Arkansas (State / Territory) (Geographic Keyword)

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Arboreal Historical Anchors: Sacred Forests and Memory Making in Southern Benin, West Africa (2013)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Neil Norman.

The Bight of Benin region is well known as a locale filled with poignant places associated with the trans-Atlantic trade in enslaved individuals. This paper follows recent efforts in the region aimed at writing landscape features into deeper historic narratives and exploring them in terms of broader political and economic processes.  In so doing, it pushes beyond coastal points of loss and into dynamic cosmopolitan interior places.  It argues that the historical and archaeological arc of...


Archaeogaming Theory: Explaining Post-Entanglement Dualist Artifacts (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Reinhard.

Archaeogaming, the study of the intersection of archaeology in (and of) video games), explores a unique class of ordinary artifacts that effortlessly occupy both real and virtual worlds. This presentation explains archaeogaming's many branches while providing a new way of discussing digital games, dismissing their appearance as simply media objects, treating them instead as both archaeological artifact and site created by both hardware and software into vehicles of iconoclasm. As archaeologists,...


Archaeogaming: A Different Approach to Public Archaeology (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Coy J. Idol. Katherine D. Thomas.

This is an abstract from the "The Public and Our Communities: How to Present Engaging Archaeology" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeogaming is multidisplinary approach to understanding the intersection between archaeology and video games. Our work in this field has been directed towards using it to create a new avenue for reaching out to the public. As part of this new avenue, archaeogaming provides an opportunity to reach different groups...


The Archaeological "Exceptionalism" of the Seventeenth Century: Myles Standish, James Deetz, and the Siren Song of Welsh Architecture (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristen B Heitert.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Reinterpreting New England’s Past For the Future" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Myles Standish House Site in Duxbury, Massachusetts, is familiar to most historcial archaeologists through James Deetz’s 1977 publication In Small Things Forgotten. In it, Deetz highlighted the 1635 foundation ruins as the earliest systematic excavation of a post-contact period site in the United States and an important...


Archaeological And Archival Investigations Of A Norwegian Farmstead In Bosque County, Texas (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandra M Smith.

Bosque County, Texas, has a rich history as the most successful Norwegian settlement in the state, attracting immigrants throughout the latter half of the 19th century. Ole Finstad was no exception to this Texas fever; immigrating in 1871 at the age of 51, he acquired 160 acres in Bosque County, built a rock house, and spent his days farming and raising cattle. His descendants continued this tradition for the next 84 years, and the ruins of the original rock house still stand today. This paper...


Archaeological and Geophysical Investigations of the Tebbs Bend Battlefield, Taylor County, Kentucky (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only W. Stephen McBride. Philip B. Mink. Edward R. Henry.

In 2011 McBride Preservation Services and the Kentucky Archaeological Survey conducted geophysical surveys and archaeological excavations of the Tebbs Bend Civil War Battlefield for the Tebbs Bend-Green River Bridge Battlefield Association and the American Battlefield Protection Program.  This investigation consisted of archival research, military terrain analysis, geophysical surveys, and archaeological survey and testing and resulted in the discovery and exposure of sections of the forward...


Archaeological and Historical Assessment of the Red River Basin in Arkansas (1970)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael P. Hoffman.

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.


Archaeological and Historical Assessment of the Red River Basin in Louisiana (1970)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert W. Neuman.

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.


Archaeological and Historical Inventory and Preliminary Field Reconnaissance of Village Creek, Jackson and Lawrence Counties, Arkansas (1974)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacqueline R. Fehon. Alfred D. Viscito.

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.


Archaeological and Historical Investigations for Energy Facilities: A State of the Art Report (1977)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Iroquois Research Institute.

This study's main objective is to inform a decision maker of the various measures available to fulfill mandated federal regulations to preserve and protect the nation's cultural resources. The State of the Art report has important revelations and admitted limitations. It identifies some of the existing bias. It reports many accomplishments of recent years but fails to establish precise dollar thresholds for certain types of cultural resources' performances. This report is biased by only...


Archaeological applications of optimal foraging theory: harvest strategies of Aleut hunter-gatherers (1981)
DOCUMENT Citation Only David R Yesner.

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...


An archaeological assessment of coastal Louisiana (1977)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert W. Neuman.

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.


Archaeological Assessment of the Buffalo National River (1979)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Wolfman.

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.


