Los Alamos County (County) (Geographic Keyword)
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This project includes documents related to the history and historical background of the Antiquities Act and its implementation during the century since its enactment. The Antiquities Act was signed into law in 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt. The history of American conservation often is told in terms of legal milestones, and rightly so. An environmental activist working to expand a local park, a historic preservationist trying to save a cherished old building, a volunteer working on a...
Los Alamos National Laboratory Coalition Pueblo Sites
Four Coalition period (A.D. 1150-1325) room blocks have been excavated by archaeologists at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The sites are located approximately 40 miles northwest of Santa Fe in northern New Mexico. One site (LA 4618) was excavated in the early 1990s (Schmidt 2006; Vierra et al. 2002b), and three sites (LA 12587, LA 86534, and LA 135290) were excavated as part of the Department of Energy (DOE) Land Conveyance and Transfer Project (Vierra et al. 2002a:Figure 1). Based on...
Social Reactors Project datasets
Datasets from various publications of the Social Reactors Project
Southwest Mortuary Database Project: 2011 SAA E-Session: Mortuary Practices in the American Southwest: Meta-Data Issues in the Development of a Regional Database
The study of prehistoric mortuary practices in the American Southwest is undergoing tremendous change in the new millennium. The challenges (and opportunities) of NAGPRA implementation, declines in the number of large samples being excavated, and loss of data from previously excavated samples have altered mortuary archaeology in the region. Given this state of affairs, the development of an integrated regional database of prehistoric mortuary practices is imperative. This session at the 76th...