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As part of ongoing cultural resources management work at Hanscom Air Force Base (AFB), the Headquarters Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence (HQ AFCEE) contracted Parsons Engineering Science, Inc. (Parsons ES) to perform a Phase I archaeological survey of previously identified areas on the base determined to have moderate to high potential for archaeological resources. These 34 areas, totaling approximately 120 acres, were identified through a previous archaeological reconnaissance...
Final Report of an Archaeological Survey of Additional Tennessee Gas Transmission Company Natural Gas Pipelines in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts and New Hampshire (1981)
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Final Report of an Archaeological Survey of Certain Reservoir Areas To Determine the Location and Probable Character of Sites of Historic or Prehitoric Significance (1959)
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Final Report on the Archaeological Intensive Survey of the Long Island Section of the Spectacle Island-Boston Harbor-Long Island Sewer Line, Boston Harbor Islands, Massachusetts (2007)
The Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel Project proposed to construct a sewer service from Spectacle Island to the City of Boston’s existing sewer system on Long Island for the disposal of leachate and treated sanitary wastewater originating on Spectacle Island. This project called for the construction of a pipeline and pump stations from the south end of Spectacle Island, across Sculpin Ledge Channel to the southwestern end of Long Island. On Long Island, the pipe line will extend northward...
Final Report on the Archaeological Site Examination of the Robert Murray Farmhouse Complex on the Gore Place Society Property, Waltham and Watertown, Massachuesetts (2007)
The Gore Place Society that owns and manages Gore Place, the 1805-1806 estate of Massachusetts state governor and United States senator, Christopher Gore, is preparing to sell 31.11 acres of its property south of Grove Street in Waltham and Watertown, MA. The Massachusetts Historical Commission holds a preservation restriction on the property and recommended a cultural resource evaluation to identify potentially significant cultural resources prior to the land sale. A portion of this land was...
A Final Report on the Assessment of Archaeological Collections Stored by Archaeological Services, UMASS Amherst (2008)
This report describes the survey that was undertaken to evaluate the condition of the archaeological collections housed and curated by Archaeological Services within the Department of Anthropology of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (UMA). It is limited to those collections acquired as a result of state and federally funded transportation-related projects. While this does not include all archaeological collections at the UMA facility it does cover the bulk of artifacts...
Final Report on the Assessment of Transportation-Related Archaeological Collections in Massachusetts
This conservation survey report is part of a collaborative project between the University of Massachusetts at Boston, the Massachusetts Historical Commission (MHC) and other State agencies to assess the condition of artifact collections generated by archaeological excavations associated with State transportation construction projects. The surveys characterize the state of preservation of the major types of artifacts derived from transportation-related projects in three institutions (University...
A Final Report on the Assessment of Transportation-Related Collections Curated by the Boston Landmarks Commission. (2008)
This report describes the survey that was undertaken to evaluate the condition of the archaeological collections housed and curated by the Boston Landmarks Commission at the City Archaeology Laboratory located at 152 North Street, Boston, MA. It is limited to those collections acquired as a result of state and federally funded transportation-related projects. While this does not include all collections at the BLC it does cover the bulk of the artifacts in storage. Separate reports have been...
A Final Report on the Assessment of Transportation-Related Collections Stored by the Massachusetts Historical Commission (2008)
This report describes the survey that was undertaken to evaluate the condition of the archaeological collections housed and curated by the Massachusetts Historical Commission within the State Archives building at 220 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA 02125. It is limited to those collections acquired as a result of state and federally funded transportation-related projects. While this does not include all collections at MHC it does cover the bulk of artifacts in storage. Separate reports have...
Finding a Home in the Global Shtetl: The Archaeology of Jewish Placemaking in the Diaspora (2018)
Jews in the 17th - 19th Centuries lived perpetual ‘others,’ their lives typified by displacement, often through forced exile or social and economic ostracization. These individuals exemplified life in the Diaspora, defining their experience in juxtaposition to the regions where they lived. They marked their identity as being members of a global Jewish community all the while assimilating to the societal norms of their temporary homelands. The archaeology of the Jewish communities in North...
Finding a Needle in a Stack of Needles: Using Experimental Archaeology to Find Shipwrecks of Hernan Cortés (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Plus Ultra: An examination of current research in Spanish Colonial/Iberian Underwater and Terrestrial Archaeology in the Western Hemisphere." , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1519, Hernán Cortés ordered ten of his eleven ships scuttled in response to two mutinies. Prior to the scuttling event, contemporary chroniclers, including Cortés, described stripping the vessels of all usable items such as ground...
Finding a Path Through the Trees: Using Multiple Lines of Evidence to Understand the Association of Culturally Modified Trees and the Community in Steilacoom, Washington (2018)
The discovery of Culturally Modified Trees (CMTs) within an area slated for development necessitated a detailed analysis to confirm the age and association of these trees as part of the local planning process. Controversary surrounded the development and neighbors were quick to engage the local Native American communities with the goal of halting the development. At least six CMTs were identified; however, the type, size, and modification of the trees did not adhere to the typical traits of CMTs...
Finding And Interpreting Future Conflict Sites: The Williamson’s Plantation Battlefield Example (2018)
In 2006 the authors embarked on a multiyear project to find, define, and interpret the July 12, 1780 Battle of Huck's Defeat, or Williamson's Plantation. At the time, the battlefield was popularly understood to be a mile from its actual location. Through historic document research, systematic metal detecting, the application of KOCOA, and other military analyses, the battlefield and battle episodes were located and defined. That, however, was not the end of the story. Today, the battlefield...
