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Native Songs: Music and Mount Vernon’s Enslaved Community (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jason Boroughs.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the twilight of George Washington’s life in 1799, a community of 317 enslaved Africans and African-Americans worked the five contiguous farms that comprised the 8000 acre Mount Vernon plantation enterprise. By far the largest of three principal groups of music-makers, the enslaved community was joined by the Washington household and hired white workers and their families, each...


Native stone, bone, antler and hide. production methods on the lower Columbia river (2004)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Cameron Mcpherson Smith. 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...


Native Subsistence Adaptations in the Great Plains (1983)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Waldo R. Wedel.

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 natural bucket (2010)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Campbell.

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...


Natural Gas Pipeline for Tom Warren in Morton County (CRR 12-959) (1994)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Earl Tanner.

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.


Nature and Culture, Fire and Ice: The Caves of El Malpais National Monument (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer McCrackan. Nick Poister. Charles P. Jackson. Eric Weaver.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cave surveys and archaeological inventories conducted over the course of six months of over 40 caves at El Malpais National Monument have revealed both ritualistic and utilitarian purposes. Located in northwestern New Mexico, the monument, largely composed of multiple lava fields is within the larger Zuni-Bandera volcanic flow. Hundreds of recorded...


Nature and Organization of Ceramic Production During Early Phases in the Chuska Valley (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Dean Wilson.

This is an abstract from the "The Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project: A Multivocal Analysis of the San Juan Basin as a Cultural Landscape" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Examination of pottery recovered during recent investigations of the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project include the recording of stylistically-based typological categories and descriptive attributes relating to the manufacture and exchange of pottery vessels. This data provides...


The Nautical Archaeology Digital Library (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Furuta. Filipe Castro. Ergun Akleman. Alicia Kinkaid.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Nuts and Bolts of Ships: The J. Richard Steffy Ship Reconstruction Laboratory and the future of the archaeology of Shipbuilding" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Originally conceived as a set of internet tools to store and share information and primary data from archaeological excavations, the Nautical Archaeology Digital Library project was retaken a decade later, with the same objectives, but in the...


Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project: Best Management Practices Manual (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Erick Laurila. Jewel Touchin. Saul Hedquist. Shawn Kelley. Shere Churchill.

This is an abstract from the "The Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project: A Multivocal Analysis of the San Juan Basin as a Cultural Landscape" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project (NGWSP) is a Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) sponsored project in northwest New Mexico that will convey water from the San Juan River to Navajo and Jicarilla Apache communities, as well as to the City of Gallup. Reclamation developed a...


Navajo-Gallup: A View from 100,000 Feet (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin Thompson. Thomas N. Motsinger.

This is an abstract from the "The Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project: A Multivocal Analysis of the San Juan Basin as a Cultural Landscape" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. When PaleoWest Archaelogy was awarded the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project it was the largest cultural resource project in the U.S. The scope of the project created numerous complexities ranging from varied land ownership, density and diversity of cultural resources, and...


Navajos, Traders, & Tourists: Cultural Patterns in the Architecture of Trading Posts (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan-Alette Dublin. Robert Dublin.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Spatial organization and architectural form derive (at least in part) from a template that is unique to a given society or culture. This might include ideals of building form, materials, and layout, as well as the direction of movement and behavior into and through a space. Trading posts in Navajo country present an opportunity to explore this question....


Naval Battlefield Reconstruction as a Predictive Model for Deep Water Remote Sensing:Search for Bluefields and U-576 (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only John Bright.

In 2011, the National Park Service’s American Battlefield Protection Program awarded a grant to East Carolina University and NOAA’s Monitor National Marine Sanctuary to conduct a battlefield analysis of a naval action which occurred off North Carolina during the Second World War. Specifically, researchers investigated action initiated against convoy KS-520 by German U-576 in July, 1942. Though the primary objective of the grant was to conduct historical and archeological evaluation of this naval...


Navigable Waterways as Plantation Landscapes (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily A. Schwalbe.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Roads, Rivers, Rails and Trails (and more): The Archaeology of Linear Historic Properties" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Navigable waterways were essential to European colonization of the South Carolina Lowcountry beginning in the late 17th century. Despite early attempts by colonial leaders to keep land grants within close proximity to Charleston, colonists quickly began to establish plantations where...


