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The Woodford’s Brigade Site is situated within Valley Forge National Historical Park, southeastern Pennsylvania. This area of the park, associated with General Woodford’s Brigade, is located on the southern slopes of Mount Joy, on a grassy field (Matthew Kalos, personal communication August 8, 2014). Two soil samples, collected from two trenches in a “pipe trench” feature, were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains to better understand the origin of this trench.
POLLEN AND PHYTOLITH ANALYSIS FOR THE BLACKLOG NARROWS MITIGATION, PENNSYLVANIA (2009)
Five stratigraphic sediment samples from two locations at the Blacklog Narrows, Aughwick Watershed, Cromwell Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania were submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis to help determine vegetation and climate change. The older deposits represent Pleistocene deposits more than 29,000 radiocarbon years old, while the younger set represents Holocene deposits.
POLLEN, PHYTOLITH, STARCH, AND ORGANIC RESIDUE (FTIR) ANALYSIS OF A CERAMIC SHERD FROM THE HOPE FARM-RICHMOND HALL SITE (36PH160), PENNSYLVANIA (2012)
Hope Farm-Richmond Hall (site 36PH160) lies on a terrace above the Delaware River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Two sediment samples were collected from the last cultural layer and non-cultural sediments beneath for pollen analysis. Pollen analysis was designed to provide information concerning local vegetation prior to and at the time of at lease one of the occupations. In addition, pollen analysis of these two samples provides an opportunity to assess the pollen record from this site in terms...
POLLEN, PHYTOLITH, STARCH, AND PROTEIN RESIDUE ANALYSES AT SITES 36PE16 AND 36PE61 FOR THE SUSQUEHANNA RIVER BRIDGE PROJECT, NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA (2003)
Preliminary examination of a few pollen and phytolith stratigraphic samples from archaeological site 36PE16 in eastern Pennsylvania indicated that both records provided sufficient material for further analysis. Therefore, additional pollen and phytolith samples were examined from strata in three test pits at sites 36PE16 and 36PE61 to describe vegetation change through time. These closely spaced samples track vegetation change during the accumulation of the individual sediment packages. The...
POLLEN, PHYTOLITH, STARCH, AND PROTEIN RESIDUE ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES FROM THE DYOTT/GUNNARS RUN NORTH SITE (36PH037), PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA (2012)
Lithic tools and ceramic sherds were recovered from the Dyott/Gunners Run North site, 36PH037, located along the Delaware River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This site contains a significant historic component; however, the focus of this study is on analysis of prehistoric artifacts from the site. Two lithic tools were submitted for protein residue analysis. Three vessel sherds and two pipe stem fragments were submitted for pollen, starch, and protein residue analysis.
POLLEN, PHYTOLITH, STARCH, PROTEIN, AND ORGANIC RESIDUE (FTIR) ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES FROM THE RIVER ROAD SITE (36BU0379), PENNSYLVANIA (2011)
The River Road Site (36BU0379) in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, was occupied by Late Woodland people. Sediment samples from a midden, a living surface, and stratigraphic stratum were submitted for pollen analysis to provide information concerning the past environment. In addition, artifacts and soil control samples were submitted for pollen, phytolith, starch, protein residue, or organic residue analyses specifically to provide subsistence information. Organic residues samples were examined using...
POLLEN, PROTEIN RESIDUE (CIEP), AND ORGANIC RESIDUE (FTIR) ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES FROM SITE B-1, 36WH1729, WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA (2018)
Site B1, 36WH1729 is an Early and Middle Woodland site located on a first order terrace bench overlooking an unnamed tributary of Chartiers Creek, Washington County, Pennsylvania. This portion of the Ohio River drainage occupies the Appalachian Plateau physiographic province and includes narrow hilltops and steep-sloped, narrow valleys. Elevations within the APE have a range of 291–436 m (955–1430 ft) above mean sea level (amsl). The project area falls within the deciduous broadleaf forest...
POLLEN, PROTEIN, AND ORGANIC RESIDUE (FTIR) ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES FROM THE REEDERS CREEK WEST SITE (28ME360), NEW JERSEY (2011)
Fourteen ceramics from the Reeders Creek West site, 28Me360, were submitted for examination of organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). In addition, four sediment samples were examined for pollen, while two projectile point–type artifacts and a projectile point base were analyzed for possible protein residues. This site is a Native American campsite located above the Delaware River in Mercer County, New Jersey. This stratified site contains Middle Archaic through...
