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Faunal remains were recovered from five household sites, dating from the mid-18th to mid-19th centuries, on the Eastern Pequot reservation in North Stonington, Connecticut. Results from ongoing analyses indicate the residents’ incorporations of European-introduced practices and resources with traditional subsistence practices. Each site yielded a shifting mixture of faunal remains from domesticated and wild species. Over the course of the 18th century, the residents came to rely on...
Evaluating Material-Specific Responses to Heat Treatment in the Santa Barbara Channel Region (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We evaluate the process by which archaeologists have interpreted heat treatment of lithic raw materials in the Santa Barbara Channel region and present comparative examples of materials to work toward refinement of our understanding of production processes. Relatively little systematic work has been done, even though regional lithic materials are well-suited...
Evaluating the Chronology of the Joiner’s Shop in a Changing Monticello Landscape (2015)
The Joiner’s Shop at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello was the structure in which highly-skilled free and enslaved craftsmen manufactured decorative woodwork and furniture for Jefferson’s mansion during the late-18th and early-19th centuries. While the Joiner’s Shop is the largest structure on Mulberry Row, the center of work and domestic life at the Plantation, little is known regarding its construction history, whether the space was divided based on work and domestic activities, or how the...
Evaluating the Effects of Time Averaged Deposits on Archaeological Chronologies (2017)
Establishing intra-and inter-site chronologies for the dwellings and workshops at Monticello’s Mulberry Row has been a focus of study for decades. While broad temporal outlines are clear, we argue here that further progress depends on gaining better analytical control of a key issue: time averaging of archaeological assemblages. In this poster, we present our iterative process to develop methods to estimate variation in time averaging between these assemblages at different levels of aggregation....
Evaluating the Efficacy of Regression and Machine Learning Models to Predict Prehistoric Land-use Patterns (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Novel Statistical Techniques in Archaeology II (QUANTARCH II)" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists continue to rely on predictive models that suffer from the same errors that have plagued the discipline for decades: small training sets, improper statistical techniques, and vague or only implicit theory. To address these shortcomings, we develop a framework for modeling archaeological site occurrences with...
Evaluating the Environmental Impacts of Colonial Settlement: A Palynological Study of La Cienega, New Mexico (2018)
Using palynological data, this project attempts to contextualize the ecological impacts of Spanish settlement and land-use practices at LA 20,000 within a broader discussion of the long-term environmental history of La Cienega, New Mexico. This is essential because La Cienega has a deep and complicated settlement history that includes Puebloan, Spanish, and Anglo-American occupations. As a result, the ecological relationships created during initial colonial settlement must be considered in...
Evaluating the Impacts of Past Climate Change on Demographic and Subsistence Patterns in the Basin-Plateau Region of Western North America (2021)
This is an abstract from the "People, Climate, and Proxies in Holocene Western North America" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological and paleoclimatological research increasingly reveal long-term impacts of past climate on human subsistence, settlement, and demography, yet positive results are debated and the underlying dynamics structuring these correlations remain questioned. Coupling a comprehensive dataset of radiocarbon-dated...
Evaluating the Sensys MagDrone R3 Aerial Magnetometer System (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In early 2019 the Applied History Lab at the University of Rhode Island and Rhode Island-based company GeoNautic Solutions acquired a Sensys MagDrone R3 fluxgate aerial magnetometer and a DJI Matrice 200 small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS). Performance testing of the aerial magnetometer system began in the summer months after sUAS training and FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot...
Evaluation and Limited Data Recovery of LA 155815 and LA 156001, Kirtland Air Force Base, Bernalillo County, New Mexico (2012)
This report presents the findings of the investigation and evaluation of two early historic-period archaeological sites at Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB). The two sites, LA 155815 and LA 156001, are eroding from the edge of an alluvial floodplain at the lower edges Tijeras Arroyo, leaving them exposed to impacts from Air Force security patrol vehicles. The presence of subsurface features led to a recommendation that the sites be considered eligible for listing on the National Register of...
Evaluation for National Register of Historic Places Eligibility of Five Sandia National Laboratory Buildings, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico (1993)
A National Register of Historic Places evaluation has been conducted for Sandia National Laboratory (SNL) Buildings 824, 828, 834, 838, and 839. This evaluation is the second phase completed in response to a New Mexico State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) reply (Lynne Sebastian, letter of 7 /12/91 to Albert Chernoff) that questioned the significance of these and two other early laboratory buildings (814 and 815). The eligibility of Buildings 814, 815, and their potential for inclusion into...
Evaluation for National Register of Historic Places Eligibility of Sandia National Laboratory's Buildings 814 and Building 815, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico (1991)
A National Register of Historic Places evaluation has been conducted for Sandia National Laboratory (SNL) Buildings 814 and 815. This evaluation was conducted in response to a New Mexico State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) response (Lynne Sebastian, letter of 7 /12/91 to Albert Chernoff) that questioned the significance of these and five other early laboratory buildings. The State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) response went on to recommend that historical and architectural...
An Evaluation of Archaeological Resources at Aquilla Lake (1978)
The purpose of the 1977 investigations at Aquilla Lake was to continue testing archaeological sites in the project area in order to determine which sites warranted nomination to the National Register of Historic Places and also to evaluate various archaeological problems relevant to the project area. This information was used to determine which sites in the project area warrant additional investigations and to develop a comprehensive plan to mitigate the unavoidable loss of archaeological...
