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The Center for Anthropological Studies has just completed an intensive field examination of 165 acres situated on Kirtland Air Force Base. Nine loci of isolated artifacts and two prehistoric sites were located. The two prehistoric sites are dense surface scatters of sherds and lithic artifacts that suggest the subsurface existence of several pithouses. Associated ceramic artifacts date these sites to the 1050-1370 period of the Middle Rio Grande Anasazi Indians. Both of these sites appear...
Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico, Environmental Restoration Project Tijeras Arroyo Ads 1309 Voluntary Corrective Measure - Site 23 (Disposal Trenches) Action Description Memorandum (1994)
Action description memorandum covering the environmental restoration of the Tijeras Arroyo.
Sankofa in Cyberspace: Developing New and Social Media at the African Burial Ground National Monument (2013)
The African Burial Ground National Monument is one of the smallest units of the National Park Service. Established in 2006, this still developing institution has developed an outsized presence in new and social media; in a short time it has become the most followed unit of the National Park Service on twitter, and has found ways to use podcasts and QR codes to expand the interpretive profile of the site. These efforts have fhelped unite a disparate series of interest groups,...
The Santa Ana River Hydroelectric System (1994)
TThe Southern California Edison Company Santa Aria River Hydroelectric System, which is located within the Area of Potential Effects of the Seven Oaks Dam Project, has been determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), in consultation with the State Historic Preservation Officer. Powerhouse No. 1 of this system is located outside the project area and will suffer no direct impacts. Powerhouse No. 2 is located at...
Santa Barbara Island: insights into the prehistory of California’s Channel Islands through its smallest island (2017)
As the smallest of California’s Channel Islands, isolated and impoverished Santa Barbara Island has received less scholarly attention than its well-known neighbors. Initially described as a "way station" to the other islands, subsequent archaeological expeditions have reinforced the interpretation that the island was only temporarily occupied in the Middle and Late Holocene. In 2012, an effort to rerecord the 19 known sites was undertaken. Subsequent surveys have increased the number of sites to...
Santa Clara Pueblo’s Rights Protection and Tribal Historic Preservation Office’s Involvement in the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project and Other Regional Projects (2019)
This is an abstract from the "The Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project: A Multivocal Analysis of the San Juan Basin as a Cultural Landscape" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Santa Clara Pueblo people are indelibly tied to the land, animals, air, and waters of the American Southwest. Since the formation of Santa Clara Pueblo’s Right’s Protection office a few decades ago, and more recently their Tribal Historic Preservation Office in 2014, their...
Santa Cruz Bike Path Data Recovery (2001)
The City of Tucson, Arizona has proposed the construction of a recreational bike path paralleling portions of the Santa Cruz River. Previous investigations identified two archaeological sites that will be affected by the undertaking: AZ BB:13:95 and AZ BB:13:96 (ASM). These sites meet eligibility requirements for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places, and Desert Archaeology, Inc. was contracted to complete data recovery programs at the sites to mitigate the effects of...
Santa Cruz River Stabilization at Valencia Road: Archaeological Testing at the Valencia Site (1985)
On April 15 through 17, 1985, the Institute for American Research conducted emergency archaeological testing and mitigation for a bank stabilization project along the Santa Cruz River in Tucson, Pima County, Arizona. It encompasses both banks of the Santa Cruz River, from Project Station 37+00 to Station 57+00. Elevation ranges from 2438 to 2462 feet. Locations to be affected by construction consist mostly of floodplain silt and sand deposits, overlying a sand and gravel river terrace stratum....
Sarah Site (8BR02077) (2020)
Site forms, artifact catalogs, photos, and correspondence associated with the Sarah Site, 8BR02077.
Sardis Lake Investigations
The first step in the typical rehousing process is to obtain copies of cultural resource reports, artifact catalog sheets, and field notes pertaining to the collections from the St. Louis District archivist processing the archival collection. This Sardis Lake investigation had no report or other associated documentation at the St. Louis District, other than the University of Mississippi Box Contents Sheets that came with the artifacts. Using the information retrieved from the artifact bags and...
Satellite Image of Perry Mesa, Showing Locations of Pueblo la Plata, Pueblo Pato, and Richinbar Ruin (2005)
Satellite Image of Perry Mesa, Showing Locations of Pueblo la Plata, Pueblo Pato, and Richinbar Ruin
Satellite Imagery and Esri’s ArcGIS Pro’s Georeferencing Tools Confirm Arkansas City, Kansas Is the Locale of Etzanoa, a Historic Site Visited by Spanish Explorer, Juan Oñate, in 1601 (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Using Esri’s ArcGIS Pro’s georeferencing tools to rubber-sheet a historic native map to satellite imagery confirms Dr. Donald J. Blakeslee’s findings (2018) regarding a site located near the mouth of the Walnut River, in Arkansas City, Kansas. The site is likely the native town, Etzanoa, a settlement of the Ancestral Wichita and Affiliated Tribes visited by...
