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A Retrospective Look At The Material Culture Of The Leonard Calvert Site (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Silas Hurry. Donald L. Winter.

Since Historic St. Mary’s City began its investigations at the Leonard Calvert site in 1980, a remarkable suite of material culture has emerged from this premier colonial site. This presentation looks back over some of the artifacts recovered and provides some context for a number of the more remarkable objects. Ceramics, tobacco pipes, small finds, and glassware are all represented. Ceramics include Dutch tin glazed earthenware, Rhenish stoneware, and tiles, while glass includes façon de...

The Return of the Large Enigmatic Pit: Investigating Off-Mound Areas at Pumpkin Lake (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Kassabaum. Grace Riehm. Regina Lowe. Matthew Capps. Vincas Steponaitis.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Pumpkin Lake (22JE517) mound in the Natchez Bluffs region of southwestern Mississippi was excavated as part of the Mississippi Mound Trail project in 2013. The single mound was determined to have been constructed during the Middle Woodland and early Late Woodland periods (AD 200–750). During the summer of 2022, we returned to assess the extent of...

Return to Antikythera (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Theotokis Theodhoulou. Brendan Foley. Dave Conlin.

In 1900, Greek sponge divers stumbled upon what was to become one of themost iconic and fabulous shipwrecks ever found in the Mediterranean close to the tiny Greek Island of Antikythera- the Antikythera shipwreck. Over the course of several perilous months of diving, despite numerous episodes of the bends and a fatality, the divers recovered a treasure of Classical bronze and marble statuary and the famous Antikythera Mechanism- the world's oldest known mechanical computer. Since 2013,...

A Return to Fort Mose: Exploring a Free African Town on the Spanish Frontier (1752-1763) (2020)

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Davidson. Lori Lee. Mary Elizabeth Ibarrola.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "African Diaspora in Florida" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose, or Fort Mose, was a fortified settlement established in 1738 by the Spanish governor of Florida, and populated by recently self-emancipated Africans as a defensive element to the town of St. Augustine. The earliest free African town in what is now the United States, Mose was attacked and destroyed by the...

Return to Martin’s Hundred: The Archaeology of a Mid-Seventeenth Century Virginia Houselot (2020)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Kostro.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeological Research of the 17th Century Chesapeake" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In March of 1622, nearly a third of Virginia’s English population was killed in a surprise attack by the local Powhatan with the goal of hampering the English expansion efforts, and to reassert their supremacy over the newcomers. Martin’s Hundred, a fortified settlement founded by the English four years earlier, and...

Return to Portland 2019: Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Exploration with Deep Sea Technology and Telepresence (2020)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Calvin Mires. Evan Kovacs. Kirstin Meyer-Keiser. Benjamin Haskell.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the summer and fall of 2019, a team from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and staff from NOAA Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary (SBNMS) conducted an interdisciplinary exploration, survey, and telepresence outreach of biological and cultural sites within Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary (SBNMS). This first year of a multi-year project included archaeological...

Return To The 'Queen City of the West': Preliminary Investigations at the Port of Indianola, Texas (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samuel M Cuellar.

Indianola, Texas was the commercial gem of the western Gulf of Mexico during the height of its existence, from the late 1850s until its abandonment in 1887. Responsible for much of the commerce entering western Texas and the western territories via the Gulf of Mexico, Indianola has been largely overlooked archaeologically, despite a high potential for the presence of a significant amount of cultural materials. A team of archaeologists from Texas A&M University, the Institute of Nautical...

The Reuse of Indian Mounds as Historic and Modern Cemeteries (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian Brown.

Stephen Williams had strong interests in the history of archaeology, prehistoric Indian mounds, and historical archaeology. This paper combines aspects of each of these interests. Cemeteries associated with Indian mounds commonly occur in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. Numerous reasons have been put forth over the years as to why early Anglo-American settlers decided to bury their dead on mounds, ranging from flooding issues, to avoidance of valuable farmland, to a preference for burying on...

Revaluation of Age, Stature and Sex of the Texepan Remains, Mexico (1960)

DOCUMENT Citation Only S. T. Genoves.

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.

Revealing Hidden Histories and Confronting the Segregated Past: the Political and Social Dynamics of Memory in a Coastal Florida City (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Uzi Baram.

Archaeological excavations and presentations are memory-work, offering tactile and visual materials for consideration of the past. In a coastal Florida city, growing rapidly through in-migration of retirees and service industry employment opportunities, there are few aware or concerned over history. Yet the past haunts the Florida Gulf Coast and the expanding interest in heritage includes competitions among historians and archaeologists, residents and tourists, and development interests and...

Revealing the Hidden Landscape: Saint Croix Island International Historical Site beyond French Colonial Settlement (2020)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Margaret Wilkes.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Northeast Region National Park Service Archeological Landscapes and the Stories They Tell" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Baseline documentation and climate change research focus on identifying and interpreting archeological remains to help guide immediate- to long term treatment and preservation of the actively eroding Saint Croix Island. The integrated high resolution remote sensing surveys on the...

Reverse Engineering Dart Point Design Requirements Using Whole Points from a Middle Woodland Site in Mississippi (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Janet Rafferty.

Reverse engineering involves using products of a technology, in the absence of documentation, to determine design parameters. A set of 46 whole hafted bifaces from 22OK746 in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, which contained a Middle Woodland occupation, were studied. They were determined to be projectile points based on shared size, shape, and hafting traits with bifaces from the site that displayed impact fractures. The whole points were analyzed using parameters derived theoretically,...

Review Article: Morphologic Studies in the Skeletal Dysplasias (1979)

DOCUMENT Citation Only D. O. Sillence. W. A. Horton. D. L. Rimoin.

Review of "a Compilation of Fluted Points of Eastern North America By CCountyand Distribution: An AENA Project" (1983)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Barbara A. Purdy.

Review of "Certain Aboriginal Remains On the Northwest Florida Coast, Part I (1902)

DOCUMENT Citation Only William H. Holmes.

Review of "Certain Sand Mound of the St. Johns River" (1895)

DOCUMENT Citation Only H. C. Mercer.

Review of "In the Realms of Gold": Proceeding of the 10th Conference On Underwater Archaeology (1982)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Barbara A. Purdy.

Review of "Lithic Resource Procurement" (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Barbara A. Purdy.

Review of "Moundville Revisited," "Crystal River Revisited," "Mounds of the Lower Chattahoochee and Lower Flint Rivers," "Notes On the Ten Thousand" (1907)

DOCUMENT Citation Only William H. Holmes.

Review of "Poverty Point", "Marksville", Early Caddoan Cultures", "Weeden Island Culture", "Fort Center" and "Art of the Taino" Slide Sets (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nancy Marie White.

Review of "Shipwreck Anthropology" (1985)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Barbara A. Purdy.

Review of "Two Weeden Island Period Burial Mounds, Florida" (1960)

DOCUMENT Citation Only James A. Ford.

Review of 'A Quantitative Method for Deriving Cultural Chronology' (1963)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Ascher.

Review of 'Engraved Shell Gorgets and Their Associations' (1960)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Antonio J. Waring, Jr..

Review of 'Indian Burials from Saint Petersburg, Florida' (1963)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alice M. Brues.

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