Evaluation of Historic Buildings Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee (2008)
This project was designed to address deficiencies in the 2006 GeoMarine report on the historic facilities at Arnold Air Force Base, specifically those associated with the Cold War. Additional background and archival research was undertaken to more fully develop the Cold War context within which Arnold Air Force Base should be evaluated. The result of this research and evaluation of Arnold Air Force Base is that the area containing the testing complexes meets the criteria for listing on the...
An Evaluation of Historic Cultural Resources in Relation to the Central Arizona Water Control Study (1984)
This is a final, summary report on historic cultural resources in relation to the Central Arizona Water Control Study (CAWCS). The objectives of the CAWCS were to identify and evaluate alternative measures for flood control and regulatory water storage in Central Arizona in conjunction with construction of the Central Arizona Project. Having considered numerous alternative plans to meet these objectives, the Bureau of Reclamation defined a preferred alternative (Plan...
Evaluation of Occupation History using Comparative Lithic Analysis at the Point Pueblo LA 8619, San Juan County, New Mexico (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Point Site, LA 8619, is located along the San Juan River in San Juan County, New Mexico. LA 8619 is a multicomponent site within the Point Community of the Middle San Juan Tradition. Based upon preliminary ceramic analysis, the occupation at the Point Pueblo dates from the AD 900s to abandonment in AD 1300, by Totah, Chaco, and Mesa Verde cultural...
Evaluation of Site 26CK3905, Range 62, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada (1989)
Site 26Ck3905 is a series of small lithic scatters that cover an area of approximately 720 acres on the west side of the dry bed of Dog Bone Lake . It is bounded on the east by the Dog Bone Lake playa and on the west by the Pintwater Range. It lies on an alluvial fan containing numerous chert and quartzite cobbles .
Evaluation of Site 26CK3905, Range 62, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada - Photo Log (1989)
Photo log.
An Evaluation of the Ability of Commercial High-Resolution Multispectral Remote-Sensing Satellite Data to Identify Archaeological Resources (2006)
An evaluation of the ability of low-cost commercial satellite multispectral imagery to identify ephemeral archaeological surface sites was undertaken on the Nevada Test and Training Range in Nevada. Archaeological data from field inventories were used as a control sample. Using the QuickBird II sensor, significant differences were identified in mean reflectance in the blue, green, and near-infrared bands between on-site pixels and adjacent off-site pixels on a single site with the densest...
An Evaluation of the Archaeological Resources at Lake Whitney, Texas (1974)
The archaeological resources around the edge of Lake Whitney in Central Texas were inventoried in order to determine the impact that an increase in lake level will have upon the resources. It was determined that testing should accompany site survey in order to insure a realistic evaluation of archaeological sites. Testing determined that several sites have been eroded away by lake edge wave action. Extensive excavation was conducted at two prehistoric sites. The sites (Bowling Pin site and...
Evaluation of the Effect of the Permian Basin Programmatic Agreement on the Archaeological Record within the Permian Basin PA Area: Field Survey and Document Review of 164 Projects (2018)
The Carlsbad Field Office contracted Versar, Inc. to conduct field survey and document review for 164 oil and gas industry project parcels released for development under the Permian Basin Programmatic Agreement (PBPA) during a 3-year period between 1 May 2013 and 30 June 2016. The project parcels are located among 28 United States Geological Survey quadrangles on lands administered through the PBPA by the Carlsbad Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management in southeastern New Mexico. The...
The Evaluation of the Labor Costs of Stone Boiling Dried Maize During the Early Agricultural Period in the Southwest (2017)
The Early Agricultural period (2100 BC-AD150-500) in the Southwest begins with the presence of maize and ends with the advent of ceramic vessel use. It is assumed maize was dried out and stored for future consumption. Once dried, maize required extensive processing to gelatinize the endosperm starch, or transform the polysaccharides back to a digestible monosaccharide, through techniques such as: parching, steeping, grinding, and/or boiling (Hard et al. 1996). Little, however, is known about the...
Evaluation of the Permian Basin PA Program
BPA Project 8. Evaluation of the Effect of the Permian Basin PA on the Archaeological Record
An Evaluation of the Relations between Morphology and Thermal Properties among Poverty Point Objects (PPOs) of the American Southeast (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Poverty Point Objects (PPOs) are thought to have functions related to contexts of heating and cooking in areas where stone alternatives are not locally available. PPO morphology and composition, therefore, may potentially be explained by the efforts of prehistoric populations to manipulate thermal properties that impact performance for cooking and heating. In...
An evaluation of three argillite tools (2003)
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An Evaluation of Type Definitions for Viejo Period Red-on-brown Pottery (2019)
This is an abstract from the "25 Years in the Casas Grandes Region: Celebrating Mexico–U.S. Collaboration in the Gran Chichimeca" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We recently began a long-term research program focused on identifying and excavating Viejo Period settlements in the near vicinity of the massive, latter Medio Period settlement known as Paquimé (ca. A.D. 12-1450) in Chihuahua, Mexico. We have located previously unrecorded Viejo sites and...