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Project metadata for resources within the 611th Air Support Group cultural heritage resources collection.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Raquel Fleskes. David Brown. Theodore Schurr.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pandemic Fieldwork: Doing Fieldwork During a Pandemic" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. DNA sampling from human remains is becoming a common practice in archeological studies, as genetic data provide important insights into ancestry and kinship in burial settings. To ensure the authenticity of ancient DNA results, contamination of human remains with DNA from living people must be minimized. Here, we describe...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth D. Meade.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Cities on the Move: Reflecting on Urban Archaeology in the 21st Century", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. While the presence of soil contamination is not unique to urban archaeological sites, the density of industrial and residential development in cities often results in the contamination of archaeologically sensitive soils. In New York City in recent years, archaeologists have excavated within Brownfield...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julia Brenan.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Hazardous contamination from human activity in the last century has burdened, and continues to recklessly burden Canada’s North and its inhabitants, particularly Indigenous peoples. The Federal Government of Canada recognizes approximately 22,000 contaminated or suspected-to-be contaminated sites within Canada; 1,600 of them are in Labrador. This project addresses the legacy of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Albert H. Banner. Judd C. Nevenzel. Webster R. Hudgins.

A study and historical account of the contamination at Wake Island Lagoon on June 20, 1965.