Historic Background Research (Investigation Type)

These are investigations of the past using written records and other documents. Evidence from the records are compared, judged for veracity, placed in chronological or topical sequence, and interpreted in light of preceding, contemporary, and subsequent events.

951-975 (6,904 Records)

As I Remember Piney (1979)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Estella W. Szegedin.

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Asher and Adam's Arkansas and Portion of Indian Territory (1870)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Asher and Adams.

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Asher and Adam's Arkansas and Portions of Indian Territory (1872)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Asher and Adams.

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The Ashforth (1906)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Various.

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Asiatic Echoes - The Identification of Ancient Chinese Pictograms in pre-Columbian North American Rock Writing, 3rd edition 2021 (2021)
DOCUMENT Full-Text John Ruskamp.

This book introduces previously unrecognized ancient written evidence that in pre-Columbian times multiple intellectual exchanges took place between Asiatic and North American populations. Using the novel integration of the legal concept of substantial similarity with the comparative statistical tool of Jaccard's Index of Similarity the Chinese origin of 107+ North American petroglyphs and pictographs is established. Here is the long sought sinographic proof that Asiatic explorers not only...


Assessment and Evaluation of Cultural Resources at XBP-00002, Oliktok Point Long Range Radar Station, Alaska (2014)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Burr Neely. Jason S. Rogers. Roberta Gordaoff.

This report presents the results of mapping and condition assessment updates of cultural resources at site XBP-00002, with a specific request for evaluation of two standing buildings, at the Oliktok Point Long Range Radar Site (LRRS), Alaska, on behalf of the United States Air Force, 611th Civil Engineer Squadron (USAF 611 CES). XBP-00002 consists of two standing frame buildings (cabins), and a cemetery with up to 13 burials marked with crosses or wooden sticks. As part of this project, new...


An Assessment of Archaeological Preservation in Baltimore City (1996)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Janel Bisacquino. Louise Akerson.

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Assessment of Architectural / Historical Resources and Phase IA Archaeological Assessment, Proposed MARC Penn-Camden Connection, Baltimore City, Maryland (1997)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Henry Ward. Margaret Slater.

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Assessment of Structure for National Register Eligibility: 9 Barley Mill Road, Wilmington, DE (1990)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kise Franks & Straw Historic Preservation Group.

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Assessment of the Archeological and Historical Resources of the Bayou Loco Reservoir Area, Nacogdoches County, Texas (1972)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Elton R. Prewitt. Others.

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Assessment of the Archeological and Historical Resources To Be Affected By the Proposed Chiltipin Creek Flood Control Project San Patricio County, Texas
DOCUMENT Citation Only Vance T. Holliday. K. A. Grombacher.

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Assessment of the Cultural and Historical Impact of the Projected Sewerline for City of Provencial, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana (1980)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Hiram F. Gregory. Others.

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Assessment-Level Archaeological Investigation, Riviera @ Windsor, Block 6, Lots 1 and 5 (2001)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul J. McEachen.

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Association for Anthropology in Micronesia (1973)
DOCUMENT Citation Only W.H. Alkire. J. Jerome Smith.

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Asticou's Island Domain: Wabanaki Peoples at Mount Desert Island 1500-2000 (2007)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Harald E. L. Prins. Bunny McBride.

This historical-ethnographic overview of Acadia National Park spans almost 500 years and covers a wide coastal stretch between Penobscot and Gouldsboro Bays – and sometimes much beyond. Such breadth of coverage is necessary in order to take in the park’s center piece on Mount Desert Island, plus Isle au Haut and Schoodic Peninsula, along with various land holding arrangements (including easements) on numerous offshore sea-islands in this area. The study explores the shifting but ongoing...


Astronomical correspondence (1971)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Paul Shumacher. Roland Richert.

These documents are a series of letters regarding research on the astronomical features in the Great House at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. It also includes an invoice and billing information for the services provided by John Malloy for a 1971 report concerning the astronomical features. Outlined are details of equipment needed and labor required to complete proposed research on astronomical features in the Great House.


At Rest: The Excavation of Ten Graves within the Pima Tribe No. 10, Improved Order of Red Men Plot within the Court Street Cemetery, Tucson, Pima County, Arizona (2015)
DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Homer Thiel. Jeremy W. Pye. James T. Watson.

The Salvation Army constructed a new Hospitality House in 2014-2015. As part of the project, The Salvation Army traded a piece of land to the City of Tucson in exchange for a portion. This land contained the eastern cluster of graves from the Pima Tribe No. 10, Improved Order of Red Men plot, part of the larger Court Street Cemetery, in use from 1875-1909, and subsequently redeveloped for housing and business. The Court Street Cemetery has been assigned Arizona State Museum site number AZ...


At the Edge of the Precipice: Frontier Ventures, Jamestown's Hinterlands, and the Archaeology of 44JC802 (2000)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Seth Mallios.

From 1996-98, archaeologists under the direction of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities’ (APVA) Jamestown Rediscovery project excavated site 44JC802. In the summer of 1996, APVA staff members instructed and supervised work at the site by 13 field-school students enrolled in a University of Virginia (UVa) archaeological field school. A full-time crew of excavators continued digging from November 1997 to August 1998. Field school students, again affiliated with a UVa...


At the River's Edge: Two-Hundred-Fifty Years of Albany History: Data Retrieval, SUCF Parking Structure, Maiden Lane, Albany, NY. (2002)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc..

Report of Phase III data retrieval at the SUCF 600 historic archaeological site, including subconsultant reports and artifact inventory. The report is broken up into chapters pertaining to particular elements of the block-wide site.


The Athenaeum (1956)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Various.

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Atlantic County Jail, Mays Landing, New Jersey, Historic Structures Report (2000)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Sheila Koehler.

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Atlas of Missouri (1970)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Milton D. Rafferty. Russel L. Gerlach.

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An Atlas of Rare Lost and Forgotten Physical Signs (2009)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Fred White.

A field manual of disease signs for archaeologists working with human remains and medical anthropologists and clinicians working with indigenous cultures. Compiled over twenty years of forensic investigation at some of the world’s most sensitive archaeological sites in Asia - including Russia, China, India and Turkey, the Middle East, North and Sub-Sahara Africa, England, Scotland, Ireland, Twelve additional countries in Europe, North and Central America, and South America including the Amazon...


Atlas of Texas (1976)
DOCUMENT Citation Only S. A. Arbingast. Others.

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"att Pig Pointe Upon Mount Colverte": a Phase I Archaeological Survey of Mount Calvert (18PR6) (1999)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael T. Lucas.

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