Title: Nathan Harrison Site Project: Three Short Papers
Presenters: Jamie Bastide, Natalia Galeana, and Shannon Farnsworth
The meeting will be held virtually.
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Jamie will discuss “The Harrison Experience: Impacts of Technology, Transportation, and Tourism within the Archaeological Record.” This paper identifies temporal, spatial, and formal patterns within the Harrison artifact assemblage and examines them in the context of major technological and social changes. Natalia's paper is entitled “Medicinal Patents at the Harrison Site: Potions, Poisons, or Placebos?” Three of the more enigmatic finds from the Harrison site were small, flat, cylindrical sealed metal containers. This paper presents the results of chemical analyses on the contents of all three metal containers, and offers interpretations as to the identity and use of each. Shannon’s presentation is “The Nathan Harrison Historical Archaeology Project and 2020.” 2020 is the 100-year anniversary of Harrison’s passing. This paper discusses how 2020 altered the Harrison Project and why the project’s core historical findings of strategic dual identities in a time of lethal racial turmoil are even more relevant in 21st-century society.
Jamie Bastide received a B.A. in Anthropology and Geology from San Diego State University in 2019. She is currently an M.A. student at SDSU and works in Collections Management and as an assistant to Dr. Seth Mallios, the San Diego State University History Curator. She has been with the Nathan Harrison Archaeology Project for four years, which has included three field schools, coauthoring an article that was published in the Journal of San Diego History and being an assistant guest curator for the Nathan Harrison exhibit at the San Diego History Center at Balboa Park.
Natalia Galeana received her BA in anthropology (2017) from San Diego State. She is currently an MA student there and is focusing in historic conservation and works for the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) as an archaeologist in environmental planning.
Shannon Farnsworth received her B.A. in Anthropology and History at San Diego State University in 2019. She is currently working on her M.A. degree in Anthropology at San Diego State University and works as an assistant to Dr. Seth Mallios, the University History Curator. She has been involved with the Nathan Harrison Historical Archaeology Project since the spring of 2017, participating in 3 field school seasons, coauthoring an article published in the Journal of San Diego History, and has been actively helping plan the new Nathan Harrison exhibit at the San Diego History Center.