Nineteenth Century (Temporal Keyword)

226-250 (339 Records)

New route through Chiriqui (1861)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas Meagher.

Public Domain Article: Chronicles his first hand account of an expedition to Chiriqui in the 1850's (spans almost the entire decade). This magazine article provides a good first hand account, more as an ethnohistorical piece, in a fantastical adventuristic tone.

New-Granada: The Chiriqui Diggings Completed (1859)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Shelby Manney

This newspaper clipping from 1859 briefly describes what was found in Chiriqui and the estimated dollar amount.

Nineteenth Century Settlement and Subsistence Patterns in Bering Strait (1964)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dorothy J. Ray.

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Nineteenth-Century Tobacco Economics and Lacandon Maya Culture Change (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joel W. Palka.

Tobacco became a major commodity in the Spanish colonies in the late colonial period. But the importance of tobacco increased in post-independence times when the new republics developed their economies and free markets. The ingestion of tobacco also reached new highs at this time. Lacandon Maya in the remote forests of Mexico and Guatemala entered globalization by mastering tobacco cultivation and exchange. The Lacandon produced superb, cheap tobacco that they traded for foreign goods. Tobacco...

Note on Stone Celts, From Chiriqui. (1863)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Charles Blake.

This article describes the five stone "celts" that were submitted to Charles Blake in 1860 from the collections of antiquarian objects from Chiriqui. These objects were obtained from the graves in the area. These "celts' exhibit what the author calls a "well-known" scalpriform sharpening. Four of the celts are composed of "porphyritic" stone and the fifth celt is made of "indurated" clay.

Note on the Aboriginal Races of the North-Western Provinces of South America (1884)

DOCUMENT Full-Text R White.

This 1884 article by White refers to a strip of country about 600 miles in length and 250 miles in width on the west of the pacific ocean. The author describes his interpretation of the cultures and provides regional/locational differences. He also describes past and present burial rituals and techniques.

Note on the Archaeology of Chiriqui (1913)

DOCUMENT Full-Text George MacCurdy.

This brief 1913 article argues that the "...faunal environment of a given region is apt to be reflected in its primitive art, especially when the art is primarily of local origin." The region of interest is Chiriqui Panama. The author, George MacCurdy, describes the animal forms of the ceramic art found in the region to illustrate his argument.

Note sur les sepultares indiennes du department de Chiriquí, Panamá (1866)

DOCUMENT Full-Text A. De Zeltner.

This article is in Spanish and describes the tombs in Chiriqui, Panama

O is for Opium: Offering More than Education at the Abiel Smith School (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dania D. Jordan.

The Abiel Smith, constructed between 1834 and 1835 in Beacon Hill in Boston, MA, is one of the oldest black schools in the United States. The Smith School is central to Beacon Hill’s Black history because it helped Black Bostonians advance in society and negotiate racism through education. However, the Smith School may have served another important role in the Black community. Medicinal bottles excavated from the site suggest that the school administered medicine to students. In the nineteenth...

On the Banks Opposite of Matamoros: Using Modern Archeological Techniques to Understand and Manage the Opening Battles of the U.S.-Mexican War 1846-1848 (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rolando Garza. John Cornelison. michael seibert.

In the spring of 1846 General Zachary Taylor led half of the U.S. Army to the northern banks of the Rio Grande to occupy the territory claimed by both Mexico and the recently annexed state of Texas. This show of force was intended to pressure Mexico into peacefully releasing these lands to the United States. However, by early May Taylor’s troops would defeat the Mexican Army at the battles of Palo Alto, Resaca de la Palma, and the Siege of Fort Brown and occupy Matamoros. These opening...

Ornamental Origins: Philadelphia Manufactured Ceramics With Engine-Turned Decoration (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Deborah L. Miller.

The disruption of foreign trade brought on by the Embargo Act of 1807 and the subsequent War of 1812 led American artisans and mechanics to produce locally made goods in imitation of the primarily British imports no longer available to American consumers. In Philadelphia, some potters began experimenting with white bodied refined ceramics while others continued to work in red clay with manganese and iron glazes, yet exchanged traditional utilitarian forms for sophisticated table- and teawares....

Osteobiographies of British Prisoners from the Old Convict Burial Ground on Watford Island, Bermuda (2020)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas A Crist. Deborah A. Atwood.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The unexpected discovery of human remains from an unmarked cemetery for convicts located on Watford Island, Bermuda provides a unique opportunity to reconstruct the lives of these forgotten builders of the British Royal Naval Dockyard, now a major tourist destination. Buried in the early 1850s, the remains of at least seven men represent more than 9,000 British and Irish prisoners...

The Osteobiography of Philadelphia’s Forgotten Abolitionist: Reverend Stephen H. Gloucester (1802-1850) (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas A Crist. Douglas B. Mooney. Kimberly A Morrell.

Bioarchaeology often provides a pathway back to public recognition for forgotten historical figures. This presentation provides an osteobiography of Reverend Stephen H. Gloucester, a once nationally prominent and now virtually forgotten African-American abolitionist, educator, and community leader. Born enslaved in Tennessee, by the 1830s Gloucester was a vocal participant in the American Anti-Slavery Society, a founder of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, and one of the primary...

The Pacific Coast: Arrival of the Northern Light: Four Days from the Isthmus of Panama: The Chiriqui Gold Fever: Rush of the Population for the Indian Burial-Places: Two Weeks Later From South America (1859)

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This August 12, 1989 newspaper article covers the Chiriqui Gold Fields and the intense excitement that created a rush of gold hunters to Panama. It also covers news from Puru, South America, and Chilli.

Panama_Hydro 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...

Personal Adornment in the Context of Antebellum Slavery at Poplar Forest (1830-1858) (2013)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lori Lee.

Objects classified as personal adornment are often vested with meanings that reveal significant insight into their owners because they are personal. The context in which objects are used is critical to understanding potential meanings. This essay considers the recontextualization of personal adornment items, particularly glass beads, a pierced coin, and an alloy fastener, used by enslaved laborers at antebellum Poplar Forest plantation. The enslaved mobilized these forms of material culture in...

Petroglyph Concentration 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...

Petroglyph_Concentration Shapefile (2010)

GEOSPATIAL Karen Holberg.

Petroglyph_Viewshed Shapefile (2010)

GEOSPATIAL Karen Holberg.

Petroglyphs Shapefile (2010)

GEOSPATIAL Karen Holberg.

Phase I and II Cultural Resource Survey For the Proposed Grove City Developement Tract in Jackson Township, Franklin County, Ohio (1991)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bruce W. Aument.

Phase I and II Cultural Resource Survey For the Proposed U.S.A.C.O.E. Blacklick Creek Levee Improvements in Madison and Truro Townships, Franklin County, Ohio (1991)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bruce W. Aument. John R. Wright.

Phase I and Phase II Archeological and Historical Investigations, Station Square Project, Cumberland, Maryland (1993)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca Yamin. Margarita J. Wuellner. Stuart A. Reeve. Priscilla Knoblock. Charles D. Cheek.

Phase I Archaeological Survey of Two Construction Areas, Brampton, Kent County, Maryland (1993)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jay F. Custer.

Phase I Archaeological Survey, Robey Tract, Northeast Area High School, Montgomery County, Maryland (1996)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hettie L. Ballweber.

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