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DOCUMENT Citation Only Jill Neitzel. David Witt.

This is an abstract from the "Coloring the World: People and Colors in Southwestern Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The inextricable combination of color and raw material was the most fundamental characteristic of Ancestral Pueblo jewelry. For white and shell, blue-green and turquoise, and black and various types of stone, the color and the material each had diverse sets of sacred meanings that gave ornaments their value. Together,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amber J Grafft-Weiss.

Field schools offered by the University of Florida between 2006 and 2013 yielded exceptional potential to understand the lifeways of enslaved Africans who lived and labored at Kingsley Plantation, located on Fort George Island in Jacksonville, Florida (1814-1839).  In 2013, excavations included a high-density deposit discovered in front of a slave cabin. It resembled an ordinary trash pit in some ways, but also contained some objects that have been associated with ritual or religious activity in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julio Amador.

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. Based on landscape archaeology, achaeoastronomy, the analysis of rock art iconography, and ethnohistoric and ethnographic documents, this paper proposes to define the factors that determine the sacredness of rock art sites in the Sonoran Desert. Well characterized common patterns can be found in most of the rock art...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Misty M. Jackson. Kenneth J. Vrana.

Music has often taken maritime disasters for its theme, and Great Lakes wrecks claim no shortage of songs. Some were written at the time of the disaster, and others appeared years later, reviving the memory of the event.  In an effort to understand the relationship between shipwrecks, folk traditions, memory, and preservation of the wrecks themselves, this paper will focus on four famous Great Lakes shipwrecks: the Lady Elgin, the Eastland, the Rouse Simmons (a.k.a. the Christmas Ship), and the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marielle Pedro Black. Connie Reid.

The Kaibab National Forest has a long history of completing site inventory, recordation, and research within wilderness areas with the help of assorted volunteers. Recent work on the North Kaibab Ranger District of the Kaibab National Forest in the Saddle Mountain Wilderness has been the result of the Wildcat and Fuller fires. Archaeological involvement during the fire planning process helps to proactively identify and protect heritage resources ahead of fire spread. Working with fire crews,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew S. Higgs.

Chilkoot Trail tramways played a significant role assisting stampeders crossing the perilous Chilkoot Pass during the peak years of the Klondike Gold Rush, 1897-1899.  Competing freight companies constructed three different aerial tram systems to haul equipment and goods over the steep and narrow pass. Today, no tram structures remain standing – all physical evidence of the tram systems survive only as archaeological features scattered among the high outcrops and boulder strewn...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily A Williams.

Norfolk’s 1855, yellow fever epidemic offers a unique opportunity within which to consider the way a commmunity’s emotional response is manifested in the cemetery landscape.  Within a three month period, a third of the city’s population had died, martial law had been declared, and the city had been blockaded to prevent the fever’s spread.  The epidemic was well-documented in newspapers as well as in the accounts of diarists and epistolarians, which chronicle the overwhelming fear, disruption and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth A. Long.

This investigation of historical ceramics is conducted on a collection that dates from 1886 to 1915. Saenger Pottery Works was in operation from c.a.1885 through c.a. 1915. The size, form, and function variability of the ceramics inform about production techniques used and what forms are preferred over others. The issues in provenience and provenance are discussed because the pottery, while attributable to the site, do not have records of surface collection. Background research is a joint effort...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Long.

This investigation of historical ceramics is conducted on a collection that dates from 1886 to 1915. Saenger Pottery Works was in operation from c.a.1885 through c.a. 1915. The size, form, and function variability of the ceramics inform about production techniques used and what forms are preferred over others. The sherds previously collected are currently dated based on makers’ marks, stylistic attributes, and the period of kiln operation. However, issues with the dating method need resolution...

PROJECT Karen Van Citters.

This project is designed to aid the Department of Defense (DoD) cultural resource manager (CRM) and their contractors in understanding the potential for the unauthorized disclosure of national security information that should be protected from public release and how to avoid such a disclosure on cultural resource projects.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Karen Van Critters. Brian Lion.

This handbook is designed to aid the Department of Defense (DoD) cultural resource manager (CRM) and their contractors in understanding the potential for the unauthorized disclosure of national security information that should be protected from public release and how to avoid such a disclosure on cultural resource projects. Karen Van Citters and Brian M. Lione.

PROJECT Uploaded by: Thomas Pluckhahn

Field and laboratory documentation associated with archaeological testing of the Safety Harbor site (8PI2), conducted by Dr. Thomas Pluckhahn (University of South Florida), in 2019.

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Boze. Duncan Stewart. Jenny Bennett.

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 Rebecca Cole-Will.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Northeast Region National Park Service Archeological Landscapes and the Stories They Tell" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Saint Croix Island, in the Saint Croix River, on the international boundary between New Brunswick and Maine represents 400 years of climate change stories. Today, the island is the Saint Croix Island International Historic Site managed by NPS.   The 6.5 acre island is in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Edward Fleming.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Sheffield site is the only known Late Precontact Oneota village along the Saint Croix River of Minnesota and Wisconsin. Additionally, a small collection of Oneota ceramics from a nearby rock shelter site and isolated Oneota sherds point to a slightly more widespread presence in the valley. Still, the general geographic isolation of the Sheffield site and...

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

This collection is referred to as "Saint Louis District Lock and Dam 24 Photographs 1936-1938 and 1936-2013.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is one (1) linear inch. There is no final report associated with the document collection, as it does not belong to a typical archaeological investigation. In total there were 25 black and white photographs in good condition, despite some yellowing, residue stains, and...

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Photograph of the Lock Site from the Illinois shore of the Upper Mississippi River, Lock Number 24 during the Saint Louis District Lock and Dam 24 Photographs 1936-1938 and 1936-2013 archaeological investigation in Pike County, Missouri.

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Photograph of the Cofferdam construction showing Cross Diaphrams and Driving Template of the Upper Mississippi River, Lock Number 24 during the construction of the lock on the Mississippi River in Pike County, Missouri.

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Photograph of the view of Cofferdam from top of Bluff of the Upper Mississippi River, Lock Number 24 during the construction of the lock on the Mississippi River in Pike County, Missouri.

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Photograph of the view of upper end of Cofferdam from top of bluff of the Upper Mississippi River, Lock Number 24 during the construction of the lock on the Mississippi River in Pike County, Missouri

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Photograph of the pump at upper riverside cofferdam of the Upper Mississippi River, Lock Number 24 during the construction of the lock on the Mississippi River in Pike County, Missouri.

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Photograph of the Upper Mississippi River, Lock Number 24 during the construction of the lock on the Mississippi River in Pike County, Missouri.

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Photograph of Cofferdam, Lock Number 24 during the construction of the lock on the Mississippi River in Pike County, Missouri.

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Photograph of the Upper Mississippi River, Lock Number 24, view of downstream in Cofferdam during the construction of the lock on the Mississippi River in Pike County, Missouri.

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Photograph of the upper guide wall for the Upper Mississippi River, Lock Number 24 during the construction of the lock on the Mississippi River in Pike County, Missouri.