Society for Historical Archaeology 2025

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aaron S. Hamilton.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Battle of the Atlantic Research and Expedition Group conducted the first comprehensive underwater and historical survey of the German U-1105 “Black Panther” in nearly thirty years thanks to a non-capital grant from the Maryland Historical Trust. The U-1105 is Maryland’s first historic shipwreck preserve. Leveraging new archival...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandra G. Martin.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Hundreds of Black Americans moved to Portsmouth, NH in the Great Migration, many finding jobs at the local Naval Shipyard. Today the neighborhood where some of those shipyard employees and their families lived is an outdoor history museum called Strawbery Banke. Archaeological research in advance of rehabilitation at the museum’s...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian R Shoemaker.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1917, to offset a rise in merchant shipping losses from German U-boats, the U.S. Congress established the United States Shipping Board (USSB) and the Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC) to oversee the rapid construction of wooden ships. Several variations of ship designs were adopted throughout the construction effort, with the two leading designs being the Ferris type and the Hough...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ellie Minette.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Well, Well, Well: Papers in honor of Judith A. Bense", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeology has been a Pensacola staple since Dr. Judith Bense started engaging the public with the history in their backyards. She laid the foundation for public archaeology in the city, notably through the Hawkshaw Project and the Florida Public Archaeology Network. In addition to involving local volunteers in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chelsea M. Cohen.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. A tenet of the maritime cultural landscape is that however expansively it is applied, its starting point is maritime culture. The maritime cultural landscapes of European coloniality were, however, enmeshed in greater taskscapes spanning media and species. An essentialized “maritimity” continues prioritizing this land-water binary...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Apollo Z Blue.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Physically disabled people are vastly underrepresented in the field of professional archaeology. This is likely in part due to the inaccessibility of field school and an unwillingness to build in accommodations. This paper proposes that accommodating physical disabilities in field schools is possible and worthwhile. This research...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Wagner. Ryan Campbell. Chris Stantis. Matthew Greer.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Breaking Free from the (Institutional) Matrix: Archaeological Career Pathways In and Between Academia, CRM, Non-Profit, and Museum Spheres", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Authors: Mark Wagner, Ryan Campbell, Matthew Greer, Chris Stantis Cultural Resource Management (CRM) developed as a field of practice within Anthropology in the 1960s and 1970s. Since then, “applied” archaeology has become a major field of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Garry Momber. Brandon Mason.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Intersection Between Natural and Cultural Heritage and the Pressing Threats to Both", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Maritime cultural heritage is under increasing threats from changes in the climate and the oceans. Many sites along the coastline and underwater are now being eroded and revealed after thousands of years. While this provides more information about our past it is also a direct indicator of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only C. Cameron Walker.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Musgrove Cowpens and Trading Post (9Ch137) was a rural property central to a colonial economic system that brought deerskins and cattle to urban markets in Charleston, South Carolina, and Savannah, Georgia. Mary Musgrove (born Coosaponakeesa) is a woman of Creek and English descent who owned and operated this property on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kimberly L Breyfogle.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Conservation and Preservation of Archaeological Materials", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Last year, a project was undertaken to determine the best option for treating a bronze cannon on display at the Alamo. The cannon was conserved by the Conservation Research Laboratory, but post-conservation it began precipitating a white powder determined to be a mixture of sodium carbonate-based compounds. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Diana D Pena Bastalla. Mathew Matsulavage. Javier J Garcia Colon. Isabel Rivera-Collazo. Edith Gonzalez. Sophia Perdikaris.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Inhabited Islandscapes and Historical Ecosystem Dynamics: Power and Land in Barbuda", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Coastal Cultural resources in Barbuda face imminent danger from climate change and real estate development. This presentation demonstrates how photogrammetry serves as a vital tool for documenting at-risk cultural heritage at Castle Hill. By integrating photogrammetry for data collection,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amy M. Mitchell-Cook. Jennifer McKinnon.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Breaking Free from the (Institutional) Matrix: Archaeological Career Pathways In and Between Academia, CRM, Non-Profit, and Museum Spheres", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2014, ACUA created the first Job Market and Benchmarking Survey project to discern perceived and real deficiencies in professional qualifications of maritime archaeology students. The project provided valuable data concerning what...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sophie Minor.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the mid-19th century Fort Snelling, located in what is now known as Minnesota, housed African American individuals enslaved by officers serving in the American military. Today, the site functions as a popular historic destination. Although enslaved people were crucial to the site’s history, as well as Minnesotan and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only MoHagani A. Magnetek. Justin Cramb. Holly McKinney.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Pearl Harbor attack in 1941 brought the U.S. into WWIl spurring the development of the Alaska-Canada Highway (ALCAN). Amongst the battalions deployed, African American soldiers of the 97th Regiment United States Army Corp of Engineers began construction of the Alaska portion of the ALCAN in the Spring of 1942. After the construction came to completion in late October 1942, the 97th...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexander S. Morrow.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The study of submerged aircraft is relatively new, and although traditional archaeological recording methods have been effective, the wrecking event and site formation of an aircraft falling from the sky is inherently different than that of a sinking ship. Just as different vessels from varying eras and nations necessitate...

