Society for Historical Archaeology 2024

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan T Rybka.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology, Activism, and Protest", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Enbridge crude oil pipelines have been operational on Anishinaabe treaty lands in northern Minnesota for over 70 years, carrying oil from the Alberta tar sands to the Superior Terminal, Wisconsin. It was not until the replacement of Line 3 with the Line 93 pipeline in 2015 that large-scale social unrest was sparked. Indigenous and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leo A. Demski.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Opiate usage took many forms in the 18th-20th century Western world, becoming so common by the 19th century that it is considered a historic epidemic comparable to the modern Opioid crisis. Western medicine created Alcohol/Opium tinctures (Laudanum and Paregoric), and isolated/synthesized alkaloids like Morphine, Narcophine,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katrina C. L. Eichner. Ericha Sappington.

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. Drawing on feminist interventions into Western histories, this paper reconsiders the important of laundresses at frontier fort installations. Too often coded as camp-followers and prostitutes, military laundresses were ration-drawing employees of the Army present at all frontier forts through the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John D. Broadwater.

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. At the 12th Conference on Underwater Archaeology (“The Challenge Before Us”, 1981), I delivered a paper entitled, "Nautical Archaeology: Coming of Age, But Facing an Identity Crisis.” The primary purpose of the paper, presented at a terrestrial session, was to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James A. Delle.

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 opening decades of the 19th century, Jamaica experienced its first coffee boom. As planters raced to create productive plantations in the eastern and central highlands of the island, they employed gangs of enslaved laborers to clear cut an untold number of acres of old...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristen M. Delatour. Matthew C. Reilly. Annalee Davis.

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. Unearthing Voices explores plantation life in Barbados through a collaboration between archaeologists and an artist working to bridge the materialities of race-based slavery into the contemporary, post-Emancipation Caribbean. At Walker’s Dairy in St. George, Barbados, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charlotte A K Jarvis.

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. While the UN Decade for Ocean Science (2021-2030) has hundreds of endorsed ocean science activities, projects, and programmes relating to natural heritage and ocean biosciences, there are very few endorsements that focus on cultural heritage. The Cultural Heritage Framework Programme, led by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Airielle R. Cathers. Bryce A. Peacher.

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 delves into the intersection of climate change and maritime archaeology, focusing on two sites within St. Augustine, Florida: Fort Mose and the Tolomato Bar Anchorage. We chart the impact of shifting environmental conditions, illuminating the urgent threats they pose to our understanding of history. Drawing on GIS and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lindsay M. Montgomery. Lisa Small.

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 “West” as a space of radical autonomy and economic opportunity has played a central role in shaping the logic of settler colonialism in North America during the nineteenth century. While some Black arrivants moved to Canada’s western frontier, many others moved north in search of freedom from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ericha E. Sappington.

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 Walla Walla was established in eastern Washington Territory as a U.S. Army outpost in 1856 and served in various military capacities before being decommissioned in 1910. In 1873, the 1st U.S. Cavalry arrived to begin post-Civil War Era construction and two laundress quarters were built. Documentary research has uncovered new...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn A Cross.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Between 1865-1930, dozens of Freedom Colonies were established near Dallas. Today, most have been physically erased from the city’s landscape due to redlining, gentrification, and destructive urban policies. The Tenth Street Freedman’s Town, located in Oak Cliff, about a mile south of downtown Dallas, is one of the few that persists. Founded by free African Americans in the 1880s, Tenth...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Juniper J Harvey-Marose.

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 Pon Yam House was built in Idaho City (now located in the Boise National Forest) in 1865. Pon Yam, a Chinese immigrant, moved into the house with his family in 1870, establishing a mercantile therein. Despite anti-Chinese prejudice and exclusionary laws, Pon Yam eventually became a successful businessman and miner, and the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charlotte MS Feakins. Emma Barrett. Marlee Bower.

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. Trauma has become a modern-day zeitgeist in developed countries and as a term, has proliferated in everyday discourse. Global epidemiological studies estimate that over 70% of people will be exposed to extremely traumatic or life-threatening events. However, trauma...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erin M Cagney. Kevin Bradley.

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 erasure of Indigenous American tribal communities from the historical record on the East Coast has had long-reaching impacts on the interpretation and perception of Indigenous heritage in Virginia. The relatively recent federal recognition of seven tribes in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jason T. Raupp. Jeremy Borrelli. Ryan Bradley. Will Nassif.

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. A team of archaeologists and marine scientists with Ships of Discovery investigated the remains of a wooden shipwreck off the island of Guam. Identified through a remote sensing survey, preliminary research suggested the site to be the wreck of the whaleship Asia, lost at Guam in 1856. Recent investigations at the site...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shannon G Sullivan.

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. Throughout the years the methodology and technology associated with curating archeological environmental samples has changed. Samples are often collected with specific research goals in mind (pollen, soil chemistry, starch analysis, phytoliths, macrobotanicals), while...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew R. Wyatt. Clelie C. Peacock.

