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The Buffalo Ranch site is exposed at the base of a cutbank along the Brazos River in Burleson County, Texas. Here, two transitional Paleoindian- Early Archaic Wilson and Big Sandy projectile points along with other artifacts were found eroding from a silty sand deposit believed to be a prehistoric natural levee. This layer and its associated artifacts lie approximately 14 m below the ground surface. Its stratigraphic position indicates an age of approximately 8000 to 8500 14C yr B.P., which is...
Geoarchaeology and Chronostratigraphy of the Sheep Rock Spring Site, Late Pleistocene to Holocene, Missouri River Headwaters Region, Southwest Montana (2017)
The Sheep Rock Spring site (24JF292) lies in a small SW Montana valley between Sheep Rock and a residual tor. A late Quaternary sequence (>5 m) supports a chronostratigraphic model from dates on charred material in the upper two units: (1) basal rock landslide diamicton; (2) down-valley debris flows; (3) final Pleistocene-early Holocene (FP-EH, >10,200-8700 RCYBP) channel/floodplain alluvium and paleosols; and (4) mid-Holocene (MH, ca. 6000-5430 RCYBP) alluvial/colluvial fan with paleosols....
Geoarchaeology and Culture History of the Central Elkhorn River Valley: a Preliminary Survey (1992)
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Geoarchaeology of the Coffey Site, Northeastern Kansas: Implications for Finding the Material Remains of Paleoamericans in the Eastern Plains, USA (2017)
The Coffey site in the Big Blue River valley of northeastern Kansas is best known for its stratified Middle Archaic components. However, recent investigations at the site recorded stratified Late and Middle Paleoindian cultural deposits and what may be an Early Paleoindian or Pre-Clovis component in the late member of the Severance Formation, a Wisconsinan-age lithostratigraphic unit that occurs as a remnant beneath the T-1 terrace of the Blue River. The late member of the Severance Formation...
Geoarcheological Investigations at the Lyman Site (25SF53) and Other Cultural Resources Related To Table Mountain Quarry Near the Nebraska / Wyoming Border (1996)
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.
A Geographic Information System Approach to Mapping Disturbed Landscapes for Cultural Resources Management: United States Air Force Academy (2024)
This is an abstract from the "MARS General Military CRM Poster Session" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Situated on 7,484 ha (18,494 acres) at the foothills of the Rampart Range in Colorado, the main campus of the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) has experienced human activity across the precolonial, historic, and military eras, as well as natural disturbance from water courses and soil slumping along steep slopes. Both natural and cultural...
Geographically and Socially on the Periphery: People of Color and their Role in Social Life in Nantucket, Massachusetts (2015)
The Boston-Higginbotham House, located on the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts, was constructed by Seneca Boston, an African-American former slave, and his native Wampanoag wife Thankful Micah in the 18th century. The couple's descendants continued to own and inhabit the home for more than a century until it passed to the Boston Museum of African American History. Archaeological excavations conducted by the University of Massachusetts Boston at the home in 2008 shed light on the ways...
A Geological Approach to a Historic Midden Site in Fort Davis, Texas (2017)
This paper focuses primarily on the depositional processes of a historical midden site through a geoarchaeological analysis of an early 1900s domestic midden from Fort Davis Texas. Microscopic investigation has traditionally been used to interpret pre-history archaeological sites with poor emphasis on historical contexts. The examination of Fort Davis’ 2014 collection of heavy-fraction artifacts and soil micromorphological samples will show how geoarchaeology can be used in historical settings...
Geomagnetic Storms are a Problem in the Gulf of Mexico, Too… (2017)
At SHA 2016, evidence was presented, and subsequently published, demonstrating that strong magnetic field perturbations resulting from Earth-directed solar events can adversely affect marine archaeological survey. Survey and observatory magnetometer data from mid-latitude regions confirmed the immediate onset of geomagnetic storms and the fast compression of the magnetopause, creating a short-duration, high amplitude spike in Earth’s magnetic field that appears similar to the signature of an...