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. H. Ogborne.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Bastions, Buttons, and Burials: Recent Research at Historic St. Mary’s City", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Multiple fragments of tangled metallic threads and a complete woven button were found during the 2023 excavation season in a St. Mary’s Fort cellar feature at Historic St. Mary’s City. These discarded threads once adorned garments that communicated the social and economic status of the wearer,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laylah Roberts.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Breaking Free from the (Institutional) Matrix: Archaeological Career Pathways In and Between Academia, CRM, Non-Profit, and Museum Spheres", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeology has always lent itself to be a diverse field of study, and many archaeologists have earned their degrees and flourished in alternative careers. As an archaeologist in a federal curation/museum position, I have been placed in a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew A. Williamson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“A Little Grass and Earth Thrown in to fill up the Grave”: Archaeological studies of American War for Independence burial spaces", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the summer of 1778, the British garrison of Detroit prevented western expansion of the fledgling republic that was established two years prior. On October 23, 1778 an expedition of 1,200 men consisting of Continentals and others led by General...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kaitlin Decker.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Lighthouses have been a key federal responsibility on the American shoreline since 1789. Their assistance to sailors and beach-goers has been well documented. While there is newer technology with lifesaving services during wreck events, many lighthouses still continue to stand as functional historic landmarks today. As a key...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tova S Kadish.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the latter decades of the 19th century, nearly 100 Jewish agricultural experiments cropped up across the United States (with dozens more in the Americas more broadly). Comprised largely of immigrants from the Pale of Settlement in Russia, they were funded, in part, by Jewish aid organizations established for this purpose....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katie Gill. Angela Bailey.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. West Ashcom, later called Cremona, is located in tidewater Maryland, USA and has witnessed over 300 years of continual estate agriculture throughout the beginnings of the colonial period to present day. Changing hands from elite white owners, the estate was built on the labor of trafficked and enslaved Africans and African...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katharine C. Woollen. Kathleen D. Stansbury.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Wisconsin approved “An Act to Legalize Dissection” in 1868, which declared unclaimed bodies could be sent to medical societies for anatomical examination. In Milwaukee, cadavers could be buried at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (MCPFC). Based on osteological assessment, a total of 28/160 (17.5%) females have documented craniotomies and/or postcranial cut marks. To further...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeremy C. Brunette. J.T. Stark.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During World War II, leaders of The Manhattan Project searched for suitable laboratory space to develop the world’s first nuclear devices to end the War. Los Alamos in northern New Mexico was selected. An appealing aspect of Los Alamos was the Ranch School, which had housing and infrastructure readily available. The Project also utilized existing ranches and homesteads with cleared...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emma K. Graumlich. Sienna Williams.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In July of 1559, the Spanish crown funded an ill-fated expedition which attempted to seize a colonial foothold in what would one day be Spanish Florida. Spain’s efforts were thwarted by a hurricane in September of that year which wrecked seven of the expedition’s vessels in modern-day Pensacola Bay, Florida. Survey operations...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rochelle A. Marrinan.

