Pre-Recorded Video Presentation Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Will McCollum.

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. Birmingham was founded in 1873 to be the industrial capital of the New South, built up as it was around rich mineral reserves in Central Alabama. The workforce that propelled Birmingham’s extractive development was majority-Black, most workers having migrated to the city from agrarian plantation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabrielle F Hunkele.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pre-Recorded Video Presentation Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The task of curation collections recovered resulting from CRM projects can often be a costly and time-consuming endeavor. For these reasons, and along with others, many CRM firms become their own repositories, often with numerous forgotten about boxes in storage spaces or basements. This study...

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

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pre-Recorded Video Presentation Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper introduces the preliminary results of the Central Mediterranean Penal Heritage Project, its mission to archaeologically investigate the inhumanities of confinement through material evidence and digitally preserve the heritage of penal sites in the region, often overlooked in historical...

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

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pre-Recorded Video Presentation Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The aim of this paper is to present the results of research carried out on the wreck of Tank Bay 1 located at English Harbour (Antigua & Barbuda). Initial analyses confirm the identification of the remains as those of the Lyon, ex Beaumont. This French East India Company ship was built in Lorient in...

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

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pre-Recorded Video Presentation Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the course of the 2022 season of the Small Cycladic Islands Project (SCIP), team members documented three stone-built lighthouses in the Milos-Kimolos vicinity; two on the islets of Agios Efstathios and Mikri Akradia, and another on the island of Polyaigos. The three lighthouses, originally built...

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

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pre-Recorded Video Presentation Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. One of the first French colonial attempts in North America led to the construction of a fort close to the current Quebec City, by Jacques Cartier and Jean-François de La Rocque de Roberval between 1541 and 1543. French settlers, under the command of François Ier, aimed to find precious metals in the...

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

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pre-Recorded Video Presentation Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The study of contemporary dhow and related watercraft construction in Zanzibar has relevance for the nautical archaeology of the Indian Ocean World. We suggest that such studies should be placed within the theoretical framework of “nautical ethnographies”, in which the social relations and processes...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tara Tetrault. Suzanne Johnson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pre-Recorded Video Presentation Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Sugarland Community near Poolesville, MD was founded in 1871. At its peak, Sugarland was the largest early African American community in Montgomery County Maryland.Sugarland had a church, community hall, governing group of elders, grocer, a local band, and a school.The Dorsey farm is a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only 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-...