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Between 1958 and 1968, archaeological pioneer Stanley South excavated a total of 13 colonial era primary households and associated structures, as well as the courthouse, jail ("gaol"), and church. While these excavations were designed to interpret these structures for public visitation, it was the tens of thousands of artifacts from these ruins that led South towards the development his pattern-based, scientific archaeology. However, the artifact data from only three of these structures—Nath...
Excavation of the Indian Creek V Site: An Archaic Gathering Camp in the Maryland Coastal Plain (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 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.
Excavation Photographs, Phase I and II Investigations, Washington Navy Yard Quarters, Washington D.C., Part 1 (2012)
This records contains part 1 of 75 excavation photographs taken during phase I and II investigations of site 51SE66, Washington Navy Yard Quarters, Washington D.C. The corresponding photograph log associated with this project and is located at: https://core.tdar.org/document/393121
Excavation Photographs, Phase I and II Investigations, Washington Navy Yard Quarters, Washington D.C., Part 2 (2012)
This records contains part 2 of 75 excavation photographs taken during phase I and II investigations of site 51SE66, Washington Navy Yard Quarters, Washington D.C. The corresponding photograph log associated with this project and is located at: https://core.tdar.org/document/393121
Excavation Photographs, Phase I Investigations, Nebraska Avenue Complex (2010)
This record contains excavation photographs for phase I investigations of sites 51NW228 and IA4520, Nebraska Avenue Complex, Washington D.C.
Excavation Photographs, Phase I Investigations, Sites 51SW22 and 51SW7, Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, DC, Part 1 (2012)
This record contains excavation photographs for sites 51SW22 and 51SW7, identified during phase I investigations, JADOC facility on Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, D.C., Part 1.
Excavation Photographs, Phase I Investigations, Sites 51SW22 and 51SW7, Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, DC, Part 2 (2012)
This record contains excavation photographs for sites 51SW22 and 51SW7, identified during phase I investigations, JADOC facility on Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, D.C., Part 2.
Excavation Photographs, Phase II Investigations, Sites 51SW22 and 51SW7, Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, DC, Part 1 (2012)
This record contains excavation photographs for sites 51SW22 and 51SW7, identified during phase II investigations, JADOC facility on Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, D.C., Part 1.
Excavation Photographs, Phase II Investigations, Sites 51SW22 and 51SW7, Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, DC, Part 2 (2012)
This record contains excavation photographs for sites 51SW22 and 51SW7, identified during phase II investigations, JADOC facility on Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, D.C., Part 2.
Excavation Photographs, Phase II Investigations, Sites 51SW22 and 51SW7, Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, DC, Part 3 (2012)
This record contains excavation photographs for sites 51SW22 and 51SW7, identified during phase II investigations, JADOC facility on Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, D.C., Part 3.
Excavation Photographs, Phase II Investigations, Sites 51SW22 and 51SW7, Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, DC, Part 4 (2012)
This record contains excavation photographs for sites 51SW22 and 51SW7, identified during phase II investigations, JADOC facility on Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, D.C., Part 4.
Excavation Photographs, Site 51SW7, Bellevue Housing Complex, Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, DC, Part 1 (2010)
This record contains excavation photographs for site 51SW7, identified during phase I and II investigations, Bellevue Housing Complex on Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, D.C., Part 1.
Excavation Photographs, Site 51SW7, Bellevue Housing Complex, Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, DC, Part 2 (2010)
This record contains excavation photographs for site 51SW7, identified during phase I and II investigations, Bellevue Housing Complex on Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, D.C., Part 2.
Excavation to Exhibition: Archaeological Research and Stories of the African Diaspora (2013)
In 1720, Scotsman Alexander Nisbett boarded a ship bound for Charles Town. Three thousand miles away, captive Africans were forced onto ships bound for a place unknown to them. The lives of Europeans and Africans converged in South Carolina. At a place called Dean Hall, Alexander Nisbett and his enslaved laborers built a plantation to grow rice. Two hundred and eighty years later archaeologists came to the site of the old plantation to unearth the history of the people who created Dean Hall. ...