Navigating Freedom: Examining the Impact of Emancipation on the African American community in Orange County, Virginia (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Stefan F. Woehlke.

A comparative study of late antebellum slave quarters with the homes of newly freed African Americans provides insights into the dramatic impact of emancipation on the African American community in Orange County, Virginia. This paper outlines initial observations from past and present excavations at James Madison's Montpelier that focus on the Post-Madison era. It also outlines the approach for additional research, including excavations, oral histories, and the incorporation of ecological models...


Navigating the Narrative: Ceramics from Ocean Floor to Museum Door. (2013)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Watkins-Kenney. Linda F. Carnes-McNaughton.

So far, some 200 ceramic sherds representing at least 17 vessel types have been excavated from the early eighteenth century shipwreck (31CR314), Queen Anne’s Revenge, off the coast of North Carolina.  This paper will briefly describe this ceramic assemblage, from its global origins to its consumer uses. The main focus, however, will be to tell a story. A story of how many voices of archaeology including conservators, material culture specialists and scientists, are working together to unravel...


Navigation skills (2008)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Keith Badger.

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...


Navigational Instruments found on the Storm Wreck (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Maggie Burkett.

Between 2009 and 2015, excavations of the Storm Wreck (8SJ5459), a late 18th-century British shipwreck off the coast of St. Augustine, Florida by the Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program (LAMP) has revealed a variety of navigational instruments and components of such instruments. The primary navigational instruments discussed in this paper are a pair of navigational dividers, an octant, and a mathematical device known as a sector rule. This paper presents a historical analysis of each...


The Navy’s Ultimate Piston-Engine Fighter: An Investigation of a Submerged Experimental Bearcat (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Agustin J Ortiz.

This is an abstract from the "Developing Standard Methods, Public Interpretation, and Management Strategies on Submerged Military Archaeology Sites" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As a continuation of the Naval Air Station Patuxent River (NAS Patuxent River) Aircraft Survey, this paper will focus on the study of a submerged aircraft which may represent the first F8F Bearcat. Naval History and Heritage Command is continuing to research potential...


Na’nilkad béé na’niltin: The Early Navajo Pastoral Landscape Project (Phase 1) – Experimental Ethnoarchaeology on the Navajo Nation (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Wade Campbell.

This is an abstract from the "Nat’aah Nahane’ Bina’ji O’hoo’ah: Diné Archaeologists & Navajo Archaeology in the 21st Century" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The non-coerced adoption of sheep by Diné (Navajo) communities in northwest New Mexico during the 17th century and the subsequent rise of an intensely pastoral lifeway stand out as unique developments among Native societies in the American Southwest. By applying a three-phase research design...


"…near the side of an Indian field commonly known as the Pipemaker’s field": Reanalyzing the Nomini Plantation Midden Assemblage (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren K. McMillan. D. Brad Hatch.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of Contact and Colonialism" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Excavated in the 1970s by Vivienne Mitchell, a crew of volunteers, and avocational archaeologists from the Archeological Society of Virginia, the Nomini Plantation (44WM12) midden assemblage represents an extraordinary collection of mid- to late-seventeenth-century material culture. However, a full analysis and report were never completed, due...


Nearman Creek Steam-Electric, Archeological Survey, Appendix F (1975)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Alfred Johnson. Kenneth Reid.

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.


Nebo Hill Phase: Late Archaic Prehistory In the Lower Missouri Valley (1983)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kenneth C. Reid.

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Nebo Hill Settlement Patterns In Northwestern Missouri (1981)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kenneth L. Brown. Robert J. Ziegler.

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Nebraska Phase: An Appraisal (1979)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Donald J. Blakeslee. Warren W. Caldwell.

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The Necessity of Subterranean Investigations for Significance Evaluations of Abandoned Mines (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Autumn Cool.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cultural resource inventories of abandoned mine lands have traditionally been limited to surface-level surveys and archival research. This is sensible given the hazards inherent in subterranean exploration, the general lack of relevant safety training among archaeologists and historians conducting the inventories, and the practical, risk-averse attitudes...