Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Charles D. Reece.

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 lithic materials recovered at Coan Hall by archaeological field schools under the direction of Dr. Barbra Heath. Coan Hall (44NB11) has been identified as a Late Woodland and middle 17th-century English site. At the start of its historical occupation, both colonists and Indigenous peoples inhabited it. Located...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mechelle L Kerns.

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 term “Clean Energy” notes advances in electricity generation that use alternatives to coal. Historically, producing mechanized power for grain mills, steam power, and electricity was accomplished by harnessing the power of water. The Columbia Barge Canal was constructed from 1818 to 1824 to provide a bulk transportation route...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yongjun Qiu.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Cairns Rusty’s Market, located in Far North Queensland, Australia, was a home to Chinese immigrants from 1880s to 1930s. Gordan Grimwade & Associates excavated 1280 ceramic sherds (MVC = 418) from Cairns Rusty’s Market in 2001. Many Chinese migrants moved to city centers seeking further opportunities after the gold exhaustion....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexa L. Neilson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Consumer choice among the freedmen who worked on tenant farms is poorly represented in the archaeological record. Though tenant farming was widespread in the first decade following the Civil War, little material has preserved from tenant farm sites. As such, this study employs a unique archival resource from the Reconstruction era...

DOCUMENT Citation Only George Schwarz. Christopher Sabick. Kevin Crisman. Kotaro Yamafune.

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 remains of Phoenix, one of the earliest steamers to combine characteristics of sailing craft with steam propulsion, rest on a shoal in Lake Champlain. Phoenix sank in 1819 after serving five seasons as a passenger steamer, and is the oldest steamboat wreck archaeologically studied. Although the 135-ft. hull was re-discovered...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeremy W Johnson. Dustin Hawks. Michael D Lewis.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Tumwata Village, located at Oregon City, Oregon, holds a complex archaeological record of thousands of years of Indigenous lifeways, overlain by 19th century settler and commercial expansion, and 20th century industrial domination. The resulting complexity presents a challenge for archaeologists attempting to understand both this...

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

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 study will examine excavations around the Historic Core of Mount Vernon, searching for patterns in the size of artifacts to infer where high traffic areas, like desire paths or work spaces, may have existed. Multiple historic lanes lie on the landscape today, but were not always used by all parts of the population at all...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer F McKinnon. David Ball. Madeline Roth. Kristen Myers.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Recently East Carolina University and the Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management launched a four-year collaborative project to better understand the types and locations of significant maritime archaeological and cultural heritage resources in the Mariana Islands. The term “resource” represents the total sum of tangible and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only June F. Weber. Stefanie M. Perez. Jenna P. Tran. Sarah Lowry. Benjamin Hoksbergen. Patricia McMahon.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. New South Associates (NSA) conducted a Phase III Archaeological Data Recovery of the Fennell Plantation (Site 1MA840) on Redstone Arsenal in Madison County, Alabama. The site occupation spans nearly 100 years (1843-1942) and follows a journey from enslavement to Black landownership in North Alabama. Using geophysical applications...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah A. Mann.

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 presentation explores the preliminary findings of the author’s Masters research based in St. Adolphe, Manitoba, and looks at the relationship between the belongings found at the Delorme House site and the French-Michif language that was spoken in this area. Michif is a North American-based language creole consisting of French...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca Davis.

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 Decolonizing Archaeology: On the Global Heritage of Epistemic Laziness, Rizvi (2015) introduced a concept called the epistemic injustice double-bind regarding an archaeologist’s position as translators of cultural materials, stewards and advocates for historic sites and populations, both past and present. The double-bind we find...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah E Price. Philip J Carr.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Research for the Mobile River I-10 bridge replacement (MRB) mitigation brought to light that, although Mobile is touted as an ethnically diverse city, no one has systematically examined, synthesized, nor incorporated historical demography into studies of its past. Understanding the population and demography of a place matters to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kimberly A Morrell.

