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Ferry Farm is perhaps most well known as the site of George Washington’s boyhood home. However, between the early 18th century and the Civil War, it was intermittently the site of multiple occupations, including the home of a former indentured servant, the home of an overseer and his enslaved wife, in addition to the Washington's and their enslaved domestic servants. The homes these families constructed were part of a dynamic landscape that shifted meaning and context throughout time. This paper...
Language, Identity, and Communication: an Exploration of Cultural and Linguistic Hybridity in Post-Colonial Peru (2013)
In the viceroyalty of Peru under Francisco Toledo, cultural and political organization represented a fusion of European and Andean ethos, ideology, and language. Using archaeological data and historical analysis, this paper explores the intermixture of the European colonial political structure and traditions with the Inkan quadripartite social organization and dualistic beliefs. The paper discusses the combination of two record-keeping methods during the Toledan order: the Inkan khipus, a...
The Lankford Site: Report of Pit # 1 Excavation (1976)
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The Lankford Site: Report on Pit # 3 Excavation (1975)
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.
Las Animas City, Colorado Territory, USA: A "Half Mexican Village" in the American West (2013)
Las Animas City, Colorado Territory, USA, was founded in 1869 near the newly established military fort, New Fort Lyon. The town prospered as a supply center for the fort during the early 1870s, reaching a population of a few hundred residents. In 1871, Frances M. A. Roe, an army wife, described the settlement as "a half Mexican village" where she could purchase items from Mexico along with household supplies. The 1870 census suggests that Roe’s characterization of the town may not have reflected...
Las Cadenas que más nos Encadenan son las Cadenas que Hemos Roto: The Yucatecan Hacienda, Capitalist Mentalities, and the Production of Space and Identity (2015)
The modern era is distinguished by the increasing articulation of people and places within a globalizing world characterized by a capitalist world-economy that links the local and regional to the global within an integrated World-System. Central to this system is a worldwide division of labor that organizes individuals and households into exploitative relationships within global commodity chains. The Yucatan Peninsula, a geographically bounded and economically peripheral place, transcends...
Laser Scanning as a Methodology for the Documentation and Interpretation of Archaeological Ships: A Case Study Using the 18th Century Ship from Alexandria, VA and the 18th Century Ship Found Below the World Trade Center in New York. (2018)
In January of 2016, the remains of an 18th century wooden ship were found during construction on the waterfront of Alexandria, VA. The ship was excavated and stored, and in June of 2017, the disarticulated timbers were shipped to the Conservation Research Laboratory at Texas A&M University for documentation and conservation. To document the ship, each individual timber is laser-scanned, and the individual laser scans are being re-assembled in the nurbs 3-D modelling suite Rhinoceros 5. This...
Last Call! One More For The Road: Dissertating With Existing Collections (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 the pursuit of acquiring knowledge a common culture of archaeological practice of keeping everything poses critical issues. Materials, at times unanalyzed and certainly underutilized, sit in repositories collecting dust while taking space and requiring financial obligations. These...
The Last Ones Out: The Impacts of the National Park Service on the Inhabitants of Cataloochee Valley, NC (2018)
This poster will highlight the benefits and drawbacks associated with the establishment of the National Park Service in western North Carolina. Specifically focusing on the Cataloochee Valley of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the implementation of government regulations both culturally and geographically affected the region in ways that did not always align. Some of these programs actually disenfranchised the local population, but simultaneously supplied the federal protection that has...
The Last Schooners Project 2019 Pilot Season: the Katie Eccles (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Nuts and Bolts of Ships: The J. Richard Steffy Ship Reconstruction Laboratory and the future of the archaeology of Shipbuilding" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Last Schooners Project conducted its 2019 pilot season researching the ships and sailors which persisted in sailing commerce on the Great Lakes long after sail had been supplanted by steam, in what was one of the most important transitions...
The Last Spear Throwers (2006)
J. Whittaker: Hunting with Jimmy Okitkun on the Yukon delta, spearing seals with atlatl because in fresh water they sink if you shoot them. Spear of driftwood with ivory or brass harpoon. Chasing seal with motor boat, repeated throws up to 100 feet before success. Graphic shows “nuqaq” simple Arctic form with paddle handle, one hole for finger, ivory hook [much like the one I made]. [Nice article].
Lasting Legacies of the Hermitage Archaeology Program (2018)
With nearly 30 years of hindsight now available, my brief three years as archaeological field assistant at the Hermitage from 1988-1990 not only started what would become lifelong friendships with Larry McKee and Sam Smith, but also had significant and lasting impacts on how I approached the Middle Tennessee landscape, fieldwork, labwork, archival research, and archaeology in general over my career. Here, I will reflect on my personal "take away" from the distinctive methodological and...
The Late 1570s Manila Galleon Shipwreck in Baja California (2017)
Our fourteen Mexico-United States expeditions from 1999 to 2015 to a wreck site along the desert shore of Baja California, and study of contemporary documents, have enabled us to reconstruct the story of the earliest eastbound Manila galleon shipwreck. The results include dating the ship to the period 1574 through approximately 1578, recovering her history, and explaining her tragic fate. We have discovered lead sheathing with iron nails from her lower hull, large amounts of beeswax from her...
