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Papers by Hayden Bassett

Text & Image, 2022

Monitoring impacts to cultural heritage during armed conflict or natural disaster has often relie... more Monitoring impacts to cultural heritage during armed conflict or natural disaster has often relied on priority lists. These lists rank cultural properties by relative importance. While born from practical motivations, cultural heritage monitoring based on priority lists often fosters structural biases, selective preservation, and assumptions of shared values of significance. Recent cultural heritage monitoring efforts have taken an alternative approach that moves beyond prioritization. Rather than monitoring the highest priorities on a list of sites, this alternative approach uses technology to monitor many cultural properties simultaneously. Of the impacted sites identified using this alternative approach, only a small number would have been ranked on traditional priority lists. This includes sites of local significance, representations of regional or ethnic diversity, recent heritage sites, and rural heritage. In this essay, we advance a no-priority monitoring model, in which prioritization occurs at the intervention phase, rather than serving as the starting place. Eliminating prioritization as a starting place minimizes the potential for unobserved impacts, and as a result, the implicit decisions that must be made toward mitigating those impacts. We demonstrate the current value of this approach in monitoring cultural heritage in Ukraine.

Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage, 2020

Studies of plantation surveillance have provided important understandings of the material dimensi... more Studies of plantation surveillance have provided important
understandings of the material dimensions of elite power and
control over enslaved people. These studies have emphasized
inter-visibility of managerial housing and the living/working
spaces of enslaved people, as a panoptic strategy to enforce selfdiscipline. This emphasis on inter-visibility of living and working
spaces, however, assumes a static population, rather than a
complex, industrial society in motion. Using Space Syntax
analysis, cartographic records, historic travelers’ accounts, and
landscape documentation, this study addresses surveillance and
planter control through a mobilities approach, elevating the
status of road networks, while identifying the plantation as a
carefully orchestrated landscape of movement. I demonstrate
how understanding the manner in which movement is limited or
itinerated, and for whom, represents a productive avenue of
research at the intersection of inequality, control, and mobility.
This approach is developed through a distinct archaeology of
infrastructure.

Perspecta (52), ed. by Charlotte Algie and Alicia Pozniak, MIT Press. pp. 107-114, 2019

Archaeology of Domestic Landscapes of the Enslaved in the Caribbean, (ed. by James A. Delle and Elizabeth C. Clay), Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2019

Archaeologies of Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean: Exploring the Spaces in Between, (ed. by Lynsey A. Bates, John M. Chenoweth, and James A. Delle), Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2016

Historical Archaeology 49(2), 2015

This paper explores colonial English epistemologies of weather and climate through an analysis of... more This paper explores colonial English epistemologies of weather and climate through an analysis of the dwelling spaces of the 17th-century Chesapeake region. Using Ingold’s notion of the “weather-world,” I consider early modern perceptions of air, temperature, and the body in order to address the various ways in which colonial landscapes were defined and shaped. Employing an analytical method known as buildings information modeling (BIM), I investigate the implications of 17th-century pit-house construction in an attempt to understand the ways in which individuals engage with an environment, constructing and dwelling through a particular way of knowing the world. This analysis ultimately demonstrates how archaeological evidence speaks to the material ways in which people manipulate their experience of place, not only to experience their surroundings, but to shape them to fit the epistemological context that creates a knowledge of place.

Cultural Heritage Protection by Hayden Bassett

Civil Affairs Issue Papers, 2022

The USACAPOC Military Government Specialist (38G) program was established with the mission of sup... more The USACAPOC Military Government Specialist (38G) program was established with the mission of supporting the six core competencies of USACAPOC by “provid[ing] CA the capability to conduct responsibilities normally performed by civil governments and emergency services organizations.” Civilian subject matter experts (SMEs) within 38G’s 18 skill identifiers encompass a range of civil sectors needed to “fill key planning, operations, and liaison roles” in matters of security, justice and reconciliation, humanitarian assistance and social well-being, governance and participation, and economic stabilization and infrastructure. The focus of 38G activities has generally been viewed as reactionary and focused on post-conflict governance and response. Yet with “the increasing inseparability of civilian and military spheres,” a sustained effort on data production, “digital civil reconnaissance,” and monitoring in the respective fields of 38G will be required to counter malign influence and compete as a partner of choice across civil sectors.