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 First Baptist Church of Philadelphia (1707-1859) cemetery was incompletely relocated in 1859 prior to the parcel’s sale to a manufacturer of felt hats. Discovered by developers below a 20th century parking lot, the remaining section of the cemetery contained the graves of over 400 individuals. Early church membership rolls...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah V Weiss.

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 1983, Kathleen Deagan defined the Spanish Colonial Pattern from material recovered from early St. Augustine. This pattern was later refined at Puerto Real, Haiti. It states that the Spanish adapted to the new world by retaining some Spanish traits while incorporating traits of non-Hispanic society. Does this apply to other...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacob S Culp. Kory H 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. European textiles were an important aspect of the 18th century trans-Atlantic fur trade and global economy. Few examples of actual cloth have been recovered from historic archaeological contexts but a common artifact that is found archaeologically are lead seals that were attached to bundles of textiles bound for North America....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert F. Westrick. Charles E. Pearson.

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 Spanish merchant vessel El Nuevo Constante, wrecked off the coast of Louisiana in 1766. In 1979, a shrimper accidentally snagged three large copper disks in his nets. This led to the discovery of a partially buried shipwreck in about 19 feet of water. The state claimed ownership of the wreck, and the Louisiana Department of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Audrey B. Andrews.

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 greater Reno, Nevada area is home to more than 250 historical markers. Despite this proliferation of public-facing histories, the stories of historically marginalized groups are overwhelmingly absent. Indigenous peoples, women, Chinese peoples, African Americans, and the LGBTQIA+ community are among those overlooked by...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dominic W Bush. Jason T Raupp.

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 1943, the U.S. military launched an assault against the Aleutian Island of Attu, beginning the first and only World War II battle fought on North American soil. The skirmish marked the climax of Attu’s wartime history, which included the Japanese army’s invasion, the imprisonment of Native Unangan people, and months of aerial...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Prapti Panda.

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 South Asia, historical archaeology as a discipline is still in its early stages of development. Issues have been raised with determining its scope and grappling with the legacy of archaeology as a colonial institution. What, then, are the toolkits used by historical archaeologists that can be useful to study the more recent past...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin Zant.

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 Great Lakes contain an estimated 6,000 shipwrecks, many of which await exploration. Preserved by cold freshwater, the Great Lakes possess extraordinary potential for archaeological investigation, documentation, and analysis of historic shipwrecks. Over the last two years, the entire sanctuary was mapped with 100% multibeam...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren R. Schumacher.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Comprised of state and federal censuses, city directories, and town vital records, the documentary records associated with the Hassanamesit Woods Augustus Salisbury site in Grafton, Massachusetts are not uncommon for 19th-century farmsteads. However, by researching the lives of each resident family to their full extent, several...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sheridan J.M. Lea. Caitlin R. Field.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Located just two miles north of St. Augustine, Florida, “Fort Mose,” was the first legally sanctioned free Black settlement in what is now the U.S. Established in 1738, the fort was home to a militia of formerly enslaved people who – in exchange for their freedom – served as the northernmost defense for St. Augustine from the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lee M Panich. Lucy O Diekmann.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Food is an undertheorized component of Native people’s experiences of the Alta California mission system (1769-1840s). In much of the historical literature, discussion focuses primarily on introduced foodstuffs – such as wheat, maize, or beef – that are seen either as an enticement for mission recruitment or a subject of scarcity...

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

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 Cartier-Roberval site (CeEu-4) (16th century), discovered in the early 2000s, is considered the first French settlement in the New World (1541–1543). The excavations of the site revealed an important quantity of metallurgical artefacts and remains. Their analyses tell us a lot about the metallurgical activities that took place...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mickey Dobbin.

