Exploring Daily Lives through an Intrasite Comparison of Architectural Remains at Fort St. Joseph

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Recent Colonial Archaeological Research in the American Midcontinent" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Archaeological investigations spanning 25 years at the historic site of Fort St. Joseph (20BE23) have uncovered over 320,000 artifacts and several telling features, allowing us to learn more about the daily lives and identities of those who once occupied this eighteenth-century mission, garrison, and trading post in southwest Michigan. An analysis of the architectural remains has revealed the projected layout of four buildings at the site where fur traders and their families resided in addition to a possible domestic and workshop complex for the resident blacksmith. Middens and refuse deposits found in association with these buildings contain large quantities of animal remains and artifacts. Here we report on our preliminary investigation of these material remains in order to find similarities and differences among the occupants identifying as French, Native Americans, and métis and their families.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Recent Colonial Archaeological Research in the American Midcontinent   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 37962.0