Historic (Culture Keyword)

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Diet and Foodways of Eighteenth Century Spanish St. Augustine: in Spanish St. the Archaeology of a Colonial Creole Community (1983)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth J. Reitz. Stephen L. Cumbaa.

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.


Dig Permit for Chapel II, Andrews Air Force Base (2009)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael C. Mackiewicz.

A project proposal submitted to the Maryland Historical Trust (MDSHPO) for repair and renovations to the basement of Chapel II on Andrews Air Force Base. Document includes correspondence, Project Review Form, photos outlining plan, selected pages from the 1995 report, 'An Archaeological and Historic Resources Inventory of Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland,' selected pages from the 1998 report, 'Historical Chapel Two: From the Beginning 1805 through 1998,' and the proposed Statement of Work for...


Digital Archive of Archaeological Documents Related to Dyess Air Force Base, Texas
PROJECT Air Combat Command, United States Air Force.

This project, created by Digital Antiquity under contract with the United States Air Force, contains documents and other resources from archaeological research conducted at Dyess Air Force Base (Dyess AFB). Dyess AFB, established in 1942 as Abilene Army Air Base (AAB), is a B1-Bomber base on 6,409-acre located in the southwest corner of Abilene, TX in Taylor County. The archaeology of the Taylor County area dates the human occupation of the area from about 12,500 B.C. into the present. ...


Digital Technology in Comparative Studies (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Catherine Alston.

Conducting comparative archaeological studies is a trend that has developed over the past few decades, and with each project the concept and methodologies become more and more robust. In doing such comparative projects, digital technologies are essential for a successful study. Due to a comprehensive database set and the ability to spatially map the material culture recovered at the sites, the project “A Comparative Archaeological Study of Colonial Chesapeake Culture” is proving to be a powerful...


Digitizing The Anasazi Origins Project: A Geodatabase (2013)
DOCUMENT Full-Text David M. Plaza.

Archaeology is faced with the inheritance problem of managing legacy collections, partly due to the high expense of maintaining them. Often these datasets are unorganized, thus rendering them underutilized, and difficult to properly preserve or to integrate into the current archaeological dialogue. Unfortunately, this problem is a common issue. To address this problem, an examination of the condition of the records and artifacts of legacy archaeological collections is needed. In this thesis,...


Dilzhe’ ‘e bii tian: Archaeological Investigations of Apache Sites near Little Green Valley, Arizona, State Route 260 - Payson to Heber Archaeological Project, Gila County, Arizona (2011)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Rachel Fernandez

The mountainous zone below the Mogollon Rim in central Arizona was home to Apache in the pre-Reservation period (pre-A.D. 1875). Four Western Apache site components, dating between the late seventeenth and late nineteenth centuries A.D., were identified during excavations conducted in advance of the realignment of the Preacher Canyon and Little Green Valley segments of State Route 260 between Payson and Heber: Plymouth Landing, AZ O:12:89/AR-03-12-04-1411 (ASM/TNF), McGoonie, AZ...


Dine Bikeyah (1941)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard F. Van Valkenburgh.

diné bikéyah "The Navajo's Country", is primarily a guide book and gazetteer of the Navajo country and adjacent regions. While but a fraction of the Navajo place names have been listed, those given have been selected as most important and interesting to government employees, students, and travelers. Furthermore, it is hoped that diné bikéyah now using the official Indian Department system of writing the Navajo language, will make it possible to standardize and crystalize into universal spelling...


The Dinosaur: Archaeological Investigations Within the Gila River Valley for the Salt River Project's Pinal Central to Dinosaur 500 kV Transmission Line, Pinal County, Arizona (2010)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: adam brin

Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (SRP) plans to construct an 88-mile-long 500-kV extra-high voltage transmission line linking the Pinal West, Santa Rosa, Pinal Central, Abel, and Dinosaur substations (ACC CEC Case No. 126). This report presents the results of Phase I data recovery (extent testing) and Phase II data recovery within a 40-m- (130-ft-) wide corridor at seven sites located on State Trust Land administered by the Arizona State Land Department (ASLD) (ASLD...


Dirt to Desk: Macrobotanical Analyses From Fort St. Joseph (20BE23) and The Lyne Site (20BE10) (2009)
DOCUMENT Full-Text David Martinez.

Fort St. Joseph, a seventeenth- to eighteenth-century archaeological site in southwestern Michigan, and the adjacent Lyne site provide a recent and ongoing example of historical archaeology posing questions about the notion of culture contact during French colonialism. Effective research questions, increasingly systematic procedures, and a balance between historical and archaeological material have served to solidify and situate the Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project’s contributions to...


Discovery of a Neches River Ferryboat Big Thicket National Preserve (1992)
DOCUMENT Full-Text James E. Bradford.

