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Pushing the Boundaries: Technology-Driven Exploration of Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John C. Bright. Stephanie Gandulla.

During the summer of 2017, archaeologists from Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary led a series of partnerships to test technologically based methodologies for exploring and rapidly assessing submerged cultural resources. First, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) mapped shallow water areas and image extant archaeological materials. Next, in a sequential series of field campaigns, researchers conducted a wide-area survey to located and document historic vessel remains. The first campaign utilized...

Pushing the Boundary: The Game of Cricket in a Colonial Context. (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. Eric Deetz.

By the early nineteenth century the game of cricket had gone through a major transformation. In the eighteenth century it was it a game played mostly by the landed gentry with all of the associated drinking and gambling. By 1800 it had become a game played by common people and had come to represent a less decadent way of life as espoused by idea of Muscular Christianity. The British took both the game and this ideology with them throughout their colonies. This paper examines the physical and...

Put What? in Your Pipe and Smoke It (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca Bubp.

Holly Bend, a prolific and successful early 19th century plantation owned by Robert Davidson in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina has seen multiple excavations and research over the past several years. In particular, a collection of ceramic tobacco pipe fragments that have been excavated are analyzed to better understand the local smoking culture. Several methods are used, including X-ray fluorescence spectrometer analysis to determine local sourcing of the ceramic elements, residue analysis...

Putting Archaeology Southwest’s Indigenous Collaboration Model into Practice: A New Mexico Example (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Reed.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology Southwest is undertaking an Indigenous Cultural Landscape Report for Petroglyph National Monument, just west of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The work at Petroglyphs involves a number of goals, including tracking and documenting the physical, natural, and cultural history of the 7,200 acres comprising the monument. A large component of the research...

Putting Archaeology Teacher Workshops to the Test (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Courtney Agenten. Jeanne Moe. Tony Hartshorn.

Students are assessed constantly throughout the school year. As teachers we ask ourselves how do I know that the students understand the concepts and skills? Archaeology educators should be conducting the same kind of rigorous evaluation of the professional development courses we offer teachers. Challenging our profession to know where teachers are coming from, what their needs are, where we want them to go, and how we know that they learned. What prior knowledge do teachers bring to a workshop?...

Putting People Back into the Landscape: Sabino Canyon (1997)

DOCUMENT Citation Only S M Whittlesey. M Farrell.

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...

Putting the Public Back in Archaeology: Restoration of a Civil War Era Gun Emplacement on Battery B at Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson State Historic Site (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John J. Mintz.

Public archaeology has been a long-standing practice at Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson State Historic Site. Began by pioneering archaeologist Stanley South in the 1950s, his style of public archaeology involved having on-going excavations visible to the public and timely disseminated results through local newsletters. Yet in the half-century dearth of investigations since South departed the site, public archaeology was largely forgotten and all but disappeared. However, recent efforts to more...

Putting the wood in woodcraft (2007)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Jones. David Wescott.

A Puzzle from the Deep: The Mystery of the Empty 19th Century Shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alicia Caporaso.

An intriguing mystery has presented itself in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM): the discovery of several 19th century shipwrecks apparently bare of portable artifacts. Improved technology has, in the past decade, allowed for cheaper and safer production of oil in the deep waters of the GOM. Under the direction of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, companies are required to conduct high-resolution geophysical surveys of their leases in advance of bottom disturbance. This has resulted in the discovery...

The Puzzle Of Pickles Reef - Update (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only James A Smailes. Steven Anthony. Dennis Knepper. David Shaw. Thomas Berkey.

The Maritime Archaeological and Historical Society (MAHS) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the protection of historic shipwrecks and other underwater cultural resources. Since 2010 MAHS has been assisting the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS) with an assessment of cultural resources on Pickles Reef, a small coral reef located within the sanctuary just south of Molasses Reef. Our initial surveys suggested that the site was a barge that carried cement for Henry Flagler’s...

A pXRF Analysis on18th-Century Colonial Redware (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cheryl Frankum.

This portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) research addresses questions concerning economic status and procurement strategies through the study of redware ceramics. The use of pXRF is a high-tech, newly emerging analytical technique for archaeologists that provides quantitative data concerning the chemical composition of ceramics. The ceramics were produced by local or regional manufacturers, and this research is a comparative compositional study with collections from several archaeological sites...

pXRF Identification of Prehistoric Lithic Artifact Material, Resource Clusters along the Lower Rio Grande (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Russell Skowronek. Brandi Reger. James Hinthorne. Juan Gonzalez.

The U.S.-Mexico border region along the Rio Grande River, separating the southernmost Texas counties (Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr and Zapata) from the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, is a strategic corridor for prehistoric human travel connecting the Gulf of Mexico with the interior of the continent. The area contains a history of human presence extending over 11,000 years, evidenced by a wealth of projectile points that have attracted collectors for decades. To understand prehistoric people’s...

Python Scripting and Archaeological Applications Using ArcGis (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cosimo Sgarlata.

When ArcGis software enabled Python computer scripting language as a platform whereby users can automate tasks, edit and create new programs; it opened a door for archaeologists to enhance much of the work they do mapping, and performing spatial analysis. This session looks at the utilization of Python scripting language for automating a number of tasks which archaeologists do routinely, as well as other open source software and how its applications can lend new dimensions to the way we analyze...

Q.M.C. Form and Blue Print, Officers Mess Building 509, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas (1931)