Nevada (State / Territory) (Geographic Keyword)
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Rigging blocks are essential to the operation of a large sailing vessel, yet little has been published on these vital pieces of hardware. Recent research and analysis of the rigging and gun tackle blocks found in association with the Swedish royal warship, Vasa, lost in Stockholm Harbor in 1628,has made possible a detailed study of this specialized equipment, its typology, nomenclature, historical development, physical mechanics, and its application aboard 17th century square-rigged ships....
Essie May Campbell Lot, Case #'s N-5360 and N-3689: BLM 6-19 (N) (1975)
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Establishing Community: Post-Civil War Placemaking in Rural Tennessee (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Working on the 19th-Century" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the 1860s, African Americans sought to create separate physical spaces and cultural institutions of their own, specifically churches, cemeteries, and schools. Tennessee State Historian Dr. Carroll Van West has hypothesized that the nexus of these institutions, as well as fraternal lodges and businesses, was the basis for early African American community...
Establishing Cultural Affinity through Multiple Lines of Evidence (2018)
Repatriation and reburial efforts following the 2006-2008 excavation of the Alameda-Stone cemetery—a multiethnic, historical-period cemetery in downtown Tucson, Arizona—required a determination of cultural affinity for all human remains recovered from the civilian section. Goldstein played a key role in developing for the project a transparent and objective biocultural approach to determining cultural affinity that overcame problems encountered by previous projects in assessing cultural...
Establishing Lithic Site Profiles for Joshua Tree National Park (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Despite nearly a century of archaeological investigations in Joshua Tree National Park, a history of arbitrary and inconsistent nomenclature for lithic materials has precluded any sort of landscape-level assemblage comparisons. To address this, I have assembled a dense catalog of all visually-distinct lithic raw materials and their relative frequencies at...
Estate Bellevue: A Study of a Small-Scale Caribbean Cotton Plantation (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeologies of Enslavement" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper presents of findings from Estate Bellevue St. John, USVI, a small-scale cotton plantation. Cotton estates represent a distinct but understudied variant within the Caribbean plantation landscape. This study takes advantage of the well-preserved spatial layout at Estate Bellevue to explore details of life for both planter and the enslaved. This...
Estate Bellevue: Archaeology of an Eighteenth Century Cotton Estate, St. Jan, Danish West Indies (2016)
This study examines cotton in the Caribbean through the examination of Estate Bellevue. This site was an eighteenth century cotton plantation on St. Jan (St. John) in the former Danish West Indies. It examines a well preserved cotton plantation for which the ruins of the small mansion house, outbuildings, cotton magazine/storehouse, cotton ginning platform, agricultural terraces, and platforms of enslaved laborer houses all survive. Key elements of the site remain intact and artifacts...
"Etched in Bone": The Forensic Taphonomy of Undocumented Migration in the Sonoran Desert (2015)
Since 1998, the remains of over 2,500 undocumented migrants have been recovered along the Arizona-Mexico border. Many of these remains are unidentified due to the rapid rate of decomposition, the disarticulation and dispersal of skeletons by animals, and the tendency of many migrants to travel without identification. In this paper we examine the nexus of taphonomic and political processes and actors that influence the decomposition, recovery, and identification of migrant bodies as well as...
The Ethics and Practice of Forensic Archaeology, Unfunded Mandates, and the Unidentified (2018)
In 2001, California passed SB 297, which mandated that coroners "shall collect samples for DNA testing from the remains of all unidentified persons and shall send those samples to the Department of Justice for DNA testing and inclusion in the DNA data bank." This legislation, which was largely unfunded by the state, expanded existing DNA testing programs to include remains from cold cases that were being stored by state agencies and remains that had been interred in cemeteries throughout the...
Ethics In A Small Town: Columbia Street Cemetery Project In Springfield, Ohio (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In Springfield, Ohio, the Columbia Street Cemetery (CSC) Project is a joint initiative by the Turner Foundation, concerned citizens of Springfield, and Wittenberg University’s History and Archaeology programs. The aim of the project is to document and study the city’s oldest cemetery, which dates to the 1820s. The cemetery sits at the center of the city’s downtown, which is part of...