Archaeological Atlas and Report of Prehistoric Indian Mounds in Louisiana: Vol II - Ascension, Iberville, Pointe Coupee, St. James and West Feliciana (1987)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Dennis Jones.

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.


Archaeological authenticity and reconstruction at Colonial Williamsburg (2004)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Marley R Brown III. Edward A Chappell.

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...


Archaeological Collection Sampling and Discard Protocols - Report (Legacy 16-789) (2018)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Brian Crane.

This report provides 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.


An Archaeological Collections Inventory for the US Army Corps of Engineers, Little Rock District (1999)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Rhonda R. Lueck. Marc Kodack. Lynn Neher.

Between October 1993 and August 1994, the US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections (MCX-CMAC), located at the St. Louis District, conducted an evaluation of archaeological collections and associated documentation generated from civil works projects under the responsibility of the US Army Corps of Engineers, Little Rock District. This volume includes an assessment of archaeological collections housed at the Museum of...


Archaeological Considerations In The Study Of The Anthropocene (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only James Gibb. Sarah N. Janesko.

The Anthropocene epoch, garnering the interest of geologists and environmental scientists for the past decade, has now entered the archaeological lexicon. As in other disciplines, questions remain about what Anthropocene means and when it began, as well as how it differs from the Holocene. This presentation explores some of these issues and offers a ground-up approach by which conventional approaches in archaeology might be adapted to a reassessment of the human experience and the role of...


The Archaeological Context of the 1617 Church Excavations (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only David Givens.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Excavating the Foundations of Representative Government: A Case Study in Interdisciplinary Historical Archaeology." , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2016, the Jamestown Rediscovery team began excavations inside the 1907 Memorial Church with the intentions of locating and contextualizing the location of the oldest continuous law-making body in the Western Hemisphere. In anticipation of the construction of...


Archaeological Curation Needs Assessments for Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Fort Gordon, Georgia, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base, California, and Naval Air Weapons Station, China Lake, California (1993)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas B. Meyers. Michael Trimble.

This curation needs assessment study of five installations found that, of the collections stored at 20+ repositories, only three meet the minimum Federal standards as described in 36 CFR Part 79.


Archaeological Curation-Needs Assessment for Army National Guard Collections in the Western United States (2000)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Kristen L. Marino.

Federal archaeological collections are a non-renewable national resource, a legacy to the prehistoric and historic events that have shaped the nation. The American public is the owner of these materials and documentation, and as such, it is incumbent upon the National Guard Bureau to uphold the laws and regulations set forth by Congress for their proper use and care in perpetuity. Unfortunately, for the last 50 or more years, curation of these materials has been insufficient and/or ignored....


An Archaeological Curation-Needs Assessment for Headquarters Air Combat Command - Volume 1 (1996)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Natalie M. Drew. Rhonda Lueck. Eugene Marino. Christopher Pulliam.

Between September 1993 and May 1995, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District's Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections (MCX) conducted a survey of archaeological collections and associated documentation generated from archaeological investigations conducted on 42 U.S. Air Force, Air Combat Command (ACC) installations. This initial volume addressed collections from the following installations: Avon Park Air Force Range, Florida;...


An Archaeological Curation-Needs Assessment for Headquarters Air Combat Command - Volume 2 (1997)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Eugene A. Marino.

Between October 1995 and January 1996, the US Army Corps of Engineers St. Louis District, Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections conducted a survey of achaeological collections and associated documentation generated from archaeological investigations conducted on 20 US Air Force, Air Combat Command (ACC) installations. This volume addresses collections from the following installations: Little Rock Air Force base and Black Jack Air Force...


An Archaeological Curation-Needs Assessment for Headquarters Air Combat Command, Technical Report No. 10, Volume 1 (1996)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Natalie M. Drew.

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.


An Archaeological Curation-Needs Assessment for the Legacy Resource Management Program: Idaho, Maryland, Montana, Virginia and Wyoming Regions (1999)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Kelly Holland-Wissehr. Kenneth L. Shingleton, Jr.. Jeremy L. Goldstein. Mary J. Bade. Sylvia Yu.

At the request of the Legacy Resource Management Program, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections (MCX-CMAC), located at the St. Louis District, conducted a survey of archaeological collections and associated documentation generated from archaeological investigations conducted within the boundaries of military installations located in the states of Idaho, Maryland, Montana, Virginia, and Wyoming, which is the...