Urban Archaeology (Other Keyword)

226-250 (266 Records)

The Same Old Rubbish: An Analysis of Local Variation Within the Global Material Culture of 19th Century Christchurch (2025)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessie Garland.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Nineteenth century Christchurch, like other British colonial settlements, was primarily supplied with goods by the global trade networks of the British empire. The city’s material culture – and nineteenth century archaeology – shares characteristics with other British colonial settlements throughout Aotearoa New Zealand and across...

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.

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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)