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37 Pounds of Beads!: Reconstructing Provenience and Looking for Change and Continuity in an Orphaned Collection (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Melanie S Lerman.

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)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Margaret Hames.

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...


Analysis of the Oval Planting Beds at Poplar Forest: Five Collections Spanning Almost 30 Years (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jenn Ogborne.

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)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Warner. Ray von Wandruszka.

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)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandra Greenwald. Mary Weakhee. Hayley Kievman. Andrew Merryweather. Jamie Herridge.

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)
DOCUMENT Citation Only David Yoder.

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)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Colin I. Busby. Larry S. Kobori.

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 Collections at the University of West Florida (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Benchley. Norine Carroll.

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)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Therkel Mathiassen.

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.


Archaeology at Oatlands: The Past, Present and Future of Archaeology at an American Plantation (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lori Kimball. Eric Schweickart.

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)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Dungan. Kathryn MacFarland.

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, History, and Accessibility with the Eckley Miners' Village Cell Phone Tour (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Aryn Schriner.

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)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Chelsea R. Freeland.

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)
DOCUMENT Citation Only George W. Calfas.

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...


Barriers to Access, or the Ways Racism Continues (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Teresa Moyer.

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)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer A Lupu.

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...


Caught on Camera: Recognizing Archeological Artifacts in Historic Photographs (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Costello.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Meanwhile, In the NPS Lab: Discoveries from the Collections" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The National Park Service preserves collections of archeological artifacts recovered at Civil War battlefield sites. The advent of photography just before the Civil War revolutionized the way soldiers’ experiences were documented and shared. These historic photographs also provide modern day scholars and researchers...


Chamá Vessels Revisited: Advances and Questions on a Northern Maya Highland Painting Style (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jose Raul Ortiz. Francisco Saravia.

This is an abstract from the "A Celebration and Critical Assessment of "The Maya Scribe and His World" on its Fiftieth Anniversary" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the Late Classic period, a distinct painting style in ceramics emerged in the northern Maya highlands of Guatemala, revealing both the mastery of artisans and the worldview of the Maya. The Chamá style, whose vessels were manufactured on the banks of the Chixoy River, shows clear...


Class I Cultural Resource Inventory for the Cedar City District of the Bureau of Land Management, Part I Cultural Resource Overview (1983)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard A. Thompson. G. B. Thompson. J. Embry.

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.


Class III Cultural Reconnaissance of Instrumentation Site P-47, Access Road, and Powerline, Tonopah Test Range, Nye County, Nevada (1988)
DOCUMENT Citation Only R. L. Reno. G. H. Henton.

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.


Clovis Points, Trade Beads, and Everything in Between: Collections at the University of Wyoming Archaeological Repository (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jody Clauter. Zachary Garhart. Adam Guinard. Rachael Shimek.

This poster details the archaeological collections housed at the University of Wyoming Archaeological Repository (UWAR) located in Laramie. The repository houses approximately 3 million artifacts from 15,000 different Wyoming sites as well as comparative, replica, experimental, and educational materials. We highlight our extensive suite of artifacts from across the state, which includes artifacts from all time periods from the Paleoindian to the Historic. Many of these objects are submitted...


Collections Catalog / Inventory for the Robert Abbe Museum (1985)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Diane Kopec.

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.


Collections Management at the National Park Service: The Interior Collections Management System User Satisfaction Survey (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen A Damm.

The Museum Management Program (MMP) provides national guidance and policy to the National Park Service (NPS). It also administers the Interior Collections Management System (ICMS) for the NPS and the Department of the Interior (DOI). In an effort to look towards the future, the MMP and the Interior Museum Program (IMP) administered a user satisfaction survey to federal and non-federal users of ICMS. This poster examines the results of this survey and looks for solutions to common problems, the...


Collections-Based Research at Poverty Point World Heritage Site (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Diana Greenlee. Stephanie Perrault.

The Poverty Point World Heritage Site is a state-owned and -managed archaeological park in northeastern Louisiana. Named for the nineteenth-century Poverty Point Plantation, the site’s cultural significance derives from its monumental earthen complex constructed 3,700-3,100 BP. The complex includes five mounds; six enormous, concentric, semi-elliptical ridges; and a large interior plaza. A sixth mound was built 1,700-2,000 years after the initial construction. This culturally created landscape,...


Continued Work on the Ray Robinson Collection: Four Salado Sites in the Northern San Pedro Valley Region of Southeastern Arizona (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jaye Smith. Jeff Clark.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As investigations continue into the Ray Robinson Collection by Archaeology Southwest’s dedicated team of volunteer researchers, attention now turns to assemblages collected by Robinson in the northern San Pedro Valley (and vicinity) of southeastern Arizona. During Ray’s consulting work for mining companies in the area, he documented four sites near the...