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This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The unexpected discovery of human remains from an unmarked cemetery for convicts located on Watford Island, Bermuda provides a unique opportunity to reconstruct the lives of these forgotten builders of the British Royal Naval Dockyard, now a major tourist destination. Buried in the early 1850s, the remains of at least seven men represent more than 9,000 British and Irish prisoners...
The Osteobiography of Philadelphia’s Forgotten Abolitionist: Reverend Stephen H. Gloucester (1802-1850) (2018)
Bioarchaeology often provides a pathway back to public recognition for forgotten historical figures. This presentation provides an osteobiography of Reverend Stephen H. Gloucester, a once nationally prominent and now virtually forgotten African-American abolitionist, educator, and community leader. Born enslaved in Tennessee, by the 1830s Gloucester was a vocal participant in the American Anti-Slavery Society, a founder of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, and one of the primary...
Osteological Evidence from a Civil War–Era Grave and Surgeon’s Pit in Colonial Williamsburg (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Individuals Known and Unknown: Case Studies from Two Burial Contexts at Colonial Williamsburg" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, we report on the study of human skeletal remains recently discovered near a powder magazine in Williamsburg, VA, the site of a mass Confederate grave. Osteological analysis of four discrete burials and additional remains recovered from a nearby surgeon’s pit indicates that these...
Ostrich egg canteens. Staying hydrated in the Land of Little Rain (2010)
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...
Ostungo incised (1988)
Incised Ostungo pottery
Ostungo incised (1988)
Incised Ostungo pottery
The Other Black on White: Aspen Carvings of the Flagstaff Region (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Historical Archaeologies of the American Southwest, 1800 to Today" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Once a widespread industry throughout the southwest, sheepherding has left its mark, albeit a delible and dwindling one, throughout the high elevation mountains of the American southwest. Aspen carvings made by sheepherders provide a window into the daily lives, ethnicity, politics, and personal sentiments of these men....
Otstungo
This is a catalog guide for the Otstungo site, which was excavated as part of the Mohawk Valley Project. The guide contains necessary metadata in narrative form and instructions to users regarding the use of the catalog and other files associated with this one. Users should also access the pdf version of Mohawk Valley Archaeology: The Sites, which contains summary information on this site and others studied during the course of the Mohawk Valley Project.
Otstungo Artifact Images (2011)
These are pictures taken of the artifacts recovered from the Otstungo excavations. Several pictures of the pipe found at this site.
Otstungo Catalog (2006)
This is a catalog of the artifacts recovered at the Otstungo site. A separate spreadsheet provides details regarding ceramic vessels.
Otstungo Correspondence (1984)
This document is a compilation of letters between Dr. Dean Snow and others involved at the Otstungo Site as a part of the Mohawk Valley Project.
Otstungo Curation Request Form (2005)
This is a document requesting curation for artifacts and samples collected from the Otstungo excavations as part of the Mohawk Valley Project.
Otstungo Feature Catalog B (1986)
This document is a descriptive form and drawing for Feature B found at the Otstungo Site as part of the Mohawk Valley Project.
Otstungo Feature Records (2006)
The file contains feature record forms filled out at the Otstungo site.
Otstungo Field Images
These images include pictures of the Otstungo site as well as individual unit pictures. (312 files)
Otstungo Site Catalog Guide (2006)
This is a catalog guide for the Otstungo site, which was excavated as part of the Mohawk Valley Project. The guide contains necessary metadata in narrative form and instructions to users regarding the use of the catalog and other files associated with this one. Users should also access the pdf version of Mohawk Valley Archaeology: The Sites, which contains summary information on this site and others studied during the course of the Mohawk Valley Project.
Our Collections at Risk: Climate Change Threats to NPS Museum Property (2017)
Over the past 15 years NPS Collections from Texas to Maine have faced devastating impacts from hurricanes and other climate related events. During this time, Hurricanes such as Isabel, Ivan, Katrina and Sandy have wrought havoc on NPS museum collections. Although not subjected to direct impacts from these recent hurricanes, National Capital Region (NCR) parks have been heavily damaged by their collateral impacts, typically in the form of flooding along the Potomac Valley. It is simply a matter...
