An Early 20th-Century Midden from Fort Davis, TX
Author(s): Chandler E Fitzsimons
Year: 2017
Summary
This paper presents the preliminary analysis of material recovered from a 1910-1940's domestic midden. Located in Fort Davis, Texas, a former frontier military community, this assemblage dates to roughly forty years after the fort’s closure. The paper will address how the removal of army resources and personnel at the turn of the century lead to a change in community demographics and, in turn, resulted in new modes of economic production and consumption. Moreover, the removed location of the dying 'frontier' town resulted in a shift in the construction of racial, ethnic, national, and class identities. By looking at the byproducts of daily life we aim to show how these intersecting identities affected local social interactions and civilians' understandings of their location on a regional and national landscape.
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An Early 20th-Century Midden from Fort Davis, TX. Chandler E Fitzsimons. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Fort Worth, TX. 2017 ( tDAR id: 435675)
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Keywords
General
Descendant Community
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Frontier
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MIdden
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
1910s-1940s
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 354