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This is an abstract from the "From Iliniwek to Ste Genevieve: Early Commerce along the Mississippi" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Despite being in conflict with England during the late 1700s and early 1800s, French/Spainish Colonial site and early American sites reflect the improtance of English goods on the local economies. But these goods were not accepted wholesale, but altered to fit life on the frontier.
Evidence of Moieties in the Prehistoric Southwest? The Case Study of Sapa'owingeh (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Meaning is assigned to spaces by the individuals who inhabit them. Individuals give spaces meaning many different ways, including through the placement of objects. This poster focuses on the use of kivas and rooms at an ancestral Tewa site in the Southwestern United States. Using ethno-historical data and zooarchaeological techniques to explore and better...
Evidence of Painted Mimbres Ceramic Production Patterns in the Sapillo Valley from the Analysis of Lake Roberts Vista Site Painted Sherd Collection (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Ceramics and Archaeological Sciences 2024" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation discusses the findings of a project investigating ceramic production in a hinterland of the Mimbres region, from a diachronic view across painted ware types. The Sapillo Creek Valley is a volcanic upland in southwestern New Mexico between the Mimbres and Gila River Valley culture-centers. The painted pottery recovered in 1995...
Evidence of Perimortem Trauma and Taphonomic Damage in a WWI Soldier from Romania (2016)
The remains of a World War I soldier recovered at the Comana Monastery in southern Romania provide a case study emphasizing how careful documentation of the archaeological context and effective communication between archaeologists and forensic anthropologists improve the accuracy of distinguishing perimortem trauma from postmortem taphonomic damage. Killed in battle, this soldier’s skeleton presented evidence of sharp force trauma, blast fractures, and postmortem damage from a mass burial and...
Evidence of Things Not Seen: The Archaeological Investigation of Abandoned and Redeveloped Cemeteries in New York City (2018)
In New York, where developable land is scarce and the pace of development can be overwhelming, the social and cultural meanings of space and place can quickly change as properties change hands. Throughout New York’s history, many cemeteries and burial grounds have been redeveloped, often without the removal of graves. Human remains associated with historic cemeteries are present beneath the city’s parks and parking lots, and in the backyards and below the basements of buildings large and small....
The evolution from fortified to country house in Ireland (2013)
The paper summarizes the new architecture in three areas of Ireland during the early seventeenth century: the Ulster plantation, the Midland plantations, and the large areas outside of the plantations. A new but a distinct architecture of semi-fortified plantation houses emerged in this period. These houses sometimes had mannerist classical details of entrances, but usually no overall classical design. However, increasingly, the major plantation houses were set in impressive symmetrical...
The Evolution Of African American Settlement On A Georgia Plantation (2015)
Investigations of an African American slave and freedpeople settlement near Savannah, Georgia revealed the sequence of its internal organization between its establishment as a plantation slave quarter in the 1820s and its abandonment at the end of the century. Reconstruction of the quarter's layout suggested that at the time of its establishment, houses were arranged in an informal cluster according to principles the slaves established. Later in the antebellum period, the quarter took on a...
The Evolution of Public Interpretation: Instagram, Promotion, and the Passive Narrative (2018)
Following the rise of digital media in photography, the average historic site visitor has more ability than ever to influence the presented narrative of a particular place. While the "expert" interpretation is still a predominant method, the volume and availability of amateur or community user impressions provides a consistent program for engaging these viewpoints in the interpretation. Many archaeological sites have moved to somewhat control this narrative, providing Instagram accounts or...
Evolution of the Revolutionary City (Colonial Williamsburg): A Programme of Theatre as a Valuable Tool for Interpretation (2008)
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Evolutionary Change in Household Architecture, Settlement Patterns, and Subsistence Technology: A 4000 Year-Long Record from the Middle Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico (2018)
Evolution in domestic architecture, settlement patterns, and subsistence technology can be revealed by long-term stability followed by rapid change. Research in the middle Rio Grande valley of New Mexico documents a 4,000-year long record from 3000 BC to AD 900. Archaic period structures, dated 3000 BC to about AD 250, display little change in form, size, and construction details. Settlement pattern changes appear with the first midden deposits and increased numbers of dwellings with associated...
