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This paper aims to understand processes of change and continuity by examining how the introduction of European manufactured glass beads in the 16th-19th centuries affected preexisting native shell bead consumption strategies in Southern California. Data from two different coastal burial sites that were occupied by the Tongva/Gabrieliño people will be analyzed; one from an 1877 excavation on Santa Catalina Island that has virtually no provenience information, and another from more recent...
Accessiblity and Crisis: Building a More Inclusive Archaeology Through Existing Collections (2021)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Where Accessibility and Inclusion Meet: Archaeology in the Age of Covid and Beyond" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeology is facing several significant challenges at present. As it seeks to grapple with the legacy of its past, it requires new approaches and methodologies to remain viable, inclusive, and accessible. One of the ways we might accomplish this is through the use of novel research with...
Addressing NAGPRA, Contamination, and Policy in Museums (2024)
This is an abstract from the "In Search of Solutions: Exploring Pathways to Repatriation for NAGPRA Practitioners (Part I)" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Under NAGPRA, a museum must inform recipients of repatriation of any known contaminants such as preservatives, pesticides, or other treatments that may present a potential hazard to the persons handling the item. However, NAGPRA does not require museums to test for contaminants, and historically...
Analysis of the Oval Planting Beds at Poplar Forest: Five Collections Spanning Almost 30 Years (2021)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Boxed but not Forgotten Redux or: How I Learned to Stop Digging and Love Old Collections Part III" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2019, the Department of Archaeology and Landscapes at Poplar Forest completed excavations of an oval planting bed in front of Thomas Jefferson’s retreat home. These excavations abutted at least three previous projects. This central oval bed was framed by two additional...
Analytical Chemistry and Archaeological Collections: A Case Study on the Continuing Research Value of Previously Excavated Materials. (2017)
In 2008 archaeologists and chemists at the University of Idaho initiated a collaborative program using analytical chemistry to study archaeological materials. Initial work focused on collections from the northwest but it is now nationwide in scope. The work had provided insight on a variety of questions including the reuse of historical bottles, traditional Chinese medicinal practices as well as the identification of many previously unknown materials. The work has also proved to be an...
Ancestral Puebloan Running and Walking Biomechanics (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Running is an important, and even sacred, cultural practice among modern Indigenous peoples of the western North America and has deep roots in prehistory. Oral history and limited archaeological evidence suggest that running was important in ceremonial contexts, communication between communities, in hunting practices, and warfare. However, the prehistoric...
The Anthropomorphic Figurine Tradition of the Fremont Archaeological Culture (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For almost a century, clay figurines have been described as one of the defining traits of the Fremont culture of the eastern Great Basin and northern Colorado Plateau. But surprisingly, many questions about the figurines’ basic characteristics, distribution, chronology, and meaning have remained unanswered. In this presentation I discuss the results of an...
Appendix B. Collector's Interviews. in a Cultural Resources Overview of the Carson and Humboldt Sinks, Nevada, By James C. Bard, C.I. Busby, J.M. Findlay, P. Endzweig, L.S. Kobori, J. Liversidge, and S. Mende (1979)
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Application of archaeometric methods to forensic anthropology casework to resolve medicolegal significance (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Human remains cases processed through the medicolegal system come from a variety of different circumstances. Protohistoric and prehistoric human remains are often submitted to law enforcement, and these remains often lack burial context and provenience. This presents a problem not only for law enforcement, who curate the remains as an unresolved case, but...
Archaeological Collections and Volunteerism (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Building Bridges: Papers in Honor of Teresita Majewski" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. How are managing and preserving archaeological collections and volunteerism related? I have known Dr. Majewski for about 25 years. Almost all of that time has been when she volunteered to be on various Society for American Archaeology committees that I was also on, wrote articles for journal theme issues I edited, and other...
Archaeological Collections at the University of West Florida (2016)
The Archaeology Institute at the University of West Florida in Pensacola includes a regional archaeological museum and curation facility. Approximately 450 archeological collections and associated project archives from terrestrial and underwater sites are available to researchers and students. Projects conducted by the Institute along the northern Gulf Coast since the 1980s, and more recently by the Department of Anthropology, include Prehistoric through Industrial era archaeological sites...
Archaeological Collections from the Western Eskimos (1930)
This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.
Archaeological Textiles in the American Museum of Natural History's Bandelier Collection (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Between 1892 and 1903, Adolpho Bandelier undertook an ethnographic and archaeological expedition to Peru and Bolivia, collecting materials on behalf of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). Bandelier sent four crates of materials back to the AMNH from Caleta Vitor, northern Chile including mummies, grave goods and other fiber and stone artifacts....
