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The Lake Champlain Maritime Museum (LCMM) has been exploring the use of mechanical scanning sonar systems for the documentation of the shipwrecks found within its waters. These technologies allow for fairly rapid recordation of 3D structures in limited visibility environments. The LCMM has deployed this technology on two canal boat wrecks to determine its effectiveness in comparison with traditional documentation techniques. This presentation will review the results of those studies as well...
Medical Practices and Teaching Specimens: A Review of Skeletal Modifications Associated with Medical Intervention and the Educational Use of Human Remains, with Application to Subadult Individuals from the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery (2017)
From life to death and beyond the grave, the bodies of the individuals buried at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery have been vulnerable to the actions and authority of medical professionals. Medical procedures and the implementation of human remains for training purposes are two forms of culturally-sanctioned skeletal modifications detected among the juvenile remains recovered from the 1991-1992 Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery excavations. This paper presents the results of a...
Medicine Bow Wickiups (1993)
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...
Medieval Japanese Ports: Exploring the Seto Inland Sea’s Maritime Cultural Landscape (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the late medieval period (14th – 16th c), Japan’s Seto Inland Sea became the locus of a robust maritime trade network. Smaller island ports were integral to this maritime trade, but have often been overlooked in larger studies of this area. This paper will look at the intersection of environment, transport, and commodity production to consider the impact on port...
The Medieval Shipwrecks of Novy Svet: A Reassesment (2015)
Since 1997, Dr. Sergey Zelenko of the Centre for Underwater Archaeology (CUA) at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev has been conducting survey and excavation near the resort town of Novy Svet on the southern coast of the Crimean peninsula. CUA researchers have discovered the remains of three medieval shipwrecks spanning the 10th to the late 13th centuries, illuminating much about Black Sea seafaring. Recently, multi-national CUA teams discovered hull timbers, anchors and vessel...
Mediterranean Shipbuilding In Iberia: The Dovetail Mortise And Tenon (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Current Research and On Going Projects at the J Richard Steffy Ship Reconstruction Laboratory" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Several archaeological projects in the 1980s revolved around excavation and the analysis of 16th-century Iberian shipwrecks. The number of examples allowed Thomas Oertling at the 1989 SHA conference to propose 12 characteristics that appeared on almost all vessels originating from the Iberian...
Mediterranean Vistas, Local Experiences: An Historical Archaeology and Social History of Everyday Life on a Greek Island: Andros 16th-19th Centuries (2015)
This paper examines the historical archaeology of everyday life using the results of KASHAP. This multidisciplinary/indterdiciplinary project tracks the human and environmental histories of two Greek islands. One main theme is how being integrated as peripheries into major premodern empires, the Venetian Empire and the Ottoman Empires, shaped everyday life and how the transition to nation-state, which transformed the islands into a border zones, impacted society and economy. Focusing on the...
Meet the Nightshades. An understanding of plant families goes a long way to improving your ability to identify species (2014)
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 melancholy scene of abandonment, desolation, and ruin:"The Archaeological Record of the Upper Ashley River Region of South Carolina (2016)
The Upper Ashley River region of South Carolina is characterized by cypress swamps that form a relatively straight, narrow river that flows unimpeded to Charleston. This landscape provided the ideal location for early estates of the planter elite in the eighteenth century. These Carolinians developed the rice and indigo plantation culture of the Lowcountry. The region became the crossroads of many historical events including the development of rice cultivation, Native American trade and...
Melvina Massey: Fargo's Most Famous Madam (2016)
In my work as a professor and public historian, research material often unfolds from teaching. In my Spring 2013 Introduction to Museum Studies class at North Dakota State University, students conducting primary source research on early Fargo discovered a will and probate records for Melvina Massey. The records show that she was an African American and ran a brothel in Fargo for more than 20 years. The course concluded with an exhibit, "Taboo: Fargo-Moorhead, An Unmentioned History," and one of...
Members of the Community: Animal Sculptures as Kin (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Multispecies Frameworks in Archaeological Interpretation: Human-Nonhuman Interactions in the Past, Part II" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological evidence at the Fort Center archaeological site in south Florida indicates that rooftop statuary depicting animals were treated as members of the community. This evidence is found in the watery interment of these sculptures alongside human community members over...
