Mississippi (State / Territory) (Geographic Keyword)

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The A-frame (2006)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rob Roy. David Wescott.

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...

Abalone Shell, Broken Pots, Hearths, Windbreaks and Archival Research: Clues to Identifying 19th Century California Abalone Colection and Processing Sites on the Channel Islands (2013)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Judy Berryman.

The Chinese abalone and fisheries in California developed in the late 1850s, flourished, and then delcined in the early 1900s. The majority of California Chinese studies have focused on immigrant populations in established urban Chinatowns. Much less attention has been given to economic strategies and survival mechanisms associated with rural communities, specialized labor camps, or fishing camps. Many of these industries were first developed in the West by Chinese immigrants only to be taken...

Abandonment and postabandonment behaviour at a rural central American house site (1972)

DOCUMENT Citation Only F W Lange. C R Rydberg.

Abolition and the Rise of the Aku: Creating Ethnicity through Colonial Policy on the Gambia River (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Liza Gijanto.

The Gambian capital of Banjul was founded as part of British abolition efforts in West Africa. A planned urban center, its earliest residents included the Aku, or Liberated Africans resettled from Sierra Leone and captured slave vessels. The Aku identity formed over several decades in The Gambia largely through self-identification as the ‘other’ African and British subjects in the 19th century. In the early 20th century they were the Gambian elite and became the driving force behind the...

Aboriginal American harpoons: a study in ethnic distribution and invention (1902)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Otis T Mason.

Aboriginal butchering techniques at the Escheiman Site (36 La 12), Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (1962)

DOCUMENT Citation Only J E Guilday. R W Parmalee. D P Tanner.

Aboriginal Cookery (2001)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alice Ross.

Aboriginal Pottery of the Eastern United States (1903)

DOCUMENT Citation Only W. H. Holmes.

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.

Aboriginal Sites on Tennessee River (1915)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Clarence B. Moore.

Aboriginal skin dressing (1889)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Otis T Mason.

Above and Below Ground: Teaching Combined Methodologies for a Holistic Understanding of the Built Environment (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kyla Cools. Katherine Boyle.

During the summer of 2017, the University of Maryland’s Anthracite Heritage Program held a combined historic preservation and archaeological field school at Eckley Miners’ Village in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Complementing the University’s dual masters in applied anthropology and historic preservation, this field school emphasized the value of utilizing historic preservation and archaeology to inform one another. This field school has provided an invaluable opportunity for students to learn the...

Above-ground Archaeology Of Industrial And Post-Industrial Detroit (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda Sosnowski. Suzanne Spencer-Wood.

A survey of Detroit’s ruins reveals the spread of industrial decline among all kinds of sites, and the post-industrial transformation of urban landscapes. Maps show the spread of abandonment from factories to other businesses, transportation sites, and residential areas, including schools and police stations. Photos of abandoned buildings show the processes of decay and ruination, from vandalism to the weather. What can Detroit teach archaeologists about the interpretation of material evidence...

Abraham Lincoln as Authentic Reproduction: A Critique of Postmodernism (1994)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Edward Bruner.

Absorbed Residue Evidence of Datura Use in Mississippian Contexts (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adam King. Terry Powis. Kong Cheong. Nilesh Gaikwad.

We recently identified residues indicative of the preparation of Datura in ceramic and shell vessels dating to the Mississippian period (900-1600 CE) of the southeastern United States in the collections of the Gilcrease Museum. Datura is a genus of flowering plants whose seeds and flowers contain tropane alkaloids that produce hallucinogenic effects when consumed by people. The use of Datura for a variety of medicinal ritual practices is well established among Native Americans today and in the...

Acadian Adaptations in North and South America (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven R. Pendery.

The tragedy of the deportation of the Acadians from their homeland by the British in the 1750s was compounded by their exploitation by the French government at the conclusion of the Seven Years War. French imperial policy focused on settling and developing portions of tropical colonies such as French Guiana with Acadians and Europeans in order to minimize slave labor. Although more than 9,000 colonists perished upon their arrival in La Guyane, a few hundred Acadians survived in extended coastal...

The Acali Experiment: Five Men and Six Women on a Raft across the Atlantic for 101 Days (1980)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Santiago Genovés.

An Account of Ancient Stone Anchors in the Northern Shoreline of the Persian Gulf (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sorna Khakzad.

This is an abstract from the "Current Research in Maritime Archaeology" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper is an introduction to the historical stone anchors in the Northern shoreline of the Persian Gulf. This area is under ongoing and rapid urban and industrial development, with limited systematic studies on the underwater and coastal cultural heritage. This paper presents a collection of stone anchors and stone weights, which has been...

Accuracy of Underwater Photogrammetric Methods: The Case Study of the Invincible Wreck Site (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Jones. Fraser Sturt.

This report presents an accuracy analysis of the 2016 underwater photogrammetric survey of the HMS Invincible, an at-risk British wreck of historic import, which afforded the opportunity to compare the three-dimensional models generated by a variety of widely available cameras. In a two-phase project, photogrammetric data from the Invincible wreck site was compared against swath bathymetry, and the cameras used onsite were tested on reference objects under controlled pool conditions. The results...

Acheulean Handaxes (1972)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Errett Callahan.

Acorn granaries of California - a brief overview (2004)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Norm Kidder. David Wescott.

Acorn Toys and Games (2008)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chuck Kritzon.

Acquisition and restoration of appropriate machinery for living historical sites (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tom Brown. George Nicholson.

Adapting to Colonial Reality with Long-term History: The Evolution of 17th Century Indigenous Households along the Rappahannock River, Virginia (2020)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Josue Nieves.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper summarizes all research findings pertaining to 2017-2018 Archaeological Excavations at Camden Farm, Virginia. The goal of the project was to seek out a previously unexcavated house site from within the property’s Post-Contact (1650-1720 A.D.) Rappahannock Indian village in order to analyze structural morphology and the suite of artifact assemblages relating to domestic...

Adaptive Approaches to the Thingness of Institutional Datasets: A View from North Carolina (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Fitts. Samuel Franklin.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The North Carolina Office of State Archaeology has been building a database of standardized information about archaeological sites since 1977. Like most datasets that bridge the analog to digital transition, the North Carolina site file has experienced several distinctive phases of accretional development. Designed for the purposes of predictive modeling, the...

An Adaptive Legacy: Repurposing Lighthouses from Navigational Aids to Heritage Tourism Destinations in North Carolina (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren M Christian.

The lighthouses of North Carolina were originally constructed to aid navigation through treacherous waterways, but the advancement of modern navigational equipment has diminished their necessity for that purpose. In 2000, the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act was enacted to see to the transference of federally owned historic light stations to qualified new stewards. Today, the National Parks Service, private organizations, and community associations manage the lighthouses on the...

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