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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Strides Towards Standard Methodologies in Aeronautical Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In August 2018 a delta winged object was recovered under archaeological permit from Lake Ontario by the OEX Recovery Group Incorporated. It was hoped that this was one of nine 1/8 scale Avro Arrow free flight models (AAFFM) launched from the Point Petre CARDE firing range between 1954-1957, and thought to be...
Nalaquq / “It is found”: Collaborative Heritage Landscape Survey and Spatial Technology with Alaska Native Communities (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the face of a rapidly changing climate, Alaska Native Yup'ik (pl. Yupiit) communities on the Bering Sea are increasingly empowered and motivated to protect their landscape heritage—facilitated in part by collaborative projects with outside institutions like the Quinhagak Archaeological Project (2009–present). In this paper we show how high...
Names, Lineages, and Document Archaeology: Examining Traditions and Cultural Shifts in Jewish Personal Names (2018)
While artifacts and grave goods remain an archaeologist’s primary tools for gathering information on past populations, document and historical archaeology increasingly look to census records, obituaries, and family records, not just to confirm information about recovered artifacts, but as artifacts themselves. This study analyzed census data, birth records, and obituaries associated with three missing individuals assumed to be buried in Victoria’s Congregation Emanu-El Jewish cemetery to...
Necrontology: Housing the Dead in Precontact Labrador and Greenland (2019)
This is an abstract from the "From Individual Bodies to Bodies of Social Theory: Exploring Ontologies of the Americas" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Conventional treatment of the dead varied substantially across the Inuit world. Bodies might be deposited in carefully constructed cairns next to settlements or more simply exposed on the land or sea ice. It also varied locally depending on understandings of the afterlife, how individuals were...
New Archaeobotanical Data from the Late Pleistocene Occupations of McDonald Creek (2021)
This is an abstract from the "McDonald Creek and Blair Lakes: Late Pleistocene-Holocene Human Activity in the Tanana Flats of Central Alaska" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. What can archaeobotany tell us about past landscapes and human behavior at McDonald Creek during the Late Pleistocene? Since 2016, systematic charcoal and phytolith sampling has been performed at McDonald Creek with the following aims: (1) reconstruct the ligneous vegetation...
New Interpretations of Medieval Norse Artifacts from the Tasikuluulik (Vatnahverfi) Area, South Greenland (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SANNA v2.2: Case Studies in the Social Archaeology of the North and North Atlantic" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The goal in this Master’s Thesis is to collect and systematize data from eight medieval Norse sites in the Tasikuluulik peninsula and use these data to compare with past interpretations regarding the use and purpose of these Norse sites. In past research projects, the eight sites under investigation have...
A New Radiocarbon Dated Record of Holocene Weapon Technology from The Trail Creek Cave Site, Seward Peninsula, Alaska (2018)
The Trail Creek Caves site on the Seward Peninsula in western Alaska was excavated by Helge Larsen in 1949-1950, and is among the most important archaeological sites in central Beringia. It contains a lengthy, rich and well-preserved paleoecological and archaeological record dating to the late Pleistocene, and the largest collections of mid-Holocene age organic tools from the region. However, poor chronological and stratigraphic controls have hampered the interpretive value of the site. New...
New World Families: Building Identity in Transatlantic Mortuary Contexts (2013)
This paper will explore the impact of colonization on family identity and heritage through the analysis of mortuary material culture in the United Kingdom and the Caribbean from the 17th to 20th centuries. Although colonial families are traditionally represented as static, immobile and passive, a more systematic and dynamic understanding of this period of unprecedented movement and interaction can be accessed through alternative sources of history. Cemeteries provide such an opportunity because...
No Digging within 50 Meters (2018)
Fort Wainwright Training Lands in Central Alaska have been dedicated to the army mission since the early 1960s with consistent military training to support worldwide deployment. Fort Wainwright’s Donnelly Training Area encompasses over 25,000 acres of maneuver terrain specifically designed for live-fire training of the 1/25th Stryker Brigade. This training area is ideal for missions pertaining to mobilization, off road combat vehicle exercises, and excavation of maneuver positions. The terrain...
No Empty Landscapes: Livelihood, Agency, and Transformation in Early Inuit South Greenland (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Climate and Heritage in the North Atlantic: Burning Libraries" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Kujataa—South Greenland—constitutes a verdant environmental niche and was one of the most populous regions in Arctic Greenland, occupied by the Norse between ca. AD 985 and 1450 and Inuit in the following centuries until today. Whereas Norse society has been much studied, Inuit archaeology and history in Kujataa has been...
Northern Brooks Range Caribou Hunting Architecture (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Caribou hunting has shaped the cultural landscape of the Alaska Arctic interior. In many cases, this meant intentionally altering local landscapes to the direct advantage of caribou hunters. These engineered landscapes are visible today in various forms of hunting architecture, including stone drive lines, drift fences, cairns, and hunting blinds. Despite...
