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During the 2016 field season, the Survey and Landscape Archaeology on Montserrat (SLAM) project undertook an intensive micro-landscape survey of targeted areas within the northern and north-central regions of Montserrat. A mountainous, volcanic island of the Lesser Antilles situated within the southeastern Caribbean, pedestrian survey on Montserrat presents a particularly challenging set of logistical difficulties and calls for alternative strategies of data acquisition, especially the use of...
Aerial Photo of Weather Rocket Launch Area (1969)
Aerial photos of the weather rocket launch.
Aerial Photograph, 2000.030_0186, N.D. (2018)
Black and white aerial photograph, front and back. Baltimore COE-Site W, 18PR465 and 18PR466.
Aerial Photograph, Blossom Point Farm, 2000.027_0215 (1971)
A black and white aerial photograph of Blossom Point Farm on Cedar Point Neck.
Aerial Photograph, Cedar Point Neck, 2000.027_0212 (1937)
A black and white aerial photograph of Cedar Point Neck.
Aerial Photograph, Cedar Point Neck, 2000.027_0213 (1937)
A black and white aerial photograph of Cedar Point Neck.
Aerial Photograph, Cedar Point Neck, 2000.027_0214 (1937)
A black and white aerial photograph of Cedar Point Neck (front and back).
Aerial Photograph, Cedar Point Neck, 2000.027_0216 (1971)
A black and white aerial photograph of Cedar Point Neck.
Aerial Photograph, Cedar Point Neck, 2000.027_0217 (1971)
A black and white aerial photograph of Cedar Point Neck.
Aerial Photograph, Cedar Point Neck, 2000.027_0218 (1971)
A black and white aerial photograph of Cedar Point Neck.
Aerial Photographic Analysis, Andrews Air Force Base and Davidsonville Transmitter Study Areas Prince Georges and Anne Arundel Counties, Maryland: Volume 2 (1998)
This report presents findings from an analysis of historical aerial photographs of the Andrews Air Forces Base and Davidsonville Transmitter study areas located in Prince Georges and Anne Arundel Counties, Maryland. The Andrews Air Force Base study area is located south of Forestville and east of Camp Springs in Prince Georges county. There are 30 sites within the Andrews Air Force Base study area. The aerial extent of the study area is approximately 448 hectares (1,106 acres). The Davidsonville...
Aerospace Archaeology and the Study of Missile Crash Sites: An Example From the Jupiter Crash Site (8BR2087), Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Brevard County, Florida (2012)
This article provides a brief background discussion on the Cold War and the Jupiter missile program, introduces the reader to the emerging field of aerospace archaeology, and then discusses the Jupiter Missile Crash site.
Aerospace Archaeology: A Discipline for the 21st Century-Examples from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Brevard County, Florida (2013)
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, November 2011, Jacksonville, Florida (revised 2013).
Affectual Ecosystems of Color: Pigments and the Co-creation of Power in the Chaco World (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Political Geologies in the Ancient and Recent Pasts: Ontology, Knowledge, and Affect" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Color is a deeply pervasive element of cosmology in the Pueblo World of the US Southwest. In these rich, affectual ecosystems of chromatic metaphor, cosmological balance is achieved through nuanced relationships between plants, animals, natural phenomena, and cardinal directions. Relationships are...
"Africa" in Connecticut (2015)
In this paper I discuss how archaeological interpretations of nineteenth century free black communities can be strengthened when Africa as a discursive concept is included alongside our analyses of race. In the southern U.S. historical archaeologists have long been attuned to the tangible material presence of enslaved Africans and their descendants. I address the question of "Africa" in relation to nineteenth century free communities of color in Connecticut, arguing that the discursive nature of...
African American Burials and Memorials in Colonial Williamsburg (2016)
This paper discusses archaeological findings within Colonial Williamsburg and explores factors that have influenced ways of knowing about eighteenth-century burial sites of African-descendant individuals and groups in Williamsburg, Virginia. While the emphasis is on the colonial era, some attention is given to the nineteenth century and the more visible commemorations of the dead relating to this period. The aim is to discuss burials and commemorative practices of enslaved and free blacks and...
