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Report provides the results of petrographic analyses of pottery and sand samples from Perry Mesa, central Arizona. The samples are plain ware dated to the Late Classic (A.D. 1280–1400; Pueblo III to Pueblo IV) from four major and several smaller sites. Results indicate several specific paste recipes that could have been made on Perry Mesa, but likely not at the major sites. Some pottery was also acquired from areas to the east of Perry Mesa. Companion to Kiva article, Abbott et al. 2021, "An...
Petrographic Analysis of Sherds for the MCDOT Pueblo Blanco Excavation Project (1995)
This report contains the description of data collection procedures and analysis methods for petrographic thin sections of potsherds recovered from the MCDOT Pueblo Blanco project near Scottsdale, Arizona. Fifty-three plainware, redware, polychrome, and buffware sherds from AZ U:9:95 (ASM) and AZ U:9:97 (ASM) were analyzed. In addition, five polychrome sherds from AZ U:15:3 (ASM) were analyzed for comparison with the Pueblo Blanco polychrome sherds. The type of analysis employed for this project...
Petrographic and Lead-Isotope Analysis of Pottery from Goat Spring Pueblo, New Mexico (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Ceramic Petrographers in the Americas: Recent Research and Methodological Advances" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Research at Goat Spring Pueblo, a village located in the Rio Abajo region of south-central New Mexico, examines cultural continuity and transformation in the late Ancestral Pueblo period (AD 1300–1680). This poster reports data concerning local versus nonlocal pottery production and vessel exchange at...
A petrographic and material science approach to understanding temper selection in the prehistoric ceramic sequence of the Scioto River Valley, Ross County, Ohio. (2017)
This research elucidates the complex nature of pottery tempers used in the Scioto River Valley of south central Ohio. The data suggest that during the Late Prehistoric Period indigenous potters began using composite temper types with concretionary hematite as a secondary temper — most often found alongside shell as the primary temper. This project involved two phases 1) petrographic research and 2) mechanical properties testing. The initial research phase involved a detailed analysis of the clay...
Petrographic and Qualitative Analyses of Sands and Sherds from the Lower Verde River Area (1996)
The goal of the present study is to identify the provenance of ceramics recovered from project area sites in the lower Verde River on the basis of the temper found within them (Ciolek-Torrello et al. 1992:111-75 to III-85). The focus of this study is on sand temper. Ceramic wares and/or types produced within the study area are distinguished from those imported from other areas. A reconnaissance sample of wash sands from the lower Verde River area was collected and analyzed to provide the...
Petrographic and Qualitative Analysis of Tanque Verde Red-on-brown Sherds from the Northern Tucson Basin and Avra Valley (1995)
Ceramic vessels produced in the prehistoric southwest often contain abundant temper such as sand, disaggregated rock, and crushed sherd. Both sand and disaggregated rock tempers can be used as indicators of the provenance of archaeological ceramics when their geological sources are identified (Arnold 1985; Miksa 1995; Miksa and Heidke 1995; Schaller 1994; Shepard 1936, 1942). The goal of the present study is to identify the provenance of Tanque Verde Red-on-brown ceramics recovered from a...
Petrologic Analysis of Sand and Sherd Samples for the San Simon Archaeological Project (1994)
Dr. Patricia Gilman, director of the San Simon Archaeological Project, collected sand and sherd samples from four late Archaic site excavations with ASM site designations located in the Whitlock valley. The purpose of her collection was to examine the relative degree of sedentism and mobility associated with pit structures in the prehistoric Southwest. In February of 1994, the collection was assembled for petrologic analysis. Twenty-three sherd and two sand samples were submitted to Elizabeth...
Pew Pew! Small Arms from the Storm Wreck, a Loyalist Evacuation Ship from the End of the American Revolutionary War. (2016)
On or just after 31 December 1782, sixteen ships from a larger fleet evacuating Charleston, South Carolina wrecked while attempting to enter the St. Augustine Inlet. One of these sixteen ships, the Storm Wreck, has been the focus of six seasons of excavation for the Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program (LAMP), the research arm of the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Maritime Museum. The firearms recovered from the shipwreck include three Brown Bess muskets, two of which were loaded and in the...
