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Acculturation and Trade Goods: the Susquehannocks of Pennsylvania (1971)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles E. Hunter.

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Armed to the Teeth: The Archaeology of Arms Procurement and Use in the Early 19th-Century Gulf of Mexico (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amy Borgens.

The first half of the 19th-century was a tumultuous period in the Gulf of Mexico as European and regional powers competed for territorial dominance. As immigration into the northern Gulf of Mexico increased, age-old rivalries erupted while new independent nations emerged. In such a climate, maritime supremacy was essential – foreign and local navies representing every major power were present, new and sometimes ad-hoc navies were created, and privateers capitalized on the unrest - often acting...

Arming Africans in the Antebellum South: A Critical Reassessment of Firearm Usage at Kingsley Plantation (1814-1861), Fort George Island, Florida (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only James M. Davidson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Recent Directions in Florida’s Historical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The archaeological study of enslavement in the United States began in the late 1960s, with excavations by Charles Fairbanks at Kingsley Plantation and the Rayfield Plantation. In both instances, evidence of firearms was recovered, suggesting that Africans were armed. As more plantation spaces were excavated in the ensuing...

Benjamin Hill Petroglyphs (1976)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lynn B. Fredlund.

Brief Evaluation of Stone Wall Jackson Cabin (Xmb-046); Its Relationship To Kallarichuk Ranger Station; and Natural Erosion Affecting Site (1985)

DOCUMENT Citation Only M. Dean Pittenger. David P. Staley.

Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site (32WI17) Material Culture Reports, Part VIII: Artifacts Associated with Transportation, Commerce and Industry and of Unidentified Function (1996)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven De Vore. William J. Hunt, Jr..

Fort Union served as the major trading establishment for the American Fur Company and its St. Louis descendants (Bernard Pratte and Co. and Pierre Chouteau, Jr., and Co.) on the Upper Missouri River between 1828 and 1865. In 1865, Charles Chouteau sold Fort Union to Hubble, Hawley and Smith, otherwise known as the North Western Fur Company. During its last years of existence, between 1864 and 1866, the traders shared the post's facilities with the U.S. Army, the latter utilizing Fort Union as a...

Going Ballistic: A Firearms Analysis of Florida’s Natural Bridge (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Janene W Johnston.

The Civil War Battle of Natural Bridge was fought within miles of Tallahassee, Florida, in March of 1865. In 2015 archaeologists and volunteers conducted a metal detecting survey on the battlefield, which is now a state park. Utilizing a modified catch-and-release strategy allowed for just the analysis of battle related artifacts, the vast majority of which were munitions related to both small arms and artillery combat. Due to the amount of Minié Balls recovered, firearm identification was...

Gun and Ammunition Parts from the Allison Ranch Site (1971)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Larry J. Schmits.

History of Gunflints. (Reprinted From Pennsylvania Archaeologist, 35(1-2), 1966) (1970)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Witthoft.

Jotham Meeker's Farmstead: Historical Archeology at the Ottawa Baptist Mission, Kansas (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only William B. Lees. Caroline E. Hewitt.

Late Nineteenth Century Firearms Use in Northwest Alaska: An Archaeological Example (1989)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dale C. Slaughter.

On the Offensive: The Small Arms and Artillery of Monterrey Shipwreck A (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amy Borgens. Christopher Horrell. James Delgado. Jack Irion. Frederick H Hanselmann. Frank Cantelas. Michael L Brennan.

Sailing on the open seas could often be treacherous and the Gulf of Mexico was a theater for such activities with its history of privateering and naval actions. Vessels at that time could be armed both offensively and defensively, but could also be transporting such military cargoes to aid in the many conflicts abounding during the formative early decades of the 19th century. ROV investigations of Monterrey A discovered two collections of small arms and six cannon within the hull remains. Video...

Portuguese Introduced Firearms Amongst The Societies Of The Lower Zambezi From The Early Seventeenth To Late Nineteenth Centuries (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott G Dunleavy.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Colonial Ventures and Native Voices: Legacies from the Spanish and Portuguese Empires", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Beginning in the sixteenth century, the introduction of firearms into the lower Zambezi by the Portuguese produced both transient and lasting impacts for this area of central Mozambique. These European weapons were often, though not always, eagerly adopted by local communities where they...

Riddled with Bullets: Applying Shooting Incident Reconstruction Techniques to American Colonial Structures and Architectural Elements Associated with the British Retreat to Boston, April 19, 1775 (2021)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas D Scott. Joel Bohy.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Documenting the Built Environment (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The British Regulars retreat from Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775 is legendary in American history. Colonial militias and the famous Minute Men ambushed the British column along the retreat route back to Boston. Colonists’ usws local homes as ambush points. The British reached the Village of Arlington,...

A Sharp Little Affair: Archaeology of the Big Hole Battlefield; Reprints in Anthropology (1994)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Douglas D. Scott.

The archeologial investigations were guided by a research design developed at the outset of the project. A number of research questions were identified that appeared to be reasonable levels of inquiry. The research questions were divided into three sections. The first dealth with issues related to park management the second with historical battle-related questions, and the third with questions of particularism and matters of refining archeological theory.

Shooting the Past: Colonial and Revolutionary War Firearms Live Fire Experiments and Spherical Ball Performance (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick Severts. Joel Bohy. William Rose. Charles Haecker. Douglas Scott.

This poster presents the results of a live fire experiment with Colonial and Revolutionary War firearms. It is a beginning of investigations of late pre-modern gun use. Firearms were a central feature of combat for the past 600 years and a significant vector of political, ecological, and cultural change. Experimental archaeology has emerged as a rigorous approach to the study of material reflections of human behavior. In the live fire experiment, we observed impacts of experimentally fired balls...

To Secretary of the Navy, Re: Restricting Firearms to Samoans (1900)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Hay.

Well, Shoot: Firearm Target Practice as a Recreational Activity on a Rural 19th Century Homestead (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Abigail K Kindler.

On a poor and rural homestead, an approximated late 19th century tin enamel bucket was found with numerous bullet holes of varying calibers and trajectories. With ammunition costing money the family may or may not have had, what was the purpose of this bucket besides target practice? With very little information on target practice as a possible recreational pastime, the sport could have been done by both men and women, young and old, infrequently or quite commonly. Both experimental archaeology...

Western Material Culture at Utqiagvik (1990)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jody Cargill. Timothy Smith.

"Yes, Sir. All Was in Arms:" An Account of the Small Arms Discovered on the Wreck of Queen Anne’s Revenge (1718) (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only J Myron Rolston. Kimberly P Kenyon. Teresa E Williams.

Until recently, weapons from Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge (31CR314) were primarily represented by large artillery: the ubiquitous twenty-nine cast iron cannon found on the wreck to date. The only trace of small firearms has consisted of isolated gunlocks, flints, and the occasional copper alloy fittings, such as side plates, trigger guards, and a lone musketoon barrel. X-radiography, however, has now revealed additional evidence. Five articulated small arms and additional disarticulated...