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20th-Century Building Materials and Suitable Substitutes for Exterior Finishes and Roofs (Legacy 15-707)
PROJECT Uploaded by: McKenna McMahon

This project investigated problem areas associated with repair or in-kind replacement of exterior materials and addresses possible suitable substitute materials.


611th Air Support Group Resources
PROJECT Uploaded by: Rachel Fernandez

Project metadata for resources within the 611th Air Support Group cultural heritage resources collection.


The Antiquities Act
PROJECT Uploaded by: system user

This project includes documents related to the history and historical background of the Antiquities Act and its implementation during the century since its enactment. The Antiquities Act was signed into law in 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt. The history of American conservation often is told in terms of legal milestones, and rightly so. An environmental activist working to expand a local park, a historic preservationist trying to save a cherished old building, a volunteer working on a...


Archaeological Collection Sampling and Discard Protocols (Legacy 16-789)
PROJECT Brian Crane.

This project developed guidance on how to slow the growth in volume of materials requiring long-term curation and allow for future efficient management of collections of undetermined, little or no research potential. Guidance is given to relate collection management plans to associated project research designs. These guidelines should be distributed to DoD cultural resources subject matter experts and cultural resources managers for implementation. The best practices presented would be...


An Archaeological Study of Colonial Chesapeake Culture
PROJECT Julia King.

Using detailed comparisons of the archaeological assemblages from 18 early sites in the Chesapeake, this project explores the material conditions of culture contact, plantation development and organization, the rise of slavery, and consumer behavior. Comparable artifact databases have been created for the 18 sites, and analysis of artifact distributions has provided great insight into differences and similarities.


Bellevue Housing Complex, Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, DC (2010.064)
PROJECT Navy.

This project contains resources related to investigations during phase I and II investigations at Bellevue Housing Complex on Join Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, D.C - near site 51SW7. This project contains the following resources: artifact catalog, photograph log, excavation photographs, site report.


Bennett's Point (18QU28)
PROJECT Uploaded by: Gregory Brown

The Bennett’s Point (18QU28) site represents the principal dwelling at a colonial period tobacco plantation located in Queen Anne’s County, Maryland. The home of Elizabeth and Richard Bennett III between 1700 and 1749, Bennett’s Point was also a major port. Bennett was a lawyer, planter, merchant and one of the wealthiest men in the colony. The Bennett’s Point collection represents the domestic core of a large tobacco plantation, one of a very few early to mid-18th-century household sites...


Big Sandy River Basin Navigation Study 1978
PROJECT US Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District. US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District.

This collection is referred to as "Big Sandy River Basin Navigation Study 1978.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is a quarter (0.25) of a linear inch. The document dates to 1978 and was originally housed in an acidic folder within an acidfree box with other document collections from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Huntington District. The document was in good condition. Metal contaminants, including a...


Burle's Town Land (18AN826)
PROJECT Al Luckenbach.

The Burle's Town Land Site (18AN826) is located within the 17th-century settlement of Providence in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Providence had been settled primarily by a group of Puritans invited by Lord Baltimore to Maryland in 1649. The colony’s Act Concerning Religion, passed that same year, guaranteed that the Puritans would not be harassed for their religious beliefs as they had been in Virginia. While the relationship between the newly arrived settlers at Providence and the Maryland...


Camden (44CE3)
PROJECT Howard MacCord.

The Camden archaeological site (44CE3) is located on the south side of the Rappahannock River approximately 2.5 miles east of Port Royal in Caroline County, Virginia. It was excavated in the 1960s, under the supervision of Howard A. MacCord (1969). The site was occupied by Virginia Indians from c. 1650 until c. 1690, and was part of a much larger complex of Native American settlement that occurred in this area during the 17th century. Twenty sites, including 44CE3, are located in an...


Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Resources
PROJECT Uploaded by: Rachel Fernandez

Project metadata for resources within the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station cultural heritage resources collection.


Carter's Grove Site CG-8 (44JC647)
PROJECT Uploaded by: Gregory Brown

Carter’s Grove Site 8—also known as CG-8 (44JC647)—is part of the Martin’s Hundred settlement, located on the James River in James City County, Virginia. The site was probably occupied sometime in the second quarter of the 17th century and abandoned by c. 1650, at a time when the price of tobacco had dropped in Virginia. Its occupants appear to have been at the lower end of the economic scale, in contrast with the Martin’s Hundred residents described by Ivor Noël Hume in his book, Martin’s...


Chalkley (18AN711)
PROJECT Al Luckenbach.

The Chalkley site (18AN711) represents the remains of a small planter’s earthfast dwelling and is located in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Occupied for less than a decade by tobacco planter Thomas Jeffe, Jr. and his family, the site revealed evidence of a simple 16 ½-x-20 foot earthfast dwelling. Artifacts, along with archaeological and documentary evidence, suggest Jeffe Jr. built and occupied this earthfast dwelling with his wife Mary between 1677 and 1685. Observation of the surrounding area...


Chaney's Hills (18AN1084)
PROJECT Al Luckenbach.

