Local Tradition or Response to Hard Times? 20th-Century Urban Foodways in Toledo, Ohio

Summary

From summer 2014 through spring 2015, The Mannik & Smith Group conducted Phase I and Phase III investigations of two partial city blocks in the Uptown neighborhood of Toledo, Ohio. The Phase I survey identified a total of 29 features, including building foundations and utility features associated with domestic occupations, commercial enterprises, and a hospital and representing deposits from the 1860s through the 1950s. Phase III data recovery excavations focused on 12 of these features, dating primarily to the first half of the 20th century. One of the most surprising results of the data recovery was the inclusion of a large percentage of waterfowl remains within the faunal assemblages from two out of the three domestic sites investigated. We consider whether these faunal assemblages represent a local tradition of waterfowl hunting along the Maumee River or a temporally limited response to the hard times of the Great Depression.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2018   •
• Many People, Many Plates: Archaeologies of Foodways

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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology

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PaperId(s): 649