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Photo shows John Portnoy, then Cape Cod NS park scientist (kneeling) and Michael Soukup (then Ast. Regional Scientist) shifting through back dirt pile from the backhoe excavation of the ossuary site to recover distrubed human bone and artifacts.
Excavation of the Indian Neck Ossuary, September 1979, Wellfleet, MA (1979)
Photo shows the top of the ossuary feature after it has been exposed by archaeological excavation. Photo is taken looking south.
Excavation of the Indian Neck Ossuary, September 1979, Wellfleet, MA (1979)
Photo of the cleaned top of the ossuary burial feature. The pattern of human crania around the edges and long bones laid perpendicular to the long access of the burial feature is apparent. The northern half of the ossuary was inadvertently destroyed by a backhoe excavation which led to the discovery of the remaining part of the ossuary.
Excavation of the Indian Neck Ossuary, September 1979, Wellfleet, MA (1979)
Photo of the base of the ossuary feature on the north side of the photo (clam knife is pointing north) and layer of calcined bone, believed to be part of a cremation that was overlain by the unburned ossuary burial feature. The photo is taken from a nearly vertical perspective over the feature.
Final Report for Faunal Reconnaissance of Selected Sites and Corridors, Eastham Area, Cape Cod National Seashore (1980)
Faunal inventory created for selected sites and corridors of the Eastham Area, Cape Cod National Seashore. The inventory was conducted over an extended period of time encompassing all seasons of the year. The area of possible impact exceeds the study area and calculates at about 274 acres. The dispersed nature of the proposed development over a large area creates many habitat islands and produces extensive edge. Insularity and edge effects are profound in many cases, especially uplands, and may...
Final Report on the 1985 Wellfleet Bay Archaeological Field School (1986)
A one-week archaeological field school was held at the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary on Cape Cod during July 1985. The field school, intended for interested adults with no previous archaeological experience, was directed by prehistoric archaeologist, Linda Towle with Mary Ann Larson, a Yankee Intern, as field assistant. Mary Ann's internship was sponsored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Yankee Publishing, Inc., and the Massachusetts Audubon...
The French Along the Northeast Coast at Contact (2007)
From 1604 to 1607, a French expedition explored the southeastern Canadian and New England coasts, ranging as far south as Cape Cod. During this time, the Frenchmen encountered many Native people throughout the region. Some of the interactions were peaceful, others were violent. The first winter base for this expedition is now within the boundary of Saint Croix Island International Historic Site, a unit of the National Park system. One of the Native American settlements that was visited is...
A Geophysical Test at Cape Cod National Seashore (1991)
Conductivity and resistivity profiles allowed a geophysical evaluation of this site. Survey for Dick Hsu (NPS).
Historic Cultural Land Use Study of Lower Cape Cod, A Study of the Historical Archeology and History of the Cape Cod National Seashore and the Surrounding Region. (1994)
The National Park Service began a multi-year National Archeological Survey Initiative (NASI) designed to locate, assess, and evaluate the archeological resources in all park areas. To do this for a large geographical area with a complex land-use history requires an interdisciplinary study of land use. Managers of the former North Atlantic Region, NPS, decided to undertake a cultural land-use study of Cape Cod National Seashore. This was a pilot project designed to establish a framework...
Historic Properties of the Cold War Era: 21st Space Wing (1998)
This report presents the results of an inventory of Cold War era buildings and structures at Cape Cod Air Station (AS) which has operated as a missile early warning radar installation from 1979 and is currently managed by the 21SW. The purpose of this inventory was to evaluate the facilities at Cape Cod AS in terms of their eligibility for inclusion in the NRHP within the historical context of the Cold War. All of the facilities at this installation were constructed less than 50 years ago, and...
Historic Resource Study-Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts (1979)
From the publication Preface and short Introduction: This report is intended to fulfill the requirements for a historic resource study of Cape Cod National Seashore. Its purpose is to provide a general history and historic base map of the National Seashore area. The study should provide the basic data needed for planning and interpretation. The history of the Cape Cod National Seashore region, during most of the period of white settlement, has been one of dependence on the sea for a...
The Indian Neck Ossuary (1988)
In September, 1979, National Park Service archaeologists conducting an archaeolgoical survey of Cape Cod National Seashore were called to a site on Indian Neck, a peninsula in Wellfleet Harbor on outer Cape Cod. A backhoe operator digging a hole for a cottage's septic tank had unearthed human bones. Based on the condition of the exposed bones, the archaeologists determined that the burial was prehistoric. The cottage owners allowed the NPS archaeological team to excavate the remaining...
The Indian Neck Ossuary: Chapters in the Archaeology of Cape Cod, V (1986)
In September, 1979, National Park Service (NPS) archeologists working at Cod National Seashore were called to the scene of a discovery of a skeleton on Indian Neck near the shore of Wellfleet Harbor in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. The archeologists quickly determined that the skeletons probably were prehistoric. In order to salvage the remains before they were destroyed, it was agreed that the archeologists would excavate the remaining in situ materials. Two days of careful fieldwork revealed an...
