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Archaeological Investigations at the Posey Site (18CH281) and 18CH282 Indian Head Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (2005.012)

PROJECT Navy.

The two sites were located and initially tested during a survey of limited portions of the facility in 1985. At that time, the Posey Site was interpreted as a probable Contact Period deposit thought to date from ca. 1600 A.D. to an unknown terminal point. Several intact subsurface features were discovered, one of which yielded material radiocarbon dated to 1575 +/- 90 years A.D. The fieldwork conducted during the present investigation consisted of the excavation of 510 shovel test pits and 37...

Archaeology of the Yorktown Battlefield, Yorktown, Virginia (1976)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Norman F. Barka.

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Artifact Photographs, Posey Site, Colonial Encounters (3 of 3) (2014)

IMAGE St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City, Maryland. Colonial Encounters Archaeological Project.

These photographs were generated by archaeological investigations of the Posey site during the Colonial Encounters: The Lower Potomac River Valley at Contact, 1500-1720 AD project. This record (part 3) includes the next 12 images.

Colby Collection (1985)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Victoria Kenyon.

Cultural Resources Survey of Proposed Hammond's Ferry Soccer Complex, Aiken County, South Carolina (2004)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lesley M. Drucker. William B. Barr.

"In response to continuing population growth, the City of North Augusta is expanding its recreational fadlities with construction of the Hammond's Ferry Soccer Complex near Savannah River (Rgs. 1, 2). Property acquisition for the project was funded by a grant from SC Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism (SC-PRT), with developnent to be mmpleted using federal and state funding, induding the Land and Water Conservation Fund and local sales tax funds. In May 2004, the City of...

An Examination of Gunflints From the Fort St. Joseph Site (20BE23) in Niles, Michigan (2011)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cezar Carvalhaes.

French colonial North America was settled in order to expand the fur trade and also secure the North American interior from British incursions. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, France had come to occupy huge swathes of land in North America, establishing a trading empire from Newfoundland to the Rocky Mountains, and from Hudson Bay southward along the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico. As the fur trade expanded, the Great Lakes region proved vital to France’s interests, and near...

The Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

PROJECT Michael Nassaney.

The Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project is a collaboration between Western Michigan University and the City of Niles, MI to investigate, interpret, and preserve the physical remains of the site of Fort St. Joseph, a mission, garrison, and trading post complex occupied from 1691 to 1781 by the French then British. Since its inception, the Project has cultivated a robust program of public archaeology to involve and invest the community in the preservation of the site and more generally, the...

Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site (32WI17), Material Culture Reports, Part IV: Firearms, Trapping, and Fishing Equipment (1986)

DOCUMENT Full-Text William J. Hunt, Jr..

National Park Service archaeological excavations at Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site from 1968 through 1972. Although a preliminary report describing the extent and nature of the excavations was produced shortly after the close of each season's fieldwork, until recently the extensive collection of artifacts and other materials recovered during that work has remained largely unanalyzed and unreported for want of sufficient funding. A systematic effort to analyze and report all...

Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site (32WI17), Material Culture Reports, Part X: Native American Burials and Artifacts (1994)

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

Fort Union, the headquarters of American Fur Company's Upper Missouri Outfit, dominated the region's fur and bison robe trade from 1828 to 1865. The Minneapolis-based North Western Fur Company operated the trading post from 1865 to 1867 and the U.S. Army had a contingent of soldiers there from 1864 to 1865. In 1867, the Army bought and razed Fort Union for building materials in the construction of Fort Buford, a new infantry post two miles to the east. In 1965, Congress designated Fort Union a...

Indian Trade Guns (1960)

DOCUMENT Citation Only T. M. Hamiliton.

Korell-Bordeaux and Rock Ranch Protohistoric Sites: a Preliminary Report (1987)

DOCUMENT Citation Only George M. Zeimens. Alan Korell. Don Housh. Dennis Eisenbarth. Bob Curry.

The Late Seventeenth Century Western Frontier of Maryland: a View from Harmony Hall (1989)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen R. Potter. Robert C. Sonderman.

Phase II Archaeological Investigation of the Knoll Site, 18MO462, at the NIH Bethesda Campus, Montgomery County, Maryland (1997)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Anderson Comer.

Some Historic Gunflints Found in Kentucky (1983)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jack M. Schock. Michael Dowell.

Use of the Flotation Technique at the Hacklander Site, a Late Woodland Manifestation in the Lower Kalamazoo River Valley (1977)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Terrance J. Martin. Randall W. Howard.