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In Transition: The Collections and Veterans of the VCP (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Caroline Gardiner. Jessica Mundt. Julianne Danna. Sharon Knobbe.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pre-Recorded Video Presentation Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Veterans Curation Program (VCP) is both a temporary employment program for veterans and an interim repository for archaeological collections while they undergo rehabilitation. During each session, veteran technicians help care for at-risk artifact and associated archival collections from the U....


In-Theater Heritage Training: Briefing Script - Script (Legacy 06-324) (2006)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Laurie Rush.

This document is a script for in-theater heritage training concerning archaeological sites and sacred places in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is a basic briefing appropriate for all deploying military personnel.


Instruments of Value: Techne and Technoscience in the Making of Markets and Violins (WGF - Dissertation Fieldwork Grant) (2023)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Juliet Glazer.

This resource is an application for a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. My project asks how aesthetic evaluation relates to financial valuation in the global circulation of specialized goods. To answer this question, my research focuses on luthiers—makers of handmade violins, violas, and cellos—as well as musicians and dealers with whom they interact in the United States and Italy. Rather than simply asking how market pressures affect luthiers’ workshop techniques,...


Integrating Archaeological Models: Management and Compliance on Military Installations (2008)
DOCUMENT Full-Text David Cushman. Lynne Sebastian.

This workshop focused on more effective use of predictive modeling on military installations. The workshop participants produced a broad set of suggestions about ways that archaeological predictive modeling could be improved as a tool for cultural resource management on military installations and be more effectively integrated into installation management, stewardship, and compliance practices. In this pilot project we have worked with Eglin Air Force Base (AFB) in Florida and Fort Drum in...


The inter-agency archaeological salvage program after twelve years (1958)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Committee for the Recovery of Archaeological Remains.

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.


Interagency Archeological Services: Final Reports on Archeological Investigations FY1979 (1979)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service U.S. Department of the Interior.

This list of final reports on archeological investigations was prepared by IAS-Washington staff members Jeanette Blake, Lisa Carrico, Eupha Maxwell, Kay Weeks, and Judith Williamson under the direction of Rex L. Wilson, Departmental Consulting Archeologist, Chief, Interagency Archeological Services Division.


It's a Cold War: The Air National Guard's Role in Defending America, 1946-1989 (Legacy 07-340)
PROJECT Uploaded by: Courtney Williams

This historic context study examines the role of the Air National Guard (ANG) in the Cold War effort. It provides an overview of military aviation and the establishment of the ANG, the Cold War, and then focuses on the missions and operations of the ANG during the years 1946-1989.


It's a Cold War: The Air National Guard's Role in Defending America, 1946-1989 - Report (Legacy 07-340) (2011)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Marjorie Nowick. Lex Palmer. Daniel Hart.

This historic context study examines the role of the Air National Guard (ANG) in the Cold War effort. It provides an overview of military aviation and the establishment of the ANG, the Cold War, and then focuses on the missions and operations of the ANG during the years 1946-1989.


Jewish Ritual Baths: The Challenge of 19th-Century Urban America (2025)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Miriam Entin.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Cities on the Move: Reflecting on Urban Archaeology in the 21st Century", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. A Jewish ritual bath, or mikveh (plural mikva’ot), is one of the most prolific Jewish archaeological features. Due to its essential role in religious life, constructing a mikveh is one of the first projects undertaken when a Jewish community is established. Yet, historical mikva’ot have received less...


Leafy Legacies: The Ecofactual Value of Surface Vegetation and a Critique of its Documentation (2017)
DOCUMENT Full-Text John S Harris.

This landscape archaeology-oriented presentation concerns on-going thesis research that seeks to change the way archaeologists perform site surveys, as the prevailing method of recording site surface vegetation is of little research value. This presentation seeks to draw attention to the under-appreciated value of surface vegetation at sites as ecofacts, offering a critique of how it is presently documented on site forms, and suggesting some procedural solutions to increase their usefulness to...


Liminality of the Dead: A Theoretical Look at Historic African American Coin Grave Inclusions and its Creolized History (2025)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth L Boroski.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The presence of coins placed within the graves of historic African American cemeteries has been interpreted as a static African mortuary practice brought through the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. However, this practice is the product of a heavily creolized cultural identity that was dynamically altered through continuous...