This paper advances a civil-military solution to the evolving operational environment in the form of applied research labs, housed within partnered civilian institutions to support the range of skill identifiers within 38G. The magnitude of the grey zone threat and the need to support emergency operations like HA/DR both necessitate sustained research, data production, civil sector monitoring, and methodological innovation to support and empower 38G officers. The applied research lab supporting CA efforts fills a gap that currently exists in force structure and time. Confronted with a new and ever changing OE, the data and information production demands that will be placed on 38G officers cannot be solely fulfilled through battle assembly.

To demonstrate this concept, the authors provide a case study on the Cultural Heritage Monitoring Lab (CHML) at the Virginia Museum of Natural History, a partner of the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative (SCRI), the institutional partner of 38G/6V (Heritage & Preservation). In August 2021, CHML leveraged Synthetic Aperture Radar data to model impacts to cultural heritage in the city of Les Cayes, Haiti, due to a magnitude 7.2 earthquake. Without CHML’s digital civil reconnaissance, ground teams would have had to populate the list of damaged sites and buildings on foot, a dangerous and time-consuming operation. The CHML response to Haiti served as a demonstration of the applied research lab’s abilities and response time that we foresee for future Civil Affairs operations. The long term strategic success of CA activities in an increasingly civilian operating environment may in large part depend on their implementation.

NGA Tearline, 2022

This report summarizes confirmed impacts to cultural heritage sites due to the armed conflict in ... more This report summarizes confirmed impacts to cultural heritage sites due to the armed conflict in Ukraine between February and June 2022. All impact confirmations were made by the Cultural Heritage Monitoring Lab (CHML). CHML's methodology for the confirmation process relies on analysis of high-resolution commercial satellite imagery (access supplied by NGA). In total, CHML analysts confirmed conflict-related impacts to 108 cultural sites throughout Ukraine between 24 February and 30 June 2022.

Conflict Observatory, 2022

This report describes the potential damage to cultural heritage sites in Ukraine that occurred be... more This report describes the potential damage to cultural heritage sites in Ukraine that occurred between 24 February 2022 and 31 August 2022. 1 In total, potential damage to 1,501 out of 28,401 cultural heritage sites in Ukraine has been identified. Damage has occurred primarily in the raions of Mariupolskyi, Kharkivskyi, Sievierodonetskyi, Kramatorskyi, and Buchanskyi. The types of cultural heritage sites most likely to be damaged include Memorial/Monument, and Place of Worship and Burial. Background: Cultural heritage in conflict is primarily protected by international law under the 1954 Hague Convention, which was adopted in response to the cultural destruction witnessed during World War II. The Convention, to which Russia and Ukraine are member states, obligates State Parties to "respect" and "safeguard" cultural property in the event of armed conflict. Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine on

Conflict Observatory, 2022

In a previous report produced under the umbrella of the Conflict Observatory (Bassett et al. 2022... more In a previous report produced under the umbrella of the Conflict Observatory (Bassett et al. 2022a), collaborative research by the Cultural Heritage Monitoring Lab (CHML) and Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative (SCRI) identified over 458 potential impacts to cultural heritage sites across Ukraine following the Russian invasion of February 2022. For the purposes of this report, cultural heritage includes archaeological sites, arts centers, monuments, memorials, museums, places of worship, libraries, and archives. Damage to 104 sites has since been confirmed through analysis of high-resolution satellite imagery and a review of open-source news and social media. With additional contributions from the University of Maryland's Center for International Development & Conflict Management (CIDCM), this report presents satellite imagery of 10 sites with recent damage that cannot be explained by proximity to potential military targets.

Conflict Observatory, 2022

This report describes the potential damage to cultural heritage sites in Ukraine that occurred be... more This report describes the potential damage to cultural heritage sites in Ukraine that occurred between 24 February 2022 and 30 September 2022. 1 In total, potential damage to 1,562 out of more than 28,400 cultural heritage sites in Ukraine has been identified. This reflects an increase of 61 sites from the previous report that covered the period ending 31 August 2022. Overall, damage has occurred primarily in the raions of Mariupolskyi, Sievierodonetskyi, Kharkivskyi, Kramatorskyi, and Buchanskyi. The cultural heritage site types most likely to be damaged during the conflict so far include Memorial/Monument, and Place of Worship and Burial. Background: Cultural heritage in conflict is primarily protected by international law under the 1954 Hague Convention, which was adopted in response to the cultural destruction witnessed during World War II. The Convention, to which Russia and Ukraine are member states, obligates State

