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African Diaspora Archaeology Network and Newsletter
Organization: African Diaspora Archaeology Network and Newsletter
Region: Africa
Era: : 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century
Cultures associated: : African, African Diaspora
Topics associated: : Agriculture, Battlefield, Commerce, Domestic, Industrial, Logging/Lumbering, Mining, Political, Plantation, Religious, Rural, Urban
Comments: The African Diaspora Archaeology Network and Newsletter provide focal points for archaeological studies of African diasporas, with news, current research, information and links to other web resources related to the archaeology and history of descendants of African peoples. Through this engagement with African diasporas, the ADAN seeks to connect an intellectual community that considers the historical processes of racialization, gender, power, and culture operating within and upon African descendant communities.
African-American Archaeology, History and Cultures
Organization: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Region: North America
Era: : 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century
Cultures associated: : African Diaspora
Topics associated: : Agriculture, Battlefield, Commerce, Domestic, Industrial, Logging/Lumbering, Mining, Political, Plantation, Religious, Rural, Urban, Work Camp
Comments: This web site is designed to provide convenient access to online presentations and resources concerning the subjects of African-American archaeology, history and cultures, and broader subjects of African diaspora archaeology. The principal focus is on providing links to online presentations concerning African-American archaeology projects. Additional links to online resources and presentations concerning African-American history and culture, African archaeology, African history and cultures, African heritage in Britain, and the subjects of slavery, resistance and abolition are also provided.
Archaeology of the Free African American Community of Springfield
Organization: Archaeology of the Free African American Community of Springfield
Region: Africa
Website's Intended Audience: : lay public
Era: : 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century
Terrestrial: : 1
Cultures associated: : African, African Diaspora
Topics associated: : Commerce, Domestic, Political, Religious, Urban
Cuba Archaeology
Organization: Archaeological Cuba
Region: Central America
Website's Intended Audience: : lay public
Comments: Our main objective is the democratization of knowledge and the scientific dissemination of the archaeological, anthropological and heritage work of Cuba and the Antillean Caribbean.
Archaeology Expert
Organization: Archaeology Expert
Era: : Varied
Topics associated: : Agriculture, Battlefield, Commerce, Industrial, Leisure, Logging/Lumbering, Mining, Political, Plantation, Religious, Rural, Urban, Work Camp
Comments: Archaeology Expert was developed to offer information to anybody who is interested in learning more about archaeology. It covers a wide range of topics, from basic understanding of archaeological concepts to interesting archaeological finds and much more...
Archaeology of Graveyards
Organization: University of Liverpool, UK
Region: Africa
Website's Intended Audience: : all
Era: : 15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Contact Period
Terrestrial: : 1
Cultures associated: : European, European American
Topics associated: : Domestic, Religious, Graveyards
Comments: The site presents information about graveyard recording projects, mainly in the Britsih Isles and Ireland but with studies of the global Ulster Scots diaspora. More data will be added (as web pages and downloadable pdf files) as the project progresses.
Ark Magazine
Organization: ArKeopatías Project
Region: Central America
Website's Intended Audience: : lay public
Era: : 16th Century
Cultures associated: : European, European American
Comments: The Temple Ex Convent of San Agustín dating from the sixteenth century, in the town of Ucareo, Michoacán BUILDING BATHS IN A 16TH CENTURY CONVENT IN MICHOACÁN, MEXICO
Asian American Comparative Collection
Organization: Asian American Comparative Collection
Region: Africa
Website's Intended Audience: : lay public
Era: : 19th Century, 20th Century
Cultures associated: : Asian, Asian American, European American
Topics associated: : Domestic, Leisure, Mining, Political, Rural
Comments: The AACC, is a clearinghouse for all information regarding the Chinese and Japanese heritage of the United States with special emphasis on the Northwest including Idah, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. Website contains photographs, stories, artifact illustrations and photos, links to other related sites, and much more. In addition, you can purchase publications not found anywhere else on the Chinese and Japanese in America and beyond.
Black Trowel Collective Microgrants
Organization: Black Trowel Collective Microgrants
Region: North America
Website's Intended Audience: : professionals
Comments: We are a collective of archaeologists (from PhD students to faculty members) committed to the active support of archaeology students from working-class and historically looted communities who are both regularly excluded by traditional scholarship and academic programs, or who require more economic support than those resources cover.
Lake Forest College (Digital Chicago)
Organization: Lake Forest College (Digital Chicago)
Region: North America
Website's Intended Audience: : all
Era: : 19th Century, 20th Century
Terrestrial: : 1
Cultures associated: : European, European American
Topics associated: : Commerce, Domestic, Urban
Comments: This web exhibit provides a glimpse into the consumer habits of the men, women, and children who lived on Chicago's Gold Coast at the turn of the 20th Century. Selected artifacts recovered from excavations at the Charnley-Persky House (11CK1248) in 2010 and 2015 provide the first look at these consumer choices as the sites of manufacture or point of sale are mapped in relation to their final place of deposit and each other. In 1890, James and Helen Charnley commissioned architect Louis Sullivan, along with his draftsman, Frank Lloyd Wright, to design a new home for them. Today, this National Historic Landmark serves as the headquarters for the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) and is a member of the historic house museum consortium, At Home in Chicago. The principal investigator of the site is Dr. Rebecca S. Graff.
