Historic (Culture Keyword)

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A visual overview of Randolph Air Force Base in the 1940s. Acting as a yearbook, it states a hope to give a behind the scenes glimpse of life at the West Point of the Air and will be a reminder in years to come of scenes and events that enrich our memories of the fulfillment of our duty to America. The booklet is signed "Don Toeppen."

DOCUMENT Full-Text Westover Air Reserve Base.

The Westover 2000 Plan is a presentation of Westover Air Reserve Base development and facility improvements. It refines and updates the Base Comprehensive Plan. The plan outlines Westover's long and proud heritage and provides a strategy for the future.It integrates the long-range planning goals of the Air Force Reserve and provides a matrix for decision making in preparing for the next century. This plan assisted in the Base Realignment and Closure reviews to consolidate under one cover the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Office of Public Archaeology at Boston University.

Based on the results of the data review, four recorded prehistoric sites and one reported historical site were identified within or adjacent to the Westover Air Reserve Base and 34 World War II era buildings and 4 Cold War era buildings (one of which is also a World War II era building) were identified as being potentially eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. One of the Cold War era buildings (Building 1900, the Air Force Special Projects Facility) has been previously...

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The purpose of the Westover Air Reserve Base ARB Historic Core Area Development Plan is to thoughtfully reestablish the symbolic historic core as the center of activity and identity for the base. In doing so, land use patterns will be organized for future development, while both functionality and visual character within this area will also be improved. In essence, the plan aims to instill a “ sense of place” in the historic heart of Westover ARB. This resource also includes an updated...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John Ferguson.

This report documents the evaluation of significance and integrity and the determination of National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) eligibility for resources (i.e. buildings, structures, and landscape features over 50 years of age) at Westover Air Reserve Base (ARB) in Massachusetts per the Secretary of the Interior's Standards and Guidelines for Evaluation and 36 CFR Part 63. This report is submitted to the Massachusetts State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) in compliance with §106 of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Rachel Kline.

This report is a survey and assessment of the curation of the Westover Air Reserve Base (Westover ARB) archival collection and provides recommendations and alternatives for the repository of the collection. Currently, the Westover ARB archival collection is housed at The Public Archaeology Laboratory, Inc. (PAL) in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Westover ARB is interested in evaluating the curation standards of the current repository and their consistency with federally owned and administered curation...

IMAGE Stephanie Barrante. Victoria Hawley. Jessica Hughes.

Images illustrating the use of an on-site wet screening operation to maximize artifact recovery at the site of Fort St. Joseph, 2006-2010.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Melissa A. Connor.

During the August, 1991, metal detector inventory of Big Hole National Battlefield, a partial human skeleton was uncovered. The remains are those of an unidentified girl in her late teens. The skeleton was on top of a camas oven, which is consistent with historical accounts of the disposal of some of the bodies from the battle. The body showed evidence of extensive post-mortem mutilation. The arms had been cut off and laid below the pelvis, one leg had been detached and was not with the remains,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Angela McArdle.

This paper examines an obsidian cache offering excavated near the corner of a Postclassic Maya platform structure in Nojpeten, on the island of Flores, Guatemala. The cache consists of approximately 190 obsidian prismatic blade cores and core fragments, but the original number of cores placed in the cache likely fell between 173 and 182, with a best estimate of 177, 178, or 180. The cores were found about 20 cm southwest of the structure in a circular concentration measuring approximately 35 cm...

DATASET William Engelbrecht.

This is a tabulation of whole endscrapers by unit. See also broken endscrapers.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Krista Deal. Leonard DeBano. Michael L. Elliot. Charles Haecker. Daniel F. McCarthy. Elizabeth Oster. Trisha Rude. Samantha M. Ruscava-Barz. Kevin C. Ryan. Nelson Siefkin. Rebecca S. Timmons. John R. Welch.

This state-of-knowledge review provides a synthesis of the effects of fire on cultural resources, which can be used by fire managers, cultural resource (CR) specialists, and archaeologists to more effectively manage wildland vegetation, fuels, and fire. The goal of the volume is twofold: (1) to provide cultural resource/archaeological professionals and policy makers with a primer on fuels, fire behavior, and fire effects to enable them to work more effectively with the fire management community...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kenneth C. Carstens.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Resnick.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristen E. Janowski.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristen E. Janowski.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Betty A. Smith.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Gene A. Ford.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Betty A. Smith.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.

DOCUMENT Full-Text James Schoenwetter.

Manual prepared as part of guide training for proposed equestrian heritage/ecotourism project exploring trails and archaeological sites in the Lower Verde Basin, Tonto National Forest, Arizona.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard A. Brook.

Wirth Associates contracted with the Museum of Northern Arizona to conduct an archaeological impact study of a proposed Salt River Project Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station Routing Alternate to Westwing Receiving Station. This study delineates areas with three levels of potential site occurence for the project area, and investigates potential effects on the cultural resources of the alternative corridors proposed by Salt River Project. A short data gathering phase, prior to field work,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael D. Metcalf. Howard M. Davidson. Kathleen E. Moffitt.

At the request of Wirth Associates, the Museum of Northern Arizona conducted a Phase I archaeological study of an area in east-central Arizona to identify prehistoric and ethno-historic groups in to delineate areas of potential archaeological sensitivity within the study area. Existing archaeological site data were gathered from various Arizona and New Mexico institutions, and archaeological site density per township was mapped. Site density figures were compared with vegetational and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Shirley Craig. George Craig.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Witch Pool site, located on Bureau of Land Management land. The site is comprised of petroglyphs, pictographs, historic inscriptions, a rock wall, grinding camp, trail, and artifact scatter. The file consists of a site data form.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Western Michigan University - Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project.

The women of New France—French, Native, and métis—were active agents in a global process of colonization that led to interaction, conflict, and cooperation among peoples who participated in different cultural traditions, social institutions, and daily practices. In the course of migration from the Old World across the Atlantic, women helped to create the social, economic, and political conditions that fostered a French presence over a vast region for nearly two centuries. Documentary and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Western Michigan University - Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project.

Series of interpretive panels created for the 2010 Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project Open House. Individual panel themes are: Women of New France, Needle Arts, Clothing and Dress, Cooking, Music, Dance, and Diversions, Education and Literacy, Women in Trade and Diplomacy, and Women and Servitude.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Heather Trigg.

Nine wood samples from the Aramingo Canal site in Pennsylvania were submitted to the Fiske Center for Archaeological Research for taxonomic identification. All of the wood samples were found to be softwoods from the Pinaceae (Pine) family. Seven of the specimens were further identified to the Tsuga sp. (hemlock) genus, and the remaining two to the Pinus sp. (pine) genus. Both hemlock and soft pine were commonly used for timbers and both are described in 19th century historical documents as...