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Antiquity Research
At Antiquity we prioritize historical and archaeological research and context development. Our clients benefit from our commitment to advancing regional archaeology and history through well-developed and succinct research designs. Each year our staff present their research at regional and/or national conferences, which helps us build our research network and influence industry standards.
Mathews, Bethany K., Riley Mallory, and Libby Musolino
2025 Donation Land Claim Landscapes: American Settlement of Southern Puget Lowland Prairies, poster presented at the 85th Society for Applied Anthropology meeting, Portland, OR, 27 March 2025.
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Mathews, Bethany K., and Katy Leonard-Doll
2025 Prairies are Cultural Landscapes: Preserving Prairie History and Archaeology in the Southern Puget Lowland, poster presented at the 85th Society for Applied Anthropology meeting, Portland, OR, 27 March 2025.
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Mathews, Bethany K., Lance Wollwage, Laura Johnson, and Kaiah Costa
2025 Olympia’s Second Street Sheet Midden: Shellfish Analysis of an Early Euro-American Site, poster presented at the 85th Society for Applied Anthropology meeting, Portland, OR, 27 March 2025.
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Mathews, Bethany K., Lance Wollwage, Kaiah Costa, and Laura Johnson
2025 What the Shuck?: Recognizing Precolonial, Early Colonial, and Historic Shell Middens in Olympia, WA, poster presented at the 85th Society for Applied Anthropology meeting, Portland, OR, 27 March 2025.
Katy Leonard-Doll and Bethany K. Mathews
2024 Prairie Archaeological Sites in Thurston and Lewis Counties: Empirical Data For Cultural Resource Management, poster presented at the 77th Northwest Anthropological Conference, Portland, OR, March 2024.
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Laura Johnson
2024 Establishing a Faunal Comparative Collection to Aid Cultural Resource Interpretation of Sites in Western Washington, poster presented at the 77th Northwest Anthropological Conference, Portland, OR, March 2024.
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Bethany K. Mathews
2024 “To Be Held by Her in Her Own Right”: Feminism and the Donation Land Claim Act in Washington State, poster presented at the 77th Northwest Anthropological Conference, Portland, OR, March 2024.
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Bethany K. Mathews and Michelle R. Lynch
2023 The Status of Northwest Historical Archaeology: An Analysis of Representation, poster presented at the 76th Northwest Anthropological Conference, Spokane, WA, April 13.
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Bethany K. Mathews
2023 Women Homesteaders of Northeastern Washington: Orcharding in the Okanogan Highlands, poster presented at the 76th Northwest Anthropological Conference, Spokane, WA, April 13.
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Bethany K. Mathews
2023 Washington Women’s Homesteading, 1862–1949: Developing a Historic Context of Women’s Homesteading Experiences, poster presented at the Society for American Archaeology, Portland, OR, March 30.
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Bethany K. Mathews
2022 Women Homesteaders of Washington’s Channeled Scablands: Summary Statistics and Spatial Patterns for 5 Counties, poster presented at the 75th Northwest Anthropological Conference, poster presented virtually, March 10.
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Bethany K. Mathews and Christopher D. Noll
2021 74th Northwest Anthropological Conference: Celebrating Diverse Perspectives in Anthropology. Journal of Northwest Anthropology, Special Publication 5, pp. 1-3.
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Bethany K. Mathews
2021 Western Washington Women Homesteaders: Summary Statistics and Spatial Patterns for Nineteen Counties, poster presented virtually at the 74th Northwest Anthropological Conference, April 8. Reproduced in Journal of Northwest Anthropology, Special Publication 5, pg. 227.
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Bethany K. Mathews
2020 The Process and Practicality of Ordering Washington Homestead Land Entry Files: A Case Study of Women Homesteader Records, Northwest History Conference, Tacoma, Washington, October 20.
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Bethany K. Mathews
2019 Washington Women Homesteaders: Finding the Underrepresented History of Land Claimants in Early Washington State, poster presented at the 73rd Northwest Anthropological Conference in Kennewick, WA, March 21.
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Bethany K. Mathews
2019 Very Truly Yours: The Eliza Hurd Letters, Olympia, WA, 1860–1862. Zine 2, The Undertold Histories Project.
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Bethany K. Mathews
2019 Feminism & FreeLove in Olympia, 1862: The Sensational Marriage of Eliza Ann Woodard Hurd & Charles Henry DeWolfe. Zine 1, The Undertold Histories Project.
