Michigan (State / Territory) (Geographic Keyword)

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97 Acres, Deep Cisterns and a Pit Filled with Over 2,000 Beer Bottles: Challenges in Urban Archaeology Through the Investigation of the NGA West Site (23SL2393) (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meredith M Hawkins Trautt.

The new National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) will be constructed on 97 acres within a former working-class neighborhood in North St. Louis. It was clear from the beginning, for various reasons, that a traditional cultural resource study was not feasible. This presentation will outline the methodological approaches that led to the identification and mitigation of the NGA West Site (23SL2393), the challenges encountered during the laboratory analysis, and ongoing research questions in...

The A-frame (2006)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rob Roy. David Wescott.

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 EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these 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 using the...

A-Maize-ing: Phytolith evidence for an early introduction of maize in the Upper Great Lakes diet (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca Albert. Caitlin Clark. Susan Kooiman. William Lovis.

There is no recorded maize (Zea mays ssp. mays) at Laurel or North Bay Initial/Middle Woodland sites in the northern Lake Michigan-Huron or Superior basins of the western Great Lakes, despite the presence of maize microbotanicals in Michigan, New York, and Quebec as early as 400 BC. To evaluate the potential for an early maize presence in this region, samples of carbonized food residues adhering to sixteen ceramic vessels from the Laurel/North Bay Winter site (20DE17) were processed and...

A. A. C. Site Survey Record and Copy of Historical Marker Text for Rowe Island Site (1981)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph Drew.

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.

Abalone Shell, Broken Pots, Hearths, Windbreaks and Archival Research: Clues to Identifying 19th Century California Abalone Colection and Processing Sites on the Channel Islands (2013)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Judy Berryman.

The Chinese abalone and fisheries in California developed in the late 1850s, flourished, and then delcined in the early 1900s. The majority of California Chinese studies have focused on immigrant populations in established urban Chinatowns. Much less attention has been given to economic strategies and survival mechanisms associated with rural communities, specialized labor camps, or fishing camps. Many of these industries were first developed in the West by Chinese immigrants only to be taken...

Abandonment and postabandonment behaviour at a rural central American house site (1972)

DOCUMENT Citation Only F W Lange. C R Rydberg.

The Abbey of Pedro Mártir de Anglería – Excavation, Reconstruction and Conservation of an Early 16th Century Ecclesiastical Structure in Jamaica (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robyn P Woodward.

Christianity anchored the material practices and social institutions of the Spanish settlers in the New World and while Christian friars undoubted arrived in Jamaica with the initial group of settlers in 1509, the Jamaican abbacy was not formally founded until 1515. The ecclesiastical authorities used temporary thatch and wood structures for worship at the capital of Sevilla la Nueva until funds were provided for the construction of a stone church in 1524. The abbey however, was not quite...

Abolition and the Rise of the Aku: Creating Ethnicity through Colonial Policy on the Gambia River (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Liza Gijanto.

The Gambian capital of Banjul was founded as part of British abolition efforts in West Africa. A planned urban center, its earliest residents included the Aku, or Liberated Africans resettled from Sierra Leone and captured slave vessels. The Aku identity formed over several decades in The Gambia largely through self-identification as the ‘other’ African and British subjects in the 19th century. In the early 20th century they were the Gambian elite and became the driving force behind the...

Aboriginal American harpoons: a study in ethnic distribution and invention (1902)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Otis T Mason.

Aboriginal butchering techniques at the Escheiman Site (36 La 12), Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (1962)

DOCUMENT Citation Only J E Guilday. R W Parmalee. D P Tanner.

Aboriginal Camp Sites On Isle Royale, Michigan (1939)

DOCUMENT Citation Only George I. Quimby, Jr..

Aboriginal Cookery (2001)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alice Ross.

Aboriginal Copper Mines of Isle Royale, Lake Superior (1901)

DOCUMENT Citation Only William H. Holmes.

Aboriginal Pottery of the Eastern United States (1903)

DOCUMENT Citation Only W. H. Holmes.

Aboriginal Relationships Between Culture and Plant Life in the Upper Great Lakes Region (1964)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard A. Yarnell.

Aboriginal Relationships Between Culture and Plant Life in the Upper Great Lakes Region (1964)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard A. Yarnell.

Aboriginal skin dressing (1889)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Otis T Mason.

Above and Below Ground: Teaching Combined Methodologies for a Holistic Understanding of the Built Environment (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kyla Cools. Katherine Boyle.

During the summer of 2017, the University of Maryland’s Anthracite Heritage Program held a combined historic preservation and archaeological field school at Eckley Miners’ Village in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Complementing the University’s dual masters in applied anthropology and historic preservation, this field school emphasized the value of utilizing historic preservation and archaeology to inform one another. This field school has provided an invaluable opportunity for students to learn the...

Above-ground Archaeology Of Industrial And Post-Industrial Detroit (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda Sosnowski. Suzanne Spencer-Wood.

A survey of Detroit’s ruins reveals the spread of industrial decline among all kinds of sites, and the post-industrial transformation of urban landscapes. Maps show the spread of abandonment from factories to other businesses, transportation sites, and residential areas, including schools and police stations. Photos of abandoned buildings show the processes of decay and ruination, from vandalism to the weather. What can Detroit teach archaeologists about the interpretation of material evidence...

Abraham Lincoln as Authentic Reproduction: A Critique of Postmodernism (1994)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Edward Bruner.

An "Abri" for French Migratory Fishermen? The Evolution of Saint-Pierre et Miquelon’s Salt-Cod Fisheries, 1670-1970. (2020)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meghann Livingston. Mallory Champagne. Catherine Losier.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "From the Bottom Up: Socioeconomic Archaeology of the French Maritime Empire" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Traditionally viewed as a marginal French settlement, the small islands of Saint-Pierre et Miquelon were in fact an essential component to French colonial expansion. Afterall, the transatlantic migratory salt-cod fishery was how European nations first made commercial use of North America....

An Abundance of Data: The Opportunities and Constraints of Digital Media Utilization at Fort Snelling National Historic Landmark (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph Pnewski.

Intensively recorded, researched, and utilized historic and archaeological sites present many unique opportunities and issues in their study and interpretation. One such site is Fort Snelling National Historic Landmark. The large amounts of historic map and archival data available throughout the history of Fort Snelling allows for both more complete, and more complex understandings of the site. The use of georeferenced archival maps can highlight and visualize a timeline for the progression of...

Acadian Adaptations in North and South America (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven R. Pendery.

The tragedy of the deportation of the Acadians from their homeland by the British in the 1750s was compounded by their exploitation by the French government at the conclusion of the Seven Years War. French imperial policy focused on settling and developing portions of tropical colonies such as French Guiana with Acadians and Europeans in order to minimize slave labor. Although more than 9,000 colonists perished upon their arrival in La Guyane, a few hundred Acadians survived in extended coastal...

The Acali Experiment: Five Men and Six Women on a Raft across the Atlantic for 101 Days (1980)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Santiago Genovés.

Accelerator Dating the Ceramic Assemblage from the Fletcher Site: Implications of a Pilot Study for Interpretation of the Wayne Period (1990)

DOCUMENT Citation Only William A. Lovis.

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