POLLEN, STARCH, AND PROTEIN RESIDUE ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES FROM THE WATER AUTHORITY SITE (36WH1619), WASHINGTON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA (2016)
The Water Authority Site (36WH1619) reflects a series of small prehistoric camps situated on the T1 terrace of the North Branch of Pigeon Creek south of I-70 in the Waynesburg Hills Section of the Appalachian Plateaus physiographic province, Washington County, Pennsylvania. Rock cluster features and artifacts, including bifacial and cobble/pebble tools, and debitage, likely reflect occupations dating between the Late Archaic through Late Woodland/Late Prehistoric periods. Activities at the site...
A Pomo Tule Doll (1994)
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"Poor White" Economic (In)Activity and the Politics of Work in Barbados (2015)
Situated on the fringes of the plantation landscape, the "poor whites" of Barbados occupied unique spaces within local and global capitalist networks during and after the period of slavery. Historically and contemporarily portrayed as being irrelevant within broader economic systems of production, a discourse of marginalization coupled with stereotypes of idleness has severed them from broader Barbadian and global socioeconomics. This paper addresses the power dynamics inherent in identifying,...
Popular Plates, Personal Traits: The Biry House and a Ceramic Analysis from Castroville, Texas (2016)
The 1840’s witnessed an influx of immigrants flocking into the United States in search of economic opportunity and stability. The Biry family, along with several other Alsatian families, followed suit in 1844. They established the town of Castroville, Texas and continue to celebrate their Alsatian heritage today. While they did find opportunities within Texas, they were also forced to engage in negotiations of national, ethnic, and class identities. This paper reflects on these negotiations by...
Porcellian Porcelain and White Male Fragility: The Journey of a Privileged Plate (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Meanwhile, In the NPS Lab: Discoveries from the Collections" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archeologists at Boston’s African Meeting House were surprised to discover an intact porcelain plate on the site’s surface. More shocking was the mark identifying the plate as coming from the exclusive Porcellian Club, one of the storied finals clubs of Harvard University. The club was founded in 1791 and boasts...
Port of Badagary, a Point of No Return: Investigation of Maritime Slave Trade in Nigeria (2016)
Two Danish ships that wrecked at Cahuita Point in Costa Rica carried many slaves of Yoruba ethnicity from a geographic locale in the vicinity modern day Nigeria in Africa. Danish Company records reveal that in addition, to human cargoes of around 400 slaves each, one ship included 4,000 pounds and the other 7, 311 pounds of ivory. Founded in 1425 A.D., the port city of Badagry played a strategic role in both the transatlantic slave and ivory trade. Maritime Cultural Landscape Theory is a useful...
Portrait of a Port: Industry and Ideology in El Salvador (1805-1900) (2018)
The impact of the Industrial Revolution affected El Salvador far more slowly in the pre-independence period due to the Spanish trade monopoly. Yet Atlantic World demand for commodities such as balsam, cacao, coffee, indigo, and sugar steadily increased through the early Republican period of independence, encouraging entrepreneurs to invest in the technologies of the nineteenth century. Technologies like the steamship and railroad inextricably connected El Salvador to global markets, resulting in...
Portsmouth Island Life-Saving Station, Innovative Technology Reconstructing The Past (2020)
This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Life-Saving Stations offered vital support and rescue operations for distressed mariners since the Life-Saving Service’s formal creation as an agency of the United States Treasury in 1878. After its construction in 1894, Portsmouth Island’s Life-Saving Station assisted mariners navigating the treacherous waters surrounding Cape Lookout and served as a focal point for the island’s...
Portuguese East Indiamen Shipwrecks Of 1503. Al-Hallaniya Island, Oman. The Land Archaeology Survey And Excavations (2018)
In the spring of 2013 and 2014 I participated in the "Portuguese East Indiamen Shipwrecks of 1503" project conducted by Oman’s Ministry of Heritage and Culture and Blue Water Recoveries Ltd. (Midhurst, UK). The focus was upon identifying the shipwrecks associated with the 1503 Portuguese East India expedition. The work described here was an archaeological survey and excavation on Al-Hallaniyah Island in areas where potential Portuguese burials might have occurred. Initial results identified 60+...
