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Archaeologists with the LAMAR Institute and the National Park Service collaborated in an ambitious undertaking to characterize the elemental composition of round ball ammunition from early historic sites. Researchers used portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) technology to sample the elemental content of over 500 round balls from more than 17 different archaeological sites in eastern North America. These include samples from Native American and Euro-American settlements as well as French and Indian...
Getting Burned: Fire, Politics, and Cultural Landscapes in the American West (2015)
The National Historic Landmark town of Jacksonville, Oregon is celebrated for its nineteenth century past. While saloons, hotels, and shops survive as testament to the days of the Oregon gold rush, the selective preservation of the built environment has created a romanticized frontier landscape. A sleepy park now covers the once bustling Chinese Quarter, which burned to the ground in 1888. Recent public archaeology excavations revealed the remains of a burned building, and led to a fruitful...
Getting By on East Fork of Indian Creek: Archaeology of Early Twentieth City Life in Eastern Kentucky (2017)
This paper presents recent excavations at two domestic sites in Menifee County, Kentucky. Information on site structure and material culture were obtained from the excavations, and combined with data from documentary and oral history sources. The area, now fairly remote due to its position with the Daniel Boone National Forest, was once well connected as the end of the line of a logging railroad, and a community nucleus with a school, possibly a commissary type store, and railroad-based mail...
Getting Them Home: Crossing the Borders, From Field to Lab (2017)
The mission of DPAA is to provide the fullest possible accounting for our missing service-personnel from past conflicts. This mandate requires the transportation of biological materials, including human skeletal and dental remains, from archaeological field locations and unilateral turnovers to DPAA laboratory facilities in Hawaii and Nebraska. DPAA archaeological investigation, survey, and excavation sites are located across the globe, and the movement of these materials oftentimes involves...
Getting to the Bottom of the Barrel: A Fresh Look at Some Old Features from Albany’s Big Digs (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Boxed but not Forgotten Redux or: How I Learned to Stop Digging and Love Old Collections" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1998, Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc., excavated 3 small late-eighteenth century barrel features in downtown Albany. Wooden barrels were commonly used as liners for wells, privies, and sumps, however these three pits were unusual in that they were located on the interior of the...
Getting Your ‘Kicks’?: An Investigation of Historic Route 66 in Petrified Forest National Park (2018)
It is nearly impossible to consider the heyday of traditional Americana, waxing nostalgic about the "good old days" of early travel and tourism in the United States, without thinking about Route 66. Sean Scanlan writes that "…memory and history are separate categories of thought—the former a system of retrieval, the latter a discourse on retrieval—and that nostalgia is the sorry cousin of various ways of retrieving a memory". This begs the question— what was Route 66 really like during its glory...
Ghingskoot (2008)
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...
Ghost Road: Tracing El Camino Viejo Through Southern California (2020)
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 study of historic roads in the North American West is a complex process. Pragmatic issues of scale, accessibility, and preservation are accompanied by aspects of interpretation and meaning. This is particularly evident in southern California, where the vast physical transformations...
Ghostly Narratives: Haunted Tourism at Colonial Park Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia (2016)
This paper examines material culture as well as the ghost tourism of Colonial Park Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia. Colonial Park is a hot spot not only for ghostly activity but also for stops on numerous Savannah walking ghost tours. However, the information presented on many ghost tours often ignores or alters the history of the cemetery. The tours often embellish certain events, such as the 1820 yellow fever epidemic, but perhaps more importantly, they ignore aspects of the cemetery’s history,...
Ghosts in the Archives: Using Archaeology to Return Life to Historical Prostitutes (2016)
Studies in historical prostitution are uniquely poised to demonstrate the importance of partnership between historians and archaeologists. Sites of prostitution may be present in the historical literature; however, the transience of the women employed at these sites means that they often leave ephemeral traces in the written record. Though typically unable to illustrate individual actors within these sites, archaeology can help to reanimate the everyday lives of women in sex work. Using the...
Ghosts in the Walls: Materiality, Temporality, and Identity at a Distributed Site (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Before, After, and In Between: Archaeological Approaches to Places (through/in) Time" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Bacon’s Castle in Surry County, Virginia, is rife with paradoxes. Home to over three centuries of plantation households, it owes its popular name to a man who never set foot there. Despite surviving as the “oldest brick dwelling” in English North America, lack of scholarship has rendered it...
Giant Sloths, Ancient Maya Jars, and the Cave of the Black Mirror: Underwater Cenote Research at the Cara Blanca Pools, Belize (2018)
This research focuses on ancient Maya settlement at the Cara Blanca Pools, a string of 25 freshwater cenotes and lakes located in west-central Belize. Pool 1 has been the most extensively explored, with a depth of 235 feet and a geological makeup where the pool extends deep underneath the surrounding cliffs, becoming an underwater cave. The underwater cave component is named "Actun Ek Nen," which translates to "Black Mirror Cave" in the Mayan language. Our underwater exploration, methodology,...