NGA Tearline, 2022

This report summarizes confirmed impacts to cultural heritage sites due to the conflict in Ukrain... more This report summarizes confirmed impacts to cultural heritage sites due to the conflict in Ukraine between July and August 2022 by the Cultural Heritage Monitoring Lab (CHML). The methodology for the confirmation process relies on analysis of high-resolution commercial satellite imagery which has been supplied by CHML's partnership with NGA. In total, CHML analysts confirmed conflict-related impacts to 99 cultural sites between 1 July 2022 and 31 August 2022, totaling 207 since 24 February 2022.

Book Reviews by Hayden Bassett

Southeastern Archaeology, 2021

Bassett, Hayden F. (2021). Book Review: The Archaeology of Virginia’s First Peoples. edited by El... more Bassett, Hayden F. (2021). Book Review: The Archaeology of Virginia’s First Peoples. edited by Elizabeth A. Moore and Bernard K. Means, Richmond, The Archaeological Society of Virginia, 2020, v, 301 pp., ill., maps. $40.00 (paper), ISBN: 979-8696091860

Historical Archaeology 48(2):197-198, 2014

Houses without Names: Architectural Nomenclature and the Classification of America's Common House... more Houses without Names: Architectural Nomenclature and the Classification of America's Common Houses
Thomas C. Hubka
University of Tennessee Press,
Knoxville, 2013. 112 pp., figs.,
index. $29.95 paper.

Conference Papers by Hayden Bassett

The enslaved community is often treated as a homogenous group – living, eating, dressing, buying,... more The enslaved community is often treated as a homogenous group – living, eating, dressing, buying, selling, and dwelling in the same way. This imposition of sameness fails to recognize the differential experience of enslaved laborers, and different means of agency existing within divided conditions of enslavement. This paper surveys the findings of recent archaeological investigations of the slave village of Good Hope estate, an 18th/early-19th-century sugar plantation in Trelawny, Jamaica. Home to 400 to 500 enslaved laborers at any one time between 1766 and 1838, the discovery and excavation of the village site provides insights into the differential lives and 'dwelling' practices of an enslaved community, and the active ways in which they manipulated the conditions of enslavement. As a case study of the DAACS Research Consortium, this paper further addresses the experiences of remote cataloguing into DAACS from the field, and the advantages of comparative data-recovery for this research.

Archaeological, architectural, and other forms of tangible heritage recording are primarily appro... more Archaeological, architectural, and other forms of tangible heritage recording are primarily approached through representations of surface geometry. Stratigraphic contexts, building elevations and foundations, landscape features, and artifacts are all typically recorded in their geometric, measurable form. However, limitations of static methods of recording limit the communication of visual representations to single perspectives, and further limit their future utility to research and understanding confined to the perspective of recording. Within many contemporary landscape and mobility approaches, recordable contexts are often obscured, indecipherable, or simply unrecordable in 2-dimensional representation. 3D digital recording methods provide one dynamic solution to this shortcoming, though one that must be weighed against factors of cost, field-portability, and archive sustainability. This research uses high-performance photogrammetry to develop new methodological avenues for archaeological, architectural, and related tangible heritage fields that run parallel to advancing theoretical conversations of landscape and mobility. Using case studies from my fieldwork in Jamaica and local collaborations with the Colonial Williamsburg departments of Research and Conservation, this project reorients field recording to a more inclusive, fluid model of data capture for research, preservation, conservation, and public interaction. To this beginning, this field-based application of photogrammetry gives way to a new and large body of measurable, relational datasets and analytic means for recording spatial/geometric phenomena beyond elements with straightforward geometry.

