Landscape History (Other Keyword)
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The Center for Cultural and Environmental History (CCEH) at the University of Massachusetts Boston conducted a Phase I Reconnaissance Survey of Nathan Tufts Park (also known as Powder House Park) in Somerville, Massachusetts. With no previous surveys conducted in the area, the reconnaissance survey of 65,000 square feet around the Old Powder House was directly linked to planned renovations to both the structure and the surrounding grounds. Nathan Tufts Park derives its primary significance...
Designs on Birmingham: a Landscape History of a Southern City and Its Suburbs (1989)
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Exploring the Indigenous Roots of the Canary Islands’ Sugar Industry (Gran Canaria and Tenerife, Spain, 15th-16th Centuries) (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "In Small Islands Forgotten: Insular Historical Archaeologies of a Globalizing World", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Canary Islands were the first European colony in the Atlantic that had an Indigenous population. The colonial written records show that the Indigenous inhabitants of the archipelago built large hydraulic systems to irrigate their farming areas. However, it is still unclear whether and how...