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 CRM Program at the New York State Museum was tasked with conducting a site examination of the H. Simon site prior to construction, in West Branch, NY. The site was initially documented during a phase I archaeological survey ahead of construction, based on a concentration of historic artifacts in the location labeled as a wool...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eva A. Middleton. J. Cameron Monroe.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Foodways and commensal politics provide the ideal contexts for exploring the social lives of palace women in late Atlantic-era Dahomey. Behind the palace walls, women from across the region and all social strata formed a veritable model of society consisting of soldiers, priestesses, slaves, prisoners of war, laborers, artisans,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only W. Stephen McBride. Kim A. McBride.

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 1774 Lord Dunmore’s War broke out between the Colony of Virginia and the Shawnee and their Indigenous allies over who owned the Ohio drainage of Virginia. The Colony of Virginia reacted to this war by calling out county militia, building forts, and organizing a large offensive campaign. This border warfare was renewed during the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Barrett Smith.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Like many planters in the economically-ravaged postbellum South, Andrew Durnford’s family fell on hard times following the Civil War. Measures were taken to try to save their sugar plantation; however, following two crevasses and multiple U.S. Marshal’s Sales, St. Rosalie was seized and sold at public auction in 1874, ending the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael D. Lewis. Briece Edwards. Jeremy Johnson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Indigenous place theories are developing “gaps analyses” of archaeological and historical datasets caused by the social contexts in which existing dominant culture narratives have been written. Methodologies for researching stories of marginalized communities are less well established. We present a decolonizing approach to history...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Abigail Stone.

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 items we choose for ourselves: our jewelry, clothing, religious items, and decorations; say something about the identity we project on the world. Can archaeologists learn about a person’s identity based on these items left behind? This paper seeks to examine personal artifacts from an archaeological context to learn more about...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Wolf. Scott Harris.

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 burgeoning movement is taking place in the geospatial world to further refine underground imaging. These advancements include the use of GPR arrays that provide unprecedented images of the subsurface very quickly with centimeter precision. Use of these systems is growing due to the images produced and the transposition of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth A McCague.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. On April 8th 2024, an electrical fire broke out in the archaeology offices and lab at James Madison’s Montpelier causing devastating soot, water, and burn damage to the buildings and portions of the archaeological collections. In the weeks that followed, the staff at Montpelier worked tirelessly to mitigate the effects of water,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nolan E Swaim.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 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 boat graveyards. While these graveyards impede the environment...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maclaren A Guthrie Larimer.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Individuals from all social classes imbibed in their fair share of alcohol, including those inhabiting plantations. This paper, the first in a larger research project, seeks to understand the culture surrounding alcohol consumption and alcohol production at 18th and 19th century plantations using documentary research and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan M. Seidemann. Christine L. Halling. Samuel M. Huey.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. On occasion when the Mississippi River levels are too high, spillways must be opened to preserve the City of New Orleans. The Morganza Spillway can divert water into the Atchafalaya Basin. The area where the Spillway is located used to be habitable land. Construction of the spillway required that people leave the area, abandoning...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert L. Gearhart. Andrew Haigh.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Magnetometer data from a recent archaeological survey near Sabine Pass, Texas detected miles of relict stream channels buried on the Outer Continental Shelf. The channels were “hidden” near zero, in the low-amplitude signals between -5 and + 5 nanoTesla. Magnetometer data in this amplitude range is routinely ignored when searching...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Meierhoff.

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 latter half of the nineteenth century the ruins of Tikal were briefly reoccupied. Refugees fleeing the Caste War of Yucatan (1848-1901 AD) cohabited with Lacandon Maya from the surrounding jungles and heavily Hispanized Itza Maya from the lakes of central Petén, Guatemala, to form a small multiethnic hamlet amongst the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kimberly Pyszka.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Historic Cane Hill is known for its Cumberland Presbyterian roots and history. Today, visitors learn about its past and the Cumberland Presbyterians’ many contributions, especially Cane Hill College. While the 1886 college building still stands, it is not in the same location as the original campus. Despite no visual or documentary...

