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DOCUMENT Citation Only Lorelea Hudson.

Artifacts and structures produce data for historical archaeology. They can be used to construct chronologies, explore social arrangements, and identify function and ethnic groups.  Japanese men came as laborers to the Pacific Northwest in the late 19th century, working in logging camps, on the railroad, and in other industrial settings. By the early 20th century, Japanese families (re)turned to farming as they sought greater economic opportunity. Two such first generation Japanese families, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only J H House. J W Smith.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Kozuch.

This is an abstract from the "Past Human-Shark Interactions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cahokia is one of the most important archaeological sites in North America and was populated from AD 1000 to 1300. It was mound-building center with exotic lithics, ceramics, marine shell beads, and shark teeth. Here, I present information on 21 Greater Cahokia extant shark teeth along with contextual and chronological information. None of the teeth are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Fox.

Archaeological evidence from the Great Lakes region reflects fluctuating periods of long distance contacts over the past millennia. The mechanisms behind and meaning of these networks is considered in light of site-specific and regional distribution patterns of "exotic" goods.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeanne Binning.

This is an abstract from the "The Global “Impact” of Projectile Technologies: Updating Methods and Regional Overviews of the Invention and Transmission of the Spear-Thrower and the Bow and Arrow" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There is a large literature that discusses the prehistoric introduction of the bow and arrow into the various regions of North America. The dates of the introduction vary greatly. Erroneously, it is sometimes assumed that...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Sediment samples were collected from a trench across an active normal fault in the Fort Sage Mountains in northeast California with the purpose of gaining insight into earthquake activity. These sediment samples were examined to recover organic material suitable for AMS radiocarbon dating. No macroscopic charcoal or other organic fragments were noted in these samples; therefore, they were processed to recover microscopic charcoal fragments (microcharcoal) for dating. Two of the samples yielded...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Four samples from an exposed fault graben in a road cut in Chino Valley, Arizona, were floated to recover charred material suitable for AMS radiocarbon dating. None of the samples yielded sufficient macrocharcoal for dating; therefore, the samples were processed in an attempt to recover microscopic charcoal/particulate soil organics for dating. Two of these samples yielded particulate soil organics that were submitted for dating.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Johnson. Joseph M. Bagley.

Boston is a city celebrated for its history.  With millions of heritage tourists bringing billions of dollars to the city annually, it is significant and rare for Boston to add additional attractions to its assemblage of historic sites along and around its famous Freedom Trail.  In the summer of 2015, a team of volunteers excavated one of the "lost" Freedom Trail sites, the 1645 Boston Latin School campus, exposing and expanding the sites history to visitors and residents alike.  This paper...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael B. Barber.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeological Research of the 17th Century Chesapeake" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Eyreville Site (44NH0507) is located on the bayside of Virginia's Eastern Shore on an expansive terrace of Cherrystone Creek. Along with the standing 18th / 19th-century plantartion house, 17th-century brick foundations and an early 17th-Century earthfast structure offer an opportunity to document the diachronic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Analise Hollingshead. Morgan Smith.

The Ryan-Harley site (8JE1004) is a Suwannee point site located in North Florida along the Wacissa River. Ryan-Harley is significant because it is the only archaeological site in the Southeast United States where diagnostic Suwannee material has been recovered in-situ within a discrete geological layer through extensive excavations. A broad faunal assemblage interpreted as dietary remains was also recovered from the same stratigraphic layer as the Suwannee material. Taxa identified include...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Jameson.

Facilitated dialogue (FD) is a communication technique increasingly utilized by professional interpreters to connect and interact with audiences. It is a conversation between individuals in which a facilitator helps to overcome communication barriers regarding an issue of mutual concern. It is designed to join the experiences and expertise of participants to think through the conditions and opportunities necessary to impact the topic or issue discussed. FD is designed to foster an environment...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ericha Sappington.

By the end of the eighteenth-century, the boundaries of Spain’s La Florida territory were informally defined by a series of outposts ranging west from St. Augustine to Pensacola. These outposts were strategically placed in order to secure supplies and regulate trade while maintaining Spanish-Indian relations in the territorial borderlands. Within these borderlands lay the fortified port of San Marcos de Apalache, initially established in 1677 in order to monitor the shipment of supplies from...

