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This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeology education programs should address the needs of both students and teachers, therefore the programs should be tailored to specific age groups. Through our research on current educational theory and learning styles, our collaboration with local teachers, and our work with the Florida Public Archaeology Network, we compare differences in educational approaches for elementary and...
One Ship, Two Ships, Same Ship, New Ship: Investigation and Identification of Ship Structure Associated with Emanuel Point II (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the 2012 UWF maritime archaeological field school, a large, complex portion of ship structure was discovered aft of the articulated stern of the 1559 Emanuel Point II shipwreck. Since this time, UWF archaeologists and the author have performed intricate studies of the structure in an attempt to determine its possible association with the Emanuel Point II shipwreck. This paper...
One Step at a Time- Preliminary Evidence for Human and Mega Fauna Trackways Located Along the Ancient Shorelines of Lake Lucero, White Sands Missile Range. (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2006, human trackways were discovered at White Sands National Park along with the trackways of giant Sloth, Dire Wolf, Camel, and Columbian Mammoth. Upon the mapping and excavation of these prints in 2018, small preserved ancient grass seeds (Ruppia cirrhosa) were revealed that provided calibrated dates of 22,860 (∓320) and 21,130 (∓250) years ago...
One-Handed Bow-Drill (2009)
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...
A one-piece medium –length inflexible atlatl from a single bashed stone (2011)
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...
The Ongoing Battle of Ewa Plain, Hawaii: Resurrection of a Lost Battlefield (2016)
The Battle of Ewa Plain began in the morning of December 7, 1941 and was part of the larger surprise attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy on United States military forces stationed at Pearl Harbor. Home to the former Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS), Ewa, and several plantation villages, this area was subjected to waves of strafing by Japanese aircraft. Working closely with local preservationists, a National Register nomination was prepared for the battlefield including a somewhat novel KOCOA...
Ongoing Excavations at Big Village (42EM2861) in Range Creek Canyon, Utah (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Excavations were conducted from 2007 to 2013 by the University of Utah at Big Village (42EM2861) in Range Creek Canyon, Utah, to explore questions related to Fremont residential site structure and adaptations, primarily by exploring the relationships between surface features and subsurface features and artifact assemblages. Additional excavations performed...
Ongoing Investigations at the Gila River Farm Site (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Local Development and Cross-Cultural Interaction in Pre-Hispanic Southwestern New Mexico and Southeastern Arizona" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The manifestation of the Salado Phenomenon in the Upper Gila is expressed as a combination of local Mogollon traits and traits associated with immigrants from northeastern Arizona. New communities that were formed in the generations after initial migration incorporated...
The Ongoing Quest for the Wreck of the Griffon (2017)
In September of 1679, LaSalle’s vessel the Griffon went missing with a cargo of furs after setting sail from Green Bay in western Lake Michigan. The wreck of the Griffon is perhaps the most sought-after shipwreck in the Great Lakes. Many claims of discovery have been made over the years. A recent claim has received a great deal of media attention, but archaeological evidence does not support the contention that the wreck has been found.
Only Wind and Dust: Exploratory Archival and Survey Research at the Heart Mountain Root Cellars (2018)
The root cellars of Heart Mountain represent a key relationship between a community of approximately 10,000 people of Japanese descent and the barren landscape they ultimate turned into one of the most successful agricultural projects among the camps. Although most physical remains of the Heart Mountain camp have vanished, one of the incarceree-built root cellars remains largely intact, and the other, although collapsed in the 1950s, remains easily identifiable today. This paper presents the...
The Ontological Approach: Applying Social Theory to Physically Manifested Culture (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Reflections, Practice, and Ethics in Historical Archaeology" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The design, integration, and accessibility of digitized collections allows one to determine a "things" meaning for themselves, instead of having to accept or deny the preexisting representation applied to said "thing." This will create possibilities of expanded representation for objects, cultures, and meaning itself. The...
Open Science, Core Facilities, and Archaeology (2015)
The past decade has witnessed two onging transformations in the ways in which scholars create and disseminate knowledge in the natural and social sciences. The first is the open science movement, which aims to make the entire research process and its products, transparent, replicable, and accessible to colleagues and the public. The second is the emergence of "core facilities", organizations that offer widely shared technical resources that individuals researchers would have...
Operation Crossroads in Perspective (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Mapping Crossroads: Archaeological and High Resolution Documentation of Nuclear Test Submerged Cultural Resources at Bikini Atoll" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The 1946 atomic tests at Bikini Atoll, known as Operation Crossroads, left a diverse archaeological record at Bikini, as well as off the West Coast of the continental US, Hawaii and Kwajalein Atoll. This paper reviews the historical context and...
Operation D-Day Mapping Expedition (2016)
On 6 June 1944, Allied forces launched the largest amphibious assault in history. In the first 24 hours, over 5,000 ships and 13,000 aircraft supported 160,000 Allied troops in their attempt to land on a 50 mile stretch of beach in Normandy. Almost 70 years later, over the course of 27 days in July and August of 2013, a team of archaeologists, hydrographers, remote-sensing operators, divers, and industry representatives surveyed over 511 km2 off beaches in Normandy. The team identified over 350...
