The study of contemporary dhow and related watercraft construction in Zanzibar has relevance for the nautical archaeology of the Indian Ocean World. We suggest that such studies should be placed within the theoretical framework of “nautical ethnographies”, in which the social relations and processes embedded in nautical activity are centered. We argue that nautical ethnographies can allow us to understand processes inherent in shipbuilding that are otherwise invisible in the archaeological record. The anthropological significance of this project lies in the holistic perspective it assumes, studying not just method and material but also the social and cultural aspects of dhow construction. In particular, it will study ritual and ideology, gendered divisions of labor, and the social meaning assigned to dhows. The project will not only record dhow construction from an actualistic or ethnoarchaeological perspective, but it will also explore in some detail the “social lives” of ships in modern Zanzibar.

One of the first French colonial attempts in North America led to the construction of a fort close to the current Quebec City, by Jacques Cartier and Jean-François de La Rocque de Roberval between 1541 and 1543. French settlers, under the command of François I^er, aimed to find precious metals in the New World.

Excavations conducted from 2005 to 2010 led to the discovery of a large variety of material culture showing that metallurgical activities took place in this fort. Our project aims to investigate these artefacts (crucibles, metallic wastes, slags, etc.) along with historical sources and artefacts from Europe. It investigates the technics employed by the settlers and their possible adaptations to the Canadian environment, as well as the type of metals and alloys used in the site.

It will provide a better understanding of both exploration activities and daily life within the reality of first French colonial attempts.

The task of curation collections recovered resulting from CRM projects can often be a costly and time-consuming endeavor. For these reasons, and along with others, many CRM firms become their own repositories, often with numerous forgotten about boxes in storage spaces or basements. This study assessed and prepared for curation the orphaned collections held by Gray & Pape, Inc. This project includes an internal review into the ethics and responsibilities CRM firms hold within their own storing and preparing processes for collections held within their facilities. Throughout this research, multiple firms will be offered a survey to show an anonymous configuration of how these corporations view and actively handle responsibilities towards their internal collections. This qualitative data along with the quantitative values presented from Gray & Pape’s internal project will lead to valuable discussion on the necessary internal collections work that needs to be done within CRM firms.

Since 2017, the Bass Street Community Archaeology Project has conducted excavations at the site of one of the earliest African American neighborhoods in Reconstruction era Nashville. The Bass Street Community was located at the site of Fort Negley, a Civil War era Union fort. Black Nashvillians- enslaved, formerly enslaved, self-emancipated, and free- were conscripted into service by the Union to construct the fort, forming refugee and labor camps that developed into permanent neighborhoods following Emancipation in 1865.
The Bass Street neighborhood was a thriving yet marginalized community until the 1960s when residents were displaced for the construction of the interstate system. In this presentation we will discuss how residents of the Bass Street Community self-reconstructed and maintained their individual and collective identities within the Jim Crow South through the Civil Rights Era. We will also be discussing the difficulties and implications of conducting archaeological research on a politically contentious topic.

The Sugarland Community near Poolesville, MD was founded in 1871. At its peak, Sugarland was the largest early African American community in Montgomery County Maryland.Sugarland had a church, community hall, governing group of elders, grocer, a local band, and a school.The Dorsey farm is a woman-owned farm and one of the smallest farms in town and this report highlights the results of the 2021 and 2022 testing. We uncovered buttons, buckles, overall straps, and safety pins reflecting the clothing worn by the Dorseys or the women’s cleaning and sewing business and their roles as midwives. Sugarland thrives because of its strength and the hope that founders put in place in 1871. This year SEHP began renovations of the church including a new roof. This year we have continued to uncover farm buildings and the SEHP has renovated the walls of the church and put in a new HVAC system.

This paper introduces the preliminary results of the Central Mediterranean Penal Heritage Project, its mission to archaeologically investigate the inhumanities of confinement through material evidence and digitally preserve the heritage of penal sites in the region, often overlooked in historical archaeology, from the post-Medieval period through the 20^th century. The project employs digital photogrammetry and terrestrial LiDAR to create 3D representations of three sites for research and public outreach: the Guva at Fort Saint Angelo, Malta, the tower cell at Noto Antica, Sicily, and the Carcere Borbonico di Siracusa, Sicily. The first two, famous for their graffiti, demonstrate the ways in which confined actors dealt with the long hours of their incarceration at the 16^th - 17^th century sites. Meanwhile, the Carcere Borbonico represents one of the earliest implementations of 18^th-19th century reform measures in this region.

In the course of the 2022 season of the Small Cycladic Islands Project (SCIP), team members documented three stone-built lighthouses in the Milos-Kimolos vicinity; two on the islets of Agios Efstathios and Mikri Akradia, and another on the island of Polyaigos. The three lighthouses, originally built in the 1890s and renovated in the first years after WWII, are currently in varying states of preservation and maintenance. Although not unknown to the public or absent from the literature, the three lighthouses have not thus far attracted much archaeological attention. This paper will attempt a holistic treatment of these three structures and their immediate surroundings, discussing aspects of their architecture, construction, landscape, and embodied experience from a multidisciplinary angle at the interface of archaeology, architecture, (oral) history, and ethnographic interviews with their (now retired) keepers; its aim is to understand their role in the area and impact on its communities.

Birmingham was founded in 1873 to be the industrial capital of the New South, built up as it was around rich mineral reserves in Central Alabama. The workforce that propelled Birmingham’s extractive development was majority-Black, most workers having migrated to the city from agrarian plantation settings. This paper takes an assemblage of Coca-Cola bottles recovered from a Black iron ore mining camp, Smythe (~1890-1915), as a starting point for thinking through the role the beverage played in the reproduction of racialized labor in Birmingham. In 1902, Crawford Johnson, Sr. acquired one of Coca-Cola's first exclusive franchises to manufacture and distribute the beverage in Birmingham. The Birmingham Coca-Cola Bottling Company remains the largest privately held Coca-Cola bottling company in the United States. As the stimulant du jour, Coca-Cola fueled Birmingham’s industrial development, providing as it did a cheap source of energy to be extracted as value from Black workers’ laboring bodies.

The aim of this paper is to present the results of research carried out on the wreck of Tank Bay 1 located at English Harbour (Antigua & Barbuda). Initial analyses confirm the identification of the remains as those of the Lyon, ex Beaumont. This French East India Company ship was built in Lorient in 1762, converted in 1777, and took part in the War of Independence of the Thirteen American Colonies. The research is part of a multi-year project on military ships lost in the Lesser Antilles. The 2022 field season is the result of a collaboration between the AAPA, the National Parks of Antigua and Barbuda and East Carolina University.

The main objectives of the operation was to conduct trench tests to understand the site layout, confirm the orientation of the remains, verify the integrity of the site, and contribute to the documentation and identification of the site.