SPRING 1998
A QUARTERLY PUBLICATION OF THE SOCIETY FOR HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
NORMAN F. BARKA, Newsletter Editor, Department of Anthropology, The College of William and Mary, PO Box 8795, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187-8795 USA Index President's Corner
Index ...... 1 President's Corner ...... 1 1 came home from Atlanta with a sense late the organizers and membership for SHANews ...... 2 of awe. No, 1 didn't have a cold and need presenting an incredibly diverse program Call for Nominations ...... 2 a doctor to look at my throat. (I hope no spanning oceans and centuries and incor SHA Newsletter Editor's one "got the bug" as in years past.) 1 truly porating the archaeology of a wide spec Report for 1997 ...... 3 was amazed by the commitment and en trum of people. We were also fortunate Guidelines for Current Research, SHA ergy shown by the organizers of the meet to have exciting discoveries presented to ing as well as the participants. Some Newsletter ...... 3 us in a timely fashion from sites which people used to say, "Why bother about ar often appear in glossy media or television, SHA '98 Awards ...... 4 chaeology of the 19th century?" or "How but which sometimes have escaped our Joint 30th Anniversary can you justify excavating a site which has conferences. The History Channel seems SHNSPMA Conference ...... 6 documentary information?" The more boring in comparison! 1 look forward to SHA '98 Conference Summary ...... 7 than 400 papers on the Atlanta program Salt Lake City and Quebec. The organiz SHA '98 Registration Figures ...... 8 provided ample evidence that a wide va ers of these future meetings in 1999 and SHA '99 Conference -Salt Lake City ...... 9 riety of historical sites convey faScinating 2000 are already planning intellectual and SHA Public Education And Information knowledge about the past. The slide talks, experiential good times for us. We are Committee ...... 9 the underwater symposia, the story tell looking for meeting locations after 2000. Treasuring Bordellos ...... 9 ing session, the public session all commu If you are interested in showcasing your Announcements ...... 10 nicated another important aspect of his region and its archaeology, please contact torical archaeology-touching, seeing, Request For Information ...... 10 Tim Riordan, Conference Committee and yes even smelling the past is exciting. Chair (see People You Should Know - 1998). Field Schools/Programs 1998 ...... 10 When the excavated material culture is 1 also left Atlanta with a sense of grati Employment Opportunities ...... 11 linked in our discipline with archival, tude for the number of people who vol Future ConferencesIWorkshops ...... 11 photographic, or oral information, the untarily provide countless hours to con Past ConferenceslWorkshops ...... 12 past leaps into view. Conferences provide ducting the business and setting the Current Publications ...... 13 an opportunity to learn, but they also are direction of SHA. As you know, SHA with Teaching Historical Archaeology ...... 15 ways of shaping the character of our pro more than 2400 members is basically a Military Sites Forum ...... 15 fession and work. They are teaching tools volunteer organization with only one Current Research ...... 16 for those entering the field as well as employee. The journal, newsletter, fi Mid-Atlantic ...... 16 those active for decades. Although we nances, awards, public education and ad Southeast ...... 16 may be tired, when we leave a conference vocacy are all produced through the vol we can take heart that we have colleagues unteer efforts of a few very fine Gulf States ...... 18 around the world and a mission far larger individuals. As Ron Michael stated so Midwest ...... 19 than our own backyard. humbly when he received the Carol Central Plains ...... 19 My great thanks go to Atlanta confer Ruppe Award at the banquet, 'Tve en Alaska ...... 21 ence organizers Pat and Barbara Garrow, joyed editing the journal for 20 years." Pacific West ...... 23 Jo Joseph, Bob Fryman and Betsy Reitz. And that is the key for everyone who Canada - Ontario ...... 24 More than 1000 people attended the serves our society: it is enjoyable to learn Underwater News ...... 26 meetings, one of the largest gathering of and grow outside your day-to-day activi People You Should Know - 1998 ...... 32 the Society for Historical Archaeology in ties and to serve something greater than its 31 year history. We can also congratu- ourselves. Ron has edited 10,000 pages in p
our journal over the last 20 years! We are Board members have three year, rotating liaison with ROPA. We also are develop all richer for his work. terms. That means our SHA Board is al ing plans for a SHA oral history program If you want to get involved by work ways in flux. This fluidity has mixed re of our esteemed senior archaeologists and ing with any committee, please contact sults. While we may not be perfect at their material culture as well as for rev the committee chair listed in People You tracking all projects, there is always the enue enhancement. Should Know - 1998. Or, contact me to try opportunity to shift. My thanks to Imme The mid-year meeting of the SHA on an idea. If you wish to nominate a per diate Past President, Henry Miller, as well Board will take place in Alexandria, Vir son or group for an Award of Merit, as outgoing president, Glenn Farris and ginia on April 25th. Let me know before please contact Bob Schuyler. Anyone with board directors, Bonnie McEwan and that date if you have subjects which suggestions for the Nominating Commit Virgil Noble. They all are keeping their should be discussed, or contact the com tee for the next slate of officers, contact hands busy, serving on various commit mittee chair of the relevant topic. And, Henry Miller. While the SHA is fortunate tees. Two new committees will start func think about preparing a paper for the Salt to have such consistency from Ron tioning this year to explore the develop Lake meetings based upon your work and Michael, Norm Barka, Tef and Mike ment of written standards & ethics for encouraging students and advocational Rodeffer, remember that all the rest of the historical archaeology as well as provide archaeologists to come. Pam Cressey
SHANews
Call for Nominations The annual SHA nominations and elec tions process is now underway. This year, the position of President and two Board of Directors are to be elected. The SHA nominations process is conducted by the Nominations and Elections Committee, which currently consists of the Immedi ate Past President (H. Miller) and the two retiring Directors (B. McEwan and V. Noble). While serving on the Nomina tions and Elections Committee, its mem bers are not eligible for election. This com mittee develops a slate with suggestions from the SHA Board and Society mem bers. A proposed slate is then discussed, approved by the Board of Directors and published in the Summer Newsletter. SHA members also have the opportu nity of making nominations to this slate. According to the Society By-Laws, such nominations must be supported by five (5) SHA members in good standing. To facilitate this process, a nominations form is now being employed. Nominations may be submitted to the Committee be fore 1 July each year. Members of the so ciety are encouraged to participate in this process through either suggestions or a formal nomination. Society officers must be current members of the SHA and ac cept the Society code of ethics. They should have experience in and a solid understanding of the field of historical archaeology. Furthermore, these indi viduals must be willing to devote time and effort on behalf of the SHA. It is es- sential that the SHA have a slate of highly qualified persons who would actively and Society for Historical Archaeology effectively serve in leadership positions. In 1998, the Nominations and Election Nomination for 1998 Elections Committee is also assigned the task of re viewing the process by which SHA offic Name of nominee: ers are nominated. We welcome your ------comments and suggestions about this Position being nominated for: 0 PRESIDENT or 0 DIRECTOR important subject. Please send all nomi nations (on the accompanying form) and Address: ______comments regarding the nomination and election process to: Henry M. Miller, SHA Phone: ______Fax: ______EMail: ______Nominations and Elections Committee, Historic St. Mary's City, P.O. Box 39, St. Mary's City, MD 20686. Qualifications of nominee for position (Use additional pages if necessary): SHA Newsletter Editor's Report for 1997 In 1997, four issues of the SHA Newsletter were published for a total of 184 pages. The 34 columns or headings published can be broken down into three basic cat egories: SHA related news (President's Corner, conferences, elections, minutes, membership list, etc.), 59 pages (32%); current research, 47 pages (26%); all other columns, 78 pages (42 %). Special columns published in 1997 include SOPA-ROPA (in various issues), an updated SHA member Name of Person Submitting Nomination: ______ship directory (Summer issue), an up dated guide to graduate programs (Fall), Phone: ______Fax: ______EMail: and an SHA financial statement and accountant's report (Winter). Signatures and printed names of five (5) SHA members who have agreed to support Guidelines for Current this nomination: Research, SHA Newsletter 1) Signature:
A. Current research contributions Name: ______Phone: ______should be related to a single specific sub ject, such as a site investigation, project 2) Signature: investigation or a thematic research topic. B. Each contribution should contain Name: ______Phone: ______as much of the following information as applicable: 1. Name and addresses of 3) Signature: project directors and funding/administra tive agencies; 2. a concise statement of the Name: ______Phone: ______research problems being investigated, in cluding goals and purposes for conduct 4) Signature: ing the research; 3. geographical location of the research; 4. a concise statement of ______Phone: ______the major results of the research, includ Name: ing citation of manuscript and published reports completed and information as to 5) Signature: the current and projected location of new ______Phone: ______artifact collections created from the re Name: search. C. Current research should be typed, Send the completed Nomination Form before 1 July 1998 to Henry M. Miller, double-spaced, and identified by state or Historic St. Mary's City, st. Mary's City, MD 20686. Fax: 301/862-0968. country, site, and/or thematic topic. The ¢L I
name of the writer of the contribution(s) SHA Awards of Merit should also be included, if possible. Con tributions should be brief, usually one or 1. Southeastern Archaeological Conference two double-spaced pages in length. for Fifty Years of Service as a Regional Longer submissions will be accepted on Center for Southeastern Historical a space-available basis. Submissions Archaeology should be made via disc (Wordperfect) or The Southeastern Archaeological Confer email (as an attached file). ence (SEAC) was founded in 1938. By the D. Contributions should be sent to latter part of the decade the accumulat your appropriate Newsletter Area Coor ing masses of materials from WPA dinator and not to the Newsletter Editor. projects led to an attempt to organize Names and addresses of Area Coordina both these data and the local archaeologi tors are published in the Spring issue of cal community. In 1937 a six-page mim the SHA Newsletter. eographed document Signed by James A. E. Line drawings appropriate to the Ford and James B. Griffin was circulated Jeffrey Mitchem accepting SHA Award of research may be submitted, although they calling for the creation of a "Conference Merit for SEAC from President Henry may not be used. Any line drawing sub on Pottery Nomenclature for the South Miller. mitted should measure between 3 x 5" eastern United States." This focus on ce and 4x 6". ramics created an immediate link to his Historic Tribes of the Southeast" as its pri Photographs appropriate to the re torical archaeology. Several indigenous mary theme. Paper presenters included, search or topic may be submitted, but pottery traditions crossed the prehistoric/ among others, Fairbanks, John Goggin, they may not be used. Black/white and historic divide and in some cases could be Ripley Bullen, William Sears and George color prints will be accepted in sizes rang associated with historic southeastern QUimby. ing from 3 x 5" to 4 x 6". Color slides may tribes. SEAC was formed the following The year 1960 was a watershed. The also be submitted. year and held its first meeting (May 16- existence and success of SEAC allowed Submitted photographs and line draw 17, 1938) in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In the Stanley South to form the parallel Con ings will not be returned. Fall of 1939 the new organization pub ference on Historic Site Archaeology lished the first SEAC Newsletter, now in its (CHSA) and append it to the SEAC Pro SHA '98 Awards 39th volume. gram in Gainesville, Florida as an added Between 1938 and 1959 the associated first day. Historical Archaeology greatly The 1998 Awards Ceremony was held on topics of contact archaeology and Euro expanded as a separate part of each an January 9th, at the SHA Banquet on Fri pean exploration were visible themes at nual meeting and the first two such con day Evening, in Atlanta, Georgia. The fol the annual meetings and in coverage in ferences were published as a special issue lowing awards were presented by Henry the Newsletter. Just before World War II (Volume 9, Number 1- 1962) of the SEAC Miller, SHA President: forced a break in Conference activities, Newsletter. This positive and supportive the 6th Conference (1941) meeting in Lex symbiosis held for 18 years and the SEAC Carol V. Ruppe Distinguished ington, Kentucky, selected "Protohistoric CHSA combination created a center for Service Award Horizons" as one of its themes with re modern historical archaeological activities ports on DeSoto's route in Alabama, the within the Southeast. Presented to Ronald L. Michael (Editor, Lamar Aspect and a possible Shawnee In 1976-1977 the SEAC leadership and Historical Archaeology). Background infor historic site. a majority of its members, probably after mation given by Stephanie Rodeffer. [See The 1950s opened with John Goggin consuming too much prehistoric "black Historical Archaeology for details.] reporting on both contact and European drink", suggested that the two confer sites and with Charles Fairbanks succeed ences "go their independent ways." At the ing John W Griffin as SEAC Secretary. In 35th Annual Meeting (1978) in Knoxville, 1952 the 9th Conference, organized by Tennessee, the following proclamation Fairbanks at Ma from Stanley South was read: con, Georgia, se The Board of Directors of the Confer lected the "Archae ence on Historic Site Archaeology has ology of the voted to secede from the union that has bound this conference to the Southeastern Archaeological Confer ence for the last 18 years. This action Ronald Michael(left) resulted from debate within the SEAC accepting the Carol as to whether their colleagues excavat V. Ruppe ing historic sites should continue to meet the day prior to the SEAC meet Distinguished ings, which culminated in a vote by Service Award from the members of the SEAC that the two President Henry conferences "should go their indepen Miller, with dent ways." Stephanie Rodeffer. Reaction from the more intelligent mi nority within SEAC is best seen in a state- ment by Stewart Neitzel, their Sergeant sues between 1964 and 1981) replaced historical archaeological literature. Forty at Arms: with a formal journal. Southeastern Archae books either exclusively or partly con ology (Volume I, Number I, Summer 1982), Historical archeology ... seems more cerned with historical archaeology have interesting then all this space sus the new semiannual, clearly stated it "fo been reviewed in Southeastern Archaeology pended prehistoric reconstruction. But cuses on the prehistoric and historical ar over the same 15 years. a lot of it is boring as hell, although chaeology of the southeastern United In 1998 southeastern historical archae many good and capable people swear States." In the very first number appeared ologists exploring the 16th, 17th, 18th, by it. I will never understand why the an article that combined prehistoric and 19th and 20th centuries have a powerful schism between SEAC and the Historic historic data, on the 'Availability and Use regional center, which they share with Archeological Conference people ma terialized. I'm agin it, but too old to of Fish Along Coastal Georgia and prehistoric researchers. This common and ride the wheel up, down, and around Florida" which, in turn, was followed in expanding center is the Southeastern Ar again. the second number of 1982 by an article chaeological Conference (SEAC). on burials from the Second Seminole War. The wheel came around again in less Between 1982 and 1997 (Volume 16 Num Award accepted by Jeffrey M. Mitchem than four years. During the separation ber I) a total of 34 articles moved histori Immediate Past Secretary, SEAC SEAC never completely abandoned its in cal archaeology center stage. A raw count terest in the Contact Period and even its reveals the 1930s theme of Contact Period 1979 Secretary-Elect, Rochelle Marrinan, sites as still predominate: publicly confessed, "my interests seem to be turning to historic archaeology." 2. Wyche Fowler, Jr. (Former) US Senator Contact Period/ for Creating Major Legislative Protection Restoration came in 1982 with three Early Exploration 13 items glorious events. First, SEAC President for the Historical Archaeological Heritage Bruce Smith wrote to Stanley South ask FaunallBotanical Analysis 8 items of the United States ing for a reunification. The CHSA re The SHA is honoring former US Senator sponded by ending its own existence by African-American Archaeology 7 items Wyche Fowler, Jr. for his contributions to folding itself back into SEAC, but now as historical preservation. Senator Fowler a fully integrated aspect of the Confer Euroamerican Sites 2 items was born in Atlanta in 1940, and was ence. The 40th SEAC Annual Meeting, graduated from Davidson College with a held in Columbia, South Carolina, saw an Urban Archaeology 2 items BA in English and Philosophy in 1962. In inclusive prehistoric-historic program Industrial Archaeology 2 items 1969 he earned a law degree from Emory with sessions on such topics as "The Ar and also holds honorary degrees from chaeology of Plantations." The year 1982 Supplementing this excellent journal Hofstra, Davidson and Morris Brown. Mr. also saw the SEAC Bulletin series (24 is- coverage has been an active survey of the Fowler is married and has one daughter. Fowler's political career started when he was elected to the Atlanta City Coun cil when he was 29 years old, followed by his service as President of the same Coun cil from 1973 to 1977. He was elected to the US House of Representatives in 1977 where he served on the Ways and Means Committee, the Foreign Affairs Commit tee, the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Congressional Arts Council. In 1986 he was elected to the US Senate where, in turn, he served as Assistant Floor Leader and was a member of the Senate Appropriations, Budget, Energy and Agriculture Committees. It was while Fowler was in the Senate that he spon sored the 1992 amendment to the Na tional Historic Preservation Act that has been referred to as the "Fowler Amend ment." Senator Fowler served until 1993 when he lost his seat in a very dose race. He was SHA Officers and Directors in Atlanta a partner in the firm of Powell, Goldstein, Front (left to right): Susan Henry Renaud, Toni Carrell, Teresita Majewski, Frazer and Murphy until January 1996 Pam Cressey, Stephanie Rodeffer, Henry Miller. when he left the firm to set up his own Rear (left to right): Charles Orser, Julia King, Norman Barka, practice. Wyche Fowler was nominated Ronald Michael, Marlesa Gray, Douglas Scott. by President Clinton as the US Ambassa (Christopher DeCorse not pictured). dor to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in August 1996. His nomination was con Photos in this issue by Vince Macek, TRC Garrow Associates, Inc. firmed by the Senate in October 1997. r