Apalachee Province, an area located between the Aucilla and Ochlockonee Rivers in northwest Florida, was the last major mission effort by the Spanish government and the Franciscan order in La Florida (1633-1704). At the height of the Apalachee Mission period, at least fourteen missions were functioning. Epidemic disease, slave raiding, Native disaffection, inattention from distant colonial officials, repartimiento labor requirements, international competition, and Queen Anne’s War account for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jodi A. Barnes. Katie Luciano. Jamie Dozier.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Intersection Between Natural and Cultural Heritage and the Pressing Threats to Both", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2017, Hurricane Irma caused maximum inundation levels of 3 to 5 feet above ground level along the coast of much of South Carolina, causing severe beach erosion. That storm brought attention to the archaeological resources on Cat, North, and South Islands as heritage sites around the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ummul Muhseneen.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1999 the discovery and excavation of a local mass killing site forever changed the urban landscape of a residential area in the capital of Bangladesh. The excavation of this killing site of the 1971 Bangladesh Genocide and later the establishment of a memorial at the site, transformed the locality into a major historical site...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jasmine Saxon. Jessica Ericson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Community Centered Archaeology in Colorful Colorado", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2022, Community Connections LLC was contracted by Denver Mountain Parks, City and County of Denver, to conduct a comprehensive Class III survey of Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre. The Amphitheatre, completed in 1941 by the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Progress Administration, was nominated by SWCA for the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Edward Gonzalez-Tennant.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "In the Sticks but Not in the Weeds II: Historical Whitewashing and Modern Reimagining of Rural America’s Fantasy Past", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Anglo settlement of the Rio Grande Valley began in the late 19th and early 20th century. Part of this colonization involved the whitewashing of the region’s history, including the erasure of Tejano communities, populated by descendants of earlier Spanish,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christine M Ames.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology in the Community:15 Years of Archaeology Service", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Kalorama Park, in Northwest, Washington, D.C, was the subject for the inaugural D.C. Archaeology Month poster for 2024, spearheaded by Archaeology in the Community. Park investigations have provided information about the 19th century Little Estate, the family that resided there and including the formerly enslaved....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Philip Levy.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of Chesapeake Landscapes in Transition", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Recent excavations and archaeological record re-study projects have enabled considerable changes in the interpretation of the George Washington Birthplace National Monument National Monument (NPS). Sites there have been the subject of excavations from as early as the 1890s and has seen several digging approaches...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Furlong Minkoff. Della Scott-Ireton.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Well, Well, Well: Papers in honor of Judith A. Bense", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Bensian archaeology is the ability to see an opportunity and make the most of it. Forty years ago, at the Hawkshaw site in Pensacola, Dr. Judy Bense recognized that public archaeology can serve both the community and her research. Twenty years ago, she realized she could take her vision of public archaeology across the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles R. Ewen.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Early Spanish Florida 1513-1763", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For over a century, historians and archaeologists searched for Hernando de Soto’s first winter encampment. The discovery of 16th century Spanish artifacts at a construction site in downtown Tallahassee solved that mystery and renewed interest in Spanish Colonial archaeology throughout the Southeastern U.S. Distinctive artifacts from the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel L. Matheny. Annaliese Dempsey.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Following emancipation, many formerly enslaved Texas formed close-knit communities known as freedom colonies, often centered around their church, cemetery, and school. Canaan Cemetery and Canaan Baptist Church, situated on six acres of Brazos River bottomland, was one such community until the church was destroyed by a tornado in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carrie A. Christman.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The small unincorporated town of Rockdale is located along Catfish Creek just south of Dubuque, Iowa. Rockdale developed into an important milling center until most of the town was destroyed in a catastrophic flood on July 4, 1876. The 1876 Rockdale flood is still considered one of the worst natural disasters in Iowa history. In...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Floyd R. Mansberger. Christopher Stratton.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In August 1908, seven Black-occupied houses located north of the Tenth and Madison Street intersection in Springfield, Illinois were destroyed by a white mob during the Springfield Race Riot. Recent archaeological investigations at these house sites have resulted in detailed information pertaining to the house occupants and various...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Russell Skowronek. Charles R. Ewen.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. At the beginning of the twenty first century historical archaeologists studying so-called illicit behavior had focused on the material manifestations of prostitution, stills for making “moonshine,” and the nuanced evidence for smuggling. Discussions of pirates and piracy received short shrift in academic literature and were limited...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Stratton. Floyd R. Mansberger.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2019, in anticipation of rail improvements through Springfield, Illinois, Fever River Research mitigated portions of five houses occupied predominately by Black tenants that were destroyed by a white mob in the 1908 Springfield Race Riot—a seminal event that led to the formation of the National Association for the Advancement of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrea P. White. Carl D. Halbirt.

