Landscapes of Care: Exploring Heart-centered Practice in Historical Archaeology

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 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 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 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 Patricia G. Markert.

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. In 2022, I defended my dissertation on placemaking in two Alsatian colonies in 19th century Texas. Two months later, I had my daughter and learned how childbirth unmakes and remakes worlds, bodies, and relationships. Somewhere in (what felt like) the impossible gap between research and motherhood...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Augusta Onyeka.

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. Heart-centered practices are rare to see in historical archaeology due to the lack of documentation by the enslaved communities with experiential memories. Likewise, artifacts collected from the excavation at Smithfield are often interpreted without considering their implication for heart-centered...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Johanna A Pacyga.

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. Within missionization, practices of care are coded as feminine, assigned to women and often overlooked as labor. Tending to the sick, laundry, cooking, and feeding are often rendered invisible in the domestic sphere and undervalued in missionization compared to practices commonly coded as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Solène C. Mallet Gauthier.

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. I draw from heart-centered practices to explore the relation between foodways and identity among the Métis, a post-contact Indigenous nation from northwestern North America. Moving away from hybridity-centered understandings of identity that have guided archaeological research on the Métis until...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tsim D Schneider. Kat H Hayes.

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. In this paper we argue that refusing a settler sense of time in favor of locally grounded ones (what we call “undisciplining”) is a form of heart-centered practice. Historical archaeology lends itself to epistemic undisciplining, and continues to grapple with time and what is meant by history. But...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William T. D. Wadsworth.

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. In 1952–1954, Cold Lake First Nations (CLFN) was forcibly removed from their territory by the Canadian military to establish a 20’000 km2 munitions testing area (“bombing range”) in northern Canada. Many homes and belongings have since been destroyed, or otherwise barred access to, and the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kisha Supernant.

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. The homeland of the Métis Nation of Canada is a vast landscape, making it challenging to trace our material history across many colonially imposed borders. Métis ancestors moved across this landscape along trails and river systems, creating a web of interconnected places tied together through kin...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Ibarrola.

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. As I began my dissertation research on the African diaspora in Florida, I was also becoming deeply involved in the world of immigration activism in Florida. This work provided years of experience in listening to and working alongside a community, which began to directly inform my research agenda....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lisa M Small.

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. In Canada, cultural heritage efforts have largely focused on the recovery, collection, and protection of European material cultural and landscapes. This has resulted in the overrepresentation of white settler history and the mis/underrepresentation of the history and stories of the Black...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Cowie.

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. Initially, this paper shares the results of an archaeological monitoring project at the Stewart Indian School site that yielded a fascinating, touching snapshot of student life in the recent past. It is a poignant reminder that artifacts are personal belongings that should be treated with care. I...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lyndsay M S Dagg.

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. Archaeologists have long since acknowledged the complexities of historic landscapes but explorations into the ways relationality shaped and continues to shape these landscapes are still relatively rare. We can study the landscape with various technologies and methods but never really be able to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michelle Morgan. Alison Bell.

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. Slag, the byproduct of iron smelting, is found in abundance around the ruins of Longdale Furnace, one of many nineteenth-century iron companies active in western Virginia’s Alleghany Highlands. Also found in abundance are material remnants of workers’ everyday lives. While many of these ‘small...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Duygu Ertemin.

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. In this paper, I reflect on my experience employing the Collaborative Inquiry (CI) approach in the study of 17th-century Ontario Attawandaron (Neutral) shell-tempered pottery with Wyandotte Elder and Knowledge Keeper Richard Zane Smith. This hands-on collaboration, which included the practice of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nkem M Ike.

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. Early 20th-century anti-Black race massacres and violence left an indelible impact on the physical landscape and collective expressions of Black ontology and memory. This legacy conjures ethical and political questions from descendants, the larger community, and the state regarding the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susana Pacheco. Joel Santos. Tânia Casimiro.

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. Emotional engagement in archaeology poses significant challenges. The emotions of women working in industrial sites, often overlooked and disregarded, exemplify this complexity. This paper addresses this gap by exploring the emotional experiences of women within industrial settings. Employing a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gab Omoni Hartemann.

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. Increasingly, Indigenous, Black, and other colonized people have turned to archaeological knowledge as a potential tool allowing us to reclaim ancestral worlds, and expose the ongoing structures of violence that keep affecting our communities. Yet, such undertaking does not necessarily attend to...