Post Emancipation Material Culture and Housing on St. Kitts, West Indies (2018)
The post emancipation period in the British Caribbean (post-1834) represented a drastic change for the formerly enslaved Africans on St. Kitts’ sugar plantations as they faced new challenges in their freedom. This paper presents ceramic and housing data from two structures occupied from the late seventeenth century until the 1850s. Focusing on the period 1800 to 1850, ceramic types and frequencies indicate changes in the acquisition of European ceramics from the era of slavery to the post...
Post-1800 Mining Camps, Redux: A Reappraisal at Age 50 (2016)
Mining camps are certainly a minor one of the kinds of historic sites with which we are occasionally concerned. So began Franklin Fenenga’s prospectus for an archaeology of mining that appeared in the inaugural issue of our journal in 1967. Fenenga went on to identify areas where archaeology stood to make notable contributions and topics where archaeological attention promised only limited yields. Investigations of the mining industry had been sporadic at the time of Fenenga’s article, but...
Post-Construction Chinese Worker Housing on the Central Pacific Railroad: 1870-1900 (2017)
The construction of the first Transcontinental Railroad in the world, from Omaha, Nebraska, to Sacramento, California, was one fraught with difficulties, involving tens of thousands of workers. When it was completed in May 1869, the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) portion of the line, between Ogden, Utah and Sacramento, California, retained many ethnic Chinese workers for operations and maintenance work. Housing for workers during construction was not consistent, however after construction the...
Post-Emancipation African American Life in the Upper South and South Louisiana: insights from a comparison of material culture from the Hermitage, Tennessee, and Alma and Riverlake Plantations, Louisiana (2018)
The DAACS (Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery) database also includes data relevant to post-Emancipation, including Jim Crow era life of African Americans. DAACS facilitates comparative research, expanding the scale of archaeological inquiry. Through the use of DAACS, post-Emancipation assemblages from the Hermitage site in Tennessee were compared with those from Alma and Riverlake sugar plantation sites in southern Louisiana. Evidence of shared economic strategies related to...
Post-Industrial Placemaking: The Keweenaw Time Traveler and Community-Engaged Historical GIS (2018)
Placemaking in post-industrial communities often becomes contested due to issues of conflicting memory, lack of economic resources, collective mistrust, and the problems of environmental degradation. A historical spatial data infrastructure known as the Keweenaw Time Traveler offers an interactive public-participatory platform to promote the health, both cultural and economic, of Michigan’s remote post-industrial mining region. This online GIS-based historical atlas breaks down traditional...
Post/Mining Heritage Landscapes and the Energy Transition: Digital Tech for Heritage-led, Community-driven Design Thinking. (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Digital Technologies and Public Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Thousands of post-mining communities struggle with recession, de-population, and ecological contamination. Community leaders work against oppressive odds to balance economic revitalization, environmental remediation, and cultural renewal. Mining ruins and landscapes are complex anchors of local heritage. Our research team has...
Postindustrial Archaeology in the Workshop of the World: Philadelphia Industrial Sites, 1990-Present (2018)
Nearly all industrial archaeology is postindustrial. Physical and spatial organization of industry has historically changed rapidly enough that we seldom find industrial sites and structures in use by the same firms, for the same purposes, or even in the same industries, for more than a century. Once known as the "Workshop of the World," Philadelphia maintained a varied industrial base after the Civil War. Physical decay, deferred maintenance, and the pressures of development all take their...
Postindustrial Places and "Big Data": Exploiting the Potential of Historical Spatial Data Infrastructures for Archaeology (2018)
This paper discusses the ways in which emerging "Big Data" approaches to historical research, in the form of GIS-based Historical Spatial Data Infrastructures (HSDIs), represent a powerful way urban and industrial archaeologists may better exploit historical source material. GIS-based research remains an underutilized asset within historical archaeology and its subfields. Drawing examples from HSDIs covering two postindustrial places (the city of London, Ontario and the Keweenaw Peninsula, in...