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Managing the expectations of the public and the timeline in which many expect archaeology to happen is a challenge for every public archaeological organization. When you add the underwater component and restrictions related to maritime law, public perception and plausible reality often conflict. The raising of the CSS Pee Dee Canons serves as an example of mitigating multiple agencies as well as making underwater archaeology visible. This crossover also highlights many of the problems with...
Public Use of Beach Shipwrecks on African Shores (2017)
Shipwrecks on African beaches serve as archaeological field training sites, history classrooms for school children, tourist hiking, horse riding or driving trails, as fashion show props and as outdoor studios for film productions. Public uses of beach shipwrecks, often more accessible than underwater sites, has potential to enhance appreciation and management of global maritime heritage. This paper presents case studies in South Africa, Namibia and the Transkei. Examples include Kakapo (1900)...
Public vs. Private in the Domestic Spaces of the Enslaved: Yards and their Uses at Kingsley Plantation, Jacksonville, Florida, 1814-1860 (2016)
Kingsley Plantation, a Second Spanish Period site located on Fort George Island in Jacksonville, Florida, has seen various excavations over the course of the past six decades. In addition to an intensive focus on the interiors of slave cabins, the investigation of which allows interpretation of private and personal spaces, yards around the cabins have been examined in order to better understand those areas that operate as both personal and public. Yards provided the settings for activities tied...
Publishing Unprovenanced Artifacts (2017)
The recent growth in volume and complexity of the illicit antiquities trade is documented, and links have been established between it and criminal activities, such as money laundering, extortion, drug and arms trading, terrorism, insurgency, and slavery. In 2011 Neil Brodie argued that "academic expertise is indispensable for the efficient functioning of the [illicit antiquities] trade," but the authors argue that a full ban on the study of unprovenanced artifacts is unacceptable from a...
Pueblo Agricultural Adaptations to Socioeconomic Changes in New Mexico (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation illustrates the results of the survey work of the agricultural areas around two precontact villages (Poshuouinge and Pueblo Blanco) and two contact-era villages (Cuyamungue and San Marcos). One hundred and fifty-six agricultural features were documented on the survey and ranged from Pueblo irrigation ditches in and slightly above the...
The Pueblo de Abiquiú Library and Cultural Center as Leader in Genízaro Archaeological Investigations (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Chicanx Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Berkeley-Abiquiú Collaborative Archaeology (BACA) Project has been in partnership with the Merced del Pueblo de Abiquiú and the Pueblo de Abiquiú Library and Cultural Center for several years now. Recruiting assistance from a non-local academic partner, Abiquiú leaders created not only an opportunity for testing the utility of archaeology for achieving community...
The Pueblo Farming Project: A Hopi-Crow Canyon Archaeological Center Collaboration (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Pueblo Farming Project, or PFP, is a collaboration between the Hopi tribe and the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center. The Primary goal of the PFP is to investigate traditional Pueblo farming techniques and assess how they could help us understand ancient farming in The Mesa Verde region. The PFP established 5 experimental garden plots. Traditional Hopi...
The Pueblo Farming Project: Research, Education, and Native American Collaboration (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Research, Education, and American Indian Partnerships at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Maize farming represents a fundamental aspect of Pueblo people’s identity. This paper focuses on an experimental farming program conducted as part of the Pueblo Farming Project (PFP). The PFP represents one of Crow Canyon’s longest-running projects and one of the center’s most important...
Pueblo milling stones of the Flagstaff region and their relation to others in the Southwest (1933)
This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...
Pueblo of Acoma Ethnographic Study of the Greater Chaco Landscape (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the last 4 years, Archaeology Southwest has been working to protect the Greater Chaco Landscape from the damaging effects of oil-gas development. We have partnered with a number of environmental and preservation organizations, engaged the NM Congressional delegation on numerous occasions, and attended many, many meetings with the New Mexico Bureau of Land...
Pueblo of Acoma's Rapid Ethnographic Surveys of the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project (2019)
This is an abstract from the "The Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project: A Multivocal Analysis of the San Juan Basin as a Cultural Landscape" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Pueblo of Acoma officially signed onto the NGWSP Programmatic Agreement to be a Concurring Party member on May 20, 2016. At that time, the Bureau of Reclamation provided the Pueblo with a Financial Assistance Award (FAA) that would be used for Phase I of this project. ...
The Pueblo of Acoma’s Cultural Inheritance and Archaeological Partnership in “The Lands Between” of Southeastern Utah (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Amidst the pandemic, the authors (a group of individuals from the Pueblo of Acoma, academics, and non-profit organizations) planned and gathered in southeastern Utah to begin a project in 2021 to explore and strengthen Acoma’s deep and inalienable connections to the north. We soon found that the process of building meaningful and long-lasting partnerships...
