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Kam Wah Chung was a frontier Chinese medical clinic, general store, community center and residence of two Chinese immigrants, Ing "Doc" Hay and Lung On, located in the frontier eastern Oregon town of John Day, Oregon. "Doc" Hay practiced traditional herbal medicine and Long On was proprietor of their general store. Left untouched for decades, Kam Wah Chung State Heritage Site is a remarkable time capsule capturing the life and times of the late 19th and early 20th century Chinese community....
Cold skin, warm socks? Remade and repurposed Burial Clothing in pre-modern northern Finland (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. When is a sock more than simply a sock? Two types of clothing are present in this dataset of pre-modern northern Finnish burials: (1) repurposed items used in life and repurposed as burial clothes (2) remade items crafted from second-hand materials specifically for burial. Despite ostensibly serving the same purpose, repurposed items remain functional, while remade items are often...
Cold War Needs Assessment (2001)
The assessment provided herein includes a review of the methods used in 11 completed interservice Cold War building and structure evaluations (Air Force, Navy, and Army). Along with other studies currently being conducted (e.g., preparation of a comprehensive Cold War historic context), this document will support the ongoing development and refinement of the Air Force’s guidance for the evaluation of Cold War resources.
Collaborating on the Federal Level: Moving beyond Mandated Consultation in the Section 106 Process (2017)
Collaboration versus Consultation—while both terms involve working with stakeholders, consultation implies a formulaic, reactionary response or product and can produce negative connotations while collaboration suggests a voluntary, shared method and a mutual goal, invoking more positive connotations. Within archaeology, collaboration is not a new practice. Yet within this post-colonial approach to conducting archaeology there is little discussion around what this looks like within the public...
Collaborating with Carpenters: Historic House Care and Archaeology at Strawbery Banke Museum (2017)
Strawbery Banke Museum is an outdoor history museum in Portsmouth, NH with over 40 historic houses. The majority of these buildings sit on their original foundations, enabling archaeological research into the daily lives of the historic neighborhood’s residents. Recently, the primary motivation for museum excavations has been in preparation for construction work planned by the museum’s Heritage House Program. This presentation will describe how the archaeology department works in...
Collaborative Archaeology As Punk Archaeology? Considerations From The Maya Region (2015)
The punk ethos is alive and well in collaborative archaeology, even if it is rarely acknowledged. Like punk, collaborative archaeology is committed to social change, minimally by giving voice to and enabling the participation of previously marginalized people in archaeological investigations. The types of on-the-ground operations involved with collaborative projects take more time and resources, and can be slower to produce the types of insights common in more traditional approaches to...
Collaborative Archaeology at the Gage and Cheney Houses (2013)
Studies of reformers and the sites associated with them provide an opportunity to examine how people in the past sought to better their world and in turn, powerfully connect to contemporary efforts to reform society. In this paper, I detail the collaborative archaeological projects undertaken at two sites associated with female reformers – Matilda Joslyn Gage and May Cheney – noting the ways in which non-hierarchical, feminist-inspired research practices were employed in attempts to connect...
Collaborative Decolonial Approaches to Narrative in the Coastal Heritage at Risk Taskforce (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Florida stands to lose more recorded sites to sea-level rise than any other state in the region, with nearly 4,000 estimated to be lost to a one-meter rise. For many of these heritage sites, untold stories of Florida history that are currently missing from the public record will also fade into obscurity as destruction occurs due to sea-level rise. Many of...
Collaboratively Creating a Digital Collection Database (2024)
This is an abstract from the "In Search of Solutions: Exploring Pathways to Repatriation for NAGPRA Practitioners (Part IV): NAGPRA in Policy, Protocol, and Practice" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Digital curation has become a critical component of a method of archaeological collection management, and UofL’s CACHe recently received an NEH Foundation grant to develop a collection database. Digital curation helps collection managers organize and...
Collagen Peptide Fingerprinting (ZooMS) of Archaeological Worked Bone from Southern Florida (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological investigations have demonstrated extensive connections among hunter-gatherer populations across the vast southern Florida landscape facilitated by a complex aquatic ecosystem. The prehistoric inhabitants expressed regionally specific differences in material culture, including and bone artisanship, but engaged in nearly identical subsistence...
Collections Crisis in the Nation’s Capital: Problems and Solutions for the Washington, D.C. Historic Preservation Office (2016)
Successful collections management encompasses proper housing, monitoring, and curation to ensure long-term preservation and accessibility. However, successful collections management also involves identifying and addressing issues(s) that threaten collections. The Washington, D.C. Historic Preservation Office (DCHPO) is in the midst of addressing a collections crisis. The DCHPO consults on both District and Federal compliance projects, and without a curation facility, its collections are...
Collections Identification and Status Report for Select Bureau of Land Management Archaeological Collections (1997)
In July 1994, the United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the US Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District entered into Interagency Agreement No. 1422P852-A4-0015 for the purpose of tracking collections produced under the provisions of the Antiquities Act of 1906 (P.L. 59-206) and the Archaeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA; P.L. 96-95). The purpose of this task was to assist the BLM in NAGPRA compliance. The St. Louis District was asked by BLM to...
