréal initiated its study at the height of the Covid-19 epidemic. Anse-aux-Batteaux site exemplifies the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chris Dostal.

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 2008, a Spanish-made 4pdr bronze cannon thought to have been used to defend the Alamo in 1836 was donated to the Alamo Museum, which sent it to the Conservation Research Laboratory at Texas A&M University for conservation prior to display. After 12 years, it began to exhibit new corrosion, and was sent back to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Strickland. Patricia Samford.

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. This paper examines two colonial sites in Maryland’s Patuxent River Valley: the Melon Field site (18CV169), home of Robert Taylor Jr., dating between the 1660s and the 1680s and the 1690 to 1711 King’s Reach Site (18CV83), home of Richard Smith Jr. While these two small tobacco farms both have...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Chidester.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Northwest Ohio experienced explosive growth in the second half of the 19th century due to the importance of Toledo as a Great Lakes shipping entrepôt as well as the discovery of oil and natural gas deposits in the counties to the south of Toledo. From the 1870s to the early 1900s private ventures and local governments sparred over...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melissa Timo.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The NC Office of State Archaeology’s (NCOSA) Historic Cemetery Program seeks to preserve and study the state’s post contact period cemeteries as well as support their descendants, communities, and local governments. Through NCOSA’s community-focused work it has become apparent that these places are not only historic and archaeological, but deeply emotional landscapes. Cemeteries are sites...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lee M. Panich. Gustavo Flores. Michael Wilcox. Monica V. Arellano.

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. Recent archaeological research in the San Francisco Bay Area has demonstrated that Indigenous people maintained diverse cultural practices—such as the production and conveyance of stone tools and shell beads—during the region’s Spanish mission period....

DOCUMENT Citation Only James M. Davidson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Beginning in the 1970s and 1980s, earnest attempts were made within African American archaeology to link material objects recovered from North American contexts to African parent cultures. One common symbol recovered archaeologically on a variety of objects was the X or cross motif, sometimes placed within a circle. Originally...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John M. Chenoweth.

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 River Raisin settlement existed at the nexus of national, religious, and colonial contacts and conflicts. Settled by largely French-descended Detroiters in the 1780s and controlled by the British until 1796, it was an important point of interaction during a pivotal period in the “Old Northwest.” The site of key battles in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin J Schaefer. Aldo Foe. Caitlyn Dye. Caleb Kestle.

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. Care is a fundamental aspect of human life and highlights how communities exhibit relationships of dependency and support as expressions of care. Care is viewed as essential in understanding our shared human experience, however, it is not a fixed attribute but rather a relational...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Courtney J. Birkett.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. People have lived and died on Mulberry Island, now the site of Fort Eustis, Virginia, for at least 10,000 years. However, fewer than expected burial sites are known. Fort Eustis Cultural Resources has been employing cadaver dogs and other methods to search for cemeteries. Thus far we have determined that one plot of land formerly belonging to the Mulberry Island Cemetery Club was in fact...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hans K. Van Tilburg. Daniel Wagner. Alba Mazza.

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. On 29 September 1941, a Havoc A-20 bomber aircraft departed the island of O`ahu for a routine training mission. Following engine failure, the plane crashed into the ocean, and the pilot and observer were lost. In March 2011, researchers from the Hawai`i Undersea Research...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas F. Radtkey.

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 Mendocino War, an 1850s genocidal campaign against Native peoples in northern Mendocino County, California, was especially fervent in Long Valley. Here, unauthorized paramilitaries freely murdered hundreds of Yuki and Cahto people between 1856 and 1860. The extreme loss...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leah H. Mollin-Kling. Dr. Kelly M. Britt.

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. The practices and policies of urban planning often result in the ongoing physical and social marginalization of certain neighborhoods and residents, perpetuating white supremacy and classism. Historic preservation and archaeological practice are implicated in these continual moves towards (re)marginalization,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth D. Meade.

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. The archaeological investigation of the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan changed the way that archaeologists engage with descendant communities in NYC and beyond. Nearly all of the burial places for free and enslaved persons of African descent in NYC were destroyed and redeveloped, usually without the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Phil A. Hartmeyer. Frank Cantelas.

