African American (Culture Keyword)
Parent: Historic
276-300 (384 Records)
The approach taken to the organization and interpretation of data from the African Burial Ground (ABG) involves four main elements. The ways in which these elements have guided the research are discussed this chapter. These theoretic principles can be generalized and extended to a broader range of research projects than our study of the New York African Burial Ground (NYABG).
New York African Burial Ground Skeletal Biology Final Report, Volume 1. Chapter 4. Laboratory Organization, Methods, and Processes (2004)
This chapter describes the organization of skeletal recordation in the laboratory. This work requires specialized personnel, task teams, and processes that convert fragile fragments of soil-encased bone into skeletal elements that reveal accurate anatomical structure and observable effects of physiological processes that can be assessed for genetic, demographic, and pathologic information. That information is then coded and entered into a computer database where all information on each...
New York African Burial Ground Skeletal Biology Final Report, Volume 1. Chapter 5. Origins of the New York African Burial Ground Population: Biological Evidence of Geographical and Macroethnic Affiliations Using Craniometrics, Dental Morphology, and Preliminary Genetic Analysis (2004)
Origins are central to understanding the past and present identity of a people. Origin studies provide, under optimal conditions, a context for all other assessments, such as archaeological, biomedical, and nutritional evaluations. Characterizing the phenotypic status and determining the origins of the eighteenth century New York African population and those individuals interred in the New York African Burial Ground (NYABG) were among the project’s major goals. Towards that end, our...
New York African Burial Ground Skeletal Biology Final Report, Volume 1. Chapter 6. Isotopic and Elemental Chemistry of Teeth: Implications for Places of birth, Forced Migration Patterns, Nutritional Status, and Pollution (2004)
Concerns about individual and group origins are central to the study of the New York African Burial Ground (NYABG). A key goal of the project is to provide scientific insights into the geographic origins of individuals. Enslaved Africans came from different regions of Africa. Can we determine more precisely the geographic area where individuals and groups come from and what were their ethnic affinities? At what ages were enslaved individuals forced to involuntarily leave their homelands? Which...
New York African Burial Ground Skeletal Biology Final Report, Volume 1. Chapter 7. Demographic Overview of the African Burial Ground and Colonial Africans of New York (2004)
The origins of Africans in colonial New York, and some conditions encountered upon their arrival, have been explored in the two preceding chapters. The objective of the current chapter is to reconstruct who these diverse Africans became as a single population/community (that used a common cemetery) once in New York City. This chapter serves as both an historical demographic (based on documents) and paleodemographic (based on skeletal assessments) overview of the structure of the African...
New York African Burial Ground Skeletal Biology Final Report, Volume 1. Chapter 8. Childhood Health and Dental Development (2004)
Dental enamel hypoplasias are defects in crown development that appear as a transverse groove or series of pits that are partially or entirely around the circumference of the tooth. Hypoplastic defects, while they manifest in the teeth, result from metabolic disturbances of malnutrition and disease elsewhere in the body. Enamel hypoplasias thus provide evidence of general stress that may have been brought about by many different kinds of stressors. Like other “general stress indicators” such as...
New York African Burial Ground Skeletal Biology Final Report, Volume 1. Chapter 9. Odontological Indicators of Disease, Diet and Nutrition Inadequacy (2004)
The dentition is usually the best-preserved element of the skeleton. Hydroxyapatite, an inorganic calcium matrix, comprises approximately 97 percent of the chemical composition of enamel (Carlson, 1990). This crystalline structure makes dental enamel hard and dense and useful to resist the abrasive nature of mastication. Also, as a result of their hardness, teeth are often all that remains of a long-deceased individual. The abundant presence of dentition in archaeological contexts has led to the...
New York African Burial Ground Skeletal Biology Final Report, Volume 1. Front Matter and Table of Contents (2004)
Cover page, table of contents, acknowledgments for volume one of the skeletal biology report.
New York African Burial Ground Skeletal Biology Final Report, Volume 2. Appendix A Research Design Subcommittee Statement and ABG Physical Anthropological Peer Review Panel Report - Section 1 (2004)
First section with the Research Design Subcommittee Statement.
