Port Richmond: Interpreting A Neighborhood

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Archaeology of the Delaware River Waterfront Symposium of Philadelphia Neighborhoods" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Excavations at the Somerset-Cambria and Cambria-Ann sites conducted as part of the I-95 Girard Avenue Improvement Project encompassed two full city blocks of the Port Richmond neighborhood in Philadelphia. Such sites offered archaeologists the opportunity to examine data from a cross-section of the neighborhood. By combining artifact inventories, historic vital data, and spatial data in a geospatial environment, archaeologists could quantitatively study the neighborhood to see how demographic and economic trends manifested archaeologically. Spatial-temporal analysis comparing features types, temporal associations, and placement provided insights that offer a predictive hypothesis for future urban archaeology undertakings. The Port Richmond section of diggingi95.com presents a historic archaeological interpretation of the neighborhood in an accessible format. This archaeological synthesis is augmented by geospatial mapping that visualizes temporal, spatial, and demographic analyses, enabling the informed discussion of large-scale topics within the neighborhood without losing sight of the individuals/households that contributed to the broader trends.  

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The Archaeology of the Delaware River Waterfront Symposium of Philadelphia Neighborhoods   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2022

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