From the late-18th to the early-19th c., Falmouth, a British harbor on the north coast of Jamaica... more From the late-18th to the early-19th c., Falmouth, a British harbor on the north coast of Jamaica, developed into one of the most prosperous ports in the Caribbean. Housing and harboring merchants, sailors, the planter elite, free and enslaved craftsmen, the town relied upon its weekly markets, post office, hospital, taverns, and specialized workshops to dwell 'urban' - moving goods, people, and information in, out, and within northern Jamaica. Begun in 2010, the "Dome Site" project has continued to investigate one of Falmouth's early 19th c. -urban workshops - the Phoenix Foundry. This poster synthesizes two seasons of excavation at the foundry complex, exploring its community role, regional significance, and vast Atlantic and global connections grounded in a single, local presence of industrial life and labor. Through archaeological and architectural analysis, this research reveals how the global and regional entanglements of an emerging Industrial Atlantic integrated small workshops like the foundry for the shaping and maintenance of colonial landscapes. The project situates these findings within the changing role of Jamaican port towns from the late-18th to the early-19th c..

Epistemologies of space, environment, dwelling, and the body are essential to the study of past i... more Epistemologies of space, environment, dwelling, and the body are essential to the study of past individuals through their constructed spaces. Most important to this study is the notion that one's knowledge of the world is integral to the ways in which one dwells within it. This paper explores colonial English epistemologies of climate through an analysis of dwelling spaces of the 17th-century Chesapeake. Using Ingold's notion of the "weather-world", I consider Early-Modern perceptions of air, temperature, and the body as vital to understanding the various ways in which colonial landscapes were defined and shaped. To do so, I employ an analytical method known as Buildings Information Modeling (BIM) to understand the implications of 17th-century pit house construction, investigating the ways in which individuals interact with an environment, constructing and dwelling through a particular way of knowing the world. This paper ultimately demonstrates how archaeological evidence speaks to the material ways in which people manipulate their experience of place, to not only experience their surroundings, but shape them to fit the epistemological context that creates a 'knowledge of place'.

Text & Image, 2022

Monitoring impacts to cultural heritage during armed conflict or natural disaster has often relie... more Monitoring impacts to cultural heritage during armed conflict or natural disaster has often relied on priority lists. These lists rank cultural properties by relative importance. While born from practical motivations, cultural heritage monitoring based on priority lists often fosters structural biases, selective preservation, and assumptions of shared values of significance. Recent cultural heritage monitoring efforts have taken an alternative approach that moves beyond prioritization. Rather than monitoring the highest priorities on a list of sites, this alternative approach uses technology to monitor many cultural properties simultaneously. Of the impacted sites identified using this alternative approach, only a small number would have been ranked on traditional priority lists. This includes sites of local significance, representations of regional or ethnic diversity, recent heritage sites, and rural heritage. In this essay, we advance a no-priority monitoring model, in which prioritization occurs at the intervention phase, rather than serving as the starting place. Eliminating prioritization as a starting place minimizes the potential for unobserved impacts, and as a result, the implicit decisions that must be made toward mitigating those impacts. We demonstrate the current value of this approach in monitoring cultural heritage in Ukraine.

Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage, 2020

Studies of plantation surveillance have provided important understandings of the material dimensi... more Studies of plantation surveillance have provided important
understandings of the material dimensions of elite power and
control over enslaved people. These studies have emphasized
inter-visibility of managerial housing and the living/working
spaces of enslaved people, as a panoptic strategy to enforce selfdiscipline. This emphasis on inter-visibility of living and working
spaces, however, assumes a static population, rather than a
complex, industrial society in motion. Using Space Syntax
analysis, cartographic records, historic travelers’ accounts, and
landscape documentation, this study addresses surveillance and
planter control through a mobilities approach, elevating the
status of road networks, while identifying the plantation as a
carefully orchestrated landscape of movement. I demonstrate
how understanding the manner in which movement is limited or
itinerated, and for whom, represents a productive avenue of
research at the intersection of inequality, control, and mobility.
This approach is developed through a distinct archaeology of
infrastructure.

Perspecta (52), ed. by Charlotte Algie and Alicia Pozniak, MIT Press. pp. 107-114, 2019

Archaeology of Domestic Landscapes of the Enslaved in the Caribbean, (ed. by James A. Delle and Elizabeth C. Clay), Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2019

Archaeologies of Slavery and Freedom in the Caribbean: Exploring the Spaces in Between, (ed. by Lynsey A. Bates, John M. Chenoweth, and James A. Delle), Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2016

Historical Archaeology 49(2), 2015

This paper explores colonial English epistemologies of weather and climate through an analysis of... more This paper explores colonial English epistemologies of weather and climate through an analysis of the dwelling spaces of the 17th-century Chesapeake region. Using Ingold’s notion of the “weather-world,” I consider early modern perceptions of air, temperature, and the body in order to address the various ways in which colonial landscapes were defined and shaped. Employing an analytical method known as buildings information modeling (BIM), I investigate the implications of 17th-century pit-house construction in an attempt to understand the ways in which individuals engage with an environment, constructing and dwelling through a particular way of knowing the world. This analysis ultimately demonstrates how archaeological evidence speaks to the material ways in which people manipulate their experience of place, not only to experience their surroundings, but to shape them to fit the epistemological context that creates a knowledge of place.

