The Evergreen Plantation Archaeological Survey: Integrating Sciences and the Humanities, OralHistories and Documents, and Material Culture and Community Collaboration

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Evergreen Plantation is a National Historic Landmark of approximately 100 hectares and it

consists of almost 40 standing structures. Twenty-two of these structures were quarters for

the enslaved, and they exist in the same places at which they were first erected at the beginning

of the 19th century. Oral traditions describe a church on the grounds, next to the quarters, that existed until Hurricane Betsy destroyed it in 1965. This paper describes a GPR survey and

excavations directed towards identifying the possible location of the church, as well as the

complexities associated with finding and identifying ritual and religious architecture on

plantations in the American Southeast. We also describe the collaborative nature of this new, long-term study, including project team members and their specialties, as well as the ways in which this project can lead to transformative changes in archaeological education.

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• SHA 2022 General Sessions   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2022

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