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A Survey Of Traditional Pottery Manufacture In The Mid-Atlantic And Northeastern United States, Susan H. Myers Mar 2014

A Survey Of Traditional Pottery Manufacture In The Mid-Atlantic And Northeastern United States, Susan H. Myers

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract is available at this time.


The Sewer Tile Clay Pottery Of Grand Ledge, Michigan, Marsha Macdowell, Kurt Dewhurst Mar 2014

The Sewer Tile Clay Pottery Of Grand Ledge, Michigan, Marsha Macdowell, Kurt Dewhurst

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract is available at this time.


The Living Tradition: A Comparison Of Three Southern Folk Potters, John A. Burrison Mar 2014

The Living Tradition: A Comparison Of Three Southern Folk Potters, John A. Burrison

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract is available at this time.


The Kirkpatricks' Pottery, Anna, Illinois, Ellen Paul Denker Mar 2014

The Kirkpatricks' Pottery, Anna, Illinois, Ellen Paul Denker

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract is available at this time.


The Kiln And Red Earthenware Pottery Of The Jordan Pottery Site: A Preliminary Overview, David W. Rupp Mar 2014

The Kiln And Red Earthenware Pottery Of The Jordan Pottery Site: A Preliminary Overview, David W. Rupp

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract is available at this time.


The Alkaline-Glazed Stoneware Of North Carolina, Charles G. Zug Iii Mar 2014

The Alkaline-Glazed Stoneware Of North Carolina, Charles G. Zug Iii

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract is available at this time.


Earthenwares And Salt-Glazed Stonewares Of The Rochester-Genesee-Valley Region: An Overview, George R. Hamell Mar 2014

Earthenwares And Salt-Glazed Stonewares Of The Rochester-Genesee-Valley Region: An Overview, George R. Hamell

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract is available at this time.


Philadelphia Gravestones 1760-1820, Elizabeth A. Crowell Mar 2014

Philadelphia Gravestones 1760-1820, Elizabeth A. Crowell

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract is available at this time.


Filling In Round Pond: Refuse Disposal In Post-Revolutionary Boston, Mary Beaudry, Tamara Blosser Mar 2014

Filling In Round Pond: Refuse Disposal In Post-Revolutionary Boston, Mary Beaudry, Tamara Blosser

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract is available at this time.


Hoboken Hollow: A 19th Century Factory Workers' Housing Site, Sherene Baugher Mar 2014

Hoboken Hollow: A 19th Century Factory Workers' Housing Site, Sherene Baugher

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract is available at this time.


Households, Economics, And Ethnicity In Paterson's Dublin, 1829-1915: The Van Houten Street Parking Lot Block, Lu Ann De Cunzo Mar 2014

Households, Economics, And Ethnicity In Paterson's Dublin, 1829-1915: The Van Houten Street Parking Lot Block, Lu Ann De Cunzo

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract is available at this time.


Zooarchaeology And Social History Of The Butler-Mccook Homestead, Hartford, Connecticut, Nicholas Bellantoni, Robert Gradie Iii, David Poirier Mar 2014

Zooarchaeology And Social History Of The Butler-Mccook Homestead, Hartford, Connecticut, Nicholas Bellantoni, Robert Gradie Iii, David Poirier

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract is available at this time.


Log Roads To Light Rails: The Evolution Of Main Street And Transportation In Buffalo, New York, Michael A. Cinquino, Marvin G. Keller, Carmine A. Tronolone, Charles E. Vandrei Jr. Feb 2014

Log Roads To Light Rails: The Evolution Of Main Street And Transportation In Buffalo, New York, Michael A. Cinquino, Marvin G. Keller, Carmine A. Tronolone, Charles E. Vandrei Jr.

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract available at this time.


Ceramics And Socio-Economic Statues Of The Green Family, Windsor, Vermont, Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood, Scott D. Heberling Feb 2014

Ceramics And Socio-Economic Statues Of The Green Family, Windsor, Vermont, Suzanne M. Spencer-Wood, Scott D. Heberling

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract available at this time.


After The Loyalists: The Archaeology Of 19th Century Kingston, Heather Nicol, W. Bruce Stewart, I.A. Kerr-Wilson Feb 2014

After The Loyalists: The Archaeology Of 19th Century Kingston, Heather Nicol, W. Bruce Stewart, I.A. Kerr-Wilson

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract available at this time.


"Depart From Hence And Keep This Thought In Mind": The Importance Of Comparative Analysis In Gravestone Research, Elizabeth A. Crowell, Norman Vardney Mackie Iii Feb 2014

"Depart From Hence And Keep This Thought In Mind": The Importance Of Comparative Analysis In Gravestone Research, Elizabeth A. Crowell, Norman Vardney Mackie Iii

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract available at this time.


Ode To A Lunch Bowl: The Atlantic Lunch As An Interface Between St. Mary's County, Maryland, And Washington, D.C., George L. Miller Feb 2014

Ode To A Lunch Bowl: The Atlantic Lunch As An Interface Between St. Mary's County, Maryland, And Washington, D.C., George L. Miller

Northeast Historical Archaeology

No abstract available at this time.