Joint 30th Anniversary SHNSPMA Conference
The Society for Historical Archaeology Noel Hume. This is the site of Martin's and the Society for Post-Medieval Archae Hundred, an early seventeenth-century ology were both founded in 1967. In or settlement, destroyed by an Indian upris der to celebrate the 30th anniversary of ing. It is quite the best interpretation of a the two societies, joint conferences were grass site I have seen anywhere and with held in Williamsburg in April and in Lon an excellent museum. The Saturday don in November, 1997. evening saw a reception in the Great Hall of William and Mary College, a wonder • Report from London on the ful environment and delicious food. Williamsburg Conference (April 16-20, At 7:00 AM on the Sunday morning we 1997) by Jonathan Horne [Reprinted set off by coach to travel the 140 miles to from the SPMA Newsletter, Summer St. Mary's City, Maryland. Founded in 1634, it was the first capital of the state Pat Garrow (left), SHA '98 Atlanta 1997]. and now, having little development, there Conference Chair and Robert Schuyler at From the very start, the fifteen or so Brit is much scope for archaeological research. Awards Ceremony. ish representatives were given the VIP One of the most memorable site visits was treatment. On the Wednesday, which was to a reconstructed seventeenth-century a glorious day, we were entertained at plantation. The house was looked after by The SHA is honoring Mr. Fowler for his Yorktown by Rob Hunter and his ar a man and three women. Every detail was pivotal role in the passage of the "Fowler chaeological colleagues. This included accurately portrayed, even to a midden Amendment." This amendment created lunch and a magnificent buffet reception heap of old pottery and rubbish outside the National Center for Preservation in the evening. Just some of the items on the back window. Technology and Training, which is located the agenda included a visit to the kiln site After a generous lunch we visited at Northwestern State University of Loui of William Rogers, the "poor potter" of Mattapany, the site of the third Lord siana in Natchitoches. The Center's mis Yorktown; a recently opened shipwreck Baltimore's house. Unfortunately, this ex sion is to advance the practice of historic exhibition relating to the siege of cavation had been limited to a number of preservation in the fields of archaeology, Yorktown in 1783 (when the British lost small holes. Being warned about ticks historic architecture, landscapes, materi the colonies), a fascinating tour of the ar which were prevalent in the long grass, als conservation and history. The Center chaeological store and a delightful show it was relaxing to get back to the bus. Our has assembled an impressive technical of how to decorate slipware given by last call of the day was to Sotterley Plan staff and training board and is a valuable Michelle Erickson. tation, a quite beautiful house originating addition to the historic preservation ef The following day had an equally full from 1717, situated on a high ridge with fort. programme. Archaeological displays had magnificent views across the Patuxent The "Fowler Amendment" greatly been set up at three quite distinct centres River. It was a perfect evening and we strengthened the Section 106 process that around Williamsburg which needed spe were sumptuously entertained to a buf protects archaeological sites and ex cial map reading abilities to locate. These fet supper on the long porch. panded the definition of a federal under included a tour of the archaeological re Many thanks and congratulations taking. Included within the new defini search centre at Williamsburg, artifacts must go to Norman Barka and his many tion of federal undertaking, as delineated from Kings Castle, Bermuda (1612-1622) colleagues who made this American half by the Advisory Council on Historic Pres and items recovered from a seventeenth of the conference work so well. It will ervation, are projects undertaken by an century plantation site at Hampton, Vir truly be a trip to remember. agency on its behalf; projects with federal ginia. Later that morning we were taken Note: papers presented at the Wil funding assistance; projects done under to Jamestown, the site of the first perma liamsburg conference are listed in the federal permits, licenses or approval; and nent English settlement. There, we were Summer 1997 issue of the SHA Newsletter projects done under State or local regu generously entertained by Bill Kelso and (page 13). lations through authority delegated or ap his team, and shown the ongoing excava proved by a federal agency. tion on the site of the first fort, c.1607, • Report from Williamsburg on the The SHA is pleased to present one of with a chance to view the many small ar London Conference (November 3-7, its highest honors to former Senator and tifacts recovered. 1997) by Norman F. Barka now American Ambassador to the King That evening saw the official opening dom of Saudi Arabia, the Honorable of the conference. Two full days of lec About 30 Americans ventured across the Wyche Fowler, Jr. of Atlanta. tures followed, with the Brits speaking on Atlantic in order to attend this special con the Friday, and the Americans on Satur ference. Many of us stayed in the Russell Award was accepted by Patrick H. Garrow day. The subjects were varied and inter Square area of London, close to the Brit SHA 1998 Conference Chair esting and there was little time for nod ish Museum. Our British colleagues had ding off. things well organized in terms of papers On the Friday night, a reception was and tours. The first days presentations of held at Carters Grove, hosted by Ivor papers was held at The Museum of Lon-
'Volttm,e311 Number 1 don; during the day, delegates had the (fish and chips) or Menu B (sausage and ments at the 17th c. George public house, opportunity to visit the excellent exhibits eggs), we departed Chatham for a short after which some delegates toured the and to see some reserve collections. Two journey to Rochester, where we visited an Tower of London and others visited St. more days were devoted to papers, and interesting city museum, and cathedral. Pauls Cathedral. these sessions were held in the British Our last stop before London was a cozy Thanks to the organizers of the Lon Museum. The British Museum is one of 17th-century pub, where we sampled lo don conference, especially Geoff Egan, the world's great museums and it was cal refreshments. David Gaimster, and David Barker, for a truly a pleasure to stroll among the many The last day of the conference was superb job. exhibits and to see in person many of the spent seeing some of the historic sites of The Joint 30th Anniversary Confer world's greatest antiquities. Another high London, specifically in Southwark and ence, both in Williamsburg and in Lon point was an exhibit on post-medieval the City. A guided tour began across the don, was a great success. The members of ceramics. It was also a thrill for the speak Thames where we visited the full-scale both SHA and SPMA exchanged a great ers to be able to give their papers in this reconstruction of Shakespeare's Globe variety of information concerning histori famous museum. Theatre, based partly on excavated infor cal archaeology and perhaps, more im During the course of the 5-day confer mation. We then proceeded a short dis portantly, we got to know each other a ence, delegates were able to visit several tance away to the original sites of the little better. Lets keep up the international special exhibits and participate in planned Globe and Rose Theatres, where excava contacts on a regular basis; it can only tours, both in London and outside of the tors told us some of the controversial is advance our discipline! city. One evening was spent at the "Pot sues surrounding the archaeology of tery in the Making" exhibit at the Mu these late sixteenth-century sites. We Note: see the Past Conference section of seum of Mankind, Burlington House, walked through the historic town of this SHA Newsletter for a list of papers pre which was an excellent summary view of Southwark, once home to countless tin sented in London. the varieties of pottery made in different glazed potters; ate lunch with refresh- parts of the world. On another evening we traveled to east London, the former territory of the infamous Jack the Ripper who, on a dark SHA '98 Conference Summary night, still seems to be present. On this occasion, as well as many others, Atlanta, Georgia Jonathan Horne provided valuable com mentary on the history and buildings of Prepared by among 68 sessions. The paper count does London. In east London we observed his Patrick H. Garrow not include formal session introductions, toric Spittle field church, now undergoing (TRC Garrow Associates, Inc.) informal presentations at workshops and restoration; Michael Gillingham lectured Conference Chair panel discussions, discussants, or poster us on the history of the church. After sessions. The paper sessions included 36 wards, Mr. Gillingham and Donald The 31st SHA Conference on Historical organized sessions and 24 contributed Findlay invited the delegates to visit their and Underwater Archaeology was held at sessions. The remaining sessions were fine restored east London townhouse; we the Crowne Plaza Ravinia Hotel in At one forum, three workshops, two panel were able to partake of a fine wine and lanta, Georgia on January 7-10, 1998. The discussions, one organized poster session snacks while viewing a house full of an Conference was hosted by TRC Garrow and one contributed poster session. tiques. This was another high point of the Associates, Inc., New South Associates, Nine sessions focused on military ar conference, as was the dinner that fol and Georgia State University. The Confer chaeology, and four of those dealt with lowed in an Indian restaurant. ence themes were the American Civil War the terrestrial or underwater archaeology It was fantastic to be in London, and and the Postbellum Nation, but papers of the American Civil War. Eight sessions to observe its many sights, shops, restau and sessions were presented on a broad dealt with ethnicity, of which the vast ma rants and wonderful pubs. However, it range of topics. jority of papers dealt with Africans or Af was also nice to tour areas outside of this The weather was a factor for many in rican-Americans. The remaining sessions large city. An all-day bus tour lasted some travel to the Conference as the region ex covered topics that ranged from the ar 14 hours. We journeyed first to Gravesend perienced heavy rain and flash floods on chaeology of the Arctic and Subarctic to Church, the burial place of Pocahontas. January 7 and 8. The weather cleared by the archaeological study of American Next we traveled to Upnor Castle, a well January 9, however, and was clear and brothel sites. preserved sixteenth-century fortification. cool for the remainder of the meeting. A few papers were withdrawn prior to We then traveled to our main stop of the The Plenary Session was held Wednes the meeting, but after the program was day, Chatham Historic Dockyard, En day evening prior to the start of the main printed, and an almost equal number gland's main ship-building facility for program on Thursday morning. The tim were added after the program went to the over one thousand years. It is now a mu ing of the Plenary Session was necessi printer to redress program errors. A few seum and Jonathan Coad guided us to see tated by the unusually large number of contributed sessions experienced one or many of its well preserved industrial papers and sessions on the program. Pres more no-shows that created schedule buildings. One fascinating exhibit was the entations were given on the status of Civil gaps, but the number was minimal. demonstration of ropemaking, carried out War and Africa-American archaeology. One of the most significant sessions of in a building over one thousand feet in There were a record number 405 pa the Conference was the Public Session, length. After a lunch of either Menu A pers on the printed program, distributed which was held Saturday afternoon. That
Spring 1998 session, titled "Historical Archaeology in of Civil War material in the country, as Nick Honerkamp and the other musicians Our Big Backyard: Atlanta and Beyond," well as a large and important folk art ex of Gravity's Rim put on a memorable per was open to the public at no charge. A hibit. The caterer, Affairs to Remember, formance that will be hard to beat in Salt total of 280 visitors signed the guest book served food that was representative of all Lake City. for this session, and many more attended regions of Georgia, and provided what The Crowne Plaza Ravinia proved to without signing. The importance of the amounted to a full meal for most of the be an excellent venue for the Atlanta Public Session at the Atlanta meeting had participants. meeting. The hotel staff worked tirelessly been recognized through the appoint The Conference Banquet Friday night to insure that everyone enjoyed the Con ment of a Popular Program Chair. was well attended, and featured a duet ference and to overcome the sheer size of A unique aspect of the 1998 Confer which played traditional southern blue the Conference and the demand for ence was incorporation of regional grass music. The dance following the ban scarce hotel rooms. The hotel provided craftspersons into the meeting. Elizabeth quet featured the band Gravity's Rim, over a hundred rooms at the Conference Fleming made Sea Island baskets and which played British Invasion rock and rate beyond our room block for the two talked to registrants about that unique roll. Outgoing President Henry Miller, in busiest nights at the Conference rate, and Gullah craft from the South Carolina his last official act, declared the band to met the often changing room needs coast. Ernie Mills made wooden decoys be the "Official Rock Band of the SHA." throughout the meeting. using traditional methods. Cleater and Billie Meaders demonstrated stoneware pottery making and talked with regis trants about the history of the state's al kaline-glazed stoneware industry. All of the craftspersons had examples of their crafts for sale at the meeting. The crafts persons added a great deal to the meeting and were well received by the registrants. The Conference was one of the larg est SHA meetings ever held with a total of 1,031 registrants. Eight hundred and seventy-four of the registrants were pre registered. The registrants included 636 regular members, 267 students, and 128 volunteers or guests. The guests included representatives of the media, members of the Conference Committee, and book room exhibitors. The volunteers drew heavily on the staffs of TRC Garrow As sociates, New South Associates, and Brockington & Associates, all local firms. Approximately two-thirds of the volun teers were students. The Conference reg istrants came from 17 countries. The larg est group registrants (n=981) came from 48 of the 50 states of the United States plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Twenty registrants came from the Canadian provinces, while 13 were from England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Eight tours were scheduled and con ducted during the Atlanta meeting. No tours were canceled, and the smallest tour groups were taken by car for personalized tours of the selected attractions. The Na tive American Tour attracted nearly 30 people and required the use of a bus, the Material Culture and Civil War tours were also well attended. The Conference Reception was held at the Atlanta History Center Thursday night. The exhibits at the History Center included what is arguably the best display SHA '99 Conference -Salt Lake City
In Atlanta, Mike Polk, Conference Chair and wine. The host hotel has a bar that shopping and lunch served in historic for the 1999 SHA meeting in Salt Lake will seat 60-80 people and there will be Park City, one of the main venues for the City, gave some highlights of the upcom alcohol served at the receptions. Also, 2002 winter olympics. ing conference. The conference, hosted by there is a state liquor store across the Another planned tour will be of sev Sagebrush Consultants, L.L.c., and co street from the hotel. eral railroad related facilities. The tour will hosted by the Utah Department of Trans Our reception will be held at the visit the military railroad shops on Hill Air portation and the Utah Historical Society, Union railroad station in Ogden, located Force Base north of Salt Lake City (the will be held January 5-10, 1999, at the 35 miles to the north. This is a 1925 mis only railroad shops in the country still Hilton Hotel in downtown Salt Lake City. sion style building with a vintage car ex servicing military locomotives), and his Courtesy shuttles from the nearby airport hibit, Browning Arms museum, and a rail toric 25th street in Ogden. The tour will will be available to bring registrants to the road museum. We will have food served proceed to the Golden Spike National hotel. There are 300 rooms set aside for by the Union Grill and beer will come Monument north of the Great Salt Lake. the conference. The site is close to a num from a local microbrewery. This is the site of the original joining of ber of local attractions including the Uni There will be a ski package available the transcontinental railroad in 1869. versity of Utah Natural History Museum, for those so inclined. There are 12 ski re An additional tour will visit the Hill Air historic Fort Douglas, Trolley Square with sorts in close proximity to Salt Lake City. Force Base Museum near Ogden. This shopping and dining, downtown mall, There are several tours planned for the museum has one of the largest displays Family Research Center, night clubs and meeting. One is the Park City Silver Mine of aircraft (mostly World War II and later) Temple Square. Town, which involves a ride down into a in the United States. One of the most often asked questions working mine to the 1500 foot level, a ride Note: see the Winter 1997 issue of the about this conference is whether alcohol on a mine train through tunnels blasted SHA Newsletter for call for papers infor can be served. Most restaurants serve beer out during the 1800s. There will also be mation.
