Exploring the Foodways of a Community in Northern Idaho

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 ran a publicly-oriented field school in Moscow, Idaho. The project was conducted on the grounds of the current high school and had two objectives. First, to create a program that could engage local students and community members and second, to explore the town’s history through archaeology as the high school was built upon the former location of numerous 19th century residences. One outcome of the field school was the recovery of a large assemblage of faunal remains associated with the town’s late 19th/early 20th century. Approximately 1,500 bones were recovered. This work summarizes the results of the faunal analysis and provides insight into the foodways of a small community in northern Idaho.

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