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The unexpected 2015 discovery of the Tristán de Luna y Arellano settlement (1559-1561) overlooking two Luna shipwrecks in Pensacola Bay has expanded research directions and public outreach by University of West Florida (UWF) archaeologists. Working in an established Pensacola neighborhood, UWF archaeologists have found diagnostic 16th century Spanish artifacts (Spanish ceramics, Aztec ceramics, wrought nails, armor, weapons, personal items, trade beads) across at least eight city blocks. Intact...
Discovery of A Lost Seminole War Fort: Fort Shackelford (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fort Shackelford was built in February of 1855 on what is now the Big Cypress Seminole Reservation in South Florida. It was one of several forts built by the U.S. Army used to scout near the Big Cypress and Everglades regions during the U.S. Government’s efforts to pressure the Seminoles into leaving the area. In late 1855, the fort was found burned and since...
Discovery of Barry’s Wharf on the Southeast Waterfront, Washington, DC (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeological studies have been taking place as part of the ongoing redevelopment of the former Southeast Federal Center (SEFC) in Washington, D.C., an area now known as “the Yards.” In late 2017 and early 2018, Louis Berger U.S., a WSP company (WSP), conducted archaeological studies along Water Street, SE. The studies were multifaceted and included trench excavations through thick...
The Discovery of the Monterrey Shipwrecks: A Find by Design (2015)
Roughly 200 years ago, three sailing ships met apparently violent ends in the northern Gulf of Mexico nearly 320 kilometers southeast of Galveston, crashing to the bottom over 1300 meters below. The three ships were very different: one likely a topsail schooner, fast and armed; one a small merchantman, its hold packed with bales of hides; and the third, the largest, empty of cargo, but sheathed in copper and possibly outfitted for a transatlantic voyage. These three vessels were among the...
Discovery Through Rehabilitation: The Betty Veatch Potomac Creek Collection (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 2017, archaeologists at American University in Washington, D.C. rediscovered the Betty Veatch collection sitting forgotten in the lab— boxes of prehistoric and historic artifacts alongside Veatch’s personal journals, field logs, and photographs from her 1970s-1980s surveys. After an...
The "Discovery" of the Spanish Sea: First Encounters and Early Impressions (2016)
Today, the Gulf of Mexico is known for its abundant marine life, seafood industries, offshore oil and gas development, and as ground zero for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. To the first Spanish expeditions that "discovered" and explored this immense water body in the 16th century, the Gulf was an enigmatic sea. Spain’s earliest attention focused on establishing ports and settlements along the southern Gulf coast and Caribbean islands to consolidate control in the New World. As the...
Discussant for "Historical Memory, Archaeology, And The Social Experience Of Conflict and Battlefields" (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Memory, Archaeology, And The Social Experience Of Conflict and Battlefields" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. I will be serving as a discussant for "Historical Memory, Archaeology, And The Social Experience Of Conflict and Battlefields."
Discussant: (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Military Sites Archaeology in the Caribbean: Studies of Colonialism, Globalization, and Multicultural Communities" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. n/a
Discussion (2013)
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Discussion About the Impact of a Railroad and Cedar Point Neck, 2000.027_0239 (1855)
Discussions of the railroad being built around Nanjemoy Creek in 1855 and correspondence discussing Cedar Point Neck.
The Dish Ran Away with the Spoon: Revisiting Unprovenienced Food Ways Artifacts from the Spanish Fleet Wrecks of Eighteenth Century Florida (2017)
The Spanish empire was the first European power to establish permanent settlements on several Caribbean islands and coasts of North America, that flourished as New World colonies and facilitated prosperous trade between the New and Old Worlds. The distance between Spain and the colonies led to differences in the lifestyles and customs of these frontier spaces. Archaeological investigations both on land and underwater have yielded numerous pieces of material culture, reflecting Spanish life and...
Dishes in the Privy: Ceramic Use at St. Michael’s Mission on the Navajo Nation (2020)
This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The St. Michael’s Mission on the Navajo Nation, near present day Window Rock, Arizona, was established in 1889. This was one of the first Catholic Missions in the area and is still in use as a church and as a museum today. In 1976, surface surveys and excavations of the privy began, unearthing materials dated from the 1910s to the 1960s. In 2019 the Northern Arizona University Historical...
