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DOCUMENT Citation Only Claira Ralston. Debra Martin. Pamela K. Stone. Ventura Perez.

This is an abstract from the "Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of Debra L. Martin" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Nuestra Señora de Belén Archaeological Project explores a colonial mission church and plaza site dating to the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Belén, New Mexico. The colonial village of Belén was populated by a diverse community of Spanish and mixed-heritage individuals, including a number of Native American...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathryn H Deeley. Dolores Levister.

For the descendants of the people studied by archaeologists, archaeology can be deeply personal, as it reveals forgotten details of a family’s past. In the case of the James Holliday House in Annapolis, Maryland, the same African American family has occupied the James Holliday House since 1850. In 2009, the great-great-granddaughter of James Holliday asked Archaeology in Annapolis to help fill in the blanks about her family’s history, simply because there was very little information from family...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah A. Grady. Esther D. Read.

During the eighteenth century, Port Tobacco was a bustling port town located along the Port Tobacco River in Charles County, Maryland. Today it is a small village with few surviving structures and no commercial establishments. Between 2008 and 2011, systematic archaeological survey of the town defined the locations of many of the town’s early buildings. We recently began a new phase of research within the remains of a print shop. Our current excavation builds on earlier work and allows us to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey A. Pardee.

In 2015, the remains of the CSS Georgia, a Civil War ironclad-ram and a National Register of Historic Places listed site, were fully archaeologically documented and removed as a permitting requirement for the proposed construction of the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP). Conducted and overseen by archaeologists with Panamerican Consultants, the data recovery project required the development and implementation of unique methodologies relative to both the working environment and artifact...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard L. Boston. E. Melanie Ryan.

On February 5, 2002, City of Phoenix Archaeologist Todd Bostwick contacted Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) to set up a meeting with the City’s Department of Street Transportation staff to coordinate the recovery of a burial that was encountered during the installation of a sewer line. In 1996, Mr. Bostwick recovered a cranium and a whole vessel under emergency conditions from a construction trench that had cut through a Hohokam inhumation (Bostwick 1996). The City attempted to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sharyl Kinnear-Ferris.

This is an abstract from the "Beyond Collections: Federal Archaeology and "New Discoveries" under NAGPRA" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recovery and reburial of inadvertent discoveries of exposed pre-Columbian human remains has repeatedly occurred at a remote archaeological site along the Lost Coast of the King Range National Conservation Area, managed by the Bureau of Land Management-Arcata Field Office. The site is located in a remote area,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter Kováčik.

The Burbank Fault Trenches are located east of Yakima River in Kittitas County, Washington (Scott E. K. Bennett, personal communication September 16, 2016). The light fractions of 11 bulk soil samples collected from units in two trenches (1 and 2) were submitted for macrofloral analysis to recover and identify material appropriate for AMS radiocarbon age determination.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katie Kitamura.

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven Holm.

Historic photography is often beautiful and steeped in history but can also be used as a tool for archaeologists in relocating structures, identifying features, and situating historic places within their modern and captured viewsheds. Photographing a site is paramount nowadays for documenting the archaeological record. We have the opportunity to exploit historic photographs for additional data beyond site documentation that can lead to better research designs, excavation planning, and site...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John D. Burton.

This paper will examine the construction of the plantation landscape drawing on both extent archaeological remains and documentary record for the plantation.  Charles Farquharson's Prospect Hill plantation is one of the most studied sites in The Bahamas.  Farquharson has the distinction of being the only out-island planter who left a diary from the plantation period, an important historical source for understanding plantation life.  In addition to the textual record for the plantation, however,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Markle. Shannon Cowell. Esmeralda Ferrales.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the summer of 2018, New Mexico State University (NMSU) staff and students surveyed 120 acres on the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument. The New Mexico Bureau of Land Management (BLM), which manages this monument, provided funding for this project. The survey occurred in seven high-priority parcels near Bishop’s Cap, where frequent recreational...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jason Raupp.

Penscola, Florida’s red snapper fishery was among the city’s most prosperous industries by the late 19th century. The vessels employed in the fishery, known locally as "snapper smacks", were heavily influenced by the evolving designs of New England fishing schooners, but adapted for conditions encountered in the Gulf of Mexico. And though these designs proved ideal for snapper fishing, external factors reduced capital in the industry and led Pensacola fish houses to simply recycle schooners...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Howe.

The Red Bluff Project is an earthen dam in Texas on the Pecos River near the New Mexico border. A preliminary geological report of the originally named Angeles Dam Site in Texas by Geologist Kirk Bryan in 1929 found the dam site favorable but he made no conclusion on feasibility. This discussion will talk about the work Dr. Bryan contributed to the later construction of this dam and the later name change to the Red Bluff Project. Emphasis will include the construction of the dam from 1934 to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashleigh Thompson.

This is an abstract from the "Social Justice in Native North American Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Because American Indians suffer from diet-related diseases at higher rates than other ethnic groups, Indigenous organizers are finding ways to improve the health of their communities. One way they are accomplishing this goal is through the promotion of traditional foods their people consumed prior to European colonization, known as...

PROJECT John Peterson. US Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City District. US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District.

The Red Letter Shelter (23JA1703) is a small rockshelter with associated historic features. The site is located on a southeast facing slope above an unnamed tributary of the East Fork of the Little Blue River in Jackson County. The property is part of Blue Springs Lake, owned by the USACE Kansas City District, and is operated by the Jackson County Parks and Recreation. Due to the fact that vandalism was identified at the rockshelter, Jackson County Parks and Recreation conducted a pedestrian...

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Digital photograph of spray painted graffiti during the Red Letter Shelter (23JA1703) 2011 archaeological investigation in the Blue Springs Lake areas, in Jackson County, Missouri.

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Digital photograph of graffiti wall, three workers during the Red Letter Shelter (23JA1703) 2011 archaeological investigation in the Blue Springs Lake areas, in Jackson County, Missouri.

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Digital photograph of sitting and standing excavators during the Red Letter Shelter (23JA1703) 2011 archaeological investigation in the Blue Springs Lake areas, in Jackson County, Missouri.

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Digital photograph of wall with vines during the Red Letter Shelter (23JA1703) 2011 archaeological investigation in the Blue Springs Lake areas, in Jackson County, Missouri.

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Digital photograph of man with hand sanitizer during the Red Letter Shelter (23JA1703) 2011 archaeological investigation in the Blue Springs Lake areas, in Jackson County, Missouri.

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Digital photograph of Gina Powell sitting during the Red Letter Shelter (23JA1703) 2011 archaeological investigation in the Blue Springs Lake areas, in Jackson County, Missouri.

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Digital photograph of beginning excavation during the Red Letter Shelter (23JA1703) 2011 archaeological investigation in the Blue Springs Lake areas, in Jackson County, Missouri.

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Digital photograph of handful of material during the Red Letter Shelter (23JA1703) 2011 archaeological investigation in the Blue Springs Lake areas, in Jackson County, Missouri.

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Digital photograph of depth check during the Red Letter Shelter (23JA1703) 2011 archaeological investigation in the Blue Springs Lake areas, in Jackson County, Missouri.

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Digital photograph of artifact analysis during the Red Letter Shelter (23JA1703) 2011 archaeological investigation in the Blue Springs Lake areas, in Jackson County, Missouri.