Late 17th-Century Demographic and Settlement Patterns Among Swedish Families in the Delaware Valley (2015)
Following Holland's takeover of the New Sweden colony in 1655, the Swedish communities along the Delaware River continued to grow and spread. A database of individuals and families based on historical and genealogical data opens a window on the demographics of the 17th-century Swedish settlements. The 1671 and 1693 Censuses of the Swedes on the Delaware list the names of each listed head of household who was a member of one of the Swedish Lutheran churches. Genealogists, particularly the late...
Late Holocene Human Population Dynamics in Eastern North America: Lessons from Site and Artifact Records in DINAA and Beyond (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Global Perspectives on Climate-Human Population Dynamics During the Late Holocene" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Population trends in Eastern North America are explored using the incidence and distribution of diagnostic artifacts and components, using continental scale datasets like DINAA and PIDBA, and as developed by researchers at the locality, state, or regional level. Such research has a long history in the...
Late Holocene Oyster Reef Development and Its Impact on Calusa Natural Resource Utilization, Estero Bay, Southwest Florida (2018)
The Horseshoe Keys are an extensive oyster reef ecosystem within manageable paddling distance from Mound Key, Estero Bay, Southwest Florida, the site of the Calusa’s political center beginning ~AD950. The Calusa thrived in this bay, partially due to the natural resources available, including these oyster reefs. Sediment cores from this region show a rich history of reef development dating to ~2200 yBP. The reefs exhibit an ecological succession shifting from a vermetiform gastropod community to...
Late Ice Age Hunting Technology (1994)
J. Whittaker: Different bone/antler points replicated and tested on carcasses. Atlatl assumed, but crossbow used in controlled experiments.
Late Pleistocene Deposits in Lake George, Florida (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Liquid Landscapes: Recent Developments in Submerged Landscape Archaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2006, a Suwannee Paleoindian site was reported by local collectors in Lake George, Florida’s second largest lake. Although destroyed, the site changed our understanding of Paleoindian distributions in the state. Since then, the Archaeological Research Cooperative has conducted surface and sub-bottom surveys of...
Late Pre-Columbian Craft and Community at the Weeden Island Site (8Pi1) (2018)
In the past, as in the present, political-economic relationships occur at multiple social scales: for instance, we recognize regional relationships of dominance or tribute, degrees of dependence or rivalry between trading partner communities, and patterns of collaboration or competition between neighboring households. Enduring inequalities may become established at any of these levels at different times. This paper will discuss the local organization of residential communities in the context of...
Late Quaternary Site Formation Processes and Archaeological Site Preservation Potential of the Lower Aucilla River, Florida (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For more than four decades the lower Aucilla River in northwest Florida has been recognized for its impressive late Pleistocene archaeological site preservation and its potential to further our understanding of Americas earliest indigenous inhabitants. Within the mid-channel collapse sinkholes of this river, dozens of late Pleistocene archaeological sites...
The Late Seventeenth Century Western Frontier of Maryland: a View from Harmony Hall (1989)
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Late Woodland Settlement and Subsistence in the Southern Piedmont of Virginia: A Geospatial Analysis and Archaeological Synthesis of the Smith River Valley (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Smith River Survey is a two-year archaeological assessment of the Smith River valley in the southern Piedmont of Virginia. This river drainage survey explores the regional settlement patterns, site functions, and subsistence logistics across the alluvial floodplains, foothills, and uplands in the southern part of Virginia's Blue Ridge mountains. While this...
A Layered Landscape: The Past, Present, and Future of Archaeology at Fort Ticonderoga (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Re-discovering the Archaeology Past and Future at Fort Ticonderoga" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The recovery of artifacts at Fort Ticonderoga in the 20th century focused largely on the immediate area of the fort itself prior to reconstruction effort. The military complex at Fort Ticonderoga spanned across both sides of Lake Champlain and well beyond the walls of the fort itself. Only limited professional...
Laying Aloft in Modern Times: Exploring the Potential of Collaborative Work Between Nautical Archaeology and Tall Ship Organizations (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Innovative Approaches to Finding Agency in Objects" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For those studying the act of sailing a vessel during the Age of Sail, roughly 1500-1900, details regarding a sailor’s day-to-day sailing experience, as well as the detailed mechanics of the operation of the vessel, can be frustratingly rare. Texts that do exist, in the form of rigging guides or sailor autobiographies for...
Layout, Construction, and Rebuilding of Landscape Features at Poverty Point World Heritage Site (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Questions persist about the layout and building sequence of Poverty Point’s landscape features, and the planning and rapidity of overall site construction. A research program using geophysics, stratigraphic coring, lidar, and targeted excavation that began in 2006 continues to yield new data and interpretations about the ridges, timber circles, plaza, and...