18th Century (Temporal Keyword)

851-875 (908 Records)

Systematic_Stirling Shapefile (2010)
GEOSPATIAL Karen Holberg.

The aim of the LEAP projects was to publish multi-layered e-publications and develop and link them to associated digital archives. The original LEAP project was funded by the AHRC while the LEAP II, A Trans-Atlantic LEAP, was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This shapefile is part of a 2011 LEAP II project "Placing immateriality: situating the material of highland Chiriquí" by Karen Holberg. All files associated with this record must be downloaded to ensure that the shapefile...


Systematic_Wake Shapefile (2010)
GEOSPATIAL Karen Holberg.

The aim of the LEAP projects was to publish multi-layered e-publications and develop and link them to associated digital archives. The original LEAP project was funded by the AHRC while the LEAP II, A Trans-Atlantic LEAP, was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This shapefile is part of a 2011 LEAP II project "Placing immateriality: situating the material of highland Chiriquí" by Karen Holberg. All files associated with this record must be downloaded to ensure that the shapefile...


A Tale of Many Gloucestertowns: Archaeological Clues to the Pre- and Post-Revolutionary War Landscapes at Gloucester Point (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna Hayden. Thane H. Harpole.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Before, After, and In Between: Archaeological Approaches to Places (through/in) Time" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Large-scale archaeological excavations on the campus of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science from 2016-2017 revealed hundreds of cultural features, excavation of which shed light on the long span of historical occupation at Gloucester Point. In-depth analysis of the spatial, temporal,...


A Tale of Two Ships: Developing a Collection Research and Interpretation Plan (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Angela Thorpe. Sarah Watkins-Kenney.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Telling a Tale of One Ship with Two Names: Queen Anne’s Revenge and La Concorde" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In September 2018, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a grant to NC’s African American Heritage Commission (AAHC) for “A Tale of Two Ships: Developing a Research & Interpretation Plan for Revealing Hidden Histories of One ship with Two Identities”. The ship being NC State...


Tales from the Archive (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah J Francis.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Telling a Tale of One Ship with Two Names: Queen Anne’s Revenge and La Concorde" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The tale of Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge is a renowned aspect of North Carolinian and Colonial American History. While Blackbeard and Queen’s Anne’s Revenge enjoy the limelight, the tale Blackbeard’s procurement of the ship and its time before piracy remains obscure. Prior to becoming...


Technical Addendum to the Phase I Archeological Survey at the Proposed Beech Tree Development, Prince George's County, Maryland - Phase II Archeological Evaluation of Site 18PR573 (2001)
DOCUMENT Citation Only William IV Lowthert. Brian Stone. Katherine Grandine.

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.


Technical Addendum to the Phase I Archeological Survey of Approximately 200 Acres at the Proposed Beech Tree Development, Prince George's County, Maryland - Phase II Archeological Evaluation of Site 18PR579 (Beechwood Plantation) (1999)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael B. Hornum. William IV Lowthert. Katherine Grandine.

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.


Tentative Program for Archeological Research at Fort Frederick, Maryland (1970)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Tyler Bastian.

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That’s a lot of wood: Excavations of the 1755 Carlyle Warehouse in Alexandria, Virginia. (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Baicy.

In 1755, the Board of Trustees of the City of Alexandria, tasked prominent merchant, Thomas Carlyle with providing the Alexandria with a public warehouse.  The warehouse, once built, would be rented out to various merchants on behalf of the town for several decades.  The well preserved foundations of one of the earliest public buildings in Alexandria was uncovered beneath nearly 10 feet of building debris along Alexandria’s waterfront. The following is a brief history of the warehouse, the...


To Scuttle and Run: The Institute of Maritime History’s Search for Lord Dunmore’s Floating City of 1776 (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only David P. Howe. P. Brendan Burke.

Since 2008 the Institute for Maritime History (IMH) has supported a research project at the confluence of the St. Marys and Potomac rivers. This area is the suspected locus of Lord Dunmore’s scuttled fleet from 1776. As the last British colonial governor of Virginia, Dunmore fled the colony with a flotilla of loyalists, soldiers, and sailors. Aboard the civilian fleet, guarded by Royal Navy sloops and a frigate, Dunmore unsuccessfully attempted to restore order to an unravelling colony. After...


Tomotley: An Eighteenth Century Cherokee Village (1983)
DOCUMENT Citation Only William W. Baden.

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.


Trace Element Analysis of Quackenbush Soils (2002)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert Hall.

