Cultural Heritage and Preservation (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Shaum. Neil Dixon. Katharine Williams.

This is an abstract from the "The Vanishing Treasures Program: Celebrating 20 Years of National Park Service Historic Preservation" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Great House at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument is a monumental 11 room, three/four story structure made of puddled mud "caliche" that has been called "the pinnacle of Hohokam architectural achievement" and is significant for its high degree of preservation. The building is home...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Worthy Martin. Carrie Heitman. Paul F. Reed.

Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Salmon Pueblo Archaeological Research Collection (SPARC) Project was initiated in 2015 by the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia, Salmon Ruins Museum, and Archaeology Southwest. The primary goal of the SPARC Project is creation of an online digital archive of materials from excavations at Salmon Pueblo...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benji Chavarria. Danny Naranjo. Jesse Gutierrez. Isaac Gutierrez.

This is an abstract from the "The Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project: A Multivocal Analysis of the San Juan Basin as a Cultural Landscape" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Santa Clara Pueblo people are indelibly tied to the land, animals, air, and waters of the American Southwest. Since the formation of Santa Clara Pueblo’s Right’s Protection office a few decades ago, and more recently their Tribal Historic Preservation Office in 2014, their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. Joseph.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology as a Public Good: Why Studying Archaeology Creates Good Careers and Good Citizens" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Opening with an introduction to a fictional (as of this writing) federal agency seeking to mine the public value of our nation’s archaeological legacy, this presentation pivots to a consideration of the origins of precontact versus historical archaeology and our subfield’s interactions with the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Logan Kistler. Saiful Islam. Mark Nesbitt. Roselyn Ware. Robin Allaby.

Bengal cotton muslin, a particularly fine type of woven cotton fabric, had legendary status where it was traditionally produced in East Bengal—now Bangladesh—for at least 2000 years. During the colonial influence of the British Empire, muslin was widely traded outside of South Asia, and became a valuable global commodity with major impacts on both local producers and foreign markets. Political turmoil and market forces, especially pressure from the East Indian Company, completely halted muslin...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles McLeod.

This is an abstract from the "Public Lands, Public Sites: Research, Engagement, and Collaboration" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1979 the Lolo National Forest purchased 320 acres in the Upper Rock Creek drainage, Granite County, Western Montana. The 320 acres incorporated two patented homestead claims (Hogback Homestead and Morgan-Case Homestead), both with standing architecture. In 1990 the Missoula Ranger District began rehabilitation of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Grant Wilson. Burchell Hayes. Terry Hayes. Jordan Ralph.

This is an abstract from the "Juukan Gorge: The Story of Destruction, Excavation and Rebuilding" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Following the destruction of Juukan Gorge, the PKKP Aboriginal Corporation led the Juukan Gorge Remediation Project, which saw the rehabilitation of the broader Juukan Gorge area within line of site from the Juukan-2 rockshelter. This paper is an exploration of those rehabilitation efforts, which includes the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bonnie Clark. April Kamp-Whittaker. Steven Sharpe. Greg Kitajima.

This is an abstract from the "Entangled Legacies: Human, Forest, and Tree Dynamics" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Trees—whether planted, pruned, or left to grow in their natural setting—can provide detailed evidence about intention, expertise, and aesthetics of the people who planted or lived among them. This paper overviews the methodologies employed and research findings of scholars studying the trees of Amache, Colorado’s WWII-era Japanese...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelly Morgan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The complex set of interrelated stone circles on the northern Great Plains and where literally hundreds of thousands of stone circles exist as marks on the ground left by those who came before us and our direct ancestors are a trifecta of multi-component, multi-generational, multi-nation site complexes. These stone circles arise in singular patterns and large...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Vanessa Sullivan.

GIS has become a widely utilized tool for analyzing archaeological sensitivity. The state of Rhode Island has more documented shipwrecks per square mile than any other, making it an ideal place to develop an archaeological sensitivity model for submerged sites. In 2008, the Beavertail Lighthouse Museum Association started compiling a shipwreck database. The Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission has incorporated the database findings, documented submerged archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Larry Baker.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In northwestern New Mexico, there are thousands of archaeological sites that span the complete cultural and temporal spectrum of human occupation in the region. Many of these cultural resources are located in remote areas and as backcountry sites, are often prey to looting and vandalism, particularly those exhibiting standing architecture and rock art. In many...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Liza Gijanto.

Banjul was founded in 1816 as part of the British efforts to block the slave trade on the Gambia River. A planned urban center, the city developed around a series of neighborhoods designated as colonial, merchant, and African laborer spaces. Amongst the most prominent settlers were the Aku (Liberated Africans) from Sierra Leone and French traders from Goree who were instrumental in the growth of the colonial economy. The Banjul Heritage Project seeks to highlight contributions of the different...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy Canaday. Bryan Hanks. Marc Bermann. Rosemary Capo.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Collaboration between the University of Pittsburgh and the Salmon-Challis National Forest has focused on a multi-year campaign of geophysical and geochemical surveys. This work has employed a suite of techniques to develop a better understanding of prehistoric social organization and a comparative spatial study of early village sites along the Salmon River and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Della Scott-Ireton. Jeffrey Moates. Nicole Grinnan.

