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Field photo of identification and cleaning of Locus B Feature 1, the well, after mechanical removal of plowzone.
Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus B: Feature 15 Well After Mechanical Excavation of Surrounding Subsoil (2012)
Field photo of Locus B Feature 15, resuming hand excavation after mechanical removal of surrounding subsoil, view to west.
Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus B: Feature 3 West Profile (2012)
Field photo of Locus B Feature 3 west profile after excavation of east half. Unidentified iron artifact in-situ at base of excavation.
Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus B: Redware Bowl In-Situ Feature 15 Well (2012)
Field photo of redware bowl in-situ within Locus B well, Feature 15 Stratum A, Level 2, west half (Cat./Spec. No. 240.11), view to north.
Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus B: Unidentified Iron Object Recovered from Feature 3 (2012)
Field photo of unidentified iron object recovered from Locus B Feature 3, Stratum A, Level 1 (Cat./Spec. No. 220.4) after excavation.
The Bird-Houston Site, 1775-1920: 145 Years of Rural Delaware (2016)
The Bird-Houston Site is a homestead that was occupied from around 1775 to 1920. During that long span the site was used in various ways by diverse occupants. Two houses stood there; the earlier log house was replaced by a frame house around 1825, and the two houses were far enough apart to keep their associated artifacts separate. The site’s occupants included unknown tenants, white property owners, and, after 1840, African American farm laborers and their families. Excavation of the site...
A Birds Eye View of War: The Role of Historic Maps and Aerial-Based Imagery in the Archaeological investigation of Unaccounted-For U.S. military Personnel. (2017)
As "snapshot" documents of the past, historical maps, aerial photographs, and satellite imagery are a valuable source for the archaeological investigation of major conflicts throughout the past eight decades. Although many of these documents were initially acquired and then maintained in secret in the context of major conflict or clandestine purposes, decades later they are proving to be of much benefit and unintended value for historical and archaeological research. This paper will present an...
Birds in Ritual Practice and Ceremonial Organization in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Birds have remained one of the most symbolically valued animals in human cultures, from prehistoric past to ethnographic present, and across the globe. Especially in the North American Southwest, whole birds and their parts have been an integral part of Pueblo ceremonial life for centuries. Their ritual and symbolic value has been demonstrated both...
Birds, Circles, and Landscapes Enclosed with Soil: Geoarchaeology at the Eastern Edge of Pinson Mounds, Tennessee, USA (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Advances in Geoarchaeology and Environmental Archaeology Perspectives on Earthen-Built Constructions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pinson Mounds is a large Middle Woodland monument complex centrally located between two other mound centers in west Tennessee. Despite intermittent archaeological research, the Eastern Precinct of Pinson Mounds has remained understudied compared to earthen monuments situated throughout...
A Bird’s-Eye View: Historic Aircraft Navigation Arrows in Northern Arizona (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Historical Archaeologies of the American Southwest, 1800 to Today" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Following the invention of the airplane in 1903, the early 20th century saw the rapid development of aviation technology, both for commercial and recreational purposes. As early pilots struggled to effectively navigate during an era characterized by unruly aircraft and sparse ground support, concrete arrows, beacons, and...
The BISC 2 Cargo (Part I)--Contributions and Questions from Ceramics Analysis: Late 18th Century Sequencing and Colonial Trade patterns (2013)
The BISC-2 site uniquely contains thousands of fragments of late 18th century English ceramics dating from the period of transition from stone-glazed salt ware to cream ware, including hundreds of examples of both of these manufactured types that share decorative patterning. The fact that this assemblage (arguably one of the largest of late 18th century ceramics located to date in North America) was created through a wrecking event that occurred quite literally as a single instance in time...
The BISC 2 Cargo Part II--Prestige Cargo or Evidence of Colonial Dumping? An Exploration of What Key Items in BISC 2's Cargo of Ceramics May say About center/periphery trade relations in the Late North American British Empire (2013)
This paper will focus on what a set of very specific items documented in the BISC-2 cargo may indicate about relations between the Bristih imperial center and amongst various levels of its periphery--including Jamaica and North America--during the last third of the 18th century. We will focus in particular on: 1) a coloration pattern that is ubiquitous on the site that has been documented as having a limited production life and as destined for dumping in a colobial market considered less...
Biscuit Flat Arizona Site Steward File (1996)
This is an Arizona Site Steward file for Biscuit Flats, comprised of Archaic artifact scatter, located on State Trust land. The file consists of documentation of resource theft and excavation and five color photographs of the damage. The earliest dated document is from 1996.
