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PROJECT Gregory Waselkov.

After an intensive remote sensing effort in 2005 failed to identify remains of Fort Louis at the Old Mobile site (1MB94), a large pit feature associated with one of the fort's bastions was found in that search area by hand excavation. This feature and adjacent units were excavated in 2007-2010.

PROJECT Gregory Waselkov.

Structure 2 at the Old Mobile site (1MB94) was first identified from systematic shovel testing that recovered blacksmithing slag from a concentrated area at the western edge of the townsite, adjacent to a swamp. Extensive excavations in 1990 uncovered a blacksmith's work area with forge and associated shelter, surrounded by a maze of fence footing trenches. Palisade-style fences are commonly associated with French colonial structures, but these fences were built and rebuilt frequently during the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lynn Evans.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pandemic Fieldwork: Doing Fieldwork During a Pandemic" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Michilimackinac is the site of one of the longest ongoing archaeological projects in North America. Could it continue in a pandemic? Because most of our funding comes from park admission fees and museum store revenue, our project is dependent on Colonial Michilimackinac State Historic Park being open to the public. Once...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert J. Austin.

Orignally the information in this record was migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. NADB-R records consist of a document citation and limited other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. In 2013, as part of a project done for the US Air Force, digital curators of the Center for Digital Antiquity updated the original record by adding a digital copy of the article described and more detailed metadata. The article...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael Strezewski. Robert G. McCullough.

The report describes the results of geophysical investigations at three fur trade-era sites (12-T-9, 12-T-59, and 12-T-335) in Tippecanoe County, Indiana. Also covered are the results of excavations at Kethtippecanunk (12-T-59), a fur trade-era town that was located at the confluence of the Wabash and Tippecanoe rivers.

IMAGE Michael Strezewski.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Brad Geeck.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for Tewksbury Fort, located on State Trust land. The site is comprised of a hilltop fort, separate rooms, two brush houses, a plaza, and petroglyphs, The file consists of a site data form and an Austin Archaeological Site Survey form. The earliest dated document is from 1972.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Scott Wood. T. Bone. Ronald J. Ice.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Vineyard Fort site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of a room block, described in one document as a red granite fort and watchtower, with burials. The site is alternatively attributed to the Salado and Yavapai and to prehistory and the 14th century. The file consists of a site data form, Central Arizona Water Control Study site description, site inspection/maintenance assessment form, a copy of the "Report of Fort on...