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DOCUMENT Citation Only Russell K. Skowronek. Rolando Garza.

In 2015 the "Rio Grande Valley Civil War Trail" (www.utpa.edu/civilwar-trail ) opened in South Texas. Spearheaded by the Community Historical Archaeology Project with Schools (CHAPS) Program of the University of Texas- Rio Grande Valley with federal, state and local partners it is the only trail in Texas dedicated to the era of the American Civil War.  The trail connects Brownsville on the Gulf of Mexico with Laredo some 200 miles up the Rio Grande.  It includes battlefields, forts, and historic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David L. Weide. James P. Barker. Harry W. Lawton. Margaret L. Weide.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Margaret L. Weide. James P. Barker. Harry W. Lawton. David L. Welde. Staff of Imperial Valley College Museum.

The Yuha inventory area as defined by the Bureau of Land Management includes two subareas. To the north it is dominated by San Felipe Creek draining out of the Lower Borrego Valley into the Salton Sink. The broad San Felipe drainage is flanked on the north by the San Felipe Hills, and on the south by the Fish Creek Mountains, the Superstition Hills and Superstition Mountain. The southern portion centers on Yuha Wash and the Yuha Basin, but includes the Coyote Mountains and the southeastern...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew DeFreese.

 The Camino Real de Tierra Adentro was a trail connecting Mexico City with New Mexico from 1598 until the early 20th century. This period reflects significant trail alteration in response to transportation change from carreta carts, stagecoaches, wagons, and automobiles plus localized weather conditions during travel. These shifts caused travelers to create alternate trail segments, leaving the Camino Real a series of trail segments, not a single path. As it travels through the Jornada del...

DOCUMENT Citation Only douglas shaver.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Roads, Rivers, Rails and Trails (and more): The Archaeology of Linear Historic Properties" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Douglas Shaver, MS, RPA (Burns & McDonnell) CRM and the Significance of Identifying and Mapping Historic Extant Trail Remnants: A Study in Mapping the Santa Fe Trail through the State of Kansas Utilizing Available LiDAR Data and GIS Mapping. A key early role in any CRM project is the...

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Project metadata for resources within the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson cultural heritage resources collection. This project is used to fill metadata for all resources part of the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson collection.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jenny H Blanchard.

This is an abstract from the "Reflections, Practice, and Ethics in Historical Archaeology" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Long linear resources like National Historic Trails are a challenge in terms of assessing and mitigating effects under Section 106. NHTs present an additional challenge in terms of the common disparity between the congressionally designated corridor and the physical cultural resources on the ground. This paper discusses...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark I Beattie-Edwards.

In 2012 in the United Kingdom there were 61 wreck sites protected under the Protection of Wrecks Act (1973). These wrecks are identified as being the most important historical and archaeological wrecks in UK territorial waters.  Since 2005 the NAS has worked to not only facilitate access to these heritage assets but to also contribute to the research aims of the volunteer custodians. This paper will highlight the opportunity that a diver trail on the Norman’s Bay wreck launched in 2011, offers...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Daniel E. Stone.

In 2006, the Native Village of Eklutana, a federally recognized Tribe, acquired a National Park Service Historical Preservation Grant to seek out those physical landscapes along the periphery of Nuti (Knife Arm), from Point Woronzof up to the Knik River and back down to Point Mackenzie, that have a Dena'ina name. If it has a Dena'ina name the Dena'ina were there and used that land. Secondly, landscapes having a high potential for Dena'ina cultural resources would be investigated. Well over 100...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mallory L Moran.

The indigenous people of northeastern North America utilized the river systems of the continent to form an extensive network of travel and communication. While the riverine system offered the opportunity for local and long-distance connections between communities, the environmental dynamics of the system presented challenges for travelers. The directionality of water flow patterns, coupled with seasonal variations in flow magnitude and water temperature, meant that the difficulty of travel...