Historic (Culture Keyword)

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Beyond the Great House: Archaeology at Ashland-Belle Helene Plantation
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jill-Karen Yakubik. Rosalinda Mendez.

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.


Beyond the North Gate: Archeology on the Outskirts of Colonial Albany. Archeological Data Retrieval, Quackenbush Square Parking Facility, Broadway, Albany, New York (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc..

Report of data recovery results from the Quackenbush Square Parking Facility site in Albany, NY. The pdf report focuses on the detailed excavation of a rum distillery (c.1750s-1820s) and a brickmaker's house and brickyard (c.1630s-1680s). The report includes micro/macroscopic analyses of faunal and floral materials, pollen, parasites,and heavy metal contents. The report also provides deep historical context to rum production and early colonial settlement in Albany and the Northeast.


Bi-pitted Stone (2010)
IMAGE William Engelbrecht.

This stone is 13 cm x 11 cm x 4.2 cm (max. dimensions) and is pitted on both sides.


A Bibliography of Northeast Historical Archaeology, 1987–2006 (2006)
DOCUMENT Full-Text David R. Starbuck.

Twenty years have passed since the first CNEHA bibliography (Starbuck 1986), which included nearly all historical archaeology literature published within the area served by CNEHA up through the fall of 1987. The original CNEHA bibliography consisted of 1,884 citations, reflecting at least 60 years of research in the 7 provinces, 13 states, and the District of Columbia that are represented by CNEHA. In 1987 it may have appeared that traditional publishing would decline and be replaced by the...


Biface Fragment Summary (2013)
DATASET William Engelbrecht.

A summary tabulation of biface fragments by unit.


Binder Cover, Randolph Air Force Base Historic Photographs, Air Education and Training Command, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas (2016)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Air Education and Training Command History Office.

This is a collection of building record photographs first taken of structures on Randolph Air Force Base in 1930 and 1931, with follow-up photographs taken in 1941 and 1942. Also present in the collection are miscellaneous photographs including Randolph tour pictures.


Bioanthropological Investigations of Historic Cemeteries: What Can We Learn From Biological, Cultural, and Mortuary Remains (2003)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Alexandra Bybee.

Fueled primarily by urban development, the recent past has seen an increasing demand for the relocation of historic and modern cemeteries. These cemeteries hold clues to the past lives of America's earliest populations, the free and enslaved, the wealthy and poor, and the healthy and diseased. Bioanthropological investigations of historic cemeteries have the potential to provide a variety of information on the biological, cultural, and mortuary aspects of these populations. On a personal level,...


Bioanthropological Investigations of the Reynolds Cemetery in Kanawha County, West Virginia (2002)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Alexandra D. Bybee. Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc..

Between May 17 and August 8, 2001, Cultural Resource Analysts’ personnel completed Phase III excavations for the relocation of the Reynolds Cemetery (46Ka349) in Kanawha County, West Virginia. The project, which was conducted at the request of Dr. Robert F. Maslowski on behalf of the Huntington District Corps of Engineers, was conducted to mitigate anticipated impacts the cemetery would suffer by the proposed Marmet Lock Replacement Project. The site was recommended as potentially eligible for...


Bioarchaeological Resources on the Northwestern Plains: A Bibliography (1996)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Laura L. Scheiber.

This bibliography is a selected list of publications and manuscripts pertaining to sites with known mortuary contexts on the Northwestern Plains. It is not a commentary on the political and ethical concerns surrounding the studying of human skeletal remains or mortuary sites but on the results of past research. A few of the sources which have been included focus on osteological data rather than reference to particular archaeological sites. Others are outside the scope of the geographic area but...


The Bioarchaeology of El Japón (San Gregorio Atlapulco, Mexico), 1550–1650 CE
PROJECT Edgar Alarcón Tinajero.

Ongoing bioarchaeological research focused on El Japón (San Gregorio Atlapulco, Mexico).


Bird Houston (7NC-F-138) Locus B Ceramic Minimum Number of Vessels (MNV) Catalog (2017)
DATASET Louis Berger.

Listing by Feature and Vessel numbers of specific ceramic specimen and their cross mends used to calculate a minimum number of vessels (MNV) for the Locus B occupation at the Bird-Houston site.


The Bird of the Next Dawn: The husbandry, translocation and transformation of the turkey (2012)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Tyr Fothergill. University of Leicester.