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Reported by Praetzellis' excavations of trash-filled Julia and Adrian spoke clearly and pas James G. Gibb privies from the city's late 19th century sionately about what they were doing 'red light' district. The brothels operated and finding. Most importantly, they had Martha Williams, David Clark, and Victor from the 1890s until their closure during a message, one that warrants reiteration Geraci conducted a pre-conference work the reform movement of 1909. The build in future films: the people of Los Ange shop for teachers at the November 1997 ings were demolished, their remains les, not a century ago, thought very dif meeting of the National Council for So sealed beneath Union Station's parking ferently about some things than their de cial Studies in Cincinnati, Ohio. The lot until exposed by the excavators and scendants do today. workshop, sponsored by the SHA Public photographed by Furman Films of Venice, State law and municipal ordinances Education and Information Committee, California, for The Learning Channel's prohibit prostitution in Los Angeles. In prepared teachers for archaeological in 'The Hunt for Amazing Treasures.' the 1890s, however, at least the city's po struction in the classroom. The workshop Interviews with journalists and film litical elite tacitly approved of the prac faculty used the most current draft of the makers can evoke apprehension. Will I tice. In one scene, Julia thumbs through teaching strategies manual, also prepared look professional on film? Am I wearing a 'sporting guide' published in the city, under the auspices of the Public Educa breakfast? Did the crew get that collapsed introducing residents and visitors to the tion and Information Committee. unit wall cleaned up yet? The fact that the accommodations provided in the red light tape will air nationwide on a program district, naming the proprietors of broth titled 'The Hunt for Amazing Treasures' els and the women for whom they Treasuring Bordellos does little to settle your stomach or stop worked. Footage shot on site and in the the cold sweat beading up on your fore laboratory depict thousands of fine ce Submitted by head. Not to worry: with good material ramics and other artifacts unearthed from James G. Gibb like privy contents and brothels, how can the abandoned privies, luxuries that were you go wrong? out of place in this otherwise working This past summer, I received a videotape Julia Costello and Adrian did not go class neighborhood. Clips from silent in the mail. Wrapped in a plain envelope wrong, but I am convinced it had little to motion pictures illustrate these objects in and posted from California, you can do with their material. The ten minute their original contexts. imagine my first guess as to its contents. film succeeded for two reasons. High The message of changing perspec Well, we were both right...and wrong. The quality editing by an intelligent film crew tives-of a different culture-does not video contained images of brothels in Los created a well-structured documentary focus strictly on prostitution. At one point Angeles: late 19th century still photo that avoided sensationalism and allowed in the film, Adrian and Julia examine a tin graphs, early 20th century film segments, the archaeologists to say what they of tooth cleaning powder, presumably re and footage of Julia Costello and Adrian thought was important about their work.. covered from one of the privies. Adrian
Sprlng19~8 uses this prop to bring up the subject of unusual find and no more a treasure than value of archaeology: explore not only changing attitudes towards dental hy the broken cut glass pitcher and other ac different attitudes and practices of the giene. He notes that communal tooth couterments of a parlor in a bordello. past, but show how variability in the com brushes were left by the wash basin for Unfortunately, as Mary Praetzellis ex munity (in this case the growing progres public use, a practice that neither the plained to me in a telephone interview, sive movement) led to new widely held American Medical Association nor current the finial had been found just the day be attitudes and practices. In other words, manufacturers of toothbrushes would fore filming; hence the archaeology team archaeologists can show how diversity care to endorse. Today, most of us take for did not have time to research it and make lies at the root of change and how seem granted that our guests will not use our a case for its informational value. ingly timeless values often have little his toothbrushes. High profile excavations in downtown torical depth. At several points during the film, our Los Angeles engendered a good deal of Adrian Praetzellis, Julia Costello, and colleagues make a point of referring to publicity, leading eventually to the film their associates have done us all a great their finds as objects valuable for their in makers approaching Julia and Adrian service, professional archaeologists and formation and not for their monetary with a proposal to film a short documen interested public alike. Not only have value. Virtually everything they find is tary piece. Despite the name of the series they shared what they have learned broken. In a scene shot at their lab, Adrian in which the film would appear, Julia and through a medium over which they had and Julia talk about how each artifact il Adrian accepted the offer. They used this little control, but they have played their luminates the lives of a section of the opportunity to teach a nationwide audi own small role in what someday may city's turn-of-the-century population ence a little about anthropology and his emerge as our society's redefinition of largely overlooked and forgotten. One toric preservation. Their principal point, treasure. object with clear pecuniary value, a that attitudes toward some practice in Los Please direct comments or submissions twenty-two carat gold finial piece with Angeles during the 1890s were very dif to James G. Gibb at jggibb@ erols.com, or Chinese characters, grabs the spotlight for ferent from those held by most of the 2554 Carrollton Road, Annapolis, MD a moment, but-while admired for its city's residents today, is a very important 21403. beauty-is quickly dismissed as a very one to make to the public. Here is the
• National Preservation Institute, 1998 Announcements Seminars in Historic Preservation & Cul Field Schools/ tural Resource Management: the NPI is a nonprofit organization which provides Programs 1998 • The Anne Arundel County Trust for professional training for the manage Preservation and the County's Lost ment, development, and preservation of Towns of Anne Arundel Project are Alaska historic, cultural, and environmental re pleased to announce the award of a sources. For further information contact: $15,000 grant from the National Center • University of Alaska, Anchorage -1998 Jere Gibber, National Preservation Insti for Preservation Technology and Training, Summer Field School at Old Knik Town tute, PO Box 1702, Alexandria, VA 22313. and the National Park Service. The grant site: The Cultural Resources Division of 703/765-0100. Email [email protected]. Web will be used to purchase a digital video the Matanuska-Susitna Borough is spon www.npi.org camera, a computer, and software for soring an archaeological field school at video editing. The Lost Towns archaeolo the Old Knik Townsite in cooperation gists currently excavating at Providence with Anthropology classes at Mat-Su Col (1649) and London Town (1684) will Request For lege and the University of Alaska, Anchor record, preserve, analyze, and dissemi age (UAA). Originally a native village, nate archaeological information with this Information Knik townsite in the late 19th Century new equipment. Field testing will evalu became a Euro-American supply station, ate recent developments in video technol attracting prospectors and trappers. The townsite thrived between 1895 and 1915. ogy and determine the utility of this tech • Paul Cushman Stoneware: I am writ The site is situated on the west coast of nology for archaeology sites. The ability ing in the hope of reaching persons Knik Arm, in Upper Cook Inlet, north of to record and edit high-quality digital knowledgeable about, and possible collec the Gulf of Alaska. It is located 13 miles photographs and video will dramatically tors of, stoneware made by Paul Cushman south of Wasilla, a major City within the increase the capability and efficiency of in Albany, New York, from 1806-1830. He Matanuska-Susitna Borough; and ap recording field data, and in rapidly dis is a direct linear ancestor. The Albany In proximately 60 road miles from Anchor seminating that data for educational pur stitute of History and Art is planning an age, Alaska's largest City. poses. The Lost Towns Project archaeolo exhibition of his works in the year 2000. Students will investigate a residential gists will share digital images with other As part of the same, I am helping to put portion of old Knik. Preliminary surveys researchers and with the public, through together a catalogue raisonne, a descrip indicate that both Tanaina and Euro the World Wide Web. For more informa tion of as many signed Paul Cushman American house foundations are present. tion contact Liz West, Lost Towns Project pieces as are known. Contact: Paul Courses offered through UAA will take - 410/222-7255, FAX: 410/22-7441; E-mail: Cushman, Jr., 1170 Fifth Ave., New York, place over a six week period. Starting May [email protected] NY 10029. 18 it will run through June 26, 1998. Stu- dents may excavate from 2 weeks or more up to six weeks. Credit will be commen Employment Opportunities surate with number of weeks a student participates. One credit is granted per ex Reported by nouncements received fitting your quali cavation week. Sara F. Mascia fications and requirements will be sent to The course through Matanuska you. It is up to you to respond to the no Susitna College will take place over a 3 Please send all correspondence for the tice, following normal or specified appli week period. Starting July 6, it will run Clearinghouse for Employment Opportu cation procedures. through July 31,1998 for 3 credits. nities to: Sara F. Mascia, Society for His Charges for the course are $72.00 per torical Archaeology, P.O. Box 442, • Employers: Please send a description of Credit hour. For more details Please call Tarrytown, NY 10591-0442. Telephone/ the position available noting any relevant Dr. Yesner at the UAA Anthropology De FAX: 914/762-0773. DO NOT SEND Clear requirements (e.g., regional experience, partment 907/786-6840; or call Vickie Cole inghousemail to the SHA offices. specialized skills). Copies of the descrip at the Matanuska-Susitna College 907/ tion will be sent to qualified candidates 745-9774. • Employment Seekers: Please send one on file with the Clearinghouse. An appli Food and Lodging is up to the indi copy of your resume along with a cover cation deadline or notification once a job vidual. For further information and assis letter including a daytime phone number, has been filled would be appreciated. If tance please call Fran Seager Boss, Cul and any preferences such as the region, for any reason you do not want the posi tural Resources Division of the duration of job, and type of position you tion advertised in the SHA Newsletter Matanuska-Susitna Borough at 907/745- are seeking to the above address. All re please note that at the top of the an 9853. sumes are placed on file for two years. nouncement. If a position must be filled Please resubmit your resume of you immediately, please call and qualified Maryland would like to remain on file. Any job an- prospects can be notified without delay. • Historic S1. Mary's City: the 1998 field school in historical archaeology will run from June 10-August 16. It will include Future ConferenceslWorkshops lectures, field trips, and archaeological excavation on a portion of Smith's Town • Society for Industrial Archaeology: from April 8-11, 1998. Contact: Michael Land, a three acre tract granted to William 27th Annual Conference, June 4-7,1998, Sampson, California State Parks, 8885 Rio Smith in 1666. The goals of this summer's Indianapolis. Full day of papers, plus two San Diego Drive, Suite 270, San Diego, CA work are to idenify the location of any days of tours. Contact William McNiece, 92108. phone 619/220-5323, email 17th-century structures on the site and to 5250 N. Pennsylvania Street, Indianapo [email protected] explore the layout of a 19th-century slave lis, IN 46220-3057; phone 317/274-8222; quarters. The program costs $840 which email [email protected] • 82nd Annual Meeting of the New York covers tuition and fees; there is a $45 fee State Archaeological Association on May to cover the cost of the major field trips. • The Council on America's Military 1-2, 1998, at the Bonnie Castle Resort Ho Housing is available at a reduced cost Past (CAMP) will hold its 32nd annual tel, Alexandria Bay, New York. The theme through St. Mary's College. Transporta Military History Conference May 6-10, of the meeting will be St. Lawrence Val tion, food and entertainment are the re 1998, in Lexington, Kentucky, with em ley archaeology. Contact: Tim Abel, 82nd. sponsibility of the student. To apply send phasis on the opening of the West and on NYSAA Annual Meeting Program Chair, a letter stating your interest in the course, the military in the Old Northwest Terri PO Box 81, Philadelphia, NY 13673. Email prior classes, experience, special skills, tory, and conflicts from the French and In [email protected] and the names of two academic refer dian War through the Civil War plus all ences. Apply as soon as possible as hous other American and Canadian military • Aerial Photo Applications to Cultural ing is limited. For information call 301/ history. For more information contact Resource Management, on May 11-15, 862-0974. Send applications to: Archaeol CAMP at P.O. Box 1151, Fort Myer, VA 1998, at Fort Laramie National Historic ogy Program, Dept. of Research, HSMC, 22211-1151 or phone 703/912-6124 or fax Site, Goshen County, Wyoming. The PO Box 39, St. Mary's City, MD 20686. 703/912-5666. workshop deals with vertically acquired aerial photographs and with terrestrial Minnesota • 16th Annual Symposium on Ohio Val photographs. $295 for course tuition. ley Urban and Historic Archaeology, on Contact: Steven De Vore, National Park • The Minnesota Archaeological Re March 21-22, 1998, at Riverside, the Service, Intermountain Support Office search Program is conducting an archaeo Farnsley-Moreman Landing, Louisville, Denver, at 303/969-2882 or email logical field school at the site of the early Kentucky, a historic site. Contact: Trina steve_de_ [email protected] nineteenth century American Fur Maples, Arrangements Chair, 215 Company headquarters in Mendota from Ridgeway Rd. #7, Lexington, KY 40502. • Non-Destructive Investigative Tech June 18-July 31. For an application form Work phone 606/252-4737. niques for Cultural Resource Manage or more information contact: Dr. Robert ment, on May 18-22, 1998, at Pecos Na A. Clouse, Archaeology Dept., Ft. Snelling • The 1998 Society for California Ar tional Historic Park, Pecos, New Mexico. History Center, St. Paul, MN 55111. phone chaeology Annual Meeting, to be held at This workshop is designed to provide a 612/726-1171, email marpCu)tc.umn.edu the Hyatt Islandia Hotel in San Diego practical application of geophysical
Spring 1998 equipment and aerial photographic tech of recent years, which will lay the foun niques available for the identification, dations for ceramic research into the next Past Conferences/ evaluation, and ultimately, the conserva millennium. Workshops tion and protection of cultural resources. $475 for course tuition. Contact Steven De Subjects include: Vore at above phone/email. The excavation of an 18th-century • Special 30th Anniversary Joint Confer potworks at Shelton Farm, ence of the Society for Post-Medieval • Association for Gravestone Studies, Stoke-on-Trent Archaeology & The Society for Histori 1998 National Conference, on June 25-28, cal Archaeology, held in London, En Delftware production at Wapping, at Monmouth University, West Long gland, on November 3-7, 1997. The fol London Branch, New Jersey. For information lowing papers were presented: about the 21st Annual Conference, con The technology of Nottingham Brown tact: Richard Veit, 76 Webb Ave., Ocean Salt-glazed stoneware Robert Schulyer (University of Grove, NJ 07756. Email rveit@mondec. Pots and potters of Ticknall, Derbyshire Pennsylvania) - The Centrality of Post monmouth.edu The Development of the Coalport China Medieval Studies to General Historical Works Archaeology. • The 1998 Autumn Meeting of the So Matthew Johnson (University of ciety for Post-Medieval Archaeology is J. & P. Bell's Pottery, Glasgow Durham) - The New Post-Medieval entitled "New Ideas in Post-Medieval Ar The Archaeology of the Forth Potteries Archaeology. chaeology". It will be hosted by the De Pottery and Porcelain Finds from Kathleen Bragdon (College of William partment of Archaeology at the Univer Isleworth, Middlesex sity of Durham, England, and will take and Mary) - Contact Period Archaeology 19th-century Staffordshire ceramics for place on September 21-22. Call for papers, in Native North America: Case Studies with abstracts due May 14. Contact: Mat the American Market from New England. thew Johnson, Conference Organizing Pottery from a 19th-century China Norman Emery (Archaeologist in Committee, Dept. of Archaeology, Univ. Dealer's shop in Exeter Residence, Durham Cathedral) - St. of Durham, Durham DHI 3LE, u.K. Fax Excavations at Dudsons Factory, Hanley Kilda - Excavations in a 19th-Century 01913743619, email m.h.johnson Ceramics from 19th-century Chester Hebridean Village. @durham.ac.uk households Ken Barton (Past President, SPMA) - The Ceramics from an early 19th-century inn Early Years of the Society for Post • The 56th Annual Meeting of the Plains at Uxbridge Medieval Archaeology. Anthropological Conference will be held Theresa Singleton (Smithsonian at the Radisson Inn, Bismarck, North Da Excavation and Renovation of a Pottery Institution) - Unveiling the African kota on October 14-17, 1998. Contact: Fern Kiln at Nantgarw Diaspora. Swenson, State Historical Society of North 300 years of Buckley pottery Dakota, 612 E. Blvd. Ave., Bismarck, ND Adrian Praetzellis (Sonoma State Recent work into the study of red wares University) - Archaeology of Ethnicity: 58505. phone 701/328-3675, email from Harlow, Essex ccmail.fswenson@ranch. state.nd.us The Chinese in Gold-Rush-Era A highlight of the conference will be California. • World Archaeology Congress 4: to be the opportunity, on Saturday night, to Simon Mays (English Heritage) - The held in Capetown, South Africa, on Janu view the exhibition Digging for Early Por Archaeological Study of Post-Medieval ary 10-14, 1999. Contact: Conference Sec celain, to be held at the City Museum & Populations. retariat at Global Conferences, PO Box Art Gallery, which examines the contribu Marley Brown (Colonial Williamsburg 44503, Claremont, 7735, South Africa. Tel: tion of archaeology to the study of early Foundation) - The Practice of American +27 (21) 7628600. Fax: +27 (21) 7628606. porcelain production in this country. Historical Archaeology. Email [email protected]. Website The conference fee is £55.00 for SPMN Henry Miller (Historic St. Mary's City) - http://www.uct.ac.za/depts/age/wac NCS members, and includes lunches on Colonial Town Planning in the all three days. Chesapeake. • Joint Conference of the Society for The conference is non-residential. For Post-Medieval Archaeology and the further information, please contact: David Teresita Majewski (Statistical Research, Northern Ceramic Society: POTS, Barker, Keeper of Archaeology, City Mu Inc.) - Eighteenth-Century British PEOPLE AND PROCESSES: to be held in seum & Art Gallery, Bethesda Street, Ceramics on the American Colonial Stoke-on-Trent, Friday 24th April - Sun Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, STl 3DE. Tel. +44 Frontier. day 26th April, 1998. (0)1782 232323, Fax +44 (0)1782 232500, Beverley Nenk (British Museum), Jacqui The theme of this first joint conference email: david.barker@stokeOl. stoke Pearce and Roy Stephenson between the two societies is recent work Cc.gov.uk (Museum of London Archaeological on British ceramics from both historical Service) - Redwares, Border Wares & and archaeological perspectives. We aim Tinglazed Wares to present a range of new work, mostly Richard Coleman-Smith (Donyatt unpublished, at what we hope will be one Research Group) - Excavations at the of the most important ceramic meetings Donyatt Potteries, Somerset. Mary Beaudry (Boston University) - House & Household: An Overview of the Current Publications Archaeology of Domestic Life. Reported by The first comprehensive reference David Crossley (University of Sheffield) Carolyn Wallingford book on the discovery and recovery of the - Glass Manufacture in Post-Medieval submerged past. Written by an interna England. Authors and publishers should send brief tional team of over 180 expert contribu Norman Barka (College of William and descriptions or news releases to Carolyn tors, the encyclopaedia contains over 450 Mary) - The Historical Archaeology of Wallingford, Current Publications Editor, entries covering all aspects of underwa Islands: Examples from the Caribbean SHA Newsletter, National Park Service, ter and maritime archaeology, from pre and Bermuda. Midwest Archaeological Center, Federal history to the modern era. David Starbuck (Plymouth State Building, Room 474, Lincoln, NE 68508, College) - Military Archaeology of or via e-mail to
