Historic Background Research (Investigation Type)

These are investigations of the past using written records and other documents. Evidence from the records are compared, judged for veracity, placed in chronological or topical sequence, and interpreted in light of preceding, contemporary, and subsequent events.

6,751-6,775 (6,892 Records)

View of the Lead Mines of Missouri (1819)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Henry R. Schoolcraft.

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 National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R 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 at comments@tdar.org.


Viga Testing Project (2002)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Frank Matero. Kenneth King. Jake Barrow. Mary Kallenberg.

These documents are a series of communications regarding stabilization and testing efforts performed and to be performed on the Great House in Compound A at the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. They outline what projects need to be accomplished, special issues and concerns, and what will be necessary to accomplish the projects. A cost analysis is also provided.


Vikings on the Move: Combined Methods to Reassess Mobility and Migration in Early Medieval Europe (WGF - Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship) (2021)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Catrine Jarman.

This resource is an application for the Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Over the past decade, new bioarchaeological methods such as isotope analysis and ancient DNA have become standard tools for studying migration and mobility. Yet with an increasing amount of data now available, it is apparent that these methods come with significant limitations: each, on its own, rarely able to confidently characterise migration. It is, therefore, crucial to develop new ways...


Village Creek: An Architectural and Historical Resources Survey of the Village Creek Project Neighborhoods, City of Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama
DOCUMENT Citation Only Marjorie L. White. Carter L. Hudgins.

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 National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R 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 at comments@tdar.org.


Village Life on the Santa Cruz Islands (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text William H. Davenport.

70 photographs of village life on the Santa Cruz Islands from CD that accompanies Santa Cruz Island Figure Sculpture and its Social and Ritual Contexts.


Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi (1922)
DOCUMENT Citation Only David I. Bushnell, Jr..

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 National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R 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 at comments@tdar.org.


Villages of Tortolita: Phase II Data Recovery at AZ AA:7:500 (ASM) and AZ AA:12:682 (ASM), Town of Marana, Pima and Pinal Counties, Arizona (2009)
DOCUMENT Full-Text David M. R. Barr.

Phase II data recovery was conducted at AZ AA:7:500 (ASM) and AZ AA:12:682 (ASM) on the Villages of Tortolita property after Phase I data recovery revealed the presence of subsurface cultural deposits. Forty-five features were identified during Phase II data recovery at AZ AA:7:500 (ASM), including pit structures, roasting pits, miscellaneous extramural pits, middens, surface rock concentrations, and cremations. At AZ AA:12:682 (ASM), five highly ephemeral, poorly defined features (charcoal...


Virginia Richly Valued (1966)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Hakluyt.

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 National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R 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 at comments@tdar.org.


Visible Past: the Growth of Dover and Its Reflection in the City's Existing Buildings (1978)
DOCUMENT Citation Only John Gardner.

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 National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R 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 at comments@tdar.org.


Visions and Revisions: Ethnohistoric Perspectives On Southern Cultures (1987)
DOCUMENT Citation Only George III Sabo. William M. Schneider.

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 National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R 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 at comments@tdar.org.


Voices from the Past: a Collection of Newspaper Articles About Samoa, 1856-1902
DOCUMENT Citation Only Bill Hart. Dan Wakefield.

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 National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R 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 at comments@tdar.org.


Voices from the Trail of Tears (2003)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Vicki Rozema.

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 National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R 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 at comments@tdar.org.


Voices of Moccasin Creek (1972)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Tate C. Page.

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 National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R 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 at comments@tdar.org.


Volume 2, Fort Sam Houston Maintenance and Repair Plan: Cavalry and Light Artillery Post (2003)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Chelsea Walter

Fort Sam Houston’s buildings exhibit a variety of architectural influences because of its incremental development. Its four posts, the Quadrangle and Staff Post, Infantry Post, Cavalry and Light Artillery Post, and New Post, are excellent visual records of the Army’s planning ideals and the architectural styles employed during their respective construction periods. The various architectural styles included Italianate, Colonial Revival, Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival, Greek Revival, Classical...