Mess Calls From Signal Hill, Newfoundland, Frances L. Stewart Feb 2014

Mess Calls From Signal Hill, Newfoundland, Frances L. Stewart

Northeast Historical Archaeology

Test excavations in the summer of 1984 for a resource inventory of Signal Hill National Historic Park, St. John's, Newfoundland, unearthed 1,954 faunal elements from structures built between 1790 and 1945. These were predominantly military buildings, although some were converted to civilian hospitals. Signalmen and their families have lived on the site also. The site, however, was mainly occupied by a British garrison from 1790 to 1870. The faunal remains from the various structures were analyzed as distinct units, and in this article, those from the buildings constructed and used by the British garrison are emphasized. The majority of the …


Landfill And Health, A Municipal Concern Or, Telling It Like It Was, Joan H. Geismar Feb 2014

Landfill And Health, A Municipal Concern Or, Telling It Like It Was, Joan H. Geismar

Northeast Historical Archaeology

Land reclamation in port cities is a worldwide phenomenon that clearly represents economic considerations and, often, intensifying urbanization. Analysis of the fill matrix of two New York City sites suggests that the imposition of municipal controls may be one facet of the urbanizing process documented in the archaeological record. Differences between the fill from the 175 Water Street site, an East River block filled in the 18th century, and Site 1 of the Washington Street Urban Renewal Area adjacent to the Hudson River, an early 19th-century fill site, are best explained by the introduction of city ordinances to regulate land …


The Use Of Opal Phytolith Analysis In A Comprehensive Environmental Study: An Example From 19th-Century Lowell, Massachusetts, William F. Fisher, Gerald K. Kelso Feb 2014

The Use Of Opal Phytolith Analysis In A Comprehensive Environmental Study: An Example From 19th-Century Lowell, Massachusetts, William F. Fisher, Gerald K. Kelso

Northeast Historical Archaeology

The value of opal phytolith analysis is demonstrated in a comprehensive environmental study of a historical site, the Kirk Street Agents' House, Lowell, Massachusett. A method to measure phytolith degradation percentages is tested and shown to yield similar results to pollen corrosion indices; further research on this new method is suggested, however. Fluctuations in two classes of grass phytoliths indicate changing environmental conditions that support and expand upon changes noted in the pollen spectra. The results of the phytolith analysis are integrated with information derived from documentary research, artifactual analysis, stratigraphic interpretation, and other ethnobotanical methods to arrive at conclusions …


The American Headquarters For The Battle Of Saratoga, David R. Starbuck Feb 2014

The American Headquarters For The Battle Of Saratoga, David R. Starbuck

Northeast Historical Archaeology

Two years of excavation have been conducted at the site of the American Headquarters for the Battle of Saratoga. Performed under the terms of a cooperative agreement between the National Park Service and Rensselar Polytechnic Institute, this survey effort has successfully located the foundation of the Ephraim Woodworth farmhouse, what appears to have been the Woodworth barn, a well that was behind the farmhouse, and a lengthy French drain that curved around the buildings on three sides. These features appear to be the only physical remains that have survived from the headquarters complex of General Horatio Gates, who occupied these …


Book Review: Jefferson's Poplar Forest: Unearthing A Virginia Plantation Edited By Barbara J. Heath And Jack Gary, Julia King Jan 2014

Book Review: Jefferson's Poplar Forest: Unearthing A Virginia Plantation Edited By Barbara J. Heath And Jack Gary, Julia King

Northeast Historical Archaeology

Review of Jefferson's Poplar Forest: Unearthing a Virginia Plantation, edited by Barbara J. Heath and Jack Gary, 2012, University Press of Florida, Gainesville, 256 pages, 40 black-and-white illustrations, 8 maps, $29.95 (cloth).


Beads, Coins, And Charms At A Poplar Forest Slave Cabin (1833-1858), Lori Lee Jan 2014

Beads, Coins, And Charms At A Poplar Forest Slave Cabin (1833-1858), Lori Lee

Northeast Historical Archaeology

Objects classified as personal adornment are often vested with meanings that reveal significant insight into their owners’ lives because they are personal. The context in which objects are used is critical to understanding potential meanings. This essay considers the recontextualization of glass beads, a pierced coin, and a decorative, fist-shaped, metal-alloy clothing fastener used by enslaved laborers at antebellum Poplar Forest Plantation. The enslaved mobilized these forms of material culture in shared and idiosyncratic ways to assert varying degrees of control over elements of their daily lives, such as health, well-being, family life, and self-definition.


