{"id":499,"date":"2017-08-31T18:16:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T22:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/zooarchlab\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=499"},"modified":"2021-12-08T18:12:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T23:12:20","slug":"laura-masur","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/zooarchlab\/profile\/laura-masur\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Masur"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Areas of Interest<\/h3>\n<p>Historical archaeology; Zooarchaeology; GIS and landscape archaeology; Public and community archaeology; Chesapeake and Middle Atlantic<\/p>\n<h3>Research Interests &amp; Fieldwork<\/h3>\n<p>I use historical research and environmental archaeology to study relationships between landscapes and the people who dwell in them. I am particularly interested in the ways that immigrant communities modified local environments, influenced by Old World and New World traditions and the diverse ecological regions where they settled. Through everyday actions like growing crops and raising livestock, individuals and communities not only made economic choices, but imbued places and practices with cultural meaning. My current research focuses on the development of plantations owned by the Society of Jesus in Maryland and Pennsylvania, and the communities that grew around them.<\/p>\n<h3>Selected Conference Presentations<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cReimagining Methods in Historical Zooarchaeology: Methods and Themes in Recent Literature.\u201d Poster presentation. Society for Historical Archaeology Annual Conference, Washington, D.C. January 2016. Abstract accepted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018The best place to buy New England rum\u2019: Archaeology at William Sanford\u2019s Farmstead-Tavern in Hawley, Massachusetts.\u201d Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology Annual Conference, Fredericksburg, VA. November 2015. Abstract accepted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNavigating the \u2018thorny theoretical thicket\u2019: Ethical codes and archaeological models under NAGPRA.\u201d Society for Historical Archaeology Annual Conference, Qu\u00e9bec City, QC, Canada. January 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow NOT to Bulldoze a Burial: Creating a geodatabase of human interments at Gloucester Point.\u201d Archaeological Society of Virginia Annual Meeting, Wytheville, VA. October 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7952,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/zooarchlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/zooarchlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/zooarchlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/zooarchlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7952"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/zooarchlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":935,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/zooarchlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/499\/revisions\/935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/zooarchlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}