"Huts Placed in a More Exact Order than Philadelphia" Reassessing the Camps of the Connecticut Line and Hand’s Brigade at Morristown National Historical Park, Applying a Conjunctive Approach to Investigating Revolutionary War Encampments

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The World Turned Upside Down: Revisiting the Archaeology of the American Revolution" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

After 80+ years of archaeology at campsites from the American Revolution is there really anything left to be learned from more excavation? Shouldn’t these sites be left alone before they look like the archaeological equivalent of Swiss cheese? This paper, based on three recent seasons of archaeological fieldwork at Morristown National Historical Park, argues that a conjunctive approach employing new technologies, e.g. LiDar, ground penetrating radar, GIS, and metal detecting, in association with hand excavation and careful historical research has the potential to revolutionize our understanding of the Continental Army’s Camps. Case studies from the Connecticut Line and Hand’s Brigade are presented.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The World Turned Upside Down: Revisiting the Archaeology of the American Revolution   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2022

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