Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory

The Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory (MAC Lab) is a archaeological research, conservation and curation facility located at Jefferson Patterson Park & Museum, the State Museum of Archaeology, in southern Maryland. The MAC Lab serves as a clearinghouse for archaeological collections recovered from projects conducted throughout Maryland, as well as collections from private donations (http://www.jefpat.org/mac_lab.html).

The digital records for the MAC Lab's collections are available here and are organized according to contributing installation. They are further organised by MAC Lab accession number and/or by archaeological site.


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National Register Eligibility Evaluations of Sites 18ST659 and 18ST754 and Data Recovery Excavations at VXX Presidential Helicopter Facility, Naval Air Station Patuxent River (2006.055) Naval District Washington, Section 110 Surveys, Anacostia Annex, Potomac Annex and US Naval Observatory (2013.047) Individual Resources
  • Addendum Report on the Preliminary Archaeological Reconnaissance of the Washington Gas Light Company Prince Frederick Pipeline, Calvert County, Maryland (1990)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Hettie L. Ballweber. Ronald L. Michael.

    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.

  • Archaeological Excavations at Site l8DO82 and Find Spot X21-X30, U.S. Naval Reservation, Bloodsworth Island (1992.080) (1982)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas E. Davidson.

    This resources is a technical report on archaeological investigations at Bloodsworth Island, Dorchester County, Maryland. Site 18DO82 was identified as the home of waterman William Parks from ca. 1840-1880. Two additional sites were identified as disturbed and in need of no further work (18DO107 and 18DO108). Finally, artifact concentrations along the shore (find spots 18DOX21-18DOX30) were explored and found to have resulted from wave action rather than the presence of archeological sites....

  • Archaeological Investigations at the "Antenna Field," St. Inigoes, Maryland (1985)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Julia A. King. Dennis J. Pogue.

    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.

  • Archaeological Investigations at the "Old Chapel Field," St. Inigoes, Maryland (1992.030) (1984)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Dennis J. Pogue. Karlene B. Leeper.

    This is the final report if archaeological investigations undertaken prior to the construction of utility lines and and EVM Test Facility proposed by the Naval Electronics Systems Engineering Activity (NESEA) in St. Inigoes, Maryland. Based on a previous survey, investigations focused on two areas known as "Old Chapel Field" and "Langley Hollow." Testing consisted of 406 shovel tests, four 5 x 5' units, and surface collection of three acres of plowed land. While Langley Hollow yielded little,...

  • Archaeological Investigatons at Susquehanna: a 19th Century Farm Complex Aboard Patuxent River Naval Air Station, St. Mary's County, Maryland (1989)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Julia A. King.

    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.

  • Archeological Excavations at St. Inigoes Manor House, 18ST87, St. Mary's County, Maryland (1998.037) (1984)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Dinnel.

    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...

  • Archeological Investigations at the Naval Electronic Systems Engineering Activity Facility, St. Inigoes, St. Mary's County, Maryland (1989)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only B. R. Roulette, Jr.. Charles D. Cheek. J. Sanderson Stevens.

    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.

  • Archeological Reconnaissance of the Naval Recreation Center Shoreline on the Patuxent River at Solomons, Calvert County, Maryland (1986.002) (1986)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Stephen Israel.

    This resource is the report of a survey conducted at the Naval Recreation Center in Solomon's Island Maryland in 1986. The collection and records are curated at the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory on behalf of the Navy.

  • An Archeological Survey of the David W. Taylor Naval Ship Research and Development Center, Carderock and Annapolis, Maryland (1984)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Marcia Weinland. Carmen A. Weber.

    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.

  • Colonel Addison’s Plantation Revisited (2014)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Esther Rimer.

    In the 1980s, archaeological investigations exposed the site of an 18th-century plantation near the Washington, DC Beltway and now destroyed by development. These investigations suggested that the plantation’s first resident was Colonel John Addison, an Indian trader and merchant, militia officer, Protestant, and planter with extensive connections across the Potomac. Twenty-five years on, archaeologists at St. Mary’s College of Maryland are engaged in an intensive re-evaluation of the earliest...

  • Cultural Resource Survey of U. S. Naval Reservation, Bloodsworth Island, Dorchester County, Maryland (1980)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Steve Wilke. Rinita Dalan. Jim Demerest. Lorena Walsh.

    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.

  • A Cultural Resources Survey of the Bainbridge Naval Training Center, Port Deposit, Maryland, Volume II: Archeological Resources (1992.060) (1982)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard B. Hughes. Susan A. Lebo.

    This resource is a technical report summarizing an archaeological resources survey of Bainbridge Naval Training Center. The approximately 1200 acres of the Bainbridge Naval Training Center in Cecil County, Maryland was surveyed for the presence of significant cultural resources. Research goals consisted of testing currently existing models of regional upland-area land use for prehistoric resources, and testing for the presence of cultural deposits in areas identified through historic document...

  • Environmental Assessment for Explosive Test Facility at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head, Maryland (1995)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Louis Berger & Associates, Inc.. Base Consolidation, Realignment and Reuse Consortium.

    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.