Civil Affairs Issue Papers, 2022

The USACAPOC Military Government Specialist (38G) program was established with the mission of sup... more The USACAPOC Military Government Specialist (38G) program was established with the mission of supporting the six core competencies of USACAPOC by “provid[ing] CA the capability to conduct responsibilities normally performed by civil governments and emergency services organizations.” Civilian subject matter experts (SMEs) within 38G’s 18 skill identifiers encompass a range of civil sectors needed to “fill key planning, operations, and liaison roles” in matters of security, justice and reconciliation, humanitarian assistance and social well-being, governance and participation, and economic stabilization and infrastructure. The focus of 38G activities has generally been viewed as reactionary and focused on post-conflict governance and response. Yet with “the increasing inseparability of civilian and military spheres,” a sustained effort on data production, “digital civil reconnaissance,” and monitoring in the respective fields of 38G will be required to counter malign influence and compete as a partner of choice across civil sectors.

This paper advances a civil-military solution to the evolving operational environment in the form of applied research labs, housed within partnered civilian institutions to support the range of skill identifiers within 38G. The magnitude of the grey zone threat and the need to support emergency operations like HA/DR both necessitate sustained research, data production, civil sector monitoring, and methodological innovation to support and empower 38G officers. The applied research lab supporting CA efforts fills a gap that currently exists in force structure and time. Confronted with a new and ever changing OE, the data and information production demands that will be placed on 38G officers cannot be solely fulfilled through battle assembly.

To demonstrate this concept, the authors provide a case study on the Cultural Heritage Monitoring Lab (CHML) at the Virginia Museum of Natural History, a partner of the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative (SCRI), the institutional partner of 38G/6V (Heritage & Preservation). In August 2021, CHML leveraged Synthetic Aperture Radar data to model impacts to cultural heritage in the city of Les Cayes, Haiti, due to a magnitude 7.2 earthquake. Without CHML’s digital civil reconnaissance, ground teams would have had to populate the list of damaged sites and buildings on foot, a dangerous and time-consuming operation. The CHML response to Haiti served as a demonstration of the applied research lab’s abilities and response time that we foresee for future Civil Affairs operations. The long term strategic success of CA activities in an increasingly civilian operating environment may in large part depend on their implementation.

NGA Tearline, 2022

This report summarizes confirmed impacts to cultural heritage sites due to the armed conflict in ... more This report summarizes confirmed impacts to cultural heritage sites due to the armed conflict in Ukraine between February and June 2022. All impact confirmations were made by the Cultural Heritage Monitoring Lab (CHML). CHML's methodology for the confirmation process relies on analysis of high-resolution commercial satellite imagery (access supplied by NGA). In total, CHML analysts confirmed conflict-related impacts to 108 cultural sites throughout Ukraine between 24 February and 30 June 2022.

Conflict Observatory, 2022

This report describes the potential damage to cultural heritage sites in Ukraine that occurred be... more This report describes the potential damage to cultural heritage sites in Ukraine that occurred between 24 February 2022 and 31 August 2022. 1 In total, potential damage to 1,501 out of 28,401 cultural heritage sites in Ukraine has been identified. Damage has occurred primarily in the raions of Mariupolskyi, Kharkivskyi, Sievierodonetskyi, Kramatorskyi, and Buchanskyi. The types of cultural heritage sites most likely to be damaged include Memorial/Monument, and Place of Worship and Burial. Background: Cultural heritage in conflict is primarily protected by international law under the 1954 Hague Convention, which was adopted in response to the cultural destruction witnessed during World War II. The Convention, to which Russia and Ukraine are member states, obligates State Parties to "respect" and "safeguard" cultural property in the event of armed conflict. Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine on

