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The Guthrie family first came to America from Ireland around 1720 and settled in St. Charles County, Missouri in 1816. The family owned many acres of land, which they passed down through the generations. Archaeological work on the Guthrie Farmstead commenced due to impending impact on the property for housing development. A cultural resource management company conducted thorough and extensive work on the farmstead, which revealed a homestead site (23SC1041) on the property. The site was a...
Artifact-Based Measures for Scaling Research in the Rio Grande Pueblos (2017)
Initial applications of settlement scaling theory focused on measures derived from the built environment, such as house density and settled area. Although this is appropriate, the theory actually focuses on the role of social networks in socioeconomic rates, and thus connects to a variety of artifact-based measures of such rates. In this paper, we develop these connections using data from the Rio Grande Pueblos of New Mexico. We first compare pueblo room areas to show that socioeconomic outputs...
"Artifacts and Advertisements and Articles, Oh My": Life and Culture at the Hotel Pend d’Oreille (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Exploring the Recent Past" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Often historical archaeologists are left with only a few pieces of the historical puzzle of the past. Using archaeological artifacts, historic advertisements, and news articles- I hope to illuminate part of the history of the Hotel Pend d’Oreille. The Hotel Pend d’Oreille operated in the early 1900s in the railroad town of Sandpoint, Idaho. There were...
Artifacts and ethnicity: basketry as an indicator of territoriality and population movements in the prehistoric Great Basin (1986)
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 EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these 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 using the...
Artifacts Found in Feature 127 (2014)
Top Row, Far Left: Pipe Stem (PCN 1034). Second Row, From Left to Right: Pipe Stem (PCN 1034); Pipe Stem (PCN 1035). Far Right, Left to Right: Wrought Nail (PNC 1035); Bone (PCN 1035). Bottom Row, Left to Right: Pipe Bowl (PCN 1035); Pipe Bowl (PCN 1035); Button (PCN 1035); Pewter Spoon Fragment (PCN 1034); Pewter Spoon Fragment (PCN 1034); Glass Bead (PCN 1034).
Artifacts from Luna’s Settlement and Shipwrecks (2017)
Thousands of artifacts have been recovered from the two shipwrecks associated with Tristán de Luna y Arellano’s 1559 settlement attempt and recently hundreds of artifacts have now been recovered from the associated land site. Even at this early stage in the terrestrial work, we have the unique opportunity to make many interesting comparisons between the two assemblages regarding the relative proportions of different functional categories and the presence/absence of fasteners, armor, and...
Artifacts From The Chinese Quarter Of Jacksonville, OR – The Chemical Story (2016)
Analytical chemistry is a valuable tool in the identification of historical artifacts for which visual inspection is inconclusive. This is often the case with bottles and jars holding unknown materials, especially when the containers themselves provide little or no evidence. Several of the artifacts recovered from the historical Chinese Quarter of Jacksonville, OR, were of this type. They included a variety of medicine bottles and vials with contents that could only be identified through...
Artifacts from US Military Installation: Dusty Treasures or Unwanted Objects (2017)
Collections allow archaeologists and other scholars the opportunity a means to view past lifeways. Those lifeways are connected to past histories that are situated in a time and place. Context is everything! However, what happens when artifacts are lost misplaced, or mis-catalogued? Archaeologists across the globe are working on shoe-string budgets and are being asked to do more with less. Due to these shrinking budgets the collections that we painstakingly curate often are given less care and...
Artifacts in the Archives: Material Culture Curated Within Milwaukee County Coroner’s Inquests (2018)
Historical archaeologists expect to encounter artifacts in the field or lab, but may not anticipate uncovering them in the library. While conducting research on individuals buried in the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery, the author came across a diverse assortment of material culture associated with the coroner’s inquests curated at the Milwaukee County Historical Society Research Library. This paper will describe the various items uncovered including photographs, clothing samples, personal...
Artifacts Inventory, Site 18ST792, Point Lookout State Park (2006)
This record contains an artifact catalog for a phase II and III investigations of site 18ST792, Point Lookout, Maryland.
Artifacts Inventory, Sites 18STX80, 18STX81, and 18ST792, Point Lookout (2007)
This record contains an artifact catalog for phase I investigations of sites 18STX80, 18STX81, and 18ST792, Point Lookout State Park, Maryland. This collection and related documents are currently being held by the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Lab located in St. Leonard, MD. For further information contact the Federal Curator, Sara Rivers-Cofield
Artifacts of Agency, Status, and Empowerment: Colonoware, Crystals, Wig Hair Curlers (2016)
Section 110 archaeological investigations at Manassas National Battlefield Park (MANA) sparked breakthroughs in the recognition of quartz crystal caches and the meaning of colonoware: contributions which continue to shape historical archaeology. These categories of material culture have become emblems for spirited discussions about the dimensions of meaning, identity, and agency. The corpus of work from MANA continues to influence and contribute to understanding multivariate dimensions of...
Artifacts of Glory and Pain: Evolving Cultural Narratives on Confederate Symbolism and Commemoration (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Monuments, Memory, and Commemoration" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Depending on one’s perspective, Confederate monuments and other forms of commemoration symbolize a grand “lost cause” heritage, a perplexed and paradoxical cultural inheritance, or symbols and agoras of racism, bigotry, discrimination, and hate. Most of them were not crated in isolation, but rather as political statements and consequences...
