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‘Over The Hill’. A Stratified Approach To The Archaeology Of The Donner Pass Route Through The Sierra Nevada. (2020)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stuart Rathbone.

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. The Donner Pass Route through the Sierra Nevada has successively featured emigrant trails, a military survey route, a wagon road, the transcontinental railroad, the transcontinental telegraph, hydroelectric power stations and lumber mills connected to long distance box flumes, the...

Overcoming the Ambiguity of a Rock Pile: Their Examination and Interpretation in Cultural Resource Management Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charity M. Moore. Matthew Victor Weiss.

Rock piles are some of the most ambiguous features encountered in cultural resource management, encompassing diverse origins and functions (e.g. field clearance cairns, byproducts of road construction, and Native American burials or markers). A single pile can appear to be consistent with multiple interpretations and each interpretation carries implications for how the rock pile is then recorded (or not recorded) and evaluated against the NRHP criteria. Drawing on recent fieldwork and case...

Overcoming the Silence: Uncomfortable Racial History, Dissonant Heritage, and Public Archaeology at Virginia’s Contested Sites (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca Schumann.

This paper explores the use public historical archaeology at contested sites as means of, and discussing uncomfortable racial histories with multiple communities. Virginian’s colonial and Early Republic heritage struggle with giving a voice to non-Euro-Americans, acknowledge racial inequality, and attracting tourists. This struggle often results in silences that perpetuate structural inequalities from the past in the present. Drawing from my own research and experiences in Virginia, I argue that...

Overlooked Petroglyph Comes to Light (1998)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christine Garst.

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.

Oversized Pitstructures in the Central Mesa Verde Region (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin Sommer.

This is an abstract from the "Adopting the Pueblo Fettle: The Breadth and Depth of the Basketmaker III Cultural Horizon" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Basketmaker III period (A.D. 500-725) in the northern U.S. Southwest was typified by new technologies, new social and religious practices, and groups of people from distinct cultural backgrounds living in close proximity for the first time. In this sociopolitical milieu, new architectural forms...

An Overview of 2012-2016 Research Relating to the Russian-American Company Ship NEVA and Potential 1813 Shipwreck Survivor Camp, Alaska (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joe D McMahan.

A 2012 archaeological survey by the Alaska Office of History and Archaeology, the U.S. Forest Service, and the Sitka Historical Society identified a site believed to be the 1813 camp of survivors from the wreck of the Russian-American Company ship NEVA. Support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation allowed for background research and marine remote sensing. In 2015 and 2016, with support from the National Science Foundation (Award...

Overview of Artifacts from Neosho County (1974)

DOCUMENT Citation Only O. D. Sperry.

Overview of Fort Harker (1996)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marsha K. King.

Overview of Great Plains Human Skeletal Biology (1994)

DOCUMENT Citation Only D. H. Ubelaker. W. M. Bass.

An Overview of the Combined Survey Formal (CSF) (Integrated, Geological, Near-Surface Geophysical, Soil, and Plant pXRF Archaeogeochemical Surveys) Survey System and How it has been Used Successfully on Site-Specific Projects in Terrestrial Archaeology. (2020)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Claudia Brackett-Lundin. Richard J Lundin.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Since the pioneering work of Dr. Luis Barba of UNAM, the Combined Survey Formal (CSF) has had an impact on graduate work in Mexico beginning in 1990. Wondjina Research Institute's (WRI) development of CSF from a Geological/Geophysical/pXRF and, Portable IR systems was from a successful system in geological exploration. WRI developed this system for the time and cost-effective...

Overview of the Current Projects at CRL (2020)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Dostal.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Current Research at the Conservation Research Laboratory at Texas A&M University" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Conservation Research Laboratory (CRL) at Texas A&M University is one of the oldest continuously operated conservation laboratories specializing in material from underwater archaeological sites in the world. Currently, the CRL is conserving artifacts and watercraft from a variety of...

An Overview of the Historic Utilization of Caves in Florida (2013)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gregg Harding.

For thousands of years people have utilized cave environments in the southeastern United States. Caves were used for shelter, burials, and religious ceremonies, and were mined for natural resources by both prehistoric and historic people. Historically, caves in Florida were used for shelter, trash deposition, as quarries, and played a developmental role in Florida’s early tourism. Many of these caves still affect the lives of people in Florida through tourism, recreation, and scientific...

Overview of the open-air museum idea in America - summary of developmental trends and current issues (1991)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Candace Matelic.

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...

Overwhelmed with Possibilities: A Model for Urban Heritage Tourism Development (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tristan J. Harrenstein.

The city of Pensacola, FL has been attempting to create a heritage tourism industry for half a century but has never achieved the same level of success of some of the most notable destinations they were trying to emulate. This is, in part, due to a signifiant level of development in the historic district, much of which is now historic as well, combined with an impressively complex history concentrated in a relatively small area. If Pensacola, and any community in a similar sutation, is to...

Oxy A-1H / Holcomb 1-21 pipeline (CRR 12-646) (1990)