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DOCUMENT Citation Only V. Camille Westmont.

This is an abstract from the "Communicating Working Class Heritage in the 21st Century: Values, Lessons, Methods, and Meanings" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. American working class and labor history is a history of resistance and discontent, with many of the most recognizable names – Cesar Chavez, Mother Jones, Joe Hill – having achieved notoriety specifically because they refused to follow the status quo. As archaeologists tasked with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher K Dvorscak.

As the University of West Florida continues to survey Pensacola waterways, many new anomalies have been discovered.  One of the most significant is a 105’ long sidewheel steamer, which was located in the Blackwater River using side-scan sonar.  The shipwreck’s three distinct sections – the bow, boiler, and propulsion-related machinery in the stern – remain mostly intact.  The most indicative of the artifacts examined are bricks associated with the boiler that have the name "KILLIAN" impressed on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan W. Miranda.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Innovative Approaches to Finding Agency in Objects" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Commodore Edward Preble was a founding father of the United States Navy. He served in the Revolutionary War, Quasi-War with France, and led a squadron that was pivotal in ending the Barbary Wars (1801-1805). During his command in the Barbary Wars, he commanded from his flagship, USS Constitution, always carrying his sword,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jordan Pratt.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The age and distribution of stemmed point technology in the Far West is important for a full understanding of late Pleistocene and Early Holocene archaeology in North America, especially for those interested in the initial settlement of the Americas. Despite the importance of stemmed points to debates surrounding the peopling process, there are still...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ted Goebel. Joshua Lynch. Caitlin Doherty.

This is an abstract from the "Current Perspectives on the Western Stemmed Tradition-Clovis Debate in the Far West" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The lack of a comprehensive and sound geochronology of Paleoindian sites in the Great Basin has long been a stumbling block for explaining variability in Western Stemmed points and their relationship with Clovis. Open-air sites are often undatable or present conflicting radiocarbon dates, while...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah P. Fleming.

210 tons of USS Monitor, including the majority of the engine room and the iconic turret, were recovered between 1998 and 2002 and are currently being conserved at The Mariners’ Museum and Park. While object treatments are ongoing, staff estimate that there are approximately 20 years of work left to finish the project. Even though the completion of conservation is two decades out, planning for the display of all the artifacts in the museum’s exhibition space is already underway. To assist in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Bedell.

Between 1999 and 2011 the Louis Berger Group carried out a series of archaeological investigations in the Potomac Valley for the National Capital Region of the NPS. These investigations were planned by Dr. Potter as a connected series of studies, working westward up the river. The work included four years in the Prince William Forest Park, followed by four years in Rock Creek Park and then three years for each of three sections of the C&O Canal National Historic Park, culminating at Oldtown,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashley Schubert. Madeline Naumann. Jason De León.

The U.S. Border Patrol has come under heavy scrutiny following the deaths of 42 civilians since 2005, numerous reports of migrants being physically and sexually assaulted while in custody, and the surfacing of videos showing aggressive encounters between agents and U.S. citizens. Because a great deal of boundary enforcement happens in remote parts of the desert, documenting how agents do their job is difficult. In this paper, we highlight data from numerous interviews with agents, migrant...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sally Reynolds. Matthew Bennett. Kathleen Springer. Jeff Pagati. Davis Bustos.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Prehistoric footprints indicate presence, behaviour, and the interactions between different animal species. The discovery of footprints at White Sands National Park in New Mexico has shown how tracks can transform our understanding of American prehistory and crucially the history of its first indigenous inhabitants. In September 2021 we announced...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Roger Moore.

This is an abstract from the "Social Interaction and Networks at the Intersection of Central Mesa Verde and Chaco/Cibola Culture Areas in the Middle San Juan River Valley" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Sterling Site is an Ancestral Puebloan structure with related features located in the San Juan River watershed near Farmington, New Mexico. The site was excavated in the early 1970's by the Archaeological Society of New Mexico under the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven Emslie.

