Dear colleagues,

The Market Street Chinatown Archaeology Project has released three new technical reports, all available for download from the project website, http://marketstreet.stanford.edu/.  They are:


Technical Report 11: "Fan and Tsai: Food, identity, and connections in the Market Street Chinatown" by J. Ryan Kennedy
https://marketstreet.stanford.edu/2019/04/technical-report-11-fan-and-tsai-food-identity-and-connections-in-the-market-street-chinatown/
This study explores food consumption in the Market Street Chinatown, a 19th-century Chinese migrant community in San Jose, California. Data collected from archaeologically-recovered animal and plant remains are used to address two primary goals: understanding the intersections of food and identity within the Market Street Chinatown and exploring how the community's food choices connected its members to other people and places. This public release of Ryan Kennedy's PhD thesis also includes a digital appendix containing photos of select faunal specimens.

Technical Report 12. "The Analysis of Flotation Samples from Market Street Chinatown, San Jose, California," by Virginia Popper.
https://marketstreet.stanford.edu/2019/04/technical-report-12-the-analysis-of-flotation-samples-from-market-street-chinatown-san-jose-california/
This is the sixth technical report documenting research on archaeobotanical remains in the Market Street Chinatown collection. In this report, Dr. Popper integrates analysis of botanical remains from 15 soil samples through the flotation method with the previously reported results from macrobotanical remains collected by hand during excavation and from matrix samples, bags of gravel-sized mixed materials collected from inside archaeological screens after larger artifacts have been removed.

Technical Report 13. "Phytolith and Starch Analysis of Archaeological Soil Samples from the Market Street Chinatown, San Jose, California," by Chad Yost
https://marketstreet.stanford.edu/2019/04/technical-report-13-phytolith-and-starch-analysis-of-archaeological-soil-samples-from-the-market-street-chinatown-san-jose-california/
In this report, Chad Yost builds off of previous studies of macroscopic and microscopic plant remains from the Market Street Chinatown Archaeology Project that have yielded evidence for a wide variety of domestic and imported foodstuffs. Analysis of phytoliths, silica in-fillings of plant cells from various plant parts, and starch granules from seeds and roots provides new data on the variations of food consumption within the community.



--Barb

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Barbara L. Voss, Associate Professor
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