Collections Management at the National Park Service: The Interior Collections Management System User Satisfaction Survey (2016)
The Museum Management Program (MMP) provides national guidance and policy to the National Park Service (NPS). It also administers the Interior Collections Management System (ICMS) for the NPS and the Department of the Interior (DOI). In an effort to look towards the future, the MMP and the Interior Museum Program (IMP) administered a user satisfaction survey to federal and non-federal users of ICMS. This poster examines the results of this survey and looks for solutions to common problems, the...
Collective Action in Inter-Theoretical Perspective (2013)
It has been five years since The Archaeology of Collective Action was published in UPF’s "American Experience" series. This paper summarizes the purpose of the book and reflects on the dozen or so reviews that appeared in a wide variety of publications. It also describes the "reviewer polarization" that was produced when the essence of the book was distilled and packaged for inclusion in an edited volume on the evolutionary dynamics of cooperative behavior. This polarization forced...
Collective Action, Transport Costs, Watercraft Technologies, and the Engineered Ancestral Landscapes of Southern Florida (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Negotiating Watery Worlds: Impacts and Implications of the Use of Watercraft in Small-Scale Societies" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Watercraft technologies have a long history in southern Florida. Archaeologists have recovered large vessels but historic documents also describe the Calusa utilizing complex ships able to transport large numbers of people. In addition to the sizable amount of labor that the people of...
Colonial America Visits Colonial California: A Scenic Transfer-printed Vessel at Mission Santa Clara de Asís (2018)
Ceramics can often be used to identify changes in artifact assemblages on a scale of years, rather than in generations or centuries. There are potentially some useful applications of absolute and relative dating techniques for ceramic assemblages recovered from California’s Spanish missions. Recent excavations at Mission Santa Clara’s Rancheria (Indian Village) produced an assemblage of imported English ceramics, some with tightly defined production dates, which aids in our interpretation of the...
Colonial Brunswick Town: Archaeology of an Artificial Economy (2018)
Brunswick Town was established in 1725 on the Lower Cape Fear River by an influential anti-proprietary faction known as The Family. Their purpose was exploitation of English mercantilist policy which provided a fixed price for naval stores. This singular focus and their monopoly of valuable land retarded the development of organic economic networks and linkages, restricted areas for settlement, and created the conditions for the town’s demise during the Revolutionary War.
Colonial Foodways in Barbados: A Diachronic Study of Faunal Remains and Stable Isotopes from Trent’s Plantation, 17th-19th centuries (2018)
The origins of modern cuisine in the Caribbean lie in the complex interactions that occurred during the colonial period. Studying foodways on plantations offers insight into the social relationships, power structures, economic practices and cultural transformations during this time. Here, we integrate and compare the results from zooarchaeological analysis with stable isotope (δ18O, δ13C, δ15N, δ88Sr) analysis of human and faunal remains from Trent’s Plantation in Barbados. Trent’s Plantation...
Colonial Impact on Kanaka Maoli Diaspora and Dispersal (2018)
Hawaiians were historically a mobile population. Their Polynesian ancestors crossed the wide expanse of the Pacific Ocean to settle the Hawaiian archipelago, and the Kanaka Maoli descendants that worked and lived on the land continued this diasporic tradition. By the 17th century, Kanaka Maoli lived in or utilized the many varied ecosystems available to them. Within the moku political districts, the Kanaka Maoli remained highly mobile—moving between the highlands and the lowlands for resources....
Colonial Plantation Hoes of Tidewater Virginia (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 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.
Colonial Stigma in ‘Post’-Colonial Archaeology (2017)
Legacies of archaeological social complexity models continue to stigmatize living Native communities. Pervasive in discussions of pre-Contact peoples in the modern United States, these models rely on the Eurocentric foundations steeped in racism, sexism, and religious bigotry on which they were built during early colonization. Archaeological evidence provides the opportunity to interrogate how past peoples were and continue to be entangled with living communities, rather than to buttress myopic,...
Colonial Williamsburg and the practice of interpretive planning in American history museums (1998)
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...
Colonialism and Indigenous Diaspora in the American Northeast (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Perspectives from the Study of Early Colonial Encounter in North America: Is it time for a “revolution” in the study of colonialism?" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the last two decades scholars have rejected the bifurcation of “continuity” or “change” in studies Indigenous experiences of early colonialism in North America. Instead, archaeologists increasingly favor process and practice approaches,...
Colonialism and modernity in medieval (?) Iceland (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Medieval to Modern Transitions and Historical Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper explores the implications of an archaeology of colonialism and modernity in Iceland. Colonialism in ‘Old Society’ Iceland was realized in the regulation of trade, and informal and formal administration by Norway, England, and Denmark. Colonial administrators and foreign tourists often viewed Iceland as...
Colonialism and the 'Personality of Britain' (2016)
Where did ‘colonialism’ come from? Clearly, and at once, colonialism is a set of practices that can be traced back to the ancient and medieval worlds. However, also and at the same time, it is an analytical term which, if used loosely, holds the danger of uncritically back-projecting a 19th century model of colonial worlds into earlier centuries. How to map patterns of colonial practice before they were colonial? This paper tries to engage with this difficult issue through a comparative...