Not Dead Yet: The Surviving Voice of Wooden Shipbuilding (2015)
In the Pacific Northwest there is still significant overlap between archaeological material and extant cultural niches. This overlap enables ethnography and living history to privide critical insight. For nautical archaeologists, the enigmatic details of early west coast ship construction may be explained by the handful of shipwrights who still work on the region's commercial wooden fishing fleet today. These tradesmen, however, are the last of their kind. The wooden fleet is dwindling and...
Nova Scotian Tree Tapping (2013)
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Nuna Nalluituq / The Land Remembers: Spatial Technology and Community Engagement to Protect Alaska Native Heritage Landscapes (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Adventures in Spatial Archaeometry: A Survey of Recent High-Resolution Survey and Measurement Applications" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Southwest Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim (YK) Delta, where two immense salmon-bearing rivers flow into the Bering Sea, is the ancestral homeland of the Yup’ik people. This biodiverse subarctic tundra wetland is a landscape in constant flux from the annual cycle of flooding, silting, and...
The Nunalleq Project: Yup’ik Heritage and Community-Based Archaeology in Quinhagak, Alaska (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Nunalleq Project was initiated by the leaders of Qanirtuuq Inc., the ANCSA Village Corporation representing the Yup’ik village of Quinhagak, Alaska. The project was intended to address two locally identified needs: to recover as many artifacts as possible from a rapidly eroding archaeological site and to reconnect young people to Yup’ik...
Obsidian Networks of the Southern Yukon-Alaska Borderlands (2024)
This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of the Southern Yukon-Alaska Borderlands" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeological record of Eastern Beringia (Alaska and Yukon) plays an important role in understanding global human dispersals and settlement and is a proving ground for testing ideas about high-latitude hunter-gatherer land use, technology, and socioeconomic interaction. Obsidian provenance studies provide an excellent means...
Of Longhouses and Lineages: Evaluation of Transformations in Maritime Archaic Social Organization in the Far Northeast (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Kin, Clan, and House: Social Relatedness in the Archaeology of North American Societies" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The social organization of Maritime Archaic groups of Newfoundland and Labrador is notoriously difficult to assess due to poor preservational environments, challenging logistics of working in the Subarctic, and a paucity of research directly applicable to such questions; however, a long chronological...
On Her Majesty's Service: Revisiting Ontario's Parliament Buildings (2016)
There have been many meeting places for Ontario's Parliament throughout the province’s history, including three purpose-built structures prior to the current Legislative building in Toronto known as Queen’s Park. This paper will address the archaeological investigations of these buildings since the Ontario Heritage Trust has recently acquired the archaeological collections. The Trust owns a portion of the First Parliament site and has interest in conserving in situ and interpreting the...
On the Edge of the Colonial Sphere: The Effects of Indirect Interaction on Subsistence Strategies in Northern Alaska (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Cabinets of Curiosities: Collections and Conservation in Archaeological Research" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. How did trade participation impact human-environmental interactions? It is known that the fur trade was a significant part of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century life in southern Alaska. However, the effects of the fur trade and the whaling industry on northern Alaskan lifeways have been understudied....
On the manufacture of works of art by the Esquimeaux (1861)
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On the Practical Use of Knives Manufactured from Human Feces and Saliva: An Experiment (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1996, the anthropologist and ethnobotanist Wade Davis recounted in his book "Shadows in the Sun" the tale of an Inuit man who manufactured a knife out of his own feces and saliva as these raw materials froze during the arctic night. With these items he then butchered a dog. Since that time, this story has been told, and retold, on websites, radio...
Open Data, Indigenous Knowledge, and Archaeology: The need for community-driven open data projects (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Openness & Sensitivity: Practical Concerns in Taking Archaeological Data Online" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the past 20 years, much archaeological data has been digitized and made available online. With an increasing call for open data and open science models, driven largely by a desire to make research more accessible and reproduceable, archaeologists are exploring new ways to make these data available...
ORGANIC RESIDUE (FTIR) ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES FROM SITES DIOB 61 AND DIOB 62, THE KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE PROJECT, SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA (2011)
Artifact and feature fill samples from sites DiOb 61 and DiOb 62 in southwest Saskatchewan, Canada were submitted for organic residue analysis. A soil control sample for site DiOb 61 also was provided as a baseline for comparison. Samples were tested for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). Organic residue analysis provides information concerning the compounds that were extracted from the samples and through matches with our reference library of raw and...
The Other Half of the Planet: The idea of the Pacific World in Historical Archaeology (2017)
The Pacific Ocean has been an imposing barrier to human travel since the first humans ventured into the region. It has also been an important route of travel joining vastly different peoples that surround and inhabit it. The Pacific takes up half the surface of the planet, and yet historical archaeologists have rarely taken the time to treat it as a single entity. The "Atlantic World," "the Black Atlantic," "Atlantic Worlds" are our stock in trade. But does the Pacific World exist? If so,...
Parsing the Pits: Cooking Techniques in the Kachemak Period Kodiak Archipelago (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists frequently encounter pits filled with charcoal and fire cracked rock in the archaeological record which testify to past culinary practice. However, it is challenging to determine how these pits were used to cook food from general observation alone. Here I employ paleoethnobotanical and zooarchaeological analyses to determine how pits were...