This thesis follows the palaeopathological and social history of the turkey, Meleagris gallopavo, over a thousand years (AD 900- c. 1900) and illuminates the evolving nature of turkey-human relationships. Interdependent analyses of zooarchaeological data and historical documentary sources were undertaken for this project. Palaeopathological and metrical data were gathered from turkey elements excavated from archaeological sites in the American Southwest, the UK and Éire; these were used with...


Bird's Eye View of Phoenix, Arizona - Maricopa Co. (1885)
IMAGE C.J. Dyer.

Artist aerial of Phoenix facing northeast "Phoenix. The county seat of Maricopa County, is situated in the Salt River Valley, 28 miles north of Maricopa Station, on the Souther Pacific Railroad. The town is embowered in shade trees and shrubbery, has streams of living water though every street, is surrounded by orchards, gardens, and vineyards, and is one of the handsomest in the West. The streets face the cardinal points, are broad and spacious and lined with trees. The County Courthouse, in...


Bird-Houston (7NC-F-138) Locus B Glass Minimum Number of Vessels (MNV) Catalog (2017)
DATASET Louis Berger.

Catalog details the artifacts and cross mends from each feature that constitute the reconstructed glass vessels used to calculate the minimum number of glass vessels from features at Locus B of the Bird-Houston site (7NC-F-138)


Bird-Houston Site (7NC-F-138) Phase II and III Artifact Catalog (2017)
DATASET Louis Berger.

artifact catalog from Phase II and III excavations at the Bird-Houston Site (7NC-F-138), includes identified floral and faunal specimen


Bird-Houston Site (7NC-F-138), U.S. Route 301 Corridor
PROJECT John Bedell. FHWA.

The Louis Berger Group, Inc., conducted Phase II and III archaeological investigations at the Bird-Houston Site (7NC-F-138), located in St. Georges Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, in advance of the proposed U.S. Route 301 construction. The Bird-Houston Site is the remains of a small farm occupied between about 1775 and 1920. The site has two distinct parts about 200 feet apart; Locus B was occupied from about 1775 to 1825, and Locus A was occupied from about 1825 to 1920. Documentary...


Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus A: Buttons (2012)
IMAGE Louis Berger.

Laboratory photo of buttons recovered from various contexts in Locus A, the Bird-Houston Site (7NC-F-138)


Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus A: Feature 1 Well After Mechanical Excavation of Surrounding Subsoil (2012)
IMAGE Louis Berger.

Field photo of Locus A Feature 1, the well, after hand excavation of upper layers and mechanical excavation of surrounding subsoil. View to North


Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus A: Pharmaceutical Bottle Fragments (2012)
IMAGE Louis Berger.

Laboratory photo of 19th-century glass pharmaceutical bottle fragments recovered from various contexts in Locus A at the Bird-Houston site (7NC-F-138).


Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus B: Bone Handled Utensil Recovered from Feature 15 (2012)
IMAGE Louis Berger.

Field photo of bone-handled iron utensil (Cat./Spec. No. 239.24) recovered from Stratum A Level 2 East Half, Feature 15, the well, in Locus B of the Bird-Houston Site (7NC-F-138).


Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus B: Brass Button and Broach Pin (2012)
IMAGE Louis Berger.

Laboratory photo of brass button (Cat./Spec. No. 243.8) recovered from Locus B Feature 15 Stratum B Level 1 East Half and brass broach pin (Cat./Spec. No. 238.21) recovered from Locus B Feature 15 Stratum A Level 1 West Half.


Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus B: Feature 1 Well After Mechanical Stripping of Plowzone (2012)
IMAGE Louis Berger.

Field photo of identification and cleaning of Locus B Feature 1, the well, after mechanical removal of plowzone.


Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus B: Feature 15 Well After Mechanical Excavation of Surrounding Subsoil (2012)
IMAGE Louis Berger.

Field photo of Locus B Feature 15, resuming hand excavation after mechanical removal of surrounding subsoil, view to west.


Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus B: Feature 3 West Profile (2012)
IMAGE Louis Berger.

Field photo of Locus B Feature 3 west profile after excavation of east half. Unidentified iron artifact in-situ at base of excavation.


Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus B: Redware Bowl In-Situ Feature 15 Well (2012)
IMAGE Louis Berger.

Field photo of redware bowl in-situ within Locus B well, Feature 15 Stratum A, Level 2, west half (Cat./Spec. No. 240.11), view to north.