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 Ocean Exploration is a public-facing agency that collects, manages, and archives multitudes of data through both internal and external federal actions. This can include any exploration where NOAA Ocean Exploration has led or funded fieldwork where underwater cultural heritage discoveries are made, whether...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nadia E Waski. Zachary Nason.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the spring of 2022, SWCA Environmental Consultants (SWCA) conducted an archaeological reconnaissance survey on behalf of the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission (PVPC) as part of an ongoing, multi-town effort to document and map the approximately 30-mile-long, nineteenth century Hampshire and Hampden Canal. Archaeologists were able to develop a modernized approach for this effort by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stuart Rathbone. Christina Rathbone.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Hard-rock mines in the 19th- and early 20th- century employed full-time on-site blacksmiths who sharpened massive numbers of drill bits each day. The archaeological and architectural traces of on-site blacksmiths at Nevada mine sites are relatively easy to identify during field surveys, although they may be overlooked when...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Jones.

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. Practicing and teaching community-based archaeology on sites associated with the history of the university is a unique opportunity for students to participate in authentic research and as stakeholders of campus heritage. A case study will be presented of the work at the Arboretum Chinese Labor Quarters site on the Stanford...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dominique Rissolo. Patricia Beddows.

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 carbonate platform and shallow continental shelf of the Yucatan Peninsula supported the rise of the northern lowland Maya and the earlier dispersal of Paleoamerican peoples. Exploration in the region’s now-submerged caves has revealed the remains of early human inhabitants as well as diverse and well preserved faunal and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Barbara J. Heath.

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. Most archaeologists working in the Chesapeake attribute coarse earthenware characterized by a marbled buff and red paste and dark brown to black glossy glaze to potters working in the town of Buckley in northeast Wales from the 1720s through the late 18th century. Recently, Lindsay Bloch has...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chuck Meide.

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 Little Talbot Island Shipwreck, located on the beach in Little Talbot Island State Park, was initially investigated and reported by state archaeologists in 1987. When initially encountered, the site consisted of a section of hull from a composite ship measuring 16.13 m (52.92 ft.) by 5.25 m (17.22 ft.). Since that time, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily A Schwalbe.

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. Studies of antebellum rice plantations in the Southeastern United States tend to center on South Carolina and Georgia, largely because they were the most extensive land holdings in terms of acreage, production, and enslaved labor. One area where rice agriculture is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tyler D. McLellan.

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 recent decades, publications focused on the archaeology of industry have increased, resulting in National Register eligibility consideration for structures and facilities of different terrestrial industries such as mines, factories, and railroads. However, there is still a shortage of research on maritime and offshore industrial...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas E Ross.

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. Alma College was a Jesuit seminary in the rural Santa Cruz Mountains near Los Gatos, California that operated between 1934 and 1969. It housed an all-male population of up to 150 Jesuit faculty, students, and support staff and provided training for Scholastics seeking a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leah E Tavasi.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Filling a gap in classical maritime literature by creating an economy of sails — how much they cost, where they were made, who made them — and the implications of such an economy, a sail production line is created through the formulation and analysis of a chaîne opératoire. Through a discussion of the primary base textiles used -...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John R. Johnson. John R. Johnson.

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. Mexico's independence from Spain resulted in major changes impacting California's Mission Indian communities. Important documents from the1820s permit a fascinating glimpse into the economic organization and social fabric of Mission San Buenaventura's...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Markus. Joshua Catalano.

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 August 1776, South Carolina militia forces provoked the Cherokee into the Battle of Esseneca which resulted in the destruction of the town and later the construction of Fort Rutledge upon its remnants. This fort and battle, located on Clemson University campus, had a devastating impact on the Cherokee. Through a pattern of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew J. Robinson. Margaret Patton. Andrew Clark. Timothy Reed.

A small community cemetery contacted the State Historical Society of North Dakota for information on locating unmarked burials, as the decendent community was interested in finding their relatives. In collaboration with the community, the archaeology division of the society conducted a geophysical survey, including GPR, electric resistivity, and multiple lens and thermal drone flights of the cemetery. This presentation discusses the findings of this survey.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dorothy A Rowland.