The Evolutionary Development of Technology in Archaeology: An Open Discussion (2018)
Technology has driven the innovative growth and progress in many different industries over time. From agriculture to space exploration, technology has been driven towards answering questions that need to be answered. Technology in Archaeology is no different than other fields, however its growth is contingent on other innovative use of theory and practice using new tools in fields that have the funding for innovation, and the need for expedited answers. Through examining how technology has...
Evolutions: Reflections of Cultural and Social Change at a Lighthouse Community. (2017)
The story of the life of the Currituck Beach Light Station. This story is based on a sequence of events uncovered by historic and archaeological research. This project gathered historic and archaeological data in order to illuminate potential relationships between economic and social investment in lighthouse complexes, and enhance our understanding of the multitude of factors that drive the establishment and development of lighthouse communities. The community surrounding the Currituck Beach...
Evolving engagement: Finding a home for non-profit public archaeology in western North Carolina (2018)
The Exploring Joara Foundation, Inc. (EJF) was conceived as an outreach and fundraising non-profit arm of the Berry Site excavations. Very quickly, the board-led decision was made to expand and diversify outreach efforts. As EJF reaches its ten year anniversary, the organization is reassessing its current and future impact on the surrounding region. This paper will discuss the recent efforts to create archaeology content with measurable outcomes using education non-profit best practices to reach...
Evolving Hohokam Irrigation Strategies at La Plaza: A Multidisciplinary Approach (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Hohokam irrigation canals were first excavated in the lower Salt River Valley in the early Pioneer Period (A.D. 1-700), possibly as early as A.D. 200 at Las Acequias in east Tempe. In the area, substantial expansion occurred in the Sedentary Period (A.D. 900-1150) and continued into the Classic Period (A.D. 1150-1450). During this time, Canal Tempe was a...
Evolving Native American Participation in the Excavation and Interpretation of a Tutelo Site in Ithaca, New York (2018)
In the 1990s, Cornell University students partnered with community members when service-learning courses were a fairly new concept for archaeological education. Native students participated in the excavation to locate a neutral Tutelo village that was destroyed in 1779 in a punitive military expedition by American forces. The Cornell team also worked in partnership with local farmers, property owners, developers, and town officials in Ithaca, New York. The site was open to the public and tours...
Evolving Partnerships for Underwater Aircraft Research and Survey (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Strides Towards Standard Methodologies in Aeronautical Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Project Recover (PR) is a private non-profit dedicated to helping the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) in their mission to locate, document, identify, and repatriate missing US servicemen remains from overseas. A PR team, under contract with DPAA, conducted dive and remote sensing surveys to locate...
Evolving Tools for Public Maritime Archaeology: From Photoshop to Photogrammetry in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (2018)
Since the establishment of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS) Historic Shipwreck Trail (HST), Indiana University (IU) and NOAA have partnered on periodic site assessments to support management and outreach concerning these cultural and associated biological resources. Over the years evolving technologies have brought new techniques from line-drawn site plans to Photoshop to the advent of Computer Vision Photogrammetry as a tool for comprehensive 3D recording. Accordingly, the...
EXAMINATION OF BULK SEDIMENT SAMPLES, MICROCHARCOAL EXTRACTION, AND AMS RADIOCARBON ANALYSIS OF ALLUVIUM FROM PALEOSEISMIC TRENCHES AT PAHRUMP, NEVADA (2010)
A total of six sediment samples were collected at the interface between a distal alluvial fan and playa surface in paleoseismic trenches at Pahrump, Nevada. These samples were examined for the presence of charred organic material suitable for AMS radiocarbon dating. In the absence of larger-sized charred remains, five the samples were extracted to recover microscopic charcoal/particulate soil organics for dating. One of these samples did not yield sufficient particulate soil organics; therefore,...