Limited Data Recovery Excavations at 16MO103 And 16MO060 Morehouse Parish, Louisiana (1988)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Christopher Espenshade. B. G. Southerlin. Cheryl A. Holt. T. A. Rathbun. Michael Trinkley.

Archaeologically controlled stripping and feature documentation were undertaken at 16MO60 and 16MO103, Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, as data recovery prior to pipeline construction.


A Look at the Historic Real Property Inventory in the DoD (07-376)
PROJECT Joanna Hall.

This project reviewed DoD's 2006 Historic Real Property Inventory data, including the number and status of structures that are over 50 years old.


A Look at the Historic Real Property Inventory in the DoD - Slideshow (Legacy 07-376) (2007)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Joanna Hall.

This slideshow summarizes the content, organization, and progress of DoD's 2006 Historic Real Property Inventory data, including the number and status of structures that are over 50 years old.


"Making a Box Worthy of a Sleeping Beauty": Burial Container Surface Treatments in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries (2025)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeremy W. Pye.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Recently, a fair amount of attention in historic mortuary literature has been paid to burial container hardware, and to a lesser extent, to the influence of hardware on the socioeconomics of the funeral and burial. However, base surface treatments, such as painting, varnishing, cloth-covering, etc. also influenced social perception and cost. Relatively little has been systematically...


Map Production for the Paleoindian Archaeology and Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Shorelines on DoD Installations Project (Legacy 05-260)
PROJECT Uploaded by: Courtney Williams

The Paleoindian Archaeology and Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Shorelines on Department of Defense (DoD) Installations project maps were developed to aid DoD cultural resource managers identifying potential locations of sites that might yield evidence of Paleomaritime or aquatic culture. This report describes the GIS techniques and datasets employed to generate the maps.


Map Production for the Paleoindian Archaeology and Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Shorelines on DoD Installations Project - Report (Legacy 05-260) (2006)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Susan Winchell-Sweeney. Patterson Schackne. Laurie Rush.

The Paleoindian Archaeology and Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Shorelines on Department of Defense (DoD) Installations project maps were developed to aid DoD cultural resource managers identifying potential locations of sites that might yield evidence of Paleomaritime or aquatic culture. This report describes the GIS techniques and datasets employed to generate the maps.


Material Engagement and the Incarceration Experience at Amache (2022)
DOCUMENT Citation Only April E. Kamp-Whittaker. Bonnie Clark. Dana Ogo Shew.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Diverse and Enduring: Archaeology from Across the Asian Diaspora" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Biennially field school students, researchers, and community members assemble at the Granada Relocation Center (Amache) for a five week field season culminating in a two day community open house. This diverse group surveys, excavates, and discusses the historical events surrounding the incarceration of Japanese...


Meanings of autism and work: Autistic and nonautistic people navigating shared spaces and conflicting conceptualizations (WGF - Post-PhD Research Grant) (2022)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Melissa Cascio.

This resource is an application for a Post-PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Cultural anthropology richly explores how people negotiate meanings of identity, difference, and social roles. This study will investigate how people in mid-Michigan, United States, use everyday understandings of autism, medicalized and non-medicalized, to create and navigate the important spaces of work. It will also investigate meanings of work, including changing ideas about work in the COVID-19...


The Military Heritage Guidebook (Legacy 03-196)
PROJECT Uploaded by: Courtney Williams

This guidebook and its accompanying materials describe historic sites important to American military heritage. Its accompanying military heritage maps highlight historic sites associated with the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and U.S. Air Force.


The Military Heritage Guidebook - Guide (Legacy 03-196) (2003)
DOCUMENT Full-Text R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates.

This guidebook describes historic sites important to American military heritage. Its accompanying military heritage maps highlight historic sites associated with the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and U.S. Air Force.


Military Heritage Map: Central Region - Map (Legacy 03-196) (2003)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Courtney Williams

This map accompanies the guidebook of historic sites important to American military heritage.


Military Heritage Map: National - Map (Legacy 03-196) (2003)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Courtney Williams

This map accompanies the guidebook that describes historic sites important to American military heritage.


Military Heritage Map: Northeast/Mid-Atlantic and Washington, D.C. Region - Map (Legacy 03-196) (2003)
DOCUMENT Full-Text R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates.

This map accompanies the guidebook that describes historic sites important to American military heritage.


Military Heritage Map: Southern Region - Map (Legacy 03-196) (2003)
DOCUMENT Full-Text R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates.

This map accompanies the guidebook that describes historic sites important to American military heritage.