Voices Beyond the Rapids: Archaeology and Linear Historic Properties

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Roads, Rivers, Rails and Trails (and more): The Archaeology of Linear Historic Properties" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

In the late 1960s, the Voices from the Rapids project identified underwater archaeological information from fur trade travel routes in Minnesota and Ontario. By the 1980s, historic preservation surveys began identifying former transportation routes such as roads and trails as structures, but did not include archaeological data. This symposium introduction addresses the diversity of linear historic properties, plus the role of archaeology in their identification, and in historical designations such as listing in the National Register of Historic Places. Minnesota examples are presented to illustrate these roles: as property identification (usually as sites, structures or districts) and as context. The first includes fur trade-era portages, and a stagecoach road interdisciplinary historic district. As an example of context, an assemblage of hair-pipe beads likely associated with a network of oxcart trails near Pembina is interpreted as a terrestrial find similar in nature to those of the Voices from the Rapids project.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Roads, Rivers, Rails and Trails (and more): The Archaeology of Linear Historic Properties   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2020

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PaperId(s): 191