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Annual Progress Report, National Park Service Activities with the Cooperation of the Smithsonian Institution, July 1, 1964 to June 30, 1965 (1965)

DOCUMENT Full-Text National Park Service.

This report is submitted to provide the Field Committee with information regarding the archeological studies of the Smithsonian Institution within the Missouri Basin in cooperation with the National Park Service and other federal and state agencies during fiscal year 1965.

Archeological Progress Report No. 9, Field Season of 1964 (1964)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Smithsonian Institution, Missouri Basin Project.

This is the ninth in a series of reports presented to provide a summary of current field activities within the Missouri River Basin. Twenty-three field parties, representing one federal and seven state agencies, participated in the Inter-Agency Archaeological Salvage Program within the Missouri Basin during the summer of 1964. Fourteen parties were fielded by the Missouri Basin Project of the Smithsonian Institution. Eleven of these worked within the Oahe, Big Bend, and Fort Randall reservoirs...

Archival and Archaeological Investigations at the Patapsco Neck Methodist Meeting House Site, 18BA443, Baltimore County, Maryland (1998)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathy Lee Erlandson.

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.

Get the Lead Out: Towards Identifying Lead on Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth Century Battlefields and Settlements (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Elliott.

Small arms ammunition in America, throughout the 18th and early 19th centuries, consisted of round soft-metal balls. These were mostly lead, although archaeologists have documented other metals such as pewter and silver as additives. Available small arms and related ammunition varied by military unit, and included pistols, rifles, trade guns, carbines, fowlers, and large caliber wall guns, as well as American, French and English muskets. Macroscopic identification of associated bullets alone...

Musket Balls as Fish Net Sinkers: A Biographical Analysis of Material Reuse from the 18th-Century British Virgin Islands (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Kostro.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Artifacts are More Than Enough: Recentering the Artifact in Historical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. When identifying and cataloging artifacts, archaeologists use a variety of techniques to increase the understanding of a site based on the analysis of excavated artifacts. A widely used method is to classify artifacts by their function– although function is often difficult to pinpoint for...

Narrative Report: Fort Frederick State Park #1, Big Pool, Maryland (1934)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Geo. L. Schindel.

Plantations Without Pillars: Archaeology, Wealth, and Material Life at Bush Hill

PROJECT Savannah River Operations Office, United States Department of Energy.

"The results of archaeological investigations conducted at Bush Hill plantation (site 38AK660) by personnel with the Savannah River Archaeological Research Program are summarized in the following monograph. Bush Hill plantation is located near Upper Three Runs Creek in Aiken County, South Carolina on the Savannah River Site, a nuclear research facility operated by the U.S. Department of Energy. Data recovery excavations were conducted at the site between 1996 and 1999 in response to the...

Plantations Without Pillars: Archaeology, Wealth, and Material Life at Bush Hill Volume 2 Technical Description of Excavations, Features, and Artifacts (2004)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Melanie A. Cabak. Mark D. Groover. Elizabeth M. Scott. Sally Brown. George L. Wingard. Dennis Hendrix. Shirley Hightower.

"The following document is Volume 2 of the report of investigations conducted at Bush Hill plantation (site 38AK660). A technical description of the excavation methods used at the site and the archaeological features encountered during fieldwork are discussed in this volume. The volume also contains a detailed description of the artifacts recovered from the site. The methods used to analyze archival information associated with the study area is also presented in this document. The technical...

PROTEIN RESIDUE ANALYSIS OF MUSKET BALLS FROM THE SACKETS HARBOR BATTLEFIELD, NEW YORK. (2007)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Protein residue analysis was conducted on five lead alloy shot musket balls recovered during the Sackets Harbor, War of 1812, Battlefield Metal Detector Survey in northern New York. Archaeological investigations in this area are being undertaken to determine the actual extent of the Sackets Harbor Battlefield and to secure a National Landmark designation for the entire battlefield. Protein residue analysis will be used to determine if human proteins were present on the musket balls and to...

Report On the Excavation of Part of the Virginia Brigade Encampment, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania 1972-1973 (1979)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Parrington.

Revolutionary War Archaeology at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania (1980)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Parrington.

Summary Report of the 1986 Excavations at Pope's Fort in the Village Center, St. Mary's City, Maryland (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy B. Riordan.