Chinese In Montana
Organization: Chinese in Montana
Era: : 19th Century, 20th Century
Cultures associated: : Asian American
Topics associated: : Industrial, Leisure, Mining, Rural, Urban
Comments: Over the course of the next few years, Chris Merritt, University of Montana Ph.D. Student will begin to accumulate a database of Chinese archaeological and historical sites across the state of Montana. Merritts dissertation will focus on documenting the Chinese experience of Montana through both history and archaeology. Many Montanans do not know the scale of influence that the Chinese had on shaping Montana history, and this project is first systematic attempt to document this heritage. Working in partnership with the Montana State Historic Preservation Office, the United States Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, and numerous private land owners, Merritt will travel the state and record sites and stories relating to the Chinese in Montana.
Christchurch Uncovered
Organization: Christchurch Uncovered
Region: Australia/New Zealand
Website's Intended Audience: : lay public
Era: : 19th Century
Topics associated: : Urban
Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory
Organization: Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory (CHAT)
Region: Africa
Website's Intended Audience: : all
Era: : 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Contact Period
Terrestrial: : 1
Underwater: : 1
Fort St. Joseph Archaeology Project
Organization: Fort St. Joseph Archaeology Project
Region: United States
Website's Intended Audience: : all
Era: : 17th Century, 18th Century
Terrestrial: : 1
Cultures associated: : European, European American, Native American
Topics associated: : Commerce, Domestic, Religious
Comments: Fort St. Joseph was established as a French Jesuit mission in the 1680s. In the first half of the eighteenth century the fort also began to take on roles as a garrison and trading post. Its strategic location along the St. Joseph river near Lake Michigan made it an excellent location for trade between the French and Native Americans, specifically the Potowatomi and Miami. The fort came under British control in 1761, during the French and Indian War. This occupation was short-lived as the British were forced out of the area during Pontiac's Rebellion in 1763. The fort was only briefly re-occupied by the British in 1779, though French traders remained in the area until approximately 1780. In 1781 a small group of French and Native Americans supported by the Spanish governor of St. Louis raided the fort and claimed it for Spain, but the group only remained at the site for a day. After this incident the fort was largely abandoned. Today the Fort St. Joseph Project is a joint initiative of the City of Niles, MI, and Western Michigan University with goals to excavate, interpret, and preserve the materials remains of the fort. The project is dedicated to archaeological research, education, community service learning, and intensive public outreach. The principal investigator of the site is Dr. Michael Nassaney.
Historical Archaeology in Harpers Ferry and Loudoun Valley
Organization: Historical Archaeology in Harpers Ferry and Loudoun Valley
Website's Intended Audience: : all
Era: : 18th Century, 19th Century
Cultures associated: : African Diaspora, European American
Topics associated: : Agriculture, Commerce, Domestic, Industrial, Political, Plantation, Religious, Rural, Urban
Comments: Archaeological and historical research concerning 18th and 19th century sites in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, and nearby Loudoun Valley, Virginia, as well as the broader region of the upper Potomac and northern Shenandoah Valleys.
Historical Archaeology Resources and Bibliography
Organization: Historical Archaeology Resources and Bibliography
Era: : 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century
Cultures associated: : African Diaspora, Asian American, European American, Native American
Topics associated: : Agriculture, Battlefield, Commerce, Domestic, Industrial, Logging/Lumbering, Mining, Political, Plantation, Religious, Rural, Urban
Comments: Historical archaeology resource links, bibliography and course plan.
Historical Archaeology- Florida Museum of Natural History
Organization: Historical Archaeology Digital Ceramic type Collection
Region: North America
Era: : 15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century
Cultures associated: : Asian, European, European American
Topics associated: : Ceramic Typology
Comments: The Florida Museum of Natural History's on-line type collections of historic period archaeological ceramics (1492-1850) is a fully searchable digital resource.
Arqueología Histórica en Chile
Region: South America
Website's Intended Audience: : lay public
Era: : Contact Period
Comments: The development of historical archeology in Chile: its progress over time through a brief account of investigative experiences from its experimental beginnings, and a reflection on the methodological problems it faces given the models of pre-Hispanic archeology and historiography that has developed in the last three decades
Historical archeology in underground Lima
Organization: National University of San Marcos
Region: South America
Website's Intended Audience: : lay public
Terrestrial: : 1
Comments: Historical archeology in underground Lima Collective work unravels the mysteries lying under the floor of the capital.
Historical Landscapes of New Philadelphia
Organization: Historical Landscapes of New Philadelphia
Era: : 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century
Cultures associated: : African Diaspora, European American
Topics associated: : Agriculture, Commerce, Domestic, Industrial, Political, Religious, Rural
Comments: This site presents information available from archaeological investigations, maps, surveys, deeds, census data, tax records, and newspaper archives concerning the town New Philadelphia, Illinois, which was the first town in the United States planned and legally founded by an African American. A collaborative project of archaeologists, historians, and members of the local and descendant communities is underway to further research the social history of this demographically integrated town and to enhance its focus in our national memory and heritage.