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Uneven Landscapes, Uneven Histories: Maroons in the American Historical Narrative (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Becca Peixotto. Mary Elizabeth Ibarrola.

Throughout most of the Atlantic world, Maroons play a critical role in local, regional, and even national histories. In contrast, marronage in colonial America and the early United States is largely absent from the American historical narrative. Thousands of Maroons lived in The Great Dismal Swamp, located in Virginia and North Carolina, from the late 17th century until Emancipation. And, Maroons played a critical role in slowing US expansionism in Florida, once known as a refuge for escaped...

An Unexpected Spark: The Seaport Shipwreck Shines a Light on Seaport History (2020)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Liz Neill.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Urban Archaeology: Down by the Water" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In May 2016, development and construction firm Skanska discovered a terrestrial shipwreck at 121 Seaport Boulevard in Boston. They convened an archaeological team (The Public Archaeology Laboratory, Inc., City Archaeology Program) at the site to excavate the shipwreck and a design team (Amaze Design, Copley Wolffe, Trivium Interactive) to...

Ungulate Bone Fat Exploitation at the Adoption of Horticulture in Western Iowa (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Meredith Wismer.

Fat in the form of bone marrow and/or grease is a valued resource among foragers, and is more frequently exploited during times of subsistence stress. Risk-reduction in the face of resource stress is one potential theory for why prehistoric people incorporated horticulture into existing hunting and gathering practices. During the Woodland period (2800-1350 BP), the tallgrass prairie region of western Iowa provided a rich environment where numerous prey species could be found, including bison and...

"Unidentified Planes Sighted": The Application of KOCOA Military Terrain Analysis to Aerial Combat (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madeline J. Roth. Jennifer F McKinnon.

KOCOA military terrain analysis is a tool used to interpret and analyze terrestrial, and more recently, naval battlescapes; however there has been little experimentation with the application of KOCOA to aerial combat. Renewed interest in the June 1942 attack on Midway atoll (coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the attack) presented researchers with an opportunity to expand KOCOA definitions to incorporate aerial combat into terrain analysis. The resulting terrain features were used to...

Uniform Buttons from the Site of CSS Georgia (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen E. Martindale. Kelsey Rooney.

The 2015 excavation of CSS Georgia yielded nearly 30 buttons spanning the time from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War. Uniform buttons played an important part of distinguishing between troops, duties, and rank in the military. Changes in design from year to year and manufacturer to manufacturer can inform researchers of the earliest date a button may have been used, where it was manufactured, and where the individual wearing it may have been located during his service. While sourced based...

Unintended Consequences of Digitalization in Archaeology: A Cautionary Tale (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Polk.

We are hurtling swiftly into the digital realm, finding faster and more complex ways to record and excavate sites, analyze data, and publish results. While most of this wave of increasing digitalization seems a good thing, all is never what it seems. In this paper, I explore some pitfalls of this ever speedier and efficient mode of archaeology. Most will recognize the oft described short lifespan of digital formats and the need to migrate data to new formats. But, it is highly unlikely that this...

The Unique Architecture of the Quarters for Enslaved African Americans at Belvoir (2020)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aaron M. Levinthal.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archaeology and Analysis of the Belvoir Quarter" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The square, ironstone and brick masonry quarter discovered at Belvoir is a unique form seldom constructed by Chesapeake planters, though it incorporated a plan considered by some, including Thomas Jefferson. Complete excavation provided information pertaining to the unusual architecture as well as to the use of interior and...

A Unique Trap Trigger (2014)

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Wescott. David Wescott.

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...

United States Air Force Air Combat Command and the Legacy of the Cold War: A Systematic Study of Air Combat Command Cold War Material Culture (1995)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Rachel Fernandez

This report contains the results of a study of material culture at 27 United States Air Force (USAF) Air Force bases (AFB) located throughout the contiguous United States and Panama. The study was designed to evaluate historic properties (real property, personal property, records, documents, and sites) that date to the Cold War era (1946-1989).

Unity in Diversity?: A Synthetic Approach to 21st-Century Historical Archaeology (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Audrey J Horning. Stephen Mrozowski.

This is an abstract from the "Exploring the Recent Past" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Over the past two decades, the practice of historical archaeology has expanded not only geographically, but also thematically and methodologically. In this paper, we first reflect on the different trajectories of growth in the discipline in North America and Europe, considering in particular the role of nationalism and identity politics, as well as...

A Universal Toy (2014)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Roy H Brown. David Wescott.

University of Illinois Projects. in Third Annual Report: American Bottom Archaeology (1964)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles J. Bareis.

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 National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R 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 at comments@tdar.org.

University of Illinois-Urbana, Fa1-270 Archaeological Mitigation Program, Annual Report of 1979 Investigations (Period: 1 January-31 December 1979) (1980)

DOCUMENT Citation Only James W. Porter.

University of Illinois’ 2008 Archaeology Field School web page (2008)