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Small Mammal Isotopes as Proxies for Climate over the Holocene Period on the Eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Amy S. Commendador. Bruce Finney.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Reconstructing the prehistoric environment is vital to our understanding of past human use and occupation of a landscape. While many reconstructions, typically based on chemical and biological signatures found in sediment and ice cores, are available, we currently lack suitable records for Idaho’s eastern Snake River Plain. This is mainly due to the scarcity...


Small Project, Big Questions: Unusual Finds from the Yale Lock Factory Site, Newport, New York (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Daria E. Merwin.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Recent excavation in advance of road culvert replacement yielded unusual finds adjacent to the ruins of the National Register listed Yale Lock Factory in Newport, central New York State. Proposed construction plans limited the survey to an area less than 520 square meters (0.13 acre), but more than 4000 artifacts were recovered including 15 quartz crystals locally known as Herkimer...


Small Site Analysis in the Southwest: A Comparative Analysis of Two Communities on Perry Mesa, Arizona (2007)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Colleen Strawhacker.

Landscapes across the American Southwest are littered with prehistoric structures of less than 10 rooms used for a variety of functions – from seasonal field houses, to storage, to year-long residences, to boundary markers. These structures, while largely ignored in much of the archaeological literature, can provide information on the human impact across an entire landscape, instead of simply focusing on the pueblo itself or on the agricultural fields. How, then, can these small architectural...


Small Sites and Big Assumptions: Questioning the Uncritical use of “Field House” to Classify Small Pre-contact Structures on South Cat Mesa of the Jemez Ranger District (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca Baisden.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Small pre-contact structures throughout the Southwest that lie on the periphery of large village sites are often classified as “field houses”, a term that carries with it the assumption that these structures were utilized seasonally, occupied for a short duration of time, and whose function is tied to agricultural practices. The uncritical and widespread...


Small Sites on the Santa Cruz Flats: The Results of the Investigations Along the Santa Rosa Canal in the Distribution Division of the Central Arizona Project (1993)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Lauren Jelinek

This report is about 58 archaeological sites located in and around an expansive desert basin known as the Santa Cruz Flats, located south of the Gila River. None of these sites are large. The biggest among them had only three, widely separated houses. Most of them had no houses, and the majority lacked material remains except for a mere scattering of artifacts now perched on the modern ground surface. Several of the sites included occupations dated to the modern, Historic, Euro-American era,...


Small Steps to Preserve El Gigante: Conserving and Interpreting an Artifact from a Rockshelter in the Highlands of Honduras (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Amelia J Hammond.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Current Research at the Conservation Research Laboratory at Texas A&M University" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The El Gigante rockshelter is located in the highlands of Honduras and has an occupation history dating back to 10,000 years B.P. In 2001, a composite artifact consisting of hide and rope was excavated from this site. After excavation, this leather was folded and stored in a plastic bag. Through...


Small Things: Utilitarian Objects from the Crew of H. L. Hunley (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather Brown.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Lives Revealed: Interpreting the Human Remains and Personal Artifacts from the Civil War Submarine H. L. Hunley" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley was lost with eight crewmen off the coast of South Carolina on February 17, 1864. As a hand-powered, short-range vessel, the boat was not designed to live aboard. The men carried only what they needed for a single excursion....


Small Towns and Mining Camps: A Comparative Analysis of Chinese Diasporic Communities in Oregon (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jocelyn Lee.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Arming the Resistance: Recent Scholarship in Chinese Diaspora Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Chinese Diaspora archaeology has historically focused on urban contexts or in-depth case studies, with minimal comparative studies. The Oregon Chinese Diaspora Project is a multi-agency partnership conducting research on Chinese migrant populations across the state. This paper focuses on the...


Small Waists and Tiny Feet: The Influence of Fashion on Deformed Skeletal Remains, Even in a Girl from the Wild West (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Catrina Whitley.

Fashion depicts many aspects of a person's life; from socioeconomic status to personal taste.  Emmie Baker Scott followed the trends of fashionable dress from childhood to her death in 1885.  Her skeletal remains and clothing reveal her family's emphasis on emulating the upper class and the presentation of an ideal Victorian era female figure.  Born to a doctor, his occupation would have brought wealth and social standing to the family.  Emmie might have been scrutinized with increased pressure...


Smeltertown: A Community Lost to Time along the U.S – Mexico Border (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Howe.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the late 1880s in El Paso, Texas, the establishment of a copper and lead smelter on the Rio Grande later brought about the rise of a community called Smeltertown. This community of workers, families and Mexican nationals from across the border established a thriving community. Located at the intersection of both land and water borders of the U.S. – Mexico...


