Open Access Victorian Archaeology in Urban East St Louis
Technical Reports[image: TR Volume 9]Vol. 9: The New Mississippian River
Bridge Archaeological Project: Late Victorian and Early Modern Occupations
1880–1930
*Authors: Patrick R. Durst and Dwayne L. Scheid with contributions by
Claire Dappert-Coonrod, Kristen N. Donahue, Patrick R. Durst, Joseph M.
Galloy, Steven R. Kuehn, Curtis Mann, Robert Mazrim, Martha M. Mihich,
Robert W. Rohe, Dwayne L. Scheid, and Laura Williams*
2020, 798 pp., figures, tables, references, online downloadable appendices
This volume documents the investigation of Euro-American historic-era
deposits encountered during the New Mississippi River Bridge (NMRB)
project. The investigations, conducted by teams of archaeologists from the
Illinois State Archaeological Survey (ISAS), explored the information
potential and historical significance of a largely late Victorian-era
residential neighborhood within the project limits. The historic-era
material remains, dating from 1870 to 1930, are part of the “second city”
that developed at East St. Louis. The “first city” was the “East St. Louis
Precinct” of Greater Cahokia. This Native American city buried beneath the
Euro-American city dates to the 10th through 12th centuries AD and has been
documented in a series of published NMRB project reports funded by the
Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT)...
Utilizing both archival records and archaeological data, ISAS researchers
do succeed in providing a glimpse of everyday life in the Goose Hill
neighborhood, but their work also highlights the limitations of urban
archaeology in the late Victorian era. The limitations stem from three
transformative forces: (1) increasing mass-production of goods
(consumerism), (2) proliferation of detailed recordkeeping, and (3)
expansion of public sanitation, especially the removal of refuse from
residential areas. These trends profoundly limit the information potential
of the material record. Archival records in most cases can better answer
research questions than can samples of mass-produced goods.
Archaeologists who focus on the recent past might debate this conclusion.
Yet the chapters in this volume well illustrate that as the information
potential of the material record drops off significantly, the information
potential of archival records increases just as significantly. In short, we
may conclude that although mass-produced items can provide tangible links
to past lives and events, they are part of a new world order (capitalism),
one in which we live today, where producers and consumers are separated by
time and space, and where families of different ethnic or economic
backgrounds consume and discard many of the same goods, which are then
deposited off-site in community landfills. This conclusion is indeed a
genuine contribution to Midwestern historic-era archaeology, one that has
far-reaching implications for the scholarly study of the recent past.
—Brad H. Koldehoff, IDOT Chief Archaeologist
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as a PDF. Click here <https://uofi.box.com/v/ISAS-NMRBTR09-ESTL-Historics> to
preview or download.
Thomas E. Emerson, PhD, RPA
Research Affiliate, ISAS ([log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>)
Editor, *Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology ([log in to unmask]
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*State Archaeologist/ISAS Director (retired)*
Mail address:
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL 61820
*Do not confuse effort, progress, or methodology with a final product.*
“You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.” C.G. Jung
On Sat, Nov 7, 2020 at 4:02 PM Al Dart <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Kimberly,
>
> Here's a link to the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office's "Water
> Utilization and Technology in Arizona's Historic Era, 1540-1960 / Lifeline
> of the Desert" historic context:
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/wp1z8ryo4ub6tgv/Water%20Utilization%20and%20Techno
>
> logy%20in%20Arizona%27s%20Historic%20Era%2C%201540-1960%20-%20Lifeline%20of%
> 20the%20Desert.pdf?dl=0
> <https://www.dropbox.com/s/wp1z8ryo4ub6tgv/Water%20Utilization%20and%20Technology%20in%20Arizona%27s%20Historic%20Era%2C%201540-1960%20-%20Lifeline%20of%20the%20Desert.pdf?dl=0>
>
>
> al
>
> Allen Dart, RPA 12244, Executive Director (Volunteer)
> Old Pueblo Archaeology Center
> PO Box 40577
> Tucson AZ 85717-0577 USA
> 520-798-1201
> [log in to unmask]
> www.oldpueblo.org
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY On Behalf Of Kimberly Wooten
> Sent: Monday, November 2, 2020 2:04 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Agricultural sites, research designs, & context studies
>
> Afternoon--
> Here's a good distraction today: I'm looking for research designs and
> context studies focused on agricultural property types, ideally from
> California or the American West, 1850-1930s. Archaeological studies or
> research designs fitting into this timeframe from across the United States
> (abroad too) are also very welcome. I'm assisting with revisions to a 2007
> statewide study of agricultural property types and we're hoping to
> emphasize
> more recent archaeological sites, themes, and practices. Thanks so much,
> Kimberly
>
> Kimberly Wooten
> California Department of Transportation
> Cultural Studies Office
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
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