An Engaged Archaeology for Our Mutual Benefit
How was New Philadelphia a response to the interests of the public?
What is it allows visitors to learn about emancipation and slavery
What was Hornings personal best find?
What is a Toy Ray Gun
What was association that Ann Pamela Cunningham founded to preserve Mount Vernon?
Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association(MVA)
Why do many working class individuals not condone the preservation of industrial sites, old buildings, or ruins?
What is they do not want to preserve the sites that killed their family members and they want to garner a better appreciation of the hardships endured by its members
What was the DNA controversy?
What is it was a controversy on DNA testing conducted on Jefferson and Hemings descendants. In laboratory studies, scientists at three different labs in three countries compared Y-chromosome DNA haplotypes from Jefferson’s line to Hemings descendants. These haplotypes have never been observed outside of Jefferson’s family because they were so rare. DNA testing was done on two sons of his paternal uncle because he had no surviving legitimate sons. Then testing was also done on six of Sally Hemings’ sons’ descendants. Testing supported paternity for Eston Hemings Jefferson, Sally’s last son
What are stakeholders and give an example?
What is someone who has an actual appreciation for the risk, they engage and challenge dynamics.
Examples include: descendants, residents, current inhabitants of a region, scholars, or collectors.
What, fundamentally, is the study of material culture all about?
What is the people who interacted with the objects throughout time and have consciously or unconsciously attached meaning to material
Of the new associations and groups being founded in America in the late 1800s to early 1900s, who was the main demographic enabling this?
Patricians
How did industries control their workers during the day and in their own homes?
What is they created regulations in town plans and housing
What towns began popping up in the 19th century as a product of heavy immigration of males who planned to stay and work in American cities for a short time?
Chinatowns
What two sites are part of long term trends in African diaspora archaeology?
What is homes and graves
What is the mountain isolation myth? And what helped debunk it?
Theory based on the behaviors and lifestyles of people in the Appalachian Mountain trail and Shannondoah National Park that the people were “not of this century” and “uncivilized"
Why did Ford believe that modern interpretations of History were "bunk"? What aspects did he not appreciate?
He believed and intentionally tried to change how history was being primarily focused on wars, politics, and great men rather then on the material conditions of the social ecosystem and the realities for everyday people.
What can industrial archeology contribute to a better understanding of? (List two things)
What is an industrialist capitalist system, technological development, economy, and the industrial revolution
What aspects of Landscape archaeology make it so meaningful?
What are some of the challenges faced in archeological practice? (List one)
What is...
1) knowing the line between local understandings of a site and the archaeologists understanding
2) trying to not use material culture to do what texts can do better.
3) Stopping the continuation of the negative tropes used to determine material culture
What did the findings in Northern Ireland show about the connection between the British settlers and Irish natives? What did it say about the ideas before?
What is that the relationship was not one of just conflict and disagreeableness, mixes of tools, ceramics, and ideas are available at the sites, showing that a more symbiotic relationship could have been happening.
Who stopped by Williamsburg on three separate occasions and is the leader of a nation?
Shah of Iran
How would workers protest against conditions and the industries they worked for?
What is they would break machinery, materials, and tools, create labor protest camps, and starting fires
What was the greatest change in the presentation of slavery at Monticello, according to the guides?
What is the introduction of the plantation tour in 1993
What were the traditional means of publication and dissemination of archeological knowledge that this article discusses?
What is monographs, conference presentations, and journal articles
Why is it important to continue to do historical archaeology even if we think we know all we can?
What is decolonization, fostering dialogue, more intimate relations of past peoples, to help our understanding of the human race for the prosperity of the future
What was the difficulty in the ruling class maintaining both the status quo as well having the money and power to help maintain the past?
They were actively defending the unfair material conditions imposed on the people and using their efforts in maintaining the past as a legitimacy to their rule and justification for their actions, actively pushing this narrative while maintaining the past, and misusing the ideas and beliefs of the founding fathers.
What happened at the Harpers Ferry Brewery?
What is the workers labored 14 hours a day, six days a week, and half that on a Sunday. The workers were exposed to temperature shifts and breathed contaminated air. This caused them to contract diseases like Tuberculosis. Additionally, brewery related accidents were 30% higher than other industries due to the speed of the machinery. Fires also occurred as a method of protest.
What was the ideology adopted by the south after the civil war that was an excuse for their defeat as well as grounds for their idea of the "faithful slave"?
Lost Cause