Finding and Understanding the 17th-Century John Hollister Site in South Glastonbury, Connecticut (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "“Talkin’ ‘Bout a Revolution”: Identifying and Understanding Early Historic-Period House Sites" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The 17th-century John Hollister Site in South Glastonbury, Connecticut is arguably one of the state’s most significant because of its age, richness, and lack of subsequent disturbance. The site, which was identified through a mix of oral history, ground penetrating radar, and...
Finding Bia Ogoi: The Application of Historic Documents and Geomorphology to the Understanding of 19th Century Landscape Change of the Bear River Valley, Franklin County, Idaho (2017)
On the frigid morning of 29 January 1863 the California Volunteers under the command of Patrick Connor attacked the Shoshone village at Bia Ogoi in response to ongoing hostilities between whites and Native groups. The result was the death of at least 250 Shoshone, many of them women and children, and 21 soldiers. Over the course of the past 150 years extensive landscape modification has occurred from both natural and human agents obscuring the events of this fateful day. A major focus of a...
Finding Fort Shackelford: A lost U.S. Army Fort from the Seminole War Era. (2017)
Fort Shackelford was built in February of 1855 on what is now the Big Cypress Seminole Reservation in South Florida. It was one of several forts built by the U.S. Army used to scout near the Big Cypress and Everglades regions during the U.S. Government’s efforts to pressure the Seminoles into leaving the area. The fort was found burned by American Soldiers shortly before they were ambushed by Seminole Warriors; marking the start of the Third Seminole War. The location of the fort has been...
Finding Foundations: Exploring an Early Stockade Residence in Schenectady, New York (2017)
Schenectady County Community College Community Archaeology Program researchers have been excavating in the Stockade Historic District, an area dating back to the Dutch colonization period. Sites located on the current property of the First Reformed Church of Schenectady, located within the district, include a house razed in 1938, but which appears according to existing deed records, to have originally been built in the late 1700s. Two primary finds have come from the excavation, including the...
Finding HMS Amethyst; A 32-Gun Royal Navy Napoleonic Frigate (2018)
During the summer of 2014 The SHIPS Project UK located a wreck within Plymouth Sound. Further investigation during fieldwork in 2015 identified the wreck as the Royal Navy heavy frigate HMS Amethyst lost in 1811. Throughout the 2015 field season a number of artifacts were recovered including a large number of copper fixings and a quantity of copper hull sheathing. Some of the copper fixings included printed dates and manufacturers marks. Subsequent research into copper has connected us with...
Finding HMS Erebus: The Role of Terrestrial Archaeological Investigations (2016)
In 2008, the Government of Nunavut, in collaboration with Parks Canada and other partners, initiated a coordinated and systematic marine – terrestrial strategy in the search for John Franklin’s lost ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. This approach yielded new information about key Franklin expedition sites on King William Island and on Adelaide Peninsula, and in September 2014, led to the discovery of HMS Erebus. This paper summarizes the history of land-based archaeological studies of the 1845...
Finding Little Egypt (2017)
In May 1962, trucks and moving vans pulled into an African American community known as "Little Egypt" in northeast Dallas, Texas. Within a single day, the residents were packed up and moved out. Bulldozers swept in, making way for a commercial center, leaving little trace of the previous occupants. Who were they? Where did they go? What was their story? In 2015, Dr. Tim Sullivan (Anthropology) and Dr. Clive Siegle(History) of Richland College (Dallas County Community College), combined their...
Finding Lulu and Annie: A Cold Case (2018)
Los Angeles’ first public cemetery (1850-1890) was excavated over a decade ago by archaeologists during construction for a new high school. With no remaining headstones, identification of remains solely through archaeological data was impossible. However, combined with genealogical research, the study resulted in the identification of two little girls remaining in the cemetery—Lulu and Annie Jenkins. Last year, a journal surfaced belonging to their uncle, Charles Jenkins, a civil war veteran,...
Finding Nouvelle Acadie: Lost Colonies, Collective Memory, and Public Archaeology as an Expedition of Discovery (2017)
In 1765 more than 200 Acadian émigrés from Nova Scotia arrived in south Louisiana and established the colony of Nouvelle Acadie along the natural levees of the Bayou Teche. Joined by fellow exiles and extended family, two centuries later their numerous descendants experienced a cultural revitalization as Cajuns living in a colonized homeland called Acadiana. During the past three years the New Acadia Project has surveyed portions of the Teche Ridge in search of the original home sites and...
Finding Our Place: Uncovering Queer Hidden Heritage in the U.S. with the National Park Service (2016)
LGBTQ history can be traced throughout the vast landscape and diverse material culture of our country, from the tribes of North America, to some of the first-established European forts, to the civil rights struggles that have helped shape our modern world. As part of the National Park Service’s LGBTQ Heritage Initiative, researchers and community members have collaborated to create the Map of Places with LGBTQ Heritage, a visual representation of archaeological and above ground sites that...
Finding Sites in Urban Places: A 17th-Century Native American Fortified Settlement in Norwalk, Connecticut (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "“Talkin’ ‘Bout a Revolution”: Identifying and Understanding Early Historic-Period House Sites" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Development projects on forested or open land are usually amenable to traditional soil assessments using small-diameter, hand-powered augers. These projects generally present little difficulty in archaeological testing and can be effectively assessed using systematic shovel test pit...
Finding Some Good in the Bad and the Ugly: Critical Views and Lessons-Learned from Public Archaeology and Outreach Programs (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Finding Some Good in the Bad and the Ugly: Critical Views and Lessons-Learned from Public Archaeology and Outreach Programs" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Presentations and publications about public archaeology and outreach programming are often mostly self-congratulatory and gloss-over problems and unintended consequences. This panel of brief presentations and open discussion brings a more reflexive and...