Smith Creek Cave Revisited: An Analysis of Western Stemmed Tradition Raw-Material Procurement Strategies and Lithic Technological Organization in the Bonneville Basin (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin Doherty.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. At the time of its initial discovery by Alan Bryan nearly fifty years ago, the Mount Moriah occupation at Smith Creek Cave was one of the oldest in the Great Basin and played a critical role in establishing the terminal-Pleistocene age of stemmed-point technology in western North America. Today, what is now known as the Western Stemmed Tradition has been...


Smith's Fork Site (23CL223) 2009-2010
PROJECT 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 Smith’s Fork Site (23CL223) is located on Smithville Lake, which is a USACE Kansas City District subject property located in Clay County, Missouri. In 2000, the City of Smithville proposed the construction of a soccer field in the area of the site. A USACE archaeologist visited the site and recommended that further testing would need to occur to determine if building could go below a depth of eight inches. In 2007, the city renewed its interest in building at this location; so another USACE...


Smith's Fork Site (23CL223) 2009-2010, Archival Photograph 1032-0010 (2010)
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Digital photograph of ceramic vessel, in situ, found in Feature 1, report Figure 16 during the Smith's Fork Site (23CL223) 2009-2010 investigation in the Smithville Lake area, in Clay County Missouri.


Smith's Fork Site (23CL223) 2009-2010, Archival Photograph 1032-0011 (2010)
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Digital photograph of unit excavation during the Smith's Fork Site (23CL223) 2009-2010 archaeological investigation in the Smithville Lake area, in Clay County Missouri.


Smith's Fork Site (23CL223) 2009-2010, Archival Photograph 1032-0012 (2010)
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Digital photograph of unit excavation, wider view, during the Smith's Fork Site (23CL223) 2009-2010 archaeological investigation in the Smithville Lake area, in Clay County Missouri.


Smith's Fork Site (23CL223) 2009-2010, Archival Photograph 1032-0013 (2010)
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Digital photograph of unit excavation and screening during the Smith's Fork Site (23CL223) 2009-2010 archaeological investigation in the Smithville Lake area, in Clay County Missouri.


Smith's Fork Site (23CL223) 2009-2010, Archival Photograph 1032-0014 (2010)
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Digital photograph of unit excavation and screening (wider view) during the Smith's Fork Site (23CL223) 2009-2010 archaeological investigation in the Smithville Lake area, in Clay County Missouri.


Smith's Fork Site (23CL223) 2009-2010, Archival Photograph 1032-0015 (2010)
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Digital photograph of screening and discussion during the Smith's Fork Site (23CL223) 2009-2010 archaeological investigation in the Smithville Lake area in Clay County Missouri.


Smith's Fork Site (23CL223) 2009-2010, Archival Photograph 1032-0016 (2010)
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Digital photograph of a ceramic sherd, taken in the field during the Smith's Fork Site (23CL223) 2009-2010 archaeological investigation in the Smithville Lake area in Clay County Missouri.


Smith's Fork Site (23CL223) 2009-2010, Archival Photograph 1032-0017 (2010)
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Digital photograph of a ceramic sherd captured in the field during the Smith's Fork Site (23CL223) 2009-2010 archaeological investigation in the Smithville Lake area in Clay County Missouri.


Smith's Fork Site (23CL223) 2009-2010, Archival Photograph 1032-0018 (2010)
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Digital photograph of unit excavation, troweling during the Smith's Fork Site (23CL223) 2009-2010 archaeological investigation in the Smithville Lake area in Clay County Missouri.


Smith's Fork Site (23CL223) 2009-2010, Archival Photograph 1032-0019 (2010)
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Digital photograph of unit excavation during the Smith's Fork Site (23CL223) 2009-2010 archaeological investigation in the Smithville Lake area in Clay County Missouri.


Smith's Fork Site (23CL223) 2009-2010, Archival Photograph 1032-0020 (2010)
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Digital photograph of ceramic vessel, in situ, found in Feature 1, similar to report Figure 16 during the Smith's Fork Site (23CL223) 2009-2010 archaeological investigation in the Smithville Lake area in Clay County, Missouri.


Smith's Fork Site (23CL223) 2009-2010, Archival Photograph 1032-0021 (2010)
IMAGE Veterans Curation Program.

Digital photograph of ceramic vessel, in situ, found in Feature 1, similar to report Figure 16 during the Smith's Fork Site (23CL223) 2009-2010 archaeological investigation in the Smithville Lake area in Clay County, Missouri.


Smith's Fork Site (23CL223) 2009-2010, Archival Photograph 1032-0022 (2010)
IMAGE Veterans Curation Program.

Digital photograph of ceramic vessel, in situ, found in Feature 1, similar to report Figure 16 during the Smith's Fork Site (23CL223) 2009-2010 archaeological investigation in the Smithville Lake area, in Clay County, Missouri.