Oral Histories of Southwestern Paleoethnobotanists: A Karen Adams and Vorsila Bohrer Appreciation (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Enduring Relationships: People, Plants, and the Contributions of Karen R. Adams" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Paleoethnobotany, the study of past relationships between people and plants, rapidly developed new methods and priorities in examining plant remains from archaeological contexts during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Oral histories from two paleoethnobotanical researchers, Dr. Karen...
Oral History and the Archaeology of a Black Texas Farmstead, c. 1871-1905 (2013)
Starting in 2009, the Texas Department of Transportation funded research, community outreach, and public education that focused on the history and archaeology of formerly enslaved African Americans and their descendants. Excavation of the Ransom and Sarah Williams farmstead (41TV1051) by Prewitt and Associates (Austin, TX) yielded 26,000 artifacts that represent rural life in central Texas for freedmen and their children. The equally significant oral history component of the project has allowed...
Orange Skies Bring Red Rain: Understanding the Effects of Wildland Fire Chemicals to Cultural Resources (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As of the year 2000, the total acreage burned by wildfire in the United States has more than doubled that of the previous 20-year period. Though fire poses a considerable threat to archaeological sites and other cultural resources, fire suppression actions have also proven to be damaging. Three classes of wildland fire chemicals are used in wildfire...
Organization, Tracking, And Metadata: Bar Coding For Collections Management (2018)
Housing more than 15 million artifacts from over 8,000 archaeological sites, the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin has a significant need for high-functioning collections tracking systems. As part of our institutional digitization strategy, TARL has begun implementing a system of bar codes for collections, with the goal of facilitating artifact retrieval and replacement as our collections are used for research, education, and public outreach. The system...
The Origin and Authenticity of an Atlatl and an Atlatl Dart from Lassen County, California (1941)
J. Whittaker: Atlatl of willow, simple stick, slightly curved, with slight finger notches, groove and integral hook, 75 cm long. Cane dart, hardwood foreshaft broken off, 115 cm long, weighs 35.2 gm, v-shaped nock like arrow, 3 radial fletchings. Authors made and tested models, cast 150-250 feet. Origin: Owned in 1910s-20s by “Charlie Paiute,” Maidu, who claimed to hunt with it. His daughter and others deny, as do ethnographic California groups in culture trait studies, although several...
Original Indian Foods and Food Preparation (2014)
A number of attempts have been made from time to time to publish so-called Indian recipes. This is not one of them. The writer has never seen a true "recipe" for any ancient Indian dishes, but only descriptions of white foods adapted to Indian tastes, or visa-versa. Basically a recipe should involve careful measurements, leavening, addition of condiments, etc., all strictly according to rule. It is virtually impossible to find any such rules in ancient Indian cookery. Such methods of food...
Origins and Construction Techniques of Historic Flat-Backed Canteens (2016)
In the 19th century, ethnographers documented numerous Pueblo groups throughout the American Southwest making and using ceramic flat-backed canteens. These canteens pose unique manufacturing issues due to their shape: they are symmetrical along only one axis due to one flat and one bulbous side, and the closed rim is parallel to the flat side, not perpendicular as is usual. They are also extremely similar in shape to large European canteens, and thus can offer insight to the complex...
Origins and Tenacity of Myth: Part II—Ethnography (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Painting the Past: Interpretive Approaches in Global Rock Art Research" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Hunter-gatherer artists of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of southwest Texas produced Pecos River style (PRS) rock art as early as 5,500 years ago. In 2016, Boyd identified patterns in PRS murals similar to the mythologies of the ancient Nahua (Aztec) and the present-day Huichol (Wixárika). She advanced the hypothesis...
Origins and Tenacity of Myth: Part I—Archaeology (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Painting the Past: Interpretive Approaches in Global Rock Art Research" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Origins and Tenacity of Myth is a comprehensive study of Pecos River style (PRS) pictographs in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. It is a collaborative project between Texas State University and Shumla Archaeological Center. This presentation addresses the...
The Origins of the National Park Service's Vanishing Treasures Program (2019)
This is an abstract from the "The Vanishing Treasures Program: Celebrating 20 Years of National Park Service Historic Preservation" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the mid-1990s, the National Park Service sought to upgrade its architectural preservation programs at about 40 arid-lands parks, which were facing the loss of significant numbers of retiring preservation craftsmen who had been working to preserve resources since the 1960s and 1970s....
Ornamental Origins: Philadelphia Manufactured Ceramics With Engine-Turned Decoration (2018)
The disruption of foreign trade brought on by the Embargo Act of 1807 and the subsequent War of 1812 led American artisans and mechanics to produce locally made goods in imitation of the primarily British imports no longer available to American consumers. In Philadelphia, some potters began experimenting with white bodied refined ceramics while others continued to work in red clay with manganese and iron glazes, yet exchanged traditional utilitarian forms for sophisticated table- and teawares....