Satellite Remote Sensing of Archaeological Vegetation Signatures in Coastal West Africa (2016)
This paper illustrates how images captured by satellite remote sensing technology can be used to detect vegetation that indicates archaeological sites in West Africa. These sites are typically marked by a pattern of vegetation that differs from the surrounding landscape, including concentrations of very large trees with sociocultural and historical significance: cotton (Ceiba pentandra) and baobab (Adansonia digitata). These features are conspicuous elements of the landscape both from the ground...
Satellite View
This is a satellite view showing where England's Woods is located.
Savage Meets Science: The Rebirth of Royal Savage through Modern Technology (2017)
In 2015, the Naval History and Heritage Command Underwater Archaeology (UA) Branch received the remains of Royal Savage, a Revolutionary War vessel which sank in Lake Champlain in 1776 following service in the Battle of Valcour Island. UA archaeologists and conservators are employing a combination of traditional methods and modern technology to document, research and preserve this important piece of U.S. Navy history. To record the more than 50 remaining timbers, UA archaeologists are utilizing...
A Savage Plan: Interpreting Hull Remains of an American Revolutionary War Schooner (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Developing Standard Methods, Public Interpretation, and Management Strategies on Submerged Military Archaeology Sites" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Royal Savage served as the flagship of Benedict Arnold’s American squadron in the defense of Lake Champlain during the American Revolution. She sank during the Battle of Valcour Island in 1776, and though largely undisturbed for over 150 years, her remains were...
Savannah River Floodplains 1980
This collection is referred to as "Savannah River Floodplains 1980.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is one and three quarter (1.75) linear inches. The documents date from 1979 to 1980. The investigation occurred in 1979, but the draft of the final report was written in 1980, which may explain the date of the project name. The documents were originally housed in acidic file folders in a cardboard box with...
Save our Sites! Using Archaeology to Educate the Public about Climate Change in South Florida. (2018)
Miami is often presented as the poster child of sea level rise; while climate change is generally accepted as an observable fact in south Florida, elsewhere this issue is regarded as too politically charged for frequent discussion. This renders sensitive archaeological sites vulnerable to coastal erosion, storm surge, and other factors. The Florida Public Archaeology Network’s Heritage Monitoring Scouts (HMS) Florida program is designed to raise awareness of how these factors will impact...
Saving Oberlin: African-American Historic Archaeology and Preservation in Raleigh, North Carolina (2018)
Free African-Americans established Oberlin Village outside Raleigh, North Carolina in 1866 at the end of the Civil War. Within two generations, the people of Oberlin had constructed churches, a school, a cemetery, shops, and many homes. Today, Oberlin continues to be an important site for African-American history and identity. For example, Oberlin Cemetery (established 1873) is one of only four African-American cemeteries in Raleigh. The cemetery’s more than 600 graves include many leading...
Saving the Past from the Future: Archaeological Curation in the St. Louis District (1991)
The St. Louis District, Corps of Engineers has been involved with the management of archaeological resources removed from District property for over 30 years. At least 92 collection-generating projects were completed during this period. Vast quantities of archaeological materials salvaged from these operations are now stored in the repositories of ten curatorial institutions in Missouri and Illinois. Over the years, Corps personnel have become increasingly aware of the inability of most...
Say It with Flowers: Recording African-American Gardening Traditions Using Terrestrial LiDAR and Oral History (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Technology and Public Outreach" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. African-American gardening traditions involving such features as wheels, bottle trees, mirros, and silvered statuary have been identified across the United States. What are not always included in analyses of these gardens are the significance of flowers and other plantings or the changes within a garden over time. Together, terrestrial LiDAR and...
Scaffolding Archaeology, Education, and Collaboration at Sesquicentennial State Park, Columbia, South Carolina (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Sesquicentennial State Park, built by the Civilian Conservation Corps and opened to the public in 1940, contains multiple archaeological sites representing both precontact and historic occupations. Current archaeological excavations are focused on investigating the history of nineteenth and twentieth century African American communities which were...
Scalar Analysis of Early 19th century Household Assemblages—Focus on Communities of the African Atlantic (2013)
Recent research on early 19th-century slave households at James Madison’s Montpelier in Virginia has focused on comparative household assemblage analysis on a number of levels including the local (between households within a single community), region (households within a market region), and the Atlantic (comparison of households between Jamaica and the Chesapeake). An important element in this comparative household analysis is scalar analysis. Scalar analysis is an analytical tool that allows...
Scale in Archaeological Interpretation and Information Management: An Example from Cape Cod, Massachusetts (2015)
This review of data from and interpretations about the archaeology of the outer Cape Cod area considers variation over time as new discoveries led to fuller explanations of the record in this area. Knowledge about the ancient past of the region is cumulative and colored by changes in the analytical perspective of researchers during the second half of the twentieth century. Archaeological data in this area has been brought to the surface, literally. through both purposeful archaeological...
Scanned Asset Key, American Telephone and Telegraph Cable Relocation 1979 (2012)
This is the scanned asset key for the American Telephone and Telegraph Cable Relocation 1979 collection stored at US Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District.