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Spdng.1998 This study examines slipware from Gums, Bonnie L., Eva Dodge Mounce tury, four in full size and four in minia three points of view. The first part illus and Floyd Mansberger ture models. The author provides detailed trates and identifies 22 different types of descriptions and illustrations of each ele 1997 - The Kirkpatricks' Potteries in Illinois: decoration and explains in detail their ment of these canoes, which contain a A Family Tradition. Illinois methods of manufacture. The second part number of previously unreported fea Transportation Archaeological summarizes what is known historically of tures. In addition, the book contains ex Research Program, TARR #3, Uni the ware from commercial records and tensive chapters on the origins, manufac versity of Illinois. 96 pp.; illus.; $8.00 marked vessels. The third part, using un ture, decoration, usage, sailing, portaging, (plus $4.00 p/h). Distributed by CM marked archaeologically retrieved vessels, repair, storage, equipment, and cargoes, Press, Box 366, Kampsville, IL 62053. reconstructs the chronology of the vari of voyaging canoes. ous types of decoration and the forms on A detailed archaeological and historical which they appeared. study of the famous Kirkpatricks' Hunt, William J., Jr. (Compiler) potteries, which operated in Illinois 1995 - Embossed Medicine Bottle Labels: An Pertulla, Timothy K. between 1836 and 1906. The study focuses on excavated kilns and Electronic Finding Aid for the 1997 - The Caddo Nation: Archaeological ceramics from the 1836-1871 pottery Identification of Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Perspectives. works in LaSalle County in northern Specimens. National Park Service, University of Texas Press, Austin. 352 Illinois and includes extensive Midwest Archeological Center, pp.; illus.; $19.95 paper. Contact Keri descriptions and illustrations of the Lincoln, NE. Revised August 1997. North, Publicist, P.O. Box 7819, ceramic assemblage. Available at no cost to users on the Austin, TX 78713-7819 (Telephone NPS, Midwest Archeological Center 5121471-4032). web page at http://www.mwac. Watters, David R. First published in 1992 and now up nps.gov dated with a new preface by the author 1997 - Historical Documentation and Recently revised and updated with new and a foreword by Thomas R. Hester, this Archaeological Investigation of sources and corrections, the embossed la book investigates the early contacts be Codrington Castle, Barbuda, West Indies. bel listing was compiled using information tween the Caddoan people of the present Annals of Carnegie Museum 66:229- from 38 archeolOgical reports and popular day Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Ar 288, Pittsburgh. $6.00 plus $1.50 bottle publications. It includes 6,080 entries kansas region and Europeans, including (USA) or $2.50 (foreign) postage. downloadable as a Microsoft Word or ASCII Spanish, French, and some Euro-Ameri Contact Scientific Publications, file enabling rapid searches of the database cans. The work focuses on changes from Carnegie Museum of Natural using character strings from complete or AD. 1520 to ca. AD. 1800. History, 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, partial labels. PA 15213. E-mail [email protected] Information from maps, charts, and Ahlstrom, Christian visitors' accounts is combined with data from test excavations to determine the 1996 - Looking for Leads. The Finnish architectural features, construction Academy of Science and Letters, phases, and functions of the now-de Helsinki. No price given. Order from stroyed Codrington Castle-principal Bookstore TIEDEKIRJA, Kirkkokatu, structure on the remote island of Barbuda 14,00170 Helsinki, Finland (Telephone from the 1680s to 1870s. The study dis 358-9-635-177; Fax 358-9-635-017). cusses the variability observed in Afro Caribbean and other locally and region Delgado, James P. ally made ceramics, including their 1997 - Made for the Ice: A Report on the production technologies and manufactur Wreck of the Hudson's Bay Company ing locales and ethnic and gender corre Ship Baymaud, ex-Polarskibit Maud. lates of the potters; and the Historic-pe Vancouver Maritime Museum and riod use of West Indian flint deposits or Underwater Archaeological Society reuse of artifacts "mined" from prehistoric of British Columbia, Vancouver, Be. sties. 32 pp.; illus.; no price given, paper. Order from UASBC, 86 Courtney Kent, Timothy J. Crescent, New Westminster, BC V3L- 1997 - Birchbark Canoes of the Fur Trade (2 4M2 Canada. vols), Silver Fox Enterprises. 662 pp.; illus.; $49.94 ($65.95 CND, plus $5.00 Marc, Jacques p/h Michigan residents add 6% sales tax), P.O. Box 176, Ossineke, MI 1997 - The Underwater Heritage of Friendly 49766. Cove. Underwater Archaeological Society of British Columbia, The core of this book is based on the Vancouver, Be. 40 pp.; illus.; no price author's discovery of eight surviving given, paper. See above for ordering original voyaging canoes of the 19th cen- information. Teaching Historical Archaeology
Reported by room of "students." Next year, the Soci year or at the annual meeting. Doug has Teresita Majewski ety hopes to offer another UNR course or agreed to serve as chair of the Student courses as well as additional SHA-spon Subcommittee, and Elizabeth will be con Student activities were featured promi sored workshops prior to the meeting. tinuing as an active member of the group. nently at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Watch your SHA Newsletter for details. They urge any student interested in Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA), In Atlanta I met informally with Doug working on or with the committee to con held in Atlanta this past January. Activi Pippin and Elizabeth J. Kellar of the Stu tact either of them via email (djpippin ties planned by the Academic and Profes dent Subcommittee. We all agreed that it's @mailbox.syr.edu; ejkellar@maxwell. sional Training Committee (APTC) and its necessary to increase involvement by stu syr.edu). They would also welcome ques Student Subcommittee included a career dents in SHA activities. The Student Sub tions, comments, and opinions from the forum on "Your Work Published" (watch for committee is looking for additional mem student perspective, as well as topical a summary in the Summer issue of the SHA bers who have the desire to get involved suggestions for student forums to be held Newsletter) and a reception for students at a more in-depth level with Society con at the annual meeting. I am also available that was well attended by both students cerns. But there is room for students who, to respond to comments or questions and SHA officers, board members, and while they may not wish to serve on the about the Society and its operations at past presidents. I am very grateful to committee, are still interested in partici [email protected] Henry M. Miller for helping to facilitate pating in other activities throughout the the reception. It is heartening that Soci ety-wide awareness of student needs and concerns is on the rise. In addition to the Military Sites Forum APTC-sponsored functions noted above, other activities of interest to students, but Submitted by ship and aircraft wreck sites. And" acous planned by others, included the SHA Em Dan Crouch tic imaging" is being used not only to lo ployment Table and a panel discussion led cate underwater sites, but also to detect by Robert J. Fryman, William B. Lees, and • Annual meeting held in Atlanta: The changes in sites over time . others entitled "Bridging the Gap: CRM 31st annual SHA conference is over. The Prisoner-of-War camps were repre and Academic Archaeology." subjects were diverse and the sites sented in papers summarizing three years SHA Board officers, board members, stretched from the Caribbean to Oregon of NPS effort at Andersonville, the noto past presidents, and committee chairs are to wherever U.s. Navy wrecks might be. rious Confederate prison, and detailing also concerned with recognizing and en But the twin themes of Civil War sites and the continuing accumulation of docu couraging students. The board voted to the African American experience were ments relating to the Union Prison at institute a student paper competition that dominant. There were the usual printing Johnson's Island. The experiences of Ger will be associated with the annual meet errors, last minute changes, and undeliv mans in a 1940s Texas camp were exam ings. Perhaps most exciting is the news ered papers. However, based on the ined in a poster session. that the board, per the suggestion of the printed schedule, of 68 numbered events, One groundbreaking session at Atlanta Awards Committee, has established a new four dealt with the Civil War and five was the first SHA session devoted to award named in honor of John L. Cotter. dealt wholly or primarily with other mili World War 1. Four of the five papers dealt The award is designed to recognize the tary topics. Of approximately 431 presen with training centers in Texas and Vir achievements of students and young pro tations including poster sessions, 69 were ginia. The fifth dealt with 'Army City", a fessionals. Watch upcoming issues of the military related. commercially developed town intended SHA Newsletter for more information on Many papers dealt with the black ex to serve the off-duty soldiers isolated at both the student paper competition and perience, both slave and free. One paper Ft. Riley, Kansas. A poster session dealing the John L. Cotter Award. Finally, during explored the century and a half associa with the use of remote sensing techniques their annual informal gathering in At tion of slaves with the British garrison on at the site added to interest in this site. lanta, the Past Presidents expressed their St. Kitts in the Caribbean. Another re Hopefully, research on World War I sites interest in future "sponsorship" and en viewed the impact and after effects of the will continue. dorsement" of the student reception, struggle for control of the Shenandoah This is only a sampling on the subjects which has been held the past few years Valley during the "Recent Unpleasant covered. With a few notable exceptions in association with the annual meeting. ness" on the residents of that area. The (such as the Cold War period), military The board voted to rename the gathering experience of "Buffalo soldiers" at a fron sites archaeology was well represented. as "The Past Presidents' Student Recep tier fort in Texas was reported. tion." Technology played a part, often ori • Revised index of military sites forth This year's featured pre-meeting train ented toward CRM functions. GIS/GPS coming: A revised index of military pa ing class, "Assessing the Archaeological was used to superimpose the 1862 land pers delivered at the annual SHA meet Significance of Historical Sites," was again scape of Antietam battleground over ings from 1991 to present will be ready in offered through the University of Ne today's landscape, thereby allowing bet the near future. Anyone who would like vada, Reno's (UNR) Heritage Resources ter selection of locations for testing. In a a copy should send their name and ad Management program. Drs. Donald session devoted to underwater archaeol dress to Mil Sites Papers, Archaeology Hardesty (UNR) and Barbara J. Little (Na ogy, reports were delivered on progress Lab, 4200 Smith School Rd., Austin, TX tional Park Service) ably instructed a full in computerizing information on Navy 78744. Current Research
Mid-Atlantic Stephen McBride (Wilbur Smith Associ ginia, felt very much a part of the upcom ates) and Dr. Kim A. McBride (Kentucky ing Revolutionary War. Most of the arti Archaeological Survey), with funding by facts were concentrated inside and Reported by the Summers County Historic Landmarks around the log blockhouse which prob Benjamin Resnick Commission, the West Virginia Humani ably served as kitchen, armory, and tem ties Foundation, the Greenbrier Histori porary living quarters. Most numerous Maryland cal Society, and the Kentucky Archaeo were finds of discarded pieces of animal logical Survey. The local defensive system bones-leftovers from butchering and • The Lost Towns of Anne Arundel of the 1770s and 1780s consisted prima food preparation; these finds are cur Project continues at the Colonial Port rily of 1) a county militia; 2) scouts in rently under investigation by Dr. Terry Town of London in Edgewater, Maryland. search of evidence of raiding parties; and Martin of Illinois State Museum. Settled in 1684, the Town of London was 3)forts to garrison militia and to provide A major goal of the Arbuckle's Fort ex crucial to the export of Maryland tobacco a haven for settlers. Forts grew from only cavation was public outreach. Nearly 500 until the 1747 Act by the General Assem two in the 1750s to at least 32 by the mid- students and 75 adult volunteers partici bly prohibited tobacco export from unau 1770s. Documents reveal that Arbuckle's pated in the excavation. Extremely suc thorized ports. Because London was not Fort was built by the Greenbrier County cessful was the web page (http:// selected as an authorized port, most of the militia in 1774, under the orders of Cap web.mountain.net/-ghs/fort.html) con tobacco trade and merchants moved to tain Matthew Arbuckle. structed and linked to the West Virginia Annapolis. While 23 of London's original One of the most significant finds of Archaeology Home Page-on some days, 100 acres are now owned and protected this excavation was the subsurface re there were nearly 400 "hits" to this web by the County Park of London Town, the mains of the complete stockade-a de page. Along with a full report of the ex remainder is part of the Woodland Beach fense wall of vertical logs enclosing from cavation, an exhibit is planned for the residential community. one-half to three-quarters of an acre. Logs Greenbrier County Historical Society's The remains of at least five buildings were placed into a trench, usually about North House Museum in Lewisburg, have been located by the archaeology 1.5 to 2-feet wide and about 2 feet below West Virginia. Reported by Kim McBride. team led by Al Luckenbach. Several build ground. The stockaded area was dia ing postholes have been uncovered in mond-shaped, with bastions on the north cluding William Brown's Carpenter Shop Southeast and south corners, and plain right angles and Edward Rumney's Tavern. Within at the east and west corners. Inside was a the tavern is a filled cellar that yielded an log blockhouse, about 20-feet square, with Reported by impressive artifact assemblage of tin a large central hearth opening and an ex Maurice Williams glazed wares, North Devon wares, and tensive area of trash deposition at either wine bottles. To date, more than 125 ves end. A nearby cellar, dug about two feet Kentucky sels have been reconstructed from a 50- into the ground, was covered with a shed percent cellar excavation. While work • The Kentucky Archaeological Survey, like roof; recovered seeds suggest that continued on the County Park of London a joint undertaking of the Kentucky Heri oats, corn, wheat, and barley had all been Town, crews found the brick foundations tage Council and the University of Ken stored there. Near the northwestern cor of two structures near a private residence tucky, conducted several historical ar ner of the stockade was a concentration which probably date to the 18th century chaeology proj ects in 1997. Larger of metal and many pounds of cinder or maritime industry along the peninsula. projects in Kentucky include survey and slag along with several pieces of bar stock, One of the foundations intrudes into a excavation to locate the remains of an indicating that the area was used for Late Woodland oyster shell midden con outdoor worship area at the Shaker vil blacksmithing. taining sherds of Rappahannock pottery, lage of Pleasant Hill, test excavations at Many hand-wrought nails, lead bul a hammerstone, and a stone ax. the site of an early white ware pottery in lets, and irregular pieces of lead remains Public outreach and a community sur Louisville, and final excavation around from bullet production were found. Arti vey opened the door to the exploration the detached kitchen at Riverside, a 19th facts included many well-worn gun flints, of dozens of sites within the original Co century historic site interpreted for the numerous lead shot, and a gun sight-all lonial Port Town of London. The acquisi general public. connected to the defensive nature of the tion of a cesium magnetometer and a The Pleasant Hill Shaker village in fort. Although personal items were ground-penetrating radar has enabled central Kentucky, has been the site of ex sparse, one sherd of scratch-blue salt nondestructive investigation of the towns glazed stoneware china, one sherd of un tensive excavations by the University of within the residential community of the Kentucky since 1990, resulting in the lo decorated white salt-glazed stoneware, Lost Towns Project. [Reported by Liz cation of many of the earliest Shaker and two sherds of creamware, represent West]. buildings, fences, and other features. An ceramics brought into the fort. Among personal items were several brass buttons outdoor worship area, called Holy Sinai's West Virginia and three cut-sections of Spanish coins Plain, was known from the Shaker jour from the 1700s. A letter seal with the word nals to have been located away from the • Recent excavations at Arbuckle's Fort, main village, probably about 1/4 to 1/2 a 1774 fort site in Greenbrier County, were "Liberty" is a telling reminder that these mile and to the east, south Of southeast. completed under the direction of Dr. W settlers, in what was then western Vir- The site was known to have been slightly thought to be the site of the first commer almost certainly produced by Jabez graded, enclosed in a plank fence, planted cial pottery in Louisville, established by Vodrey in the 1820s and 1830s. In addi in bluegrass, and visited for worship ser Jacob Lewis in 1815. Although it is be tion to the artifacts found during the ex vices about 10 times from the mid-1840s lieved that Lewis himself was not a pot cavations, several areas of potter's clay to the 1850s. Archaeologists and other re ter, Lewis hired potters and by 1823 seems were uncovered. Samples of the various searchers had hypothesized various loca to have had ambitions of producing fine clays were turned into slip and fired at tions of the site over the past thirty years "cream-colored" dinnerwares that were different temperatures by local potter without success. A breakthrough came in almost exclusively produced in England Ginny Marsh. The colors produced by spring 1996, when we combined forces at the time. Several experiments to pro these clays are similar to those found on with University of Kentucky architect duce this ware had been attempted in many of the white ware wasters excavated Philippe Chavance, who had in his recent several cities in America, including Pitts from the site. An exhibit on the excava studies of Pleasant Hill architecture revis burgh, where Lewis found Jabez Vodrey tion is currently installed at the show ited much of the primary journals and let and William Frost, two Staffordshire pot room of Louisville Stoneware, and fund ters generated at Pleasant Hill. Kentucky ters. The experiments to produce fine ing will be sought for publication. Archaeological Survey archaeologists Dr. cream-colored wares continued in Louis Survey archaeologists Dr. Kim Kim A. McBride, William Lowthert and ville into the mid 1830s, however, the pot McBride and Mr. Jay Stottman also con Cliff Smith conducted preliminary survey tery failed to produce adequate wares to tinue to work with materials excavated in a new proposed location in the sum compete with British imports and by 1836 from several projects that all share a mer of 1996. During an initial phase of Lewis abandoned his personal attempt to strong public focus. The first of these was shovel testing and metal detecting, we produce cream-colored ware and joined excavation of a mid 19th century hotel recovered three 19th century nails and a a group of Louisville businessmen who complex in Frankfort. The field excava small metal wedge near a rock fence. Al financed an attempt in Troy, Indiana, lead tion was directed by Jeffrey Watts-Roy though these few artifacts were not much by renowned Staffordshire potter James and conducted in partnership with the to go on, they were more than had been Clews. By the early 