Alabama (State / Territory) (Geographic Keyword)
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The Veterans Curation Program utilizes the standard archival practice of unique naming of collections. The purpose of this practice is to avoid redundant and confusing collection names commonly found with archaeological investigations. Therefore, this collection is referred to as "Florence Site (9SW124) 1988-1990.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is fifteen (15) linear inches. The Florence Site (9SW124)...
A Guide to Architecture and Engineering Firms of the Cold War Era (Legacy 09-434)
This reference provides biographical and historical information concerning A/E firms and associated principal architects and engineers. The document identifies military buildings designed by these firms and provides greater contextual understanding of A/E firms and military architecture in the Cold War era.
A Historical Context of the Turpentine (Naval Stores) Industry in the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains of Georgia, South Carolina and Florida (Legacy 12-506)
This project created a historic context for the naval stores industry on the coastal plains of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida that provides guidance for identifying the archaeological signature of naval stores sites and a means of assessment that can be used in making recommendations under Sections 106 and 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) for eligibility for the National Register of Historic Places. The document also suggests program alternatives or standard treatments...
A Historical look at American Archeology
This project was set up by ASU undergraduate Aaron Deguzman for a individual study project that he did with FPMcManamon in the Spring semester of 2011. Included are digital copies of some of the historic publications he read and some of his written summaries and assessments of these readings. The following two paragraphs are Aaron's statement of what he hoped to get out of the readings course. What I'd like to study is the history of archeology with an emphasis on the public outlook on...
Jackson (1BR35) 1968 and N.D.
The Jackson site, 1BR35, is primarily a large historic Lower Creek village with minor prehistoric components. The Jackson site was first recorded in 1959 by Harold Huscher and was excavated in 1960-1961 by David L. DeJarnette and a field crew from the University of Alabama. During that time he documented excavation of three burials. In 2000, “Brockington technicians documented a minimum of four individuals, 6 associated funerary objects, and no unassociated funerary objects.” Although these...
Jackson (1BR35) 1976-1978
The Jackson site, 1BR35, is primarily a large historic Lower Creek village with minor prehistoric components. The Jackson site was first recorded in 1959 by Harold Huscher and was excavated in 1960-1961 by David L. DeJarnette and a field crew from the University of Alabama. During that time he documented excavation of three burials. In 2000, “Brockington technicians documented a minimum of four individuals, 6 associated funerary objects, and no unassociated funerary objects.” Although these...
James Schoenwetter Pollen Research Papers
James Schoenwetter (Ph.D. Southern Illinois 1967) was a Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University. His research interests included prehistoric cultural ecology, applications of pollen analysis in archaeology and research methodology. Before his retirement in 2000 he directed the ASU Anthropology Department’s palynology lab. Pollen research by Schoenwetter and his students involved a variety of sites in Mesoamerica, North America and Europe. He directed archaeological and botanical...
Jobs in American Archaeology
Jobs in American Archaeology is a project that looks at some of the job conditions of archaeologists in the United States. The project looks at data from 1999 to present.
Loop Handle Jar (Accession # 566-1-43) N.D.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Mobile District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Program’s (VCP) Augusta, Georgia laboratory in the fall of 2009. The Augusta VCP laboratory is a USACE, St. Louis District’s Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections project, which is staffed through Brockington and Associates, an archaeological contract firm located in Norcross, Georgia. After 22 September 2011, the collection was...
Maintaining Elements That Are Efficient by Design: What's Already Green About Our Historic Buildings (Legacy 09-456)
This document is intended to help Cultural Resources Managers (CRMs), architects, and engineers understand the existing green features of historic buildings and use those features optimally in adaptive reuse projects that are aimed at increasing energy efficiency and reaching sustainability goals.
The Military Heritage Guidebook (Legacy 03-196)
This guidebook and its accompanying materials describe historic sites important to American military heritage. Its accompanying military heritage maps highlight historic sites associated with the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and U.S. Air Force.
Millers Ferry 1963-1968
The Millers Ferry 1963-1968 investigation is the responsibility of USACE, Mobile District, and is curated by the OAR in Moundville, Alabama. The collection consists of historic and prehistoric artifacts recovered from the archaeological investigation of 27 sites in the area of the Millers Ferry Lock and Dam reservoir, Wilcox County, Alabama. USACE, Mobile District planned the construction of the Millers Ferry Lock and Dam on the Alabama River under the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1945. The...
Nationwide Context and Evaluation Methodology for Farmstead and Ranch Historic Sites and Historic Archaeological Sites on DoD Property (Legacy 17-837)
This project developed a methodology for efficiently identifying the best examples of historic farmstead sites, and also those sites that are least likely to be deemed eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places. It details testing the applicability of the methodology to regions across the country. Regional historic contexts were created to assist in the determination of “typical” farmsteads.
OAR Projects Progress Reports 1968-1972
The Veterans Curation Program utilizes the standard archival practice of unique naming of collections. The purpose of this practice is to avoid redundant and confusing collection names commonly found with archaeological investigations. Therefore, this collection is referred to as "OAR Projects Progress Reports 1968-1972.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is two (2) linear inches. The progress reports were...