New York African Burial Ground Skeletal Biology Final Report, Volume 2. Appendix A Research Design Subcommittee Statement and ABG Physical Anthropological Peer Review Panel Report - Section 1 (2004)
Appended report/statement per the title.
New York African Burial Ground Skeletal Biology Final Report, Volume 2. Appendix A Research Design Subcommittee Statement and ABG Physical Anthropological Peer Review Panel Report - Section 2 (2004)
This is section two, the Anthropological Peer Review Panel Report
New York African Burial Ground Skeletal Biology Final Report, Volume 2. Appendix B New York African Burial Ground Project Skeletal Analysis Forms (2004)
Scans of the excavation forms.
New York African Burial Ground Skeletal Biology Final Report, Volume 2. Appendix C Preservation Status Codes for New York African Burial Ground Burials (2004)
Explanation and table of preservation codes.
New York African Burial Ground Skeletal Biology Final Report, Volume 2. Front Matter and Table of Contents (2004)
Title page and table of contents.
New York African Burial Ground Skeletal Biology Final Report, Volume 2. Section IV: Burial Descriptions (2004)
Descriptions and images from the skeletal biology report.
The Newtown Drainage Project, a Cultural Resource Assessment in Montgomery, Alabama (1980)
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 North End Plantation Archaeology Project, Ossabaw Island, Georgia (2005)
Power Point Presentation of the North End Plantation Archaeology Project.
North End Plantation, Ossabaw Island, Georgia: Preliminary Archaeological Investigations (2005)
This report documents the 2005 archaeological investigations conducted at the North End Plantation site, Ossabaw Island, Chatham County, Georgia. This study was conducted by the LAMAR Institute and the Archaeological Services Unit, Historic Preservation Division, Georgia Department of Natural Resources for the Ossabaw Island Foundation. The field study was conducted from January through May, 2005 and this research formed part of the Save America’s Treasures grant project, funded by the National...
North End Plantation, Ossabaw Island, Georgia: Preliminary Archaeological Investigations (2005)
This report documents the 2005 archaeological investigations conducted at the North End Plantation site, Ossabaw Island, Chatham County, Georgia. This study was conducted by the LAMAR Institute and the Archaeological Services Unit, Historic Preservation Division, Georgia Department of Natural Resources for the Ossabaw Island Foundation. The field study was conducted from January through May, 2005 and this research formed part of the Save America’s Treasures grant project, funded by the National...
North End Plantation, Ossabaw Island, Georgia: Preliminary Archaeological Investigations (2005)
This report documents the 2005 archaeological investigations conducted at the North End Plantation site, Ossabaw Island, Chatham County, Georgia. This study was conducted by the LAMAR Institute and the Archaeological Services Unit, Historic Preservation Division, Georgia Department of Natural Resources for the Ossabaw Island Foundation. The field study was conducted from January through May, 2005 and this research formed part of the Save America’s Treasures grant project, funded by the National...
Old Farm, New Farm: An Archaeology of Rural Modernization in the Aiken Plateau, 1987-1950 (1997)
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Oral Historical, Documentary, and Archaeological Investigations of Barton and Vinton, Mississippi: An Interim Report on Phase III of the Tombigbee Historic Township Project (1983)
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Ossabaw Island
Ossabaw Island State Land Files
Ossabaw Island Tabby Quaters Conditions Assessment and Recommendations for Interpretation and Treatment (2004)
In November 2003, the Ossabaw Island Foundation was awarded a $400,000 grant from Save America's Treasures to restore three former slave cabins on Ossabaw Island, Georgia, located at the North End Plantation. Save America's Treasures (SAT) is a national program to protect the country's historic and cultural treasures and it operates as a public private partnership between the National Park Service and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Among its stated goals are the fostering of...
Ossabaw Tabbies Investigation - Wildlife Resource Division Workshop (2003)
Archaeological Investigations at the Ossabaw Tabbies - WRD Workshop: Background Information, Schedule, Field Notes, Artifact- and Excavation Forms