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This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Throughout thousands of years, various civilizations and groups have depicted their beliefs on objects and architecture. Maya rulers are an example in how architecture, extravagant costumes, jewelry, weaponry, ceramics were used to emphasize their title as ajaw.Ajaw, the title for a ruler which represents the king’s massive authority for their people...
Privy to the Details: Reanalysis of a Curated Cultural Resource Mitigation Assemblage (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Boxed but not Forgotten Redux or: The Importance and Usefulness of Exploring Old or Forgotten Collections" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Cultural Resource Protection (CRP) work produces many assemblages of material that have varying levels of analysis conducted within the scope of the contract. These collections provide numerous opportunities for methodological testing and verification and reanalysis with...
Provenience Versus Richness in Collection Analysis, An Example from Historic Hanna’s Town (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Boxed but not Forgotten Redux or: How I Learned to Stop Digging and Love Old Collections" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Historic Hanna’s Town collection consists of artifacts from an 18th-centruy town in western Pennsylvania excavated both 40 years ago by amateurs and two years ago by closely supervised field schools. The earlier collections often lack precise provenience information but represent a...
Radiocarbon Dating a Paraffin Contaminated Moccasin: Detection and Removal of Paraffin from Skin-Based Samples (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As part of an ongoing collaboration dating ethnographic collections, the University of Oregon sent a piece of a leather moccasin to the PSU Radiocarbon Lab for dating. The moccasin was recovered in 1938 from a near-surface deposit of Roaring Springs Cave, Oregon. Another moccasin from this context produced an anomalously old radiocarbon age – 7670±35 BP –...
(Re)Connections Through Time: Developing a model for multi-modal storytelling about Zuni Cultural Connections (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Native communities have long been excluded from the process of knowledge construction about their ancestral places. This exclusion has taken many forms: lack of voice or authority in museum excavations, curation, and exhibits; inaccessibility of collections that were removed from Native lands to geographically distant institutions or sold to collectors;...
Re-tying a Wayu: Connecting a Cranial Mask in the Smithsonian to Its Community of Origin in Huarochirí, Peru (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Arqueología colaborativa en los Andes: Casos de estudios y reflexiones" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. To prehispanic Andeans in central Peru, donning a facial-bone mask, a wayu, reanimated the dead and honored ancestral victories. Following these masks’ description in the c. 1608 Quechua-language manuscript of Huarochirí, scholars presume Spanish priests destroyed them to extirpate the “idolatry” of ancestor worship....
Rebel Without a Provenience: When Bad Archaeology Makes for Great Public Outreach (2020)
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 year was 1968. Hawaii Five-O premiers, Richard Nixon wins the presidency, and excavations at the Casey House at Minute Man National Historical Park conclude. In the 52 years since the excavation, the collection has been largely ignored and completely unstudied despite containing outstanding examples of material...
Reevaluating Bone Artifact Collections and Their Histories at the Museum of Northern Arizona (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Storeroom Taphonomies: Site Formation in the Archaeological Archive" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Animal bones and the artifacts manufactured from them have long existed in conflicting archaeological and museum classification systems. Curating institutions once classified them as non-artifactual, or as ecofacts, and only in more recent years have worked animal bones been categorized as artifacts. Regardless of these...
Rehabilitating America’s Forgotten Excavations: Case Studies from the Veterans Curation Program (2015)
Since the passage of historic preservation legislation in the middle of the twentieth century, the pace of mandated excavation has always exceeded the resources devoted to preservation and curation of our national heritage. Many of the archaeological projects conducted on public land have never been properly inventoried, preserved, or publicized. As a result, these investigations remain largely inaccessible to researchers, and they create an immense burden on repositories. In 2009, the U.S....
Rehabilitating the Radiocarbon Sample Archive at the Center for Applied Isotope Studies, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since at least 1972, the Center for Applied Isotope Studies (CAIS) at the University of Georgia (UGA) has maintained an archive of the pretreated and unpretreated remnants of samples sent for radiocarbon dating and stable isotope analysis. This growing archive now contains over 15,000 archaeological and geological specimens. In August 2022, CAIS initiated...
Repatriating Cahokia: Pursuing Tribal Priorities in and around NAGPRA (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The NAGPRA Office at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is in the process of coordinating a multi-tribe, multi-institution project with the goal of repatriating Ancestors and cultural items from the Cahokia site, near present-day East St. Louis. This presentation summarizes the development and current status of the project, as well as its future...
