On Both Sides of the Atlantic: Historical Archaeology of Rural Modernization from the American and European Traditions

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "On Both Sides of the Atlantic: Historical Archaeology of Rural Modernization from the American and European Traditions" at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

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This session aims to bring together different archaeological perspectives on the effects, direction and meaning of the modernization process in rural areas on both sides of the Atlantic (16<sup>Th</sup>-20<sup>Th</sup> centuries). This collaboration is a direct consequence of the historical nature of this process, inserted in global capitalist dynamics of "back and forth" throughout the Atlantic Ocean, which have shaped the contemporary rural areas on both sides. To this end, we propose a journey through a relevant selection of case studies of different scales and chronological ranges that contribute to the exchange of ideas and experiences on the archaeology of these spaces.

The so-called modernization has diverse translations in rural areas, which very often have been elusive from the historical and archaeological narratives defining Modern and Contemporary History. Archaeology can help qualify this variability and rescue aspects largely ignored by the great historical narratives while examining the effects on current local communities. Rural areas are also particularly productive spaces for recovering the material memory of social and economic transformations of cultural landscapes. From the intense processes of abandonment, to alternative uses of natural resources or social and political experimentation, the rural areas preserves the traces of changes and its possible responses.

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