Geomorphology and Site Formation Processes of Three 19th Century Shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico (2015)
The investigation of three early nineteenth century shipwrecks, believed to be contemporary with one another based on the artifact assemblages, was conducted in 2013 at over 1400 m depth in the northern Gulf of Mexico. High resolution mapping of the three sites was conducted from ROV-mounted stereo cameras and multibeam sonar, which produced photomosaics and microbathymetry maps. From these data, we can determine how sediment moved around each site and the geomorphology of the shipwrecks...
Geophysical Investigaitons at Fort Larned National Historic Site, 14PA305, Pawnee County, Kansas (2017)
During April 2016, archeologists from the National Park Service conducted a geophysical investigation within the core and cemetery areas of the Fort Larned site. Fort Larned served as the base of military operations against the hostile Plains Indians and for the protection of commerce along the eastern part of the Santa Fe Trail during the 1860s and 1870s. The 2016 geophysical investigations included a magnetic survey of the core area and cemetery, as well as a ground penetrating radar survey...
Geophysical Investigation at Fort Motte: Delineating the Fort and Searching for the Sap. (2016)
Investigation of the Revolutionary War site of Fort Motte (38CL1) has been ongoing since 2004. In the 2015 field season volunteers and the summer archaeological field school assisted the work by analyzing 9200 sq meters of the roughly 13 acres of the primary battlefield site by dual gradiometer. Eventually the entire 13 acres will be analyzed. This paper presents the findings to date with special attention to the fortification, plantation house and sap.
Geophysical Investigations at the Hanna's Town Cemetery, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (2016)
Hanna's Town (36WM203), an 18th century site located in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, was a major settlement that was attacked and destroyed by a force of British and Native Americans in 1782. The town never fully recovered, and the land was repurposed for agricultural use until it was purchased in 1969 by Westmoreland County, who reconstructed the town for tourism purposes. Overlooking the site is the town's cemetery, which has been given little attention in regards to research. The...
Geophysical Investigations at the King Site, 25DW166, Dawes County, Nebraska (2011)
The geophysical survey of the King Site, 25DW 166, was conducted between June 13 and June 17, 2011 as part of the Midwest Archeological Center's technical assistance to the University of Colorado's archeological field school. The Midwest Archeological Center staff and student volunteers from the University of Colorado's archeological field school conducted the geophysical investigations of two locations within Site 25DW166 in Dawes County, Nebraska, as part of the archeological investigations of...
Geophysical Investigations o f the Plum Creek Massacre Site (25PP24) along the Oregon National Historic Trail in Phelps County, Nebraska (2010)
The geophysical survey of the native pasture on the Holen family farm was conducted as part of the National Park Service's technical support of the National Historic Trails Office's investigation of the Plum Creek Massacre Site's archeological potential between August II and August 17, 2009. The geophysical inventory of the project area consisted of a magnetic survey with a dual fluxgate gradiometer across the entire field, a limited resistance survey with resistance meter and twin probe array,...
Geophysical Investigations of a Historic Sac and Fox Multiple Family Cemetery (25RH122), Richardson County, Nebraska (2007)
The geophysical investigations of a tribal/multiple family cemetery (25RH122) in Richardson County, Nebraska, were initiated by the National Park Service in response to a request from the Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri tribal council. A meeting and site tour were held with the tribal council secretary, Midwest Archeological Center Archeological Assistance and Partnership Program archeologists, and private consultant on November 18, 2002. This visit was to assess the feasibility of the...
Geophysical Investigations of the Youst Cemetery (25HM21), Hamilton County, Nebraska (2007)
The geophysical survey of Youst Cemetery (25HM21) in Hamilton County, Nebraska, was conducted between April 25 and April 26, 2006, by Midwest Archeological Center archeologist Steven De Yore and Save the Youst Cemetery Project volunteers Robert Hunt, Judy Schoch, Myron Peters, Dick Schoch, Dallas Moore, and Mary Ann Moore. The geophysical survey was conducted at the request of Nebraska State Historical Society Archeological Division staff to provide geophysical data on the presence of unmarked...
