Reform Sites

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Resorts and Reform: Archaeology at the Wiawaka Holiday House, Lake George, New York, Society for Historical Archaeology (2012)

The Wiawaka Holiday House on Lake George, New York is among the oldest continuously operating...

 

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Where The Tinder Was Lit: Archaeological Excavations at the Wesleyan Chapel, Women's Rights National Historical Park, Seneca Falls, New York, Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology Conference (2011)

The Wesleyan Chapel, built in 1843, was the location of the First Women’s Rights Convention...

 

Mortuary Studies

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Coffin Handles from the African Burial Ground New York City: Notes on Their Source and Context, African Diaspora Archaeology Network Newsletter (2011)

Coffin hardware refers to both functional and decorative elements, generally metallic, used on coffins and...

 

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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...

 

Taverns

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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...

 

Materials

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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...

 

Artifacts

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Coffin Handles from the African Burial Ground New York City: Notes on Their Source and Context, African Diaspora Archaeology Network Newsletter (2011)

Coffin hardware refers to both functional and decorative elements, generally metallic, used on coffins and...

 

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A Concealed Shoe Recovered at the Updike Farmstead, Princeton Township, Mercer County, New Jersey, Newsletter of the Archaeological Society of New Jersey (2011)

This paper describes a protective shoe concealment deliberately placed in the walls of a Princeton,...

 

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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...

 

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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

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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...

 

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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...

 

Prehistoric

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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...

 

African Diaspora

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Coffin Handles from the African Burial Ground New York City: Notes on Their Source and Context, African Diaspora Archaeology Network Newsletter (2011)

Coffin hardware refers to both functional and decorative elements, generally metallic, used on coffins and...

 

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The Power of Choice: Reflections on Economic Ability, Status, and Ethnicity of a Free Black Family in Northwestern New Jersey (with Amy K. Raes), Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology (2010)

Foodways reflect, among other things, ethnicity, status, and consumer choice. Results of excavations conducted within...

 

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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)
 

Outbuildings

Keeping it Cool: Investigations Around the Benares Icehouse, Mississauga, Ontario (1997)

This thesis presents description and analysis of the structure known as the icehouse and associated...

 

Foodways

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The Power of Choice: Reflections on Economic Ability, Status, and Ethnicity of a Free Black Family in Northwestern New Jersey (with Amy K. Raes), Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology (2010)

Foodways reflect, among other things, ethnicity, status, and consumer choice. Results of excavations conducted within...

 

Landscapes

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Early Settlement at Bombay Hook, Kent County, Delaware, Early Colonial Archaeology of the Delaware Valley (2011)

This paper describes early colonial settlement in the vicinity of the Bombay Hook National Wildlife...