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. Green Cove Springs was the site of a WWII naval airfield and housed over 300 ships from the mothballed Atlantic Fleet following the war. At least one F4F Wildcat plane wreck and one landing craft wreck were known to be at the bottom of the river adjacent to the air station. In 2022, the Lighthouse Archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric L. Larsen.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology, Activism, and Protest", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Germanna, as a set of sites in Orange County, Virginia, has seen archaeology since the late 1960s. The goals have changed over time. Interest in the site of Alexander Spotswood’s 1720 home (which came to be known as “the Enchanted Caste”) prompted initial archaeological research. Over the course of 50 years, approaches to the site have...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric C Poplin. Jeffrey Sherard. Jon B Marcoux.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Sixteenth-century European colonization prompted Southeast Native groups to utilize new socio-political strategies to cope with instability brought on by accelerated change in Ethridge’s “shatter zone”, where surviving indigenous groups were forced to adapt and redevelop their cultural systems to survive and to maintain their cultural identities. In the “shatter zone,” Native groups...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meredith B. Linn. Nan A. Rothschild. Diana diZerega Wall.

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 1825, two years before Emancipation in New York State and in a climate of intense anti-Black racism, two Black men purchased land north of the urban core of New York City. Over the next three decades, other Black men and women and European (mostly Irish) immigrants also purchased land there. Together they...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hope Bridgeman. Emma Graumlich. Kaitlin Decker. Ramie A Gougeon. Amanda Evans. August Costa.

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. A NOAA grant funded project was designed to create baseline characterizations of the now-submerged paleolandscape associated with the shoreline stand ca. 8,000 yrs BP that would have been available to early human populations in the northwestern portion of the Gulf of Mexico’s (GOM) northwestern outer continental shelf (OCS)....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily R. Schumacher. Miriam Belmaker.

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 explores colonial fortifications and landscapes as manifestations of shifting sovereignties in discontinuous frontiers. While a “typical” frontier exists outside the bounds of political control (i.e., external frontier), frontiers may also be encapsulated within an expanding system (i.e., internal frontier). As...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Russell K. Skowronek. Richard E. Johnson. Brandi Reger.

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 decades, copper vessels have been the subject of archaeological enquiry for those studying American, Basque, and French fur trade era sites in colonial America. Seven years into the COTBONS Project, those findings have little if any application for those who study the Spanish borderlands. Since 2017 the COTBONS Project...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chelsea Rose.

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 Kam Wah Chung State Heritage Site represents one of the key interpretive hubs for Chinese heritage in the Pacific Northwest. Once home to the John Day Chinatown, its residents provided medical care, groceries, automobiles, and employment to the citizens of eastern...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul F Johnston.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Underwater Archaeology In The 21st Century: From Humble Beginnings To Integration With Anthropology And Archaeology", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Smithsonian has engaged in underwater archaeology and its forebears since the 1950s, starting with Dr. Mendel Peterson’s explorations of multiple Caribbean shipwrecks. In the mid-1970s, the Smithsonian and US Navy recovered propulsion machinery from the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha Seyler. Tiffany C. Fryer.

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. For scholars studying colonial Latin America the hacienda institution has become an index for certain sets of land and labor relations. This indexing enables scholars to make broad statements about processes such as indigenous dispossession and commercialization even though estates historically...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anne G Giesecke.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Underwater Archaeology In The 21st Century: From Humble Beginnings To Integration With Anthropology And Archaeology", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Forty and fifty years ago the social structure of what was to become a recognized specialization of underwater research in the context of archaeology and anthropology was very different from today. A review of education, publication, study sites, study...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tânia M Casimiro. Joel Santos. João L Sequeira.

In 1835, a law in Portugal forced every city and village to build cemeteries with well-defined characteristics: a walled place had to be able to have large tombs, permanent graves, and temporary graves. Nine years later it became mandatory to bury the deceased in a cemetery and church burials were forbidden, thus many cemeteries were built in the mid-19th century, either in large urban centers or in small rural areas. Considering these differences this paper aims to analyze several cemeteries in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jelmer W Eerkens. Christopher Canzonieri. Jason Miszaniec. Christopher Zimmer.

