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2. Small Things Forgotten Now Included, or What Else Do Things Deserve?
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Pétursdóttir, Þóra
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MATERIAL culture ,ATLANTIC herring fisheries ,HISTORY ,MEMORY ,FISHERY processing plants ,HISTORICAL archaeology ,ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations - Abstract
We have turned to things, it is argued in different contexts by social and cultural scholars. The previously neglected stuff of life is back and now deserves to be embraced and included in our histories and democracies. This paper discusses our efforts to include these others and seeks to reflect on how some of our gestures of inclusion may not be as humble and tolerant as we like to argue. With reference to an ongoing archaeological research of a recently abandoned herring station in Iceland's northwest the paper discusses how the archaeological remembering of this site, and its inclusion in historical narration, can in fact easily result in the active forgetting of things, their fragmented and discontinuous memory and their utter silence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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3. The Almshouse in Dutch and English Colonial North America and its Precedent in the Old World: Historical and Archaeological Evidence.
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Paul R. Huey
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HISTORY ,ALMSHOUSES ,HISTORICAL archaeology ,IRON Age - Abstract
To establish historical and archaeological contexts for the case studies presented in this volume, this paper presents a review of the literature on the history and archaeology of almshouses. Because both English and Dutch colonial almshouses were based on European precedents, this paper examines historical research and archaeological work conducted in The Netherlands and England, as well as their North American colonies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2001
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4. Doing Business: Chinese and European Socioeconomic Relations in Early Cooktown.
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Rains, Kevin
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CHINESE people ,HISTORY of material culture ,ECONOMIC activity ,HISTORICAL archaeology ,HISTORY ,ETHNIC relations - Abstract
This paper is an historical archaeological examination of the socioeconomic relations of the Chinese and European communities of Cooktown in north Queensland during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It looks at the social landscape and production, exchange and consumption of material culture to show that the Chinese were not a disengaged group, as depicted in conventional understandings of colonial life, but integral to the town's socioeconomic fabric. This close relationship arose out of a process of negotiation between Chinese and Europeans which responded to the strengths, weaknesses and resources of their individual business networks, and the particular conditions of Cooktown's frontier environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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5. Under the Boards: Archaeological Site Formation Processes at the Commissariat Store, Brisbane.
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Murphy, Karen
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HISTORICAL archaeology ,RETAIL stores ,FLOODS ,ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations ,HISTORY - Abstract
The study of archaeological site formation processes, although routinely undertaken for prehistoric sites, is only carried out in historical archaeology in a limited way. Understanding the processes which formed the archaeological record of a site is an important first step towards developing justifiable inferences about past behavior and past societies regardless of the age of the site. This paper identifies and examines the cultural and non-cultural processes that formed the archaeological record at the Commissariat Store, Brisbane. The history of the site, from its construction in 1829 as part of the Moreton Bay penal settlement to the present, is examined and the expected impacts and processes on the archaeological record are identified. Archaeological evidence from the salvage excavation of the site undertaken in 1978 and 1979 is analyzed to identify the cultural and non-cultural site formation processes. This study identifies the presence of cultural formation processes including discard, loss, abandonment and re-use from an examination of the historical and archaeological evidence. Non-cultural formation processes at work in the site include faunalturbation, floralturbation, flooding, and aquaturbation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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6. Indo-Hispanic Dynamics: From Contact to Colonial Interaction in the Greater Antilles.
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Valcárcel Rojas, Roberto, Samson, Alice, and Hoogland, Menno
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INDIGENOUS peoples of the West Indies ,CROSS-cultural studies ,CULTURE diffusion ,HISTORICAL archaeology ,SPANISH colonies ,HISTORY of the West Indies ,HISTORY ,INDIGENOUS peoples of the Americas -- First contact with Europeans ,ANTIQUITIES ,HISTORY of the Americas - Abstract
Indo-Hispanic interaction is an essential issue in the colonial period in the Caribbean, but its study is currently marginalized as an offshoot of pre-Columbian archaeology. This state of affairs denies the indigenous contribution to the past and present ethnocultural composition of the region and privileges a colonial approach in scholarship. This paper reviews important aspects of the history of archaeological research on contact and colonial interaction in the Greater Antilles and its theoretical underpinnings. It also presents two recent archaeological case studies that show different facets of the interaction processes using new methodological approaches: El Cabo, Dominican Republic, with evidence of early contact, and El Chorro de Maíta, Cuba, a context of interethnic interaction under colonial conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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7. Zooarchaeology for the City: An Urban Case, La Boca, Buenos Aires City, circa 1860.