Founded in 1565, St. Augustine became the center of power in La Florida during the First Spanish Period. Although the Spanish made earlier attempts to claim the region, San Agustin was the only settlement to endure for over 450 years, earning it the moniker of the “Nation’s Oldest City.” Moved to its current location in 1572, the town was first illustrated in 1586 by Baptista Boazio’s depiction of Sir Francis Drake’s raid on the colony. Over the decades that followed, the community was marred by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sean Devlin.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Social Landscapes of Settler Colonialism in the Caribbean", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Settler colonialism shaped colonial societies from contact to the current moment through the organization of space, production, and consumption in plantation-based societies. It also structured power through organizing identity, particularly through the deployment of white supremacist practices. How white supremacy was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julie Schablitsky.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Archaeology of Harriet Tubman's Birthplace", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Maryland Department of Transportation archaeologists discovered a substantial brick house foundation, large cellar, and kitchen fireplace on Harriet Tubman’s Birthplace on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. While a 19th century ceramic and faunal assemblage reflect a family of humble means, the brick foundation and location adjacent...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nathanael Heller. Peter Cropley.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Plantation in the Right-of-Way: Data Recovery at St. Rosalie Plantation, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Between 2022 and 2023 Goodwin & Associates completed Phase II and III archaeological investigations at the St. Rosalie Plantation (Site 16PL107) in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. Much of these efforts were focused on uncovering the remains of a complex of cabins that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marianne Sallum. Francisco Silva Noelli. Daniela Balanzategui.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Landscapes in Dispute, Territorial Futures: Restitution and Reparation in the Face of Enclosure, Industrialization, and Extractivism", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper reflects on the interactions and solidarity networks among Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities to maintain self-sustainability and food sovereignty against capitalist and colonialist policies of cultural homogenization. It...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel M. Thimmig.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the mid-19th century, the Arikara, followed by the Mandan and Hidatsa (MHA), began utilizing Euroamerican cabin-style architecture alongside and instead of earth lodges. By the late 19th century, cabins became the primary domestic structure. However, the archaeological record on cabins is lacking compared to the archival and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kotaro Yamafune.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Conservation and Preservation of Archaeological Materials", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the past decade, digital recording methods such as photogrammetry and LiDAR have been increasingly applied to the field of maritime and nautical archaeology. However, as new digital tools become more prevalent in these disciplines, traditional research methods are being used less frequently. The question arises:...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher P. Morris. Lauren J. Cook.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the construction of a sheet-pile seawall along Route-35 on the New Jersey shore, contractors discovered the remains of a shipwreck by disabling a 20-ton piledriver upon it. After removing much of the material in what could be charitably called an uncontrolled excavation, agencies mobilized maritime archaeologists to conduct...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aaron J Toussaint.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Landscapes of Care: Exploring Heart-centered Practice in Historical Archaeology", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Ledger art is an Indigenous artistic practice from the North American Plains that developed from rock art and hide painting. More than artistic expression, ledger art depicts cultural practices, daily life, and historical events such as the Sand Creek Massacre, the Battle of Little Bighorn, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathleen A Jenkins.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Mission San Antonio de Valero and the Alamo – A Construction History from Mission to Military Fortress, Texas, United States", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The artifacts recovered from the Alamo Church and Long Barrack Restoration Project underwent various lab processing methods to ensure the preservation, organization, and integrity of the artifact assemblage. All cultural material was processed at the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lindsay Bloch. Elizabeth Bollwerk. Karen Y. Smith. Corey Sattes. Jillian Galle.

