Archaeology for Many More: A Necessarily Broad Approach to the Archaeology of Evergreen Plantation

Summary

This is an abstract from the "*SE New Orleans and Its Environs: Historical Archaeology and Environmental Precarity" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Evergreen Plantation Archaeological Survey (EPAS) focuses on understanding Black life during contexts of enslavement and post-Emancipation on Evergreen Plantation within Louisiana’s Cancer Alley. In Summer 2023, EPAS hosted its first interdisciplinary field school in which students not only learned archaeological methods but also undertook a diligent survey of Black culture and literature through two other organized courses. In this presentation, we lay out the ongoing and theoretically rich considerations in the making of this project that inherently encompasses more stakeholders, such as establishing the scale of analysis, defining descendant communities for plantation sites generally, and more.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• *SE New Orleans and Its Environs: Historical Archaeology and Environmental Precarity   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 40276.0