Here is a second call for anyone interested in being in a farmstead session at the SHA in Toronto in January.  Please
see the title and abstract for the session below and email me if you are at all interested.

Thanks,

Meagan Brooks, MA
Dundas, ON


The Archaeology of Historic Farmsteads


The archaeological study of historic period farmsteads has the potential to
answer important questions about the ways in which cultures and families meet challenges and handle outside pressures
and influences. Issues such as economic and cultural transitions; ethnic migration; social and gender roles; consumerism
and many more can be examined within the context of the farmstead.  This session has been developed in an attempt to
continue a discourse on these topics at a contextual level with a focus on building characterizations of historic
farmsteads and their buildings as prominent contributors to regional distinctiveness and landscape. The articulation of 
patterns would then begin in order to synthesize the expression of an important type of archaeological site that is
routinely impacted throughout the world.