Excavation to Exhibition: Archaeology and a New Narrative for Plantation Museums (2013)
From 1730 until 1865 Charleston, South Carolina was home to some of the richest people in the New World. Their fortunes were created from rice, indigo, and cotton grown with the labour of enslaved Africans who made up over 50 percent of the Lowcountry population. Planters showcased their wealth in elegant plantations and townhouses filled with European fashions and furniture. Today this historical landscape is represented at the region’s popular plantation and house museums. As reflections of...
Excavations at Fort Lincoln, Washington, D.C (1968)
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Excavations at Historic Jacksonport State Park (3JA53) (2015)
The town of Jacksonport, Arkansas was established in the late 1830s near the confluence of the White and Black rivers, and rose to prominence during the 1850s to 1870s as a key steamboat town and as the Jackson County seat. However, after being bypassed by the railroad the town declined and by 1892, it was largely deserted. In 2009, the planned construction of a collection management facility lead to data recovery excavations within two town lots, as well as the recovery of detailed...
Excavations at Historic Neelsville: life as a tenant blacksmith (2016)
From 2014 to 2015, excavations within the historic crossroads town of Neelsville in Montgomery County, Maryland, now a residential neighborhood, revealed a complex of features including a structure with a stone foundation. Initially identified as a blacksmith shop based on historic research, the structure was later revealed to be an adjacent domestic structure, presumably where the blacksmith and his family lived. A nearby sheet midden showed evidence of shared usage between the household, the...
Excavations at the Howe Pottery: A Late Nineteenth-Century Kiln in Benton, Arkansas (2016)
This poster presents the results of Phase III archeological mitigation (data recovery) excavations at the Howe Pottery (3SA340) on Military Road in Benton, Arkansas. The Howe Pottery is a National Register of Historic Places eligible archeological site that is significant because of its unique state of preservation, coupled with a general lack of archeological data for the late nineteenth-century pottery industry in the Benton area. Archival records suggest the pottery was established before...
Excavations in the carriage house basement of the Sorrel-Weed House (2018)
The Sorrel-Weed House in Savannah is one of only a handful of antebellum homes in the city's tourism industry to undergo archaeological studies. In spring 2017, excavations were conducted in the basement of the carriage house, where a depression in the floor was thought to be caused by the remains of a former enslaved woman. Completed in ca. 1841, the Sorrel-Weed House was built for merchant Francis Sorrel and is now the focus of a public interpretation program that involves infidelity,...
Excerpts from the Pamunkey project, methodology and documentation (1999)
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...
Exchange, Entanglement, and ‘Freedom’: British Anti-Slavery and Nascent Colonialism in coastal Sierra Leone in the Age of Revolution. (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Considering Frontiers Beyond the Romantic: Spaces of Encroachment, Innovation, and Far Reaching Entanglements" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper examines the history of slavery, abolition, and the transition to nascent colonialism in coastal Sierra Leone from the lenses of the longue durée of history and entanglement concept. It draws on multiple lines of evidence to explore the role of material...
Executive Summary of Six Highway Related Archeological Surveys: U.S. Route 50 / Vienna Bypass, Wicomico and Dorchester Counties; Maryland Route 313 / Sharptown Bypass, Wicomico County; Maryland Route 363 / Improvements, Somerset County; Marylany (1990)
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.
Exhibit review: marks of identity (2000)
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Exhibitions of Gentility at George Washington’s Boyhood Home (2013)
The examination of personal accessories recovered from George Washington’s boyhood home (1738-1774) reveals the family’s efforts to portray their respectability and gentry class identity despite the economic and social anxieties they experienced after the death of their family patriarch. Dedicated analysis of small finds artifacts demonstrate the family’s commitment to genteel behavior and display. Clothing accessories such as powdered wigs and sleeve buttons proclaimed their class, and, on...