Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Philip J Carstairs.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maclaren A. Guthrie.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jade W. Luiz.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madeline Moody. Ray von Wandruszka.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dante B Petersen Stanley.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Crystal Castleberry.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maria Smith.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn M Brock.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Iness Bernier.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brad Loewen.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Raymond Phipps.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joe A. Downer.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Seth W Mallios.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lily R Singman-Aste.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charlotte A K Jarvis.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Raul O Palomino Berrocal.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sean E Devlin. Emily Zimmerman.

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

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

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin L. Calvert.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Isabel C. Rivera-Collazo.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth L. Boroski.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tiffany M Lindley.

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

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

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Raul O. Palomino Berrocal.

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

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

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

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

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anastasia L Ervin.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandra L Tyas.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madeline Roth.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alicia Johnson.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Francisco Rivera.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Trinity L Hunter.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jack A Gary.

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

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

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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...

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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...