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. Since 2017, the Bass Street Community Archaeology Project has conducted excavations at the site of one of the earliest African American neighborhoods in Reconstruction era Nashville. The Bass Street Community was located at the site of Fort Negley, a Civil War era Union fort. Black Nashvillians-...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Diana Malarchik.

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. Historic records and archaeological data provide important sources of data for testing hypotheses and understanding human health in 19th century populations. Nineteenth century San Francisco coroners kept detailed death records for all people, including infants and children, who passed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ervan Garrison.

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 use of magnetometers in terrestrial archaeology began as early as post-Second World War. It wasn't until the 1970s that these instruments were increasingly adapted for use in underwater (UW)...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Hicks.

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 work excavates the ecological and land-based strategies of Black communities during the 19th century amidst the layered contexts of recent emancipation from enslavement and the ongoing violence of racial capitalism. Archaeofaunal remains from the Dunkerhook community, in what is today called Paramus, New...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Philip Carr. Sarah Price. Kern Jackson. Rachel Hines. Ryan Morini. Raven Christopher.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The general public and bureaucratic decision makers rarely see the value of publicly-funded archaeological projects. The on again-off again I-10 Mobile River Bridge Archaeological Project (MRBAP) investigating 13 archaeological sites in the City of Mobile, includes ongoing artifact analyses, oral history interviews, historic map georeferencing, archival research, and public outreach....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carl G. Drexler.

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 Red River of the Southeast is one area where shallow subterranean salt deposits mix with groundwater to produce briny marshes. Successive communities residing in the area rendered those brines into salt. How they did so, what they used the salt for, and how it affected their relationships with neighbors differed drastically...

DOCUMENT Citation Only M. Dores Cruz.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. ‘Archaeology’ often evokes elusive traces of the past, buried by the sands of time and waiting to be ‘found.’ This is not the case for Praia Melão, where monumental ruins provide the only tangible testament to São Tomé’s early plantation history. Despite its architectural magnificence, neighboring populations do not relate to the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric G. Schweickart.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Our recent analysis of colonoware from the Colonial Williamsburg archaeological collections has shown the effect consumer demand had on the prevalence, form, and decorative techniques applied to the ware type in the Virginia Colony’s capitol city over the course of the 18th century. As part of this larger analysis, pXRF and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christyann M. Darwent. Jelmer W. Eerkens. Lauren Castaneda-Molina. Tim Carpenter. Jeff Rosenthal.

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 the 19th century, Santa Clara County, California, was known as the "Valley of Heart's Delight" for its importance as an agricultural and farming region. Although historical accounts abound, our understanding of the practice of raising and tending domestic livestock is limited. By...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Picarelli-Kombert.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Burned on May 26, 1637 during the Pequot War, the Pequot village site of Calluna Hill (59-73) in Mystic, Connecticut, is known from a single diary entry from the war. It was rediscovered in 2013 during a battlefield survey. Seven shell middens have been located and sampled since the initial identification, each of which are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric A. Swanson.

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 ongoing common practice in the development of offshore wind projects along the coastal areas of the United States includes the study and derisking of UneXploded Ordinance (UXO) present in the surrounding...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth C. Clay.

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. Clove was an unlikely success among the many 19th c. economic strategies undertaken by French administrators in Guyane, the only South American colony within the empire. The implementation of clove plantations resulted from a combination of historical and geographical factors...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark K Walker.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Victorian food consumption with its complex etiquette and changing fashions results in assemblages with a bewildering number of vessel types. In this paper I consider how Victorian dining varied along class lines by comparing assemblages from 86 features excavated in the Bay Area over the past three decades by the Anthropological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott P McAvoy. Dominique Rissolo. Dave Conlin. Brett Seymour. Falko Kuester.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. 3D documentation tools and methods are becoming commonplace in nautical and underwater archaeology, but the means to visualize, preserve, share, publish, and re-use the resultant models and underlying raw datasets are often inaccessible. The OpenHeritage3D platform has built a scholarly framework for the use and re-use of full...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Addison J Siemon. Charles R Ewen.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Within the field of archaeology, virtual reality technologies are an underutilized tool holding great potential. These systems have an unrealized capacity to change the way archaeologists record, visualize, and interpret archaeological sites. Such applications are demonstrated following recent research at the Brunswick Town...

DOCUMENT Citation Only George Schwarz. Chris Dostal. Glenn Greico.

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. The schooner Royal Savage played a pivotal role as the flagship of Benedict Arnold’s squadron in the American Continental Army’s defense of Lake Champlain against the British during the American Revolution. Misfortune led to her sinking during the Battle of Valcour Island in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susana Pacheco. Tânia Casimiro.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology, Activism, and Protest", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Gender equality is an objective that has yet to be achieved on a larger scale. Women have always been and are still part of the industrial workforce, nonetheless, they often keep being ignored and marginalized by archaeological research as part of a productive system that enhanced their social subalternization. In general, industrial...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erika Ruhl.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Finnish burial clothing between the 17th and 19th centuries exists in two forms: (1) re-purposed items used in life and reused as burial clothes, and (2) re-made items assembled from second-hand materials specifically for burial. While some items are consistently re-purposed or re-made, others - such as the caps considered here -...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aaron Toussaint.