Conflict Observatory, 2022

In a previous report produced under the umbrella of the Conflict Observatory (Bassett et al. 2022... more In a previous report produced under the umbrella of the Conflict Observatory (Bassett et al. 2022a), collaborative research by the Cultural Heritage Monitoring Lab (CHML) and Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative (SCRI) identified over 458 potential impacts to cultural heritage sites across Ukraine following the Russian invasion of February 2022. For the purposes of this report, cultural heritage includes archaeological sites, arts centers, monuments, memorials, museums, places of worship, libraries, and archives. Damage to 104 sites has since been confirmed through analysis of high-resolution satellite imagery and a review of open-source news and social media. With additional contributions from the University of Maryland's Center for International Development & Conflict Management (CIDCM), this report presents satellite imagery of 10 sites with recent damage that cannot be explained by proximity to potential military targets.

Conflict Observatory, 2022

This report describes the potential damage to cultural heritage sites in Ukraine that occurred be... more This report describes the potential damage to cultural heritage sites in Ukraine that occurred between 24 February 2022 and 30 September 2022. 1 In total, potential damage to 1,562 out of more than 28,400 cultural heritage sites in Ukraine has been identified. This reflects an increase of 61 sites from the previous report that covered the period ending 31 August 2022. Overall, damage has occurred primarily in the raions of Mariupolskyi, Sievierodonetskyi, Kharkivskyi, Kramatorskyi, and Buchanskyi. The cultural heritage site types most likely to be damaged during the conflict so far include Memorial/Monument, and Place of Worship and Burial. Background: Cultural heritage in conflict is primarily protected by international law under the 1954 Hague Convention, which was adopted in response to the cultural destruction witnessed during World War II. The Convention, to which Russia and Ukraine are member states, obligates State

NGA Tearline, 2022

This report summarizes confirmed impacts to cultural heritage sites due to the conflict in Ukrain... more This report summarizes confirmed impacts to cultural heritage sites due to the conflict in Ukraine between July and August 2022 by the Cultural Heritage Monitoring Lab (CHML). The methodology for the confirmation process relies on analysis of high-resolution commercial satellite imagery which has been supplied by CHML's partnership with NGA. In total, CHML analysts confirmed conflict-related impacts to 99 cultural sites between 1 July 2022 and 31 August 2022, totaling 207 since 24 February 2022.

Southeastern Archaeology, 2021

Bassett, Hayden F. (2021). Book Review: The Archaeology of Virginia’s First Peoples. edited by El... more Bassett, Hayden F. (2021). Book Review: The Archaeology of Virginia’s First Peoples. edited by Elizabeth A. Moore and Bernard K. Means, Richmond, The Archaeological Society of Virginia, 2020, v, 301 pp., ill., maps. $40.00 (paper), ISBN: 979-8696091860

Historical Archaeology 48(2):197-198, 2014

Houses without Names: Architectural Nomenclature and the Classification of America's Common House... more Houses without Names: Architectural Nomenclature and the Classification of America's Common Houses
Thomas C. Hubka
University of Tennessee Press,
Knoxville, 2013. 112 pp., figs.,
index. $29.95 paper.

The enslaved community is often treated as a homogenous group – living, eating, dressing, buying,... more The enslaved community is often treated as a homogenous group – living, eating, dressing, buying, selling, and dwelling in the same way. This imposition of sameness fails to recognize the differential experience of enslaved laborers, and different means of agency existing within divided conditions of enslavement. This paper surveys the findings of recent archaeological investigations of the slave village of Good Hope estate, an 18th/early-19th-century sugar plantation in Trelawny, Jamaica. Home to 400 to 500 enslaved laborers at any one time between 1766 and 1838, the discovery and excavation of the village site provides insights into the differential lives and 'dwelling' practices of an enslaved community, and the active ways in which they manipulated the conditions of enslavement. As a case study of the DAACS Research Consortium, this paper further addresses the experiences of remote cataloguing into DAACS from the field, and the advantages of comparative data-recovery for this research.

