The Hamtramck Historic Spatial Archaeology Project

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Historical, archaeological, and geospatial data concerning the rapid growth of American cities exist in disparate and fragmentary forms. With archival and archaeological collections housed separately in local and state repositories, and with few collections digitized, scholars are limited in their ability to conduct comprehensive historical and anthropological research on particular communities and places. Such disconnections between historical and archaeological data sets pose significant shortcomings for examining the histories of less visible communities, whose traces tend to survive more prominently in the archaeological record than in historical accounts. For Metro Detroit’s historically marginalized and underrepresented communities, this lack of data integration reinforces longstanding barriers to access and exclusion from cultural heritage narratives.

Our interdisciplinary project draws on both archaeology and the spatial humanities in order to work through issues of representing, and rectifying, uncertainties in historical datasets by adapting existing spatial data infrastructure methods to accommodate archaeological information.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SHA 2023 General Sessions   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023

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Contact(s): Nicole Haddow