Old Mobile (1MB147) Indian House, Mobile County, Alabama.
In 1994-1996 the University of South Alabama's Center for Archaeological Studies excavated the site of an Indian House (1MB147) near the Old Mobile Site (1MB94). The two sites were contemporaneous, with occupations between 1702 and 1711. Old Mobile was the French capital of the colony of Louisiane. Site 1MB147, known as the Indian House, was a domestic dwelling occupied by Native Americans, perhaps Mobilians, situated immediately across a swamp that delimited the western extent of Old Mobile....
Old Mobile (1MB94) Fort Louis, Mobile County, Alabama.
After an intensive remote sensing effort in 2005 failed to identify remains of Fort Louis at the Old Mobile site (1MB94), a large pit feature associated with one of the fort's bastions was found in that search area by hand excavation. This feature and adjacent units were excavated in 2007-2010.
Old Mobile (1MB94) Site Overview, Mobile County, Alabama.
This section provides an overview of archaeological research on the site of Old Mobile (1MB94), French colonial capital of La Louisiane from 1702 to 1711. While the general location of Twenty-seven Mile Bluff on the Mobile River, in modern-day southwestern Alabama, has always been known as the original French colonial townsite, archaeological research only began there in earnest in 1989 when James C. "Buddy" Parnell, an employee of Courtaulds Fibers Inc. recognized several well-preserved earthen...
Old Mobile (1MB94) Structure 01, Mobile County, Alabama.
Structure 1 at the Old Mobile site (1MB94) was first noted for its raised earthen floor. Several similar features were visible in the forested, unplowed, western half of the townsite. Complete excavation in 1989 revealed the building to have been built using poteaux-sur-sole, or post on sill, construction. This building had a large central room with three joists supporting a wooden floor. On each end was a smaller room, one of which shared a double-hearth chimney with the central room. The long...
Old Mobile (1MB94) Structure 02, Mobile County, Alabama.
Structure 2 at the Old Mobile site (1MB94) was first identified from systematic shovel testing that recovered blacksmithing slag from a concentrated area at the western edge of the townsite, adjacent to a swamp. Extensive excavations in 1990 uncovered a blacksmith's work area with forge and associated shelter, surrounded by a maze of fence footing trenches. Palisade-style fences are commonly associated with French colonial structures, but these fences were built and rebuilt frequently during the...
Old Mobile (1MB94) Structure 03, Mobile County, Alabama.
Structure 3 at the Old Mobile site (1MB94), entirely excavated in 1991-1992, was first noticed as an earthen floor in the woods along the western edge of the townsite, an unplowed portion of the site. This two-room structure was built initially in the poteaux-sur-sole style, but decaying sills led to repair in places with short sections of pieux-en-terre wall foundation trenches. An addition on the northeast side of the building also employed pieux-en-terre wall trenches, forming two open bays,...
Old Mobile (1MB94) Structure 04, Mobile County, Alabama.
Structure 4 at the Old Mobile site (1MB94) was first noticed as a preserved earthen floor in the woods in the western, unplowed portion of the townsite. A test excavation in 1991-1992 encountered a modern logging road disturbance immediately east of the structure floor. Excavation of the building site has continued in 2013. The structure was built in the poteaux-en-terre style. There is evidence of an interior brick hearth.
Old Mobile (1MB94) Structure 05, Mobile County, Alabama.
Structure 5 at the Old Mobile site (1MB94) was first noticed as an eroded earthen floor in the unplowed western portion of the site, immediately south of Structure 1. Completely excavated in 1991, the long axis of the structure was oriented northeast-southwest, aligned with the town's street grid, as indicated on the two historic maps of Old Mobile. A shallow dirt pit, probably the source of earth for the floor, located immediately south of the structure, was full of midden. On the southwest...
Old Mobile (1MB94) Structure 14, Mobile County, Alabama.
Structure 14 at the Old Mobile site (1MB94) was first noticed as an earthen floor partially preserved in the unplowed center of the townsite, in an area that is intermittently flooded by heavy rains. Excavation of this structure has consequently been limited to dry spells in 1992, 1995 and 1998-2003. The long axis of the building was oriented northwest-southeast, aligned with the street grid of the town, as depicted on the two historic maps of Old Mobile. Most of the south half of the structure...
Old Mobile (1MB94) Structure 30, Mobile County, Alabama.
Excavation of Structure 30 at the Old Mobile site (1MB94) occurred between 1992 and 1996, with field school student assistance. This two-room building was constructed in the pieux-en-terre style with subsurface wall and fence trenches preserved below plowzone. Relative artifact quantities in the trench features indicate a construction sequence, with the building constructed first, followed some time afterward by erection of a palisade-type fence enclosing the building. The associated artifact...
Old Mobile (1MB94) Structure 31, Mobile County, Alabama.
Structure 31 at the Old Mobile site (1MB94) was excavated from 1996 to 2002. This one-room building, constructed in the pieux-en-terre style, had subsurface wall trenches preserved below plowzone. A doorway was visible in the middle of the southwest wall. An additional wall trench extension off the northeast wall may indicate the location of a bread oven platform and hearth. A large pit dug for building material adjacent to the building was found filled with refuse, including four iron...