Zooarchaeological Perspective on a Portuguese Enclave in Nineteenth-Century Springfield, Illinois

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.

Recent archaeological mitigation of four city lots in Springfield, Illinois, provides information on Portuguese immigrants from Madeira who came to central Illinois during the 1850s. Dozens of privy pits spanning the mid-nineteenth through the early twentieth century yielded more than 13,000 animal remains that reveal insights into the cuisines of first- and second-generation Portuguese immigrant families, as well as their predominately American-born neighbors. Food preferences and socioeconomic conditions are reflected by similarities and subtle differences that exist among the various faunal collections.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

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

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