Browsing by Subject "Historical Archaeology"
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Item Recycled Connections: Re-use and Related Landscapes of the Historic Peterson Farmstead and 1855-Present Day(2017-05) Pnewski, JosephThis thesis utilizes archaeological investigations undertaken at the Historic Andrew Peterson Farmstead to examine processes of production, consumption, and re-use, as well as spatial distribution and changing physical environments, socio-spatial systems, and economic networks within farmstead contexts. The Peterson farmstead was established in 1855 and has been continuously occupied to the present day, allowing for interpretations of the beginnings of agriculture in the region, as well as the evolution of farmsteads in Minnesota after the turn of the twentieth century. Archaeological deposits and their spatial distribution within the farmstead layout supplemented by archival analyses broaden our understandings and interpretations of interrelated use areas and changing landscapes within a farmstead through ideas of production, consumption, and re-use within a farmstead context. The information gathered from archaeological deposits allow for a fuller and more complete understanding and interpretation to be utilized in the transformation of the property as an interpretive center.Item Swede Hollow Archaeology Project: An Examination of the History, Lifeways, and Sanitation of Swede Hollow in Saint Paul, Minnesota(2016-05) Wolf, KellySwede Hollow was once an urban "slum-like" neighborhood located in Eastside St. Paul, Minnesota. Many people still living remember as it was then, a bustling immigrant community full of people working to earn enough to move their family "up on the street." A very rich history surrounds this place. Stories, memories, and personal accounts have a nostalgic feeling of happy lives lived by poor immigrant families, while some historical accounts describe a community living in extreme poverty and harsh living conditions.These gaps in the story between history and memory are what tools like archaeology can attempt to fill. The Swede Hollow Archaeology Project brought the process of archaeology and local history to the public and is beginning to answer questions related to the past lifeways of those that once lived there, identifying issues related to poor sanitation, and rationalizing the historical record with the memory of this place. Techniques such as historical research, map analysis, ground-penetrating radar (GPR), and public archaeology have all been used to start filling in these gaps between history and memory.