Since 2012, the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center in Mashantucket, Connecticut, in collaboration with the University of Connecticut, has carried out a research program to survey and document the battlefields of the Pequot War (1636–1637). The unique nature of the project has required the refinement of the long-standing field methods of battlefield archaeology. In this article, we argue that these techniques, while originally developed to explore sites of conflict, can be operationalized to locate 17th-century indigenous domestic sites. We describe this modified method and provide a site-specific case study to present its efficacy.

自2012年以来，位于康涅狄格州马尚塔基特的马尚塔基特Pequot博物馆和研究中心与康涅狄格大学合作，开展了一项研究计划，以调查和记录Pequot战争（1636–1637年）的战场。该项目的独特性质要求完善战场考古学的长期野外研究方法。在本文中，我们认为，这些技术最初是为探索冲突地点而开发的，但可以用于定位17世纪的土著居民地点。我们描述了这种改进的方法，并提供了针对特定地点的案例研究，以介绍其功效。