The Artifacts of Outlander: Using Popular Culture to Promote Maryland’s Archaeological Collections (2016)
The Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory (MAC Lab) is a State-owned facility serving as the primary repository for collections excavated in Maryland. Artifacts come to the MAC Lab from every part of the state, and while the estimated 8.5 million objects in our collections are regularly used by researchers and school groups, our broken bits of "stuff" are less of a draw for the general public. This paper discusses how the MAC Lab staff turned their love of Outlander, a popular...
Artifacts Photograph, Adelphi Research Laboratory Phase I Investigation, ADI_0018 (1992)
Photograph of Phase I investigation diagnostic artifacts.
Artifacts Photograph, Adelphi Research Laboratory Phase I Investigation, ADI_0033, N.D. (2018)
Photograph of Phase I investigation diagnostic artifacts.
Artifacts Photograph, Adelphi Research Laboratory Phase I Investigation, ADI_0035, N.D. (2018)
Photograph of 3 lithic artifacts and 1 ceramic artifact.
Artiodactyl Exploitation in Northeastern California during the Terminal Prehistoric/Protohistoric Time Periods: Evidence of Environmental Rebound? (2017)
Artiodactyl representation in the archaeological record can be a particularly sensitive indicator of past human-environmental interactions due to their status as a high-ranking prey item. In this study we explore terminal prehistoric and protohistoric patterning of artiodactyl exploitation in the archaeofaunal record in Northeastern California. Specifically, this study examines previously published zooarchaeological data derived from residential sites situated along the Pit River in conjunction...
Artistic Endeavors in Nebraska’s Prisoner of War Camps (2015)
During the Second World War, thousands of prisoners of war were transported to the United States to be held for the duration of the conflict. The Geneva Convention served as the primary doctrine influencing how camps were built and how the prisoner populations were treated. Under the convention, prisoners were able to work for a wage as well as pursue hobbies in areas like education, sports, and the arts. This paper explores how the artistic pursuits of German POWs influenced the material record...
"As Long As I Have Served, I Have Not Yet Left A Battlefield In Such Deep Sorrow…": Archeology, History And The Material Remains Of Fort Mercer, Red Bank, New Jersey (2016)
Nearly a month after the Crown Forces captured Philadelphia, a Hessian Brigade under the command of Colonel von Donop crossed the Delaware River intent on clearing away the American defenses entrenched along its east bank. Captain Ewald was part of the expedition, and his jaegers supported the attack on Fort Mercer at Red Bank, New Jersey. The assault on the earthen fortification began in the late afternoon on October 22, 1777. The Hessian force suffered heavy casualties at the hands of a...
"…As the Waves Make Towards the Pebbled Shore": Site Formation Processes on Drowned Coastal Sites and Implications for Preservation, Discovery, and Interpretation (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Palaeoeconomic and Environmental Reconstructions in Island and Coastal Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Submerged prehistoric sites left behind by coastal groups have the potential to answer multiple critical questions concerning human activities, but locating, excavating, and interpreting such sites brings with it challenges unlike those encountered in coastal settings that remain (for now) terrestrial....
The As(h)cendant: Cosmological Work of Material Traces of Burning in the American Southeast (2018)
Archaeological contexts of the American Southeast are rife with ash deposits that go beyond the residues of mundane burning activities. Burials and other pits at Stallings Island have layers of wood ash sandwiched between charcoal and shell; some rockshelters of the Cumberland Plateau contain successive layers of ash, each capped with earth; freshwater shell was mixed with ash to fill a massive pit on Silver Glen Run; and in north-central Florida, a dried sink filled with peat was burned to...
Ash Deposition and Community Building in the Mississippian World: A Case Study from the Yazoo Basin (2018)
Ethnographic sources indicate that fire and its alternate forms—smoke and ash—are powerfully symbolic substances for many historic period southeastern Indian groups. The remains of fire are frequently deposited in ways that amplify its power, or alternatively, attempt to neutralize it. This paper examines ash deposition at Parchman Place, a late Mississippi period (AD 1300-1541) site located in the northern Yazoo Basin. Here, and elsewhere in the Southeast, Mississippian people incorporated ash...
Ash Dump Archaeology: Piecing Together the History of the R. J. Dunn House (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper discusses a collection of artifacts recovered from the ash dumps and chutes of three fireplaces in the R. J. Dunn House, an NRHP-listed property in Redlands, CA. The 1912 home was built as a rental property and was used by four families who have famous relatives such as the Busch (of Anheuser Busch) and Pulitzer families. Our analysis clarifies the history of the...
The Ash Grove Meaathouse: Public Archaeology and Preservation at a Fairfax Family Property (2016)
The Fairfaxx County (Virginia) Park Authority mission statement specifies the, "…protection and enhancement of…, cultural heritage to guarantee that these resources will be available to both present and future generations." When staff preservationists identified the need to stabilize a historic meathouselocated at an eighteenth century house site built by a member of the county’s namesake family, it presented the opportunity to demonstrate commitment to this mission. In order to stabilize the...