2024 SHA Poster Submissions

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicole G Simon.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nolan E Swaim.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Edward Gonzalez-Tennant.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ethan A Bean.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only Todd M. Ahlman. Ashley McKeown.

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

DOCUMENT Citation Only 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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...