Subconsultant report on trace element analysis of nightsoil from privies found at the Quackenbush Square Parking Facility Historic Archaeological Site, Albany, NY. Hall found evidence of several trace elements, including lead, mercury, and arsenic, in nightsoil deposits from the 18th and 19th centuries at the site. The document was presented as an appendix to the full Phase III data recovery report for the Quackenbush Square site.


A Trail of Tools: An Analysis Exploring the Procurement, Use, and Repair of Agricultural Tools at George Washington's Mount Vernon (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lily E Carhart.

During his lifetime, George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate spanned 8,000 acres and encompassed five separate farms, four of which were used for large-scale cultivation of field crops. The exception was Mansion House Farm, where the only cultivation consisted of kitchen gardens, vineyards, and some agricultural experimentation. Yet a substantial number of iron agricultural tools have been found archaeologically. This study addresses the anomaly by focusing specifically on the agricultural hoes...


Travels of William Bartram
DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Van Doren.

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A Troublesome Tenant in the Gore by the Road: The Cardon/Holton Farmstead Site 7NC-F-128 (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Ian Burrow.

In 1743 Boaz Boyce, guardian of the son of William Cardon, deceased, accused tenant Robert Whiteside of cutting valuable timber, and evidently of obstructing the planting of an orchard. The Cardon/Holton site is identified with Whiteside’s tenant homestead.  Artifact analysis suggests an occupation date range of circa 1720 to the 1760s.  Dendrochronological dates from well timbers indicate construction in c.1737 and rebuild or repair c.1753. The core of the farmstead was fully excavated,...


Tunica Archaeology (1988)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey P. Brain.

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The Turtlers of Early 18th Century Grand Cayman (2020)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Megan C Hagseth.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Innovative Approaches to Finding Agency in Objects" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The turtle fishery off the coast of the Cayman Islands was a well-known supplier of meat for mariners involved in the trans-Atlantic trade of the 18th century. Salted and barreled or taken aboard live, these reptiles played a vital role in shipboard foodways. The Turtle Bone Site, located on the north side of Grand Cayman’s...


Two-Hundred Year Old Cannon from Pensacola Bay (1970)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Carl J. Clausen.

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U.S. Air Force Integrated Cultural Resources Management Plan (ICRMP) - Joint Base Charleston (2017)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Rachel Fernandez

The Integrated Cultural Resources Management Plan (ICRMP) is a planning document used to manage an installation's cultural resources management program. The document identifies cultural resource activities such as surveys and building inventories, that have taken place on an installation. It also identifies and describes historic resources within installation boundaries, identifies Native American groups affiliated with an installation, and provides a plan for staying in compliance with cultural...


Uncovering German Identity on the Colonial Virginia Frontier (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Amelia Chisholm.

Archaeological excavations began during the summer of 2016 at Fort Germanna, an 18th century piedmont Virginia fort.  The fort was built in 1714 at the bequest of Governor Alexander Spotswood to expand the western frontier of Virginia.  Fort Germanna was only in existence for 4 years, from 1714-1718, and inhabited by German miners brought to Virginia by Spotswood to set up an iron mine.  While building the research agenda for this project we consider how a German ethnicity and identity could be...


Underpinning a Plantation: A Material Culture Approach to Consumerism at Mount Vernon Plantation (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Eleanor Breen.

This paper adopts an object-centered, material culture approach that triangulates between three primary sources – George Washington’s orders for goods through the consignment system, inventories from a local, Scottish-owned store, and the archaeological record at Mount Vernon plantation – lending fresh insight into the nature of the mid-eighteenth century consumer revolution and addressing questions about elite and non-elite consumer behavior.  By quantifying the robust dataset of Washington’s...


Underwater Archeological Survey and Site Assessment of Biscayne National Park (1985)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kenneth S. Wild, Jr.. David M. Brewer.

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Underwater Cultural Resources Survey Fort Toulouse National Historic Landmark: Coosa River, Elmore County, Alabama (1987)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Uploaded by: system user

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Upper Tallapoosa River (1990)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Vernon J. Knight, Jr..

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Use Areas Final Map (2010)
GEOSPATIAL Karen Holberg.

The aim of the LEAP projects was to publish multi-layered e-publications and develop and link them to associated digital archives. The original LEAP project was funded by the AHRC while the LEAP II, A Trans-Atlantic LEAP, was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This final map project is part of a 2011 LEAP II project "Placing immateriality: situating the material of highland Chiriquí" by Karen Holberg. The files contained in this record include an .mxd map project and an image of the...