1840s, the pottery was Kentucky Historical Society. The project found in other hypothesized locations, once again making stoneware, under included daily tours by the Historical So and the nails were possible testimony to George W Doane. Like Lewis, Doane was ciety, participation of over 500 volunteers the plank fence known to have enclosed probably not a potter himself, but hired from 31 Kentucky counties, and will cul the site. We, along with Shakertown at several potters, including William Frost minate in interpretation within the new Pleasant Hill, Inc., who was funding most (formerly employed by Lewis), John History Center currently under construc of the work, decided to gamble on more Hancock, Martin Doll, and George tion on the former site of the hotel. The intensive investigations of the area the Melcher. It appears that this site ceased to second project was excavation of a series next year. In the spring of 1997, after sev be used for making pottery by circa 1850, of privies from a mid to late 19th century eral days stripping off heavily plowed although the stoneware tradition contin urban neighborhood in downtown Lou topsoil in the proposed location, a series ued to grow in Louisville. Archaeological isville, directed by Jay Stottman. We hope of gently curving post stains were uncov investigations began with the use of a to incorporate exhibits about the privy ered by archaeologists Will Updike, Kim backhoe to remove the layers of asphalt excavation into the new building for that McBride, and others. After excavation of from the parking lot that covered the site. site, an expanded Louisville Convention over 100 post molds from an outer oval Immediately below the asphalt, the base Center. An excavation at Riverside, the plank fence inclosing about half an acre, of a circular brick firing kiln was visible. Farnsley-Moorman landing historical site and an inner oval of smaller size used for Over 200 stoneware smoking pipes were in Louisville, began in 1995 mainly as an special ceremonies, the site was delin recovered from the kiln, representing the effort to locate and detail a detached eated. The excavations also revealed the last items to be fired in the late 1840s. In kitchen, for reconstruction purposes. The location of a "signboard" within the larger the soil around the kiln, hundreds of kiln project was directed by Jay Stottman and oval. Although the site was not used all furniture and ceramic wasters were re Jeff Watts-Roy, with collaboration by that frequently, it was an important com covered. Most of the wasters were from building historian Bill McIntire of the ponent of the village and will be restored stoneware vessels like jugs, crocks, smok Kentucky Heritage Council to draw up and incorporated into special village ing pipes, marbles, and bottles, but some reconstruction plans for the kitchen, tours. of the wasters were of very finely turned which appears to have been a single pen The new information will be incorpo unglazed and glazed cream-colored ce constructed upon six large wooden posts. rated into an archaeological exhibit to be ramic cup, plate, bowl and fragments, evi Working with the staff at Riverside and installed at Pleasant Hill in the coming dence for the production of these items the Jefferson County Office of Historic year. at the site. Even several examples of Preservation and Archives, this project In May/June of 1997, Dr. Kim McBride whiteware smoking pipes were recov has subsequently developed into an on and Jay Stottman of the Kentucky Ar ered. These cream-colored wasters exhib going series of excavation sessions in chaeological Survey and Bob Genheimer ited several decorations, including annu which thousands of Louisville students of the Cincinnati Museum Center con lar banding, mocha slips, and embossing. are being exposed to historical archaeol ducted archaeological excavations at a Most of the slips were shades of brown, ogy and related historic preservation ac small parking lot in downtown Louisville. but one blue slipped sherd may also date tivities each year. The Survey has just The excavation had been initiated by the to this time. The embossed decorations completed preliminary testing at the site research of ceramic historians Gary and occurred on plate rims in a Fleur-de-lis of Logan's Fort, a late 1776 fort site in lin Diana Stradling and was funded by a pattern, which happens to be the official coln County which was one of the more number of private donors. The lot was symbol of Louisville. These items were important forts in this area, along with
Pagel' Boonesborough and Fort Harrod, in the contradict the historical record, in which more on their household goods than the initial Euro-American settlement period. it is noted that the largely female work earlier, aristocratic planters. Period artifacts, including delftware and force was fined each time they washed Archival documents related to Ma white saltglazed stoneware, helped con their hands during working hours. A dame Poeyfarre, the long-term middle firm the location of the fort at this site, as well-documented strike in 1894 over class occupant, paints a picture of a did the discovery of the burial of a young worker conditions and family papers woman who spent herself into debt "in caucasian male who appears to have been from the Maginnis owners suggest that the American style," to quote her orders scalped (corresponding to documentation sanitation was more related to product for a lavish renovation of the house she about such an interment). More excava quality control and a "mechanical" corpo embarked upon two weeks after her tion is planned for this site. For more in rate ideology than notions of health. This French husband died. Overall, the formation on these projects contact Dr. ideology sought to de-emphasize or re Duplessis plantation component has Kim A. McBride, 1020A Export Street, move reminders of the human needs of added significantly to our understanding University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY mill-hands, who were idealized as com of the Creole household and how it 40506-9854, phone 606/257-1944, email ponent parts of the huge mill machine. changed under various economic, politi [email protected] Earlier structures at the Cotton Mill cal, and cultural influences. The final re Site included a Creole (colonial French) port on this project was completed in Oc Gulf States plantation, 19th-century tenements, and tober 1997. Artifacts are curated at U.N.O. a brewery. When the architectural re Madame John's Legacy: A National mains of the plantation great house were Historic Landmark, this French colonial Reported by found to be remarkably well preserved, house immortalized by George Washing Kathleen H. Cande the majority of effort was put into exca ton Cable is the oldest surviving residence vating a 3x4 meter block in this area. The in the French Quarter. The Louisiana State Louisiana Duplessis great house was built in 1765, Museum contacted the Greater New Or making it the oldest plantation structure leans Archaeology Program about con • Greater New Orleans Archaeology to be investigated archaeologically in ducting excavations on the site in order Program: This public program was estab Louisiana. The great house serves as a to mitigate trenching for new utilities. lished in 1996 by the University of New time-capsule for this area of New Orleans, Funding was provided by two local non Orleans (U.N.O.) to serve the research, which underwent a transformation in the profits, the Friends of the Cabildo and the preservation, and public outreach needs first 150 years from rural plantation, coun Edward Wisner Trust Fund. In July and of the urban area. With the assistance of try estate, middleclass suburb, to working August of 1997, archaeologists excavated 130 volunteers and students, Director Sh class urban neighborhood, and finally, an a small, but exceedingly rich, 1x4 meter annon Lee Dawdy undertook major ex industrial zone. area in the rear courtyard of the property. cavations at two sites in 1997. A midden area immediately adjacent Central questions guiding excavation and The Cotton Mill Site: This multi-com to the rear of the house provided the ma analysis focused on the cultural evolution ponent site represents a few "firsts" for jority of the project's 10,000 diagnostic of New Orleans' courtyards and the diet Louisiana archaeology. The Maginnis Cot artifacts. The midden can be separated and consumer patterns of colonial Cre ton Mills, a well-preserved, late 19th-cen into four major stratigraphic zones tied to oles. tury brick complex, sprawls over two known occupants of the house. The lat The excavation units revealed a large square city blocks in the downtown Ware ter included prominent Creole families of trash pit whose maximum depth was four house District of New Orleans. Now be the time, as well as a military occupation feet below ground surface. Analysis of the ing converted to apartments, developer by General James Wilkinson and his lowermost stratum in the pit demon Historic Restoration, Inc. was persuaded troops, who were sent by Thomas Jeffer strated that it was dug in 1788 to receive by a local vocational archaeologist to sup son to oversee the Louisiana transfer. household goods damaged in a cata port exploratory testing and data recov Functional analysis demonstrated that the strophic fire that wiped out most of the ery operations during the course of reno collection is best suited to address ques French colonial city in that year. Huge vations January-April, 1997. tions regarding food ways, consumption amounts of creamware, bone buttons, and During its heyday, Maginnis was the patterns, and importation. This plantation partially molten pane glass filled the largest cotton mill in the gulf south. Be was much better stocked with contraband lower levels. Probably the most significant cause the thousands of tons of steam ma goods (e.g., British ceramics during the material found, however, was a large and chinery (including two 25' Corliss steam colonial period) than contemporary out well-preserved faunal collection from the engines) had been removed from the site lying plantations, indicating that the city household stores which indicates a sur long ago and early phases of archaeologi may have played an important entrep6t prisingly "wild" diet for late colonial New cal testing indicated little in the way of role that goes undocumented in city Orleans. A zooarchaeologist or graduate technological remains, excavations on the records. A persistent attachment to student is being sought to undertake cotton mill component concentrated on French culinary traditions is evident in analysis of this collection, which includes evidence related to worker conditions. the importation of expensive Bordeaux large amounts of fish scales, turtle, wild Findings indicate a remarkably clean en wines up through the mid-19th century boar, and small mammals. Another sur vironment prior to World War II, best ex (numerous seals with identifiable appel prise was a relatively high incidence of emplified by the discovery of an early lations were found). Ceramic pricing aboriginal pottery, which was clearly be barrel privy, state of the art for this pe analysis yielded a somewhat surprising ing used in the 1788 household. Finally, riod in New Orleans. Interestingly, this finding: the middle-class occupants spent because the material in the trash pit was concern with sanitation at first seems to in large fragments with only the occa- sional trace of burning, this discovery houses. Evidence for a French-era fire Kansas adds "fuel to the fire" in the debate on the place was found below that. A portion of age of the house. Because of its anachro the root cellar from the next house was • Fort Ellsworth: In July and August, nistic style, some scholars have concluded excavated as well. Two very early features 1996, data recovery investigations were that the house survived the fire of 1788 were found: a deep trench that may be conducted at the site of Fort Ellsworth and coincides with a documented struc part of the 1715 palisade to the south of (14EW26), Ellsworth County, located on ture built ca. 1726. Others point to a build the house, and a small concentration of Government lands at Kanopolis Lake, a ing contract of 1788 which indicates a pre-contact Native American pottery un flood control and recreational project of major rebuilding episode. The artifacts der the house. the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Kan from the fire suggest that the house was The excavation was sponsored by the sas City District (KCD). The investigations damaged, but did not burn to the ground Machinac State Historic Parks (MSHP), were undertaken as part of the Kansas in a hot, incinerating fire, as has been under the direction of Dr. Lynn Morand Archeological Training Program, cospon documented archaeologically in the cen Evans and the field supervision of Rene sored by the Kansas State Historical Soci ter of the French Quarter. Therefore, it is Dutes-Kurtzweil. Following processing ety, the Kansas Anthropological Associa quite plausible that some walls remained and analysis this winter, the artifacts will tion, and the KCD. Robert Ziegler of the standing and were incorporated in the be housed at MSHP facilities in Lansing. KCD was principal investigator. 1788 reconstruction. This might then give The final report will be published in the Fort Ellsworth was established in June, legitimacy to those who would like to MSHP ArchaeolOgical Completion Report 1864, to secure routes of transportation claim that Madame John's Legacy is the Series in 1999. and protect local settlements from Indian oldest surviving building in the Lower attacks. Company H of the 7th Iowa Cav Mississippi Valley. Regardless of its age, Central Plains alry, under the command of Second lieu the archaeology of Madame John's will tenant Allen Ellsworth, constructed the undoubtedly make a major contribution fort along the Smoky Hill River near the to our understanding of the multi-ethnic Reported by junction of two trails, the Smoky HilV roots of New Orleans' Creole culture and William]. Hunt, Jr. Denver Express Road and the Fort Riley/ the diet of colonial New Orleans. The fi Fort Larned Road. Built only as a tempo nal stages of laboratory analysis are be IOWA rary installation, the fort consisted of hast ing undertaken at this writing. Artifacts ily-constructed dugouts and log struc will be curated by the Louisiana State • Plum Grove: During 1995 and 1997 Su tures. A succession of units served at Fort san Snow of the Office of the State Ar Museum. Ellsworth, including Company C of the chaeologist undertook exploratory exca For more information on either 2nd U.s. Volunteers, one of the units of vations on the grounds of Plum Grove, project, contact Shannon Lee Dawdy at "Galvanized Yankees," or Confederate the home of the first Territorial Governor Greater New Orleans Archaeology Pro prisoners who earned their release from of Iowa from 1843 to 1854. It was subse gram, College of Urban and Public Affairs, prison by volunteering for Western duty. quently occupied by various families un University of New Orleans, New Orleans, In November, 1866, Fort Ellsworth was til 1943 when it became property of the LA 70148; tel. (504)280-6842; e-mail: renamed Fort Harker, and during the fol State of Iowa. These excavations located sldur@ uno.edu lowing six months a new Fort Harker was previously unknown structural remains established on higher ground approxi as well as several areas which served as mately one mile to the northwest while Midwest garbage dumps. Through two 3 week the old site along the river was aban field schools run through the Department doned. Fort Harker is well documented Reported by of Anthropology at the University of Iowa in the historical record and several fort Dean L. Anderson in 1996 and 1997, Thomas H. Charlton structures still stand. Fort Ellsworth is explored several of the features located by poorly documented and consists solely of Michigan Susan Snow, identifying one stable, a below-surface remains. Extensive histori large garbage pit, and the extension of a cal research has failed to locate any plans, • Colonial Michilimackinac: This season pit (first identified in 1978), used to dis sketches, or photographs of Fort was the ninth and final season of excava card unused parts of cattle, sheep, and Ellsworth. tion on the fourth unit of the Southeast pigs immediately after slaughter. William Research at Fort Ellsworth focused on Row House within the walls of Fort J. Whittaker has prepared a report on the a better understanding of: (1) the fort's Michilimackinac. The house was built in faunal remains and is finalizing an article physical structures; (2) everyday life at the 1730s and lived in by a French-Cana to be submitted for publication. In addi the fort; and (3) the Frontier Army's com dian trading family. After the British take tion to the features investigated, Charlton mitment to supplying the fort. A system over of the fort in 1761, British soldiers opened a broad area immediately to the atic metal-detector survey, and unit and rebuilt and occupied the structure. south of the house as presently consti block excavations were undertaken at This summer's excavations focused on tuted, exposing porch and coal shed foot Locality 6 at Fort Ellsworth, which con architectural features of the west half of ings, two cisterns, one possible well, and tains a series of 14 depressions likely to the house. This area included the com areas of garbage scatter. A third 3 week be the remains of dugouts cut into the mon wall between this house and the next field school is planned for May-June, high bank of the Smoky Hill River near unit to the west. Notable features in 1998. the Fort RileylFort Larned Road. Block cluded the stone base of a British-era re excavations at two of these depressions verse-S-shaped hearth serving both exposed the remains of dugouts that are interpreted to have been the post's bak Although subjected to testing in previous in the Antelope Valley area of central Lin ery (Depression 10), and a living quarters field seasons, this year's excavations de coln. The Antelope Valley Archeology (Depression 13). The bakery was an 18 x lineated the boundaries of the midden Project was co-directed by Peter Bleed, 14 ft. dugout constructed by setting logs near the summer kitchen. Shovel testing Stacy Stupka-Burda and Stan Parks and vertically into the ground, stockade style. was carried out in Area II, located upslope involved both a field crew of employees At the back of the dugout, carved into the from the chicken house. A small midden and the 22 students enrolled in the 1997 high bank, was a 10 x 6 ft. bake oven con was discovered and tested further with UNL Archeological Field School. structed of large flat sandstones and lxl meter units, revealing ceramics, bone, The Antelope Creek Project was un arched over with soft hand-made bricks. and glass. Area III, located near the back dertaken because the City, the University The second dugout, a 19 x 15 ft. quarters, gate of the property, was investigated and the local NRD are planning major was also constructed stockade style and with slit trenches in a 20 meter block. construction on the east side of the UNL featured a sandstone fireplace. The work Little cultural material was found in this campus. This will involve both road at Fort Ellsworth produced a large quan area. changes and modifications in the course tity and variety of artifacts and food re The final area investigated was Area IV; of Antelope Creek. The goal of the 1997 mains which are now being analyzed. Ri downslope from the stone summer research was to determine the kinds ar chard Fox's analysis of artifacts places the kitchen and the rear of the Main House. cheological resources present within the occupation of the site between 1862-1869, Evidence of a former gravel driveway was project area to assist with project plan a good fit with the known historical dates discovered during archeological excava ning. Areas of potentially worthwhile bur of 1864-1867. Fox's analysis also suggests tions in this area in 1995. A more in-depth ied cultural remains were tested from that Fort Ellsworth troops were supplied investigation for the driveway was car Muney Park area south of 0 Street to with then-modern arms, equipment, and ried out this season. Trenches were exca confluence of Dead Man's Run and Salt accouterments but poorly furnished with vated in a 20 x 20 meter block to deter Creek. construction materials. An analysis of the mine the extent of the drive surface and Although a great deal of material was faunal assemblage by Rob Bozell indicates a 4 x 5 meter section of the driveway bor discovered, the research generally indi a diet dominated by cattle, swine, and dered by drainage ditches was fully un cated that demolition and bottle collectors chicken with smaller amounts of deer, covered. Artifacts associated with the have heavily impacted historic materials small mammals, mussel, fish, and birds. driveway and ditches include ceramics, in most of the project area. Indeed, it