Urban Archaeology (Other Keyword)

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Report Number 21280: a Cultural Resource Inventory Report of Block 81 of Hoyt's Plat of the City of Saginaw, Michigan, Bounded By Johnson, Weadock, Fitzhugh and Warren Avenues (1980)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fel V. Brunett.

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Report On the Archaeological Salvage Excavations On the Northwest Side of Market & Front Streets, Philadelphia, PA., Winter, 1976 (1976)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles E. Hunter. Herbert W. Levy.

Report On the Archeological Survey and Assessment of the Proposed Downtown Hotel Site, New Brunswick, New Jersey (1979)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Milner Associates, Inc..

Reports On the Dock Project Salvage Excavations (1970)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Barbara Liggett.

Rest Sweet Rest: Addressing the Challenges to Preserving African American Cemeteries in an Urban Environment (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eleanor Breen. Flordeliz T. Bugarin. Benjamin A. Skolnik.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Urban Preservation Challenges in a Global Perspective", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 1895, a group of trustees established Douglass Cemetery in Alexandria, Virginia, named in memory of Frederick Douglass and for Alexandria’s African American community. Over a century later, the cemetery faces several intersecting preservation issues that threaten the physical integrity of the site and the African...

Revisiting Snowtown: A 21st Century Analysis of the North Shore Site in Providence, Rhode Island (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather Olson. Danielle Cathcart.

In the early 1980s, archaeologists from De Leuw Cather/Parsons conducted a large-scale data recovery project in downtown Providence within the Providence Cove Lands Archeological District. In 2013, The Public Archaeology Laboratory, Inc. (PAL) began a multi-year project to assess, analyze, catalog, and re-curate the Cove Lands Collection. In total, PAL’s effort re-cataloged and re-curated an assemblage of approximately 150,000 artifacts dating from the Middle Archaic period through the...

Richmond Industrial Commission Building Site Phase I Archaeological Reconnaissance Survey Report (1982)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lyle E. Browning.

Rules of the Road: The Intersection of Data Recovery, Highway Construction, and Pandemic Management (2021)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael J. Meyer.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pandemic Fieldwork: Doing Fieldwork During a Pandemic" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Over the past 15 years, the Missouri Department of Transportation has conducted multiple archaeological investigations, including several large-scale data recovery projects, along major highways in St. Louis county and city. Each succeeding project has had to overcome new and seemingly unique obstacles in order to...

RVA Archaeology and the Changing Discourse of Archaeology in Richmond (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kimberly R. Allen. Terry Brock.

Central to community conversations about the economic development of Shockoe Bottom was the general concession that any indication of significant archaeological findings would result in efforts to accommodate this possibility before development. Recognizing that conversations about archaeology did not feature the significant "voice" of archaeologists, the community convened a day-long symposium on the history and archaeology of Shockoe Bottom. This gathering led to the formation of RVA...

Scratching the Surface: Using GIS to Understand Richmond Archaeology (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jolene Smith. Ellen Chapman.

Richmond, Virginia’s first official archaeological site record dates to 1963. In the intervening half century, the archaeological landscape has changed in physical and metaphorical ways. One important yardstick of these changes is the 1985 Richmond Metropolitan Area Archeological Survey (RMAAS), a large regional planning project conducted by Virginia Commonwealth University Archaeological Research Center. This paper explores Richmond’s archaeological landscape through a Geographical Information...

Searching for Cities: Problems and Solution in Tracing Han Dynasty Settlements in Nanyang and Ankang, China (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Francesca Monteith. Chun Yu. Gaomin Qin.

This is an abstract from the "Populations of Early Medieval China: Developing Anthropological Approaches to Historical Archaeology in China" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents the results of technology assisted ceramic surveys, interviews, and GIS analysis undertaken in the Nanyang Basin during the summer of 2022. The Nanyang Basin has been the site of continuous human occupation for at least 5,000 years. While prehistoric sites...

Section 106 Contributions to Urban Archaeology: What Was Lost is Now Found (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Crowell.

When improvements were proposed for the Whitehurst Freeway in Washington, DC, existing conditions would not have recommended this heavily urbanized project area for a research-oriented archaeological investigation. The area was traversed by elevated freeway ramps and major roadways. As well, it had been the site of a 20th century school and 19th and 20th century industrial use. Yet, because of Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, archaeological investigations led to the...

The Snowtown Project: Remembering Providence’s Past (2022)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather L Olson.

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. In the early 1980s, archaeological excavations in downtown Providence, Rhode Island located the remains of early 19th century Snowtown, a mixed-race neighborhood most notable for a riot in 1831 between free African Americans and working-class whites. Recent collections...

Soil, Soot, and Slag: Using Microartifact Analysis to Understand the Continuing Impacts of Historic Industrial Activity in Detroit, MI (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannelore J Willeck.

This is an abstract from the "POSTER Session 3: Material Culture and Site Studies" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Detroit's riverfront area has been a mixed industrial, commercial, and residential neighborhood since the mid 19th century. Prior to a new housing development in this area, archaeological excavations were conducted in 2014 to investigate a four-block area that once contained a scrap metal processing site and a metal junkyard, both...

Square 226 in Washington, D.C.: An Archeological Investigation of the Historical Past (1981)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul B. Cissna.

St. Augustine, First Ubran Enclave in the United States (1982)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathleen A. Deagan.

The Stadt Huys Block Site Collection, Past, Present and Future (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nan Rothschild. Diana Wall.

The Stadt Huys Block Site in lower Manhattan was the first large-scale excavation in New York City (1979-80), serving as a test case to mandate subsequent excavations in the city. We found intact deposits from the 17th through 19th centuries. The collection was first housed at Columbia University’s Strong Museum and is now at the NYC Archaeological Repository. Artifacts from the collection have been used in domestic and international exhibits, and in several research projects. Some have analyzed...

Stage 1a - 1B Cultural Resource Investigation Broadway & Livingston Ave. City of Albany Albany County, New York (1985)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeanette Collamer.

Stage 1B Cultural Resource Survey Report of Nine Continous Split Spoon Borings: the Red Hook Water Pollution Control Project (1984)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joel W. Grossman. William I. Roberts.

Stage 1B-1 Deep Testing Cultural Resource Report Red Hook Water Pollution Control Project (1984)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joel W. Grossman. William I. Roberts.

Stage 2 Archaeological Survey the Archaeology and History of the Empire Stores, 2-14 Main Street, Brooklyn Contract 1a Red Hook Water Pollution Control Project Brooklyn, New York (1980)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ralph S. Solecki.

Stage I / II Archaeological Survey: the Greenhouse Development, Atlantic City, NJ (1985)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kenneth J. Basalik.

Stage I Archaeological Survey (First Phase) Main and Plymouth Streets Howard Alley To Pearl Street and Furman Street Atlantic Avenue To Joralemon Street Contract 1a Red Hook Water Pollution Control Project Brooklyn, New York (1977)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ralph S. Solecki.

Stage I Archaeological Survey Fulton Street (Cadman Plaza West) Furman Street To East of Front Street Atlantic Avenue, Furman Street and Joralemon Street West of Columbia Street Main and Plymouth Streets Howard Alley To Pearl Street (1977)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ralph S. Solecki.

Stage I Archaeological Survey Nevins Street Butler Street To President Street Contract 3F Red Hook Water Pollution Control Project Brooklyn, New York (1977)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ralph S. Solecki.