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 1835, Pierre Louis Vasquez established Fort Vasquez in the South Platte River Basin to trade for bison products with the Indigenous groups of the region. Though this fort was not the first instance where Indigenous people of this region encountered Euromericans and their enterprises, it did mark the beginning of an era of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karla M Oesch. Maegan A Smith.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. When the Mississippi River dropped significantly in the Fall of 2022, the Louisiana Division of Archaeology received numerous calls and emails from citizens stumbling across exposed structures and vessels, some of which turned out to be shipwrecks. The low water levels and the proximity to the Division of Archaeology’s office allowed staff and volunteers to further document the exposed...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Evguenia {Jenya} Anichtchenko. Marcus Daniels.

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 second half of the 18th century Russian colonization swiped across the Aleutian Chain and into continental Alaska, destroying and distorting many Indigenous traditions, including the boat building of the Unangax people of the Aleutian Islands. While Unangax kayaks are well known from ethnographic examples, their undecked...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shauna Mundt. Maya Klingler.

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 ways in which historic period activities have impacted indigenous sites, with a focus on gold mining in California, and how this is documented in the Cultural Resources Management (CRM) industry. Using previous research and geoarchaeological data, we analyze multicomponent archaeological resources comprising historic period mining...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hayley Malloy.

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. Archeology is considered a subject of science. Therefore, as scientists, are we not required to replicate our work, theories, and basic assumptions in order to ensure that our past work and interpretations about the past remain true? While this seems like a basic and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Audrey Horning.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Critical Archaeologies of Whiteness", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Drawing upon my research into two groups commonly described as ‘racialized’: the Irish and southern white mountaineers, I take a Black whiteness approach placing ‘degrees of whiteness’ in conversation with anti-black racism. The normalization of whiteness as a monolithic category obscures oppression within white European-descendant...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew A. Beaudoin.

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. CRM archaeology is often heavily regulated and completed with the purported goal of recording and preserving significant heritage resources that would be destroyed by development activities. While these goals are well meaning, it is rarely discussed who we are saving...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Philip J Carstairs.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeologists are well known for their interest in pottery sherds which are probably the most common thing found on archaeological sites. Ceramics’ ubiquity, their durability, and the changes in manufacturing and decorative techniques enable us to discuss chronology, class, trade, foodways and more. But, we almost never analyse...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dave Scheidecker.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. January 10th of 2024 will mark the 200th anniversary of Fort Brooke, a U.S. Military base that became the foundation for the city of Tampa, Florida. For the Native people of Florida and their descendants this anniversary is not one to celebrate. To properly understand the history of Fort Brooke requires talking about the Seminole...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Renae J. Campbell.

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. Southern Idaho’s Boise Basin was the site of a late-nineteenth-century mineral rush that attracted gold seekers from around the globe to the western slope of the Rocky Mountains. For more than fifty years, this pluralistic population took up residence in small towns...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric E. Jones. Annabelle J. Lewis. Kelli M. Hajek. Amber M. Wellings. Abagail Dietrich.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The nature of women’s labor during the rise of commercial dairy farming in the late 19th-century northern U.S. is debated. Most agree that prior, women were heavily involved; however, questions persist about their role after it became profitable. Periodicals and personal journals contradict one another, suggesting the societal ideal and actual practice differed and/or that roles varied...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael E Quennoz.

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 many national armies the First World War marked the first large-scale use of identity discs, commonly referred to as dog tags. The U.S. Army was no exception, issuing standardized aluminum discs to its soldiers. Archaeological investigations at the former World War I training facility Camp Logan (41HR614) in Houston, Texas has...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dominic Bush. Jason Raupp. Justin Dunnavant.

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. During World War II, the Hawaiian island of Maui served as the core of US naval aviation in the Pacific, while its beaches and offshore environment provided the ideal practice setting for amphibious combat. South Maui was transformed into a major military training sphere, succeeding periods of sustained, pre-Contact...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shannon M Farnsworth. Seth W Mallios.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was created in 1935 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as part of the New Deal with the goal of rescuing the United States from the Great Depression. The new legislation and agencies produced a flurry of new jobs that resulted in extensive public infrastructure as well as providing money for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kendra A. Kennedy. Andrew B. Orr.

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 history of World War II is replete with stories of famous maritime losses. Arizona, Royal Oak, Bismarck, Yamato – these names are etched into collective memory. But the losses of non-naval vessels are often less well known. This is especially true in distant theaters like the Aleutian Islands, which stretch for...