Archaeology at Oatlands: The Past, Present and Future of Archaeology at an American Plantation (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Plantation Archaeology as Slow Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Oatlands Plantation has been the subject of several archaeological excavations since 1975, ten years after the property was donated to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Undertaken by a variety of investigators, each using their own set of methods to answer their own set of research questions, these archaeological...
The Archaeology of Collections: A History of Practice and Policy in Arizona State Museum Archaeological Collections (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Arizona State Museum (ASM) was founded in 1893 with the stated purpose of collecting and preserving archaeological material for what was then the territory of Arizona. In step with the larger field of archaeology, the practices and ideas that have shaped ASM’s collecting of archaeological material have evolved over the subsequent 130 years, including a...
Archaeology of the Eastern Oyster: Collection and Curation Practices by North American Practitioners (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Oysters have long served as both ecological and cultural keystone species. Across many coastal regions of the world, oyster-dominated shell middens and mounds are common features of the archaeological record. Oyster deposits serve as time capsules containing evidence of past environmental conditions, harvest patterns, and subsistence economies. Due to the...
Archaeology, History, and Accessibility with the Eckley Miners' Village Cell Phone Tour (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Established to document, preserve, and share the rich heritage of the miners and mining families that once populated Eckley Miners’ Village in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, Eckley Miners’ Village Museum currently plays a pivotal role in the commemoration of anthracite mining heritage. A cell phone tour is one method the museum uses to educate the public...
The Artifact Collection from Modern Greece: Using 50 Years of Conservation to Answer New Questions (2015)
This paper analyzes the salvage of artifacts from Modern Greece, a Civil War blockade-runner off Wilmington, NC. The NC Underwater Archaeology Branch brought up over 10,000 artifacts in 1962-63. Parts of the collection underwent conservation, while others remained in storage at Fort Fisher. Recently, students from ECU completed a re-housing project to allow for identification of conservation targets and prevent degradation. This paper discusses the retrieval and housing as related to the...
Artifacts from US Military Installation: Dusty Treasures or Unwanted Objects (2017)
Collections allow archaeologists and other scholars the opportunity a means to view past lifeways. Those lifeways are connected to past histories that are situated in a time and place. Context is everything! However, what happens when artifacts are lost misplaced, or mis-catalogued? Archaeologists across the globe are working on shoe-string budgets and are being asked to do more with less. Due to these shrinking budgets the collections that we painstakingly curate often are given less care and...
Augmented Curiosities: Virtual Play in African Pasts and Futures (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeological Futures through a Virtual Past" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Technologies inspire the creation of new subjectivities - changing our points of perspective and augmenting the ways in which we perceive. Through our ever-expanding applications of innovation, humans recontextualize realities. We use the tools of the present to formulate our visions of the future and our understandings of the past. Along...
Barriers to Access, or the Ways Racism Continues (2015)
Black history at historic plantations concerns more than slavery and freedom; it also tells the story of why blacks in the past are omitted at places with so much of their history to tell. Historic plantations offer rich laboratories in which to examine the ways that racism changes and stays the same through the circumstances that enable black history to be revealed or hidden. By studying the interpretation--or lack thereof--of black history at places like Mount Clare, we can learn from the...
"Big Data" in the Nation’s Capital: Statistics and Storytelling with Washington, DC’s Archaeological Collections (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of Cities: Unearthing Complexity in Urban Landscapes", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Known as the “Federal City,” Washington, DC has undergone extensive archaeological excavation and analysis, in part due to American law that requires pre-construction testing for federal government-related construction projects. However, this wealth of data is understudied and rarely revisited after...
A Box Labeled “Mystery. Misc. Headaches”: Inherited Problems in Collections Management (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The term “curation crisis” describes the challenges facing collections care on a large scale: issues of limited space, staff, and funding and of meeting federal curation standards. Yet, beyond these big picture problems, some of the greatest challenges of managing archaeological collections are the smaller collections problems one inherits from previous...
Building Community in the Northeast (2024)
This is an abstract from the "In Search of Solutions: Exploring Pathways to Repatriation for NAGPRA Practitioners (Part IV): NAGPRA in Policy, Protocol, and Practice" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Northeast NAGPRA Community of Practice was founded in 2023 in an effort to build community and strategize on issues and opportunities related to NAGPRA implementation that are unique to the region. Our goal is to improve trust, develop...
Building Relationships and Sharing Information: A Gathering of the Midwest NAGPRA Community (2024)
This is an abstract from the "In Search of Solutions: Exploring Pathways to Repatriation for NAGPRA Practitioners (Part IV): NAGPRA in Policy, Protocol, and Practice" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The first NAGPRA Community of Practice, established in 2019 through the University of Denver, illustrated the vital role communication, listening, and learning plays among institutions and tribal partners as we move forward in fulfilling our NAGPRA...