African American (Culture Keyword)
Parent: Historic
201-225 (382 Records)
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Macrobotanical Analysis of Feature ER2352/4, A Subfloor Pit Associated with a 19th-Century Slave Cabin from Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest (2009)
Macrobotanicals were analyzed from a sub-floor pit in a 19th century slave cabin located at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest plantation (Virginia) during the tenure of the Hutter family as plantation owners. The thousands of seed and wood remains recovered illustrate that the slaves’ main subsistence strategies were provisioning, or receiving food from the plantation owner, production, or growing their own food, and the procurement of wild resources. These various subsistence strategies...
Made of Alabama Clay: Historic Potteries on Mobile Bay (2001)
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Mallard-Fox Creek Area, Decatur, Alabama: Results of Phase II Investigations at Three Archaeological Sites and Additional Research at the Historic Murphy Cemetery (1997)
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Mapping God's Little Acre: Digital Documentation of Newport's Colonial African Burial Ground (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The remarkable site of God’s Little Acre (GLA), the historic African and African American section of Newport’s Common Burial Ground, comprises the largest surviving corpus of gravemarkers from a colonial era African cemetery anywhere in the United States. In 2019, members of the Rhode Island Historic Cemetery Advisory Commission...
The Material Basis of the Postbellum Tenant Plantation: Historical Archaeology in the South Carolina Piedmont (1988)
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Material Culture and Consumer Choices at Tech Flats: Archaeological and Historical Investigations of the Techwood/Clark Howell Urban Revitalization Tract, Atlanta, Georgia (1998)
Archaeological survey and data recovery were conducted by Brockington and Associates, Inc., at the Techwood/Clark Howell Homes Urban Revitalization Tract, in Atlanta, Georgia. Fieldwork within the 50 acre development tract was conducted in three phases over a period of approximately two years (between June 1995 and May 1997). Funding for these investigations was provided under a federal Housing and Urban Development Block Grant to the Housing Authority of the City of Atlanta (HACA) through...
Measuring Modern Discipline: A Re-Examination of Type and Variant Indices Using Ceramics from the Monterey Site in the Central Bluegrass Region of Kentucky (2002)
Modern discipline encompasses the strategies used under industrial capitalism to regulate work and measure time. E. P. Thompson called them “time routines” and “work discipline.” Mark Leone, building on the work of Thompson and Foucault, developed ceramics formulas for measuring the degree of penetration of these ideas in individual households. Our research tests Leone’s formulas using the ceramic data from the village of Monterey in central Kentucky and diversity indexing. Families of varying...
Mechanical Stripping of Jane Oliver Cemetery, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Jefferson County, Arkansas (1997)
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''Meet, O Lord, On the Milk-White Horse'' Archaeological Data Recovery at Rephraim Plantation sites 38BU1385 and 38BU1803 (2005)
Brockington and Associates, Inc., conducted archaeological data recovery investigations at sites 38BU1385 and 38BU1803 between 27 January and 14 February 2003. Archaeological sites 38BU1385 and 38BU1803 are located in the Palmetto Bluff Phase I Development Tract, Beaufort County, South Carolina. These investigations were conducted under the Treatment Plan (approved by the South Carolina Department of Archives and History) in partial fulfillment of the stipulations of a Memorandum of...
Metal Detector Investigations of the Beach City Place Tract (2008)
On 12 February–6 March 2007, trained metal detector operators from Brockington and Associates, Inc., undertook intensive metal detector investigations at the Beach City Place Tract on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. These investigations supplemented the survey and testing investigations previously conducted at the tract (Fletcher et al. 2006).
Midway: Archaeological Profile of a Nineteenth Century Rice Plantation on Waccamaw Neck (1988)
Midway Plantation is a former rice plantation on Waccamaw Neck, Georgetown County, South Carolina. Established in the late eighteenth century, rice production as pursued throughout the nineteenth century through slave and tenant labor. Three components of the site were identified as significant and/or sensitive cultural resources. These include 38GE362 (the Midway manor house/main residential complex and a prehistoric campsite), 38GE363 (the slave/tenant village and prehistoric components), and...
Mitigation Associated with the Killen II Cellular Tower Near Center Star, Lauderdale County, Alabama (2001)
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Montpelier Plantation (38BU1789) Antebellum Life at Palmetto Bluff (2004)
Archaeological data recovery investigations at 38BU1789 encountered the remnants of the colonial and antebellum settlement of Montpelier Plantation. Excavations in the preservation area exposed the remnants of the planter’s house and a nearby outbuilding. Excavations to the west of the preservation area recovered a sample of artifacts associated with a postbellum occupation, possibly a tenant or squatter, but encountered no definite evidence of a former building. In total, we excavated 621.65 m2...