Bison ecology and pre-contact human land use at the Promontory Caves (2017)
Promontory people were proficient bison hunters with a sophisticated understanding of bison ecology. In contrast, modern researchers know relatively little about pre-contact bison ecology in the Great Basin. We combine botanical analysis of dung and isotopic analysis of various substrates (dung, hair, hide, bone) to reconstruct ancient landscapes and bison behaviour during the Promontory occupation. Carbon isotope compositions indicate that a C3-dominated environment existed at the Promontory...
BISON, DOG, AND DEER, OH MY!: FAUNAL ANALYSIS OF THE LOVITT SITE, WESTERN NEBRASKA (2017)
The Dismal River complex is a protohistoric archaeological complex likely representing an early Apache occupation on the Central Great Plains of North America. A key Dismal River complex site is the Lovitt site (25CH1), located in southwestern Nebraska. Excavations at Lovitt in 1939 revealed the site as a small residential locality with three ephemeral house structures and more than 150 pit features. Recent radiocarbon dating at the site suggests it was likely occupied either in the first half...
Bittersweet Site (8BR02081) (2021)
Maps and photos associated with the Bittersweet Site (8BR02081).
Black and Blue, Red and Yellow: Clovis Exploitation of a Central New Mexico Lithic Source (2018)
Along the western edge of the Rio Grande Valley in Central New Mexico is a huge expanse of late Cenozoic volcanics, including a high-quality hydrothermally altered rhyolite. Colloquially known as Socorro jasper, at least one source of this material was exploited frequently by Clovis groups. This paper describes this source—the Black Canyon quarry—and the physical and geochemical properties of the "jasper" from it. Recent and continuing studies of its use by Clovis groups are reviewed, and its...
Black and White Aerial Images, Huntington Reservoir Maps N.D. (2012)
This resource contains one of two sets of Huntington Reservoir aerial images. There are fourteen black and white aerial maps numbered 17, 18, 23, 24, 28, 29, 34, 35, 40, 46, 51, 52, 57, and 58 (Scanned Asset 1039-0001). The dates of these images are not indicated.
Black and White Aerial Map, Mississinewa Reservoir Maps N.D (2012)
This resource contains a black and white aerial map labeled 1-48, produced in May 1961. This map is part of the Mississinewa Reservoir Maps N.D collection that consists of oversized maps of the Mississinewa Reservoir within Grant, Miami, and Wabash Counties, Indiana. The collection was received without any association to a particular investigation. The date of this image was not recorded. It is likely that this is due to the documents’ large size and cartographic contents.
Black and White Aerial Photograph, April 13 1962, Camp Bullis, Texas (1962)
This is an unmarked, aerial photograph taken at Camp Bullis, Texas on April 13th, 1962.
Black and White and Red All Over: The Goodrich Steamer Atlanta, 1891-1906 (2017)
Often overlooked in the story of the westward settlement of America, transportation of passengers and cargo through the Great Lakes and northern river systems accounted for a substantial volume of migrant travel. From the mid-1800s through the 1930s, passenger steamers on the Great Lakes were designed to combine luxury and speed. The Goodrich Transit Company, for example, was one of the longest operating (1856-1933) and most successful passenger steamship lines on the Great Lakes. Passage on the...
The Black and White of It: Rural Tenant and African American Enslaved and Free Worker Life at the Rumsey/Polk Tenant/Prehistoric site (2016)
Rich and provocative data on 1740s to 1850s tenant occupations were revealed by Phase II and III archaeological investigations at Locus 1 of the Rumsey/Polk Tenant/Prehistoric site. Documentary research, the recovery of 42,996 historic artifacts, and the discovery of 622 features, provided a rare glimpse into the lives of free and enslaved African American workers and white tenants living side-by-side in the racially charged atmosphere of 18th- and 19th-century Delaware. Artifacts like wolf...
Black and White Photographs of Fort Dix, NJ (1994)
Black and white photographs of aerial imagery of the area encompassing Fort Dix.
Black and White Photographs of Fort Dix, NJ (1969)
Black and white photographs of aerial imagery of the area encompassing Fort Dix.
Black Bear Use through Time in the Southern Appalachians (2017)
Historic accounts of Fort San Juan, a Spanish garrison built near the native village of Joara in the late 1560s in western North Carolina, inform us that chiefs from neighboring towns brought "meat and maize" to the soldiers on various occasions. Based on the high proportion of bear in the fort faunal assemblage, it seems likely that the foods gifted to the Spaniards included bear meat. A recent zooarchaeological study suggests that native peoples provisioned the soldiers with some prime bear...