For over a decade, archaeologists collaborating with the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS) have conducted fine-grained analysis of colonoware ceramics from 24 sites in Virginia and South Carolina, investigating how these ceramics were made, marketed, and used. We found significant variation in vessel abundance and sherd attributes, such as thickness, paste inclusion type and density, surface treatments, and presence of residue among these occupations of the 17th-19th...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James M. Davidson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the antebellum United States, white enslavers were initially ambivalent regarding the literacy of enslaved Africans. This ambivalence radically changed with Nat Turner’s revolt, and after 1835, when the American Anti-Slavery Society began to flood the southern states with abolitionist newspapers, handbills, and other...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Denise Jaffke. Courtney Higgins.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This poster delves into the concept of banalization in the context of maritime heritage, spotlighting overlooked yet culturally significant sites that, despite local visibility, lack formal documentation. Emphasizing the urgency of recording these resources before eventual loss, the study focuses on S.S. Contra Costa, a 433-foot rail ferry that rests in a cove, adjacent to the California...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Frederick Engle.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Battle of the Atlantic Research & Expedition Group (BAREG) has supported underwater archaeology since 2013, first with NOAA’s Monitor National Marine Sanctuary and recently with the Maryland Historical Trust (MHT). The Group supports the increase and diffusion of knowledge of the Battles of the Atlantic, including their significance in the two world wars of the Twentieth century, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin A. McBride. David Naumec.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "In Times of War and Conflict: An Exploration of New Sites, Methodologies, and Interpretations at Sites of Conflict in the New England Region.", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Battlefield Archaeology is concerned with the causes of conflict, sites where conflict took place, the archaeology of the event, and interpreting conflicts in a wider cultural and historical framework. The Battle of Great Falls /...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carl G. Drexler.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Camden Expedition National Historic Landmark includes nine properties scattered across southwest Arkansas that relate to the Spring, 1864, campaign by the U.S. Army. One of those, the battlefield at Prairie D’Ane, has been largely ignored, to the point that the actual battlefield location and the way in which the two forces...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John M. Scott. Kelly J. Pool.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Community Centered Archaeology in Colorful Colorado", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument was established in central Colorado’s mountains in 2022. Now razed, the Army cantonment of Camp Hale was originally home to WWII’s vaunted 10th Mountain Division, the first and only American mountain infantry division. Metcalf Archaeological Consultants has been involved...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew C. Greer. Lucy J.E. Cramp.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeologists have long used organic compounds absorbed into ceramic pastes to study past foodways. Such research has focused almost exclusively on unglazed ceramics since glazes prevent food residues from seeping into the underlying paste. Over the past decade, however, several studies have shown that organic compounds can absorb...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aaron M. Levinthal.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Archaeology of Harriet Tubman's Birthplace", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Details gleaned from 19th century documents and archaeological excavations on the Eastern Shore of Maryland resulted in the discovery of a small, unexpectedly intact domestic site on the USFWS Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge. Research indicates this climate change endangered site is part of the homeplace of Ben Ross, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aidan L Kirby.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Archaeology of Harriet Tubman's Birthplace", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As a public agency who supports the study of the African diaspora along our transportation routes, the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) engages heavily with descendant communities and public audiences. One initiative we use to stimulate interest in Maryland history and connect with the public is a virtual museum....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul J White.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the late-nineteenth- to mid-twentieth centuries, three mining companies situated near Juneau, Alaska achieved international acclaim for the profitable working of immense low-grade gold deposits. Salvage and abandonment have subsequently reduced the surface visibility of the Treadwell, Alaska-Gastineau, and Alaska Juneau...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Grace M Gordon. Nick B Beard. Kyle K Vanhoy.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2023 the archaeology department at George Washington’s Mount Vernon undertook an intensive excavation of the mansion cellar. The cellar has been expanded twice in the eighteenth century and altered several times over the course of time. These changes have added various architectural components and changed others. While many of these changes were documented and known, certain elements...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ewan H. Shannon.

