Florida (State / Territory) (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Molly McDonald.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Urban Archaeology: Down by the Water" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Over a third of Lower Manhattan’s landmass is composed of fill contained within buried wharves, bulkheads, and other landfill retaining structures. Archaeological investigations have increasingly afforded opportunities to examine the construction methods used to build these early structures in New York City and elsewhere. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles Ewen.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Prior to the Civil War both whites and free African-Americans were interred at Cedar Grove cemetery in New Bern, North Carolina. In 1914, the Jim Crow Era city fathers decided to remove 14 African American burials to the black cemetery three blocks away. A century later, a local reporter and a community activist joined forces to right the past wrong and return the burials to their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Gilleland. Jennifer Amico. Anna Patchen. Tiffany Raymond. Rebecca Hunt.

The concentric ring features at the Poverty Point World Heritage site are monumental structures a kilometer and a half in diameter at their widest point. Though these impressive structures went unnoticed for many years after the identification of the area’s other archaeological resources, they are now recognized as a unique attribute of an already remarkable site. Here, we use multiple geophysical methods to attempt to characterize the construction of these features. Initially assumed to have...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rob Roy. David Wescott.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Karl W. Butzer.

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.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ellis B. Powelson.

When the discovery of gold in California was announced to the world, San Francisco almost instantly became the focal point of global activity. A steady flow of ships sailed to the fledgling city, carrying immigrants from ports as far-flung as Hong Kong, Valparaiso, London, and virtually every major entrepot on the eastern seaboard of the United States. Flooding into the city with these new arrivals was a vast assortment of commercial goods. Raw materials such as hardware and building supplies,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Donald Gaylord.

Settled in the 1730s by Scotch-Irish immigrants who initially eschewed the institution of slavery, Rockbridge County, Virginia eventually became home to a society reliant on the enslavement of African Americans. After the Revolution, an elite class of newly minted American citizens established its identity through economic, social, and symbolic associations with Chesapeake plantation society. William Alexander (1738-1797) and his son Andrew (1768-1844) exemplified this transition, with Andrew...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nancy L. Powell. Paul Kreisa. Geri Knight-Iske.

In 2014 the District Public Schools began extensive construction and renovation of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, the former Western High School. Portions of the building date to the last decade of the 19th century, the former location of The Cedars residence, the home of the Cox family. The few photographs and descriptions of The Cedars were thought to be all that remained due to the construction of the school.  Stantec and EHT Traceries undertook archaeological and archival...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John F. Scarry.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew H. Newberry.

The use of remote sensing technology, such as aerial LiDAR (light detection and ranging), provides archaeologists with a significant tool to aid in research as well as digitally record sites. Inland and coastal rice plantation contexts are extremely well suited for the application of aerial LiDAR in locating potential new sites as well as providing accurate maps of the overall landscape and topography. LiDAR scans produce a more accurate map than traditional topographic maps which enables...

DOCUMENT Citation Only pete regan.

Mulberry Island, a peninsula on Virginia’s James River and home to Joint Base Langley-Eustis’ Fort Eustis, is a trove of cultural resources. Among its more than 230 archaeological sites are dozens of indentured, enslaved, and tenant laborers’ ephemeral homesteads. Relatively few sites associated with its economically advantaged minority have been discovered on Mulberry Island, leaving a gap in the archaeological record compounded by the loss of antebellum public records during the Civil War....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Chartrand.

Jamestown Island contains low-lying terrain with archaeological sites, known and unknown, threatened by sea level rise.  Using data acquired from the United States Geological Survey (USGS), a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) was created using a Light Detection and Ranging Remote Sensing technique (LIDAR) to identify cultural sites and assist in planning for cultural remediation. Four scenarios of sea level rise modeling were created based on historic trends and projected environmental events...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas Armstrong.

An overview of religious practice and resistance reflected in the material record of Trents Cave, Barbados.  The cave site is located at the bottom of a gully located between the enslaved laborer settlement and the planter’s residence at Trents Plantation.  The findings suggest recurrent use of the site by persons of African descent (circa 1750s through the 1850s) for ritual, or specialized purposes, associated with iron and steel.  The distinctive pattern of deposition of key artifacts...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel A. Bradburd.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Cameron Howell.

The exchange of exotic goods between disparate geographic and cultural groups across the Midwest and Southeast is a hallmark of the Hopewell Period. Ceramics Are recognized by archaeologists as an important component of this interaction sphere. This exchange is usually conceptualized as whole vessels moving across the landscape. In this paper, it is posited that sherds could be the unit of exchange instead. Using ritual circuits as a theoretical framework, this preliminary paper seeks to lay a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Margaret W. Conkey.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Mikayla Fletcher.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Lower Mississippi Valley (LMV) has a long history of monumentality, with early examples of monumental earthworks confidently dated to the Middle Archaic (6000 – 3000 BC) and Late Archaic (3000 – 1000 BC) periods, and other mounds dating to Woodland (after 1000 BC) and Mississippi (after AD 1200) periods. The Middle Woodland-period Marksville mound site...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John M. Corbett.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark F. Boyd.

The Apalachicola River is wholly a Florida stream, formed at the western extremity of the boundary line between Georgia and the colonial East Florida by the union of the Flint and Chattahoochee Rivers. The Flint is the shorter and more pellucid member of the union, while the Chattahoochee has greater volume and marked turbidity. "Rugged" is not a term that with strict propriety can be applied to Florida topography, but if understood to be used in a relative sense it may be said that the terrain...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ripley P. Bullen.

In the fall of 1952, construction of the Jim Woodruff Dam in northwest Florida approached the stage when water would be impounded and Indian sites flooded (map 9). Negotiations were started between the National Park Service and the Florida State Museum, University of Florida, with a view to salvaging archeological data within the State of Florida. In April1953, contract 14-10-0100-134 was signed, under which the work covered by this report was completed. Reports by Joseph R. Caldwell and Carl F....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lotte E Govaerts.

The 1803 Louisiana Purchase included most of the present-day states of North and South Dakota. I study the US colonization of this area, particularly the Upper Missouri Basin. During the mid-twentieth century the Smithsonian’s River Basin Surveys (RBS) program investigated several nineteenth century historic sites associated with the earliest US presence in the area including fur trade posts, US military and government establishments, and sites associated with US settlement. I study RBS...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Doug Meyer.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William A Griswold.

The fortification of Bemus Heights at Saratoga by the Americans during the Revolutionary War was engineered by Thaddeus Kosciuszko, a Polish military engineer who had taken up the American cause at the beginning of the Revolutionary War. Kosciusko designed the fortifications on Bemus Heights at the River Overlook to oppose the British plan to advance to Albany along the River Road.  In 2009, a geophysical study was conducted on one of the River Fortification elements in Kosciusko’s defense...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Buckner.

This is an abstract from the "Vicksburg Is the Key: Recent Archaeological Investigations and New Perspectives from the Gibraltar of the South" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. HDR’s recent investigations in Vicksburg National Military Park (VNMP) identified multiple precontact sites composed of extensive ceramic scatters. A typological analysis of nearly 300 sherds suggests these occupations are associated with the transitional Coles Creek culture...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William White.

Race relations remains a central issue in American politics, economics, and culture. Interactions between African Americans and Euroamericans has been a focal point of historical archaeology for the last 30 years. The River Street Digital History Project is centered on the River Street Neighborhood in Boise, Idaho, which was the historical home for most of the town’s non-white population. This research asks: what role did race play in the lives of River Street Neighborhood residents; how did the...