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Regional Influences on Cliff Phase Ground Stone in the Upper Gila Area Jonathan Schaefer and Leslie Aragon Ground stone tools are a productive means of studying subsistence and technology practices in the American Southwest. Excavations at the Gila River Farm Site and other nearby settlements have provided a large collection of ground stone objects used for various tasks. Here, we evaluate the use of the tools from these sites and compare their morphology to tools recovered elsewhere in the...
Regional Maritime Networks of Bronze Age Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Bronze Age in the Mediterranean has been studied extensively in the past by a variety of researchers, including both historians and archaeologists, simply because it is the time during which “civilization” first develops. Maritime trade was a key element in the development of civilization. This project identifies the regional trade networks operating in the Bronze Age Eastern...
A Regional Perspective on Archaic to Formative Settlement in the Sierra Blanca Region, New Mexico (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The primary aim of the Sierra Blanca Archaeological Survey—located in the heart of the Sierra Blanca highlands of southeastern New Mexico—is to collect regional data that will enhance our understanding of settlement aggregation, community organization, intra- and interregional interactions, and ideational landscapes during pre-Hispanic times. Data from the...
Regional Settlement Patterns in the Colonization of Historical Landscapes: the New Acadia Project Archaeological Survey (2018)
In 1765 more than 200 Acadian refugees settled on the natural levees along the Bayou Teche in south Louisiana. Two centuries later, the descendants of the Acadians were recognized as having created a homeland known as Acadiana. The Fausse Pointe region where the Acadian families initially settled, however, presented an unfamiliar and difficult environment in an already inhabited landscape. The New Acadia Project has systematically surveyed portions of a ten mile segment of the Teche Ridge in...
Regional Synthesis and Best Practices for the Application of Geophysics to Archaeological Projects in the Middle Atlantic Region. (2016)
As geophysical surveys become more common and a standard procedure on archeological projects within the United States, the question raised is whether or not the methods and systems being used are appropriate for the questions being asked by the principal investigators. Therefore, a compilation of geophysical methods used during archaeological investigations and their results in the Middle Atlantic region, primarily those used on transportation projects, was conducted as part of the Route 301...
Regional-To-Global Trade Networks Reflected In Isolated Alaskan Gold Camps (2020)
This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeological excavations at a host of early-mid 20th century Alaskan mining camps over the past 25 years have provided a wealth of data on the influx of goods from local, regional, national, and international sources. This poster reviews changes in trade network patterns over time, as reflected in the archaeological record, relative to processes occurring at various scales of analysis...
Regionality and Relations to the State in the Andagua Valley, Southern Peruvian Andes (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Itinerant Bureaucrats and Empire" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the mid-18th century, spurred by recent Bourbon reforms and claiming years of unpaid tribute, Spanish colonial officials journeyed to the town of Andagua in the high Southern Peruvian Andes. Yet upon arriving they encountered firm resistance to their regional colonial authority that coalesced around the leaders of reputed ancestor cults, nearly...
Registering with the Past: A Review of the Army's Compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act (1996)
The US Army Environmental Center (AEC) requested the assistance of the US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections (MCX-CMAC), St. Louis District, in determining the scope of the Army's compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended (16 USC 470 et seq., 36 CFR 800). The project included all active duty Army installations, National Guard facilities, and Army Reserve Regional Support Commands in the...
Rehab of FM 164 Between US 287 on the NW and US 62 / 83 on the East, Childress County (1995)
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Rehabilitating America’s Forgotten Excavations: Case Studies from the Veterans Curation Program (2015)
Since the passage of historic preservation legislation in the middle of the twentieth century, the pace of mandated excavation has always exceeded the resources devoted to preservation and curation of our national heritage. Many of the archaeological projects conducted on public land have never been properly inventoried, preserved, or publicized. As a result, these investigations remain largely inaccessible to researchers, and they create an immense burden on repositories. In 2009, the U.S....
Rehabilitation an Existing Flood Control Project Near Presidio, Texas (1982)
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.
Rehousing, retreating, and re-evaluation: The Ronson Ship as both a Museum Collection and an Archaeological Asset (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Ronson ship was excavated from a New York City block in 1982. A portion of the vessel and its fill contents were recovered and transferred to The Mariners’ Museum and Park, in Newport News, Virginia, for conservation and eventual display, but in 1987 conservation was suspended. Recently, renewed interest in the collection and the publication of a book on the excavation and...
Reimagining Methods in Historical Zooarchaeology: Applying the Pathological Index (PI) to Historical Assemblages in North America (2016)
Since Bartosiewicz, Van Neer, and Lentacker published their ground-breaking research on the osteological identification of draught cattle, zooarchaeological studies of traction animals have proliferated. Whereas most of these studies draw from Old World assemblages, this research applies Bartosiewicz, Van Neer, and Lentacker’s (1997) methodology for assessing draught cattle to eighteenth-century assemblages from Drayton Hall, South Carolina, and Oxon Hill Manor, Maryland. In assessing the...