ap Large domestic mammals make-up 70% glass, brick, wall plaster, and other con pears that the great majority of the priv of the sample by number and 96.6% by struction materials, some of them burned. ies in the area have been disturbed. Re bone weight. Botanical remains, analyzed Personnel at the park discovered an en mains of a significant 1860s period water by Mary Adair, represent a mix of both graving dating from October 16, 1875, mill and the original University Place domesticated foods and locally-available showing the driveway approaching the dump appear to survive in researchable wild plants. Analyses of all archaeologi rear of the Main House and branching off condition. It also appears that construc cal data recovered from Fort Ellsworth are towards the chicken house. tion will expose large portions of deeply nearing completion and a report of the All artifacts collected during the 1997 buried surfaces that may well contain pre historical and archaeological investiga project are in the process of being historic materials. In addition to complet tions is expected to be completed by the cleaned, catalogued, and analyzed at the ing the work done during the summer of KCD later this year. Midwest Archeological Center, National 1997, plans are being made for continued Park Service. testing and mitigation in the project area. Missouri • Ozark Cave Survey, Ozark National • Fort Atkinson: The Nebraska State His • Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Scenic Riverways: Personnel from the torical Society returned to Fort Atkinson Site: Ulysses S. Grant N.H.S. is located in Midwest Archeological Center, National during the 1997 field season under the St. Louis. Prior to the commencement of Park Service, joined Principal Investiga direction of Gayle Carlson. The primary ground-disturbing activities related to the tor James E. Price of the University of Mis purpose of this fieldwork was to do a pe construction of a maintenance building souri-Columbia in a survey of caves in destrian surface survey of the major part and historic renovation of the existing Ozark National Scenic Riverways from (outside of the barracks quadrangle) of structures, excavations were carried out December 1-19, 1997. This ongoing the park property situated on the bluff in July, 1997, in four areas of the park by project records and maps habitable caves top, following a controlled burn of the tall personnel from both the Midwest Ar and rockshelters within the Park. Cultural grass cover. In addition, limited pedes cheological Center, National Park Service material was noted where present on the trian surface survey also took place on the and the University of Missouri-Columbia. surface. Artifacts were found in 5 of the part of the bluff top that was not burned Excavations were conducted under the 31 caves recorded, ranging from prehis (southeast, east, and northeast of the bar direction of Principal Investigator James toric lithic debitage to 20th century boot racks quadrangle). A third phase of the E. Price. A number of volunteers from the legger debris. fieldwork consisted of two types of re park and from other government agen mote sensing (magnetometer and con cies assisted with the excavations. Nebraska ductivity surveying) of certain locations A variety of household refuse dating selected as a result of the pedestrian sur to the first half of the 19th century, includ • Antelope Creek, Lincoln: During the vey. The final portion of the field investi ing ceramics, glass, buttons, bone, and summer of 1997, the University of Ne gations consisted of metal detector sur household hardware, was discovered braska-Lincoln Department of Anthropol veying and archeological testing on the near the stone summer kitchen in Area I. ogy investigated archeological resources bluff slope and adjacent Missouri River bottomland directly southeast, east, and extra activities. Once the artifacts have Sitka northeast of the barracks, where various been analyzed, and botanical and faunal support facilities associated with the fort remains examined, we hope to better un • The Castle Hill Archaeological Project, had been located. As a result of the sev derstand the composition of the deposit. Baranof Castle State Historic Park: The eral phases of investigations, 54 previ Almost a hundred unmarked "long, ho Office of History and Archaeology, Alaska ously undocumented features were re meopathic" vials (that held less than 1/4 Department of Natural Resources, con corded and 7 previously known ones oz. liquid) also beg to be explained. An ducted fieldwork at the Castle Hill site were reexamined. Magnetometer and other almost intact feature was discov (SIT-OOZ) from May 12 to August 1, 1997, conductivity surveys were carried out at ered by the construction crew south of the in conjunction with the planned construc 5 of these locations and archeological test two-story Pantheon saloon building. This tion of a handicap accessible ramp and ing was conducted at 4 others. One of the feature contained thousands of window other improvements. The project, under more surprising aspects of the findings pane fragments in a thick, horizontal the direction of aHA archaeologist Dave was that so much evidence of building layer, as well as small buckets containing McMahan, is funded as a component of a remains was found in the controlled burn remnants of what appears to be paint resi federal ISTEA construction grant admin area. Many of the 27 artifact scatters re due or glue, a few household ceramics, tin istered by the Alaska Department of corded there appeared to represent mul can remnants and an enameled coffeepot. Transportation and Public Facilities. Castle tiple building remains, suggesting that as It is believed to relate to the ca. 1898-1902 Hill, known to the Sitka Tlingit as Noow many as about 45 structures may have paint and wallpaper store built on this site Tlein, is possibly the single most impor been present. This appears to indicate a by the Fasel family. tant historic property in Alaska due to the much more dispersed settlement pattern Excavations this year were undertaken series of events which occurred on the than anticipated. A report on the findings by R. Greg Dixon, Tim Kardatzke, Ken site. Formerly a Tlingit village, the site will be available from the Archeology Di Graham and Doreen Cooper. Tim Kar later served as the capitol of Russian vision. datzke will be writing the final site report America and the location of the formal while Doreen Cooper completes the final transfer of Alaska to the United States. Alaska report of excavations at the Moore House. The 1997 excavations primarily fo A report summarizing the multi-disciplin cused on a natural bench near the base ary historic preservation effort in of the hill where undisturbed archaeo Reported by Skagway, and lessons learned from the logical deposits and structural remains Karlene Leeper twenty years of work, is being contem from the first half of the nineteenth cen plated. For more information, please con tury were identified. Archival records in Skagway tact Doreen Cooper at 907-983-2928 or dicate that this area was the location of a doreen _ [email protected] series of Russian buildings, including • Additional Work at the Pantheon Sa bathhouses and quarters for craftsmen, loon: Almost twenty years of historical • Peniel Mission Archaeology Report beginning in 1805. Structural evidence in archaeology at Klondike Gold Rush Na Available: The fifth volume in the Archeo cludes an alignment of decayed posts tional Historic Park in Skagway, Alaska, logical Investigations in Skagway, Alaska se which may represent pilings from a was completed with fieldwork this fall at ries is now available. The report, Addi former building, horizontal timbers from the Pantheon Saloon site. Mandated by tional Investigations at the Mill Creek Dump one or more structures, and a brick struc Section 106 of the National Historic Pres and the Peniel Mission, is based on field ture believed to be a kiln or oven. Associ ervation Act, the work was only a part of work carried out by National Park Service ated with these features is a broad array of the historic preservation efforts under archeologists in 1987 as part of compli organic materials including textiles, bas taken in Skagway by the National Park ance under the National Historic Preser ketry, cordage, rope, hair, fur, shoes, miscel Service's Denver Service Center. The vation Act. This investigation took place laneous leather items, worked wood, and studies document Skagway's importance in advance of the rehabilitation of the botanical items. Other artifacts include a as a vigorous Klondike gold rush trans Peniel Mission (built 1900), which cur preponderance of cream ware and portation center and transformation to a rently functions as seasonal park em pearlware ceramic sherds, blown glass focal point for rail transportation and ployee housing. The neighborhood his ware, copper items in various states of tourism. tory, changes in the forms and uses of the manufacture, lead and copper ingots, This fall efforts focused on work un mission building, as well as the uses of a musketballs, tobacco pipe fragments, derneath the two-story Pantheon Saloon dump found beneath the building are dis grapeshot, cannon balls, gunfiints, trade building that was previously too unstable cussed in the report. An important sample beads, and tools. Also present in the de to work in. Once the construction crew of early twentieth century artifacts is also posit are items of Native American manu was able to stabilize the building, arche described and enumerated. The report facture, including the wooden foreshaft ologists found several features that relate expands on earlier work carried out by of a composite arrow and several projec to the building's use as a saloon from the Park Service in 1983 and 1985. Com tile point fragments. Some of these items 1903-1916 and again from 1942-1945. The plimentary copies of the 200 page illus may be derived from Aleuts or Kodiak Is pre-Prohibition features were intact, and trated report are available by contacting landers in the service of the Russian evidence of saloon and gambling activi Karlene Leeper by phone: 907/257-2539 or American Company. Other items, such as ties was abundant. What was not clear email: karlene_Ieeper@ nps.gov basketry, cordage, and rna tting, were was whether the lurid red wallpaper dis probably obtained locally from the Sitka covered in an upstairs room by crew Tlingit. The deposits yielded eight lead leader R. Greg Dixon might also indicate seals, inscribed with the markings of the Russian-American Company, of the type logical and historical sources help to char cal work had been at Port Moller, 125 used to secure bales of furs for shipping. acterize cultural aspects of the early saloons, miles to the southwest, and Brooks Camp Analysis of the approximately 1,100 gold-rush driven selection and transporta in Katmai National Park and Preserve, pounds of artifacts is currently underway tion of goods, construction techniques, even farther to the northeast. The most in Anchorage. and the town's continual struggle with recent ethnographic work in the area had The investigators have hypothesized floods and fires. Interpretation of gold taken place during the mid-1970s, when that a large portion of the materials relate rush and steamboat era material culture an NPS contractor, Merry Allyn Tuten, to a community of craftsmen who were suggests that urbanization took place rap assessed the Aniakchak area's subsistence living and working at this location prima idly during the heyday of the early bo resources and historical use patterns. rily during the 1830s. Additional testing nanza mining period. Fairbanks was, in Tuten's work was significant in that it at Castle Hill is scheduled for the spring effect, on the periphery of the Klondike included the first known survey of iden of 1998. These discoveries are profoundly sphere of influence during its earliest two tifiable cultural resources along the significant for the scientific information to three years, but quickly became the Aniakchak coastline. One of the only re they can provide on the early history of core and urban center for the burgeoning sources noted near the bay was a sturdy, Sitka and of Russian-America in general. Fairbanks Mining District. milled-wood structure-locally known as The data available from these deposits, on The final report on the project is be the Alaska Packers Association (APA) the site of the colonial capitol of Russian ing released on compact disk. This inter bunkhouse-which was located just east America, cannot be derived from any active CD combines text, more than 100 of the mouth of the Aniakchak River. The other site. Castle Hill presents a unique color and black and white photographs, cabin's location was considered notewor chance to further understand this period tables, graphs, artifact descriptions, an il thy because a small, nearby stream pro of Alaska's history. For more information, lustrated trademark and manufacturer vided year-round fresh water; in addition, please contact Dave McMahan at 907/269- mark catalog, and a summary of the a nearby bluff and beach berm combined 8723. project database. The CD is currently un to mitigate the effect of the area's winds. dergoing final testing for technical perfor Though hardly ideal, the site was prob Fairbanks mance, and will be released in an initial ably the most equable of any along the run of 1,000 copies in the late fall of 1997 . Aniakchak coastline. • Historic Development of the Chena To obtain further information or to re The NPS had few initial resources to River Waterfront, An Archaeological Per quest a copy of the CD, contact: Brian manage the unit, so the agency's initial spective: The final report on the Barnette Gannon, Alaska Department of Transpor surveys were limited to occasional ranger Street Archaeological Project, soon to be tation and Public Facilities, 2301 Peger patrols. In 1987, however, archeologist released, presents the results of five years Road, Fairbanks Alaska 99709. Telephone: Roger Harritt investigated the area sur of research on the early 20th century his 907/451-5293. E-mail:
Vplu:m,e:31 : Number 1 sulted in the burial ground now forming west bank of the Niagara River as the ware and yellowware. Glass artifacts were a park-like island surrounded by high growing numbers of refugees overtaxed described as window glass, bottle, and density, and high priced, residential de the accommodations at Fort Niagara. unidentifiable due to burning. Pipe frag velopment in one of Ontario's most de These efforts were realized in 1781 when ments include impressed TD marks. sirable residential towns. the first settlers (farmers) were allowed to Structural artifacts include wrought nails Research suggested ownership of the establish the community which became and door hinges. Bale seals including one subject property passed from Colonel Butlersburg, later Newark and now Ni described as "lenticular in shape, 18mm John Butler, to his son Thomas, and at agara-on-the-Lake. wide ... with a 'V' notch cut into it about some point by 1857 to Hamilton H. Killaly. Butler contributed significantly to the two-thirds of the way along its length. Al Thomas Butler was a character of note establishment of the social institutions of though there is no evidence of gilding it worthy Provincial significance. He influ the Province: the first Provincial parlia does have a crest motif '" two rows of enced community and social develop ment at Niagara; by soliciting the Bishop very small raised floral decorations (three ment in early southern Ontario. He was of Quebec for the first Anglican dioceses; in each row) placed above and below a Captain in the Lincoln militia of a Com he raised the first country (Nassau) mili 4mm wide band. The second seal is cir pany which played a decisive role in the tia; the first Upper Canadian Lodge of cular ... 39mm in diameter ... inscribed battle of Queenston Heights. Freemasonry; later playing a key role on in raised lettering 'ALEXANDER DA Comparatively, his father John, was a the Upper Canada Land Board and in VISON AGENT LONDON' ... there is a character of National significance. It was volved in financing many of the first busi small scroll decoration above the inscrip through his asserted efforts that the per nesses in these southern communities. As tion and the entire obverse was gilt." manent Anglo-settlement of southern the Old Colonel, commander of most of Mayer's report described the site as Ontario and the establishment of the southern Ontario's pioneer settlers and containing "in situ cultural material origi Province of Upper Canada (Ontario) took Loyalist emigrants, he was the Paternal nating from an significant historical event place. In his position of Superintendent Community figure head. This role lasted (Le. the burning of Newark and sur of the Colonial Indian Department he was until his death in 1796 and the eventual rounding homesteads during the War of responsible for the transfer of ownership establishment of later sociaVpoliticallead 1812) plus the possible presence of struc of thousands of acres of what had been ers (Late Loyalist and Scottish Merchants) tural foundations." Indian lands, to be used for Loyalist set who were to replace the old Loyalist so tlement after the Revolution of 1776-84. cial establishment and were to initiate the Stratigraphy Through his negotiated acquisitions for SOcially more predominant "Family Com the Crown, John Butler established the pact." This description refers to a significant ar southern delineation of the Province of chaeological layer typically found and Ontario as we know it today (the Niagara The Site described in the literature resulting from tract, Toronto Mississauga tract, the Hol several decades of archaeological investi land Marsh to Lake Huron, Penetangui The site was surveyed using the standard gations at Niagara primarily by Parks shene tract). This was not a simple paper test pit method. Approximately 1.5 acres Canada, at Fort George. The stratum rep exercise but the results of many well in the vicinity of a contemporary tenant resents the historical event of the burn planned and politically astute negotia house and barn located on the site was ing of the town by the retreating Ameri tions through many Indian councils held found to have been impacted by previous can forces on the evening of December over a period of years at Niagara, Buffalo landscape modification. The general sur 10th 1813. This thin layer of deposit is Creek, and elsewhere. These councils vey found two locations of archaeologi typically composed of carbonized mate were handled with the tact and diplo cal materials: a 19th century Euro Canadian rial, ash, melted metal and glass artifacts macy developed over a life time of Indian site, and a modest pre-contact Aboriginal of the period. In the case of early domes statesmanship after the manner of his component. Mayer Heritage Consultants tic sites and the military establishments it mentor, Sir William Johnson. recommended a Stage 3 archaeological is generally superimposed over a shallow This would not have been possible if evaluation of the 19th century component earlier cultural deposit preceding the he had not proven himself to the Natives before clearance of the condition of de event. on the battlefield. With his unit, the velopment approval. The results of that Butler's Rangers, often accompanied by work are described below. No additional Conclusions bands of the Native ally, (and Native lead mitigative measures were recommended ers such as his close friend Chief Joseph for the pre-contact component. Beyond a doubt the archaeological inves Brant) he waged what some historians tigation has identified an important fea have referred to as the only "successful Stage 3 ture of unquestionable historical, cultural campaigns of Tory resistance during the and archaeological significance which is Revolution of 1776-84". George Washing Stage 3 evaluation was the hand excava in the way of high-pressure and lucrative ton himself considered Butler to be a tion of 12 test units, each one meter residential development. The scenario threat. He had also earlier in his career square in the area of the Euro Canadian presents a dilemma which could result in played a military role in the capture of site. From these units, 1,953 artifacts were the development or loss of a non-renew Niagara from the French in 1759. recovered. Of these artifacts the dominate able cultural resource. It provides a case His efforts to establish settlement in ceramic type was cream ware, mostly un sample of the effectiveness of Ontario's Ontario began during the Revolutionary decorated. Pearlware comprised 25.9% of Heritage legislation. War when he pressured the Governor in the ceramics recovered, the remaining ce The Mayer report concludes by recom Quebec to allow a mill and farms on the ramic assemblage was described as white mending two possible directions for man ware, red earthenware, porcelain, stone- aging the resources encountered: an
