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This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As a field, it should be our responsibility to continually strive to develop engaging, approachable, and novel means to get “out of the lab” and into the general public (and help others do the same). While the Antonio J. Waring Jr. Archaeological Laboratory is primarily an archaeological repository and research facility, this philosophy has helped drive...
Out on the Porch: Evidence of Play on Idaho’s Frontier (2015)
The ideal child of the 19th century was seen and not heard, and today the lives of these children are often overlooked in the documentation of the past. They did, however, have a lasting impact on their surroundings in the American West. Recent excavations of a surgeon’s quarters at Fort Boise reveal insights into some of the earliest evidence of play in the state of Idaho. Artifacts unearthed from below the home's porch include toys and educational materials dating to the turn of the twentieth...
Outcrops, Toolstone Distribution, and Source Profiles of Chert Quarries on Santa Cruz Island, CA (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this poster, we synthesize the body of previous and continuing research of chert quarries on the East End and Isthmus of Santa Cruz Island, CA since 1985. Santa Cruz Island chert quarries have been integral to interpretations of craft specialization, the development of social complexity, and material conveyance among peoples on the Northern Channel...
Outdated Outreach? Responding to Public Critiques of 21st-Century Online Community Engagement (2017)
What assumptions underlie archaeologists’ interpretive strategies for the public dissemination of research results? Could we be more effective at descendant collaboration and public outreach by applying best practices drawn from related disciplines such as museum studies, oral history, and historic preservation? Perhaps it is time to rethink our choices of media, language, web platform, content, and target audience in response to descendant requests and public commentary. This paper presents...
Outdoor survival skills (1967)
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...
Outline for the Study of Architecture at Fort Sam Houston, Maps and Drawings (2010)
This pamphlet is provided as a study guide for the architecture at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Fort Sam Houston was first established in 1845 in San Antonio and moved to present location during 1870-76. Five traditional missions include Headquarters, Garrison, Logistics, Mobilization/training, Medical. Now about 3000 acres, post includes more than 800 historic buildings & structures (nine times as many as at Colonial Williamsburg). Historic preservation and adaptive re-use are key concepts. All...
Outline for the Study of Architecture at Fort Sam Houston, Photographs (2010)
Historic photographs of architecture at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Specific buildings of interest include the Quadrangle and Staff Post, Upper Post, Infantry Post, Dodd Field, the Cavalry and Light Artillery Post Addition, Camp Travis, the New Post, and Wherry Housing.
Outpost Estates II: Archaeological Testing Results and Data Recovery Plan for AZ BB:10:59 (ASM), Pima County, Arizona (2005)
SWCA Environmental Consultants (SWCA), under contract with Outpost Development, conducted archaeological testing at site AZ BB:10:59 (ASM) in unincorporated Pima County, near Tucson, Arizona. Site AZ BB:10:59 (ASM) lies partially within the site of a proposed residential development located on privately held land. Site AZ BB:10:59 (ASM) was originally recorded by Professional Archaeological Services of Tucson (P.A.S.T.) as an extensive, light-to-moderate prehistoric Native American lithic and...
Outreaching from the Gulf: Video Documentation of the Oil Spill Impacts on Deepwater Shipwrecks (2015)
This paper will be written from the perspective of the ten years that passed between the 2004 Deep Gulf Wrecks study and the 2014 BOEM study of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill impacts on shipwrecks. What was innovative and unexpected in 2004 has now become expected in 2014. Dr. Dennis Aig, who headed the video unit in 2004, will discuss the basic protocols, now-primitive video equipment, and improvisation involved in the 2004 project to study the wrecks as examples of developing artificial...
Outside of the Reach of the Mission Bell: Tongva Ritual Practice on San Clemente Island (2018)
The Mission Period in Alta California (AD 1769-1834) radically changed the lives of indigenous people such as the Tongva. Many Tongva people joined the Spanish missions, but some practiced rituals connected to the Chinigchinich religion on San Clemente Island. Patterns of consumption of native and foreign material culture may reveal new layers of meaning in persistent ritual practices. With a variety of ritual features, the Lemon Tank artifact collection from San Clemente Island provides a rich...
Ovens Aren't Just for Food: Experimenting to Determine the Materials Used in a 19th Century Spanish Oven (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the summer of 2018, field school students from the University of New Mexico excavated historical ovens likely associated with the 19th century Spanish village of Tejón. During the course of the excavations, the field school undertook an experiment to determine the purpose of the historical ovens. The experiment was unable to be completed at that time, but...
Over a Decade of Design-Build Archaeology on the California High-Speed Rail, Construction Package 1 from Madera to Fresno, California (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The California High-Speed Rail Authority (Authority) is responsible for planning, designing, building and operation of the nation’s first high-speed rail system. The high-speed rail system is being built through a series of design-build contracts. Construction Package 1 (CP-1) runs 32 miles from Avenue 19 in Madera County to East American Avenue in Fresno...
