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In this paper, I discuss an archaeological approach to place-making that incorporates elements of linguistic anthropology, drawing from narrative analysis and Bakhtin’s chronotope to analyze oral histories from a small town in southwest Texas. D’Hanis originated as an Alsatian colony on the Texas frontier, one of four settled by empresario Henry Castro in the 1840s. By the 20th century, the town had not simply transformed but moved – the railroad had caused a rupture in the settlement that...
The Tale of Two Plantations: Uncovering 19th Century Enslaved African American Houses in Western Tennessee (2020)
This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Within plantation archaeological sites, locating enslaved African American houses are often difficult due to their ephemeral signatures on the contemporary landscape. Many times, the house structures were burned down (after emancipation) and/or the architectural materials were repurposed. But the narratives tied to these dialectical spaces of struggle and oppression vs. resistance and...
A Tale of Two Projects: Geoarchaeological Investigations along the Shores of Pleistocene Lake Waring in Elko County, Nevada, and the Importance of Early Planning and Collaboration between Public Land Managers, Project Proponents, and Stakeholders (2023)
This is an abstract from the "A Further Discussion on the Role of Archaeology in Resource and Public Land Management" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological investigations conducted between 2015 and 2021 along the margins of a Great Basin pluvial lake applied multidisciplinary methods that resulted in the identification of significant deeply stratified sites. A geoarchaeological approach that entailed detailed mapping and modeling of the...
A Tale of Two Ships: Developing a Collection Research and Interpretation Plan (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Telling a Tale of One Ship with Two Names: Queen Anne’s Revenge and La Concorde" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In September 2018, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a grant to NC’s African American Heritage Commission (AAHC) for “A Tale of Two Ships: Developing a Research & Interpretation Plan for Revealing Hidden Histories of One ship with Two Identities”. The ship being NC State...
Talegas and Hoards: The Archaeological Signature of Contraband on a 1725 Spanish Merchant Vessel (2013)
Nuestra Señora de Begoña, a Spanish merchant vessel bound from Caracas to Tenerife, was wrecked at La Caleta in the Dominican Republic in 1725. An investigation of the incident resulted in charges being brought against Captain Don Theodoro de Salazar and his conviction of silver smuggling. Contemporary salvage of the Begoña cargo was only partially successful, but some 21,000 pesos in silver were recovered including "six talegas found under the captian's bed." Only 8,761 pesos were...
Tales from the Archive (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Telling a Tale of One Ship with Two Names: Queen Anne’s Revenge and La Concorde" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The tale of Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge is a renowned aspect of North Carolinian and Colonial American History. While Blackbeard and Queen’s Anne’s Revenge enjoy the limelight, the tale Blackbeard’s procurement of the ship and its time before piracy remains obscure. Prior to becoming...
Tales From the Foot: An Oral History Project (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Exploring the Recent Past" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Established in the early 1900s, The Foot was once a thriving African American neighborhood located below Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri. The Foot was home to black-owned businesses that provided goods and services to a segregated population not always welcome in the white-owned businesses. In the 1950s and 60s, highway construction and urban...
Tales from Timbers: Reconstructing the History of Technological Change at the Cleary Hill Gold Mill. John Hemmeter and Paul White (2015)
The Cleary Hill Mill, situated 20 miles north of Fairbanks, is a deteriorating vestige of one of Alaska's historically most important industries. Built in 1911 for processing gold ores, the mill began with a set of technologies well tested in western mineral districts. Despite remaining modest in size, archaeological evidence indicates that the mill was subjected to considerable transformation over its operative life; being burned, reconstructed, extended, repurposed, and partially scrapped....
Tales of the Sturgeon in Philadelphia’s Culinary Past (2015)
When British colonists moved to the Philadelphia area, the sturgeon was one of the few fish species that was familiar to them from their English roots. The availability of this familiar fish surely eased their transition to their new home. Recent excavations in Northeast Philadelphia reveal that sturgeon were still commonly eaten up through the middle of the 19th century. In this paper we will explore the history of the sturgeon in the Philadelphia area from colonial times to the present to...
Talking nutrition with a wild man (2009)
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Talking Paper on Las Vegas Army Air Field/Nellis Air Force Base: 1941-1950 (2005)
Talking Paper on Las Vegas Army Air Field/Nellis Air Force Base: 1941-1950.
Talking Paper on Visit to Historical Commission, Taj Mahal Building 100, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas (1987)
On 29 April 1987 Sgt Huber met with Jim Steely of the Texas Historical Commission, National Registry Division, at his office in Austin, Texas. This document includes a list of topics discussed, a related memo on the Taj Mahal and Chapel One nominations for National Historic Status, the nomination form, and associated handwritten notes and newspaper articles.
Tallgrass Prairie Archaeological Landscapes Project: Investigating Occupational Histories within a US National Grassland through GIS (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Tallgrass Prairie Archaeological Landscapes Project (TPALP) was established to identify the dynamic settlement lifeways within the current boundaries of the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie in Will County, Illinois. Previous CRM-based projects identified 214 sites spanning the Archaic to Historic periods across 18,094 acres (73.22 km2) of this US...
