Date of Award
2024
Document Type
Open Access Master's Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science in Industrial Heritage and Archaeology (MS)
Administrative Home Department
Department of Social Sciences
Advisor 1
LouAnn Wurst
Committee Member 1
Steven A. Walton
Committee Member 2
Timothy Scarlett
Abstract
Archaeological remains from Camp Au Train provide an opportunity to understand sanitation methods during its use as a Civilian Conservation Corps camp and later used to house German Prisoners of War during World War II. Seven refuse features from this camp were excavated and their contents linked to functional locations within the camp in order to reconstruct waste streams across the site and to observe how military aspects of sanitation were implemented by an organization infamous for its emphasis on cleanliness, order, and hygiene. While the importance of sanitation is often mentioned by historians and archaeologists in research of these types of sites, to date little explicit details have been provided that describe how aspects of sanitation were reflected at these functionally complex camps.
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Recommended Citation
Maze, Timothy J., "The Implications of Waste Streams at Camp Au Train", Open Access Master's Thesis, Michigan Technological University, 2024.
https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/etdr/1702
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