Progress in Preservation: Products in Motion at Apex, Arizona

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "I Know What You Did Last Summer: Student Contributions at Field Schools", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Stepping into the world of a migrant worker in the American Southwest during the early 1900s is to find evidence of a young industrialized world. The archaeological work performed at the site of Apex, Arizona yielded evidence regarding how market expansion and the movement of commodities and foodstuffs, manufactured across the country, to the Southwest have impacted those who once lived there. This paper discusses the production, preservation, and transportation of bottled goods and other similar containers in the early 1900s through our findings as field students with the Apex archaeological project. Our careful lab work and research explores and contributes a greater understanding of how migrant workers and their families at this site experienced an increasingly interconnected North American manufacturing reality.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• I Know What You Did Last Summer: Student Contributions at Field Schools   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023

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Contact(s): Nicole Haddow