Spdngl998 avoidance strategy, or State 4 mitigation. and Terror were specifically declared of The excavation is now considered com The latter would be the total removal of national historic significance by the His pleted and a monitoring program has the archaeological resource by systematic toric Sites and Monuments Board of been established for the wreck and reburial excavation. If Stage 4 mitigation is ac Canada, Parks Canada has intensified its sites. A three year research program has cepted the proposal also recommends ongoing partnership with the govern been initiated to analyse and publish the thorough historical research to accom ment of the Northwest Territories to en information gathered since 1995. pany this project at the expense of the sure the protection and proper handling developer. At the time of the publication of these sites in the eventuality of a dis • NAS Training: Two more NAS courses deadline no further information had been covery. In 1992 Parks also initiated the have been given by the Underwater Ar received regarding the necessary follow development of an MOU between the UK chaeological Services. These introductory up to this important project. and Canada to give Canada the role of courses in underwater archaeology, from For further information contact Mayer representing the owner of the ships, the a training program developed by the Heritage Consultants Inc., 429 Colborne UK, and also the ownership of anything Nautical Archaeology Society (NAS) in Street, London, Ontario, Canada N6B potentially retrieved from these vessels in Britain, have been offered by the UAS 2T2. Phone 519/645-8100, fax 519/645-8109, the future. The project, using two search since 1995. This is an internationally-rec Email [email protected] launches and the helicopter from the ice ognized certification scheme structured breaker succeeded in completing the sys on four levels of increasing complexity. Underwater News tematic sonar and depth sounding map We have now run eight Levell courses, ping of over 80 square kilometres of sea training about 110 Canadian sport divers. bottom in two areas along the Adelaide In Louisbourg, this year, one course was Reported by Peninsula. No historic ship target was de given to a group of 16 divers from New Toni Carrell tected. However, some surface finds of Brunswick. This was partially sponsored fered clues to the nearby presence of one by the New Brunswick's Ministry of Mu Canada of Franklin's ships. These included cop nicipalities, Culture and Housing. In Baie per sheathing fragments and one long Comeau, Quebec, 14 new recruits for the • Parks Canada, Underwater Archaeol iron bolt, all obviously from early 19th anse aux Bouleaux excavation graduated ogy Services (UAS): Field work this year century ships. But also of diagnostic value from the course in late-June. took UAS staff to five locations from the was a heavy gauge copper disk which arctic waters of the North West Territories seems to have been the bottom of a pew • Upcoming Projects: Projects for the to Louisbourg, Nova Scotia. All the ter or tin coffee pot of a type commonly upcoming field season should take the projects were different in nature. The sea used in England in the mid-nineteenth UAS team to Red Bay (Labrador), Ather son started with the installation of a float century. ley Narrows (Ontario), Fathom Five Na ing protection boom around a prehistoric The summer of 1997 saw the second tional Marine Park (Ontario), Saguenay/ fish weir at Atherley Narrows on the and last year of archaeological excavation St-Lawrence National Marine Park Trent-Severn Waterway in Ontario, in at l'anse aux Bouleaux, near Baie-Trinite, (Quebec), Louisbourg (Nova Scotia) and view of a nearby bridge construction. A Quebec, on the North Shore of the Gulf possibly Gwaii Haanas (South Moresby brief assessment of an unidentified wreck of St. Lawrence. The investigation was Island, British Columbia). in Tobermory's Big Tub Harbour, Fathom conducted on the remains of a vessel from Five National Marine Park was also done Sir William Phips' unsuccessful expedi • Re-assembly of a 16th-century Basque in the spring. After it had been observed tion against Quebec City in 1690. The that this wreck, which shows some char whaling chalupa: The year 1997 saw the partnership between Parks Canada, beginning of an important and exciting acteristics of traditional Mackinaw boats Quebec's Ministry of Culture and Com and/or Collingwood skiffs, had suffered re-assembly project. Charles Moore of the munication, local municipal governments UAS is heading a team formed of UAS some damage, a survey was conducted to and a local wreck preservation group determine the extent of these damages members, Historic Resource Conservation proved once again to be a success. The and to establish the options to take in or Branch conservators and contractual re excavation work on this small troop car der to maintain the resource. searchers working on the re-assembly of rier lasted 12 weeks, one of which was al In Louisbourg Harbour on Cape Breton a Basque 16th-century whaling chalupa located to the systematic reburial of the Island survey continued inside the har excavated and recovered from Red Bay, hull remains comprised of some 50 tim Labrador. This chalupa, of which approxi bour. The crew ground-truthed side-scan bers. Over 2,400 artifacts were recovered targets from surveys done in previous mately 80% survives, is to become the in 1997, for a two-year total of a little more central exhibit of Red Bay's Visitor Ori years. High-priority targets were verified than 4,000. A majority of the objects re this year, most being natural formations, entation Centre scheduled to open in July late to the military as the vessel carried others spoils from dredging operations in 1998. The project constitutes quite an en some 50 militiamen. Conservation of the gineering challenge as the small vessel, the harbour. artifacts is ongoing under the responsibil The UAS participated in a two-week approximately 8 metres by 2.3 metres, was ity of the Centre de Conservation du Quebec survey organized by Eco-Nova Multi found flattened under a much larger with work also being done by Parks' His Media from Halifax to search for the re Basque galleon. The re-assembly team toric Resource Conservation Branch. mains of one of John Franklin's ships and had to re-bend planks which had been Once again, NAS-graduate volunteer conducted from Canadian icebreaker Sir treated with PEG and then freeze-dried. divers had the opportunity to work on Wilfrid Laurier along the NE shore of The larboard planks were probably the the excavation project, as 6 divers per Adelaide Peninsula, in the Northwest Ter most challenging as they twist nearly 90° week joined Parks' 6-man diving crew. ritories. Since the Fall 1992, when Erebus over their length. After consulting with other groups who had achieved re-assem Florida project and the technological transference blies, and using the experience of mem of the GIS system developed by them. bers of the firm Marlinspike who had ex • Florida State University, Program in One large report (with a Power Point pertise in boat construction and modelling Underwater Archaeology: FSU's program presentation) covering Project activities of 16th-century vessels, the re-assembly in underwater archaeology has expanded from July 1996 to February 1997 was pre team developed jigs which returned the and changed considerably in 1997. The sented to the corresponding authorities in flattened planks to their shape. The Department of Anthropology hired un Mexico City; this document included a chalupa's lower structure was strong derwater archaeologist Dr. Michael program for the next stage of work, which enough to be self-supporting, while its Faught, who came aboard as program di runs from March 1997 to February 1998. upper structure necessitated a custom rector in August. Faught received his doc Both were approved. Last November, a made aluminium supporting frame torate from the University of Arizona in partial report of the field season was pre which is also essential for the trip from 1996, where he studied under Vance sented to the Fideicomiso para el Rescate Ottawa to the exhibit site. This project is Haynes. He has had considerable experi de Pecios, which is the trust funding the now well under way and will be com ence in Florida, working on the Aucilla project, together with a 30 minute VHS pleted in the first part of 1998. River and other inland projects, as well video titled "The 1631 New Spain Fleet as conducting his own research in archaic Research Project." • SCRM Policy and Management: and early man problems offshore in the Daniel La Roche, a UAS staff archaeolo Gulf of Mexico. Faught is by no means New York gist, has worked on producing a docu strictly a prehistorian; he worked for the ment on Directive guidelines for the Florida Bureau of Archaeological Re • Bateaux Below, Inc. (BBI): BBI, a not evaluation of wrecks of National historic search recently on their Bay County for-profit educational corporation, and significance. In this document a scope of (Panama City) shipwreck survey. the New York State Department of Envi criteria for the designation of wrecks as FSU is also adopting a post-graduate ronmental Conservation initiated two being of National historic significance certification in underwater archaeology, major projects at New York State's Sub have been examined and a nomination which will entail approximately one year merged Heritage Preserves in Lake approach for the National Historic Sites beyond an MA degree to complete the George, New York. At "The Sunken Fleet and Monuments Board of Canada has specialty. of 1758" preserve, a cluster of seven 18th been suggested. century bateau wrecks, a colonial bateau The UAS is also experimenting the ap Mexico replica was sunk. The replica, built by plication of GIS to a "paper wreck data public school students and teachers, had • INAH, Subdirection Arqueologia Sub base" derived from archival material. outlived its usefulness as a "floating class acuatia: The department was heavily in Then project, underway in 1997, will be room." The bateau sinking tested colonial volved in coordination of the 1631 New continued in 1998 and will eventually in boat-scuttling techniques, enhanced the Spain Fleet Research Project. While archi clude known shipwrecks. site for visiting scuba divers, and will al val research continued in several states of The chief of UAS, Robert Grenier, also low for the study of the deterioration rate Mexico, as well as in Cuba and Spain, the attended the annual meeting of the of wooden wrecks in freshwater. In 1997, first field season took place in June 1997 ICOMOS International Committee on the Fund for Lake George, an environ in the Gulf of Mexico with the participa Underwater Cultural Heritage (ICUCH) mental watchdog group, and BBI initiated tion of seven archaeologists, one curator, in Freemantle, Western Australia. This a two-year enhancement of the Forward one biolOgist, one architect and one video/ meeting was held in conjunction with the shipwreck preserve. The Forward is a 1906- photographer graduated from the first Australian Institute of Maritime Archae built 45 ft. long gasoline-powered Mexican Diplomate on Underwater Ar ology (AlMA) where Robert Grenier pa: wooden launch. In 1997, a wooden cabin chaeology (1994), an engineer, a local fish ticipated in a session on shipwreck SurVI cruiser was sunk there to create a simu erman, Dr. Donald H. Keith (president, vor camps. lated archaeology site equipped with grid Ships of Discovery), Juan Vera (president, and tape measures. When completed this Puerto Rican Council on Underwater Ar • Publications: In house publications in year the Forward preserve will have un chaeology), and Santiago Escobar (mem derwater signage to explain vegetation clude an interim report on the anse aux ber of the Honduran Institute of Anthro Bouleaux excavation, by Jim Ringer, Peter and geology features, a fish observation pology and History). This representatio~ Waddell and Marc-Andre Bernier of the zone for divers to record fish species, a fulfilled on the project goals: to be multI secchi disk to record water transparency, UAS and Emerson Baker of Salem State disciplinary, multi-institutional, and inter College. Peter Waddell also produced a thermometers underwater to study national. In sixteen days 24 sites were thermoclyne patterns, an underwater status report on the unidentified wreck in found and registered; some are isolated Big Tub Harbour. Jim Ringer contributed navigation course for divers, a zebra mus artifacts and some others complete ship sel monitoring station, and more. to the US National Parks Service's assess wrecks, ranging from the 16th century to ment report on Glacier National Park with the present. With these findings, the in North Carolina a chapter on the Underwater Archaeo ventory of submerged cultural sites in the logical Research in Waterton Lakes Na Gulf of Mexico was started. • Department of Cultural Resources, tional Park. Marc-Andre Bernier and Pe Constant communication has been Underwater Archaeology Unit (UAU): ter Waddell each made contributions in held with the United States National Park The UAU was heavily involved in the the SHA's 1997 Underwater Archaeology Service's Submerged Cultural Resources Blackbeard project. During the first three within which the 1995 and 1996 projects Unit regarding their participation in the and a half weeks, no field days were lost at l'anse aux Bouleaux are examined. due to inclement weather. Bottom visibil terials may be abundant in the lower lev glazed stoneware. One of the latter ap ity never dropped below 2 feet and at els. There is evidence, such as concretions pears to be part of a Bellarmine jug (1550- times was greater than 10 feet. This with relatively recent breaks and the ex 1699). Iron hoops - The wreck site is lit greatly facilitated mapping the exposed istence of plastic materials in the artifact tered with large iron hoops of the size that remains and allowed all phases of the bearing level, that major storm events and would have fit hogheads or butts. During project to be photo-documented (prima perhaps net trawling have disturbed the the early eighteenth century iron hoops rilyvideo). site since the initial wreck event. The ex were a very expensive and desired com A genuine sense of cooperation be tent of this disturbance is currently un modity, since storage of foods and other tween all those involved was maintained known. materials was so dependent on wooden throughout the project. Principal partici Most importantly, information has containers. Many of the hoops appear to pants included members of NC Underwa been gathered to address the most press be stacked inside each other as if stored. ter Archaeology Unit, NC Maritime Mu ing question, "Is this Queen Anne's Re Large casks suggested by the hoops seum, Intersal/MRI, and venge?" While some field evidence and found on the wreck site often held liquids UNC-Wilmington. Assistance was also laboratory analysis is still pending, all in such as water and perhaps rum. Bag shot provided by: Cape Fear Community Col dications are that this is Blackbeard's flag - A wad of lead shot of varying sizes sur lege, Division of Marine Technology; East ship. The preliminary findings relevant to rounded by imprint of a cloth bag repre Carolina University, Program in Maritime the ship's identity are: sents an anti-personnel weapon to be History and Underwater Archaeology; 1) Cannons - The number of cannons fired out of a cannon or hurled as a gre University of North Carolina at Chapel exceed the number carried on any candi nade. These were also found in the Why Hill, Institute of Marine Sciences; Institute date other than the QAR and all but one dah assemblage. An interesting note is that for International Maritime Research; appears to be six pounders or larger. Six during Blackbeard's final stay at Ocracoke North Carolina Marine Fisheries; and pounders would have been the maximum "Captain Teach's Men threw in several Duke University, Marine Lab. size carried on the sloop Adventure; the EI new fashion'd sort of Grenadoes, viz. Nearly all of the goals of the project Salvador and other merchant vessels Case Bottles fill'd with Powder, and small were accomplished. With regard to un would have been outfitted with smaller shot, slugs and pieces of Lead or Iron ... " derstanding extent of the shipwreck site guns. In addition, the cannons appear to (Defoe 1972). The QAR example had lead and its surrounding environment, the fol be of varying sizes, an assemblage that shot of varying sizes, some which still had lowing were recorded: 1) The currents supports a pirate vessel armed with pil its casting sprues attached, AND the cor generally are not strong enough to ham laged armament rather than a naval ves ner of a case bottle attached to it. Labora per work at the site. 2) Workable bottom sel carrying standard-size guns. When tory analysis determined the presence of visibility can be expected most of the time cleaning occurs on the recovered can gunpowder. Dinnerware - A plate and a with periods of good to excellent visibil nons, markings are likely to be observed, platter were recovered during the exca ity at high tide when seas have been calm. which will indicate the period and place vation of cannon C-2. They are similar in 3) Outside of the exposed portions mate of manufacture. appearance and make-up, which has yet rials appear to be spread over an area in 2) Anchors - The three anchors lo to be determined. Pewter plates were a southeasterly direction. The heaviest cated on the site strongly suggest the prevalent in the Whydah assemblage; sil concentrations extend approximately 25 wreck site identity as the QAR. They are ver plates might suggest pirate booty. feet from the south and east margins of all rated for a vessel of at least 364 tons. Cleaning and careful examination of these the mound. 4) The stratigraphy at the site These would have been entirely too big pieces will most likely reveal a maker's consists of 6 to 18 inches of coarse sand for the much smaller sloops (Adventure mark and pOSSibly other evidence related (highly mobile) over a 6 to 12 inch layer was 80 tons). The north anchor with its to the ship or the men on board. of shell, shell hash and cultural materials; preserved wooden stock is identical to While additional data is sought to posi below this is medium fine gray sands de anchors that were in use during of the tively identify this as Queen Anne's Re void of artifacts. 5) Excavations were ham first half of the 18th century. venge, there has been little evidence pered by in flowing sands as deeper lev 3) Ship's fittings - The size of the turned up to support identity as any of els were reached. 