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Pages from a 1950s guide to Nellis AFB.

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Correspondence related to construction of facilities for the B-29 Flexible Gunnery Training Program.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Shawn Chapman.

Tennessee Historical and Architectural Resource Form for Facility 2328, the Shipley/Rutherford Cemetery at Arnold Air Force Base.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Shawn Chapman.

Tennessee Historical and Architectural Resource Form for Facility 516 at Arnold Air Force Base.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lauren K. McMillan. Ethan Knick.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Boxed but not Forgotten Redux or: How I Learned to Stop Digging and Love Old Collections" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Excavated in the 1970s by the Archeological Society of Virginia, the Nomini Plantation (44WM12) midden assemblage represents an extraordinary collection of mid- to late-seventeenth-century material culture, including not only European goods but also pipe-making waste and an array of clay...

DOCUMENT Citation Only F. Scott Worman. Elizabeth Sobel.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For more than a century, books, movies, and other media have portrayed the Ozarks region of the U.S. as historically isolated, rural, backwards, and overwhelmingly white. However, recent studies have begun to reveal a more complex and nuanced picture of life in the Ozarks during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Our investigations of a company town...

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The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and HDR Engineering, Inc., proposed a highway- widening project along State Route 82 (SR82) in Cochise County, Arizona. The proposed project included the addition of a turn lane and relocation of the entrance into the historic Fairbank Townsite, AZ EE:8:3 (ASM), an archaeological site and historic property administered by the BLM. The project was initiated for safety issues related to visibility concerns. The...

PROJECT Patrick J. Munson. Jeffery A. Myers. US Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District. US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District.

The USACE, Louisville District obtained the collection through an archaeological test excavation at the Fairfax South Site, Lake Monroe Reservoir Project in 1987. Fieldwork was performed by Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology, Indiana University (GBL) with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of Reservoirs. Fieldwork consisted of hand excavation of trenches to assess the integrity of archaeological deposits and was conducted from May 21 to June 5, 1987 (Myers and Munson...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Saša Čaval.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology in the Indian Ocean" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Due to its colonial legacy, Mauritius could serve as a laboratory for the present-day globalization in almost every aspect of human activity. Most noticeable and distinguishable is the religious element. Corresponding to their homeland, the colonizers and colonists of Mauritius were followers of Christianity, African traditional...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Howe.

This is an abstract from the "Living Landscapes: Disaster, Memory, and Change in Dynamic Environments " session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Falcon dam and reservoir near Zapata, Texas, was completed in 1954 as a binational project for flood control of the Rio Grande by Mexico and the United States. Some archaeological projects were completed before the area was flooded, cemeteries were exhumed and moved to new areas outside of the high flood waters,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dawn Lawrence. Jeffrey Shanks.

This is an abstract from the "Vicksburg Is the Key: Recent Archaeological Investigations and New Perspectives from the Gibraltar of the South" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In May 2020, NPS archaeologists initiated an emergency response at Vicksburg National Cemetery, where a massive landslide affected numerous Civil War-era graves, primarily those of the first US Colored Troops (USCT). Working on a partially collapsed terrace, the archaeologists...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick H. Garrow.

The term "whiteware" is used in historical archaeology to denote refined ceramics with a whiter and denser body than pearlware that generally postdates ca. 1830. Some researchers restrict the use of the term to all later nineteenth century refined ceramics but ironstone and porcelain, while far too many in our field use the term to describe virtually all refined ceramics made after ca. 1830. This paper suggests that the use of the term "whiteware" has made dating sites or components after ca....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew D. McKinney.

       The immigrant population increased in the City of Detroit between 1840 and 1860 due to rapid industrialization. The Erie Canal and rail-road expansion made Detroit more accessible to the world and was the primary conduit for the influx. The timber and mining industry provided a wide range of employment opportunities. The Irish were the largest group of immigrants. Most of the Irish lived in the Corktown neighborhood. A tenement row-house in the Corktown neighborhood, the Workers Row House...