THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
FORT MOSE
HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD SCHOOL
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Summer Session A 2019 (May 13-June 21)
Instructor: James M. Davidson, Ph.D.
Graduate Teaching Assistants/Field Supervisors: Liz Ibarrola, Simon Goldstone
Meeting Times: Monday through Friday — Fort Mose Historical State Park (St. Augustine, FL)
Email: davidson@ufl.edu
Office Hours: on site
Course Description:
As part of this archaeological field school, you will receive training in controlled excavation techniques, field survey, instrument mapping, artifact identification, and artifact analysis. All students will be enrolled for nine credit hours.
Readings on Fort Mose and African Diaspora Archaeology (downloadable pdf’s of articles; see below)
Deagan, Kathleen and Jane Landers 1999 Fort Mose: Earliest African-American Town in the United States. In I, Too, Am America: Archaeological Studies of African-American Life, edited by Theresa A. Singleton, pp. 261-282. University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville.
Landers, Jane
1990 Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose: A Free Black Town in Spanish Colonial Florida. The American Historical Review 95(1):9-30.
Landers, Jane
1984 Spanish Sanctuary: Fugitives in Florida, 1687- 1790. Florida Historical Quarterly 62(3):296-313.
Landers, Jane
1998 Black Community and Culture in the Southeastern Borderlands. Journal of the Early Republic 18(1):117-134.
Marron, John V.
1989 Archaeological Excavations at Fort Mose, Florida, 1989. Preliminary field report on file, Florida Museum of Natural History: Gainesville.
Reitz, Elizabeth J.
1994 Zooarchaeological Analysis of a Free African Community: Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose. Historical Archaeology 28(1):23-40.
Siebert, Wilbur H.
1940 The Departure of the Spaniards and Other Groups from East Florida, 1763-1764. The Florida Historical Quarterly 19(2):145-154.
Wright, Irene A.
1924 Dispatches of Spanish Officials Bearing on the Free Negro Settlement of Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose, Florida. The Journal of Negro History 9(2):144-195.
Florida and African Diaspora Archaeology
Miller, Sarah E. & Emily Jane Murray
2018 Heritage Monitoring Scouts: Engaging the Public to Monitor Sites at Risk Across Florida.Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites 20(4):234-260.
Davidson, James M. and Mary Elizabeth Ibarrola
2016 Cabin 1 at the Bulow Plantation (8FL7): Final Results of the 2014 and 2015 University of Florida Archaeological Field Schools at the Bulow Plantation Historic Ruins State Park (Flagler County, FL). Anthropology Department. University of Florida: Gainesville, FL.
Orser, Charles E. Jr.
1998 The Archaeology of the African Diaspora. Annual Review of Anthropology 27:63-82.
Fairbanks, Charles
1974 . Conference on Historic Sites Archaeology Papers 7:62-93.
Fairbanks, Charles H.
1984 The Plantation Archaeology of the Southeastern Coast. Historical Archaeology 18 (1):1-14.
Otto, John Solomon
1980 Race and Class on Antebellum Plantations. In Archaeological Perspectives on Ethnicity in America: Afro-American and Asian American Culture History, edited by Robert L. Schuyler, pp. 3-13. Baywood Publishing Co, Farmingdale, NY.
Fairbanks, Charles H.
1984 The Plantation Archaeology of the Southeastern Coast. Historical Archaeology 18 (1):1-14.
Wheaton, Thomas R. and Patrick H. Garrow
1985 Acculturation and the Archaeological Record in the Carolina Lowcountry. In The Archaeology of Slavery and Plantation Life, edited by Theresa Singleton, pp. 239-269. Academic Press, Orlando, FL.
Howson, Jeane E.
1990 Social Relations and Material Culture: A Critique of the Archaeology of Plantation Slavery. Historical Archaeology 24(4):78-91.
Babson, David W.
1990 The Archaeology of Racism and Ethnicity on Southern Plantations. Historical Archaeology 24(4):20-28.
Orser, Charles E. Jr.
1994 The Archaeology of African-American Slave Religion in the Antebellum South. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 4 (1):33-45.
Franklin, Maria
1997 “Power to the People”: Sociopolitics and the Archaeology of Black Americans. Historical Archaeology 31(3):36-50.
Epperson, Terrence W.
2004 Critical Race Theory and the Archaeology of the African Diaspora. Historical Archaeology 38(1):101-108.
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