6) The sea state at the deadeyes, calculated from the iron strops the other vessels known to have been lost site was most affected by southerly winds; found on the site, vary from 8 1/2" to 11 in the same area. Further proof will come Shackleford Banks provides protection 1/2". This size matches well with that car from the examination of structural tim from northerly winds even as they ap ried on the Blandford, a 20-gun, English bers, analysis of additional artifacts to proach 20 knots. built ship of the same period as the QAR. confirm the age of the vessel and its use A better understanding of the types 4) Small finds - Collectively, the arti as a pirate ship, and perhaps most impor and amounts of materials contained at the facts support a wrecking date that coin tantly, locating the remains of Adventure, site were also gained. Beside the cannons cides with that of the QAR. In addition, a second vessel lost by Blackbeard at the and anchors, there are large amounts of several elements of the assemblage readily same time as Queen Anne's Revenge. ballast rock and iron concretions. Other compare with materials recovered from materials were found in minor amounts the wreck of Whydah, a pirate vessel lost • East Carolina University, Program in and included: glass bottle shards, ceramic off New England in 1717. Glass bottles - Maritime History: East Carolina Univer shards, wood pieces, and non-ferrous Several fragments from case gin bottles sity spent the past year on a variety of proj metal objects. Conservation of these type (17th & 18th century) and an onion bottle ects east of the Mississippi. Starting in April, materials will be lengthy and costly. The (tentative date of manufacture is 1714). a small crew spent a week in Delaware at excellent preservation of the wood stock Ceramics - Numerous shards from large the Wilson Vineyard Shipyard in Milford, on the north anchor shows organic ma- lead glazed storage container(s) and salt- Delaware, supporting Scott Emory's the- sis project. In May, the field school started South Carolina workstation. This was funded by a Legacy four weeks of scientific diver training, grant through the Naval Historical Cen then, at the end of June deployed to • South Carolina Institute of Archaeology ter. The workstation will be used for con Maryland for a month where they and Anthropology, Underwater Archae tinued Hunley work and to support the worked on the Flotilla Project. This effort ology Division: In May 1997 the Division state's inventory and assessment of the was designed with several aims in mind. conducted three-weeks of fieldwork at a naval wrecks in South Carolina waters. First, two gunboats would be subjected to Paleo Indian site in Allendale County. In The South Carolina Historic Ships Sup a phase II investigations. The two gun support of excavations on land, headed ply Program, a partnership of the South boats turned out to be a plank on frame by Dr. Albert Goodyear, Division staff sur Carolina Institute of Archaeology and bugeye but no one has ever looked at one veyed and mapped two discrete areas of Anthropology and the South Carolina of them archaeologically. The upstream the bottom of adjacent Smiths Lake Department of Transportation, supplied vessels all turned out to have been bur Creek, locating several sources of chert three truckloads of live oak trees to the ied deeper by a growing marsh. Conse which had been used as a source for tool Amistad reconstruction project at Mystic quently, only one could be identified out manufacture at two nearby sites. Addi Seaport. The trees were slated for removal of at least 20. Several other sites were also tionally, thousands of chert tools and along a state right-of-way, and will now examined during the survey. debitage were recorded and excavated be used in this historic project. Christo In September, another field school took from areas fronting a site on land that had pher Amer presented a paper on the pro place in Bermuda and searched for new slumped into the creek due to erosion. gram at the SHA conference. sites as well as inspecting a variety of wrecks Work will continue at the site next year The Division through the efforts of for familiarization about change in vessels with a side-scan survey of the entire creek Lynn Harris received additional grants over time. In October, the entire staff and and sub-surface testing. this year. (a) We designed and imple a number of students participated in the In October and November 1997, the mented a canoe heritage trail, spear Blackbeard Project to assist the State Un Division completed the first phase of a headed by Lynn Harris. On the tour ca derwater Archaeology Unit in mapping multi-year survey of Port Royal Sound, in noeists can view 13 submerged cultural the site of an early 18th century vessel off Beaufort County. Funded by a grant from resources along the historic Ashley River, Beaufort. The month long effort produced the SC Department of Archives and His near Charleston. The sites, which are ex a site map and also recovered several frag tory, and under the direction of Jim Spirek posed at low tide, range from a Colonial ile items as well as two cannon. and Christopher Amer, Division staff con dock, several 18th to 19th century sailing During the summer, a shoreline survey ducted aerial reconnaissance of the shore vessels, to a 20th century stearn tug; (b) of 17th-century St Mary's Cittie, Maryland, line and marsh islands followed by a pe We are in the process of setting up an un was conducted over a weekend in July. destrian survey of the 70-mile-long shore derwater heritage trail, again headed by This survey identified the old shoreline at low tide. As a result of the survey, over Lynn Harris. Five underwater sites in the in less than 1.5 days for a 4 mile long shore 60 sites were located in the inter tidal and Cooper River, near Charleston, will have line for Jim Embrey's thesis field work. near-shore areas of the sound, including mooring buoys installed near the site and One staff member and a student worked 10 previously unrecorded sites. The sec divers will be supplied with waterproof in Wisconsin and documented the Selah ond slates providing the history of the site and Chamberlain with the State Historical So phase of the project will be conducted information of diving conditions, hazards ciety of Wisconsin. next year with a remote sensing survey and other safety considerations. We plan Two vessels lost off Cape Hatteras of the sound, which will include a specific to have this set up next year. (c) We re were documented as part of a thesis pre search for the French corsair, Le Prince, ceived a grant from the SC Humanities sented by Wendy Coble. The two vessels which wrecked at the entrance to the Council to construct a maritime archae SS Kyzikos nee SS Paraguay, and the Carl sound in 1576. Jim Spirek covered this ology web site. many of the sites located Gerhard went down in the early 20th cen work in a paper that he will present at the beneath the waters of the state. The first tury. The two wrecks, broken up, form a 1998 SHA conference. pages, which will be posted in early triangular site that is often visited by sport The Division has ordered a state-of Spring, will feature some of the five sites divers. The Peterhoj, a blockade runner, the-art marine remote sensing package targeted for the heritage trail. converted into a blockader, was acciden from Sandia Research Corporation. The The Division's Sport Diver Archaeol tally sunk in 1864. The site was mapped equipment, which includes a cesium mag ogy Management Program conducted and a history prepared by Rob Westrick, netometer, digital side-scan sonar, digital one Archaeology Field Training Course for his thesis project. Other projects took fathometer and GPS unit, is being custom this year and provided numerous public staff and student volunteers to Puerto assembled by Steven Shope at the Sandia workshops on subjects from fossil identi Rico to work on the Antonio Lopez, a ves facility. Funding for the package was an fication to documenting historic water sel sunk during the 1898 Spanish Ameri appropriation from the SC Legislature, craft. Follow-up workshops allowed stu can War. Another student received an in spearheaded by Senator Glenn dents to put their skills to work on historic ternship to work on the Emanuel Point McConnell, Chairman of the SC Hunley plantation boats and canoes in museum Wreck, under Roger Smith in Florida. Fi Commission. The equipment, which we and plantation collections, as well as on nally, one student spent a month on the will receive in the Spring, will be used to watercraft found along the state's muddy US brig Niagara as it toured Lake Ontario conduct regional surveys on the state's waterways. One group of sport divers has this past summer. submerged lands and for further work on taken on the task of documenting a large the Hunley. sailing vessel in the Wando River, near The Division has purchased a Hewlett Charleston. Packard Pentium II setup to use as a GIS Management work on the Hunley con essary information for selecting a pre The Mariners' Museum, Newport News, tinues. The South Carolina Hunley Com ferred option and for moving to the next Virginia, for the curation of documents mission has set up a non-profit founda phase of planning and preservation. The and artifacts from the Monitor; the Mu tion to raise private funds for the raising, technological requirements can be met by seum has expressed strong interest in tak archaeology, conservation, curation, and several ocean engineering firms; however, ing the lead for conservation, curation and display of the historic submarine. Chris since the combined costs of stabilization, exhibition if this plan is implemented. topher Amer, Jon Leader, and Jim Spirek recovery and conservation are estimated Therefore, the next phase of planning, (SCIM) are working with Bob Neyland to be in excess of $20 M, possibly the to be carried out during 1998, includes (NHC) to craft scopes of work for the vari greatest challenge for NOM will be to detailed engineering and conservation ous phases of the project. At present, the create a partnership of interested organi plans and a business or fund raising plan. Commission is anticipating having every zations that can generate the required A final decision on which option or op thing in place (funding, lab, and exhibit funds. NOM previously established a tions are selected for preservation of the space etc.) by the turn of the millennium. long-term cooperative agreement with Monitor will involve considerations of tech- The Hunley Assessment report is in the fi nal stages of editing and the National Park Service, Submerged Cultural Re Available SHA Publications source Unit expects to have the report out in early 1998. Requests for presentations Please use order form on inside back cover on the Hunley continue to flock into the Division's office. Over and above the Historical Archaeology Special Publications Series scores of in-state lectures requested by Volume 24:1-31:4 (1990-1997) Issue Price: $12.50 No. l-"A Descriptive Dictionary for 500 Years of school and public groups, Christopher Spanish-Tradition Ceramics [13th Through Amer has conducted two lecture tours Thematic Issues 18th Centuries]]," by Florence C. Lister and Robert H. Lister (1976). $7.50. through Georgia, as well as Louisiana and Volume 16:1-2-"The East Liverpool, Ohio, No. 2-"Historical Archaeology and the Texas, and presented in British Columbia, Pottery District: Identification of Manufacturers and Marks," by William C. Importance of Material Things," by Leland where Hunley fever appears to not be di Gates, Jr. and Dana E. Ormond. Published as Ferguson (1977). $7.50. luted. single issue. $25.00. No. 3--"Reconstructing Historic Subsistence with Volume 24:4--"Historical Archaeology on an Example from Sixteenth-Century Spanish Virginia Southern Plantations and Farms," edited by Florida," by Elizabeth j. Reitz and C. Margaret Charles E. Orser, Jr. Scarry (1985). $10.00. • NOM, Monitor National Marine Sanc Volume 25:4-"Gender in Historical Archaeology,: No. 7--"The Hoff Store Site and Gold Rush tuary: Most of 1997 was spent preparing edited by Donna J. Seifert. Merchandise from San Francisco, California," edited by Allen G. Pastron and Eugene M. a draft comprehensive preservation plan Volume 26:1-"The Archaeology of the Spanish Hattori (1990). $10.00. for the Monitor National Marine Sanctu Colonial and Mexican Republican Periods," ary. The National Oceanic and Atmo edited by Paul Farnsworth and Jack S. Williams. Readers in Historical Archaeology spheric Administration (NOM) is con 'Approaches to Material Culture Research for fronting a serious management crisis at Volume 26:3-"Meanings and Uses of Material Culture," edited by Barbara j. Little and Paul Historical Archaeologists," compiled by the Sanctuary: the collapse of the Monitor's A. Shackel. George L. Miller, Olive R. Jones, Lester A. Ross, and Teresita Majewski (1991). $20.00 hull is imminent. In 1996, upon learning Volume 26:4-"Advances in Underwater of the Monitor's impending disintegra Archaeology,: edited by j. Barto Arnold III. tion, Congress mandated that NOM pro Guides to Historical Archaeological Volume 27:2-"Health, Sanitation, and Foodways Literature duce a long-range, comprehensive plan in Historical Archaeology," edited by joan H. for the management, stabilization, pres Geismar and Meta F. janowitz. No. 1--"The Archaeology of Spanish Colonialism in the Southeastern United States and the ervation, and recovery of artifacts and Volume 28:2-"Washboards, Pigtoes, and Caribbean: A Critical Bibliography," Muckets: Historic Musseling in the materials of the USS Monitor. NOM was compiled by Charles R. Ewen (1990). $6.00. also directed, to the extent feasible, to use Mississippi Watershed," edited by Cheryl Claassen. No. 2-"The Archaeology of the African Diaspora the resources of other Federal and private in the Americas," compiled by Theresa A. Volume 28:4-"An Archaeology of Harpers Singleton and Mark D. Bogcad (1995). $10.00. entities with expertise and capabilities Ferry's Commercial and Residential District," that are helpful and to submit the plan edited by Paul A. Shackel and Susan E. No. 3-"The Archaeology of Spanish and within twelve months of the date of en Winter. Mexican Colonialism in the American Southwest," compiled by James E. Ayres actment of the National Marine Sanctu Volume 29:3-"Reform, Respite, Ritual: An (1995). $15.00. aries Preservation Act (October 11, 1996). Archaeology of Institutions: The Magdalen The resulting preservation plan, Chart Society of Philadelphia, 1800-1850," by l.u No. 4--"The Archaeology of Sixteenth- and Ann De Cunzo. Seventeenth-Century British Colonization in ing a New Course for the Monitor, recom the Caribbean, United States, and Canada," Volume 30:1-"Feeding Colonial Boston: A mends that the Monitor be preserved edited by Henry M. Miller, D. L. Hamilton, Zooarchaeological Study," by David B. Nicholas Honerkamp, Steven R. Pendery, through a combination of stabilization Landon. and selective recovery actions. A supple Peter E. Pope, and James A. Tuck (1996). Index: Volume 1-20 (1967-1968) $7.50 $15.00. mentary data package was also assem bled, drawing information from previous No. 5-"The Archaeology of French Colonial North America English-French Edition," engineering, archaeological and historical compiled by Gregory A. Waselkov (1997). reports. The principal goal of the subject $20.00. Preservation Plan is to provide the nec-
Volume 31 : Number 1 nological feasibility, probability of success, tute. Ice Water Mansions (www. State Historical Society and WUAA in the Monitor's historical and archaeological seagrant.wisc.eduiCommunications/Ship 1992-1993. Special projects will include a significance, successful Federal section 106 wrecks) invites visitors to learn the sto sesquicentennial poster featuring the approval, consistency with the NOAA ries of several Wisconsin shipwrecks with Niagara, placement of a Department of Strategic Plan and, of course, funding. detailed accounts of their construction, Natural Resources historic marker on operation, and loss. The site also provides shore near the wreck, publication of an Wisconsin an up-close look at the wrecks through article on the history and archaeology of underwater drawings, photographs, visi Niagara, and development of a slide/video • State Historical Society of Wisconsin, tor information, and safety tips, while presentation on the Niagara wreck today. State Underwater Archaeology Program: encouraging divers to help preserve A proposal to the National Sea Grant Col The underwater archaeology program Wisconsin's underwater heritage. Ice Wa lege Program will hopefully add Niagara had a busy season of underwater survey ter Mansions currently provides detailed and other Lake Michigan shipwrecks to work, including mapping and documen tours of the schooner Lucerne, steamer Fe our Web site and waterproof visitor guide tation of the steamer Selah Chamberlain dora, schooner-barge Noquebay, and the series. near Sheboygan, Lake Michigan, investi schooner-barge Pretoria; the steamer gation of several northern Lake Michigan Sevona and the wrecking tug Ottawa are • Legislative Update: On December 1, shipwrecks including the schooner-barge to be added this winter, and waterproof 1997, the United States Supreme Court Adriatic at Sturgeon Bay, and reconnais visitor's guides to all six wrecks are be heard the arguments of Deep Sea Re sance-level surveys of historic sawmill ing developed. In a related shipwreck search, Inc. vs. the Brother Jonathan and sites, brownstone quarries, and remains preservation effort, the State Historical the State of California. Deep Sea Re of historic logging and commercial fish Society, the National Park Service, and the search, Inc. claims salvage rights and title ing operations in the Apostle Islands of Apostle Islands Maritime Heritage Part to the 1865 wreck, the Brother Jonathan. Lake Superior. An investigation was also ners installed a special dive boat mooring The question at issue is: Is the ship undertaken of a historic wooden dam in on the shipwreck Noquebay to facilitate wreck abandoned? The state of California the Milwaukee River and a historic diver access and to alleviate anchor dam has argued only that as a state they do not limekiln at Little Sturgeon Bay. Volunteer age to the wreck. Proposals for additional have to prove abandonment in court. divers from the Wisconsin Underwater Wisconsin shipwreck moorings are being However, the Abandoned Shipwreck Act Archeology Association participated in considered. only applies to abandoned vessels. If the these surveys. WUAA divers also assisted The underwater archaeology program state does not prove that the wreck is in conducting volunteer training work has been very busy conducting public abandoned, they do not have a right to shops and public education activities. education programs around the state. In title. The state has lost all previous deci Laboratory work has included the con the past year, over eighteen slide pro sions. For the most part, the questions servation of two wooden dugout canoes; grams and special workshops have been from the judges concerned the definition fragments of one canoe recovered from provided to schools, dive clubs, and his of abandoned. It is likely that the court Lake Mary in Kenosha County have been torical societies. An educational video on will clarify the definition of abandoned radiocarbon dated to approxima tely 100 underwater archaeology has also been and probably use as a base the basic pre AD, making this the oldest known water made available for loan, and an exhibit on cepts of traditional admiralty such as time craft in the state. Archaeologists have also the wreck and discovery of the tug TH. and effort. been working to conserve a variety of his Camp has opened at the Madeline Island The answer from the Supreme Court toric shipwreck artifacts. Historical Museum. In conjunction with could change maritime law and property Permitting and regulatory responsibili the Wisconsin Lake Schooner Education law forever. Traditionally, a shipwreck ties increased dramatically in 1997, as the Association and Cardinal Stritch College, may be considered abandoned if 1) title underwater archaeology program was underwater archaeologists participated in is affirmatively renounced or 2) abandon called upon to help oversee sunken log a teachers' workshop aboard the schoo ment can be inferred from the lapse of salvage operations in Lake Superior. Over ner Inland Seas which encompassed Great time or failure to pursue salvage efforts 800 log salvage permits were reviewed for Lakes environmental studies, history, ar on the part of the owners. The test of af sites in lakes Superior and Michigan, as chaeology, and folklore. We will be busy firmative renunciation has generally been well as a number of inland lakes. Under with more programs throughout the win reserved for military and government water archaeologists conducted field in ter. ships. vestigations of approximately 30 permit Wisconsin underwater archaeology Some of the questions that may be ad areas. was frequently in the news in 1997, with dressed by the Supreme Court include: 1) An important accomplishment for 1997 abundant coverage by television, radio, is affirmative abandonment required to includes the development of our World and print media. Fall field projects are relinquish ownership? 2) can a shipwreck Wide Web site entitled Ice Water Mansions: now winding down, and planning is be be abandoned in part as well as in whole? Wisconsin's Lake Superior Shipwrecks, along ginning for the next season. In 1998 we 3) does the availability of or the lack of with an accompanying waterproof will be celebrating the 150th anniversary recovery technology determine abandon visitor's guide to the wreck of the Lucerne, of Wisconsin's statehood. A number of ment? 4) what other factors may playa an iron-ore laden schooner lost in a vi special projects and events are planned role, such as historic values or gravesite cious Lake Superior northeaster in No centering around the 1846 sidewheeler values? A decision is expected this spring. vember 1886. The project is a joint effort steamer Niagara, which sank off Port of the State Historical Society and the Washington, Lake Michigan in 1856, and University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Insti- was archaeologically surveyed by the People You Should Know - 1998
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Ayres, Julia G. Costello, St. Mary's City, MD 20686 Kathleen A. Deagan, Glenn J. Chair, Advisory Council on Toni L. Carrell (Chair), Robert phone 301/862-0976 Underwater Archaeology Farris, Donald L. Hardesty, fax 301/862-0968 Grenier (Vice-Chair), George Julia A. King, Denise C. Lakey, Toni L. Carrell email hmmiller@ R. Fischer (Treasurer), Robyn Susan Lawrence, Bonnie G. osprey.smcm.edu Ships of Discovery, Corpus P. Woodward (Secretary), McEwan, Vergil E. Noble, Christi Museum, 1900 N. Chris F. Amer, Lawrence E. Daniel G. Roberts, Michael Secretary-Treasurer Chaparral St., Corpus Christi, Babits, John D. Broadwater, Rodeffer, Lester A. Ross, David Cooper, Anne G. Stephanie H. Rodeffer TX 78401 Robert L. Schuyler, Donna]. phone 512/883-2863 Giesecke, Margaret Leshikar Seifert, Roderick Sprague, SHA, P.O. Box 30446, Tucson, AZ fax 512/884-7392 Denton, Pilar Luna E., Robert Judy Tordoff, Sarah P. 85751 email [email protected] Neyland, Betty L. 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