Exploring Health Practices in Moscow, Idaho at the Turn of the 20th Century

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Community Engaged Historical Archaeology in the Northwest", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

In 2023, the Idaho Public Archaeology project hosted a community-based field school in Moscow Idaho on the grounds of the current high school. An initial focus of the project was to engage the community and share archaeology with students. An additional outcome of the work was the recovery of a wide variety of materials associated with early Moscow history. This work uses a portion of the recovered artifacts to explore health and wellness and how it can be applied to Moscow residents at the turn of the century. Using both health related artifacts and the town’s archival history, the work examines the modernization of health care in a small western town as impacted by reforms of the Progressive Era.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2025   •
• Community Engaged Historical Archaeology in the Northwest

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Contact(s): Nicole Haddow