1:15-1:45: HOW DIFFERENT WORLD-VIEWS CONSTRUCTED THE HISTORY OF A LITTLE VILLAGE IN UNION COUNTY: ARCHAEOLOGY AND COMMUNITY IDENTITY AT FELTVILLE/GLENSIDE PARK. Presented by Matt Tomaso (PS&S Consulting) Archaeological investigations at Union County’s Deserted Village of Feltville / Glenside Park, a National Register of Historic Places District, have been on-going for over 30 years and historical studies of the village have an even longer tenure. Within the last 18 years, these efforts have become increasingly integrated and focused upon the interplay between archaeological, geographic and historic information. This somewhat retrospective piece provides a chronologically-arranged overview of the village’s particular history and the archaeological and landscape findings that have changed our understanding of not just the village’s day-to-day life, but its context as a representative of major social, industrial and ideological trends. Through answering questions that history alone cannot reliably address, archaeology and historical geography have helped us understand how and why major changes have occurred during the village’s long history. Presenter Bio. Matthew Tomaso directs cultural resource management for PS&S. He is a member of the SAA’s Awards Committee for Excellence in Cultural Resource Management, and is a life member of ASNJ. His broad and ever-changing interests are, today, primarily focused upon archaeological methods and improving the practice of CRM. 1:45-2:15: DISCOVERING 19TH CENTURY LIFEWAYS IN RAHWAY, NEW JERSEY: THE PEACE TAVERN-WOODRUFF HOUSE SITE (28-Un-42) The study of privies and the deposits found inside their vaults links the archaeological record to the people, culture, and society that created it. Two intact stone-lined privies representing the Peace Tavern – Woodruff House Site (28-Un-42) located in Rahway, New Jersey contained many 18th – 19th century artifacts and well preserved organic materials associated with changing occupations (c.1800 tavern/residence) of the site. Perhaps the most intriguing characteristic is the temporal variation between the two privies and the change in socioeconomic lifeways suggested by the artifact assemblage from more utilitarian objects to more domestic household materials and more pharmaceutical/medicine bottles recovered. Together, the analyses of the two features at 28-Un-42 can demonstrate historical changes in race, class, gender, diet, spatial organization, personal hygiene, and other social characteristics of the site’s occupants through comparison of their chronologically distinct contents. This paper presents a preliminary discussion of the types of artifacts that were recovered and their chronological placement. These materials underscore the significance of the site and its potential to contribute to the study of 18th – 19th century-changing economic and social lifeways in the central New Jersey area and the Middle Atlantic States more generally. Presenter Bio: Brock Giordano, M.A., RPA is presently an archaeologist working for Dewberry Engineers Inc. in Parsippany, NJ. Most recently Brock has been involved in the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Superstorm Sandy Waterway Debris Removal Project. Brock is also a part time instructor of anthropology at Monmouth University. Presented by Brock Giordano (Dewberry Consulting) 2:15-2:45: NEW JERSEY BECOMING THE GARDEN STATE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR LATE 19TH CENTURY FOODWAYS IN UNION COUNTY Presented by Adam Heinrich (Monmouth University) Plentiful macrobotanical remains recovered from late 19th century backyard privies from Rahway and Feltville, New Jersey provide rare archaeological evidence of the state’s agricultural development and food supply networks. These remains of seeds and nuts illustrate the wide range of foods and preparations available to a high and lower status New Jersey households. Presenter Bio. Adam Heinrich is a historical archaeologist with specializations in zooarchaeology, material culture, and macrobotanical analyses with research interests in understanding mercantile networks and culture change in food productions and consumption. He currently teaches part time at Rutgers and Monmouth Universities. 2:45-3:15: REEXAMINING THE SOUTH BEACH SITE ON STATEN ISLAND: HOME OF A DUTCH PATROON OR HIS LENAPE NEIGHBORS? ( Presented by Rich Veit (Monmouth University) Between 1961 and 1965 amateur archaeologists Albert Anderson and Donald R. Sainz excavated a small 17th-century site at South Beach on Staten Island, New York. They documented several pit features and the remains of an early house, and unearthed a small but evocative assemblage of Dutch and Native American artifacts. This paper revisits their collection, now curated by the Staten Island Historical Society, in light of current knowledge about 17th-century material culture. Anderson and Sainz believed the site they had found was associated with the Patroonship of Cornelis Melyn, the first documented Dutch settler on Staten Island. The archaeological evidence raises other possibilities. Presenter Bio. Richard Veit is a Professor of Anthropology in Monmouth University’s Department of History and Anthropology. He regularly writes about and presents on New Jersey’s archaeological heritage. He also serves on the New Jersey Historical Commission.
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