Repatriations of Maya Antiquities to Guatemala: Successes, Pitfalls, and Significant Factors (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While scholars have been concerned since the 1960s about the widespread looting of Maya sites to supply the international antiquities market, countless objects have been illicitly exported over the decades from Guatemala and surrounding countries. The repatriation of looted antiquities to their countries of origin has received increased attention as source...
Report of Phase I Archaeological Investigation at the Manistee County Blacker Airport, Manistee, Michigan (1983)
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Research and Collections at the Virginia Museum of Natural History (2016)
The Virginia Museum of Natural History (VMNH) is an AAM accredited museum that serves as the state repository for natural history collections and occupies a purpose-built structure completed in 2007. As the state museum under the Secretary of Natural Resources, VMNH curates over 10 million archaeological, biological, paleontological, and geological specimens in trust for the citizens of the Commonwealth. The archaeology department currently curates over one million specimens. While the...
Research at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University (2016)
Founded in 1866, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University is one of the oldest museums in the world devoted to anthropology. It is dedicated to the care, study and long-term preservation of one of the largest and finest collections of cultural history found anywhere. A primary tenet of the Peabody Museum’s mission is to support the study and interpretation of its 1.2 million objects and archival collections in the service of research, teaching, publication,...
Respecting the Past, Empowering the Present: NAGPRA, College Students, and Renewed Commitment to Indigenous Heritage (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 archaeology lab at Auburn University at Montgomery (AUM) has seen several changes over the last year regarding updates to their policies, protocols, and practices associated with their Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA)...
Respecting the Sacred Power of Indigenous Collections and Museum Staff (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Indigenous cultural protocols impact consultation with museums in numerous ways. Tribal perspectives on feminine power that is most evident during menstruation can challenge non-Native ways of working with museum collections. This poster will discuss ways in which museum staff negotiate unfamiliar cultural practices during tribal consultation. Respect for...
Reviewing the 2023 Intensive NAGPRA Summer Training & Education Program (INSTEP) (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. The national need for NAGPRA and repatriation education is widely recognized in the museum and tribal communities. In July 2023, the authors co-facilitated the first Intensive NAGPRA Summer Training & Education Program (INSTEP), funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This presentation reviews the...
Revisiting Past Excavations: An In-Depth Look at Feature B7 from the African Meeting House, Boston, MA (2015)
This paper analyzes a pit feature that was identified during a 1984 excavation in the basement of the African Meeting House, located in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood. Full excavation of the feature followed in 1986; however, complete analysis of the resulting artifact collection was not possible at the time. Predating the construction of the prominent African Meeting House, the feature is likely the privy of Augustin Raillion, a hairdresser who occupied a house at 44 Joy Street with two...
Rollout / Not Rollout: Maya Plate Painting and the Kerr Archive (2024)
This is an abstract from the "The Rollout Keepers: Papers on Maya Ceramic Texts, Scenes, and Styles in Honor of Justin and Barbara Kerr" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While Justin Kerr might be best known for pioneering the rollout photographic technique specific to three-dimensional drinking cups and serving vessels, some of his still photographs of painted plates also proved pivotal to the understanding of Classic Maya religion and history....
Scanning to Share: Investigating the Use of Photogrammetry for Public Outreach (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists strive to improve the methods used to record and preserve the archaeological record for future research, interpretation, and outreach. The process of photogrammetry has improved their ability to curate and share archaeological evidence by using photos to create 3D images of excavation units, features, and artifacts. Using this technology,...
Shelf Life: Addressing the “Curation Crisis” through the Use and Reevaluation of Archival Collection Material (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Compared to new archaeological data acquisition by traditional excavation and analysis, research and related funding associated with archival collections remains stagnant and is not proportional to the quantity of data present. This presentation highlights three cases of current research projects associated with the extant collections housed at the...
The Sporting Life: Archaeological Evidence of Pensacola’s Red Light District Customers (2015)
Archaeological studies have been conducted upon red light districts across the United States. While these studies have yielded great insight into the lives of prostitutes, relatively little has been recovered from their customers. Three collections from excavations conducted in 1975 and 2000 upon Pensacola, Florida’s red light district have also been studied, with a surprising number of artifacts associated with customers identified. This paper will provide an in-depth analysis of red light...
The state of the Jamestown Collection: Preparing for 2019 and the future (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Excavating the Foundations of Representative Government: A Case Study in Interdisciplinary Historical Archaeology." , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Over the past four years, Jamestown Rediscovery staff has been working towards the anniversary year of 1619 by developing research initiatives to further understand the beginnings of democracy and slavery. While this work occurred, providing support for ongoing...
Summary of the Brown Collection (1984)
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.