In September 1991, Big Thicket National Preserve staff received a report of remains of a river craft exposed in the west bank of the Neches River about a mile downstream from the Sheffield boat ramp (Figure 1). Rangers from the Upper Neches River corridor Unit investigating the report found the remains of a small wooden craft projecting from the river bank--at that time about 6 to 7 feet above water level and almost 14 feet below the top of the river bank. Photographs of the craft were taken and...


The Discovery of Conquistador Hernando De Soto’s 1539 Encampment (2012)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Fred White.

The College of Central Florida - New World Archaeology Series Documentary Interviews with: Dr. Jerald T. Milanich, Curator Emeritus in Archaeology of the Florida Museum of Natural History Dr. Michele C. White, Clinical Professor University of Florida, Bioarchaeologist and Excavation Team, 1539 De Soto Project Site Dr. Alan M. Stahl, Curator of Numismatics, Princeton University Ethan A. White, Site Survey, Grid Layout and Excavation Team, 1539 De Soto Project Site, University of...


The Discovery of De Soto's First Winter Encampment in Florida (1988)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles R. Ewen.

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.


The Discovery of the Lost Mission of San Buenaventura De Potano (2012)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Fred White.

The College of Central Florida - New World Archaeology Series Documentary Interviews with: Dr. Jerald T. Milanich, Curator Emeritus in Archaeology of the Florida Museum of Natural History Dr. Michele C. White, Bioarchaeologist and Excavation Team,1539 De Soto Project Site Dr. Alan M. Stahl, Curator of Numismatics, Princeton University Ethan A. White, Site Survey, Grid Layout and Excavation Team, 1539 De Soto Project Site, Trinity Catholic Honors Program Dr. Ashley White,...


Disposition Form and Purchase Request from Harry Diamond Laboratories for the Public Notice of the Impact of the Ballast House Relocation (1979)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Glenn P. Chapman.

DA Form 2496 (Disposition Form) from the Environmental Coordinator, Harry Diamond Laboratories with the purchase request for "Public Notice of Finding of No Significant Impact on the Environment". Included is the recommendation for sole source procurement.


Disposition Form from Harry Diamond Laboratories to Robert Chase, Environmental Assessment for Relocation of Ballast House, Blossom Point, MD (1979)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Emerson G. Gray.

Disposition Form from the Environmental Coordinator, Harry Diamond Laboratories to Robert Chase in regards to the environmental assessment for relocation of Ballast House, Blossom Point, MD. A second disposition form to the Commander, Harry Diamond Laboratories from the Environmental Coordinator included which also mentions the relocation of Ballast House, Blossom Point, MD.


Distribution Data, Susquehanna, Naval Air Station Patuxent River (1989)
DATASET Julia A. King. Southern Maryland Regional Center.

This resource is an artifact distribution dataset from Phase II excavations at Susquehanna, Maryland.


Distribution of Biface Preforms (2012)
IMAGE William Engelbrecht.

Biface staging follows Callahan (1979) with the addition of the following half stages: 2.5 and 3.5. A Stage 4 biface preform is considered Late Stage. Biface fragments were too incomplete to be staged.


Distribution of Debitage (2012)
IMAGE William Engelbrecht.

"Debris" tabulates whole and broken flakes and pieces of shatter. "Core Fragments" are larger chunks of chert greater than 2.5 cm x 2 cm x 2 cm.


Distribution of Drill Types and Parts 1 (2022)
DOCUMENT Full-Text William Engelbrecht.

This document contains 5 GIS distribution maps generated by Roderick Salisbury. Broken Triangular Drills, Drill Bases, Key Drills (broken + whole), Whole Key Drills, and Micro-drills.


Distribution of Drill Types and Parts 2 (2022)
DOCUMENT Full-Text William Engelbrecht.

Six GIS distribution maps of drills from the Eaton site: bases pf rod-shaped drills, whole rod-shaped drills, T-drills, drill tips (class 5 = base missing, class 7 = only tip), drill tips (only class 7), whole triangular drills. These were generated by Roderick Salisbury.


Distribution of Drills (2012)
IMAGE William Engelbrecht.

This distribution map includes specimens that might be classified as drills, awls, gravers, reamers, or burins. Specimens may be broken or whole. Most specimens are bifacial or unifacially flaked, but a few are utilized flakes showing use wear on a projection.


Distribution of Expedient Tools (2012)
IMAGE William Engelbrecht.

Distribution of utilized flakes and utilized fragments. Fragments are defined as chunks of chert larger than 2.5 cm x 2 cm x 2 cm.


Distribution of Fire Altered Rock (2012)
IMAGE William Engelbrecht.

This shows the distribution of fire altered rock on the Eaton Site. It is tabulated in kilograms.


Distribution of Knives (2012)
IMAGE William Engelbrecht.

Distribution of both whole and broken knives. ""Total Knives" combines whole and broken knives into a single distribution.


Distribution of Pipe Fragments (2011)
IMAGE William Engelbrecht.

Shows the distribution of pipe fragments on the site.