"Every Man Turned Out In The Best He Had": Clothing And Buttons In The Historical And Archaeological Records Of Johnson's Island Prisoner-Of-War Depot, 1862-1865, Tyler Rudd Putman Jan 2014

"Every Man Turned Out In The Best He Had": Clothing And Buttons In The Historical And Archaeological Records Of Johnson's Island Prisoner-Of-War Depot, 1862-1865, Tyler Rudd Putman

Northeast Historical Archaeology

During the American Civil War, federal authorities sent captured Confederate officers to the military prison on Johnson’s Island in Lake Erie, Ohio. These prisoners came from a narrow demographic; most were Southern, white, upper-class males. They left many documentary accounts of their experiences in the camp, some of which detailed how they used clothing to display both individuality and group identity in their civilian, military, and incarcerated experiences. Twenty years of excavations on Johnson’s Island have resulted in the discovery of at least 1,393 prisoner buttons and numerous other clothing-related artifacts. This study compares the buttons from a single latrine …


The Children Of Spring Street: Rickets In An Early Nineteenth-Century Congregation, Meredith A. B. Ellis Jan 2014

The Children Of Spring Street: Rickets In An Early Nineteenth-Century Congregation, Meredith A. B. Ellis

Northeast Historical Archaeology

This paper examines the prevalence of rickets, or vitamin D deficiency, in the subadult skeletal remains from the burial vaults of the Spring Street Presbyterian Church of New York City. The burial vaults of the church were active from approximately 1820–1846 and contain the remains of at least 86 subadults (minimum number of individuals count [MNI] of left tibiae). Over 34% of the subadult tibiae in this collection display pathology consistent with vitamin D deficiency. Since vitamin D is acquired through access to sunlight and specific foods, a high rate of rickets can give clues about living conditions, parenting strategies, …


Archaeologies Of Disease And Public Order In Nineteenth-Century New York: The View From Spring And Varick, William Werner, Shannon A. Novak Jan 2014

Archaeologies Of Disease And Public Order In Nineteenth-Century New York: The View From Spring And Varick, William Werner, Shannon A. Novak

Northeast Historical Archaeology

The authors situate evidence of disease among the burial population of the Spring Street Presbyterian Church within evolving attitudes towards public health and civic order in 19th-century Manhattan. Two personal vignettes illustrate how individuals interacted with the physical space of the church’s vicinity at different moments in the history of municipal reform. The first, a 16-year-old girl named Louisa, was virtually absent from the historical record until the recovery and analysis of her skeletal remains from the church burial vaults. Her skeletal biography conveys the cosmopolitan nature of Manhattan social relations in the early 19th century and the complex ways …


"That Class Of Person Who Cannot Afford A Pew": Analysis Of The Human Remains From The Spring Street Presbyterian Church Burial Vaults, Thomas A. Crist Jan 2014

"That Class Of Person Who Cannot Afford A Pew": Analysis Of The Human Remains From The Spring Street Presbyterian Church Burial Vaults, Thomas A. Crist

Northeast Historical Archaeology

The analysis of the skeletal remains of 85 people interred between ca. 1820 and 1846 in the vaults of the abolitionist Spring Street Presbyterian Church provides unique insights regarding the biological history of antebellum New York City unavailable from other sources. Even though the sample size is small, the remains reflect the prevalence of infectious diseases, metabolic disorders, nutritional deficiencies, premature deaths, and high infant mortality that characterized the rapidly industrializing city. Among the most remarkable discoveries were a rare case of abdominal cancer; a mother and her full-term fetus in utero buried together; two autopsied children; and a dental …


Stories From The Rubble: Analysis Of Mortuary Artifacts From The Spring Street Presbyterian Church Vaults, Rebecca L. White, Douglas B. Mooney Jan 2014

Stories From The Rubble: Analysis Of Mortuary Artifacts From The Spring Street Presbyterian Church Vaults, Rebecca L. White, Douglas B. Mooney

Northeast Historical Archaeology

Archaeological investigations of the Spring Street Presbyterian Church vaults resulted in the recovery of coffin plates, hardware and other burial-related artifacts that convey information regarding the individuals interred within these chambers. These interments also offer a glimpse at mortuary customs and practices in vault burials during the first half of the 19th century.


Lost Within The Rubble: The Archaeological Findings From The Spring Street Presbyterian Church Burial Vaults, Douglas B. Mooney Jan 2014

Lost Within The Rubble: The Archaeological Findings From The Spring Street Presbyterian Church Burial Vaults, Douglas B. Mooney

Northeast Historical Archaeology

Archaeological investigations of the former Spring Street Presbyterian Church property resulted in the discovery of four stone and brick subterranean congregational burial vaults. In active use for only about 25 years, these chambers were found to contain the remains of more than 200 individuals, including large numbers of children. Excavations revealed that remains had been impacted by both natural and manmade processes at various points in the past; however, a total of 46 discrete burials were identified during the excavations. Findings from these investigations provide much previously unavailable information regarding the structure, internal organization, and preservation of remains within 19th-century …


"A Free Church For The People": The History Of The Spring Street Church And Its Burial Vaults, Elizabeth D. Meade Jan 2014

"A Free Church For The People": The History Of The Spring Street Church And Its Burial Vaults, Elizabeth D. Meade

Northeast Historical Archaeology

The Spring Street Church was constructed in the early 19th century to accommodate worshipers in what was then the unsettled area north of the developed portion of New York City. Burial vaults were constructed alongside the church by circa 1820 and were in use for more than 20 years, when changing legislation regarding human burials in Manhattan forced the church to close the vaults. During the period of the vaults’ use, the Spring Street Church members participated in the Abolitionist movement and, as a result of the congregation's promotion of anti-slavery ideologies, the church was demolished by an angry mob …