The Pueblo potter: a study of creative imagination in primitive art (1929)
This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...
Pueblo Warriors, Witches and Cannibals: Indigenous Concepts of Corporeality and the Biorchaeological Record (2019)
This is an abstract from the "From Individual Bodies to Bodies of Social Theory: Exploring Ontologies of the Americas" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In Pueblo oral tradition, a persistent narrative exists regarding malevolent forces that commit transgressions while inhabiting the corporeal bodies of community members. Referred to as witches (although this is not a term Pueblo people would use) they bring about crop failures through droughts, and...
Puebloan Patterns in Montezuma Canyon: Insights from the Nancy Patterson Ruin (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Research in Montezuma Canyon, San Juan County, Utah" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Nancy Patterson Ruin is one of several large, multi-component pueblos, positioned at the mouths of side canyons draining into Montezuma Creek. Although occupations at Nancy Patterson span at least Basketmaker III through late Pueblo III, the most visible occupations are late Pueblo I and mid-Pueblo III. Unique...
Puha Flows from It: The Cultural Landscape Study of the Spring Mountains (2004)
This is a report of findings about American Indian cultural concerns for places and landscapes in the Spring Mountain range in what is today called southern Nevada. More specifically it is a study of how people who speak a Numic language and who call themselves Nuwuvi or Nungwu, and are known in English as Southern Paiutes, interact with the Spring Mountain range.
Puha Flows from It: The Spring Mountains Cultural Landscape Study (2003)
This is a report of findings about American Indian cultural concerns for places and landscapes in the Spring Mountain range in what is today called southern Nevada. More specifically it is a study of how people who speak a Numic language and who call themselves Nuwuvi or Nungwu, and are known in English as Southern Paiutes, interact with the Spring Mountain range. Included is a PDF presentation on the ethnography.
Pullman Heritage Project: Legacies of Race and Industry in a Fresh-Water Entrepôt (2018)
The communities of Pullman live amid landscapes rich in industrial legacies. The legacies are industrial and economic, aesthetic, ecological and enviornmental. Since the town's founding, it has been part of global currents and flows of people, capital, products, and information. With the founding of Pullman National Monument by President Obama in 2015, the residents' long struggle to tell their stories have taken a new turn. Michigan Technological University's Industrial Heritage and Archaeology...
Pulpits and Bones: African-American Vistas of Action, Innovation, and Tradition (2018)
The cultural landscapes of African-American communities in the nineteenth century were often anchored with a church, cemetery, and school. Sectarian and secular dynamics interacted in shaping the terrains of those social networks. This presentation explores such developments in the impacts of religious beliefs, practices, and congregations on the strategic locations and configurations of churches and cemeteries before and after the Civil War, with a focus on the Midwest region. For example, the...
Pump Up the Jambs: Expanding the Catalog of Known Colonial Era Decorative Delftware Fireplace Tiles from Archaeological Contexts in North Carolina and Beyond (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1996, I presented a study on decorative delftware fireplace tiles recovered from three structures in eighteenth-century Brunswick Town. At that time, these were the only delftware tiles known or reported from archaeological contexts in North Carolina. Yet in the past 22 years, as a result of more recent excavations and ongoing re-analyses on a number of archaeological...
Punching a hole in blowgun theories: an Aboriginal blowgun manufacturing technique (2011)
This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...
Purchasing Patterns of the California Missions in CA. 1805 (1992)
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A Purposeful Unpatterning: A Spatial Approach to Maroon Settlement in Florida (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "African Diaspora in Florida" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the colonial era, Spanish Florida built a reputation as a refuge for self-liberated people escaping from slavery. However, following the Treaty of Paris, Florida’s governance was in turmoil and the Maroons’ freedom was under constant threat. Florida Maroons were constantly on the move. Consequently, a low density of materials, deficiency of...
Purveyors of the past: education and outreach as ethical imperatives in archaeology (2003)
This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...
"Pushing Against a Stone": Landscape, Generational Breadth, and Community-Oriented Archaeological Approaches in the Plantation Chesapeake (2016)
By the antebellum era enslaved communities across large tidewater Chesapeake plantations boasted deep temporal and broadly dispersed roots, enjoining residents across quarters through bonds of kinship and camaraderie that often transcended plantation boundaries. Broad cross-plantation neighborhoods encompassed mosaics of significant places suffused with notions of community and grounded in generational investments in labor and experience, places and ties that often retain value to present-day...