  • Evaluating a Cooperative Approach to the Management of Digital Archaeological Records (2014)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Sara Rivers Cofield. Jodi Reeves Eyre.

    The Department of Defense (DoD) needs efficient access to data from past archaeological investigations at its installations in order to avoid sudden, unpredicted site discoveries that delay mission-oriented activities, programs, and projects. The ECAMDAR project is a test case designed to evaluate whether and how an online repository for digital archaeological and cultural resource management (CRM) data and information developed and managed by the Center for Digital Antiquity (Digital Antiquity)...

  • Evaluating a Cooperative Approach to the Management of Digital Archaeological Records (ECAMDAR): A Defense Legacy Project Assessing tDAR for the Department of Defense (2015)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Sara Rivers Cofield. Jodi Reeves Eyre.

    The Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory (MAC Lab) and the Regional Archaeological Curation Laboratory (RACF) in Ft. Lee, Virginia are archaeological repositories that meet high professional standards for the care of artifacts and paper records. Unfortunately, neither facility has the expert technical staff and specialized infrastructure necessary to qualify as permanent repositories for digital records, despite the exponential rise in site documentation that exists in digital form...

  • Out of the shadows…’: Examining Historic-Period Indian-made Ceramics Using Subtypological Analysis (2014)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Valerie M.J. Hall.

    Maryland’s indigenous population, especially Indian women, transformed Early British American society during the 17th century. Maryland Indian women provided sustenance and crafts and served as cultural brokers, providing colonists with food and native-made goods, including aboriginal ceramics. Typing historic-period Native American ceramics in the Chesapeake region is challenging due to overlapping (and sometimes conflicting) typological attributes. Additionally, classifying wares by type...

  • Phase I Archaeological Investigation of the Proposed Naval Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology Division (Stump Neck Annex) Pass Office Site, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head, Charles County, Maryland (1995)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Virginia R. Busby.

    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.

  • Phase I Archaeological Investigations Near Mattapany, Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, St. Mary's County, Maryland (2000)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Edward E. Chaney.

    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.

  • Phase I Archaeological Investigations: Welcome Center for the Patuxent Naval Air Station at the Intersection of Freisz and Cuddihy Roads, St. Mary's County, Maryland (1994)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Amelia Clark.

    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.

  • Phase I Archeological Survey for the Proposed Parking Lot off of Strauss Road, NSWC Indian Head, Charles County, Maryland (2000)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Davis. William IV Lowthert. Brian Stone. Peter Godwin.

    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.

  • Phase I Archeological Survey of a Proposed Building Location on Olson Road, Addendum to: Phase I Cultural Resources Survey at Stump Neck Annex and Supplemental Architectural Investigations, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head (1999)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas W. Davis. Bradley Burkholder. William IV Lowthert.

    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.

  • Phase II Archaeological Evaluation: the Towne Neck Site (18AN944), Athletic Facilities Construction Project, Naval Radio Transmitter Facility, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, Maryland (1994)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Alan D. Beauregard. Alvin Luckenbach. Anthony Lindauer. James Kodlick.

    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.

  • Phase II Evaluation of Portions of Site 18CH673, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head, Charles County, Maryland (2000)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Davis. Colleen Popson. Peter Godwin. Daniel Grose.

    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.

  • Phase III Data Recovery Investigations at 18CV362, Ashcomb's Quarter (Historic Component) and Awapantop (Prehistoric Component), Solomons Naval Recreation Center, Solomons, Calvert County, Maryland (1998)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Wade P. Catts. Stuart Fiedel. Douglas C. Kellogg. Charles Cheek. Katherine Dinnel. Kathryn Wood.

    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.

  • Prehistoric Archeological Resources in the Maryland Coastal Zone: A Management Overview (1979.003) (1977)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Steve Wilke. Gail Thompson.

    This report represents an initial and significant step toward the understanding and management of the archeological resources of the Coastal Zone of Maryland. The dynamic environmental and cultural changes which transpired during the 12,000 year span of human occupation have produced a varied and complex archeological record. Prolonged environmental and cultural stresses constantly erode this non-renewable database. Interim and long-term management goals are presented in this report to assist...

  • Preliminary Archaeological Reconnaissance of the Washington Gas Light Company Prince Frederick Pipeline, Calvert County, Maryland (1990)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Hettie L. Ballweber. Ronald L. Michael.

    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.

  • A Preliminary Archeological Reconnaissance Survey of the Naval Ordnance Station, Indian Head, Maryland, Volume I: Cornwallis Neck, Bullitt Neck and Throughfare Island (1985)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only William P. Barse.

    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.

  • Reassessing the Hallowes Site: Conflict and Settlement in the 17th-century Potomac Valley (2014)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Brad Hatch. Barbara Heath. Lauren McMillan.

    The John Hallowes Site in Westmoreland County, Virginia was excavated from 1968 to 1969. While no site report was written, an article summarizing the findings was published in Historical Archaeology in 1971. The artifacts from the site were not systematically catalogued until the 1980s, and it was not until 2010-2012 that an integrated study that compared the artifact data with site features, site history, regional archaeological findings, and regional history was completed. Benefiting from...

  • Supplemental Analysis of Faunal, Botanical and Soil Samples from the Towne Neck Site (18AN944) at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland (2000)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Ann Markell. Christian Davenport. Justine Woodard McKnight.

    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.

  • Tipping Point (2014)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Julia King.

    As historical archaeologists in the Mid-Atlantic region of the US turn their focus not just to Europeans and Africans, sensu Deetz, but to the region’’s Indigenous people, emerging interpretations emphasize resistance and survival in the face of the European colonizing machine. These narratives are aimed at challenging the deeply entrenched notion of the disappearing Indian, but they also tend to ignore the losses, especially through displacement, experienced by Native people. Using...

  • ‘Unraveling the Mystery of ‘Building X,’ George Washington’s Alleged Birthplace’ (2014)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Philip Levy. Amy Muraca.

    George Washington Birthplace National Monument boasts several seventeenth-century eighteenth-century sites. Two of these have long been associated with Washington. Decades of archaeology of this landscape though has created a complicated and record, but the holy grail of the landscape has always been locating the building in which Washington was born. Over the summer of 2013 a team of researchers reexamined the record and collection associated with what in the 1930s became known as ‘»Building...

Patuxent River Naval Air Station Cultural Resources Survey, Volume I: History and Archaeology (1998.032.002) Pearson Creek Survey, Naval Air Station Patuxent River (1999.009)
  • Pearson Creek Survey, Naval Air Station Patuxent River (1999.009)
    PROJECT Navy. Julia A. King. Edward E. Chaney.

    This project contains an artifact inventory, distribution data, and official report from Phase I excavations at Pearson Creek, Maryland. The goal of the project was to identify and inventory all archaeological sites within the project boundary in accordance with Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended. The Pearson Creek Survey took place on Naval Air Station Patuxent River (NASPAX) and is found in St. Mary’s County, within Maryland Archaeological Research Unit...

  • Artifact Inventory, Pearson Creek, Naval Air Station Patuxent River (1998)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Edward E. Chaney.

    This resource is an artifact inventory for the Phase I shovel testing at Pearson Creek, Maryland. This inventory is also included in the official report for this excavation, located in the Pearson Creek Survey, Naval Air Station Patuxent River (1999.009) project and collection.

  • Distribution Tables, Pearson Creek, Naval Air Station Patuxent River (2001)
    DATASET Cassandra Michaud.

    This resource contains artifact distribution tables from the Phase I excavations at Pearson Creek, Maryland. The date of creation for this dataset has been listed as the same date as the publication of the official report (2001), but it may have been created earlier.

  • Phase I Archaeological Resources Inventory of the Pearson Creek Area, Naval Air Station, Patuxent River, St. Mary's County, Maryland (2001)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Cassandra Michaud.

    This report summarizes the findings of the Pearson Creek Survey, the goal of which was to identify and inventory all archaeological sites within the project boundary in accordance with Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended. The Pearson Creek Survey took place on Naval Air Station Patuxent River (NASPAX) and is found in St. Mary’s County, within Maryland Archaeological Research Unit Number 9. The survey covered approximately 1.5 miles of creek shoreline and...

Phase I and II Investigations at Site W, Adelphi Laboratory Center (2000.030) Phase I and II Investigations at Sites 51SW22 and 51SW7, Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, DC (2013.015) Phase I and II Investigations, Washington Navy Yard Quarters, Washington D.C. (2013.005) Phase I and Phase II Excavations of 400 Area Ridge Top, Locus I (Site 18MO396), Adelphi Laboratory Center (2000.031) Phase I and Phase II Investigations, Sites 18AN398, 18AN929, 18AN982, 18AN983, 18AN988, and 18AN989, Fort Meade (2004.037) Phase I and Phase II Survey of Blossom Point Farmhouse, Adelphi Laboratory Center (2000.029)
  • Phase I and Phase II Survey of Blossom Point Farmhouse, Adelphi Laboratory Center (2000.029)
    PROJECT Army -- Archaeology and Historic Preservation Program. Jay F. Custer.

    This project contains an artifact catalog for a phase I and phase II surveys of the historic Blossom Point Farmhouse by the KFS Historic Preservation Group. The following is from Diagnostic Artifacts in Maryland: "The Blossom Point site is located at the confluence of the Potomac River and Nanjemoy Creek in Charles County, Maryland. A brick house measuring approximately 25’ by 30’ was constructed there c. 1805 for Bennett Semmes, a tenant farmer and overseer. At the time, Blossom Point...

  • Artifact Inventory, Phase I and Phase II Survey of Blossom Point Farmhouse, Adelphi Laboratory Center (2000)
    DATASET KFS Historic Preservation Group. Tetra Tech Inc..

    This contains an artifact catalog for a phase I and phase II surveys of the historic Blossom Point Farmhouse by the KFS Historic Preservation Group in January 1993. The "Description Characteristics" column in this data set has been unmerged into four distinct columns and relabeled to allow for it to be ingested into tDAR. No data have been affected. Modified on 02/17/2014.

Phase I Archaeological Investigations at Naval Station, Annapolis (2006.026)