Memoranda and Letters Between the US Army Electronics Research and Development Command, US Army Materiel Development and Readiness Command, Building Technology Inc. and the Envirosphere Company, Historic Properties Report (1983)
US Army memoranda and letters between Army personal, Building Technologies Inc. and Envirosphere Company members concerning the Historic Properties report for Harry Diamond Laboratories and the Ballast House.
Memoranda from U.S. Army Electronics Research and Development Command and U.S. Army Materiel Development and Readiness Command, Ballast House (1981)
Memoranda of record between Stanley H. Fried, Chief of the Real Estate Branch for the Engineer Division and F.W. Thomas, Director of the Installations & Services Directorate in regards to how the Ballast House will be torn down. A response from F.W. Thomas is included.
Memorandum for Record for Delta Training Exercise Program at Blossom Point (1995)
Memorandum for Record in reference to the Delta Training Exercise program at Blossom Point. The memorandum documents the program requirements for the Delta program and recommends land use justification and determination.
Memorandum for Record from Environmenta/Energy Branch, Visit to the Ballast House (1984)
A memorandum for record of the meeting conducted on 23 October 1984 with Harry Diamond Laboratories, a member from HQ, AMC, and a new member of the National Council of Historic Properties about the Ballast House. Included are recommendations to move forward with the Ballast House, and who the interested parties are to conduct operations on the Ballast House.
Memorandum for Record from ERADCOM, Ballast House Meeting Minutes (1984)
A memorandum for record for the Ballast House June 27, 1984 meeting minutes between the Maryland Historical Trust, Harry Diamond Laboratories, and the Electronics Research and Development Command (ERADCOM) regarding cliff stabilization and new Memorandum of Agreement.
Memorandum for Record from John Ganz, Ballast House (1984)
A memorandum of record for the conversations between John Ganz and members of the Maryland Historical Trust. The memorandum records the renegotiation's of the stipulations created for the Ballast House in the 1979 Memorandum of Agreement, what stipulations have been met, and what cannot be met due to budgetary issues.
Memorandum for Record from John Ganz, Meeting on Ballast House (1984)
Memorandum for record about the 27 June 1984 meeting and a report of the members involved.
Memorandum for Record from the Chief of the Environmental/Energy Conservation Branch, Ballast House Meeting (1984)
Memorandum for Record of what was discussed in regards to the Ballast House from the meeting of 27 June 1984. Discussions at the meeting pertained to recommendations concerning the Ballast House and what actions are needed to be taken. List of attendees is attached.
Memorandum for the Review of the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Environmental Assessment of the Blossom Point Field Test Facility (1995)
A memorandum for distribution regarding review of the Consumer Product Safety Commission Environmental Assessment at Blossom Point Field Test Facility. Included are the appendices A-C of the aforementioned assessment.
Memorandum from Adelphi Laboratory Center to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, Environmental Assessment (1991)
A memorandum for the Commander of the US Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District in reference to a telephone conversation on 3 May 1991. Enclosed with the memorandum is the Environmental Assessment and related documents for the marketing/disposal of the Blossom Point Farmhouse.
Memorandum from Col James E. Hays to Edward T. Watling, With Reply, Relocation of Historic Ballast House, Harry Diamond Laboratories, MD (1980)
Various memorandums referencing a project reconsideration on the future of the Ballast House and a reply from William W. Pearce, Chief, Facilities Branch Engineer Division.
Memorandum from Col. James E. Hays to Edward T. Watling, Relocation of Historic Ballast House, Harry Diamond Laboratories, MD (1980)
Multiple letters regarding the relocation of the Historic Ballast House at the Harry Diamond Laboratories. The letters Include responses from the Office of Chief of Engineers, along with an annotated copy.
Memorandum from FONCON to CEHSC-FN and letter from the Office of Preservation Services, Blossom Point Farm Relocation (1991)
A memorandum for CEHSC-FN in reference to a proposal for use of legacy funds in cooperative effort to move the Blossom Point Farmhouse. Also included is a partial response from the Administrator from Archaeological Services, Office of Preservation.
Memorandum from Gary P. George to F.W. Thomas, Relocation of Historic Ballast House, Harry Diamond Laboratories, Adelphi, MD (1980)
The memorandums of record is a correspondence between Gary P. George, Acting Director of Installations & Services Directorate and F.W. Thomas, Director of Installations & Services Directorate in regards to the dismantling of the Ballast House and a possible contact for the action.