Georgia (State / Territory) (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patricia B. Richards. Catherine Jones. Eric Burant. Richard H. Kubicek.

Historical Archaeology has recognized the impact the advent of mass production and distribution of goods had on the material culture of the 19th and early 20th century.  This is true of the category of burial garments. The burial shroud is thought to have given way to grave clothes made by individuals and then replaced by a burial garment industry characterized by the patent of a burial garment in 1912 by G.C. Holcomb "to resemble tailor-made garments." A remarkable variety of clothing and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Stroud Clarke.

This paper presents a continuation of the bead study presented at the 2015 SHA conference in which beads from a South Carolina frontier site dating from c.1680-1734 on the Drayton Hall property were tested against Jon Marcoux’s 2012 correspondence analysis of 35,000 glass trade beads from Native American mortuary contexts dated c.1607-1783. The 2012 study discerned four distinct clusters of time from the beads within mortuary contexts. The current paper examines an additional dataset of beads...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Stroud Clarke. Jon Marcoux.

When analyzing archaeological sites with almost continual episodes of occupation, it is often difficult to discern distinct temporal periods; given this challenge archaeologists have long relied on a variety of methodological techniques to help narrow down dates of occupation. In 2012, Jon Marcoux published a new correspondence analysis study using over 35,000 glass trade beads in Native American mortuary contexts dated c.1607-1783 with the results indicating four discrete clusters of time. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Colvin.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In recent years, there has been a resurgence in interest of co-residence among hunter-gatherers, chiefly in relation to how groups solve collective action problems. The southern Florida interior can greatly contribute to these ongoing discussions with many multi-mound complexes exhibiting periods of monument construction and varying degrees of co-residence...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas K. Larson. Dori M. Penny. Marina Tinkcom.

Wyoming's Abandoned Mine Land Division (AML) has been funding cultural resource investigations at late nineteenth and early twentieth century coal fields in the Rock Springs Uplift since the early 1980s and that work continues up to the present.  A program that began primarily as the closure of dangerous mine openings gradually evolved to address mine subsidence and underground mine fires.  Today, mining-related community impacts and stream erosion problems have become priority issues.  These...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tyler Allen. Heather Alvey-Scott. S. Ryan Jones. Nicholas Starvakis. Paul Simmons. Jason Carnes. Michael Workman. Robert DeMuth.

The Coal Heritage Archaeology Project’s inaugural excavations were carried out as part of a summer archaeological field school at West Virginia State University.  Working in collaboration with Indiana University and the Rahall Transportation Institute, excavations focused on the residential houses at the former coal company town of Tams, WV and sought to better understand issues of material consumption, labor, and class. This poster presents the results of these initial excavations and explores...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kyla Cools.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The anthracite coal region is known as the unhealthiest and unhappiest in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. This reputation, however, is not merely a contemporary phenomenon that has manifested within the twenty-first century; rather, it is the result of historically rooted processes that have had disproportionate and long lasting impacts on the health and well-being of coal mining...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zada L Komara.

Hegemonic power structures in Appalachia solidified during industrialization and shape the region’s representation and economic strategies today.  Appalachia is a land of backward hillbillies in the public consciousness, alternately uplifted and oppressed by extractive industries. Popular perceptions privilege the coal industry’s ‘power over’ Appalachian people without confronting the dynamic interplay of many power structures.  Household goods from two Kentucky company coal towns illuminate the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Garrett.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy Kohler.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan E. Garrett.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan E. Garrett.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian Ostahowski. Jayur Mehta. Theodore Marks.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Sea level rise coupled with coastal erosion and subsidence has created an unprecedented land loss crisis for coastal Louisiana. This presentation provides an overview of the effects of land loss to coastal Louisiana’s archaeological record observed at different scales (coast-wide, regional, and the individual archaeological site) and highlights the 2018 summer...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessi Halligan.

This is an abstract from the "Human Behavioral Ecology at the Coastal Margins: Global Perspectives on Coastal & Maritime Adaptations" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological data have demonstrated that the Southeastern United States were occupied by at least 14,550 years ago, but evidence of these first people is limited to far inland and upland settings as more than half of Florida’s peninsula was drowned between 18,000-5500 cal BP. Recent...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shawn Joy.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Love That Dirty Water: Submerged Landscapes and Precontact Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Predicting the cultural material typology of eastern coastal Paleoindians is a challenge due to sea-level rise since the LGM. In the Americas, archaeologists have identified only a handful of unequivocal coastal Paleoindian sites. The location of these sites are on the west coast of the Americas, where...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marilyn Pennington.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Lawrence W. Meier.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Doug Elliott.

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 Joseph B Motley.

Excavations at Scott Cemetery in Dallas led to the rediscovery of three adult and three sub-adult burials.  While the preservation of coffin wood was poor, intact coffin hardware was recovered.  Artifacts include coffin and casket handles, various nails and thumb screws, and glass viewing windows.  Historic records of Scott Cemetery provide a unique opportunity for coffin hardware analysis.  With burials ranging from the late 19th century through the 1930s, knowing the interment dates of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matt McGraw.

The mechanical din of the Industrial Revolution is not typically associated with 19th century Southern US plantation life.  However, the advances in science and technology resulting from the Industrial Revolution enabled the Louisiana sugar industry to flourish in spite of climatic restrictions.  Chatsworth Plantation (16EBR192) operated in East Baton Rouge Parish from the late 1830’s until the bankrupt plantation was sold at a Sheriff’s auction in 1928.  The Chatsworth Plantation sugar mill was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert S Neyland.

Placement of coins in the mast steps of ships  has continued from the Roman 2nd century BC through the medieval, renaissance, and historic periods into the present day.  The tradition is still entrenched in modern shipbuilding and even current Navy ships have a coin placed under the mast or tallest structure on the ship. The practice of putting a coin in the mast step has had continuity in western shipbuilding for over 2,000 years, although it is possible the cultural reasons for the practice...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David R. Starbuck.

Archaeology conducted by SUNY Adirondack and Plymouth State University at British military sites located along the Hudson River and in Lake George, New York, has recovered much colonial coinage that will be summarized here. Twenty-five years of excavations at British military encampments dating to the French & Indian War in northern New York State has revealed that mid-18th-century commerce was conducted with a combination of British and Spanish currency--a mixture of low-denomination English...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marjorie Akin.

There is a very long history of people throwing valuable objects into bodies of water or fountains, and the practice has long been widespread.  Today children ask for, and are often given, small-denomination coins to "make a wish" by tossing them into a fountain or pool.   What are the origins and history of this behavior, and what beliefs and social motivations lie behind it, from ancient times to today?  The social and physical formation processes that affect these "votive offerings" will be...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin D. Akin.

Coins can be very helpful in interpreting the physical remains found at historic-period sites. Their connections with economics, politics, cultural practices, and recreational activities can clarify obscure points that never made it into the historical record. Deadwood, South Dakota only dates back 142 years, but it is packed with history, and the people of Deadwood have become leaders in using their history to support their town. The coins from the old Deadwood Chinatown tell some particularly...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lawrence Lee.

Unlike much of the rest of the world, numismatics as practiced in America has little recognized scholastic standing. The lack of perceived value for numismatics is readily apparent in the archeology of the Great Plains, where the indigenous economy was not based on bullion value, where coin hoards like those found on the eastern seaboard are basically non-existent and numismatic objects are considered to ‘historic’ and thus intrusive to the prehistory of the region. In such a setting, numismatic...