2025 SHA Poster Submissions

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Kathleen A Obrer.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Between 1400 and 1600 C.E., close-combat handheld weapons were widespread and often found on ships. Although naval battles are often associated with cannon fire, blunt weapons were used to strike an opponent while bladed weapons were useful for slashing or thrusting. This poster will discuss the use of close-combat handheld weapons on ships from 1400 to 1600 C.E. by analyzing historical...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Nagiewicz. Shannon M Chiarel. Peter Straub. Steve Evert.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This poster aims to discuss changing landscapes and the adaptations employed by the coastal community in a historic town on the Mullica River in New Jersey. During the colonial period, privateers used this landscape along with local knowledge to evade capture by British vessels. Leading up to the Battle of Chestnut Neck an earthen breastwork was built by colonists in 1778. In the 19th...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlyn C Adams.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Travis site (44JC0900), located on Jamestown Island in James City County Virginia, is a Colonial era plantation site, and is one of many historic and indigenous sites in danger of inundation due to land subsidence and climate change-driven sea level rise. Those climate change effects pose threats to the site’s integrity. The project is focused on understanding the daily habits and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ella K Doppke. Erika K Hartley.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Defined as archaeology for the people and by the people, community archaeology not only involves academic- and community-based excavations but also various outreach events to establish strong ties with members of the public. This approach is central to the Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project. Whether their ancestors lived at the fort or they are newcomers to the area, each person...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alex Garcia-Putnam. Amy R. Michael. Grace Duff. Ashanti Maronie.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Through bioarchaeological analyses, archival research, and community engagement, we explore the lives and deaths of individuals interred at the Brentwood Poor Farm in Brentwood, NH (1841-1868). The site of the town Poor Farm and the accompanying unmarked burial ground are under private ownership. The space has been documented by the State and will be protected in perpetuity so that no...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Korrin A Lovett.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Made of glass, ceramic, and bone, hundreds of beads have been recovered through archaeological excavations at Fort St. Joseph, an eighteenth-century mission, garrison, and trading post located in present-day Niles, Michigan. Beads were selected by residents of the fort for use and trade based on accessibility, functionality, and personal preferences. To gain a better understanding of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica R Bishop.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This presentation details a zooarchaeological and historical analysis of a horse skeleton. While originally excavated from the possible location of the nineteenth-century Laughton Trading Post outside of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, the specimen was later stored unstudied in a university teaching collection. The time and explanation for the horse entering the archaeological record is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Salton. Emily Grant. Hiu Yi Joyce Lee. Patricia G Markert.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. “Discover Old D’Hanis” represents an interdisciplinary collaboration between an archaeologist, Computer Science students, and a Music student at Western University. The game is a virtual reconstruction of the old town of D’Hanis, settled in 1847 by Alsatian and German migrants to Texas. Over time, it became home to Black and Mexican families following the Civil War and Mexican Revolution....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Homer Thiel.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The town of Tucson, Arizona opened a new cemetery at the north edge of town in 1875. Over the next 34 years over 8,000 individuals were buried in what is today called the Court Street Cemetery. Newspapers described the cemetery in unflattering articles, primarily because the hard soil and lack of water prevented the planting of decorative greenery. Area businessmen and the Catholic Church...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Myles Sullivan.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This poster presents comparative research of 18th century ceramic assemblages from Charleston, SC and St. Augustine, FL. Founded as British and Spanish ports, these colonial cities were interconnected and contested in the Southeastern United States, with the British gaining control of St. Augustine in 1763. This work seeks to identify dining practices in relation to political rule and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin C Nance. Jennifer M Barnett.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Established in 1970, the Tennessee Division of Archaeology hired its first historical archaeologist in 1974. Realizing that few historic-period archaeological sites had been recorded in Tennessee, he initiated a program of archival research and site recording in three test counties. This led to the development of thematic surveys that focused on one particular type of resource. A few...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jill T. Muraski.