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In a world after the wrath of Superstorm Sandy, recovery efforts lead to an accidental run-in with a mysterious historic shipwreck. Now with a powerful gang of state and federal agencies breathing down their necks, can a rag tag team of maritime archaeologists, conservators, surveyors, and deep core drillers use 3D laser scanning, and computer modeling to make sense of this mess before the task order runs out ?!
Ship, Navire, Navío, Nave, Buque... Creating a Multi-Language Glossary for Early Modern Ship (2018)
Managing multi-language research can be frustrating and limits can soon be reached when trying to figure out the right translation. Moreover, even within one language, many variations exist of the same terms in historical treatises and between various archaeologists. This maelstrom of definitions and terms burden our field to limit our discussion and understanding. By creating a glossary of seven languages with different researchers from around the world, we aim to create a tool for scholars, as...
Shipboard Life aboard Phoenix II: Conserving and Interpreting the Artifacts from Lake Champlain’s Fifth Steamboat (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Shipwrecks and the Public: Getting People Engaged with their Maritime History" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From 2014 to 2016, researchers from Texas A&M University carried out an investigation of a submerged archaeological site in Lake Champlain, Vermont. The site, Shelburne Shipyard, contained four steamboat wrecks from the nineteenth century. The study of the earliest of these steamboats, Phoenix II, yielded...
Shipwreck Site Formation Processes of Commercial Fish Trawling and Dredging (2013)
This regional thesis documents that 1) commercial bottom fishing gear damages shipwrecks and 2) shipwrecks negatively affect commercial bottom fishing. From a 52-wreck sample, 69% of mid-Atlantic shipwrecks have 1 or more derelict trawl nets or scallop dredges on site. Deeper than 150 ft. (46 m), all metal wrecks have 1 to 5 scallop dredges, increasing at scallop rotational access areas. Sadly, wood wrecks do not survive towed dredge impacts. An enhanced shipwreck site formation process diagram...
Shipwreck Tagging Archaeological Management Program (STAMP): A Model for Coastal Heritage Resource Management Based on Community Engagement and Citizen Science (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Citizen Science in Maritime Archaeology: The Power of Public Engagement for Heritage Monitoring and Protection" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Florida Public Archaeological Network began the Shipwreck Tagging Archaeological Management Program (STAMP) in 2019. STAMP utilizes citizen scientists to assist archaeologists in tracking the movement and degradation of beached/coastal shipwreck sites and...
Shipwrecks Of The Florida Keys, Salvage, And The Conservation Movement (2016)
The National Historic Landmarks Program is an initiative administered by the National Park Service to identify national significant historic places that possess exceptional value or quality in illustrating or interpreting the heritage of the United States. While there are currently more than 2,500 historic properties throughout the country bearing this distinction, only a small percentage include maritime cultural heritage and only seven include shipwrecks. While many individual National...
Shipwrecks, Doghole Ports, and the Lumber Trade: Maritime Cultural Landscape Survey of California’s Sonoma Coast (2017)
California’s Sonoma Coast is a rugged and beautiful seashore with a wealth of natural resources extending from kelp forests to redwood groves. Humans have interacted with this marine environment for thousands of years; it has shaped their lives and they have left their mark on the landscape. During the mid-19th and early 20th century, the Sonoma lumber trade greatly affected the coastal environment as it contributed to the economic development of the American West Coast. In 2016, California...
Shipwrecks, Pirates, Governments, and Archaeologists: Can We All Just Get Along? (2013)
During the past several decades salvage operators, government sanctioned and non-sanctioned, have destroyed countless archaeological sites through the pillaging of shipwrecks in search of sunken treasure throughout The Bahamas. Recently the government of The Bahamas passed the Underwater Heritage Shipwreck Act which allows for a limited number of licensed excavations to be conducted by salvage companies under the supervision of appointed archaeologists and government officials. Has the...
Ship’s Equipment, Fittings, and Rigging Components from the Storm Wreck (2016)
This paper addresses ship’s equipment, fittings, and rigging found on the late 18th century Storm Wreck off the coast of St. Augustine, Florida. Components of standing and running rigging are discussed along with the ship’s bell, lead deck pump, bricks, fasteners, and ballast. Rigging components recovered include an intact deadeye with iron stropping, another deadeye strop, a possible chainplate, and a variety of iron hooks and hanks. The lead deck pump was found bent and hacked from its...
The Shock and Vibration Bulletin (1968)
This document is a journal that has several papers written by differing authors regarding spacecraft, acoustics of spacecraft, testing, etc.
Shooting the Past: Colonial and Revolutionary War Firearms Live Fire Experiments and Spherical Ball Performance (2018)
This poster presents the results of a live fire experiment with Colonial and Revolutionary War firearms. It is a beginning of investigations of late pre-modern gun use. Firearms were a central feature of combat for the past 600 years and a significant vector of political, ecological, and cultural change. Experimental archaeology has emerged as a rigorous approach to the study of material reflections of human behavior. In the live fire experiment, we observed impacts of experimentally fired balls...