The Pewter Assemblage from the Site of CSS Georgia (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Current Research at the Conservation Research Laboratory at Texas A&M University" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. CSS Georgia had been in service for nearly 20 months when Sherman’s March to the Sea prompted Confederate forces to scuttle the ironclad to prevent the ship’s capture. Given the Confederate forces had time to remove supplies from the ship, salvage efforts shortly following the American Civil...
Peyote Morning Star (2010)
This is a representation of a Peyote vision experienced by Silver Horn showing the Morning Star. Courtesy of Tim Pauketat.
Pfeil und Bogen der Plains- und Praneindianer Nordamerikas (1997)
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...
PGIS and Interwar Totalitarian Planning (2018)
Massive building programs undertaken in Europe between the world wars present a challenge for cultural resource management. While these projects' ambitious goals and often radical reconceptualization of space and social relations are historically noteworthy, their association with totalitarian regimes and repressive politics require careful contextualization. Through the example of agricultural reform in Fascist Italy, this paper advocates for an approach to this challenge through an...
The Phantom Lake: Spectral Archaeology in the Tulare Basin (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the 1990s, spectral thematics have grown increasingly present in the humanities, stressing the persistence of memory, traces, and absences in the cultural sphere. Anthropologists likewise have contributed to this moment, as with Justin Armstrong’s spectral ethnography and Theo Kindynis’s' graffiti archaeology. This emerging methodology is promising...
A Phase 1 Archaeological Assessment of the NOTU Site, 8BR1641 (2006)
The Economic Development Commission of Florida’s Space Coast has contracted with PBS&J to conduct a Phase I Archaeological Assessment of Site 8BR1641 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in Brevard County, Florida. The purpose in visiting this site was to ascertain the extent, nature, and integrity of site 8BR1641, and to determine National Register of Historic Places (National Register) eligibility.
Phase 1 Archaeological Data Recovery Report and Phase 2 Data Recovery Proposal for the Punkin Center Section, ADOT State Route 188 Project, Tonto Basin, Arizona (1994)
This report presents the results of Phase 1 data recovery at 13 archaeological sites along the proposed right-of-way for the Punkin Center Section of State Route 188. The Punkin Center Section is one part of a multi-year Arizona Department of Transportation project to realign and improve a 29-km long portion of SR 188, the principal road passing through the Tonto Basin, Gila County, Arizona. The project is funded by the Federal Highway Administration and occurs on Arizona Department of...
Phase 1 Archaeological Data Recovery Report and Phase 2 Data Recovery Proposal For the Slate Creek Section, ADOT State Route 188 Project, Tonto Basin, Arizona (1994)
This report presents the results of Phase 1 data recovery of nine archaeological sites along the proposed right-of-way for the Slate Creek Section of State Route 188. The Slate Creek Section is one part of a multiyear Arizona Department of Transportation project to realign and improve a 29-km long portion of SR 188, the principal road passing through the Tonto Basin, Gila County, Arizona. The entire project corridor extends north from Sycamore Creek to the junction of SR 188 with SR 87. The...
Phase 1 Archaeological Investigation Composite Report for the Proposed U.S. Army Materiel Command Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi Laboratory Center, Adelphi, Maryland (1996)
This report presents the information formerly contained within two reports: 1), Phase I Cultural Resource Survey of the Adelphi Laboratory Center, Adelphi, Maryland, prepared by the US Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, December 1994, and 2) Phase I Archaeological Investigation for the Proposed US Army Materiel Command Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi Laboratory Center Adelphi Maryland, prepared by Ebasco Environmental, October 1993. In December 1995, the US Army Corps of Engineers...
Phase 1 Archaeological Investigation Proposed Septic Field Site for the Proposed Ammunition Supply Point, TAC Area 5D, U.S. Army Garrison Fort Dix, New Hanover Township, Burlington County, New Jersey (2000)
A Phase I archaeological investigation was conducted by Richard Grubb & Associates, Inc. for Ogden Environmental and Energy Services Co., Inc. on behalf of the Historic Preservation Office, Environmental Division, Directorate of Public Works, U.S. Army, Fort Dix, New Jersey at the site of a proposed leach field and septic tank for the proposed Ammunition Storage Point (ASP) in Tactical Training Area 5D, Fort Dix Military Installation, New Hanover Township, Burlington County, New Jersey. Testing...