Archaeological, architectural, and other forms of tangible heritage recording are primarily appro... more Archaeological, architectural, and other forms of tangible heritage recording are primarily approached through representations of surface geometry. Stratigraphic contexts, building elevations and foundations, landscape features, and artifacts are all typically recorded in their geometric, measurable form. However, limitations of static methods of recording limit the communication of visual representations to single perspectives, and further limit their future utility to research and understanding confined to the perspective of recording. Within many contemporary landscape and mobility approaches, recordable contexts are often obscured, indecipherable, or simply unrecordable in 2-dimensional representation. 3D digital recording methods provide one dynamic solution to this shortcoming, though one that must be weighed against factors of cost, field-portability, and archive sustainability. This research uses high-performance photogrammetry to develop new methodological avenues for archaeological, architectural, and related tangible heritage fields that run parallel to advancing theoretical conversations of landscape and mobility. Using case studies from my fieldwork in Jamaica and local collaborations with the Colonial Williamsburg departments of Research and Conservation, this project reorients field recording to a more inclusive, fluid model of data capture for research, preservation, conservation, and public interaction. To this beginning, this field-based application of photogrammetry gives way to a new and large body of measurable, relational datasets and analytic means for recording spatial/geometric phenomena beyond elements with straightforward geometry.

From the late-18th to the early-19th c., Falmouth, a British harbor on the north coast of Jamaica... more From the late-18th to the early-19th c., Falmouth, a British harbor on the north coast of Jamaica, developed into one of the most prosperous ports in the Caribbean. Housing and harboring merchants, sailors, the planter elite, free and enslaved craftsmen, the town relied upon its weekly markets, post office, hospital, taverns, and specialized workshops to dwell 'urban' - moving goods, people, and information in, out, and within northern Jamaica. Begun in 2010, the "Dome Site" project has continued to investigate one of Falmouth's early 19th c. -urban workshops - the Phoenix Foundry. This poster synthesizes two seasons of excavation at the foundry complex, exploring its community role, regional significance, and vast Atlantic and global connections grounded in a single, local presence of industrial life and labor. Through archaeological and architectural analysis, this research reveals how the global and regional entanglements of an emerging Industrial Atlantic integrated small workshops like the foundry for the shaping and maintenance of colonial landscapes. The project situates these findings within the changing role of Jamaican port towns from the late-18th to the early-19th c..

Epistemologies of space, environment, dwelling, and the body are essential to the study of past i... more Epistemologies of space, environment, dwelling, and the body are essential to the study of past individuals through their constructed spaces. Most important to this study is the notion that one's knowledge of the world is integral to the ways in which one dwells within it. This paper explores colonial English epistemologies of climate through an analysis of dwelling spaces of the 17th-century Chesapeake. Using Ingold's notion of the "weather-world", I consider Early-Modern perceptions of air, temperature, and the body as vital to understanding the various ways in which colonial landscapes were defined and shaped. To do so, I employ an analytical method known as Buildings Information Modeling (BIM) to understand the implications of 17th-century pit house construction, investigating the ways in which individuals interact with an environment, constructing and dwelling through a particular way of knowing the world. This paper ultimately demonstrates how archaeological evidence speaks to the material ways in which people manipulate their experience of place, to not only experience their surroundings, but shape them to fit the epistemological context that creates a 'knowledge of place'.

One of the most overlooked questions in early Chesapeake archaeology is the uncertainty surroundi... more One of the most overlooked questions in early Chesapeake archaeology is the uncertainty surrounding the first Africans to step foot on Virginia soil in 1619. For years, the only record of these men and women known to exist has been through the documentary record. Yet to answer the greater part of any thorough understanding of the first Africans in British Colonial America, the written record has proven biased and incomplete. This paper will look specifically at the seven African men and women that would ultimately reside at Flowerdew Hundred nine years later (1628). Through the understanding of this site not solely from an archaeological perspective, this interdisciplinary approach explores the metaphorical fabric of a grave through the lens of the study of vernacular architecture. In doing so, what was once overlooked in this grave, will demonstrate what could be the earliest material evidence for African presence in British Colonial America.

Location: Good Hope Trading House | Good Hope Estate, Trelawny Parish, Jamaica Status: Permanent ... more Location: Good Hope Trading House | Good Hope Estate, Trelawny Parish, Jamaica
Status: Permanent Exhibit
Exhibit Dates: June 17, 2015 – Ongoing

Location: Trelawny Parish Library – Falmouth, Jamaica Status: Permanent Exhibit Exhibition Dates:... more Location: Trelawny Parish Library – Falmouth, Jamaica
Status: Permanent Exhibit
Exhibition Dates: June 16, 2015 – Ongoing