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The second season of Michigan Technological University’s excavations at the Delaware Mine, a copper mine located in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula, focused primarily on the compressor house. Built in an attempt to allow the mine to more efficiently mine copper, the compressor house was in use for less than a decade before Delaware’s underground mining ceased. The excavation’s central aim...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan Kennedy. Eric Guiry. Michael Buckley. Thomas Royle. Nabil Kahouadji. Hayden Bernard. Amelia Fahl. Paul Szpak.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Turtle soup is synonymous with New Orleans’ cuisine. Its deep history is enshrined in historical cookbooks and newspapers, and it remains a staple of menus at modern, high-end restaurants like Commander’s Palace and Galatoire’s. However, despite its cultural and historical importance, turtle soup, and the turtles from which it is made, remain largely unstudied by archaeologists. In this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Haylee M Backs.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The development of relationships between Europeans and Indigenous peoples throughout the fur trade was a significant factor in the European settlement of modern-day Maine. Despite the abundance of research into the fur trade, many questions remain about how Europeans chose where to settle and how Indigenous peoples adapted to their new neighbors. This research utilizes GIS to analyze the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew D. Moriarty. Ellen S. Moriarty.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Castleton Hidden History Project was established in 2021 to highlight a diverse and inclusive history of the town of Castleton, Vermont through interdisciplinary historical, archaeological, and geographic research. Investigations to date have focused on Granger House, a well-preserved 19th-century home located in the heart of the Vermont State University-Castleton campus, with the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel J Joyce.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1828 Fort Winnebago was built as the third U.S. Army fort in Wisconsin. The three forts were built to guard the Fox and Wisconsin River waterways which connect the Atlantic’s Saint Lawrence Seaway to New Orleans. Fort Winnebago overlooked the single portage on that route. The fort other purpose was to protect American traders after the Winnebago War of 1827. Jefferson Davis, future...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian M Walraven. Erika K Hartley.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Glass bottles and bottle fragments recovered from historic archaeological sites provide information on trading patterns, domestic uses, and alcohol consumption. For instance, the shape, color, and thickness of vessels can provide insights on how they were used and what they likely contained. During the eighteenth century, olive-green glass was generally used for wine and alcohol, whereas...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlyn J Ward.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Life along a river involves a symbiotic relationship between land dwellers and waterway navigators. It bolsters an ideology that the beings who produce on land support those who deliver the exports throughout the world through not only product but vessels as well. This dynamic was prevalent at the West Shipyard/Vine Street Lot in Philadelphia where mercantilism was just taking off and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ellie M. O'Connell. Megan Crutcher.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Kru of Liberia are famous in history for their maritime activity throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These sailors were integral parts of the British and American antislavery blockade, and they sailed on vessels in every ocean across the planet, forming new communities called ‘Kru Towns’ in major port cities like Liverpool, Cape Town, Accra, and Freetown, among others....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashley H. McKeown. Todd M. Ahlman.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2024, we returned to St. Croix’s Maroon Country to search for additional evidence of self-liberated Crucian habitation sites in St. Croix’s northwest hills. This effort builds upon our previous research that found tantalizing evidence for Maroon settlements on flat areas along the steep slopes of the Caledonia Valley. In a year of intense rain, the dense rain forest was difficult and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mara De Gregori. J. Ray Wallace. Tamra Walter.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Oak Grove Colored Cemetery in Graham, Texas served as the primary burial ground for the African American community in Young County Texas beginning in 1925. The last known burial at Oak Grove occurred in the late 1960s but records for all individuals interred here are scarce. Recent archaeological work at the site in collaboration with the descendant community has documented the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charlotte M Russell.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As women began enrolling in universities across the United States in the early twentieth century, traditionally masculine spheres became the site of an emerging femininity. Single-sexed spaces organized gendered behavior. One such space was the college dormitory. The Digges House, most notably studied as the site of Williamsburg’s Bray School, served as an off-campus dormitory for women...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hunter L Johnson.