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The Yazoo Basin of Mississippi is a rich and varied landscape that has been inhabited by humans for millennia. Sediment cores and tree-ring dates have documented that populations living in the basin had to contend with massive flooding events as well as substantial environmental change over the course of the Holocene. Populations contended with these changes by shifting settlement patterns, altering in subsistence strategies, engaging in intergroup competition, as well as varying investments in...
Spatial Context and Farm Types of Anne Arundel County Maryland, 1850-1880 (2016)
Between 1850 and 1880, the First Election District of Anne Arundel County, Maryland hosted a variety of farm types and farm sizes. K-means cluster analysis of agricultural census data identified farm types over this forty-year period. The findings serve as a basis for understanding the archaeology of two farms on the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center campus and assessing the effects of late 19th-century land management strategies on local ecosystems.
Spatial Database to Spatial Knowledgebase: Predictive Modeling Challenges and Opportunities Across Time Space and Scale (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me: What Have We Learned Over the Past 40 Years and How Do We Address Future Challenges" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Geospatial modeling of landscapes for predictive scientific research and hypothesis testing in archaeology has become an important approach in cultural resource management. This poster demonstrates the challenges and opportunities with using predictive geospatial modeling in...
Spatial Organization of the Work Areas of Three Contemporary Flintknappers (1980)
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...
Spatial Patterns and Activity Areas at the Harrison Site: A Case Study in Multiple Lines of Evidence and Differential Uses of Space (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "On the Centennial of his Passing: San Diego County Pioneer Nathan "Nate" Harrison and the Historical Archaeology of Legend" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Spatial archaeological investigations by participants in the Nathan “Nate” Harrison Historical Archaeology Project occurred on a variety of scales, from large landscapes to microscopic chemical analyses within the dirt itself. These spatial studies...
Spatial Relationships at Ethnic Chinese Dominated Section Stations in the Western United States (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Arming the Resistance: Recent Scholarship in Chinese Diaspora Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. My research into Chinese Railroad Worker archaeology on the Central Pacific has focused on section station life in the 1870s into the 1890s in Utah and Nevada. These investigations and others have pointed out elements of the distinctive Chinese ethnic material culture, the specific housing provided by...
The Spatial Violence of Colonialism (2016)
A variant of symbolic and structural violence can be termed "spatial violence". Colonial reordering of space, expressed as civilizing, moral order, created iniquities in power that physically prevented access to resources and segregated people into controllable spaces for achieving imperial schemes. This process treated land as one thing and its residents as something separate, objectified, commodified, and thus removable. Spatial violence in the case of many Native Americans was extreme, not...
Spatiality of the Everyday: 19th Century Slave Life in Western Tennessee (2017)
Throughout ten-years of excavation in western Tennessee, a more nuanced picture of 19th century everyday life in the antebellum South has emerged. With over twenty contiguous plantations on the 18,400-acre contemporary Ames land base, we compare specific characteristics of material culture from large (3,000+ acres) and small plantations (300-1000 acres). Our research focuses on Fanny Dickins, a woman with the financial means to purchase and run a small cotton plantation in Western Tennessee....
A spear thrower from Oklahoma (1937)
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The Spear-Thrower from 15,000 Years Ago to the Present (1979)
J. Whittaker: Nice summary, nothing new, emphasis on rock art, California and W US, several drawings, summarizes ethnographic evidence. Grant experiments with Basketmaker replica: 200', accurate 30-50', weights give more power at close range, don't help distance.
Spears, Darts, and Arrows: Late Woodland Hunting Techniques in the Upper Ohio Valley (1993)
J. Whittaker: Shift from notched or stemmed to generally smaller triangular bifaces in eastern N. America between 1500 and 1200 B.P. often interpreted as introduction of bow and arrow. Numerous theories of cultural change discussed: increased hunting and warfare efficiency, fall of the Hopewell, population dispersals, etc. Test with data from two late Woodland sites. Childers site, 1295 B.P. wide range native domesticates and wild plants, mostly late notched point forms e.g. Chesser and...
Spearthrower (2004)
J. Whittaker: 120 Min. DVD. Starts with info on WAA and ISAC. Richard Lyons outlines prehistory with his board of different models, emphasizing Webb’s Indian Knoll forms, with bannerstone toward hook. Also Eskimo models and Basketmaker-inspired form. Promotes atlatl leading to bow because both flex. DL: Throwing Techniques and atlatl construction, shows several modern models, 2 grips – forward (split finger) or to side, likes former and Bracken’s version, blames closed fist side grip for tendon...