"More Than What We Had": An Architectural and Historical Documentation of the Village Creek Project Neighborhoods, Birmingham, Alabama (1989)
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Mortuary Research at Behavior Cemetery (9MC498), Sapelo Island, Georgia (2010)
“We can’t swing a shovel without waking someone up.” This statement, made by a Gullah-Geechee resident of the Hog Hammock community on Sapelo Island, Georgia, is important for two reasons. First, it speaks to an increasingly common problem occurring at the Island’s Behavior Cemetery: the presence of unmarked graves and disturbances to them from attempts to dig new graves. Second, it provided the impetus for a community-driven program of mortuary archaeological research at Behavior by the...
National Register Eligibility Evaluations of Sites 18ST659 and 18ST754 and Data Recovery Excavations at VXX Presidential Helicopter Facility, Naval Air Station Patuxent River (2006.055)
Phase II evaluative testing of archaeological sites 18ST659 and 18ST754 and Phase III data recovery of archaeological site 18ST659, both in St. Mary’s County, Maryland, were conducted in support of the new VXX Presidential Helicopter Program Support Facility at Naval Air Station Patuxent River. Both sites are located on terrace landforms adjacent to Harper’s Creek near the mouth of the Patuxent River. The overall purpose of evaluative testing was to determine whether the sites contained...
National Register of Historic Place Multiple Property Documentation Form for the Archaeological and Historical Resources of the Avon Park Air Force Range (1994) (1994)
The Avon Park Air Force Range (APAFR) contains a diverse array of cultural resources that span the entire period of human occupation of the Kissimmee River Valley. Documented sites range in date from the Archaic period (ca. 6500-500 B.C.) through the first half of the 20th century. Most of the documented periods of occupation of the APAFR are represented by prehistoric and historic period archaeological sites that have been determined to be eligible for listing on the National Register (NR) of...
A National Register of Historic Places Determination of Eligibility for Randolph, Pinal County, Arizona (2022)
At the request of the community of Randolph, Arizona, and Salt River Project, WestLand Engineering & Environmental Services (WestLand) was asked to complete a National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) Eligibility Evaluation of the community of Randolph, located in Pinal County, Arizona. The documented area was defined by the formal community boundary of Randolph, an unincorporated community of Pinal County. The community is located within Sections 9 and 10 of Township 6 South, Range 8 East, as...
National Register of Historic Places Significance Evaluation of the African-American Barracks Locale (8.3 Acres) at Camp Forrest (40CF310) Arnold Air Force Base Coffee and Franklin Counties, Tennessee (Draft Final Report) (2010)
From January to May 2010, AMEC Earth & Environmental conducted archival research for the African-American barracks locale (8.3 acres) at Camp Forrest (40CF310). The research was conducted to gather information toward a historic context to assess the significance of the locale with regard to its National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) eligibility status. Several local, state, and federal repositories were visited and researched for the project in an effort to gather as much information as...
National Register Supplemental Archaeological Investigations of Seven Archaeological Sites at Fort Lee, Prince George County, Virginia (1998)
This report presents the results of additional archaeological investigations of seven archaeological sites during September and October 1997 at Fort Lee, Prince George County, Virginia. This investigation was conducted by Gray & Pape, Inc., of Richmond, Virginia, for Environmental Reconstruction Company, Inc., of Fredericksburg, Virginia, pursuant to a scope of services prepared by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Norfolk District and under contract DACA65-95-D-0 ll6. The additional...
National Register Supplemental Archaeological Investigations of Seven Archaeological Sites, Fort Lee (FL1998.001)
Additional archaeological investigations were conducted on seven archaeological sites identified and recommended as eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places by MAAR Associates, Inc. Based on the additional investigations conducted by Gray & Pape, Inc., the following archaeological sites are recommended as not meeting the criteria of eligibility for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places: 44PG179, a multicomponent site, and 44PG278, a 1917 surface trash...
New York African Burial Ground Archaeology Final Report, Volume 1. Archaeological Site Plan map (Figure 1.7) (2006)
This illustration is a large map of the project area (Figure 1.7). It displays the excavated area and feature outlines.
New York African Burial Ground Archaeology Final Report, Volume 1. Chapter 1. Introduction (2006)
This report is one of three disciplinary reports on the African Burial Ground Project. One report focuses on the skeletal biological analysis of the remains recovered from the site (Blakey and Rankin Hill 2004). A second report focuses on the documentary history, from a Diasporic perspective, of Africans who lived and died in early New York (Medford 2004). The present report, consisting of four volumes, presents the archaeological research on the African Burial Ground. General background on the...
New York African Burial Ground Archaeology Final Report, Volume 1. Chapter 10. Coffins (2006)
Coffin remains (wood and hardware) were by far the most ubiquitous artifacts recovered from graves at the African Burial Ground. In this chapter we report on the distribution of coffins among demographic and temporal groups and examine the historical context for coffin use. We then provide descriptive information on the shapes, sizes, material, construction, and decoration of coffins represented at the excavated cemetery. Finally, we describe the material remains that were recovered from...