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 collaboration with Amah Mutsun Tribal Band of Mission San Juan Bautista, we analyzed bone and tooth collagen from 15 human burials and faunal remains exposed during recent construction work at the Sanchez Adobe, CA-SMA-71, dating between 1780 and 1800. Tracing diet across skeletal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan B Langley.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Underwater Archaeology In The 21st Century: From Humble Beginnings To Integration With Anthropology And Archaeology", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This presentation looks back to the 1981 article, "Nautical Archaeology: Coming of Age, But Facing an Identity Crisis," penned by John Broadwater and both presented at the 12th Conference on Underwater Archaeology and included in its proceedings. That paper...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin J. Crisman. Carolyn Kennedy.

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. Between 2014 and 2016 four steamboat wrecks sunk near one another off Shelburne Point in Lake Champlain underwent surveys and preliminary recording. Comparison of archaeological and historical data allowed identification of the four. The historical evidence included a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick J. Boyle. P. Brendan Burke.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Development of new fishing vessels led to a significant expansion of the United States’ Mid-Atlantic oyster industry in the 19th century. New types of boats, such as the pungy, were developed to enable dredging in the deep waters of the Chesapeake Bay. During the Oyster Boom of the late 19th century, several hundred pungies served...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nathaniel F 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. Sailmaking is among the most central, but least studied facets of historic seafaring. Extant information is scarce and although iconography illustrates general sail plans, the actual structures of sails from antiquity to the Industrial Revolution are largely unknown. The Historic Sail Research Project was started by master...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Travis G. Parno. Henry M. Miller. Jessica Edwards.

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. Over the past three years, archaeologists at Historic St. Mary’s City have revealed the footprint of a large, timber-framed building—dubbed Structure 101—located within the palisaded walls of St. Mary’s Fort (ca. 1634). Comprised of more than 70 posts and featuring a large cellar on its north...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Barton.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology, Activism, and Protest", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1870, former captive Ervin James (1815-1872) purchased one hundred and five acres from two white landowners to establish his family farm. By 1891, his sons had bought an additional 140 acres where they grew crops, raised livestock, and hunted wildlife in the swamp. At the community’s peak in the 1920s, over 250 people called Jamestown...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Trevor H Gittelhough. Olivia Thomas.

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 advancement of maritime cultural landscapes has grown every year since its inception, but its focus has often been focused on the historic landscape while neglecting the prehistoric landscape. There are however, attempts in rectifying this throughout the world. Research during the summer of 2023 on Saint Croix, USVI, was one...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adela L. Amaral.

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. Obsidian prismatic blades are routine ‘prehistoric period’ finds. While not prevalent, blade fragments and flakes nonetheless form part of the material memory of Amapa— a contemporary Oaxacan pueblo that was also, in another past present, a pueblo de cimarrones. Obsidian blades are only one object from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erin N. Whitson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "What Is "Historical"?", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1889, Wahnenauhi (Lucy Keys), a survivor of the infamous “Trail of Tears”, wrote, that “despair in its thickest blackness” settled down on the Chiefs of the Cherokee as they prepared their people to relocate from their traditional homelands to “Indian Territory” in 1838. Her words are compelling—both for how intimate they feel and for the imagery they...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert McQueen.

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 looks at identifying and characterizing late 19th century sites occupied by the Western Shoshone in northern Nevada’s (USA) Great Basin Desert. Much of the regional literature on ethnohistoric sites focuses on identifying early contact sites, which for the Great Basin begin around the 1840s, and the mixing of certain...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Geoffrey R Hughes.

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 God’s Fields (2011) Leland Ferguson examined the interplay between religion, race, and landscape in the Moravian town of Salem, North Carolina. In doing so, he highlighted the vital role of faith in social life. By examining cultural change vis-à-vis race and landscape in a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashley McCuistion.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Established in 1760 with support from a London-based philanthropy called The Associates of Dr. Bray, the Williamsburg Bray School was one of the earliest institutions dedicated to the education of free and enslaved African American children in America. The school’s curriculum was designed to teach students Anglican catechism and...