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Recreating Historic Photography as a Tool for Archaeologists (2013)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven Holm.

Historic photography is often beautiful and steeped in history but can also be used as a tool for archaeologists in relocating structures, identifying features, and situating historic places within their modern and captured viewsheds. Photographing a site is paramount nowadays for documenting the archaeological record. We have the opportunity to exploit historic photographs for additional data beyond site documentation that can lead to better research designs, excavation planning, and site...

Red or Green? Examining the Reliability of Macaw Postcranial Identification (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shannon Landry.

Archaeologists consider macaws highly valuable trade items which served an important economic and ritual role in the prehistoric Southwest. Costly to acquire, brightly colored, and difficult to keep, macaws are often an exciting indicator of social complexity. There is a consensus that the bright red Scarlet Macaw was used and traded with greater frequency than the emerald green Military Macaw in the American Southwest. Yet variation in size and morphological similarity of Ara sp. postcrania...

Reimagining Methods in Historical Zooarchaeology: Methods and Themes in Recent Literature (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Masur.

This poster exhibits a survey of recent (2000-2015) literature on historical zooarchaeology in eastern North America. Emphasizing studies of colonialism and cultural mixture, this survey evaluates ways that historical archaeologists use zooarchaeological data to investigate topics such as human impacts on environments, economic strategies, and the expression of social identities. By focusing on trends in analytical methods and the research questions posed by archaeologists, this survey...

Research Design and Operations Management, Dolores Project (1980)

DOCUMENT Citation Only David A. Breternitz. R. A. Bye. S. E. James. A. E. Kane. R. Knudson.

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.

Sampling Theory (1975)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Evan I. DeBloois.

Scraping Our Way To The Past: A Methodological Approach For Chinese Rural Work Camps (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary L. Maniery.

Recovering meaningful information from ephemeral, short-term work camps in the west is challenging, given the brief occupation time, absence of shelters other than tents or portable structures, and informal layout and design. One methodological approach that has proved effective for research at camps with shallow or no subsurface deposits focuses on exposing and investigating the horizontal deposits across the sites. Archaeological studies of Chinese occupied camps related to mining, railroad...

Scraping Our Way To The Past:A Methodological Approach for Chinese Rural Work Camps (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Maniery.

Seedskadee Project Remote Sensing in Non-Site Archeology (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dwight L. Drager. James I. Ebert. Arthur K. Ireland. Signa Larralde. Luann Wandsnider.

Sharing and Using Knowledge Derived from Experience: Early Cultural Resource Evaluations of the OCS (2022)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hunter W. Whitehead. Charles E. Pearson.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Perspectives on the Future, and the Past, of Underwater Archaeology in the Cultural Resource Management Industry" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the 1970s, the United States federal government initiated a program to protect submerged cultural resources of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) from the impacts of federally permitted undertakings. The impact of permitted mineral exploitation on cultural...

Ships As "Social Spaces": Analysing Shipwrecks From A Social Perspective (2020)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brad Loewen.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "From the Bottom Up: Socioeconomic Archaeology of the French Maritime Empire" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. When Keith Muckelroy (1978) conceptualised ships as machines, closed social spaces and extensions of land-based systems, he didn’t equip his ideas with working methods for analysing shipwrecks. Similarly, Richard Gould (2000) didn’t undergird his “social history of ships” with clear methods. Given...

Short Study On the Feasibility of the Reinhardt Redy Mapper for Use With Archaeological Sites (1982)

DOCUMENT Citation Only James M. Welch.

Social Spaces between Diet and Foodways (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amber VanDerwarker.

PEB practitioners are increasingly drawing from social perspectives which allow them to shift between concepts of diet and foodways. This increasingly social paleoethnobotany is bolstered by rigorous quantitative analyses of large datasets that facilitate the exploration of temporal and spatial nuances in ancient plant assemblages. This marriage between social theory, analytical rigor, and large datasets is further strengthened by the trend towards integrating multiple proxies of food data...

Some Suggestions for Archaeologists who have Glass at their Site. (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alysia Fischer.

What are some of the potential pitfalls archaeologists can avoid when dealing with glass on their sites? First and foremost, archaeologists need to recognize the importance of glass as an artifact class and what it can do for them if examined and interpreted competently. This presentation will focus on glass from Old World sites, especially the Mediterranean region, but many of the concerns are universal in nature and can be applied to any site with glass. Drawing upon the experience of many...

Starch Spherulites: What We Know and What Is Next for This Promising New Method of Paleoethnobotanical Analysis (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Monica Ramsey. John Marston.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Macrobotanical and Microbotanical Archaeobotany Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Starch spherulites are a promising new paleoethnobotanical discovery. Well-studied in food sciences, starch spherulites form when amylose from plant starch recrystallizes in spherulitic morphology. This requires processing by humans (mainly through heat, although pH impacts this dynamic) in an aqueous environment. The...

Survey and Collection Policies (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Colin I. Busby.

Technologies for Prehistoric and Historic Preservation (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only U. S. Congress Office of Technological Assessment.

Technologies for Underwater Archaeology and Maritime Preservation (1987)

DOCUMENT Citation Only U. S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment.

To Screen or to Float?: Methodological Considerations for Archaeobotanists in Coastal Peru (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Chiou.

In recent years, coastal Peru has seen an encouraging upwards trend in the number of archaeologists trained in the field of paleoethnobotany or archaeobotany. With growing numbers of practitioners in the field, it is crucial to remain vigilant of methodological concerns that are relevant not only to archaeobotanists as a whole, but particularly to those working in the unique environment of coastal Peru. In the interest of maximizing interpretative potential while maintaining the capability to...

Umpqua National Forest Survey Design Outline (Draft) (1982)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Vance Carlson.

Using the Products of Yesterday's Stewardship to Tackle Today's Questions in Historical Archaeology: Insights from the River Basin Surveys Collections (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lotte E Govaerts.

Many current practices in American archaeology arose from the mid-20th century River Basin Surveys (RBS). These surveys were part of the Inter-Agency Salvage Program, an unprecedentedly large effort to investigate archaeological sites threatened by extensive dam-building projects. RBS researchers studied mostly prehistoric sites, but the work was also a turning point for historical archaeology, especially of the Great Plains and the American West in general. The research priorities of the RBS...

Using the UTM Grid System To Record History Sites (1980)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Wilford P. Cole.

Why Did You Dig So Many Holes? Machine Coring in Southeastern Idaho (1982)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Druss.

ZooaRch: General Audience Release of an R Graphical User Interface for Zooarchaeologists. (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erik Otárola-Castillo. Jesse Wolfhagen. Max Price.

Zooarchaeologists evaluate fundamental and challenging questions about human nature. Many of these questions are answered through statistical modeling and hypothesis testing. However, statistical software tailored to answer zooarchaeological questions remain unavailable. To alleviate this problem, in 2016, we unveiled "zooaRch", a statistical software designed with zooarchaeological statistical problems in mind. ZooaRch is a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for Zooarchaeologists who wish to...