Building Materials (Material Keyword)

Materials used for construction (e.g., brick, wood, adobe)

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The Archaeology of Highland Chiriquí Panama: Holmberg FIG 47 - 2000-2005 excavation photo/Zoomorphic ceramic vessel (2005)
IMAGE Karen Holmberg.

Zoomorphic ceramic vessel found near the KOT-F grave


The Archaeology of Highland Chiriquí Panama: Holmberg FIG 48 - Map of the quarry locations quarry site 1 (2005)
IMAGE Karen Holmberg.

Map of the quarry locations for the basalt columns and dacite slabs in relation to the BE-16-KH KOT cemetery with least-cost paths (by slope).


The Archaeology of Highland Chiriquí Panama: Holmberg FIG 49 - Photo The basalt column quarry site 2 (2005)
IMAGE Karen Holmberg.

The basalt column quarry site  in Boquete, Panamá  


The Archaeology of Highland Chiriquí Panama: Holmberg FIG 5 - National Museum of the American Indian - Chiriquí Gold Artifact (Catalog Number: 034878.000) (2010)
IMAGE Karen Holmberg.

Chiriquí gold artifact. Courtesy, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution (Catalog Number: 034878.000)


The Archaeology of Highland Chiriquí Panama: Holmberg FIG 50 - Photo The basalt column quarry site 3 (2005)
IMAGE Karen Holmberg.

The basalt column quarry site  in Boquete, Panamá  Again, each to be numbered separately


The Archaeology of Highland Chiriquí Panama: Holmberg FIG 51 - Photo The basalt column quarry site 4 (2005)
IMAGE Karen Holmberg.

The basalt column quarry site  in Boquete, Panamá  Again, each to be numbered separately


The Archaeology of Highland Chiriquí Panama: Holmberg FIG 52 - The basalt column quarry site 4 (2005)
IMAGE Karen Holmberg.

Dacite slabs from burials re-used for washing dishes


The Archaeology of Highland Chiriquí Panama: Holmberg FIG 53 - Dacite slabs from burials reuse 1 (2005)
IMAGE Karen Holmberg.

Dacite slabs from burials re-used as paving stones for pathways


The Archaeology of Highland Chiriquí Panama: Holmberg FIG 54 - Dacite slabs from burials reuse 2 (2005)
IMAGE Karen Holmberg.

Dacite slabs from burials re-used as paving stones for pathways


The Archaeology of Highland Chiriquí Panama: Holmberg FIG 54 - Dacite slabs from burials reuse 3 (2005)
IMAGE Karen Holmberg.

Dacite slabs and basalt columns re-used to line stairs


The Archaeology of Highland Chiriquí Panama: Holmberg FIG 56 - Ngöbe woman with the Volcán (2010)
IMAGE Karen Holmberg.

Ngöbe woman with the Volcán Barú behind her; Photo courtesy of Howard Hill and taken during a seminar taught by K. Holmberg


The Archaeology of Highland Chiriquí Panama: Holmberg FIG 57 - Municipal seal of Boquete (2005)
IMAGE Karen Holmberg.

Municipal seal of Boquete, Panama showing the Volcan Baru in the upper left portion and pre-Columbian artifacts in the lower right; photo by K. Holmberg


The Archaeology of Highland Chiriquí Panama: Holmberg FIG 58 - Cave site near the Volcan Baru (2005)
IMAGE Karen Holmberg.

Cave site near the Volcan Baru in Boquete, Panama


The Archaeology of Highland Chiriquí Panama: Holmberg FIG 6 - National Museum of the American Indian - Chiriquí Gold Artifact (Catalog Number: 232150.000) (2010)
IMAGE Karen Holmberg.

Chiriquí gold artifact. Courtesy, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution (Catalog Number: 232150.000)


The Archaeology of Highland Chiriquí Panama: Holmberg FIG 7 - 1849 handbill/Ship Passage California Gold Rush (1849)
IMAGE Karen Holmberg.

An 1849 handbill from the California Gold Rush advertising ship passage between New York and California; Wikimedia Commons.


The Archaeology of Highland Chiriquí Panama: Holmberg FIG 8 - Map of Museums with Artifact Collections (2010)
IMAGE Karen Holmberg.

Map of Chiriquí in relation to some of the major museum collection locations


The Archaeology of Highland Chiriquí Panama: Holmberg FIG 9 - 1910 -1912 Letters Tiffany & Co. Dated to Walters Museum MD (1 of 4) (1910)
IMAGE Karen Holmberg.

Letter from Tiffany & Co. Dated Dec. 29th 1910. From WJF of Tiffany & Co. Letter was to Henry Walters, ESQ. The letter details what price Tiffany & Co. would sell "gold ornaments ... that were purchased from Indians that had been dug up from ancient graveyards" that were discovered in 1910. The graveyards were located in Panama and the boundary line of Costa Lion.


The Archaeology of Highland Chiriquí Panama: Homberg FIG 1 - 1640 Tierra Firma Map (1640)
IMAGE Karen Holmberg.

Tierra Firma map (1640). © the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota. From Laet, Joannes de. L’histoire du Nouveau Monde ou description des Indes Occidentales, contenant dix huit livres. Leyden, Bonaventure & Abrahm Elseuiers, 1640.


The Archaeology of Hittite Imperialism and Ceramic Production in Late Bronze Age IIA Tarsus-Gözlükule, Turkey (2014)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven Karacic.

The Late Bronze IIA (LB IIA) period signaled a change in the material culture of Tarsus-Gözlükule, an urban center in Cilicia, southern Turkey. Written sources and archaeological evidence indicate that the LB IIA coincided with the expansion of the Hittite Empire into the region. Previous scholarship has understood the changes in the archaeological record, particularly the introduction of a new type of pottery called Monochrome Ware (MW), as the result of imperial policies intended to...


Archaeology of Honey Springs, San Diego County (1980)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul G. Chace. Janet Hightower. David C. Burkenroad. Don Laylander. Rebecca McCorkle.

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.


An Archaeology of Institutional Confinement: the Hyde Park Barracks 1848-1886
PROJECT Tim Murray. Peter Davies.

This ARC Linkage project was conducted between 2008 and 2011 to extend the analysis of the extraordinary assemblage recovered from the Hyde Park Barracks building between 1980 and 1981. It followed the Exploring the Archaeology of the Modern City Project (2001-2004). The primary purpose of both projects was to undertake a rigorous analysis of the rich archaeological and historical archive related to the post-convict era of the Hyde Park Barracks, particularly the above-ground sub-floor deposits...


An Archaeology of Institutional Confinement: The Hyde Park Barracks, 1848–1886 (2013)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Davies. Penny Crook. Tim Murray.

The archaeological assemblage from the Hyde Park Barracks is one of the largest, most comprehensive and best preserved collections of artefacts from any 19th-century institution in the world.Concealed for up to 160 years in the cavities between floorboards and ceilings, the assemblage is a unique archaeological record of institutional confinement, especially of women. The underfloor assemblage dates to the period 1848-1886, during which a female Immigration Depot and a Government Assylum for...


The Archaeology of Joshua Tree National Park
PROJECT Uploaded by: Sophia Kelly

WACC reports that summarize archaeological survey and excavation in Joshua Tree National Park (formerly Joshua Tree National Monument).


The Archaeology of Kalaupapa National Historical Park
PROJECT Uploaded by: Joshua Watts

WACC reports of archaeological excavation and survey projects within Kalaupapa National Historical Park.


The Archaeology of Lewis-Weber Site
PROJECT Uploaded by: Sophia Kelly

This WACC report details the archaeological excavations conducted on the Lewis-Weber homestead.