Our Dearly Loved Daughter and Sister: A Bioarchaeological, Material Culture, and Archival Case Study in Extraordinary Organic Preservation from Bethel Cemetery, Marion County, Indiana (2023)
This is an abstract from the "The Bethel Cemetery Relocation Project: Historical, Osteological, and Material Culture Analyses of a Nineteenth-Century Indiana Cemetery" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the 2018 Bethel Cemetery Relocation Project, 26 concrete or metallic burial vaults were recovered. Established field protocol dictated that these were to remain unopened and were to be reinterred at the new cemetery location without further...
Our Personal and Professional Journeys to a Sacred Unity: Archaeology, Social Justice and the Protection of Apache Sacred Sites (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Social Justice in Native North American Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. ‘TRUST-ship’ in Archaeology—Our definition of a practice that supports meaningful interaction between people and organizations who TRUST one another. Building trust with communities and individuals in society is a basic tool that anthropologists use in conducting research or gathering data for projects. Actions that support the...
"Our Silence Will Be More Powerful Than Words Could Be": The Haymarket Martyrs Monument and Commemorative Authority (2017)
Forest Home Cemetery is the final resting place for a large cross-section of Chicago’s population. Not far from its entrance lies the cemetery’s most visited section: the burials of seven of the eight men tried and convicted for their involvement in the 1886 Haymarket Square bombing. Dominated by a monument to the Haymarket "martyrs" and an adjoining "Radical Row"—internments of over 60 labor activists and anarchists including Emma Goldman—the site is held in trust by the Illinois Labor History...
Our World: Archaeologists and Zuni Knowledge Keepers Create a Shared Narrative of Life in the Mogollon Highlands (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Collaborative Archaeology: How Native American Knowledge Enhances Our Collective Understanding of the Past" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Mogollon Highlands of west-central New Mexico, despite a flurry of archaeological activity in the mid-twentieth century, have long been treated by archaeologists as a cultural backwater of the American Southwest. Boundary zone, frontier, and crossroads are labels that most...
Out From the Center: Rock-Art of the Chaco World (2019)
This is an abstract from the "The Role of Rock Art in Cultural Understanding: A Symposium in Honor of Polly Schaafsma" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Chaco Canyon contains multitudes of petroglyphs and pictographs, yet rock art has not been a prevalent line of evidence in the archaeological study of that pre-contact culture. More than 15,000 Ancestral Puebloan elements attest to the importance of the role of iconography within the canyon. And the...
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Recovering Three Cemeteries From the Outer Boroughs (2018)
HPI studied the Northern Cemetery of the Staten Island Quarantine Grounds, where patients from the Marine Hospital were buried in the mid-nineteenth century. The stories of immigrant inmates and caregivers at the facility provide a glimpse of the desperation experienced by those confined within. In 1858, nearby residents burned the Quarantine buildings to the ground to rid the community of "pestilence" and "miasma" associated with the hospital. HPI disinterred intact and partial burials from...
Out of the Box: Thinking of Cemeteries as Collections Storage Facilities (2018)
When the archaeological community thinks of collections and collections based-research our minds frequently leap to serried ranks of boxes and the assemblages housed within them. It is less common for our minds to leap to cemeteries, yet the collections of tombstones located in them, cumulatively represent one of the largest datasets utilized by historical archaeologists. This paper considers whether a shift in perspective is needed. Instead of regarding cemeteries as landscapes replete with...
Out of the Dirt and Into the House: Archaeology and Decorative Arts Working Together (2017)
Unlike other presidential house museums, Montpelier did not inherit a large collection of objects with clear Madison provenance. However, archaeology has been instrumental to reconstructing Montpelier’s story and is one of the only ways for us to know what objects were in the homes of the Madisons and their enslaved laborers. The Montpelier Foundation is currently in a rather unique position: not only are artifacts being unearthed daily, we also have the budget to actively seek out and acquire...