Shipping-Related Structure (Site Type Keyword)
Parent: Water-Related
The remains of facilities or equipment related to boats, ships, or shipping. Use for dock, wharf etc.
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Prevailing theories of the evolution of early complex societies in southern Mesopotamia presume a uniform, arid landscape transited by Tigris and Euphrates distributaries. These theories hold that it was the seventh millennium BCE introduction of irrigation technologies from the northern alluvium to the south that began the punctuated evolution of Mesopotamian irrigation schemes. In this view, irrigation-dependent agro-pastoral production was the primary stimulus to urbanization and, millennia...
Oral Traditions and the Archaeological Record of a Wabanaki Maritime Society (2007)
This thesis examines prehistoric watercraft documented in the region now inhabited by the Wabanaki, an indigenous maritime society living in New England and the Canadian Maritimes, from archaeological and oral traditions perspectives. Archaeological research has been slow to accept oral traditions as valid, independent sources of evidence. The paucity of prehistoric watercraft and associated tool kits in this study requires exploring Wabanaki prehistory through alternative sources. I gathered...
Playa Vista Archaeological and Historical Project, Volume 1: Research Design (1991)
The Playa Vista Archaeological and Historical Project is a multi-step comprehensive approach designed to achieve compliance with applicable Municipal, State, and Federal laws and regulations protecting cultural resources. This document represents the first step: the completion of a project specific research design that presents current knowledge of the cultural resources in the project area and outlines future steps to mitigate potential impacts of the proposed project. To complete the research...
Port Dauphin (1MB221), Mobile County, Alabama.
Port Dauphin, on Dauphin Island, served throughout the early years of French colonial settlement on the Gulf coast as a support facility to the main settlements upriver, the town sites of Mobile -- first at Old Mobile, at Twenty-seven Mile Bluff on the Mobile River from 1702 to 1711, and then at the city's modern location at the head of Mobile Bay and the mouth of the Mobile River. The historian Antoine Simon Le Page du Pratz referred to Mobile as the birthplace of the French colony of Louisiane...
Port Dauphin Village Site Artifact Photos, Mobile County, Alabama. (1997)
Artifact photos from the Port Dauphin Village site (1MB221).
Port Dauphin Village Site Excavation Photos, Mobile County, Alabama. (1997)
Field excavation photos from the Port Dauphin Village site.
The Reconstructing of the Lake Champlain Sidewheel Steamer Champlain II (1997)
The steamship Champlain II, ex-Oakes Ames, was built as a railroad car transfer ferry in 1868 at Marks Bay, Burlington, Vermont in the private shipyard of Napoleon B. Proctor. The vessel was later converted to a passenger line boat in 1873, but was in service only a few years before she was dramatically wrecked on the night of July 16, 1875. Champlain II holds an important place in the development of steamships on Lake Champlain. This thesis examines the historical and economic background of...
Salty Crew : Salt In Food Of Sailors In The 17th And 18th Centuries. (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Sal, Bacalhau e Açúcar : Trade, Mobility, Circular Navigation and Foodways in the Atlantic World", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Salt is an essential food. Among maritime populations first, then for crews especially during the Early Modern Period with the development of ocean navigation. In the diet of crews, salt is subject to an administrative organization with French Ordinance of the Navy. It allows...
Sapelo Island
Sapelo Island Project
Sapelo Island: Shipwreck 1 (2010)
Images of Shipwreck 1
Sapelo Island: Shipwreck 2 (2010)
Images of Shipwreck 2
Sapelo Island: Shipwreck 3 (2010)
Images of Shipwreck 3
Site Photographs and Figures, SUCF 600 Car Parking Facility Historic Archaeological Site, Albany, NY (1999)
Photographs of the site taken from a hydraulic lift. Includes site map as well.
South Bay Maps (1979)
These are maps of the South Bay district. There is a satellite image in two different formats, and a contour map as well.
An Underwater Cultural Resources Survey of a Proposed Marina on Battery Creek (2008)
This report presents the results of underwater archaeological survey investigations conducted in June 2008. Brockington and Associates, Inc., of Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, contracted Diversified Wilbanks, Inc., to conduct an underwater cultural resources survey of Battery Creek adjacent to the land in Port Royal, South Carolina, formerly occupied by the South Carolina State Ports Authority. The survey was pursuant to the development of this area into a city marina for the town of Port Royal,...
VAFB-2019-21: DRAFT Point Conception Light Station Conditions Assessment and Repairs Study, Contract No. GS10F0059N, Task Order FA8903-15-F-0023 (PWS Task 4.12.3) (2019)
This document is a study intended to serve as a preliminary analysis of the current conditions and possible repairs for the Point Conception Lighthouse and Family Quarters C. The field investigations consisted of visual surface observations, avoided destructive analysis, and did not include the preparation of structural calculations, structural or material testing, or development of design or construction drawings. This report and cost estimates are intended to provide the USAF with a rough...
VAFB-2020-23: Section 110 National Register Eligibility Evaluation of The Point Conception Light Station Historic District, Vandenberg Air Force Base Santa Barbara County, California (2020)
This government generated Section 110 report is a National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) Section 110 inventory and evaluation of the numerous buildings, structures, and objects which constitute the Point Conception Light Station Historic District. The purpose of this study is to provide information for compliance with Section 110 of the NHPA of 1966, as amended, and to support the review of anticipated future activities conducted under Section 106 of the NHPA. Section 110 of the NHPA...
Wood Identifications from the Aramingo Canal Timbers (2010)
Nine wood samples from the Aramingo Canal site in Pennsylvania were submitted to the Fiske Center for Archaeological Research for taxonomic identification. All of the wood samples were found to be softwoods from the Pinaceae (Pine) family. Seven of the specimens were further identified to the Tsuga sp. (hemlock) genus, and the remaining two to the Pinus sp. (pine) genus. Both hemlock and soft pine were commonly used for timbers and both are described in 19th century historical documents as...
Wooden Structure Photographs, SUCF Parking Facility Archaeological Site, Albany, NY (2001)
Photographs of wooden structures, including cribbing, ricking, wharves, and stockades, from the SUCF Parking Facility site, Albany, NY. Elements of the site were featured in an article from Historical Archaeology. McDonald, Molly R. 2011. Whatves and Waterfront Retaining Strucctures as Vernacular Architecture. Historical Archaeology 45 (2):42-68.