The growth and sustained popularity of scuba diving has resulted in increased visitation to historic shipwrecks and other submerged heritage sites. In Florida, one of the top diving destinations in the world, archaeologists and resources managers are concerned with the ongoing preservation of the state’s underwater cultural heritage, both as heritage tourism attractions and as tangible parts of our common maritime heritage. The Submerged Sites Education & Archaeological Stewardship, or SSEAS,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only MaryAnne Maigret. Lori Miculka. Erin Coward.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Perched sand deposits and pocket beaches dot the shoreline at Pu'uhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park on the island of Hawai'i. Keone'ele Cove, situated along the northern boundary of the park, is a key part of the cultural landscape where Hawaii’s ruling class landed canoes and hosted gatherings, and where native Hawaiians continue these practices in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paola Schiappacasse.

Around the world, there are a large number of archaeological collections in the repositories of museums, universities, foundations, government agencies and other organizations. The curation crisis has generated a great deal of debate as to how we can help to ameliorate the various problems faced in collections management. This paper will present a proposal of how collections can be used to develop academic projects, both in local repositories and those outside the country, by outlining case...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Loa Traxler.

This is an abstract from the "Partners at Work: Promoting Archaeology and Collaboration in the Chiricahua Mountains" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In collaboration with the National Park Service Southeast Arizona Group, field research by archaeologists, public historians, and students from the University of New Mexico has focused on ways to augment the interpretive programs within the Chiricahua National Monument and Fort Bowie National...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Feltz.

3D photogrammetry is the process of creating a manipulable 3D model using only photos from a high-resolution camera that are then processed through computer software to extract 3D data and create a wireframe and mesh. This process can be accurate enough to measure a hairline fracture along the surface of prehistoric pottery with .1mm accuracy. Analyze the benefits of such methods, a study was conducted using Oneota ceramic artifacts of the La Crosse, Wisconsin locality that have been curated at...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Baaske. Kevin Austin.

The presentation of heritage sites is critically important to the perception of historical narratives. A key goal is to help both scholars and the general public to see heritage as dynamic and living. This project explores the visualization of archaeological excavations through preservation technologies, specifically photogrammetric data. Our study focuses on a patio group at the Maya site of Xno’ha (occupation dates range from the Late Preclassic to the Terminal Classic) in northern Belize, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Buti. Joanne Dyer. Davide Domenici. Danny Zborover.

This is an abstract from the "Bringing the Past to Life, Part 2: Papers in Honor of John M. D. Pohl" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Codex Tonindeye, also known as the Codex Zouche-Nuttall, is one of the most striking examples of prehispanic Mixtec historiography and artistry. Brought from Mexico to Italy, it was preserved for centuries in the Dominican convent of San Marco, Florence, until the middle of the nineteenth century, when it was sold...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Adrienne Lazazzera. Matthew Nowakowski.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent changes in federal policy on curation of archaeological and archival records are prompting federal land managers to reexamine best practices for preserving and sharing valuable national heritage. Some of the policy changes include new guidelines for deaccessioning federal archaeological collections and transitioning to digital information...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Angela Jaillet-Wentling. Katherine Peresolak.

This is an abstract from the "Public Lands, Public Sites: Research, Engagement, and Collaboration" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A number of recent initiatives including the development of a Cultural Resources Program, Untold Stories interpretative work, and programming like Penn’s Parks for All at Pennsylvania’s Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) had the cumulative effect of providing multiple opportunities for the agency to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carole Crumley.

This is an abstract from the "Advancing Public Perceptions of Sustainability through Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Historical ecology offers a wide variety of resources for better contemporary management and increased well-being in the future. These can be applied at all spatial scales, from that of the planet to regions, bio-climatic zones, landscapes, and specific places. Historical ecology can help safeguard natural resources...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dustin Hawks. Briece Edwards. Jeremy Johnson. Michael Lewis.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Technologies have advanced over the past couple of decades to the point of making it is possible, and economical, to produce high quality 3D-models of archaeological objects and features, even in remote field locations, using photogrammetry and 3D scanning apps. The Historic Preservation Office of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde has utilized such...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Citlali Rosas Jiménez.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Desde hace varios años se desarrolla un estado de riesgo de pérdida parcial patrimonial en Teotihuacán. Si bien existe un marco normativo en materia de protección de patrimonio cultural arqueológico para Teotihuacán, este se encuentra desarraigado socialmente, derivado de acciones que muestran principalmente la falta de identidad, apreciación y...