The Chaney’s Hills site is located in Riva, southern Anne Arundel County, Maryland. The 3.7-acre site lies within the southwestern portion of an 89.7-acre parcel south of Governor’s Bridge Road and west of Riva Road, located near Flat Creek, a tributary of the South River. Chaney’s Hills was occupied by Richard Chaney and his wife Charity from 1658 until just before his death in 1686. Chaney's will indicates that he had three daughters and three sons. His probate inventory indicated that he had...


Clifts Plantation (44WM33)
PROJECT Fraser Neiman.

Summary of Documentary Evidence and Intra-site Chronology (Adapted from material provided by Fraser D. Neiman) The Clifts Plantation (44WM33) is located on the south shore of the Potomac River in Westmoreland County, Virginia. The site lies on a tract of land now owned by the Robert E. Lee Memorial Association, Inc., a group devoted to the preservation of Stratford Hall, the 18th-century mansion that was the birthplace of Robert E. Lee. The site was excavated over a three-year period, from...


Compton (18CV279)
PROJECT Uploaded by: Gregory Brown

The Compton Site (18CV279) is a mid-17th-century tobacco plantation located near the mouth of the Patuxent River at Solomons in Calvert County, Maryland. The traces of at least two earthfast structures and post and rail fencing dating between 1651 and 1685 were uncovered in advance of residential construction. William and Magdalen Stevens acquired the Compton Site in 1651, when they are believed to have come to Maryland from Virginia. The Stevens and their children remained at the site until...


Conservation of H.L. Hunley and its Associated Artifacts (Legacy 05-106)
PROJECT James W. Hunter.

This report describes work performed in 2005 to assess corrosion of the submarine's hull, which led to the expansion of the H.L. Hunley's cathodic protection system to the interior of the submarine's ballast tanks. A significant number of complex and fragile artifacts associated with the Hunley were conserved.


Cosmology in the New World
PROJECT Santa Fe Institute.

This project consists of articles written by members of Santa Fe Institute’s cosmology research group. Overall, the goal of this group is to understand the larger relationships between cosmology and society through a theoretically open-ended, comparative examination of the ancient American Southwest, Southeast, and Mesoamerica.


Cultural Resources Job Descriptions and Position Classification Standards (Legacy 15-713)
PROJECT Megan Tooker.

This project highlights two objectives: (1) to research and develop new job descriptions for architectural historian, cultural resources manager (CRM), and historic preservationist technician/specialist, and (2) to review the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) current job classifications for architectural historians, historic preservationists, and CRMs and then present a plan to improve the hiring process for those positions by recommending changes and additions to job classifications.


Cultural Resources Public Outreach and Interpretation Source Book (Legacy 10-127)
PROJECT Chad Blackwell.

This project created a guide that collects existing standards, guidance, and best practices on cultural resources interpretation and public outreach and examples of interpretation and public outreach projects. This project developed an evaluation rubric for comparing effectiveness of diverse project types and used that data to develop a source book of best examples and guidance to help DoD components and installations to develop their own creative cultural resources interpretation and public...


Department of Defense and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Curation Options Project, Eastern States (Legacy 97-0376)
PROJECT Uploaded by: Courtney Williams

Department of Defense archaeological collections generally have not been curated to the standards required by 36 CFR Part 79. This report, based on a study in the eastern United States, identified potential partners, evaluated their capabilities to manage DoD archaeological collections, and collected baseline administrative information associated with such a project.


Design Guidelines for Implementing Energy Efficiency Strategies in Historic Properties (Legacy 11-382 & 13-382)
PROJECT Tina Reames.

This project provides guidelines intended to facilitate the planning of rehabilitation projects that will result in improved energy efficiency in historic buildings operated by the Department of Defense (DoD) and help the DoD meet historic preservation and energy savings design goals.


Development of DoD Guidance for Archaeological Site Monitoring and Condition Assessments (Legacy 09-442)
PROJECT Uploaded by: Courtney Williams

Monitoring the condition of archaeological sites is required under Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act, Article 15 of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act, and Executive Order 13287; however, this responsibility is often overlooked in favor of funding the identification and evaluation of archaeological resources. This project presents best management practices to ensure consistent data collection and to aid in prioritizing future site treatment actions, and tools to...


Evaluating a Cooperative Approach to the Management of Digital Archaeological Data (Legacy 13-711)
PROJECT Sara Rivers Cofield. Jodi Reeves Flores.

In response to DoD's need for efficient access to archaeological data from past investigations, this project was undertaken as a test case to evaluate whether and how an online repository for digital archaeological and cultural resource management (CRM) data could be developed and managed by the Center for Digital Antiquity to fulfill this need.


Federal Archeology Program Description and Analysis
PROJECT Uploaded by: Francis McManamon

This project includes a variety of products related to the archeological activities carried out by or required by Federal agencies. The agencies include land managing agencies, such as the Bureau of Land Management or the National Park Service. Other agencies carry out or fund development activities, such as the Federal Highway Administration or the Bureau of Reclamation. Some agencies focus on regulatory activities, such as licenses issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. All of...