Ordinance is not an artifact.
J. T. Penman, Fort Irwin.
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> Topics of the day:
>
> 1. Session on Landscapes and Labor
> 2. UXO Forum at SHA 2016 (3)
> 3. SHA Cemeteries Session, Papers Wanted
>
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> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 16:12:03 +0000
> From: Michael Lucas <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Session on Landscapes and Labor
>
> Jordon Loucks and I are looking for papers to fill out a session broadly
> focused on labor and immigration in the northeastern United States (see
> abstract below). We are especially interested in papers that address
> cultural landscapes produced by immigrant labor, the many ways in which
> these landscapes worked against the laborers who produced them, and/or the
> struggle to lay claim to the heritage of those landscapes. If you are
> interested please send us an email off-list.
>
> Mike: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> Jordon: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>
>
> Abstract
> From slavery to unionization, the relationship between those doing the
> work, and the industries that prospered throughout the Northeast's history,
> helped to define the cultural identities that the descendent groups of
> those labor forces lay claim to today. Historical archaeology often links
> the concept of labor with resource extraction or infrastructure projects
> sites such as mines, factories, canals, or logging camps. But labor, as
> broadly conceived, is a productive force used to construct and maintain
> landscapes on many scales including plantations, individual homes, or golf
> courses. Immigrant communities have provided much of the labor used to
> build and sustain the "Industrial Northeast" and gained the least in
> economic return. At the same time, cultural landscapes produced by that
> labor, work to create and sustain boundaries of race and class that
> problematize definitions of American cultural identity. This symposium
> includes recent archaeological studies from the northeastern United States
> that explore the relationships between immigrant groups and the cultural
> landscapes produced by their labor. Papers in the session draw on examples
> from the seventeenth through twentieth century.
>
>
> Michael T. Lucas
> Curator of Historical Archaeology
> CEC Room 3049
> New York State Museum
> Albany, NY 12230
> 518-486-2015
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> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 15:40:56 -0500
> From: Carl Drexler <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: UXO Forum at SHA 2016
>
> Colleagues,
>
> A few weeks ago, a very nice James Type I artillery shell was found near
> Prairie Grove, Arkansas. When a city employee posted a photo of it to
> Facebook, the local bomb squad hastily commandeered and destroyed the
> round, before consulting with archaeologists, historians, or staff from the
> nearby battlefield park. Part of the justification behind this hasty action
> was that those who expressed a preservation-minded approach to dealing with
> the artifact could not offer a plan to effectively handle, render inert,
> and curate such a find. This is not an isolated incident, and it is time, I
> feel, to come together and better-define our response to this kind of
> situation.
>
> I am proposing a forum at the upcoming SHA conference (Washington, January
> 6
> -9, 2016) that will bring together archaeologists, explosive ordnance
> disposal (EOD) specialists from the U.S. military, lawyers specializing in
> explosives-related issues, and bomb squad personnel. In addition to
> defining each groups' interests and motivations when historic (pre-WWI)
> unexploded ordnance (UXO) is recovered, I want to use this forum to develop
> a draft protocol for safe handling, preservation, and curation of these
> finds, which otherwise end up destroyed and lost to us. The title and
> abstract are attached.
>
> This forum will be of interest to more than just those who specialize in
> battlefield research. Any who work in areas where historic conflicts have
> occurred, and who might deal with UXO during research or when contacted by
> an interested member of the public would also derive benefit.
>
> Please send me any thoughts or comments at the below contact information.
> If you have stories about the handling of such finds (good or bad), please
> feel free to share them with me in advance of the conference.
>
> Thanks,
> Carl
>
> ----
> Dr. Carl G. Drexler
> Arkansas Archeological Survey
> SAU Research Station
> [log in to unmask]
> (870) 235-4230
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 21:34:01 +0000
> From: "Rodgers, Ree" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: UXO Forum at SHA 2016
>
> I think this is great! I don't think the attachment came through
> though....
>
> Cheers, Ree
> Archaeologist
> WAPA, Rocky Mountain Region
> 970-461-7214
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Carl
> Drexler
> Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 2:41 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: UXO Forum at SHA 2016
>
> Colleagues,
>
> A few weeks ago, a very nice James Type I artillery shell was found near
> Prairie Grove, Arkansas. When a city employee posted a photo of it to
> Facebook, the local bomb squad hastily commandeered and destroyed the
> round, before consulting with archaeologists, historians, or staff from the
> nearby battlefield park. Part of the justification behind this hasty action
> was that those who expressed a preservation-minded approach to dealing with
> the artifact could not offer a plan to effectively handle, render inert,
> and curate such a find. This is not an isolated incident, and it is time, I
> feel, to come together and better-define our response to this kind of
> situation.
>
> I am proposing a forum at the upcoming SHA conference (Washington, January
> 6 -9, 2016) that will bring together archaeologists, explosive ordnance
> disposal (EOD) specialists from the U.S. military, lawyers specializing in
> explosives-related issues, and bomb squad personnel. In addition to
> defining each groups' interests and motivations when historic (pre-WWI)
> unexploded ordnance (UXO) is recovered, I want to use this forum to develop
> a draft protocol for safe handling, preservation, and curation of these
> finds, which otherwise end up destroyed and lost to us. The title and
> abstract are attached.
>
> This forum will be of interest to more than just those who specialize in
> battlefield research. Any who work in areas where historic conflicts have
> occurred, and who might deal with UXO during research or when contacted by
> an interested member of the public would also derive benefit.
>
> Please send me any thoughts or comments at the below contact information.
> If you have stories about the handling of such finds (good or bad), please
> feel free to share them with me in advance of the conference.
>
> Thanks,
> Carl
>
> ----
> Dr. Carl G. Drexler
> Arkansas Archeological Survey
> SAU Research Station
> [log in to unmask]
> (870) 235-4230
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 22:47:30 +0000
> From: "Veit, Richard" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: SHA Cemeteries Session, Papers Wanted
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I am hoping to organize a session for the 2016 SHA conference on the
> archaeology of cemeteries and commemoration. It is tentatively titled:
>
> “Spirits of the Dead”: Historical Archaeologies of Cemeteries and
> Commemoration
>
> The title is drawn from a poem of the same name by Edgar Allen Poe. The
> session is dedicated to current research on the archaeology of cemeteries
> and commemoration. Paper should highlight new research and/or new
> perspectives on mortuary archaeology. Papers dealing with gravemarkers,
> commemoration, cemetery landscapes, and the archaeology of memory are
> particularly welcome.
>
> If you are interested in participating please contact me off list.
>
> All the best,
>
> Rich Veit
>
> Richard Veit, Ph.D., RPA
> Professor of Anthropology and Chair
> Department of History and Anthropology
> Monmouth University
> West Long Branch, NJ 07764-1898
> 732-263-5699
> [log in to unmask]
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>
> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 22:08:59 -0700
> From: Gwyn Alcock <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: UXO Forum at SHA 2016
>
> Histarch doesn't allow attachments, at least not of the email sort.
>
> Gwyn Alcock
> Riverside, Calif.
>
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