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Chichkoyan, Karina
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ZOOARCHAEOLOGY ,URBAN archaeology ,CONSUMPTION (Economics) ,HISTORY of food ,HISTORICAL archaeology ,URBAN history ,URBAN life ,ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations ,HISTORY - Abstract
Zooarchaeological works in the city lack of a specific theoretical and methodological framework to understand its faunal assemblages. The different analyses were done in most cases following procedures that had been developed for hunter-gatherer contexts. In this paper, we evaluate some questions related to this issue, encompassed in the acquisition mode and the characteristics of the archaeological record. Finally, an example from two sites in La Boca, Buenos Aires city, Argentina is given in order to understand some of these questions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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8. Landlord Villages of Iran as Landscapes of Hierarchy and Control.
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Nashli, Hassan and Young, Ruth
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VILLAGES ,LAND tenure ,LAND use -- History ,LAND reform ,LANDLORDS ,LANDLORD-tenant relations ,SOCIAL control ,HISTORICAL archaeology ,ETHNOLOGY ,PAHLAVI dynasty, 1925-1979 ,IRANIAN history -- 20th century ,TWENTIETH century ,HISTORY - Abstract
This paper analyses the walled landlord villages of the Tehran Plain in terms of hierarchy and control, and how these structures are created and expressed through the spatial landscape of the villages. Drawing on original fieldwork, the ways in which landlords used the physicality of the villages to maintain and reinforce control over farmers is explored. We suggest that the 'success' or at least longevity of the land tenure system in Iran prior to the later twentieth century can be attributed at least in part to the buildings and spaces of the villages themselves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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9. An Overview of Historical Archaeology in Queensland, Australia.
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Harvey, Cameron
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HISTORICAL archaeology , *ARCHAEOLOGY , *CULTURAL property , *ARCHAEOLOGISTS , *MATERIAL culture , *HISTORY - Abstract
The ability of historical archaeology to make a significant contribution to our understanding of Queensland's recent past is hindered by factors including few practitioners, limited publications about historical archaeological research and a need to establish its relevance beyond the archaeological community. There exists great opportunities in Queensland for researchers to explore a diverse range of research topics of which only some are beginning to be investigated through historical archaeological enquiry. This paper investigates the current state of the discipline in Queensland, the challenges practitioners face today and into the future, and the avenues down which historical archaeologists may make significant contributions to our understanding of Queensland's recent past. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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10. Caboonbah: The Archaeology of a Middle Class Queensland Pastoral Family.
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Terry, Linda
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COUNTRY life ,RURAL waste management ,HISTORICAL archaeology ,MIDDLE class ,HISTORY - Abstract
Pastoralism was the mainstay of the developing economy of Queensland. The men and women who owned the pastoral properties were mainly from upper and middle class English and Scottish families. One such family, the Somersets, occupied Caboonbah, a pastoral property in the Brisbane Valley of Queensland in the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century. Excavation of the rubbish gully associated with the homestead provided material evidence of how this family adhered to the tenets of middle class family life while living in an isolated rural area and contending with the fluctuating fortunes of life on the land. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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11. Economy and Respectability: Textiles from the North Brisbane Burial Ground.
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Prangnell, Jonathan and McGowan, Glenys
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BURIAL clothing ,CEMETERIES ,TEXTILES ,INTERMENT ,COFFINS ,HISTORICAL archaeology ,ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations ,NINETEENTH century ,HISTORY - Abstract
Textile remains were discovered during a salvage excavation at the site of the North Brisbane Burial Ground, a nineteenth-century cemetery in the city of Brisbane, Australia. Ninety-six textile samples were collected at excavation, comprising 39 twill weaves, 17 tabby weaves, one haircord weave, one satin weave, three knitted fabrics, one piece of felt and 34 masses of loose wool packing. Most of the woven textiles recovered were coffin coverings or coffin linings. Similarly, the majority of non-woven textile samples were also associated with coffins and their dressing. Five of the identified textiles were likely to have been fragments of garments worn by the deceased. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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12. Fences, Boats and Teas: Engendering Patient Lives at Peel Island Lazaret.
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Youngberry, April and Prangnell, Jonathan
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HANSEN'S disease patients ,HOSPITALS ,AGENT (Philosophy) ,GENDER ,HISTORICAL archaeology ,MEDICAL care ,HISTORY - Abstract
Within institutions, a separate social world comes into existence. Gender is a crucial shaper of relations in this new world, defining status, relationships to others and personal identity. Understanding the gendered conditions of, and responses to, institutional care is an important social contribution of historical archaeology to contemporary society. Research on the Peel Island Lazaret in Moreton Bay, Queensland, uses a model for engendering archaeology, with modifications pertinent to historical archaeology. Analysis builds on the work of others who have investigated the ways in which men and women of the confined and confining classes experienced institutions and interacted with each other. This study also extends beyond these approaches in exploring the areas of 'interpersonal agency' and relationship building, and the ways in which disadvantage minimization was mediated by the structuring principle of gender. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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13. What's in a Name? Beyond The Mary Watson Stories to a Historical Archaeology of Lizard Island.
