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DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Weiner.

This is an abstract from the "Rethinking Persistent Places: Relationships, Atmospheres, and Affects" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Beginning in the 1980s, researchers noticed that some monumental avenues in the Chaco World (ca. AD 800-1200) of the Four Corners region of the U.S. Southwest were “roads through time” linking non-contemporaneous sites. These so-called “time bridges” are often interpreted as monuments built by later generations to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Clay Mathers.

This is an abstract from the "Disentanglement: Reimagining Early Colonial Trajectories in the Americas" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. What began in 1540 with sustained, lethal confrontations between Southern Tiwa pueblo communities and the conquista campaign of Vázquez de Coronado, set in motion a history of relations in New Mexico regularly punctuated by acts of Native independence and disengagement, and by Spanish policies and countermeasures...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lori Lee.

Objects classified as personal adornment are often vested with meanings that reveal significant insight into their owners because they are personal. The context in which objects are used is critical to understanding potential meanings. This essay considers the recontextualization of personal adornment items, particularly glass beads, a pierced coin, and an alloy fastener, used by enslaved laborers at antebellum Poplar Forest plantation. The enslaved mobilized these forms of material culture in...

IMAGE RGA Inc. . Allison Gall.

Left to Right: Glass Dial Face (PCN 919); Glass Bead (PCN 780); Jewelry Setting (PCN 958); Decorative Metal (PCN 878); Watch Gear (PCN 916); Bead (PCN 956).

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steve Filoromo. Paul Jackson. Kenny Pearce.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Research on Glass Beads and Ornaments in North America" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The material traces of those within certain spaces, such as the “Big Houses” of southern Louisiana’s plantations, are not restricted to the wealthy. Enslaved peoples, wage-laborers, and many others labored throughout the home. Here we utilize personal artifacts from Phase III data recovery excavations at the St. Amelia...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Grant.

The Faubourg Tremé is often referred to as America’s oldest African-American neighborhood and has been the site of significant social, cultural, and political developments in New Orleans for the past two hundred years. From the colonial period onward, the neighborhood fostered the growth of the city’s Creole population and displayed a distinct cultural and demographic makeup unmatched in other parts of the American South. In recent decades, scholars have considered the Tremé as a rich site of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lynn Sebastian.

A paper on cultural resources identification and evaluation presented at the 2006 DoD Cultural Resources Workshop.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Deidre McCarthy.

A paper on integrating GIS and GPS technologies into cultural resource management strategies presented at the 2006 DoD Cultural Resources Workshop.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cari Goetcheus.

A paper on cultural landscapes and DoD presented at the 2006 DoD Cultural Resources Workshop.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christopher Hamilton.

A paper on installation level cultural resources management presented at the 2006 DoD Cultural Resources Workshop.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ray Luce.

A presentation on cultural resources mitigation and treatment presented at the 2006 DoD Cultural Resources Workshop.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Wayne Donaldson.

A paper on the preservation of Cold War-era cultural resources presented at the 2006 DoD Cultural Resources Workshop.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sherry Hutt.

A presentation on traditional cultural properties presented at the 2006 DoD Cultural Resources Workshop.

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The Chesapeake Farm Buildings Survey was organized in the Fall of 1980 as a long-term effort to record seriously threatened agricultural buildings in the Tidewater region. The initial group of eight participants has expanded to roughly fifteen architectural historians, folklorists, and social historians. Bi-monthly meetings are held in Annapolis, Williamsburg, and Richmond. Buildings are identified and recorded by participants according to significance, likelihood of destruction, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles D Beeker.

Hispaniola is the epicenter of Colombian contact from the 1492 Santa Maria to the first sustained interaction between peoples of the Old and New Worlds at La Isabela. Since 1992, Indiana University has worked in the Dominican Republic to study and protect its significant historic and prehistoric Underwater Cultural Heritage (UCH). Most notably, the Living Museums in the Sea initiative is a sustainable management strategy that provides an alternative to the commercial exploitation of submerged...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kellie Bowers. John Robert Elmore, III.

