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DOCUMENT Full-Text The Public Archaeology Laboratory, Inc..

The Public Archaeology Laboratory, Inc., under contract with ENSR Consulting and Engineering, recently completed an historic and archaeological reconnaissance/inventory survey of the New Boston Air Force Station (NBAFS) located in New Boston, Mont Vernon, and Amherst, New Hampshire. A total of 2,826 acres are encompassed by the NBAFS, with approximately 2,620 under management for conservation. The existing operational facilities are located on approximately 40 acres. The purpose of the survey...

DOCUMENT Full-Text The Public Archaeology Laboratory.

This is Volume 2 of Public Archaeology Laboratory Inc., under contract with ENSR Consulting and Engineering, historic and archaeological reconnaissance/inventory survey of the New Boston Air Force Station (NBAFS) located in New Boston, Mont Vernon, and Amherst, New Hampshire. This volume includes appendices, representative soils profiles from prehistoric and historic sites, photograph logs, photographs of prehistoric sites within NBAFS, photographs of visible structures for HS #1-28 within...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jonathan F. Ruhan. Stephen J. Najjar.

The New Boston Air Force Station (NBAFS) Integrated Cultural Resource Management Plan (ICRMP) provides guidance and assigns responsibility for management of cultural resources located on NBAFS in support of the Station mission. This plan addresses identification and protection of archaeological sites located at NBAFS. Currently no Native American Traditional Cultural Properties (TCPs) are known at NBAFS; however, in the event they are identified at the facility, the ICRMP outlines procedures...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert C. Whetsell.

The New Boston Air Force Station (NBAFS) Archaeological District is a time capsule of New Hampshire and New England history. The 2,826-acre District contains a diverse and wide-ranging array of archaeological sites and structures representative of human occupation of the region beginning with the Archaic Period (10,000-3,000 B.P.) and ending with the use of the land as a bombing range during World War II and the early Cold War periods of U.S. history. The district is like no other archaeological...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Timothy Light.

This report is intended to provide guidance and direction to New Boston Air Force Station in the development of a process for consulting with Native American tribes who may claim ancestral ties to the lands managed by NBAFS. This process is intended to identify areas and sites of concern to these tribes and establish an on-going program that will create a strong foundation for informal and formal negotiations and consultations between NBAFS and Native American tribes that will partially address...