Historic (Culture Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Ten samples were selected from a collection of 145 samples recovered during archaeological salvage excavations of the Market Street Chinatown in downtown San Jose, California, from 1985-1986. These ten samples were analyzed for pollen, starches, parasites, phytoliths, and macrofloral remains as part of a pilot study in the “Archaeology of the Urban Environment in 19th Century San Jose.” Excavations revealed features such as trash pits, wood-lined cesspools, wells, and open-air dumps. Most of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

The archaeology program at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park has uncovered historic and prehistoric deposits at the Lower Armory Grounds. Soil samples, projectile points, and ceramic sherds from these deposits were submitted for pollen, starch, phytolith, and protein residue analyses. In addition, archaeoclimatic models were developed to provide insight into the climatic conditions of both the prehistoric and historic periods. The goal of this research is to better understand the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Samples from features at the Waldburg Street site, 9CH1039, in the northeastern part of Savannah, Georgia, were examined for pollen, phytolith, or macrofloral remains. This site is a medium-sized historic site that dates to the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Sampled features include an I-shaped brick chimney base, a midden area, a trash pit, two possible trash pits, a pit of unknown function, and the area beneath a brick pier. Pollen, phytolith, and macrofloral analyses will be used to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. R.A. Varney. Linda Scott Cummings.

Pollen and macrofloral samples were collected from areas of midden deposits at the Hueco Tanks State Historic Site, 41EP2, in west Texas. The site was divided into 29 archaeological localities to provide convenient units for analysis and management. Time-diagnostic artifacts from these localities indicate that Hueco Tanks was occupied primarily during the Formative period (A.D. 200-1450), although one Paleoindian (10,000 to 6000 B.C.), several Archaic (6000 B.C. to A.D. 200), and a few...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Four fire features, an ashy layer, and an area of possible cooking pot spill from various units at the Lewis and Clark Lower Portage Camp, site 24CH293, near Great Falls, Montana, were examined for pollen, starch granules, phytoliths, and macrofloral remains. These. analyses will provide a record of vegetation and possibly indicate food resources utilized by the expedition at this camp. In addition, two fire features that appear to represent Late Prehistoric American Indian occupations were...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Samples from the fill of hearth features at sites 5MF6871, 5MF6872, and 5MF6806 were examined to recover pollen, starch, and macrofloral remains. Although most of the samples were submitted earlier in the year, an additional six samples from Features 12 through 17 at site 5MF6806 were submitted later for pollen and macrofloral analysis. These sites were encountered during well pad construction in Powder Wash, Colorado. Radiocarbon dates suggest Settled Period and Pioneer Period (both Early...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Thomas E. Moutoux.

Ten combined pollen and parasite samples representing ten separate outhouses in Block 73 of Historic Phoenix were examined. The first building was constructed in 1883 and the outhouse samples represent depositions between 1883 and 1915. Pollen analysis was undertaken to learn about foods consumed and landscaping in the vicinity of these outhouses. These samples were examined for evidence of parasite eggs to address questions of health and hygiene.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Thomas E. Moutoux.

A single soil sample from the Eden House Site (31BR32) on the North Carolina Coastal Plain was examined for pollen and phytoliths. Between the 1670s and 1740s this area was a plantation owned by families of European extraction, probably all English. The soil sample was collected from a root cellar in what was probably a quarter for enslaved African Americans. Evidence for cultivated food crops was sought in the pollen and phytolith records.

DOCUMENT Full-Text R.A. Varney. Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Samples from three archaeological sites were examined for pollen, starch, and macrofloral remains. A single sample from a probable historic trench privy at Fort Thornburgh in northeast Utah was examined for pollen, starch, and parasites to detect evidence of foods consumed, as well as the possibility that parasite eggs were present. Two samples from 42Da1005, a dual component site with occupations dating from the Archaic and Fremont periods, were examined for pollen, starch and macrofloral...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Excavations of historic features located on Blocks 10 and 15 for the 2nd Avenue Columbus, Georgia, site yielded samples that were examined for pollen, starch, phytoliths, and/or macrofloral remains to provide information concerning plants processed and used. Parasite analysis of possible privy fill will lend insight into the health of the historic site occupants. The temporal focus for this study is approximately 1828 to the 1860s. One specific question to be addressed by these analyses is...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman. R.A. Varney.

The Albany Family Courts lie at an elevation of 60-65 feet above mean sea level and overlook the Hudson River to the east and Fox Creek valley to the south. European settlers have occupied the site since the second half of the 1700s, although Albany was settled by the Dutch in the early 1600s. Feature 17, a circular stone well, was later used as a privy. Two combination pollen, starch, phytolith, and macrofloral samples were collected and examined from fill within the privy to identify...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings. Jaime Dexter.

Four combination pollen/starch, phytolith, parasite, and macrofloral samples were examined from the fill within two historic privies and one historic wooden cistern (possible privy) at the Parking Lot C project area associated with the proposed Federal Courthouse Complex in Buffalo, New York. Pollen/starch, phytolith, and macrofloral analyses will provide information concerning foods eaten by the historic site occupants, trash deposited in the features, and plants growing in the area during...

DOCUMENT Full-Text A. R. Kelly.

This pamphlet contains three short sections. The first is a short summary of archaeological investigations in the Southeastern United States, including at Ocmulgee National Monument (Georgia), Mound State Monument (Alabama), in Tennessee and Kentucky (as part of investigations done prior to water control projects of the Tennessee Valley Authority), and in Lousiana. During the last few years, archeological exploration in the eastern United States, particularly in the southeast portion, has...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alaric Faulkner. Kim M. Peters. David P. Sell. Edwin S. Dethlefsen.

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PROJECT George W. Shorter, Jr.. Gregory Waselkov.

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...

IMAGE Gregory Waselkov. George W. Shorter, Jr..

Artifact photos from the Port Dauphin Village site (1MB221).

IMAGE Gregory Waselkov. George W. Shorter, Jr..

Field excavation photos from the Port Dauphin Village site.

PROJECT Richard Stamps.

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PROJECT Richard Stamps.

The project began in 1975 and has included field investigation and archival research at two historic sites: Fort Gratiot and the Thomas A. Edison Boyhood home, and a Late Woodland Prehistoric site located in Draper Park, all in the vicinity of Port Huron, Michigan. The Project has been a coordinated effort between Oakland University, Michigan State University, St. Clair County Community College, and the Port Huron Museum.

PROJECT Julia King.

The Posey Site (18CH281) is located near Mattawoman Creek in Charles County, Maryland, aboard what is now the Naval Surface Warfare Center–Indian Head Division. The site was initially identified in 1963 by Navy chemist Calvert Posey, in an area that had been damaged by an earlier explosion at Indian Head’s Biazzi Nitration Plant, where nitroglycerin was manufactured. In 1985, the site was tested by William Barse as part of a much larger archaeological survey of the Indian Head facility. The site...

IMAGE Catherine Alston.

Artifact distribution map, bottle glass

IMAGE Catherine Alston.

Artifact distribution map, Camden pottery

IMAGE Catherine Alston.

Artifact distribution map, European ceramics

IMAGE Catherine Alston.

Artifact distribution map, fire-cracked rock

IMAGE Catherine Alston.

Artifact distribution map, lithic debitage