Bermuda’s settlement occurred at the dawn of 17th century English colonization of the Atlantic world. This paper elaborates on findings at Smallpox Bay on Smith's Island from excavation between 2013 and 2024 focused on Moore’s Town, Bermuda’s first but short- lived 1612 capital. Material uncovered at this site situates Bermuda’s inception at the intersection of colonial, architectural, and trans-Atlantic histories. Analysis of recently recovered architectural features and building material sheds...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Renae J. Campbell.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "In the Sticks but Not in the Weeds II: Historical Whitewashing and Modern Reimagining of Rural America’s Fantasy Past", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Separated by less than 40 miles, Boise, Idaho, and the nearby Boise Basin share a history that is inexorably intertwined. Although their relative prominence was once reversed, Boise is now the state’s largest urban center while post-gold rush population...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam Fracchia.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Often called the Athens of the South, Nashville is the largest and most populous city in Tennessee and the thirteenth largest city by area in the United States. In recent years, Nashville has experienced waves of rapid development. As the city grows, more pressure is put on the city’s rich archaeological resources, but without...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauryn E. Sharp.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The City of Boston Archaeology Program is undertaking a project to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill (June 17, 1775), a pivotal event in the American Revolution. This initiative focuses on historically underrepresented groups in Charlestown – women, children, people of color, Native Americans, etc. –...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Crystal A Castleberry.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of Chesapeake Landscapes in Transition", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2020, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation began excavating the site of the original First Baptist Church of Williamsburg, one of the nation’s oldest extant Black congregations. From the beginning, the project has been a partnership with the current First Baptist Church congregation, many of whom are descendants...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna J Fairley.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Until now, GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and spatial analysis have been underutilized in the investigation of the development of extant historic cemeteries and their memorials. Using the main nineteenth-century cemeteries in Liverpool, UK, it is possible to explore how the material aspects of memorials affected, or were...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan S. Morini. Rachel Hines.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper considers the relationship between oral history and archaeology through two interconnected projects studying the Down the Bay neighborhood in Mobile, Alabama. The I-10 Mobile River Bridge Archaeology Project focuses on 13 bounded sites within the corridor of the proposed bridge expansion, which fall along the eastern...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joel Santos.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Landscapes of Care: Exploring Heart-centered Practice in Historical Archaeology", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper evidences the emotional struggles of women in convents in Portugal during the 17th and 18th century. Triggered by a novice unsent letter, found during a 1988 archaeological excavation at the Jesus convent in Setubal, Portugal, that reveals her turmoil and longing for her lover, this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura M. Allen. Alex Garcia-Putnam. Christine L. Halling. Ryan M. Seidemann. Kathryn M. Baustian. Siobhain Murphy. Erin Fox. Adam Wilson. Timothy Marcel.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This work details a major salvage effort at the historic Cypress Grove Cemetery #1 in New Orleans, Louisiana. For decades, an area of wall vaults housing hundreds of burials dating from the mid-1800s to the 1920s has been overgrown and in disrepair. In 2022, the cemetery was allowed to begin work to repair these vaults. The remains – in various states of decomposition and degradation –...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lisa Anderson. Julie Weatherwax. Alexandra DeCarlo.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“A Little Grass and Earth Thrown in to fill up the Grave”: Archaeological studies of American War for Independence burial spaces", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1776, at the end of the failed campaign to take Quebec, the greatest threat to the Continental Army was not battlefield trauma but disease. The retreat from Canada to New York was marred by an epidemic of smallpox and thousands were sent to a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brittany S. McClain.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Mission San Antonio de Valero and the Alamo – A Construction History from Mission to Military Fortress, Texas, United States", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the 2019–2020 archaeological investigations at the Mission San Antonio de Valero, 12 historic burial features were recovered from the interior of the Alamo Church. The 12 exhumed burials represented a minimum number of 14 individuals, comprising...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Javier J García Colón. Diana Peña Bastalla. Matthew Matsulavage. Kendri Griffin. Edith Gonzalez. Sophia Perdikaris. Isabel Rivera Collazo.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Inhabited Islandscapes and Historical Ecosystem Dynamics: Power and Land in Barbuda", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The people of Barbuda have long maintained a profound connection with their land. The island’s ecological diversity embodies the essence of local culture and heritage. The historical processes shaping Barbuda’s present-day ecological reality are deeply intertwined with the arrival of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cassandra B Apuzzo. H. Kory Cooper.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Fort Ouiatenon, established in 1717, was the first French fur trade post in present-day Indiana. During the 1970s, over 100 kilograms of waste from metalworking activities were discovered in an area believed to be linked to a forge. This research investigated debris from a specific area previously associated with blacksmithing to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alicia D Odewale.