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Four field seasons of excavations by the University of Iowa field school have recovered hundreds of ceramic pottery sherds from the Woodpecker Cave site. Previous typological analyses of the ceramic assemblage have supported the hypothesis that the site was host to long-term seasonal occupations spanning hundreds of years. Woodpecker Cave provides a unique opportunity to study variation in technologies used during ceramic production in eastern Iowa, spanning the Middle Woodland and Late Woodland...
Cufflinks, Quarters, and Consumption: An Examination of Adolescent Burials at Dubuque’s Third Street Cemetery (2018)
From 1833 to 1880, members of St. Raphael’s Cathedral, a largely Irish parish in Dubuque, Iowa, interred their dead in the Third Street Cemetery. After the Catholic burial ground fell out of use, the graves were forgotten. The cemetery was inadvertently disturbed by construction in the 1940s, 1970s, and 1990s, and most of the remaining graves were excavated by the Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist between 2007 and 2011. During this fieldwork, unique features were noted in several adolescent...
Finding the Past in the Paste: Variance in Woodland Ceramics at Woodpecker Cave (13JH202) (2017)
Five field seasons of excavations by the University of Iowa field school have recovered hundreds of ceramic pottery sherds from the Woodpecker Cave site. Previous typological analysis of the ceramic assemblage has supported the hypothesis of a multicomponent site that was host to seasonal occupations spanning hundreds of years. Woodpecker Cave provides a unique opportunity to study variation in ceramic technology within Midwestern cooking vessels across the Middle Woodland and Late Woodland...
Garden produce, mass market goods, and other plant remains from four features at an urban, residential site in Iowa City, 1830-1940 (2017)
Features identified at The Voxman School of Music Site (13JH1436) were investigated by archaeologists in association with construction of a new building on the University of Iowa campus in downtown Iowa City. Historical documents and artifacts indicate residents of the urban site were comparatively affluent people. Two privy features produced abundant seeds of familiar fruits such as blackberry, strawberry, grape, elderberry, gooseberry, tomato, bell or hot pepper, and eggplant. Also present...
PHYTOLITH AND STARCH ANALYSIS OF RESIDUE FROM AN EARLY WOODLAND CERAMIC SHERD, 13WP306, IOWA (2002)
Charred organic residue from a ceramic rim sherd from an Early Woodland habitation site (13WP306) in south central Iowa was examined for phytoliths and starches in an effort to recover evidence of foods cooked in the ceramic vessel.
US Army National Guard Cultural Resources Planning Level Survey - South Dakota (1998)
In September 1997, St. Louis District personnel visited the South Dakota Army National Guard (SDARNG) Headquarters and the South Dakota Archaeological Research Center in Rapid City to research archaeological and historic buildings survey work conducted on National Guard facilities in the state. This document reports the history of cultural investigations on federally owned or federally supported SDARNG facilities, lists archaeological sites and historic buildings recorded within facility...