The Indian Neck Ossuary: A Preliminary Report, Bradly et al 1982 (1982)
Late in the summer of 1979, human bones were unexpectedly uncovered during the construction of a septic system for summer cottages on Indian Neck, Wellfleet, Massachusetts. National Park Service archeologists, who were conducting a survey of the Cape Cod National Seashore, were contacted and the skeletal remains were identified as Native American . Construction had been halted when the bones were first noticed and it was determined that completion of the septic system would destroy the remaining...
Laying the Foundation, Ross Moffett and Cape Cod Archaeology (2008)
Beginning in October 1978, and continuing until June 1979, I spent twenty-two days at the R.S. Peabody Foundation for Archaeology in Andover, Massachusetts, working on Ross Moffett's collections. I was doing this because the National Park Service (NPS), for who I was then the regional archeologist, was planning a park-wide archeological survey at Cape Cod National Seashore. It would be the first overall investigation of the archeological record of the park since Ross Moffett had provided a...
The Mattaquason Purchase Site (M48N6), North Chatham (1978)
The site whose excavation is described here was listed by the Massachusetts State Archaeologist as site M48N6. It is located in northwest Chatham near Pleasant Bay and lies on land owned by RCA Global Communications, Inc., which has been used for their extensive antenna system for the past sixty-two years. This land is within the "First Purchase" from Mattaquason, made by William Nickerson (Nickerson 1958). In spite of its being a well known Indian campsite with a history of intensive potholing,...
Memorandum, Archeological Investigations at Provincelands Visitor Center and Coast Guard Beach, CACO 1978 (1978)
This memorandum reports a trip conducted by Frank McManamon, National Park Service, Regional Archeologist, North Atlantic Region. Conducted on December 5, 1978 at CACO, the nature of the trip was to inspect two project areas: the area which will be impacted by the proposed comfort station near the Provincelands Visitor Center, and the area to be impacted by the proposed development at Nauset Light and Coast Guard Beaches. Multiple maps of the sites and surrounding areas are included in the...
Notes on the Small's Swamp Shell Heap, Turo, Massachusetts, Moffett 1959 (1959)
Small's Swamp, which provides the setting for the Indian shell heap here concerned, lies at the bottom of a kettle hole in the High Head, or Pilgrim Heights, section of Truro. Small's Swamp Indian site, which is within the limits of the newly constituted Pilgrim Spring State Park, stretches for upwards of 325 feet along the northwestern border of the swamp, the original western limit of the site being perhaps obscured by grading in the area of the house site. (Fig. 1, No.5). Throughout much of...
Prehistoric Land Use on Outer Cape Cod (1982)
Preliminary analysis of archaeological survey data indicates that prehistoric land use of coastal southern New England (represented by outer Cape Cod, Massachusetts) was year-round and more diverse than has been suggested by the traditional emphasis on coastal shell middens. Prehistoric settlement seems to have been concentrated mainly in a few locations with large intervening unsettled areas. A stratified random sampling strategy allowed estimates of the relative frequency of different kinds...
Prehistoric Morphology and Marsh Development of Pamet River Valley and Nauset Marsh (1981)
The purpose of this research was to expand upon the previous report prepared by O’Donnell and Leatherman (1980) regarding the geomorphic evolution of Outer Cape Cod. Two areas, the Pamet River Valley and Nauset Marsh, were identified as sites where additional data and field tests should be provided. These field data allowed for more accurate reconstruction of the prehistoric natural environment of these two areas of archeological significance. Specifically, this follow-on study was conducted in...
Report on the History of Cape Cod, Massachusetts: Cape Cod in HIstory (1958)
A short (8 pp) report done as part of the preliminary planning for the creation of the Cape Cod National Seashore. Mentions only the most basic historical events related to Cape Cod, beginning with the voyages, landings, and mentions of the cape by early European explorers (Champlain, Gosnold, and John Smith, for example) and the first landing place of the Pilgrims. Very brief summaries of historical events from 1620 to World War II. A short, basic bibliography is included.
Research Design for the Archeological Survey of Cape Cod National Seashore, McManamon 1979 (1979)
This research has two general goals: first, to identify the physical characteristics and estimate the numbers and locations of archeological sites within Cape Cod National Seashore (CACO); second, to assess the significance of these sites according to the information they might provide about history, prehistory, specific past ways of life and general patterns of human behavior.
A Review of Cape Cod Archaeology (1957)
Although Indian artifacts in large numbers have been found on Cape Cod, information on the circumstance and chronological order attending the original distribution of these artifacts is somewhat limited and uneven. Little evidence is available from excavations on the upper or east-west part of the Cape, save for one report dealing with a series of relatively late shell heaps. The lower or north-south portion of the peninsula, however, is fairly adequately known. This paper is based, therefore,...
Ross Moffett Archaeological Overview, Cape Cod National Seashore, Photos with Report (1960)
Photo of Fort Hill in the Nauset area of Eastham, MA, after being mowed.
Ross Moffett Survey of Cape Cod National Seashore, Photos for Report (1960)
Photo by Ross Moffett to go with his 1960 report on the archaeological sites and areas of the newly created National Seashore. This photo is reported to be of the area near the new visitor overlook of Smalls Swamp in the Pilgrim Heights and High Head area of North Truruo.