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As early as the sixteenth century, Spanish explorers noted the abundance of turquoise and shell jewelry adorning the Pueblo residents of the Rio Grande Valley and southern Colorado Plateau. In addition to serving as aesthetically pleasing objects of bodily decoration, these ornaments figure prominently in Pueblo creation and migration stories and are vital to the performance of various ritual practices, including ceremonial dances and the making of offerings and prayers. Archaeological research...
Bear Creek (20SA1043), MI Late Archaic (1994)
Late Archaic Strata 1-3/4
Bear Creek (20SA1043), MI Middle Archaic (1994)
Terminal Middle Archaic strata (4 and 5) faunal identifications data base
Bear Creek Site (20SA1043), MI (1994)
Faunal Identifications from Bear Creek (20SA1043), MI site
Bear Creek Site, MI (20SA1043) Project
The Bear Creek Site (20SA1043) is a small site on a tributary of the Shiawassee River in the Saginaw Valley drainage basin in Michigan. Site elevation is 180.6 AMSL. Archaeological work at the site was determined by the boundaries of a pipeline expansion in the Phase III of this CRM project in 1991, when 73 m2 were excavated in 1 m2 units. Five radiocarbon dates are reported from the site. The stratified deposits (Strata 2-5) represent encampments of short duration beginning ca. 4000 years...
Bear Imagery and Ritual in Midwest North America (2017)
The American black bear figured prominently in the visual arts, rituals, ceremonies, and cosmological beliefs of Native peoples inhabiting Midwest North America through antiquity. Bears are almost universally perceived as great Lower World spiritual beings possessing the power to cause or cure illness, maintain life, and change its form where bears become people and vice versa. Their remains and images are often found in mortuary ritual contexts – a powerful means of communicating emotions and...
The Bear in the Footprint: Using Ethnography to Interpret Archaeological Evidence of Bear Hunting and Bear Veneration in the Northern Rockies (2017)
Archaeological evidence of prehistoric bear hunting and bear veneration in the northern Rocky Mountains and northwestern Plains is presented. Ethnographic documents and the writings of trappers, traders, and explorers are assessed in order to establish an interpretative framework to help decipher archaeological contexts in the region that include bear remains and rock art depicting bears. Examining prehistoric archaeological contexts in Montana and Wyoming within this framework suggests evidence...
Bear/Human Relationships in Southeastern Native North America: Creating Archaeological Models from Historical Accounts (2017)
Historical accounts and ethnographic studies of the Indians of greater southeastern North America dating from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries contain abundant information on native people’s attitudes toward black bears (Ursus americanus). These records provide a basis for inferences about changes in subsistence exploitation of bear populations in the Southeast over the last five centuries, while offering clues about longer-term non-subsistence relationships between bears and humans that...
The Beartail Rockshelter Legacy Project (Legacy 95-0597)
This report describes excavations over three seasons at Beartail Rockshelter at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, including the natural and cultural history of the region with an emphasis on the late Pleistocene and early Holocene environmental and cultural setting for the area; a review and discussion of the material remains recovered from the excavations; discussion of several special analyses including palynological study, radiocarbon dating, and geomorphological analysis of site sediments; and...
The Beartail Rockshelter Legacy Project - Report (Legacy 95-0597) (1997)
This report describes excavations over three seasons at Beartail Rockshelter at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, including the natural and cultural history of the region with an emphasis on the late Pleistocene and early Holocene environmental and cultural setting for the area; a review and discussion of the material remains recovered from the excavations; discussion of several special analyses including palynological study, radiocarbon dating, and geomorphological analysis of site sediments; and...
Bear’s Oil, Hair Dye, and Chemicals: Bottles from a Civil War Photograph Gallery, Camp Nelson, KY (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Working on the 19th-Century" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Recent excavations at the Civil War C. J. Young Photograph Gallery and Stencil Shop site, Camp Nelson, KY have uncovered a large assemblage of bottle glass. Analysis of these bottle fragments, including minimum vessel counts and vessel reconstruction, have identified a large number and variety of bottled products including hair oil, hair dye, ink, various...
Beating the Bounds (2013)
"Beating the bounds" was a typically local but highly symbolic and even quasi-religious ritual or custom originating in medieval England that served to mark the territorial limits of the village or parish. This paper uses material culture, including landscape, to examine how Charles Calvert, the third Lord Baltimore, used everyday travel in Maryland as a colonial form of beating the bounds. Calvert’s travel was driven in part because of the heavy investment his family had made in the colony,...