DOCUMENT Citation Only A.Dudley Gardner.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Historical Site Formation and Chinatowns Nineteenth century Chinatowns emerged in dynamic urban settings. In Wyoming, the towns where the major Chinese Communities emerged were relatively small but had hardy economies centered around coal mining and railroad maintenance. The Chinatowns were built based on these economies; their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda M Stockton.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For residents of Hamtramck, places like the Gass Saloon were at the heart of daily life during the 19th and early 20th centuries, providing spaces for business, entertainment, political discussions, and community development. The Gass Saloon operated between the 1890s and 1927, including as an illegal bar during the period of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Wendi K Coleman.

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 colonization of Greenland in the 18th century led to the development of various regions of increasing cultural interaction between the Kalaallit, Danish traders and colonists, and German Moravian missionaries. The Alluitsoq project in Southern Greenland attempts to address the various aspects of these interactions at Alluitsoq...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jean-Sébastien Guibert. Margaux Tronchet. Franck Bigot. Chuck Meide. Claude Michaud. Noémie Tomadini. Pierre Drap.

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 aim of this paper is to present the research carried out at Kingstown Harbour (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) on the wreck of the Junon. In the framework of multi year project carried out by AAPA and University of Antilles on naval wrecks in the West indies the 2023 field work focused on the Kingstown Harbour shipwreck....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Audrey G. Davis.

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 Appalachian region is often defined by its isolation from the broader United States and has historically been depicted as helplessly passive, complicated in its economic disparity from the more successful country at large. Appalachia is often framed only in terms of the region’s powerlessness and idleness in the face of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Philip J Carstairs.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeology usually studies the static and solid. We think in terms of landscapes, sites, artefacts and buildings. This paper will focus on the first and last of these, landscapes and buildings, but in terms of movement through the landscape and to and from buildings. The daily journeys and activities performed in late eighteenth...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elliot I. Huber.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Enslaved communities imprisoned on colonial sugar plantations engaged in and fostered a web of informal economies across Jamaica, which often manifested as street markets and were frequently accused of illegality. Because the Jamaican street markets were linked to illegal trade, and because illegality in the Caribbean was primarily...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christina Altland.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Surveying large archaeological collections can be a time-consuming task with the potential for inconsistencies. Archaeological staff at The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation have implemented a system for performing condition and housing surveys that allows for efficient and accurate collection of data. The system involves utilizing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica L.K. Smith.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Located in eastern Death Valley, California, the historic mining camp of Ryan is perhaps best known for its remarkable preservation; its integrity surpasses that seen at other mining camps in the American West. Equally significant is that Ryan’s architectural and archaeological remains embody several broad patterns of history...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carlos Guerra.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Intelligence Preparation Of The Battlefield (IPB) is a systematic process implemented by intelligence professionals to analyze the threat and the environment continuously. Thus enabling a military commander to maximize combat power in present and future operations. When applied to the archaeological study of the Battle Of Big Dry...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anthony H Gilchrist.

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 2019 survey of shipwrecks in Lake Winnipesaukee, NH, discovered numerous shipwrecks at risk of destruction through interactions with recreational divers and fishermen. A subsequent study in 2021 used a reliable, low-cost method of recording shipwrecks to document their conditions. This involved creating accurately scaled 3D...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emma L Verstraete.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Heavily saturated consumer markets, such as downtown Springfield, Illinois in the 1880s, allowed consumers to prioritize other factors beyond basic access requirements when purchasing items. In this paper, I discuss how poverty and other social determinants of health might have influenced the selection and use of a vial of Dr....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elyse S. Venerable. Willian T. T. Taylor. Olumide Ojediran. Akin Ogundrian. Vicky M. Oelze.