Special events and their impact on museums: the eleven commandments of public programs (2019)
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Specters and Spectators: Paranornal Tourism and Historic Sites of Confinement in the American South (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, authors Cayla Colclasure (she/her) and Zoe Schwandt (they/she) consider the phenomenon of paranormal tourism and related media as one way various publics engage with historic sites of confinement in the American South and attempt to bridge the epistemological divide between these forms of engagement with the past and the discipline of...
Spherical Turquoise Blue Glass Beads, Sixteenth Century Spanish? (1991)
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Spinning (bunny) tails: an adventure in experimental archaeology (1996)
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Spinning Knowledge: Applications of High-Resolution Photogrammetry and Experimental Archaeology with Lithic Gorgets at Poverty Point WHS (2024)
This is an abstract from the "*SE Not Your Father’s Poverty Point: Rewriting Old Narratives through New Research" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Photogrammetry, the production of 3D models from composite photographs, presents numerous possibilities in archaeological research and expands the accessibility of the field. We will discuss the potentials of high-resolution photogrammetry as an important resource, not only for research and analysis, but...
The spiral conductor of Charles Grafton Page: Reconstructing experience with the body, more options, and ambiguity (2011)
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Spirits And Spirituality: Drinking, Smoking, And Racial Uplift In 19th Century Nantucket, MA (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "An Archaeology Of Freedom: Exploring 19th-Century Black Communities And Households In New England." , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Boston University and UMass Boston excavations at the Nantucket African Meeting House and neighboring Boston-Higginbotham House provide a unique opportunity to investigate the relationship between institutions and individual materiality. Throughout the 19th century, African...
Spiritual Wayfarers and Enslaved African Muslims: New insights into Yarrow Mamout, Muslim Slaves and American Pluralism (2016)
This paper will examine the encounter between Africa, Islam and American history in the antebellum period of the U.S from first hand accounts of enslaved Africans. Yarrow Mamout was a Muslim Fulani enslaved in 1752, and manumitted in 1796. He purchased property in Georgetown in 1800, and there is currently an archaeological investigation on his former property. Using original Arabic documents, this research explores the spirituality, literacy and religious tolerance of enslaved African Muslims...
The Spiro Panoply: An Examination, Structural Analysis, and Hypothetical Re-creation of Middle Mississippian Defensive Equipment and Weapon Systems (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. With the recognition that violence, warfare, and trophy display within the North American Southeast was endemic during the Mississippian Cultural Period, an in-depth analysis of the equipment used by warring groups is now necessary. By examining the “Conquering Warrior” and associated human effigy pipes from the Great Mortuary at Spiro Mounds and...
"A Splendid Location": Land Use On An Urban Block in Mobile, Alabama (2018)
An archaeological and historical study of upper- and middle-class households in Mobile, Alabama provided an opportunity to examine how certain forms of material culture and the built environment served to demarcate social, racial, and economic differences in this city and how these compared with other cities. The block under consideration and its neighborhood were generally homogenous, with residents being the families of professionals. Notably, most of the properties were rentals; land use,...
Splint Baskets of 7500-8000 Years Ago (2012)
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Split Lips and Broken Bottoms: Analysis of Glass Fragments from an Urban Context (2018)
This paper examines the results of the chronological analysis of glass tops and bases from several sites along Main Street in St. Charles, Missouri. Bottle fragments from both intact and disturbed contexts are used to help provide chronological context to these urban site locations. Further comparison with diagnostic materials from the undisturbed levels, along with possible functional categories of the bottle fragments, will also be discussed relative to possible site functions.
"Spoiled Submerged Sites" or "Just Another C-Filter"? Accounting for Recent Human Impact in the Archaeological Analysis of BISC-2 (2013)
BISC-2 represents a type of site that is all too familiar to maritime archaeologists: one subject to extensive recent post-deposition disturbance as a result of different forms of destructive human intervention. Too often such sites are dismissed as too "spoiled" to provide reliable insight into the past. We suggest that while regrettable, such recent interventions should not lead us to dismiss such sites as archaeologically irrelevant. Instead they should be addressed through archaeological...