resource extraction (Other Keyword)

1-3 (3 Records)

Preserving the Peripheries and Excavating at the Edges: An Examination of the Drinking Spaces at Two Protected Frontier Sites (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan Victor.

Frontier spaces are busy, dynamic zones of meeting, and change, yet often in the realm of research and preservation, these locales are given peripheral attention in favor of more well-established metropoles. I examine two sites: Smuttynose Island, in the Isles of Shoals, Maine, and Highland City, Montana. Thanks to the efforts of the Smuttynose Island Steward Program and the United States Forest Service (especially the Passport in Time Program), these two frontier resource-extraction communities...


Rafts on the East Branch: An Archaeology of Industry Along the Delaware River (2022)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jordon D Loucks.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper presents an exploration of the industrial and manufacturing history of the East Branch of the Delaware River. Industries that were common in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries along the Delaware include lumber camps, tanneries, mills, furniture factories, and other forest based and agricultural...


Transforming Ideologies and Hopes of the Past in the Purari Delta of Papua New Guinea (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Joshua Bell.

In the wake of several decades of resource extraction (logging and oil/gas exploration), the past as articulated in particular places, material things, names and narratives has taken on new urgency in the Purari Delta. For over a decade communities have struggled to marshal these assemblages of cultural heritage to demonstrate their traditional ownership to acquire resource royalties. An imperfect and highly political process, claimants must overcome the legacies of out-migration, Christianity,...