EXAMINATION OF BULK SOIL/DETRITAL CHARCOAL FROM LAHONTAN DAM, NEVADA (2015)
Six bulk soil samples and nine detrital charcoal samples from site locations CR4, CR5, CR6, and CR7 along the Carson River, in the lower Carson River Basin, Nevada were analyzed to recover organic fragments suitable for radiocarbon age determination. These samples were recovered from stream deposits near the Lahontan Dam and Reservoir (Jeanne Godaire, personal communication September 1, 2015). Botanic components and detrital charcoal were identified, and potentially radiocarbon datable material...
An Examination of Enslaved African Domestic and Labor Environments on St. Eustatius (2018)
The discovery of dry stone rock features in the northern hills on the Dutch island of St. Eustatius presented a unique opportunity to investigate an enslaved African environment during the time of enslavement. Abandoned after emancipation, the intact nature of the sites held potential to add significantly to our understanding of choices enslaved Africans made in slave village design, orientation, and the construction of their dwellings, as well as the labor activities of daily life. Research for...
EXAMINATION OF FIVE PIECES OF GROUNDSTONE FROM LANDER CDUNTY, CENTRAL NEVADA, FOR POLLEN, PHYTOLITHS, STARCH GRANULES, AND BLOOD RESIDUE TO INTERPRET SUBSISTENCE ACTIVITIES (1993)
Five pieces of groundstone were evaluated to assess the potential for further studies of this material to provide subsistence information. Ground stone was recovered from three sites in Lander County, central Nevada. Pollen, phytolith, starch granules, and blood residue were examined from these pieces of groundstone to assess the potential for further analysis of groundstone artifacts from sites in this vicinity. This study addresses specific recovery of these remains from the five pieces of...
An Examination of Limited Variability and High Frequency Repetition in Large Faunal Deposits at the National Constitution Site (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Excavations at the National Constitution Center site, Philadelphia PA, uncovered features containing large concentrations of faunal remains. Documentation indicates one or two lots were associated with African American households. James Orono Dexter, a former slave who inherited a financial legacy, occupied one lot. Another lot may be associated with an African American household....
EXAMINATION OF ORGANIC MATERIAL FROM MULTIPLE BLACK MAT DEPOSITS IN THE UPPER LAS VEGAS WASH, NEVADA (2010)
A total of seven bulk samples of organic material from black mat deposits in the Upper Las Vegas Wash, Nevada, were floated to recover organic fragments suitable for radiocarbon analysis. The black mat deposits are associated with late Pleistocene paleo-spring sediments. Botanic components and detrital charcoal were identified, and potentially radiocarbon datable material was separated. A single charcoal sample also was submitted for identification.
An Examination Of Sanitation And Hygiene Habit Artifacts Found aboard Vasa: Health, Sanitation, and Life At Sea In Seventeenth-Century Sweden (2016)
Vasa was a 64-gun Swedish warship in the service of King Gustav II Adolf . The vessel sank on its maiden voyage in 1628, taking at least 16 of the approximately 150 persons on board to the depths of Stockholm Harbor (Vasamuseet 2013; Vasa I 2006:36-55). Amongst the cannon, figureheads, and skeletons are a collection of artifacts that can tell us how the crew lived, not just while aboard Vasa, but also ashore. These artifacts include chamber pots, glass bottles, and other assorted health and...
An examination of the Browns Bench ignimbrite from the perspective of an archaeologist (2017)
Archaeologists have chemically distinguished the vitreous stone of the Rogerson Formation of southern Idaho, northeast Nevada, and northwest Utah as the Browns Bench Toolstone Source. Recent geologic research into the Rogerson Formation reveals that the deposits are much more variable than archaeologists recognize. Multiple potential toolstone beds with unique properties are present within the formation. This material is referred to as ignimbrite by geologists though some of it has the visual...