The African American Cemetery at Catoctin Furnace: Bridging the Past and the Future (2016)
The Catoctin African American Cemetery is the resting place of at least 50 individuals who labored at Catoctin Furnace and its surrounding community from the 1770s to the 1840s. Many of these men and women were enslaved workers, while others were possibly part of the free black population that also lived and worked at the furnace. In 2014, an ambitious project to preserve, protect, and interpret the cemetery was launched. Documentary research, forensic analysis, and geophysical investigations...
African American Diaspora Archaeology and the National Park Service: Reflections on the Past and Goals for the Future (2016)
For 50 years archeologists from the National Park Service’s Southeast Archeological Center have actively worked to uncover, preserve, and interpret African American archeological heritage in our National Parks. SEAC’s work has spanned from the Stafford slave village at Cumberland Island National Seashore to the William Johnson House in Natchez, Mississippi, from the lands owned by a free woman creole of color in Natchitoches, Louisiana to the waters off the cays and harbors in St. Croix, U.S....
African American Life in Central Delaware, 1770-1940: Archaeology Combined with Documentary Research (2016)
The historic farm site of Samuel Dale, an AME minister and leader in the African American community around Middletown, Delaware, was identified and evaluated for the U.S. Route 301 project. The site was determined eligible, however, it was decided that a traditional data-recovery would not yield the greatest mitigation benefit. Instead, a historic context detailing the African-American community in St. Georges Hundred from 1770-1940 was prepared to mitigate the impacts to the site. The...
African American Resistance, Social Control, And The Spiritual Alteration Of The Physical Environment (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeologists have unearthed artifacts associated with West African-derived spiritual belief systems in many different African American locations in the New World. What can the artifacts tell us about the social control mechanisms used within enslaved plantation quarters communities to maintain internal cohesion and collective identity? Ethnographic, historical, and archaeological...
African Americans and NAGPRA: The Call for an African American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (2016)
Increasing urbanization and gentrification have led to the rapid development of some of America's largest cities. As urban space becomes more scarce, African American heritage sites face increasing threats from developers and city planners alike. In light the 50th anniversary of the National Heritage Preservation Act and more than 25 years after the passage of NAGPRA, this paper highlights the disparities and challenges associated with preserving African American heritage sites in the USA....
African Americans in a Dominican Cemetery: Social Boundaries of an Enclave Community (2013)
This paper presents preliminary findings from an aboveground study of a cemetery in Samaná, Dominican Republic. In 1824 approximately 200 African Americans left the United States for what was then Haiti, and established an enclave in a relatively isolated area of the island. Their Anglo surnames, Protestantism, and primary use of English have defined this community in relation to the neighboring Dominican and Haitian populations for over 150 years. Using spatial data from the town’s cemetery, I...
African Americans, Resistance, and the Spiritual Alteration of the Physical Environment on the Levi Jordan Plantation, Brazoria County, Tx (2017)
In 1986, the University of Houston began conducting archaeological excavations at the Levi-Jordan Plantation in Brazoria County, Tx in an effort to recover contextual material that would reveal information about the enslaved community, sharecroppers, and tenants who lived at the plantation. Established in 1848, the plantation was home to nearly 150 slaves at its pre-civil war peak, and was a major producer of both sugar and cotton. Early excavations of the curer’s cabin and church revealed...
African Burial Ground Curation Management Plan and Recommendations (2004)
GSA, Northeast and Caribbean Region, sought assistance from the US Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District’s Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections (MCX) to assist them with the long-term curation of the associated records generated from investigations conducted at the African Burial Ground (ABG) in Manhattan, New York City. During the preliminary phases for the construction of a new building, archaeologists discovered a large historic...
African Burial Ground Project, Protocol for Loading Wagons and Crypts (2003)
This report is a detailed guide for loading and transferring artifacts and human remains from facilities, crypts, and wagons for the African Burial Ground Project.