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The product of archaeology is information. Archaeologists share that information through various means; at academic institutions the most common method is through peer reviewed publications while smaller institutions largely rely on more generally accessible modes of public outreach to educate and engage. Not only is this a moral obligation but it is also a means for museums to fund...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elliot H. Blair. Dennis B. Blanton. Laure Dussubieux.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Excavations conducted by the First Colony Foundation on Roanoke Island from 2008-2010 uncovered a number of glass beads associated with the Roanoke Colony. These excavations, in the Hariot Woods, likely uncovered materials related to the 1585 Hariot/Gans workshop at Fort Raleigh. Here we present an elemental analysis of these glass beads using laser ablation–inductively coupled...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeremy W. Pye.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Recently, a fair amount of attention in historic mortuary literature has been paid to burial container hardware, and to a lesser extent, to the influence of hardware on the socioeconomics of the funeral and burial. However, base surface treatments, such as painting, varnishing, cloth-covering, etc. also influenced social perception and cost. Relatively little has been systematically...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah K. Pounders.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Alfred Street in the Brush Park neighborhood of Detroit has witnessed the socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic changes, inequalities, and policy-driven tensions within Detroit through time. These changes are often articulated through the lens of a select few and remove the voices of entire populations’ lived experiences that helped shape the city. This research seeks to amplify community...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carson J. Manfred. Erika K. Hartley.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Musket balls were used by military personnel, settlers, and traders for hunting, warfare, gifting and exchange throughout New France. These small finds at archaeological sites can provide information about eighteenth-century firearm use and life at military forts, trading posts, and settlements. Recently, an analysis of musket balls recovered from Fort St. Joseph, an eighteenth-century...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelly E. Goldberg. Rachel Lanning.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Throughout the 19th century enslaved and emancipated African American craft workers were major producers of alkaline-glazed stoneware vessels first developed in Edgefield, South Carolina. Alkaline-glazed stoneware was initially developed by the Landrum family at Pottersville in Edgefield County, in an attempt to create affordable, locally produced imitations of the more expensive European...

DOCUMENT Citation Only April M. Beisaw. A’ishah Cerrato. Aviva Cormier.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. More than 50 poorhouses were in operation across New York State at the turn of the twentieth century. State law required the gathering of information about each resident. The New York State Archives has made this data accessible through Ancestry.com and Vassar College students are transcribing those records. The resulting New York Poorhouse Geodatabase facilitates analyses. This poster...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Janae M Lunsford. Kevin Bradley.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Due to the previous identification of unmarked burials on the 3300 block of historic Georgetown, New South Associates, Inc. was contracted to monitor the construction of an addition to one of the residences by the property owners. The investigation resulted in the identification of 52 partial grave shaft features within the construction footprint. This poster will present the findings...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristen L. LaPorte.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Stone tools have served invaluable purposes throughout history and prehistory. During the historic period, the use of flint as the sparking instrument in firearms revolutionized warfare and reshaped life. When commercially made flint tools were unavailable or otherwise inaccessible, opportunistic individuals were known to source raw material for gunflints and tinderflints from ballast...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Askar Mazitov. Sarah M Muckerheide. Charles D Beeker. Ryan Kennedy.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The mid-16th century Punta Espada Shipwreck is being investigated by Indiana University as a unique Iberian merchant vessel incoming to the Americas. As excavation and examination of previously recovered artifacts continues, several types of organics are currently under study and conservation, ranging from carved ivory to foodstuffs. Most significantly, these include two unique ivory...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dawn A. Burns.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. My poster will demonstrate the significant relationship between photography and archaeology, in the context of Caribbean archaeology on the island of Nevis, West Indies. Working with archaeologist, Dr. Marco Meniketti in 2019 and 2024, I contributed to the knowledge of Nevisian culture, as both photographer and archaeological field crew member. My poster will feature my photographic work...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas T Harvey.