Ethics Issues Brought About By the California Environmental Quality Act (1990)
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The Ethics of Archaeological Work in a Historical Cemetery (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Is it the responsibility of the archaeologist to explain ethical issues of working in a historic cemetery to those who contract them? Should the focus of the project shift to strictly above ground survey and beautification to commemorate those lives buried there? Is it better to leave the headstones, lost to time, underground until a solid plan is set in place for the revitalization...
The Ethics of Macaw Keeping in the Prehistoric Southwest and Northwest Mexico (2023)
This is an abstract from the "If Animals Could Speak: Negotiating Relational Dynamics between Humans and Animals" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper considers the ethical components of prehistoric macaw husbandry practices in the cultural areas of the US Southwest and Northern Mexico. Within many traditional Native American cosmological schemes, humans and animals occupy a shared social world with reciprocal responsibilities toward one...
Ethiopia and the Politics of Representation in Local, National, and Privately-funded Museums (2017)
The Wolaita people are a minority cultural group within southern Ethiopia. In 1896 Emperor Menelik of Abyssinia engaged in one of his bloodiest campaigns to unseat King Tona and absorb the land and people under the aegis of the Abyssinian Empire. Since then, the Wolaita and other southern groups have been ascribed relatively marginal status in larger representations of Ethiopian identity. In 1994, however, the Ethiopian government began to actively facilitate the development of cultural museums...
Ethnic Chinese at Central Pacific Railroad Maintenance Camps (2015)
The Central Pacific Railroad was completed in May 1869 due, in large part, to the work of thousands of ethnic Chinese railroad workers. After the railroad was complete, it was necessary to upgrade the railroad and carry out maintenance on the far flung transportation network. Railroad documents, previous excavations of ethnic Chinese worker camps in Nevada and recently recorded camps near Promontory Summit, Utah, show that Chinese workers continued to be employed for decades after 1869. It is...
Ethnic Identity And The San Francisco Bay Waterfront During The Mid To Late 19th Century (2015)
The recent archaeological excavations along the former San Francisco waterfront have provided important insights into the cultural and ethnic identity of waterfront residents and maritime workers in 19th-century San Francisco. Excavations from 201 Folsom Street, 300 Spear Street, and relating to the Transbay Terminal (Block 6) have provided archaeological evidence that can be connected with residents involved in a variety of occupations related to maritime commerce. Historical documents,...
Ethnic Markers and Comparative Approaches to the Asian Diaspora (2017)
Direct comparisons between Chinese and non-Chinese sites go back decades. However, most current Asian diaspora archaeology focuses on single-household or single-community case studies, with comparative work limited to using ethnically-linked artifacts to explore patterns of cultural persistence and change or present evidence for interethnic interaction with neighboring communities. Here, I argue that we need to spend more time conducting direct and detailed comparisons between households and...
The ethno-archaeology of Hopi pottery making (1969)
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An Ethnoarchaeological Survey of West Pahute Mesa, Nevada Test and Training Range (2002)
The results of this survey is the first attempt to create such a model which attempts to empirically identify, measure, analyze, and then interpret the cultural resources discovered within a portion of the south-central Great Basin region. This survey will be undertaken within an ethnoarchaeological approach.
Ethnoarchaeology and Acculturation in Grass Valley (1978)
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Ethnoarchaeology of Hopi and Hopi-Tewa pottery-making: styles of learning (1977)
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The Ethnoarchaeology of Pai milling stones (1983)
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Ethnoarchaeology, Experimental Archaeology, and the "American School" (2009)
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Ethnobotanical Report Sheet (1959)
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ETHNOBOTANICAL TRACES AND DOMESTIC SPACES: INVESTIGATIONS OF A CONTACT-ERA FARMSTEAD IN THE COLONIAL SOUTHEAST. (2013)
The Daniel Island site is a small-scale, multi-component settlement located northwest of Charleston, South Carolina. The contact-era occupation at Daniel Island consists of an Ashley phase farmstead with historical references tying the land to the Etiwan Indians. Cultural resource investigations indicated the presence of early Ashley phase (A.D. 1590-1620) and Late Ashley phase (A.D. 1620-1670) occupations ending prior to the founding of nearby Charles Towne in 1670. I investigate the absorption...