Taming the Wild Through Enclosure: Boundaries within the Pioneer Landscape (2016)
Frontiers are often perceived as dangerous and harsh peripheries pioneers adapted to, or replete with resources and ripe for settlement. Based on accounts of environmental stress and warfare in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the former perception pervades depictions of the Eastern frontier. To distinguish notions of frontier life from actual lived experiences of pioneers, I analyze enclosure – the continuous bounding and cultivation of the landscape – which structured frontier...
Taming Wild Plants: How Hard (or Easy) Can It Be? (2017)
Ancient diets in the Hohokam area of central and southern Arizona included indigenous domesticates. Evidence for domesticated Little Barley (Hordeum pusillum), Mexican crucillo (Condalia warnockii), and amaranth (Amaranthus) rests on morphological changes. Range extensions into higher/lower areas are cited for management of agaves (Agave) and cholla (Opuntia) plants. Here I consider the process of domestication, and suggest that one or more mutations in nature plus one observant human may be all...
The Tanapag Coronado: A Case Study in Site Formation Processes (2016)
The study of submerged aircraft, while not new, is a relatively unexplored area of maritime archaeology. Receiving even less attention is the study of site formation processes as they apply to submerged aircraft wreck sites—what processes affected the site between the time it crashed and now? These studies are becoming increasingly important, especially for cultural resource managers who are responsible for managing submerged aircraft. This paper summarizes the results of a case study of a...
The Tanapag PBM Mariner: Aircraft Identification through Site Formation Processes (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Strides Towards Standard Methodologies in Aeronautical Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the Second World War, flying boats were crucial in the roles of reconnaissance, patrol, rescue, and transportation. This was especially true in the Pacific Theater. One such flying boat, a United States Navy (USN) PBM Mariner, has rested on the bottom of Tanapag Harbor, Saipan since the waning days of...
Tannic Planet: The Development of a Maritime Heritage Trail on a Blackwater River (2016)
ABSTRACT: With its headwaters in Alabama and terminus in Blackwater Bay, the Blackwater River is the major river of Santa Rosa County, Florida. For centuries this river has played an integral role in the development of northwest Florida as the primary avenue for transporting resources, goods, and people in and out of the interior of this area. In 2013 the Bagdad Waterfronts Florida Partnership, Inc., contacted Florida Public Archaeology Network (FPAN) Northwest Region office seeking assistance...
The Tanque Verde High School Archaeological Project: Excavations at a Hohokam Limited Activity Site in the Northeastern Tucson Basin (2005)
Archaeological testing and data recovery at AZ B:9:360 (ASM), a Hohokam limited activity site in the northeastern Tucson Basin, resulted in the discovery of two roasting pits, an associated activity surface, and two large trash-filled pits. Botanical data suggest that the site was used for processing locally procured upper bajada wild plant resources as well as domesticated crops (maize). Chronometric data indicate a likely span of site use from the Rillito phase of the Colonial period to the...
The Tanque Verde Wash Site Revisited: Archaeological Excavations in the Northwest Locus (2011)
The Tanque Verde W ash site, AZ BB:13:68 (ASM), is a small agricultural village located in the eastern Tucson Basin, approximately 25 km east of the large riverine settlements along the Santa Cruz River. The northwest locus of the site was investigated during the current project for the City of Tucson prior to residential development, complementing previous investigations in the southeast locus. Including all work at the site, 57 pithouses have now been sampled or completely excavated, in...
Tantaran’ny Velondriake (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology in the Indian Ocean" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In this paper we describe a collaboration between environmental archaeologists and Vezo historians from the Velondriake region of southwest Madagascar. The project aims to integrate archaeological data from surveys and excavations and oral histories pertaining to Vezo livelihoods, settlements and migrations, in order to reconstruct...
Taphonomic Analysis with Multisite Big Data in the Central Mesa Verde Region (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches in Zooarchaeology: Addressing Big Questions with Ancient Animals" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Understanding taphonomic patterns across large spatial scales can greatly enhance archaeological interpretation. However, standardized data curation across many sites is a significant challenge. Thus, opportunities for taphonomic analyses that employ big multisite datasets are rare. Data...
Targeting Coastal Plains Chert in the Wacissa Quarry Cluster, Northwest Florida, USA: A LIDAR-Based Geomorphic Model for Locating Chert Quarries (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Although archaeological research in northwest Florida has yielded a rich assemblage of stone tools produced by late Pleistocene and early Holocene hunter-gatherers, little research has been undertaken to quantitatively define and describe the variable chert resources from which these tools were made. This paper presents the framework for a new geomorphic model...
Targets: Cultural Resources Sample Survey of the East Tactical Range, Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range, Southwestern Arizona (1994)
Luke AFB and the BLM have teamed up in the past to assess the cultural resources contained within the Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range. This study was designed to further that effort, and specifically to provide data that can augment the Cultural Resources Management Plan (CRMP) for the Gila Bend (eastern) segment of the Goldwater Range, a document that was prepared by the BLM, and which is regarded as "in-progress."
Task Force Dagger Foundation and ECU: Development of the Joint Recovery Team (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "East Carolina University Partnerships and Innovation with Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper details the development of the Task Force Dagger Foundation’s partnership with East Carolina University and the Department of Defense MIA/POW Accounting Agency (DPAA). It outlines the vision these leaders forged in creating a joint university and special operations veteran...