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Waterson, Paddy, Waghorn, Anita, Swartz, Julie, and Brown, Ross
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HISTORICAL archaeology ,TREPANG ,TREPANG fisheries ,HISTORY - Abstract
Preliminary historical archaeological research on Lizard Island in far north Queensland is enabling the Queensland Government to develop more effective management strategies for on-site interpretation of the historical precinct of Watsons Bay. Although popularly associated with the north Queensland colonial heroine Mary Watson, the Bay can now be understood as a large multilayered cultural landscape with meaning to a wide variety of groups. The common aspects of the three known beche-de-mer operations that occupied the Bay between 1860 and 1881 and the nature of the emerging archaeological record afford many opportunities for scaled archaeological research. It further highlights aspects of historical archaeological theory and the relationship between the discipline and the historical record. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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14. Geronimo's Wickiup: Methological Considerations Regarding Mobile Group Hut Signatures.
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Seymour, Deni
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APACHE (North American people) ,PHOTOGRAPHY & history ,HUTS ,DWELLINGS ,SURRENDER (Military) ,FOOTPRINTS ,PHOTOGRAPHY archives ,HISTORICAL archaeology ,HISTORY - Abstract
Photographs and documentary accounts relating to Geronimo's 1886 attempted surrender at the Cañon de los Embudos site are used to explore the archaeological nature of structure or hut imprints. These primary written and visual sources provide a basis for understanding the extremely unobtrusive nature of these shelter remains. Archaeological footprints from this site today reveal that house construction patterns are consistent with mobile groups in general when under circumstances similar to those at the surrender site. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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15. Beyond Metrics: Reappraising York's Hungate 'Slum'.
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Mayne, Alan
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SLUMS ,URBAN growth ,URBAN poor ,CITIES & towns ,HISTORICAL archaeology ,EQUALITY ,HISTORY ,URBAN history - Abstract
Much of the excitement generated in Britain since 2007 by the York Archaeological Trust's excavations of the city's Hungate neighborhood, which Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree characterized as a 'slum' in his pioneering poverty survey of 1901, derives from the unexpected volume and variety of material evidence uncovered about life in a poor community within a modern industrial city. Such material evidence and its often uncertain relationships to other historical data can enhance analysis by complicating understanding of the past, rather than echoing conventional wisdom. Findings from Hungate can thus contribute to nuanced understandings of urban social disadvantage not only at the neighborhood level in this one particular British city, but at the larger scales of analysis that encompass the growth of cities and interacting urban regions in Britain and around the world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These understandings have contemporary relevance for a world in which over half of humanity now lives in urban areas, as misconceptions about 'slums' continue to undermine efforts to reduce urban inequality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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16. Worker Housing in the Vermont Copper Belt: Improving Life and Industry Through Paternalism and Resistance.
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Ford, Ben
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INDUSTRIAL housing ,COPPER mining ,PATERNALISM ,CAPITALISM ,HISTORICAL archaeology ,MINERAL industries -- Social aspects ,SOCIAL control ,NEW England history ,VERMONT state history ,NINETEENTH century ,ECONOMICS ,HISTORY ,UNITED States history - Abstract
During the mid-nineteenth century, east-central Vermont supported two major copper mines and their associated villages. In order to wrest thousands of tons of copper from the earth these mines, the Elizabeth and Ely mines, hired and housed thousands of miners, laborers, and their families. Both mines pursued the same resource in the same environment during the same period, but the Ely Mine developed a centralized village, while the Elizabeth Mine housed its workers in isolated housing clusters. The causes of these differences in worker housing can be traced to differences in scale, setting, and managerial philosophy, and can be analyzed within the larger historical context of Improvement and the larger ethnographic context of paternalism in mining communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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17. Poverty in Depth: New International Perspectives.
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Giles, Kate and Jones, Sarah
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URBAN poor ,SLUMS ,HOUSING ,HISTORICAL archaeology ,AUSTRALIAN history ,HISTORY - Abstract
This volume on the archaeology of urban poverty arises from a three-day symposium hosted by York Archaeological Trust and the University of York in July 2009 to establish the wider intellectual framework for the investigation of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century archaeology of the Hungate neighborhood of York. In this opening article, the trajectory of medieval and post-medieval archaeology in Britain is contrasted with historical archaeology in the United States and Australia, and the influence of the pre-modern history of the Hungate neighborhood on its development since 1800 is explored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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18. Poverty in Depth: a New Dialogue.
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Walker, John, Beaudry, Mary, and Wall, Diana
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POVERTY ,HOUSING ,HISTORICAL archaeology ,ARCHAEOLOGY ,SLUMS ,HISTORY ,ECONOMICS - Abstract
This reflective piece draws together the themes and issues presented within the volume, exploring historic and contemporary definitions and attitudes towards poverty and their implications of the archaeological study of 'slum' neighborhoods. It compares and contrasts the individual case studies from York and Manchester with investigations in America and Australia, drawing attention to the differences between them. Suggestions are made for future investigations, particularly in the potential for further comparative work at an international level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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