Entangled Earth: Exploring Past Indigenous Agricultural Landscapes of Wisconsin

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "New Avenues in the Study of Plant Remains from Historical Sites" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Wisconsin has over 450 documented archaeological and historical Indigenous agricultural fields. Recorded primarily in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, less than 10% of these archaeological field sites remain today. This presentation describes our ongoing efforts to document and investigate ancient garden beds and associated archaeological features using a suite of interdisciplinary and multi-scalar methods in order to determine their extent, morphology, and preservation as well as demonstrate their enduring ecological impacts on the region’s ecology. Here, we present data from aerial imagery analyses and floristic surveys of extant fields that illustrate the long-term entanglements of past agricultural spaces in the American Midwest.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• New Avenues in the Study of Plant Remains from Historical Sites   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2022

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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology