Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc (CRAI) Archaeological Reports

DOCUMENT Full-Text Rebecca Gatewood Rapier.

This document is a National Register of Historic Places documentation form describing the Joseph McCoun/D.S. Sharp House and surrounding property, which contains various out-buildings and other features. Located in rural Bondville, Kentucky, the private structure is east of the railroad and the Salt River. The one-story, five-bay, brick building has been architecturally classified as Early Republic/Federal with stone/limestone foundations and a brick frame. The property also includes a barn,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Deborah L. Rotman.

This presentation was part of the symposium "Memory, Power, and the Archaeology of Rural New England" at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology in Providence, Rhode Island. The paper focuses on the cult of domesticity and how it has been the most widely studied of all gender systems. However, additional ideologies – such as equal rights feminism, domestic reform, and others – also shaped gender relations during the second half of the eighteenth through the early twentieth...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Alexandra Bybee.

Fueled primarily by urban development, the recent past has seen an increasing demand for the relocation of historic and modern cemeteries. These cemeteries hold clues to the past lives of America's earliest populations, the free and enslaved, the wealthy and poor, and the healthy and diseased. Bioanthropological investigations of historic cemeteries have the potential to provide a variety of information on the biological, cultural, and mortuary aspects of these populations. On a personal level,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Rose G. Moore. Deborah L. Rotman.

Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc. was contracted by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet to complete Phase II and III archaeological investigations at the Armstrong Farmstead (15Fa185) on Paris Pike in Fayette County in 2001 and 2002. A variety of interesting ceramic wares and patterns were observed. The stonewares appeared to represent unusual vessel forms, suggesting purchase from local manufacturers. In addition, these ceramic sherds were distinctly distributed across the site. However, the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Alexandra D. Bybee. Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc..

Between May 17 and August 8, 2001, Cultural Resource Analysts’ personnel completed Phase III excavations for the relocation of the Reynolds Cemetery (46Ka349) in Kanawha County, West Virginia. The project, which was conducted at the request of Dr. Robert F. Maslowski on behalf of the Huntington District Corps of Engineers, was conducted to mitigate anticipated impacts the cemetery would suffer by the proposed Marmet Lock Replacement Project. The site was recommended as potentially eligible for...

DOCUMENT Full-Text C. Michael Anslinger.

This document is a brief overview of the Archaic culture sequence for the Falls of the Ohio Area in Kentucky and Indiana. Based on a suite of radiocarbon dates temporal limits for the Archaic period have been established at approximately 9950 to 2950 B.P. within the region, though dates extending to 2750 B.P. would not be unexpected. The Archaic, which is traditionally divided into Early, Middle, and Late sub-periods, represents a period of time when pre-ceramic hunter-gatherer populations...

DOCUMENT Full-Text R. Berle Clay. Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc..

This report/manual focuses on the techniques and uses of the Conductivity survey, also known as the electromagnetic survey (EM) and how it measures the ability of the soil to conduct an electric current. The value, measured in siemens, is the reciprocal of resistivity (to convert to resistivity in ohm meters, divide the conductivity, in millisiemens per meter, into one thousand (Bevan 1983:51)). This said, there is considerable difference in the way earth conductivity and earth resistivity are...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Trina C. Maples.

In this paper, women's clothing, in particular underwear and corsets, are examined in order to determine a woman's role in society through the archaeological record. These particular garments were not only subject to ever-changing fashion trends, but also played a role in identifying a woman's socio-economic standing in society. According to Maples, the identification of artifacts is only as good as the knowledge of the person doing the identification. By increaseing our knowledge in the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Derek M. Wingfield. Michael D. Richmond. Henry S. McKelway.

This article focuses on the findings of site 15SH50; representing the first archaeological investigation of a temporary brick kiln, or "clamp," in Kentucky. Bricks and brickmaking have received little attention in archaeological literature considering the almost universal presence of brick artifacts on most historic archaeological sites. The information generated from the excavations at site 15SH50 includes data on the size, design, and operation of the clamp and associated features. The...

DOCUMENT Full-Text William Butler. Charles Niquette.

Energy self-sufficiency has become a National priority and forthcoming energy development will be a major catalyst in transforming the way we engage in contractual archeological activities. This paper addresses the issues concerning the failure to efficiently serve the energy industry and how it can result in the cultural resource laws being changed or over-ridden. Problems which hinder such efficiency include: time, lack of qualified archeologists, Federal, state and local bureaucratic...