Geophysical Methods at the Hollister Site: Summary of Finds (2018)
Geophysical methods in archaeology are increasingly integrated into traditional archaeological surveys. Remote sensing is valuable because it allows for large areas to be surveyed relatively quickly and noninvasively. At the Hollister site in South Glastonbury, Connecticut, magnetometry and ground-penetrating radar, were implemented over a 140x140 meter area. Magnetometry measures alterations to earth’s magnetic field. This method is helpful for identifying a number of artifacts and features,...
Geophysical Survey and Phase II Archaeological Evaluations of Site 46KA681, Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia (2018)
In mid-2017, CRA personnel conducted a geophysical survey and Phase II archaeological excavations on a tract of land adjacent to the Elk River in Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia. The property is the location of Site 46KA681, which is a multicomponent site that includes evidence of both prehistoric and historic occupations. The prehistoric component consists of a small habitation site of unknown cultural or temporal affiliation, while the historic component dates to as early as the...
Geophysical Survey and Remote Sensing at Gast Farm, Southeast Iowa: Hidden Mounds and Middle and Late Woodland Community Plans (2018)
Gast Farm (13LA12), situated on a Mississippi River valley alluvial fan, has been a focus of interdisciplinary study since 1990. Surface collections and excavations documented two Woodland communities and one mound. The Weaver community (Late Woodland, ca. A.D. 400) was determined to have been a circular village with a central plaza, but details of the Havana community (Middle Woodland, ca. A.D. 100) and mound structure were not clear. Aerial imagery seemed to indicate the presence of geometric...
Geophysical Survey at the Janis-Ziegler / Green Tree Tavern Site (23SG272), Ste. Geneviève National Historical Park, Missouri (2024)
This is an abstract from the "New and Emerging Geophysical and Geospatial Research in the National Parks" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Midwest Archeological Center carried out multi-instrument geophysical surveys at four properties managed by Ste. Geneviève National Historical Park in 2022 to better understand archeological resources within them. Ste. Geneviève is a French colonial town in southeast Missouri with vernacular architecture...
Geophysics and Excavations at a Tribally Owned Heritage Site in the Red Wing Region, Southeastern Minnesota (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A multiyear collaborative process led to the Prairie Island Indian Community acquiring 120 contiguous acres containing two major villages and more than 90 known associated burial mounds on the north side of the Cannon River, near Red Wing, Minnesota. Archeologists have known about the site complex for more than 140 years, but other than partial mound...
Geophysics and Historical Archaeology: A Collaboration Between Two Departments (2016)
In June and July of 2015, Industrial Archaeologists from Michigan Technological University working with MTU's geophyics field school conducted field work that consisted of the use of ground penetrating radar, magnetometry, resistivity testing, and LIDAR, to help identify the location of features associated with the earliest African American pioneers of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. This poster details the process and discusses the findings.
George Dixon: Personal artifacts of H.L. Hunley’s enigmatic captain. (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Lives Revealed: Interpreting the Human Remains and Personal Artifacts from the Civil War Submarine H. L. Hunley" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. George E. Dixon was the last captain of the H.L. Hunley submarine. He was the most famous member of the crew during the historic events surrounding the submarine’s sinking of USS Housatonic, but many details of his life remain a mystery. This paper will take a...
George Toasts George? (It’s Complicated): 'G.R.' Mugs and the Changing Identity of the Washington Family from Loyal Brits to Revolutionaries (2018)
The presence of ‘G.R.’ drinking vessels on mid-eighteenth century archaeological sites in Virginia is typically nothing to write home about… unless the sites in question are associated with individuals who were to become significant figures in the American Revolution. ‘G.R.’ vessels have been recovered from George Washington’s boyhood home at Ferry Farm, and Kenmore, his sister Betty’s home with her husband Fielding Lewis, a financier of the Revolution. Like most colonists, they viewed...