The Beauty of Artifacts: A Study of Gendered Artifacts on a Student Led Campus Excavation (2015)
Founded in 1827, Lindenwood University was one of the few all-girl colleges of its time and was located on the American Frontier in St. Charles, Missouri. A student-led project on campus is currently analyzing artifacts from an excavation of what is believed to be a trash dump containing items from students and faculty dating back to the mid-19th century. Gendered artifacts, such as cold cream jars, are heavily represented and are a focal point of the project. Using these and other artifacts,...
Beaverdam Creek Mound and Village 1980
This collection is referred to as "Beaverdam Creek Mound and Village 1980.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is one (1) linear inch. This investigation dates from 1979-1985. The investigation started in 1980, which explains the project name date. The range of dates found throughout the collection also includes background records and the final report. The documents were originally stored in acidic folders in...
Beaverdam Group 1980
This collection is referred to as "Beaverdam Group 1980.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is a half (0.50) of a linear inch. The documents date from 1980 to 1981. The investigation occurred in 1980, which explains the project name date. The range of dates also includes administrative records. The collection was originally housed in acidic file folders in an acidic cardboard box with numerous collections from...
Bechtel Power Corporation 1978 Arizona Station Plant Site Study, Salt River Project, State and Private Lands, Apache and Navajo Counties, Arizona: An Addendum to Preliminary Draft for Phase I: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Research (1974)
As a result of the Salt River Project consultant's meeting on June 18, 1974, additional, more current information on the Arizona Station Project was made available to the Museum of Northern Arizona. Because of this, it was decided that the archaeological recommendations for the project should be reviewed and re-submitted. This report discusses the new developments and presents the basis for conclusions made regarding the archaeological assessments.
Bechtel Power Corporation 1978 Arizona Station Plant Site Study, Salt River Project, State and Private Lands, Apache and Navajo Counties, Arizona: Final Report for Phase I: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Research (1974)
The initial Phase I investigation for the Salt River Project 1978 Power Plant Study has been completed. This report presents that data which was collected during library research and actual field reconnaissance and is intended to offer a background on the archaeological and ethno-historical resource base of the two proposed areas being considered for plant site and wellfield location. A discussion of the possible impacts with alternatives to these is also included. The report includes...
Becoming Chacoan: The Archaeology of the Aztec North Great House (2019)
Between 900 and 1140 CE, people at Chaco Canyon and throughout its region built multistory monumental structures with hundreds of rooms, known as great houses. This dissertation reports on recent archaeological testing on one such great house, the Aztec North great house at Aztec Ruins National Monument. I argue that Aztec North’s occupation represents an early, transitional period, as people previously not involved in the Chaco world made choices that increasingly brought them into Chaco’s...
Becoming Historic? Reassessing the Significance of Mid-Twentieth Century Debris in Nineteenth Century Cellars (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Boxed but not Forgotten Redux or: How I Learned to Stop Digging and Love Old Collections" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Metro Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) archaeological collection has been providing students and faculty at Georgia State University (GSU) the chance to reinvestigate aspects of Atlanta’s past through this large legacy collection. Almost 500 boxes of material were excavated in...
Becoming Hopi ceramic counts (2021)
Ceramic counts used in population estimates in Chapter 6 of "Becoming Hopi: A History" (2021, University of Arizona Press). For the full ceramic data set, please see the Heritage Southwest ceramic database (https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/projects/the-heritage-southwest-database/). The ceramic data are also available in a searchable database at https://cybersw.org/.
Becoming Hopi kiva references (2021)
References for kivas included in Becoming Hopi: A History (University of Arizona Press, 2021)
Becoming Hopi kiva scans (2021)
Scans of kivas published in Becoming Hopi: A History (University of Arizona Press, 2021). Scans are organized by region. The kivas on each page have been resized to the same scale. Each kiva contains an annotation listing the source reference, site number, kiva number, and midpoint date as assigned in the source reference. All scans are oriented to true north.
Becoming Hopi pit structure data set (2021)
Data on pit structures published in Becoming Hopi: A History
Becoming Hopi pit structure data set notes (2021)
notes on sources and data recording for the pit structure data set published in Becoming Hopi: A History
Becoming Jack Tar: The Vessel as a Center for the Construction of Identity (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "From the Bottom Up: Socioeconomic Archaeology of the French Maritime Empire" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Vessels during the Age of Sail in the French maritime empire served multiple vital functions, both economical and cultural, and were the nexus of multiple important historical narratives, including wars, the peak of Atlantic piracy, and the transatlantic slave trade. However, the vessel did not...