I am currently working on a book about mass-produced coffin hardware in North America. If you have examples of hardware, particularly from pre-1850 burials, I'd love to hear about it!
African Diaspora
The Sexton's House Has A Ritual Concealment: Late Nineteenth-Century Negotiations of Double Consciousness at a Black Family Home in Sussex County, New Jersey, African Diaspora Archaeology Network Newsletter (2010)
Artifacts
Squatters Budgeree: Pipes for the Australian Market Recovered at the Homestead of a Free Black Family in Sussex County, New Jersey, The African Diaspora Archaeology Network Newsletter (2010)
An archaeological data recovery was recently completed by Richard Grubb & Associates, Inc. at the...
Some Brief Notes on the Tobacco Tag, Arch Notes (1997)
Tobacco tags have been found on archaeological sites throughout North America, in shapes ranging from...
Maritime
Documenting the Wooden Stick Lighter/Deck Scow MARICOPA: A Vestige of the Lighterage Era in the Port of New York, Society for Historical Archaeology Annual Meeting (2007)
In 2005, Richard Grubb & Associates mitigated the wreck of a wooden deck scow (an...
Steamboats in Monmouth County [NJ] : A Gazetteer (2003)
Contains a chronological list, by date built of over 200 steamboats that operated in and...
Steamboats of Monmouth County, New Jersey. Lecture presented at the Atlantic Highlands Historical Society, Atlantic Highlands, NJ, November, 2003. (2003)
Steamboats provided a critical commercial link between Monmouth County, New Jersey and New York City...
Materials
Cellulose Nitrate Plastic (Celluloid) in Archaeological Assemblages: Identification and Care, Northeast Historical Archaeology (1997)
Invented in the mid-19th century, cellulose nitrate (celluloid) is commonly regarded as the earliest synthetic...
Mortuary Studies
Mass-Produced Coffin Hardware in Eastern North America: A Synthesis, Society for Historical Archaeology Annual Meeting (1998)
Mass-produced coffin hardware is commonly found during excavations or relocations of historic cemeteries in eastern...
Prehistoric
Observations on the Aboriginal Remains in Eastern New Jersey: The Notebook of Charles F. Woolley, 1878-1881, Eastern States Archaeological Federation (2002)
Charles F. Woolley was a school teacher and avocational archaeologist in New Jersey in the...
Taverns
Setting A Publick Table: Food and Food Service at a Colonial and Early American New Jersey Tavern, Council for Northeastern Historical Archaeology Conference (2005)
The Blue Ball, a tavern located in Shrewsbury, New Jersey served primarily a local clientele...