Reimagining Methods in Historical Zooarchaeology: Getting to the Meat of the Matter-Identifying Butchery Goals and Reconstructing Meat Cuts from Eighteenth Century Colonial Virginia (2016)
Faunal remains from archaeological sites are only the byproduct of meals, discarded after the meat has been stripped from them. A detailed butchery analysis is one way of thinking of bones as vehicles for meat, making it possible to link what was removed for consumption with what is found archaeologically. Seeking to reconstruct meat cuts is another way to get at not just what species or how much people were eating, but how that meat was conceived of, prepared, and served. Butchery analysis...
Reimagining Methods in Historical Zooarchaeology: Methods and Themes in Recent Literature (2016)
This poster exhibits a survey of recent (2000-2015) literature on historical zooarchaeology in eastern North America. Emphasizing studies of colonialism and cultural mixture, this survey evaluates ways that historical archaeologists use zooarchaeological data to investigate topics such as human impacts on environments, economic strategies, and the expression of social identities. By focusing on trends in analytical methods and the research questions posed by archaeologists, this survey...
Reimagining the African Internal Frontier Model: Implications from the Puebloan Southwest (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Essential Contributions from African to Global Archaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Igor Kopytoff’s (1987) model of the African Internal Frontier has impacted archaeological research in many areas of the world, including the US Southwest. His model has undergone considerable rethinking, such as Akinwumi Ogundiran’s (2014) work on the historical period of southwest Nigeria. We revisit the internal frontier model...
Reinterpreting a Nineteenth Century Dairy Agricultural Landscape (2018)
Site 44FX0543, located in the western Piedmont region of Fairfax County at Ellanor C. Lawrence Park, has had a long debated function by archaeologists and historians. A problematic interpretation of the site function as an enslaved African American dwelling dating to an unknown temporal period of ownership was the result of misinterpretation of landscape, previous archaeological investigations, and the likely misinformation gained through second-hand oral histories of the parkland. The research...
Reinterpreting the Evidence for Violence in Cave 7, Grand Gulch, Utah (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Wetherill’s Cave 7 in Grand Gulch, Utah, has long been considered a massacre site, notable in particular for the large number of individuals in the assemblage (~90) and for its temporal placement in the Basketmaker II period. Recent debate concerning these remains has centered around the chronology of burials in the cave, as establishing contemporaneity of the...
Reintroduction of Ancient Archaeological Footwear Back into the Modern Pueblo World (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Approaches to Archaeological Footwear" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Until recently, the memory of ancient footwear traditions was only retained in the oral histories and stone-hewn writings of Pueblo scholars. Previous interpretations have suggested that footwear was as an everyday item used only to increase mobility and ensure survival in diverse surroundings. For Pueblo people, ancestral footwear was and is a...
Reinventing the atlatl (1979)
J. Whittaker: Experiments with lots of variables [controlled and un]: fletched and unfletched darts, lengths 127-232 cm, compound elderberry shaft with hardwood foreshaft, lead points, 10 atlatls of different lengths, some modeled after several ethnographic and archaeological examples, stone weights 27-94 grams, mostly at balance point of atlatl. [All atlatls apparently not flexible.] Lots of practice over 5 months, 10-60 meters. High speed filming of throwing action, drawing presented. Gauge...
Reinventing the Colonial Plantation on French Saint-Christophe (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Comparative Perspectives on European Colonization in the Americas: Papers in Honor of Réginald Auger" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper examines the transformation of the plantation economy from tobacco to sugar production at sites on the island of Saint-Christophe (Saint Kitts) in the French Antilles. This shift was motivated by a drop in tobacco prices in the 1630s leading to sugar monoculture....
Reinvigorating the National Register: Toward Multivocality in the Production of National Histories (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community Archaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Most American archaeology is driven by the proverbial goal of listing properties on the National Register of Historic Places. As the comprehensive “list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of protection,” the National Register is a prestigious means of creating and memorializing our national history. After almost 55 years of implementation,...
Relating to and through Food: Thinking about the Social Dimensions of Food through Cuisine and Commensality (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Thinking about Eating: Theorizing Foodways in Archaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The fundamental importance of food to mind, body, and society makes foodways important to our understanding of past social phenomenon. In this presentation, I highlight the importance of engaging with the social dimensions of food to address the multifaceted relationships between broader changes in the environment and political...
The Relational Landscape of Plantation Slavery: An Archaeological Survey of Enslaved Life at Good Hope Estate, Trelawny, Jamaica (2015)
The enslaved community is often treated as a homogenous group – living, eating, dressing, buying, selling, and dwelling in the same way. This imposition of sameness fails to recognize the differential experience of enslaved laborers, and different means of agency existing within divided conditions of enslavement. This paper surveys the findings of recent archaeological investigations of the slave village of Good Hope estate, an 18th/early-19th-century sugar plantation in Trelawny, Jamaica. Home...
Relations between ethnology and archaeology in the Southwest (1940)
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