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This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The mission of the Osage Nation Historic Preservation Office (ONHPO) is to preserve, maintain, and revitalize the culture and traditions of the Osage Nation. The overarching goal of the ONHPO is to meet the cultural preservation needs voiced by the Osage people. To achieve that goal, every year the ONHPO takes up to twenty Osage Tribal members and other Tribal representatives to...
Reclaiming Memory of Those Unknown: An Archaeological Study of the African-American Cemetery at George Washington’s Mount Vernon (2016)
This paper discusses the ongoing archaeological survey of the African-American Cemetery at George Washington’s Mount Vernon. Ultimately, this project was designed to bring about a better understanding of this space on the plantation landscape and to honor those unknown who call this spot their final resting place. Through the use of this space, it is believed that a portion of Mount Vernon’s enslaved population was able to culturally resist their imposed social position through the reinforcement...
Reclaiming the Landscapes of Black History in Shockoe Bottom 1695 > 1865 > 2015 (2016)
The Shockoe Bottom historic district in Richmond, Virginia holds an invisible 320-year old story of Black life in Virginia that coincided with and contributed to Richmond's origins and development - from 250+ years as a slave society to the end of slavery through Jim Crow and the civil rights era. The community-based struggle to reclaim the Black history of Shockoe Bottom sought first to assert the right to learn more about their history in Richmond but was later forced to focus on protecting...
The Recognition of Hafting Traces on Native American Stone Tools (2017)
As Keeley (1982) pointed out some time ago, the recognition of microwear traces due to hafting is an important source of information not only about how stone tools were prepared for use, but how their differential discard affects the recognition of site structure and site function. This is because the economy of different hafting arrangements and the act of "retooling" is different for hafted versus unhafted tools. In an effort to consider the variable range of hafting traces among Native...
Recognizing Geomagnetic Storms in Marine Magnetometer Data: Toward Improved Archaeological Resource Identification Practices (2016)
Strong magnetic field perturbations resulting from Earth-directed solar events can adversely affect marine archaeological survey. The immediate onset of geomagnetic storms and fast compression of the magnetopause create short duration, high amplitude spikes in Earth’s magnetic field that appear similar to signatures of archaeological anomalies. Aggressive processing, analysis, and comparison of single instrument survey and observatory datasets collected during geomagnetic storms prevented...
Recognizing Indigenous Settlement Patterns: Results from Pimu (Catalina Island, CA) (2017)
For 10 years, the Pimu Catalina Island Archaeology Project (PCIAP) has worked with the Gabrielino (Tongva) community to create a research agenda that acknowledges the Tongva’s cultural knowledge of the environment. Based on an Indigenous archaeology approach, PCIAP’s work recognizes that previous interpretations of Island Tongva settlement patterns do not accurately reflect how the Island Tongva viewed themselves upon the landscape nor their relationships to the people and items around them ...
Recognizing Post-Columbian Indigenous Sites in California’s Colonial Hinterlands (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Recognizing and Recording Post-1492 Indigenous Sites in North American Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Land-use patterns of seasonally mobile hunter-gatherers present a particular set of challenges to archaeological recognition of post-1492 indigenous residential sites in the colonial hinterlands of California. The relatively short duration of site use, frequent re-use of sites episodically occupied in...
Recognizing Ritual in the Elaboration of Earthwork Construction at Jaketown (2017)
Elaborately constructed earthworks indicate monumental behavior requiring unique social processes to produce. This paper presents new subsurface data on the Late Archaic Poverty Point earthworks at the Jaketown site in the Mississippi Yazoo Basin. Unit excavations and soil coring demonstrate detailed and complicated internal architecture standing in contrast to earlier mounded landscapes in the eastern United States. Challenging traditional agrocentric models for socially complex societies, this...
Recognizing Variation in Pisgah Identity Across Space and Time (2018)
The late Mississippian Pisgah culture, dating from 1200- 1500 CE, is found across a wide geographic area including western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee, and southwestern Virginia. Pisgah sherds are often recognized by the presence of distinct rectilinear and later curvilinear stamped decoration with sand, grit, and/or mica temper. Excavations by Dickens (1976), Keel (1976), and Moore (1981; 2002) better defined changes over time in Pisgah ceramics while simultaneously showing the...
Recommendations and Preliminary Report on Investigations of Certain Portions of Old Creek Town Park, Eufaula, Alabama, Jackson (1BR35) 1976-1978 (1976)
The major portion of Old Creek Town Park is located at the northeastern corner of Eufaula, Alabama in the NW quadrant of the NW quadrant of Section 27, TUN, R29E. The latitude and longitude of the central portion of the site Is N 31°5'52", W 85°07'16". The current highest elevation on the site is approximately 203 feet or 62 meters above mean sea level. The original lowest elevation for the site is unknown, but Huscher (1959) gives a lowest elevation of 190 feet or 58 meters above mean sea...
Recommendations for Raising the Visibility of Black Heritage Resources and Engaging with Black Stakeholders: Results from a Survey of State and Territorial Historic Preservation Offices and State Archaeologists (2022)
White Paper that summarizes the work, findings, and recommendations of the Black Heritage Resources Task Force. The task force compile and analyze data on a range of SHPO practices, including the identification and management of Black cultural resources, their implementation of diversity initiatives, and their role in consulting with Black stakeholders. The task force then provides recommendations to SHPOs on ways to strengthen and improve their objectives, practices, and endeavors related to...