In June 1978, two young graduate students met while working for the U.S. Forest Service in Flagstaff, Arizona. At the time, I was organizing the 2nd Ethnobiology Conference to be held at the Museum of Northern Arizona in honor of two founding fathers of ethnobiology, Alfred Whiting and Lyndon L. Hargrave. Steve and I soon became friends and colleagues, spending many evenings over beers, and our conversations often centered on our mutual interests in interdisciplinary studies for which...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Beth Morgan.

This report is based on audiotaped interviews on rural agricultural life on and in the vicinity of the 70,000-acre expanse now known as Melrose Air Force Range (MAFR). It is not intended to represent a complete or chronological history of the area.

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

No documentation is present for the investigations that comprise the Stewart County Arbitrary 1969-1978 Investigations. Some of dates of the investigations are unknown, but based on the dates that are present it appears that the investigations took place from 1969 to 1978. Despite the lack of documentation pertaining to these investigations, some information on the sites could be found in an older report. Harold Huscher investigated some of the sites in 1958 and published a report in 1959...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jim Bailey.

Stewart Mountain Dam, constructed between 1928 and 1930, was the third dam built by the Salt River Valley Valley Water Users' Association (Association) in its aggressive, and privately-funded, hydroelectric expansion program. In 1936, the Bureau of Reclamation modified the spillway discharge channel, reconditioned hoisting equipment for the radial gates, and installed individual gate operating motors. Stewart Mountain Dam consists of the dam, the left abutment spillway, and the powerhouse. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Felipe Gaitan-Ammann.

In 1671, Henry Morgan’s attack on the city of Panama put an end to its history as the first European settlement to take root on the shores of the Pacific.  Burnt down to ashes, the once buoyant urban center entered a process of ruination through which new generations of Panamanians have gradually forgotten or reinvented the memory of the places where their ill-fated ancestors used to live. This paper discusses some concrete examples of how archaeological research conducted at the World Heritage...

PROJECT Charles R. Moffat. 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.

This collection is referred to as “Stockton Lake Project 1984–1985.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is four and three-quarters (4.75) linear inches. The records in this collection include paper, photographic, oversized, and electronic documents categorized as Administrative, Background, Field, Analysis, and Report Records. The documents include correspondence, reservoir maps, survey and test excavation...

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Color negative and print 1, plowed field with tree line; March 1987, from the Stockton Lake Project 1984-1985 archaeological investigation in the Stockton Lake area, in Cedar County, Missouri.

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Color negative and print 2, plowed field with tree line, truck in background; March 1987, from the Stockton Lake Project 1984-1985 archaeological investigation in the Stockton Lake area, in Cedar County, Missouri.

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Color negative and print 3, plowed field with tree line, tire tracks in center; March 1987, from the Stockton Lake Project 1984-1985 archaeological investigation in the Stockton Lake area, in Cedar County, Missouri.

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Color negative and print 4, plowed field with tree line, water puddle on the left; March 1987, from the Stockton Lake Project 1984-1985 archaeological investigation in the Stockton Lake area, in Cedar County, Missouri.

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Color negative and print 5, plowed field with tree line, water puddle on the right; March 1987, from the Stockton Lake Project 1984-1985 archaeological investigation in the Stockton Lake area, in Cedar County, Missouri.

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Color negative and print 6, plowed field with tree line, grass on left; March 1986, from the Stockton Lake Project 1984-1985 archaeological investigation in the Stockton Lake area, in Cedar County, Missouri.

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Color negative and print 6, plowed field with tree line, grass on left; March 1986, from the Stockton Lake Project 1984-1985 archaeological investigation in the Stockton Lake area, in Cedar County, Missouri.

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Color negative and print 8, man in vest standing on left side of road in plowed field; March 1987, from the Stockton Lake Project 1984-1985 archaeological investigation in the Stockton Lake area, in Cedar County, Missouri.

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Color negative and print 9, right side of the road in plowed field; March 1987, from the Stockton Lake Project 1984-1985 archaeological investigation in the Stockton Lake area, in Cedar County, Missouri.