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Landscapes of Care: Exploring Heart-centered Practice in Historical Archaeology", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Heritage Trees also named spirit, righteous, survivor, or sacred trees, have overcome impossible odds to bear witness to historical events, serving as guardians of culture that exist outside of the boundaries of human life. While heritage trees exist around the world using their bark, their roots,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David R Hubin. Kristen R Fellows.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "In the Sticks but Not in the Weeds II: Historical Whitewashing and Modern Reimagining of Rural America’s Fantasy Past", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The mythos that exists regarding “settlement” of present-day North Dakota largely revolves around the introduction of the railroad and industrial-scale Bonanza farms that followed. The result is a historical narrative that prioritizes a few key actors, all of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christine D. Sánchez.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Bracero Program was the largest guest worker program in US history, being active between 1942 and 1964. Over its 22 years of operation, the program brought millions of Mexican American men to work as cheap labor, primarily on farms and railroads. These large groups of men were forced to live in close proximity to each other in state run processing facilities and camps. This poster...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexander B Vail. Jonathan Rodriguez.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As photogrammetry becomes more prevalent in archaeology and heritage preservation, computational bottlenecks increase costs and limit project scopes. Depth Map generation, a crucial yet computationally intensive step, often struggles with reflective materials. While Multi-View Stereo (MVS) is the common method for these...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julie Julison. Sarah Pounders. Ana Saenz.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Cities on the Move: Reflecting on Urban Archaeology in the 21st Century", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Femme Beings Project, established by the authors in 2024, is a collective of scholars from Wayne State University in Detroit-area heritage institutions. The project investigates women’s experiences as sex workers and the conditions they lived under in the Detroit area between 1830 and 1930 by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lindsay Randall.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Breaking Free from the (Institutional) Matrix: Archaeological Career Pathways In and Between Academia, CRM, Non-Profit, and Museum Spheres", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Urban planning may seem an unlikely career for an archaeologist, yet archaeology's insights into human behavior, cultural evolution, and historical legacies help address modern social, economic, and political issues. This relevance is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Allyson G Ropp.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Bridging the Land and the Sea: Documenting and Assessing Climate Impacts on North Carolina’s Coastal Heritage", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2018, North Carolina experienced the impacts of two major hurricanes - Hurricane Florence and Hurricane Michael. These storms altered the shape of coastal communities, including the cultural and archaeological resources that lie at or below sea level along the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Phillip Scafuri.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The eight-man crew of the H.L. Hunley submarine all perished following the successful attack and sinking of the blockading ship USS Housatonic off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina in 1864. While much has been learned about this event, the identities of the crew have not been well understood. This paper discusses a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth D. Meade.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Cities on the Move: Reflecting on Urban Archaeology in the 21st Century", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. While the presence of soil contamination is not unique to urban archaeological sites, the density of industrial and residential development in cities often results in the contamination of archaeologically sensitive soils. In New York City in recent years, archaeologists have excavated within Brownfield...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick J Boyle.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Expansion of the of the United States’ Mid-Atlantic oyster industry led to the creation of new vessel types. Variations of oyster boats were developed to enable dredging in the deep waters of the Chesapeake Bay. During the Oyster Boom of the late 19th century, the bugeye type became a favored dredging vessel and over 600 of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Basia L. Scott. Terry P. Brock.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology in the Community:15 Years of Archaeology Service", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Amidst the preservation crisis endangering Black cemeteries and other sites of heritage, it is important for archaeologists and cultural heritage practitioners to make archaeology accessible for community members, especially in community-focused projects. Key to the goal of such community-based projects is the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Grace L Gronniger.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the mid to late 19th century, food, beverages, medicine, and various other household supplies were packaged and shipped all over the United States and its territories while housed in a variety of packaging. One type of packaging is the ubiquitous glass bottle or jar. This poster will present a sample of the various types of bottles and other glass vessels from a collection of artifacts...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dorian Record. Jennifer Mckinnon.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Tonalá Bruñida is an Indigenous Mexican ceramic ware that originated in the late colonial period and is still in production today. This ware is distinguished by its paste, made from a combination of two clays native to the Tonalá region, by a distinct slip which produces a specific scent when in contact with water, and by a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles A. Bello.