Phase 1 Archaeological Investigations at Griffiss Air Force Base, Rome, Oneida County, New York (1995)
Panamerican Consultants, Inc. was contracted by Tetra Tech, Inc. of San Bernardino, California in October o f 1994 to conduct a Phase I Archaeological Investigation at Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome, New York. A pedestrian survey was conducted to supply baseline archaeological site information for the installation and assess preliminary determinations of eligibility for the National Register of Historic Places. The results of this investigation were prepared for incorporation into the base...
Phase 1 Archaeological Survey at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey (2014)
Archaeological testing was conducted in April and May of 2013 of approximately 132 hectares (326 acres) of land within 29 prehistoric and historic survey blocks and four pedestrian survey blocks at Lakehurst portion of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (JB MDL). A total of 1,611 shovel test pits were excavated in the 29 survey blocks within the JB MDL Lakehurst study area. No prehistoric artifacts were recovered from and no features were noted within the high, low, or moderate prehistoric blocks...
Phase 1 Archaeological Survey of Areas 4100 and 4200, McGuire Air Force Base, New Hanover Township, Burlington County, New Jersey (1997)
A Phase I archaeological survey was conducted for Areas 4100 and 4200 at McGuire Air Force Base in Burlington County, New Jersey. The area of these parcels is 48.06 acres (Area 4100) and 29.59 acres (Area 4200). Military use of these parcels, once part of Fort Dix, dates from World War I. Temporary World War II wooden, single-story hospital structures stood here until they were demolished in the 1960s and 1970s. A warehouse (Building 4145) in the eastern portion of Area 4100 is currently used....
Phase 1 Archaeological Survey of Sagamore Hill Antenna Complex, Hamilton, MA and Eagle Hill Anteena Facility, Ipswich, MA (2002)
As part of ongoing cultural resources management work at Hanscom Air Force Base (AFB), the Headquarters Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence (HQ AFCEE) contracted Parsons Engineering Science, Inc. (Parsons) to perform Phase I archaeological surveys at the Sagamore Hill Antenna Complex (AC), Hamilton, Massachusetts and the Eagle Hill Antenna Facility, Ipswich, Massachusetts. Both facilities are GSUs (Geographically Separate Units) affiliated with Hanscom AFB, Massachusetts. The 66...
Phase 1 Archaeological Survey of Tactical Areas 11 and 12, United States Army Training Center at Fort Dix (USATCFD), Burlington and Ocean Counties, New Jersey (2003)
The Cultural Resources Group of Rise Straw & Kolodner, Inc. (KSK) conducted a Phase I Archaeological Survey of a portion of the U.S. Army Training Center at Fort Dix (USATCFD), Burlington and Ocean Counties, New Jersey. Field testing for this project followed the guidelines established in the Fort Dix New Jersey U.S. Army Resent Command Integrated Cultural Resources Management Plan (Parsons Engineering Science 2001), and involved the use of a stratified survey sample to examine portions of the...
Phase 1 Archaeological Survey of the Proposed Payload Operations Facility, Cape Canaveral, Brevard County, Florida (2006)
Between March 13 and March 30, 2005, New South Associates, Inc. conducted a Phase I cultural resources survey within the proposed Payload Processing Operations Facility (PPOF). The survey area consists of approximately 40 acres including the facility area (21 acres), a parking area outside the security fence (0.85 acres), and entry drives measuring a total of 2,000 feet in length. Phase I survey found limited evidence of 8BR558 remains in the southeast corner of the proiect area....
Phase 1 Archaeological Survey, Sagamore Hill Antenna Complex, Hamilton, MA and Eagle Hill Antenna Facility, Ipswich, MA (Incomplete) (2001)
This report gives a brief history of Hanscom Air Force Base including Ipswich Antenna Station and Sagamore Hill Antenna Complex. Hanscom AFB began as an auxiliary airport for Boston in mid-1941, and was utilized by the U.S. Army throughout World War II (Weitze 2001). Two organizations were conducting electronics research for the Army at the time: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Radiation Laboratory, and Harvard’s Radio Research Laboratory (Hanscom AFB nd). With the end of the war,...