Volume 2, Fort Sam Houston Maintenance and Repair Plan: Infantry Post (2003)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Chelsea Walter

Of all the posts at Fort Sam Houston, none is more complex stylistically than the Infantry Post. This complicated assemblage of stylistic influences is typified in the design of Long Barracks and Band Barracks, and is discussed in more detail later in this text. Less difficult to interpret are the post’s kitchens, mess halls, and latrines which were executed in a simplified form of the Colonial Revival style. The Colonial Revival style, also known as Georgian Revival, is an adaptation of the...


Volume 2, Fort Sam Houston Maintenance and Repair Plan: New Post (2004)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Chelsea Walter

Fort Sam Houston’s buildings exhibit a variety of architectural influences because of its incremental development. Its four posts, the Quadrangle and Staff Post, Infantry Post, Cavalry and Light Artillery Post, and New Post, are excellent visual records of the Army’s planning ideals and the architectural styles employed during their respective construction periods. The various architectural styles include Italianate, Colonial Revival, Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival, Greek Revival, Classical...


Volume 2, Fort Sam Houston Maintenance and Repair Plan: Quadrangle and Staff Post (2003)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Chelsea Walter

Fort Sam Houston’s buildings exhibit a variety of architectural influences as a result of its incremental development. Its four posts, the Quadrangle and Staff Post, Infantry Post, Cavalry and Light Artillery Post, and New Post, are excellent visual records of the Army’s planning ideals and the architectural styles employed during their respective construction periods. The various architectural styles include Italianate, Colonial Revival, Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival, Greek Revival,...


Volume 2: Camp Bullis Maintenance and Repair Plan (2004)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Chelsea Walter

From an architectural perspective, buildings and structures at Camp Bullis are utilitarian in character. Some Craftsman and Bungalow stylistic influences can be seen in building proportions and detailing. Buildings were built economically to house, feed, and train troops; to administer training programs, and to maintain the military hardware used in training. Although the edifices of Fort Sam Houston project permanence and the public face of the Army as an enduring institution of the government,...


Voodoo Tales, As Told Among the Negroes of the Southwest (1893)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary A. Owen.

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 National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R 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 at comments@tdar.org.


Vrokastro Archaeological Survey Project Website (2004)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Barbara J. Hayden. Heidi Dierckx. George W. M. Harrison. Jennifer Moody. George Postma. Oliver Rackham. Allaire B. Stallsmith.

The Vrokastro website includes information about the project, the Vrokastro region, the Vrokastro reports, and additional resources. This version of the Vrokastro website is current as of April 15, 2004. For updates, connect to the Vrokastro website online at www.museum.upenn.edu/vrokastro.


W.J. and The Valley: The Story of W.J. Murphy and His Part in Developing the Salt River Valley in Arizona (1975)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Merwin L. Murphy.

Among the papers left by William John Murphy and his wife, Laura Fulwiler Murphy, were some 500 letters and other papers. Ralph Murphy recalling on his own memory, wrote a book that he hoped to get published through commercial channels. The author's agent that he dealt with insisted that his manuscript was too dull and urged him to make it more dramatic. This he attempted in a revision which he called W. J., which never got beyond the manuscript form. There is a store of information about W....


Wabash/Huntington Counties, Archaeological Records Search, Mississinnewa/Huntington Reservoirs (1979)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Donald R. Cochran.

An archaeological records search for 4 construction projects near the Mississinewa and Huntington Reservoirs in Wabash and Huntington Counties, Indiana.


Waco Lake, McLennan County, Texas: An Inventory and Assessment of Cultural Resources (1985)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel J. Prikryl. Jack M. Jackson.

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 National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R 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 at comments@tdar.org.


Wagon Box Fight (1928)
DOCUMENT Citation Only George Bird Grinnell.

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 National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R 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 at comments@tdar.org.


Wagon Box Fight: 3rd Edition (1992)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jerry Keenan.

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 National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R 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 at comments@tdar.org.