Stone Drugs and Calamine Lotion: Chemical Analysis of Residue in Nineteenth-Century Glass Bottles, Market Street Chinatown, San Jose, California

Voss, Barbara L.; Wandruszka, Ray von; Fink, Alicia; Summer, Tara; Harman, S. Elizabeth; Shapovalov, Anton; Kane, Megan S.; Loney, Marguerite De; Acebo, Nathan

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“…Over the past 15 years, archaeologists and chemists at our institution have collaborated on an ever-expanding archaeochemistry project in which materials from historical archaeology sites throughout North America are chemically tested and identified (von Wandruszka and Warner 2018). The project not only generates unique information for archaeologists that is regularly incorporated into reports (Campbell et al 2018; Prouty et al 2020; Swope and Grenda 2023; von Wandruszka et al 2016; Voss et al 2015) but also provides extensive training for analytical chemistry students. Since its inception, 36 students have participated in the project and analyzed more than 500 items 2 .…”

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von Wandruszka

2023

Adv. archaeol. pract.

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For 15 years, the University of Idaho has conducted chemical testing of excavated materials from historical sites throughout North America. The most common artifacts tested are sealed containers. Some come from current excavations, but most are from repository shelves. The immediate purpose of the archaeochemistry work is twofold: to identify the contents of the containers for researchers and to provide training for students in analytical chemistry. After testing more than 500 items, project personnel have recognized some unexpected outcomes that have implications for institutions housing the artifacts. Specifically, tested materials identified the small, yet consistent, presence of certain artifacts that can have health implications for personnel working with the items. The article concludes with general guidance on identifying and assessing those risks.

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Overseas Chinese Archaeology

Ross

2020

Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology

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Overseas Chinese Archaeology

Ross¹

2018

Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology

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Overseas Chinese archaeology focuses on 22 material remains associated with individuals and 23 communities of Chinese descent living abroad, 24 typically in the context of nineteenth and early 25 twentieth century global population movements. 26 It includes both first generation Chinese 27 immigrants and their naturalized descendants. 28 Studies have been undertaken from a range of theoretical perspectives, and there are currently no dominant research paradigms. To date, research is largely restricted to the USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand but could include any country to which Chinese migrated over the past several hundred years or more. Generally excluded are sites not occupied by ethnic Chinese (broadly conceived) but where Chinese-manufactured objects, including coins and export porcelain, have been found. However, the field may encompass the influence of Chinese migrants and material culture on their non-Chinese neighbors and others with whom they interacted. Field projects have explored a range of urban and rural contexts, site types, and features. They include industries such as logging, mining, dam and road construction, charcoal burning, fish canning, shrimp and abalone harvesting and processing, and market gardening, as well as stores, restaurants, laundries, boarding houses, gambling halls, temples, cemeteries, and cooking features, among others (Fig. 1). Sites are typically identified through historical records or the presence of one or more classes of imported Chinese consumer goods, including ceramic table and storage wares, opium paraphernalia, glass pharmaceutical and beverage bottles, coins, and gaming artifacts. Chinese merchants developed large-scale distribution networks for imported foods and other goods that reached even the most remote labor camps (Fig. 2). Consequently, Chinese sites have been comparatively easy to identify archaeologically, although direct C. Smith (ed.

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Stone Drugs and Calamine Lotion: Chemical Analysis of Residue in Nineteenth-Century Glass Bottles, Market Street Chinatown, San Jose, California

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