Cultural Resources and Heritage Management (Other Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the "Collaborative and Community-Based Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The CCC and other federally sponsored work programs provided needed employment during the Great Depression and have been examined by scholars in a range of fields. Archaeologists have examined CCC projects as examples of early scientific excavations that trained many American archaeologists, setting the stage for Cultural Resource Management...
Orange Skies Bring Red Rain: Understanding the Effects of Wildland Fire Chemicals to Cultural Resources (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As of the year 2000, the total acreage burned by wildfire in the United States has more than doubled that of the previous 20-year period. Though fire poses a considerable threat to archaeological sites and other cultural resources, fire suppression actions have also proven to be damaging. Three classes of wildland fire chemicals are used in wildfire...
The Original Is (Still) the Winner: Replicas and Fakes as Bound by Authenticity (2018)
Authenticating relations are defined by artisanship, temporality, value-making and ethnographic authority. These relations are visible in contemporary museum settings as well as in the art world as such, and may be particularly poignant in the case of the Caribbean and Central America with its diverse manifestations of emotive styles and materials such as wood and stone. Historically deep and widespread, 19th and 20th century Central American trafficking of pre-Columbian things was tied to...
The Origins of the National Park Service's Vanishing Treasures Program (2019)
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. In the mid-1990s, the National Park Service sought to upgrade its architectural preservation programs at about 40 arid-lands parks, which were facing the loss of significant numbers of retiring preservation craftsmen who had been working to preserve resources since the 1960s and 1970s....
The Other Black on White: Aspen Carvings of the Flagstaff Region (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Historical Archaeologies of the American Southwest, 1800 to Today" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Once a widespread industry throughout the southwest, sheepherding has left its mark, albeit a delible and dwindling one, throughout the high elevation mountains of the American southwest. Aspen carvings made by sheepherders provide a window into the daily lives, ethnicity, politics, and personal sentiments of these men....
Our Future Is Applied: The Applied Archaeology MA Program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (2023)
This is an abstract from the "The Future of Education and Training in Archaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since 2009 the Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) Applied Archaeology MA program has prepared students for archaeology careers outside of the academy. Through constant contact with employers and alumni, as well as an advisory board of archaeology professionals, the IUP program has been responsive to changes in the job market. The...
Our Sites at Risk: Climate Related Threats to NPS Administered Archeological Sites (2018)
Over the past 15 years NPS archeological sites from Texas to Maine have faced devastating impacts from hurricanes and other climate related events. During this time, Hurricanes such as Isabel, Ivan, Katrina, Sandy and most recently Harvey and Irma have caused extensive damage to NPS archeological sites. Although not subjected to direct impacts from these recent hurricanes, National Capital Region (NCR) parks have been heavily damaged by their collateral impacts, typically in the form of...
Out of the Lab and into the Public (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As a field, it should be our responsibility to continually strive to develop engaging, approachable, and novel means to get “out of the lab” and into the general public (and help others do the same). While the Antonio J. Waring Jr. Archaeological Laboratory is primarily an archaeological repository and research facility, this philosophy has helped drive...
Overview of Traditional Cultural Properties in Relation to the NHPA and Bulletin 38 (2018)
The publication of National Register Bulletin 38 in 1990 highlighted the importance of living communities to historic preservation by establishing traditional cultural properties as places eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places (Register). While the concept of traditionally important places was not new in 1990, locations important to living communities had received varied, and often minimal, consideration under the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). By...
Partners for Archaeological Site Stewardship (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Prehistorical and historical resources are irreplaceable. When they are damaged or destroyed, we lose the information and connections that they offer about past cultures. Increased development and recreational activities have increased the public exposure to sites. These population pressures also present opportunities for preservation efforts through public...
Partnership Building: Moving Beyond the Collaborative Model (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Social Justice in Native North American Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In North America, American Indian communities are engaging with archaeology in two distinct, and sometimes intersecting, ways: one is by working with governmental agencies in complying with local, state and federal laws meant to protect and preserve their cultural heritage, the other involves engaging with their cultural heritage...
Partnerships Developed during the Ancient One History and Next Steps to Building Better Partnerships – A Tribal Perspective (2018)
The Claimant Tribes worked whole-heartedly together for 20 years for the return of the Ancient One to his homelands. Throughout those twenty years, many partnerships were made with academia and federal agencies. However many challenges were encountered during the NAGPRA process. These challenges provided unexpected hurtles and trials for the Claimant Tribes in their fight for a cultural affiliation determination with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The range of challenges the Claimant Tribes...
Passing the Microphone: The Heritage Voices Podcast as Community-Based Archaeology (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Braiding Knowledge: Opportunities and Challenges for Collaborative Approaches to Archaeological Heritage and Conservation" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Heritage Voices Podcast, hosted by the Archaeology Podcast Network, centers the voices of indigenous and traditionally associated peoples in discussions on anthropology, cultural resources and heritage, and land management. This includes a focus on community...