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 17th and 18th centuries, the Oyo Empire reigned over what is today southeastern Benin and southwestern Nigeria. Oyo was notorious for its use of a cavalry despite a climate harboring many fatal equine diseases, yet it remained unclear where in West Africa their horses had been bred and raised. In this study, we conducted...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Courtney Besaw. Tracie Mayfield. Matthew Conway. Gillian Sawyer. Keven Clevenger.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Maroons, primarily self-emancipated Africans, were ubiquitous throughout the colonial Americas. Yet, studying Maroons archaeologically has proven immensely difficult. Recent excavations on Providencia and Santa Catalina indicate that the islands may have been entirely occupied by Maroons during a “period of abandonment” by European...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tamra L Walter. Vanessa A Sims.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Established in the 1920s, the Oak Grove Colored Cemetery in Graham, Texas served as the only offical burial ground for African Americans in Young County during the Jim Crow era. The cemetery was used until the end of the 1960s but neighboring properties slowly encroached upon Oak Grove after 1970. Efforts to reclaim the cemetery...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cherilyn A Gilligan.

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 Lake Champlain Underwater Historic Preserves system was created in 1982 to provide public access for divers to experience shipwreck sites safely and without causing damage to these sensitive archaeological sites. Today, the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum is steward and caretaker for these shipwreck sites, maintaining signage...

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

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 hacienda was an economic, social, and political institution engaged in a complex interplay with the broader cultural landscape of Mexico, transforming local environments and drastically reshaping communities. Haciendas were socially complex and were hierarchically organized according to both class and racial boundaries. Often,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric L. Larsen.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Germanna has been the site of archaeology over the last five decades. It is best known as the site of the 1714 Fort Germanna and for Alexander Spotswood’s “Enchanted Castle.” The current Germanna Archaeology Project has been built using an historic landscapes approach to excavations since 2016. The results have connected with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Herbert Seignoret. Cynthia Copeland.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Centuries before the first free-Black settlement on Manhattan Island known as Seneca Village was recorded, the Lenape people laid claim to that central spot. In addition to what has been referred to as Manahatta the indigenous civilization called the larger encompassing landmass Lenapehoking. Before and after European contact,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cathrine M. Davis.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Firsthand accounts of the early years at James Fort paint a grim picture of death, apathy, and scarcity, and the nearly-failed colony has maintained a haunted reputation through the centuries in literature and historical tomes alike. In recent years, evidence of cannibalism has called attention to deviant treatment of the dead...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zada Komara.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. University of Kentucky parking garages are popular persistent hangout spaces for faculty, staff, and students. Garages provide multi-use spaces for recreational activities, notably eating, smoking cigarettes and marijuana, drinking alcohol, having sex, taking selfies, sunbathing, skateboarding, napping, and car stunts. Campus...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth L Boroski.

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 presence of coins placed within the graves of historic African American cemeteries has been interpreted as a static African mortuary practice brought through the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. However, this practice is the product of a heavily creolized cultural identity that was dynamically altered through continuous...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sierra McKinney.

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 presentation introduces the Belonging-Centered Emotive Dialogue model; a model of visitor programming designed to address feelings of collective shame and guilt experienced by visitors in heritage spaces in order to promote self-reflection and reconciliatory action. Underpinning this approach is psychological research stating...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeremy R Borrelli.

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 June 2024, the ECU Program in Maritime Studies led a collaborative field school with the North Carolina Underwater Archaeology Branch at Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson State Historic Site. This project sought to document features identified during a geophysical survey of the historic waterfront along the Lower Cape Fear River in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Linda A Seminario. Sarah Sportman.

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 Hollister Site (54-85) is a large 17th-century farm complex that was occupied ca. 1650-1711. It is situated on the banks of the Connecticut River in modern-day South Glastonbury, Connecticut. The decade-long investigation of the site has led to a rich historical documentation of the lives of the individuals who occupied this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen McIlvoy.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Several seasons of excavation at Kingsley Plantation, in Duval County Florida, have yielded a large, multi-component dataset that spans both domestic and industrial components of the plantation. The enslaved Africans and African Americans at Kingsley Plantation engaged with their material worlds in a variety of different ways, as...