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Community Centered Archaeology in Colorful Colorado", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2014 the City of Colorado Springs requested funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to construct a storm-water detention basin along Camp Creek in the iconic Garden of the Gods Park – upstream of a residential neighborhood at risk of flooding. The ca. 300-acre Garden of the Gods Park is designated a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles E. Vandrei. Lisa Anderson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“A Little Grass and Earth Thrown in to fill up the Grave”: Archaeological studies of American War for Independence burial spaces", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In February of 2019 a cemetery was discovered during apartment building construction in Lake George, in Warren County, New York. Archaeological research and primary source historic documentation attribute this cemetery to the American Army of Quebec...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan McNutt. Camilla Damlund.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the American Civil War, Glasgow-built blockade runners emerged as crucial facilitators of supply to the Confederacy, prolonging the conflict, and sustaining chattel slavery by clandestinely running cargo into Confederate ports. This research explores the historical archaeology of these cargos, investigating the material...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara E Ayers-Rigsby. Natalie De La Torre Salas. Mike Cosden. Adam Knight. John Sullivan. Peter De Witt.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Dialogue as Defense: Addressing Preservation Threats with Community Conversations on Heritage at Risk (CCHAR)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In this presentation, we examine community conversations on heritage at risk at three separate locations in South Florida. In Jupiter, Florida, we reflect on community conversations taking place on a federally managed site with significant local importance. At the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Harold Mytum.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Living and the Dead: New Interpretations of Above- and Below-Ground Cultural Historical Archaeology", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The production of cast iron grave markers commences in the 17th century in England, but becomes much more common in the later 19th and early 20th centuries. This paper reveals some of the contents of a newly-accessed archive of cast iron grave marker records compiled by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca L. Bourgeois.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Landscapes of Care: Exploring Heart-centered Practice in Historical Archaeology", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Traditionally, cultural belongings have been housed in large institutions, often leading to a disconnect between them and their communities. Faced with calls for reconciliation, however, many institutions are at a loss for what to do with these belongings, often prioritizing institutional...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah Metheny.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "A Decade of DPAA: Challenges and Opportunities to the Accounting Mission", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In November 1943, more than 1,000 U.S. Marines and sailors died wresting control of Tarawa Atoll from a Japanese garrison approximately 3,000 strong. After the battle, the Marines buried most of their dead in a series of cemeteries and small burials scattered across the island of Betio, where the assault...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Crutcher. Carolyn Kennedy.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Africa is often acknowledged in western academic spheres as a challenging archaeological fieldwork destination due to logistical issues like minimal internet resources, language barriers, and unfamiliar legal and physical landscapes. However, these traits are by no means exclusive to the African continent, and logistical issues are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Victoria L Bochniak.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "In the Sticks but Not in the Weeds II: Historical Whitewashing and Modern Reimagining of Rural America’s Fantasy Past", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the early reservation period, the US government established successive reservation headquarters for the Crow Tribe (Apsáalooke) of present-day Montana, in part to attempt to “assimilate” Crow people into European American culture. The Second Crow Agency...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alex H Peterson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "A Decade of DPAA: Challenges and Opportunities to the Accounting Mission", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Today, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) pursues missing servicemembers and unresolved casualties from past conflicts. Agency efforts have shown a clear need for, and benefit of, an interdisciplinary approach throughout all aspects of case progression, beginning with historical research...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kyle C Brown.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The investigation of inshore waterway systems for submerged landforms has the potential to further our understanding of late Pleistocene and early Holocene populations. This study evaluates such potential by characterizing inundated landforms within a section of Pensacola Bay likely to contain relict channels. Initial geophysical...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Katherine Brown.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper examines a brick clamp, that is located on Ames Plantation, an 18,400-acre landbase that is located in both Fayette and Hardeman counties in Tennessee. This project utilizes portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) to analyze a variety of bricks sampled from standing buildings and historic sites located on the Ames property....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kimberly Kasper. Zuzana Chovanec.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Breaking Free from the (Institutional) Matrix: Archaeological Career Pathways In and Between Academia, CRM, Non-Profit, and Museum Spheres", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the last two decades, the career trajectories in archaeology and related fields have greatly diversified in light of changing social, political, and economic landscapes. However, many institutions of higher education have been slow to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eleanor Breen. Kelly M. Britt. Sarah E. Platt.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Cities on the Move: Reflecting on Urban Archaeology in the 21st Century", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the 1980s, a working group of urban archaeologists organized within the Society for Historical Archaeology to survey the state of the field, compile enabling legislation and program information, highlight important research emerging from cities, and discuss the challenges posed by this environment. The...