This is an abstract from the "In Search of Solutions: Exploring Pathways to Repatriation for NAGPRA Practitioners (Part III)" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Alabama Department of Archives and History has actively engaged in NAGPRA compliance work since 2018. In that time our NAGPRA and indigenous collections care policies have changed as our perspectives have grown and been shaped by consultation and relationship building with tribal partners...

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A petition of the construction of a steamboat wharf at Blossom Point.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mary Ownby. Elizabeth J. Miksa. Carlos P. Lavayén.

Petrographic analysis of sand and ceramic samples collected during the State Route 260 – Payson to Heber Archaeological Project aimed to investigate the production and exchange of pottery in this area. The quantitative analysis of sand thin sections allowed two areas of distinct sand composition (petrofacies) to be identified. When the sand temper in the sherds was analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively, it was revealed that most samples throughout the project area were produced with sand...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Quintela.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Research in Petrified Forest National Park" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Across Petrified Forest National Park, ancestral Puebloans left their mark on the landscape through the creation of thousands of petroglyph panels. While the exact meaning behind the glyphs depicted in petroglyph panels has been blurred by the passage of time and poses a formidable interpretive challenge to archaeologists, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Jerrems.

The association of cupules and pit and groove petroglyphs is possibly the oldest form of "rock art" in the Americas as evidenced in the northern Great Basin. Recant methods of dating petroglyphs, made possible by unusual paleoclimatic circumstances, have resulted in what may be the identification of the ‘North America’s oldest petroglyphs." Three sites located on the shores of ancient Pleistocene Lakes, two at Lake Lahontan in northern Nevada and one at Long Lake in southern Oregon, have given...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Henry D. Wallace.

During the portion of the San Xavier Survey which covered parts of Black Mountain, the petroglyphs reported by Fontana and others (1959) and Ferg (1979) were encountered, as were several new elements and localities. This report documents the petroglyphs found and provides limited interpretations of their significance, dating, and stylistic relationships to other petroglyphs in the Tucson area. Data gathered from the Black Mountain site (AA:16:12) contribute toward the development of a regional...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Henry D. Wallace. James P. Holmlund.

This report presents the results of an intensive archaeological study of the petroglyph sites in the Picacho Mountains of south-central Arizona. Twelve sites with a total of 4,152 recorded designs are considered. A sample survey of the foothills of the Picacho Mountains and previous research performed by the authors at 31 additional petroglyph sites in the Tucson Basin and Samaniego Hills provide contextual information and a substantial comparative data base. The study was conducted by the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kyle Freund. Silvia Amicone. Beatrice Boese. J.M. Adovasio. Allen Quinn.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Sexton Site (8IR01822) is situated on a slightly elevated limestone hammock in Indian River County, Florida. Extensive geophysical prospection, shovel probing, and subsequent block excavations in 2019 revealed the presence of a midden with a possibly contiguous seasonal village or hamlet of probable Woodland age. Nine hundred ninety-two ceramic sherds were...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Diana C. Kamilli.

Ten plainware potsherds from the Country Club Road Project were submitted for thin sectioning and petrographic analysis in the hopes that differences in the compositional assemblages would give clues to temper collection patterns, pottery movement, material treatment, or firing technology. All ten sherds were cut into standard thin sections, stained for alkali feldspar and calcic plagioclase, and examined under a research Zeiss petrographic microscope.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Suzanne Eckert. Deborah Huntley.

This is an abstract from the "Scaling Potting Networks: Recent Contributions from Ceramic Petrography " session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Rio Grande region of New Mexico, USA, has a long tradition of understanding ceramic technology and provenance through petrographic analyses. Despite this, the Rio Abajo subregion continues to lag somewhat behind the more detailed analyses from the central and northern Rio Grande. This study presents an...