The Disintegration of Style and Memory: Mound 3 Assemblages at Lake Jackson (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Art Style as a Communicative Tool in Archaeological Research" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. At the 75th annual meeting of the Society of American Archaeology, Claudine Payne proposed that Lake Jackson’s Mound 3 served as a repository for ritual heirlooms that could no longer be used in the manners their creators intended. This paper revives her hypothesis to examine the role of this archaeological context at the...
Disneyland and the Future of Museum Anthropology (1991)
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...
Dispersal of Copper Artifacts in the Late Archaic Period of Prehistoric North America (1963)
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Displacement and Adjustment among the Piscataway in Colonial Maryland and Pennsylvania, 1680-1743 (2018)
This paper examines the assemblages of three sequentially occupied sites related to the displacement and northward migration of the Piscataway from their southern Maryland homeland between 1680 and 1743. These collections provide evidence for the group’s adjustments to new physical and social terrains encountered in dislocation. Although historical records document Piscataway efforts to distance themselves from the encroachment and harassment of English colonists by vacating their ancestral...
Displacement, Memory, and Community Heritage Work in the Old City of Acre (Israel) (2018)
In 2001, the Old City of Acre, a Palestinian quarter of the mixed Jewish-Palestinian municipality of Acre in northern Israel, was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site and state projects are underway to transform the Crusader and Ottoman-era landscape into a tourist attraction. This research asks how residents, most of whom belong to internally displaced families of 1948, are navigating the state heritage project. Memories of displacement and of the relative safety and autonomy found in the...
Disposition Form and Purchase Request from Harry Diamond Laboratories for the Public Notice of the Impact of the Ballast House Relocation (1979)
DA Form 2496 (Disposition Form) from the Environmental Coordinator, Harry Diamond Laboratories with the purchase request for "Public Notice of Finding of No Significant Impact on the Environment". Included is the recommendation for sole source procurement.
Disposition Form from Harry Diamond Laboratories to Robert Chase, Environmental Assessment for Relocation of Ballast House, Blossom Point, MD (1979)
Disposition Form from the Environmental Coordinator, Harry Diamond Laboratories to Robert Chase in regards to the environmental assessment for relocation of Ballast House, Blossom Point, MD. A second disposition form to the Commander, Harry Diamond Laboratories from the Environmental Coordinator included which also mentions the relocation of Ballast House, Blossom Point, MD.
Disposition Form from Harry Diamond Laboratories to Unknown Recipient, Minor Construction Project Package (1979)
Disposition form (poor quality) discussing transmittal of the Minor Construction Project Package for the relocation of the Ballast House at Blossom Point.
Disposition Form from Harry Diamond Laboratories, Ballast House Relocation (1979)
DA Form 2496 (Disposition Form) from Emerson G. Gray, Environmental Coordinator, Harry Diamond Laboratories to a Commander "S. Marcus", in regards to the relocation of the Ballast House at Blossom Point, Maryland.
Disposition Forms, Memoranda, and Related Certificate of Compliance for Ballast House from Harry Diamond Laboratories (1979)
Disposition forms, memoranda, and certification of compliance for the relocation of the historic Ballast House FY-80 exigent minor construction.
Disposition Forms, Support Agreement Form, Advisory Council Memorandum of Agreement, and Department of the Army Memorandum (1982)
The disposition forms, along with the support agreement forms, all reference the correspondence between the Chief, the Deputy Executive Director, and the Chairman of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, and Col. Goodwin, commander of the Harry Diamond Laboratories at the time. The documents of reference were written in 1979.
Disrupted Identities and Frontier Forts: Enlisted men and officers at Fort Lane, Oregon Territory, 1853-1855. (2016)
Frontiers are contingent and dynamic arenas for the negotiation, entrenchment, and innovation of identity. The imposing materiality of fortifications and their prominence in colonial topographies make them ideal laboratories to examine this dynamic. This paper presents the results of large scale excavations in 2011 and 2012 at the officers’ quarters and enlisted men's barracks at Fort Lane, a U.S. Army post used during the Rogue River Wars of southern Oregon from 1853 to 1855. I consider how...
Disrupting Pedagogies: Queer Theory in the Classroom, Field School, and Mentoring (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Gender Revolutions: Disrupting Heteronormative Practices and Epistemologies" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In this paper we discuss queer pedagogical methods. Through a review of our own experimental teaching practices, we aim to disrupt traditional pedagogical models. Over the course of our combined 16 years of teaching, we have implemented and tested a variety of exploratory techniques that embody the...