‘Over The Hill’. A Stratified Approach To The Archaeology Of The Donner Pass Route Through The Sierra Nevada. (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Roads, Rivers, Rails and Trails (and more): The Archaeology of Linear Historic Properties" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Donner Pass Route through the Sierra Nevada has successively featured emigrant trails, a military survey route, a wagon road, the transcontinental railroad, the transcontinental telegraph, hydroelectric power stations and lumber mills connected to long distance box flumes, the...
Over the mountains and through the desert: obsidian use, procurement, and transportation in Northwest Colorado (2017)
Obsidian is a rare raw material in northwest Colorado. As no naturally occurring sources have been identified in the region, obsidian artifacts recovered at archaeological sites were likely brought in through exchange or direct procurement during seasonal foraging routes. Using X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis to identify obsidian sources, this poster addresses three questions related to obsidian artifacts found in the Colorado Bureau of Land Management, White River Field Office (WRFO): what...
Over, Under, Sideways, Down: Cave Shrines and Settlement in Southwest Prehistory (2017)
Although evidence for the use of caves and earth openings as shrines in the North American Southwest begins in the Pleistocene, this practice intensified greatly after the development of agriculture. Many of the region’s major shrines appear divisible into three categories: controlled shrines, to which access was restricted by surface architecture; contested shrines, which were located equidistant between two or more surface sites; and remote sites, which may have marked cultural boundaries....
Overall spatial pattern recognition in diagnostic Folsom artifacts from the Central Plains (2017)
This study investigates the overall spatial patterns in diagnostic Folsom artifacts from the Central Plains, including distributions of reduction stages and projectile point fragment types. Examination of the overall distribution of reduction stages reveals that Folsom and Midland projectile points are concentrated in western Nebraska and along the southern tier of Nebraska counties bordering Kansas. Folsom preforms were concentrated in western Nebraska, with approximately half of them found at...
Overcoming the Ambiguity of a Rock Pile: Their Examination and Interpretation in Cultural Resource Management Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (2016)
Rock piles are some of the most ambiguous features encountered in cultural resource management, encompassing diverse origins and functions (e.g. field clearance cairns, byproducts of road construction, and Native American burials or markers). A single pile can appear to be consistent with multiple interpretations and each interpretation carries implications for how the rock pile is then recorded (or not recorded) and evaluated against the NRHP criteria. Drawing on recent fieldwork and case...
Overcoming the Silence: Uncomfortable Racial History, Dissonant Heritage, and Public Archaeology at Virginia’s Contested Sites (2016)
This paper explores the use public historical archaeology at contested sites as means of, and discussing uncomfortable racial histories with multiple communities. Virginian’s colonial and Early Republic heritage struggle with giving a voice to non-Euro-Americans, acknowledge racial inequality, and attracting tourists. This struggle often results in silences that perpetuate structural inequalities from the past in the present. Drawing from my own research and experiences in Virginia, I argue that...
Overlay Draft Map, Salamonie Reservoir Maps N.D (2012)
This resource contains an overlay draft map of the Salamonie Reservoir, Indiana, printed in February 1981. This map is part of the Salamonie Reservoir Maps N.D collection that consists of oversized maps of the Salamonie Reservoir within the Huntington and Wabash Counties, Indiana. The collection was received without any association to a particular investigation. The date of this image was not recorded. This is likely due to the documents’ large size and cartographic contents.
Oversized Copies of Historical Maps, 2000.027_0257 (2018)
Oversized copies of historical maps of Virginia and Maryland. Map depictions include army maps, geologic formations, and focus on the Ballast House.
Oversized Map of Archaeological Sites, Mississinewa Maps N.D (2012)
This resource contains a map detailing the archaeological sites within the Mississinewa Reservoir. This map is part of the Mississinewa Reservoir Maps N.D collection that consists of oversized maps of the Mississinewa Reservoir within Grant, Miami, and Wabash Counties, Indiana. The collection was received without any association to a particular investigation. The date of this image was not recorded. It is likely that this is due to the documents’ large size and cartographic contents.
Oversized Map, Adelphi Naval Research Laboratory (1995)
Preliminary Survey Worksheet of the Adelphi Naval Research Laboratory.
Oversized Map, Archaeological Excavations in the Round Bottom Area 1973-1975 (2018)
Oversized U.S. Army Corps of Engineers map of Hannibal Locks and Dam dating to 1970. Map includes hand drawn locations of archaeological sites throughout the area.
Oversized Maps, Electrical Components of Adelphi Research Laboratory, ADI_0122 (1995)
A two part Electrical Map of a portion of the Adelphi Research Laboratory.
Oversized Maps, Wasterwater Components of Adelphi Laboratory Center, ADI_0124 (1995)
Two maps of the Waste Water system of the Adelphi Laboratory Center.