The Past and Present Social Role of Viking Age Mounds (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Political Geologies in the Ancient and Recent Pasts: Ontology, Knowledge, and Affect" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Jellhaug, Norway, is Scandinavia’s second largest prehistoric mound. Dating from the (pre)Viking period, it has a long history of human interaction and interpretation. Built in phases with distinct, selected, and transformed earthly materials, the mound compares with contemporary mounds in that both the...
A Path Forward: Casa Grande as Metaphor (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Why Platform Mounds? Part 2: Regional Comparisons and Tribal Histories" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Two of the most iconic cultural symbols in the American Southwest are the O’odham Man in the Maze and Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. In this paper I illustrate a possible connection between them that might resolve some of their enduring mystery. From the merging of these symbols, a new perspective on the...
Patterns of Precontact Lava Tube Cave Use at El Malpais National Monument, New Mexico (2023)
This is an abstract from the "The Subterranean in Mesoamerican Cultural Landscapes" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the field seasons of 2020 and 2021, the Cultural Resources Branch at El Malpais National Monument undertook an inventory of archaeological sites located within some of the monument’s more than 400 lava tube caves. While scores of caves containing cultural resources have been identified through an ongoing mapping initiative, few...
PennDOT Highway Archaeological Survey Team: Providing Immersive CRM Work Experience to Students (2018)
Despite there being more applicants with graduate degrees than there are jobs, the CRM industry suffers from the number of people holding graduate degrees but lacking experience conducting archaeological surveys for Section 106 compliance. Additionally, conducting archaeological surveys is cost-prohibitive and can be a burden on state agencies on projects where federal funds are not involved. These two issues in the field of compliance archaeology prompted the creation of the PennDOT Highway...
The Pennsylvania Precontact Predictive Model (2018)
In 2015, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration sponsored the development of a predictive model for prehistoric site locations in Pennsylvania. Since the development and release of the model, numerous surveys have been performed across the state, and many new prehistoric archaeological sites have been identified and mapped. During the 2016 and 2017 summers, undergraduate and graduate archaeology students participating the Pennsylvania Department of...
A Perfect Storm: Alternative Mitigation Strategies for Louisiana’s Gulf Coast (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Accelerating Environmental Change Threats to Cultural Heritage: Serious Challenges, Promising Responses" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A concatenation of natural and anthropogenic processes involving coastal erosion, subsidence and relative sea-level rise are obliterating evidence for millennia of sustainable human communities on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast. The Mississippi River Delta Archeological Mitigation (MRDAM)...
Performing a Queer Aesthetic in Early 20th Century Washington: Preliminary Findings from the Halcyon House Site (2018)
Located in the Georgetown area of Washington, DC, the Halcyon House is one of the only archaeological sites with a documented queer inhabitant. Albert Adsit Clemons, who was purportedly a relation of Mark Twain, lived on the property with a male carpenter, and together the two filled the house with oddities and antiques. In this paper, I will analyze the way that Clemons performed a queer aesthetic through his household décor and personal adornments. Although the site was excavated in 1985, the...
Persistence of the Anthropocene in the Maya Lowlands (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Maya Lowlands have been a focus of human development across millennia, and the impact of Maya civilization on this tropical environment has been a focus of sustained research and intense debate. It has become common to discuss environmental crises and societal collapse in the region as analogous to contemporary socio-environmental problems. However, the...
Personal Practice: Adornment and Personal Goods from the St. Amelia Plantation (16SJ80), St. James Parish, Louisiana (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Recent Research on Glass Beads and Ornaments in North America" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The material traces of those within certain spaces, such as the “Big Houses” of southern Louisiana’s plantations, are not restricted to the wealthy. Enslaved peoples, wage-laborers, and many others labored throughout the home. Here we utilize personal artifacts from Phase III data recovery excavations at the St. Amelia...
Phase III Investigations of Three Archaeological Sites at Stillwell Crossing, Fort McCoy, Wisconsin (2018)
In summer of 2017, CEMML archaeologists at Fort McCoy, in Tomah, Wisconsin conducted Phase III investigations of three NRHP-eligible sites 47MO054, 47MO360, and 47MO660 near a tank trail crossing Stillwell Creek. This location was continually re-occupied for the last 3,000 years, by Late Archaic to historic-era Native American (probably Ho-Chunk) communities. Bioturbation, military activities, and other cultural and natural processes easily disturb the sandy soils at Stillwell Crossing,...
Photovoice and Participatory Strategies for Community Heritage in the Peruvian Andes (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Huancavelica mining landscapes in the Peruvian Andes present two historical narratives that continue to shape contemporary heritage discourse. On one hand, Huancavelica was the "crown jewel" of the Spanish empire due to lucrative mercury mining. For indigenous Andean peoples forced to labor underground, Huancavelica became known as "the mine of death" due...
Pig Manure and Swizzle Sticks: Defining an Archaeological Site Type (2018)
Low-density scatters of historic-era artifacts can be interpreted as byproducts of manure spreading. These are pieces of trash inadvertently mixed with food refuse that was fed to pigs. While most of these artifacts were not ingested, they became mired in the resulting manure which farmers spread on their fields as fertilizer. Whether or not a scatter of late historic artifacts represents manure spreading or some other kind of behavior can be tested archaeologically, and that is the subject of...