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DOCUMENT Citation Only April Sievert.

Use-wear has often been used to try to understand stone tools and tool types themselves. By focusing on lithics as used in specific tasks within activities that are part of larger contexts, relationships can be demonstrated and mapped using concept mapping tools. Use-wear studies deriving from complex agricultural sites in the Midwest are coupled with looks at activities performed by modern Native Americans.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark B Stephens. Della A Scott-Ireton. Jennifer F McKinnon.

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. With East Carolina University (ECU) as a partner and gaining DPAA’s partnership, the third leg of the Joint Recovery Team (JRT) was in place. The first JRT mission took place in Saipan in July/August 2018. This meant implementing an archaeological training and diving plan to insure...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Veit.

This paper provides a brief introduction to Jamaica's 18th and 19th century burial grounds using select examples from Port Royal, Falmouth, Spanish Town, and plantation burial grounds, especially the Orange Valley estate.  Documentary sources relating to burial and commemoration are also examined.  The paper argues that Jamaican gravemarkers clearly reflect the social stratification present in colonial Jamaica, and highlight the great wealth that sugar planting brought to the island.  Jamaican...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan Kennedy.

The Market Street Chinatown was a bustling Chinese community in nineteenth-century San Jose, California, and its residents mixed the traditional and novel throughout their lives. This is especially the case in food practices, where Market Street’s residents consumed Chinese foods alongside new ingredients from North America. In this paper, I explore how fish consumption among Market Street’s residents was driven by notions of taste in nineteenth-century Southern China, where fish played a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jenna K Carlson.

British colonists in the New World employed a variety of strategies to cope with their new surroundings.  In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century St. George's, Bermuda, settlers embraced the natural abundance of the marine environment while maintaining their reliance on Old World domesticates.  Market access, personal preference, and socioeconomic standing greatly influenced the nature of this balance of Old and New World foodstuffs.  Faunal assemblages from the Henry Tucker House in St. George's...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Kostro.

Taverns in eighteenth-century Williamsburg, Virginia ran the gamut from the refined to repugnant, from those catering to the delicate needs of politicians and colonial elites, to those offering basic room and board to road-weary travelers seeking to escape the elements.  As elsewhere, Williamsburg’s varied taverns were central places within the community where people regularly gathered to transact business, argue over politics, exchanged news of the day, plot political action, or just enjoy a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda Rasmussen. Katherine Peresolak.

With millions of acres under their care, the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) must address woodlots, resource extraction, and other energy and recreation-related tasks. Cultural resources and their management are often forgotten or ignored, yet several technologies are available that all state land management agencies and employees can and should learn to implement in order to address this void in overall land and heritage conservation. This poster will focus...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Alison Shepherd. Kelly Brown. Josh Wackett.

According to 36CFR79, collections recovered with federal funds must be made accessible to the public for research and educational purposes. However, this goal is deceptively difficult to achieve. Collections can be made available to professionals and archaeology students easily enough, but is there a way that we can involve the public in the process? The Veterans Curation Program (VCP), funded by the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), St. Louis District, has become well known for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey Glover. Brennan Collins. Robin Wharton. Marni Davis.

How do English, History, and Archaeology professors begin collaborating? In our case it was our mutual interests in the history of Atlanta and incorporating digital methods into our courses. In this paper we discuss our intertwined collaborations at Georgia State University. These involve Wharton's incorporation of archaeological materials from the MARTA archaeological collection in her Expository Writing course. Students in this course take advantage of the computing resources in the library's...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kayeleigh Sharp. Gary Tippin. Donald L. Barth. Susannah Munson. Karla Berry. Grant Miller.

This is an abstract from the "Silenced Lifeways:The Archaeology of Free African-American Communities in the Indiana and Illinois Borderlands" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Free African American communities in southern Illinois have complex social histories underwritten by ideas of freedom, slavery and resistance. The compelling dynamics of church, community, and negotiated inter-ethnic experiences faced by our nation’s first generation of free...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca S Graff.

From abandoned council flats to the World Trade Center site, scholars are attempting to understand the material remains of the very recent past by using the methodology of archaeological "excavation." These archaeologies of the contemporary past make familiar items unfamiliar as they explore material residues of late capitalist, post-industrial societies and beyond, participating in what Holtorf calls the merging of "archaeology in the modern world with the archaeology of the modern world." The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michelle M. Damian.

Spring 2016 marked the first time maritime archaeology was taught to undergraduates at Harvard University. No diving was required for this introductory class, so in order to give the students the experience of researching and identifying a "wreck site" the class partnered with the Peabody Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology. The museum collection contained a number of models that were not on display due to space constraints. The class therefore used the museum ship models as substitutes for an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan B Veness.

The Old Colchester Park and Preserve, located in southern Fairfax County, Virginia consists of approximately 145 acres along the Occoquan River.  This natural and cultural resource Park was acquired by Fairfax County Park Authority in 2006.  Located within the Park along the Occoquan River was the ca. 1754-1830 tobacco port town of Colchester.  Systematic and targeted testing over the past four years by Colchester Archaeology Research Team (CART) has yielded numerous artifacts and features. ...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katelyn Coughlan.