Shooting the Sky: Cold War Archaeology of Air Defense Training on McGregor Range (2001)
This report is a follow-up to a survey and evaluation of Cold War military archaeological sites in Maneuver Areas 1 through 8 on Fort Bliss (Hawthorne-Tagg 2001). Whereas the first project focused on Fort Bliss’ maneuver areas, the current report documents the role of McGregor Range within the Army’s Military-Industrial context of the Cold War. The project objectives included (1) preparing a historical context of McGregor Range in the Cold War period and (2) locating and documenting cultural...
Shopping with the Hooded Order: The Ku Klux Klan Retail Landscape in 1920’s Indianapolis, Indiana (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "“And in his needy shop a tortoise hung”: Construction Of Retail Environments And The Agency Of Retailers In Historical Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Ku Klux Klan is best-known for theatrical public events and subterranean violence, but in the 1920’s it was Indianapolis, Indiana’s most popular social organization, and it aspired to be viewed as a prosaic feature of everyday social life....
Shore to Ship: The Application of KOCOA to a Maritime Military Environment (2018)
As part of its mission to advance the understanding, preservation, and protection of our nation’s battlefields, the National Park Service’s American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) is investigating the use of military terrain analysis (KOCOA, MET-T, etc.) on naval or amphibious engagements in American waters. The variable landscapes associated with these battlefields necessitate further research. Maritime battlefields can yield important information on a comparatively understudied aspect...
Shore Whalers of the Outer Banks: A Material Culture Study (2015)
Since the Colonial period, inhabitants of the Outer Banks of North Carolina processed right whales to augment their existence until the turn of the 20th century. What began as drift-whale scavenging became organized hunts. Each spring, the locals kept lookouts from high dunes and launched boats from shore in pursuit of whales. The historical record indicates that they did so for over two centuries with moderate success. Locating archaeological signatures along this coast is problematic due...
Shore Whaling along California’s Central Coast (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2019, archaeologists from California State Parks and University of California, Berkeley conducted fieldwork to document the submerged and terrestrial archaeological remains of the shore whaling industry and other maritime related industries along the San Mateo/Santa Cruz coast during the mid- to late- 19th century. The discovery of gold in California in 1848 came at a time when...
Shoreline Site Preservation by Dredge Spoil (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Case Studies from SHA’s Heritage at Risk Committee" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Shoreline erosion is a constant detrimental process at archaeological sites along waterways. Along many waterways, channel dredging is a necessary activity resulting in huge amounts of spoil placed along shorelines ,often where archaeological sites are located. In our research of four sequential Spanish colonial presidios from the...
A Shoshonean Prayerstone Hypothesis: Ritual Cartography of Great Basin Incised Stones (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The prayerstone hypothesis, grounded in Southern Paiute oral history, holds that selected incised stone artifacts were votive offerings deliberately emplaced where spiritual power (puha) was known to reside, accompanying prayers for personal power and expressing thanks for prayers answered. Proposing significant and long-term linkages between Great Basin...
Shoshoni Emigrant Interaction at Fort Bridger, Wyoming 1843-1868 (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of Contact and Colonialism" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From 1983 to the present, excavations have been underway at Fort Bridger State Historic Site in southwest Wyoming. In excavation we found a protohistoric component that indicates extensive Shoshoni trade at the site from 1843-1868. The Shoshoni traders interacted with westward-bound emigrants headed to Oregon, Utah, and California and...
A Shot in the Dark: Assessing the Navigational Capabilities of H.L. Hunley (2018)
Early submarines faced many logistical challenges, one of them being the ability to steer and navigate while submerged. The Civil War submarine H.L. Hunley was no exception to this problem. Hunley’s depth and direction while in operation were the responsibility of its captain, who sat in the forward most crew station and, according to the historical and archaeological record, determined the vessel’s course based on a compass and dead reckoning. Recent archaeological study has begun to...
Should I Measure It or Should I BLAST It? A Case for the Regular Integration of Osteoarchaeology and Ancient DNA (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Osteoarchaeology, including bioarchaeology and zooarchaeology, has been a staple in our field for decades. Now, archaeogenetics (or aDNA) has also become a staple. But how do we decide when to use one approach or the other? What provides the best data for one's research questions? Here, I present data from a study of archaeological gophers from the Hall's...
Shouting to Wake the Dead: Is it Time for a Historic Graves Protection Act? (2018)
As many as 300,000 abandoned historic cemeteries exist in the United States today, yet as few as 0.4% of these are protected from disturbance by listing on the National Register of Historic Places. While NAGPRA also protects Native Burial sites on public land, and federal regulations such as ARPA shield some additional archaeological resources, the remainder of ancestral dead of all ethnicities are vulnerable to exhumation during construction. The archaeological excavation of such cemeteries may...
Shovel Test Excavation Forms, Blossom Point Field Test Facility, 2002.022_0005 (2000)
Excavation forms for shovel tests at Blossom Point Field Test Facility at the site 18CH162.
Shovel Test Excavation Forms, Blossom Point Field Test Facility, 2002.022_0008 (1999)
Shovel test excavation forms for the Blossom Point Field Test Facility at the site 18CH227.
Shovel Test Form Excavation Forms, Blossom Point Field Test Facility, 2002.022_0007 (1999)
Shovel test excavation forms for the Blossom Point Field Test Facility at site 18CH227.