Our work in the San Francisco Bay area dealt came up with many many mostly
working class collections from the era 1860-1910. Initially the problem was
deciding on a way of triaging them - in Oakland alone we found over 2500
features that contained artifacts and we ended up keeping materials from
about 120.
Anyway, the reports are all posted at:
http://www.sonoma.edu/asc/cypress/finalreport/index.htm
http://www.sonoma.edu/asc/publications/sf80bayshore/index.htm
http://www.sonoma.edu/asc/west_approach/index.html
The collections are all cataloged using SHARD, which is available for
download at http://www.sonoma.edu/asc/shard/index.html
In the final report we used a variety of statistical indices to try to
define the material indicators of social status (as indicated by wealth,
occupation rank, etc.) which we call the Material Status Index. It turns out
that there is indeed a demonstrable statistically valid relationship between
social status and archaeologically derived artifacts but the relationship is
complex. Blah, blah, blah. I'll stop writing now...
Adrian Praetzellis
Sonoma State University
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Mark Branstner <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> We are currently involved in a multi-year mitigation effort in East St.
> Louis, Illinois, just across the river from St. Louis, Missouri. Although
> most of the recovery effort is aimed a Cahokia-related Mississippian sites,
> we are in the midst of recovering several hundred privy and trash features
> related to working class occupation of the area surrounding the old East St.
> Louis Stockyard complex. Although there is some late nineteenth century
> material (ca. 1880-1900), an awful lof of the recoveries appear to relate to
> the early twentieth century (ca. 1900-1930).
>
> I am very interested in learning of any comparables in the published or
> gray literature ... i.e., large-scale recoveries of urban working class
> deposits, with particular interest in the ca. 1880-1930 period. Any
> documents covering research designs, research questions, and/or results
> would be of major interest.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> --
>
> Mark C. Branstner, RPA
> Historic Archaeologist
>
> Illinois State Archaeological Survey
> Institute of Natural Resource Sustainability
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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