Archaeological sites excavated under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 provide scholars a wealth of data at their fingertips.  Due to the time and financial constraints of excavation, many collections are initially analyzed, stored in state and local repositories and forgotten.  However, both academic and cultural resource management (CRM) collections are an invaluable source of new data.  The re-examination of these assemblages can tease out more detailed or nuanced...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Plains Electric Generation & Transmission Cooperative, Inc..

This document describes the study methods and results of the regional environmental baseline studies conducted for the Ambrosia-Coronado 230kV Transmission Project between November 1989 and March 1990. The focus of the regional data collection effort was to identify environmental resources and features that would assist in developing locations for alternative transmission line corridors within the defined study area. The purpose of this section is to describe the regional scale visual resources...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristi M Nichols.

San Pedro Springs and the San Antonio River provided an ample water supply which enticed the Spanish to establish missions, a presidio, and villas in the vicinity.  Harnessing and diverting the flow of water became one of the important challenges the Spanish faced in developing successful agricultural fields.  Construction of the first irrigation ditch began shortly after the founding of Mission San Antonio de Valero.  Throughout the Spanish Colonial period and into the very early 1900s, the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Simon Bruder.

This report was prepared at the request of the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) for documentation concerning the present condition of the Tempe and Western canal segments subject to impact by the proposed Price Freeway between the Superstition Freeway and Pecos Road. Both structures are part of an extensive canal system, identified today as the Salt River Project System, that conveys water for agricultural, industrial, and municipal uses throughout the Salt River Valley. The canal...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Samantha Driscoll. Emma Diehl. Pam Anderson. Heather McDonald Robbins.

This document discusses suitable substitutes for 20th-century window types identified as character-defining features of historic 20th-century DoD buildings. This tool will assist DoD CRMs, facility planners, architects, and engineers responsible for the maintenance and repair of historic 20th-century buildings in complying with Section 106 of the NHPA.

DOCUMENT Full-Text SWCA Environmental Consultants.

Site AZ Q:2:35 (ASM) was originally recorded as a sherd and lithic scatter during an earlier survey of the proposed expanded right-of-way (ROW) of the Salt River Project (SRP) Coronado Coal Haul Railroad (Neily and Irwin 1990). At the request of SRP, SWCA, Inc. Environmental Consultants, initiated testing at the site using systematic backhoe trenching (Boden 1991). Archaeological testing identified six subsurface features, including five pits and one concentration of burned sandstone. None of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text SWCA Environmental Consultants.

The following document constitutes a proposal for archaeological data recovery within planned expansions of the Salt River Project Coronado Coal Haul Railroad. The proposal is in response to a Request for Proposals (RFP) issued by Salt River Project. The project area is located in Apache County, Arizona, south of Interstate 40 near the town of Navajo. Three sites are listed in the RFP and specific information regarding the impacts to those sites and the location of the sites in relation to the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Skip Stagg. John Terreo.

In September 1993, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) was tasked by the Environmental Management Office (AFFTC/EM) to study and recommend approaches for managing, restoring, and preserving historic jet aircraft of the Cold War era. The Air Force Flight Test Center (AFFTC) Museum was the partner in this project. This study's objective was to identify issues, problems and techniques regarding the cultural and historical evaluation and restoration of Cold War era jet aircraft. This objective was...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John Terreo.

The ranch Florence Lowe Barnes (Pancho Barnes) owned and operated (which is now part of Edwards Air Force Base [AFB]) was a focal point for entertainment, social activity, and comradery. Many prominent individuals involved with historic flight test programs and projects went there for relaxation. In 1954, Pancho's home was destroyed by a fire that resulted in the annihilation of a large portion of her personal archives and artifacts. Consequently, one option to preserve crucial historical and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Virginia H. Adams. Jenny Fields. Alyssa Wood.

PAL, on behalf of Rizzo Associates (Rizzo), is assisting the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) with the preparation of the Hanscom Field 2005 Environmental Status and Planning Report (ESPR) as an update of the Elanscom Field 2000 ESPR. L.G. Hanscom Field (Hanscom Field) is Massachusetts’s premier general aviation airport and serves as a general aviation reliever to Logan International Airport with niche commercial service. The Hanscom Field area is located in the towns of Bedford, Concord,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text William Begley. Duncan Ritchie.

In June 1999, PAL completed an intensive (locational) archaeological survey of the FAMCAMP project area, which is located adjacent to Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford, Massachusetts. The U.S. Air Force is proposing improvements to the Family Camp, a 25-acre parcel located north of the main base property and runways. Background research indicated that known prehistoric sites are located in the vicinity of the project area near Elm Brook and an area south of Hanscom AFB along a watershed between...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ann Davin. Virginia H. Adams. Craig Chartier. Amy McFeeters.

The Public Archaeology Laboratory, Inc. conducted an inventory of historic and archaeological resources at the U.S. Department of the Air Force Fourth Cliff Recreational Annex. Fourth Cliff is a 56-acre military property situated at the northern tip of the Humarock Peninsula in Scituate, Massachusetts. The firm of Fay, Spofford & Thorndike, Inc. is overseeing all of the environmental, archaeological, and architectural studies in preparation for future planning activities. A comprehensive...