The Burgess-Williams Site: An Early Euro-American Settlement on Grand Island

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Method and Theory: Papers in Honor of James M. Skibo, Part I" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Burgess-Williams Site on Grand Island, Michigan, is a mid-nineteenth-century homestead located on the south shore of Lake Superior. The 2009 and 2010 field seasons produced over two thousand artifacts that have provided data for the continuing study of the frontier settlement of the island. The analysis confirms that the occupation demonstrates a frontier occupation, and the use of fine grained archaeological techniques has helped discriminate the specific, multiple occupations. This paper outlines the results of the archaeological testing and offers a discussion concerning the use of the site through the theoretical model of behavioral archaeology.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Archaeological Method and Theory: Papers in Honor of James M. Skibo, Part I   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 23020