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The process of 3D scanning improves archaeologists’ ability to curate and share archaeological evidence by using photos to create 3D images of excavation units, features, and artifacts. This technology lets archeologists and museum staff capture these intricate details in a digital composition that can be displayed in exhibits, uploaded to websites, or simply stored in digital archives....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lizzie A Devine.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Despite cultural resource management (CRM) employing over 80% of archeologists in the workforce today, the realities of the field and employment within it are rarely taught at the undergraduate level. This poster investigates the author’s own university education and contrasting experiences in academia and now, as an individual employed in the CRM industry. To frame this discussion, I...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nina M Diaz.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the 1970s, the emergence of public archeology, a discipline within archeology aimed to engage the participation of the public, led many to raise questions about the public’s role in the proper stewardship of cultural materials. The public is encouraged to not only be viewed as the audience, but as equal partners alongside archeologists. With final reporting, analyses, and curation of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicole Houck.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In October 2023, archaeologists with Drayton Hall Preservation Trust reopened one of the dependency buildings of a circa 1738 plantation home located in the Ashley River Historic Corridor of Charleston, SC. This north flanker building, contemporary with the main house, was dismantled at the turn of the 20th century. Prior fieldwork had exposed the foundation and partially excavated the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shannon K. Freire. B Charles.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Operating under the Wisconsin Burial Site Preservation Statute 157.70, two archaeological excavations occurred at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (MCPFC) 2 (1882 – 1925). Recently awarded grant funding has facilitated the completion of osteological documentation at the level of the archaeological individual for over 500 nonadults from the first excavation cohort. This poster...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jordan Davis. Bradford Jones. Kim McKnight. John M. Davis.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Since the City of Austin acquired the 147-acre property in the late 1990s, the Stephenson Nature Preserve & Outdoor Education Center (SNPOEC) has provided a space for Austinites to appreciate and steward the “nature, wildlife, and ecosystems of Central Texas.” A rich cultural history of Central Texas, however, also lies beneath the preserve’s urban forest canopy. Building upon...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zenzi Moore-Dawes.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The 1985 Jamaica National Heritage Trust Act establishes the legal framework for sites of historical significance to be declared worthy of preservation. The ambiguous language used in the JNHT Act makes Jamaica’s Cultural Resource Management a matter of opinion left to those who sit on the JHNT advisory board. Archaeology practiced in Jamaica has overwhelmingly examined sites of colonial...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Olivia B Shorter.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During summer of 2024, a project at Drayton Hall Plantation was undertaken to look into the assemblage of transfer-printed wares found on site. The project centered around the historic core of the property, including the main house and dependency buildings. The project involved over 2500 sherds from 106 different contexts from excavations taking place over the last fifty years at Drayton...

DOCUMENT Citation Only LisaMarie Malischke. Meghan Buchanan.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1862, the Confederate government passed the First Conscription Act. In Alabama, Camp of Instruction #1, Camp Watts, was created in Notasulga. It was a tent-city training camp reportedly with a railroad spur and train depot, a supply station, administrative buildings, and a multistory permanent hospital. In July 1864, Union forces burned the camp but spared the hospital. Local lore...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Abigail E Sink.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Historical cemeteries and individual burials with limited documentation often must rely on mortuary artifacts for temporal evidence. Coffin hardware can provide this data and insight into individual and community socioeconomic status, religious affiliation, and social identity. The descendant community of the Old Canaan Baptist Cemetery, located in Marshall, Texas, initiated an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Hines. Mike Thomin.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Teachers Pay Teachers is a leading online marketplace for educational resources, with over 4,000 materials about archaeology. Most of these lessons were created by professional teachers, not archaeologists. This study evaluates a sample of free archaeology lessons to determine their accuracy and quality. Additionally, we advocate for professional archaeologists to share their lessons on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emma A Maher.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeological excavations spanning over twenty-five years at Fort St. Joseph, an eighteenth-century mission, garrison, and trading post, have uncovered over 1400 ceramic sherds. Creamware, faience, pearlware, and stoneware among a variety of others can impart valuable knowledge about daily life at the fort, socioeconomic status of residents, and overall access to materials. In addition,...