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Excavated from Cole’s Hill in downtown Plymouth, Massachusetts, a cache comprising of a collection of 19th century personal adornment artifacts, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and organic materials, potentially provides an alternative view of mourning and memorialization practices in Victorian-era New England. The associated artifacts possess characteristics indicative of Victorian mourning symbols and material types. However, no other current examples of this mourning practice exist in the...
Privy Perspectives: The Zooarchaeology of Urban Mobile and its 19th Century Occupants (2017)
Data recovery excavations at Site 1Mb504 in the downtown section of the City of Mobile, Alabama produced a large assemblage of faunal material relating to the 19th century occupation of the surrounding city blocks. By the 1840's, the area was occupied as a residential block including the private homes of merchants, doctors, and other professionals, as well as boarding houses for similar professional classes. In the 1910's, land use began to shift from residential to commercial. By the 1950's,...
Privy to the Past: Refuse Disposal on Alexandria’s 18th Century Waterfront (2017)
While the discovery of an 18th century ship on the site captivated the media and public….just a few feet away we quietly worked to excavate another exciting find…a public privy. The large privy, one of four uncovered at the site, was located fifteen feet from the 1755 Carlyle warehouse, and is thought to be associated with this first public warehouse in Alexandria. Thousands of seeds, ceramics, glass, shoes and other unique finds provide a window into the lives of these early residents that...
Proactive Approaches to Heritage at Risk in Florida (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Heritage at Risk: Shifting Responses from Reactive to Proactive" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Florida Public Archaeology Network engaged in a number of reactive approaches to climate change threats on cultural resources in Florida starting in 2013. In 2016, FPAN shifted to a proactive model under the Heritage Monitoring Scouts umbrella to include training, increased access to resources, networking...
Probing the Nexus between Hohokam Demography and Agricultural Productivity across the Pre-Classic/Classic Transition (2017)
The onset of the Hohokam Classic Period witnessed the consolidation of settlements within the major river valleys of southern Arizona, a demographic reorganization that culminated after centuries of regional expansion, population growth, and cultural florescence. In the Salt River Valley, the resultant demographic packing was unprecedented and appears to have promoted environmental degradation, aggravated biological stress, and suppressed birth rates. It has been suggested that communities...
The Problem of the Atlatl (1940)
J. Whittaker: “additional lever or toggle-joint by means of which comination the propulsive force applied to the spearshaft is greatly increased.” “We have scratched the surface of an intriguing field of research....and prolific literature.” [Already! and mentions experiments - personal? - but no descriptions]. Problems: origins, symbolic significance. Green River sites, Webb’s conclusions about bannerstones which he regards as from poor analogy to Guernsey + Kidders SW atlatls which had only...
Problematic at Best: Assigning Sex to Prehistoric Remains with Consistency (2018)
Historically, the sex of prehistoric human skeletal remains has been visually assessed by researchers who are (hopefully) knowledgeable about the population being examined. However, methods of assigning sex can be largely subjective and often lead to inconsistent results. In this study, we consider human skeletal remains from the Medio period (A.D. 1200–1475) from Paquimé, a site in northern Chihuahua, Mexico, that was the economic and political center of the Casas Grandes region. The sexes of...
Problematic Pixels: Prehistoric Residential Floor Recognition in the Pend Oreille Valley (2017)
Public archaeology, as constructed in the United States, is heavily invested in the efficient use of tax and rate payer moneys to identify archaeological sites. The form of that investment, typically, results in a well certified and experienced archaeological practitioner walking the land and/or systematically probing soils. Although well established, this approach is not without its conspicuous errors and project crushing missteps. With the recent proliferation of remote sensing datasets (e.g.,...
Problems Arising from the Surface Occurrence of Archaeological Material in Southeastern Chihuahua, Mexico (1949)
In examination of the topography represented on five different maps of the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, demonstrated a remarkable degree of uniformity of physiographic features in the northeastern part of the state. There was simultaneously demonstrated a singular degree of contradiction for the southeastern part of the state.
Processing Himalayan Blackberry Bark for weaving (2014)
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...
Processing Personhood: Mortuary Activity from the Middle to Late Woodland in the Lower Illinois River Valley (2018)
While archaeological engagement with the body as a locus of embodied agency has proliferated in recent years, this study is the first to rigorously apply theories of personhood to the lengthy burial rituals documented within interment facilities of Woodland burial mounds from the North American Midcontinent. This study aims to explore conceptions of the body, dividuality, embodiment, and personhood through the analysis of skeletal material from the Middle Woodland Gibson Mounds Site (n=19) and...
Processing Shark Skin to Raw Hide (2009)
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...
Procession and Sacred Landscape (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Sacred Southwestern Landscapes: Archaeologies of Religious Ecology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The idea of a sacralized landscape is popularly associated with site-specific Native American religious beliefs and practices, but a landscape and its features can have religious meaning for other people as well. This paper examines the northern New Mexican folk-Catholic tradition of religious procession. Processions...