The Gila River Japanese American Incarceration Camp: Thinking With The Past (2017)
Recent research on the World War II Japanese American Incarceration Camp at Gila River has provided both depth of knowledge to the subject and a forum for community engagement. Archaeology in particular has brought to light the diversity of experiences and the specific physical conditions of this displacement and confinement. Through a thorough examination of the context and materials of the Japanese American Incarceration, archaeological investigation can further our understanding of the...
The Gilchrist Fleet Survey Report: Identifying the Archaeological Significance of Abandoned Vessels in the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. (2016)
This paper reports on the preliminary findings of the Gilchrist Fleet Survey Project fieldwork conducted by NOAA Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, State of Michigan Department of History, Arts, and Libraries, and Flinders University in the summer of 2015. The goal of the project is to survey the North Point shoreline of Isaacson Bay for historic sunken vessels once owned by the Gilchrist Transportation Company of Alpena, Michigan. Three already located economically abandoned Gilchrist ships...
Gimballed Beds and Gamming Chairs: Seafaring Wives aboard Nineteenth-Century Sailing Ships (2015)
Women lived on sailing ships with their families during the 19th century, and chronicled their experiences in journals and letters now found in historical archives. Their stories remain on the periphery, as their signature is difficult to find in the maritime archaeological record. Primary documents make mention of several items built or brought on board specifically for their comfort or entertainment. Five captain’s wives sailed on the 19th-century whaleship Charles W. Morgan, still afloat...
GIS and the CSS Georgia Recovery Project (2016)
Visualizing the distribution of artifacts at the CSS Georgia site was a challenge due to the vast amount of material recorded and recovered. To assist in this, a GIS was created which incorporated data gathered from diver reconnaissance and recovery operations. First, unit sketches and notes were scanned and georectified. Later, artifacts positioned from the sketches and ultra-short baseline (USBL) readings were digitized and organized according to type. This allowed the archaeologists to...
GIS Modeling of Archaeological Site Locations: a Low-Tech Approach (1991)
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GIS-Based Predictive Modeling and Urban Industrial Archaeology: A Case Study In London, Ontario (2016)
We present a case study demonstrating a novel GIS-based archaeological predictive model (APM) adapted for use in postindustrial cities. In common use among prehistoric archaeologists APMs are also a useful way to analyze historical sources on a landscape scale. This project harnesses massive amounts of historical and modern spatial data to: determine urban industrial archaeological potential; to determine the potential for the persistence of related historical environmental hazards; and to...
Giving Archaeology It’s Space - Digital Public Interpretation at the Josiah Henson Site (2018)
Montgomery Parks is conducting on-going excavations at the Josiah Henson site in Montgomery County Maryland, once a plantation where Josiah Henson and more than twenty others were enslaved. The historic main house and surrounding 3 acres are being developed into a museum focused on both Henson’s life and the institution of slavery in the county. While some archaeological interpretation will be incorporated into traditional exhibit design, much of the data collected from excavation will be made...
Glass and Lapidary Beads at Jamestown, Virginia: An Updated Assessment After 25 Years of Excavation (2020)
This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. An updated assessment of the trade beads in the Jamestown collection was long overdue since Heather Lapham’s 1998 study. The size and variation of the collection has expanded to include nearly 4000 glass beads representing over 100 Kidd types, as well as nearly 100 lapidary beads made of amber, coral, jet, amethyst, carnelian, chalcedony, agate, and quartz. The Jamestown assemblage...
Glass Artifact Photographs, Millers Ferry 1963-1968 (2014)
Photographs of glass artifacts collected during the Millers Ferry 1963-1968 investigation in Wilcox County, Alabama.
Glass Beads (1974)
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Glass Beads and Mission Santa Catalina de Guale: A Social Network Approach to Exploring Identity in the Colonial Southeast (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond Ornamentation: New Approaches to Adornment and Colonialism" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Beads and other ornaments were important objects involved in early colonial entanglements between Europeans and Native Americans, with the color, texture, and physical properties of beads fostering the embodiment of new social roles within changing colonial worlds. In this paper I discuss how such objects were...
Glass Beads at San Luis de Talimali: The Social Context and Spatial Distribution of Color (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Plus Ultra: An examination of current research in Spanish Colonial/Iberian Underwater and Terrestrial Archaeology in the Western Hemisphere." , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Glass beads recovered from archaeological sites that date to the Spanish Colonial period of Florida’s history offer archaeologists an opportunity to refine site chronology, determine the origin of manufacture of the beads, and explore...
Glass Beads from Old Mobile Structure 01 (1MB94), Mobile County, Alabama. (1989)
Glass beads recovered from Structure 01 at the Old Mobile Site (1MB94).