Reconceptualizing the Wichita Middle Ground in the Southern Plains (1600-1840 CE) (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Southern Plains exchange system after 1600 CE was a complicated and fiercely competitive network of fluid alliances, rival interests, and conflict as Indigenous peoples were literally in the middle of overlapping cultural, economic, and physical power bases in the Southeast and Southwest. Although previous narratives surrounding these exchanges have focused on the trade in furs...
A Reconnaissance Inventory of Air Combat Command Cold War Material Culture, Little Rock Air Force Base: A Baseline Inventory of Cold War Material Culture (1995)
Mariah Associates, Inc. conducted a cultural resource inventory at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, between November 14 and 17, 1994 to identify extant Cold War resources important to the base, its history, and its Cold War mission. A variety of repositories were inventoried on base: the Wing History Office, Public Affairs Office, Civil Engineering Office and Drafting Department, Real Estate Office, and Environmental Office. Informal interviews were conducted with personnel long affiliated...
Reconnaissance Survey of Cold War Properties, McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey (1998)
The United States Air Force (USAF), Headquarters, Air Mobility Command (AMC), has conducted real property surveys and evaluations at selected installations throughout the continental United States to identify potentially significant Cold War buildings and structures. The immediate goal of the study is to provide the baseline information required for compliance with Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) and for the completion of Cultural Resources Management Plans (CRMPs)....
Reconnaissance Survey of Proposed 55-Acre Land Acquisition for Dormitory/Dining Hall Facilities, Scott Air Force Base, St. Clair County, Illinois (1990)
On May 8 and 9, 1990, a reconnaissance level archeological survey was conducted by National Park Service personnel for a proposed land acquisition at Scott Air Force Base. The 55-acre parcel is intended for a dormitory/dining hall facility. No cultural resources were identified during the archeological investigations and no further work is recommended.
Reconnaissance Survey of Proposed 55-Acre Land Acquisition for Dormitory/Dinning Hall Facilities, Scott Air Force Base, St. Clair County, Illinois (1990)
On May 8 and 9, 1990, a reconnaissance level archaeological survey was conducted by National Park Service personnel for a proposed land acquisition at Scott Air Force Base. The 55-acre (223.275-hectare) parcel was intended for a dormitory/dining hall facility. No cultural resources were identified during the archaeological investigations and no further work is recommended.
Reconnaissance Survey of the North 42 Acres of the Nellis Air Force Base Water Well Annex, North Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada (1998)
Report of survey results in support of release of land to the Veterans' Administration for the construction of a medical clinic.
A Reconnaissance Survey of the Trinity River Basin (1978)
The current multiple-use plan proposed for the Trinity River, Texas, in the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Status Report of Environmental Evaluations: 1975 is a modern outgrowth of a long history of navigation proposals beginning in the mid-nineteenth century. As currently developed, the master plan for the 550-mile Trinity River includes four major developmental components: channelization of the river, development of Tennessee Colony Lake, and the construction of two sets of flood way structures...
Reconnaissance Survey of Ultra-Deepwater Shipwrecks and the Maritime Archaeological Landscape of the Gulf of Mexico (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. High-resolution geophysical surveys required by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) in advance on oil industry activities have resulted in the discovery of several hundred shipwreck sites well offshore in the ultra-deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf. Public, academic, and Federal interest in these sites, coupled with the availability and affordability...
Reconnecting with agriculture: practical approaches (2019)
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Reconsidering Mississippian Communal Food Consumption: A Case for Feasting at Moundville (2017)
Consuming food as a large group in a ritual context generates and reaffirms the social obligations of the participants and the sponsors of the ceremony. This paper evaluates models for feasting from the Mississippian center of Moundville, located in west-central Alabama. Feasting has not been documented in midden assemblages from the site because a wide range of ceramic vessel sizes and a diverse range of faunal species have been recovered. This indicated that the consumption of symbolic species...
Reconsidering Stable Isotope Analysis of Bone Collagen for the Interpretation of Prehistoric Breastfeeding and Weaning Practices: A Case Study from Santa Clara Valley, California (2017)
Breastfeeding and weaning practices (BWPs) are deeply personal, influenced by individual choices, circumstances of health and opportunity, community support, and cultural norms. This presentation will discuss the advantages and challenges of using bone collagen composition to interpret breastfeeding and weaning practices, using data from the Yukisma Mound (CA-SCL-38), a Late Period (~740-230 BP) ancestral Ohlone mortuary site in Santa Clara County, California. Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope...
Reconsidering the Colonial Encounter in Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Perspectives from the Study of Early Colonial Encounter in North America: Is it time for a “revolution” in the study of colonialism?" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. One of the interesting disjunctures in the narrative of the colonial encounter in the 17th-century Plymouth Colony is the difference between the historical and archaeological accounts. In historical accounts and out popular culture versions of...
Reconsidering the Connections between Ecological Change and Political Change in Colonial California (2017)
California is geographically separated from the rest of North America by high mountain ranges and extensive deserts, but paradoxically the region's Mediterranean climate may have facilitated the imposition of Euroamerican colonial rule in the late 18th century. In particular, many scholars suggest that ecological changes accelerated political changes in the missionized portion of California's coastal strip. There, the rapid spread of invasive plant and animal species had far-reaching effects on...
Reconsidering the First Generations of Colonial Encounters in the Lower Delaware Valley of the North American Middle Atlantic (2017)
The Middle Atlantic region is drawing renewed interest among historians, especially during the era of first colonial settlement in the 17th century. Some are reassessing the prominent role of the Lenape and Susquehannock peoples in the course and outcomes of the encounters. Others are challenging previous interpretations of the contests among Dutch, Swedish, and English imperial actors for control over this borderland. Although these scholars are rethinking the concept of frontier, the spatial,...