Procurement Log, State Historic Preservation Office July 2011 Spreadsheet of Work Completed, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas (2011)
This procurement log is a spreadsheet of 297 work order numbers, their vendors, status and date of completion. The work orders were completed at Randolph Air Force Base in the month of July 2011 and a few in August 2011.
Procurement Log, State Historic Preservation Office September 2011 Spreadsheet of Work Completed, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas (2011)
This procurement log is a spreadsheet of 569 work order numbers, their vendors, status and date of completion. The work orders were completed at Randolph Air Force Base in the month of September 2011 and a few in October 2011.
Product Catalog for Cultural Property Protection Planning and Training in the Department of Defense - Brochure (Legacy 09-324) (2010)
This catalog provides a brief visual presentation of the various training products produced by the Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands (CEMML), Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, and the Cultural Resources Management Program at Fort Drum, NY, between 2005-2010, for purposes of raising awareness among U.S. military personnel and DoD contractors in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Egypt of the importance and value of preserving and protecting cultural property.
Production and Consumption in the Old West: Examining Cottage Industry and Diet at the Nate Harrison Site (2018)
A life-long laborer, Nate Harrison engaged in many industrious activities during his time on Palomar Mountain in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Using historical, photographic, and archaeological evidence, this paper aims to analyze and evaluate the different industries in which Harrison participated and the significance of these activities for the local community. Soil-chemistry studies, faunal analyses, and various archaeologically-uncovered tools present a robust portrait of activity and...
The Production and Exchange of Chupadero Black-on-white Pottery and Its Relationship to Social Identity (2017)
Produced between A.D. 1150 and 1550, Chupadero Black‐on‐white pottery is found throughout central and southern New Mexico, and adjacent parts of Texas, Arizona, and Chihuahua, Mexico. Despite its widespread distribution, chemical and mineralogical compositional data indicate that the pottery was manufactured in only two areas of central New Mexico – the Jumanos portion of the Salinas province and Sierra Blanca region. Distributional studies indicate that the Chupadero pottery produced in the two...
Production Matters: Organic Residue and Iconographic Evidence for Late Precolumbian Datura Making in the Central Arkansas River Valley (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Dancing through Iconographic Corpora: A Symposium in Honor of F. Kent Reilly III" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent absorbed residue studies have confirmed that ceramic and shell containers were used for consuming Datura in precolumbian times. Until now, no one has identified what tools precolumbian people used to produce a concentrated hallucinogenic concoction. In this study, we used mass spectrometry to...
Productive Partnerships: How Municipal Cultural Resource Management (CRM) Programs and Student Research Can Support Each Other (2016)
For decades, Cultural Resource Management (CRM) projects have yielded a wealth of information and artifacts. While some of these projects have been incorporated into academic research, many remain unstudied and unpublished. The situation is especially problematic in municipal and small-scale archaeology programs that are constrained by time, logistics, and budgetary considerations. Fortunately, students are in a prime position to help remedy the issue by working with such programs. The...
Profile Map of Examined Agricultural Terraces at Richinbar Ruin (2005)
Profile Map of Examined Agricultural Terraces at Richinbar Ruin
Program Comment for Wherry and Capehart Era Family Housing at Air Force and Navy Bases (2004)
This Program Comment, adopted pursuant to 36 CFR § 800.l4( e), demonstrates Department of the Air Force (Air Force) and Department of the Navy (Navy) compliance with their responsibilities under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act with regard to the following actions in the management of the Wherry and Capehart Era family housing: maintenance, repair, layaway, mothballing, privatization and transfer out of federal agency ownership, substantial alteration through renovation...
Program Comments for World War II and Cold War Era (1939-1974) Army Ammunition Production Facilities and Plants (2006)
This Program Comment provides the Department of the Army (Army) with an alternative way to comply with its responsibilities under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act with regard to the effect of the following management actions on World War II (WWlI) and Cold War Era Army Ammunition Production Facilities and Plants that may be eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places (Facilities and Plants) ongoing operations, maintenance and repair, rehabilitation,...
Program Design for Management of Historic Architecture at the Southern Nevada Military Air Training Complex: Nellis and Creech Districts (2014)
A management strategy similar to that used at the Hanford Site Manhattan Project and Cold War Era Historic District, Washington, is proposed, which will manage architectural resources including inventory, evaluation, and treatment by means of a programmatic agreement (PA) for the entire SNMATC.
Programmatic Agreement Among 99th Air Base Wing, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada State Historic Preservation Office, and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Regarding the Identification, Evaluation and Treatment of Historic Properties on Lands Administrated by Nellis Air Force Base (2013)
The purpose of this agreement is to define how SHPO and the the Air Base Wing will interact and cooperate with regard to implementing provisions of the NHPA. The goal of the agreement is to promote a more meaningful and productive partnership between SHPO and the the Air Base Wing, thereby enhancing cultural resource management activities on the the Air Base Wing-administered public lands in Nevada.