Cape Cod National Seashore Archaeological Survey
This collection contains documents, images, and data about the archaeological resources in and around the Cape Cod National Seashore on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. In particular these relate to what is known as the "outer Cape," that is, from the vicinity of Chatham, Orleans, and Eastham north to the the Provincelands.
Much of the archaeological work described in the contents of this collection are from investigations done by or for the Cape Cod National Seashore. The historic time period, as well as ancient times are covered by the range of digital records included.
Site Name Keywords
Fort Hill, Eastham •
High Head, North Truro •
Indian Neck Ossuary •
Nauset Harbor, Eastham •
Wellfleet Tavern site •
Great Island Tavern site •
HIgh Head •
Wellfleet Tavern •
Coast Guard Beach •
Seth's Swamp
Site Type Keywords
Archaeological Feature •
Midden •
Shell Midden •
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex •
Settlements •
Artifact Scatter •
Funerary and Burial Structures or Features •
Ossuary •
Sheet Midden •
Trash Midden
Other Keywords
fire-cracked rock •
Settlement Pattern study •
Shell Midden
Culture Keywords
Woodland •
Archaic •
Late Woodland •
Late Archaic •
Early Woodland •
Middle Woodland •
Historic •
Euroamerican •
Historic Native American •
Contact Period
Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation •
Site Evaluation / Testing •
Systematic Survey •
Collections Research •
Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis •
Reconnaissance / Survey •
Records Search / Inventory Checking •
Archaeological Overview •
Research Design / Data Recovery Plan
Material Types
Chipped Stone •
Shell •
Ceramic •
Fire Cracked Rock •
Dating Sample •
Fauna •
Human Remains •
Metal •
Ground Stone •
Glass
Temporal Keywords
Contact Period •
Historic Period •
Prehistoric Period •
Late Archaic •
Prehistoric •
Woodland •
Late Woodland •
19th Century •
18th Century •
17th Century
Geographic Keywords
Barnstable County (County) •
Barnstable County •
US (ISO Country Code) •
United States of America (Country) •
Cape Cod •
Southeastern Massachusetts •
Southern New England •
Eastham, MA •
Wellfleet, MA •
Outer Cape Cod
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Archeological Survey of Cape Cod National Seashore, 1980 (1980)
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This is a copy of the handbook created for the 1980 field season of the Cape Cod National Seashore Archeological Survey project. The archeological survey of Cape Cod National Seashore (CACO) was a multi-year study designed to help manage and interpret archeological resources . These resources include material remains and information about them from both the historic (about 1550 A. D. to the present) and prehistoric (about 12,000 before the present to 1550 A. D. or so) time periods. This...
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Archival Collection Finding Aid Cape Cod National Seashore Archeological Survey, Doyle and Nelson, 1998 (1998)
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The goal of the Cape Cod National Seashore Archeological Survey was the inventory and assessment of archeological resources within the Seashore to allow for their effective management. Due to the large size of the survey area, extending from Eastham to Provincetown, a sampling strategy was developed and implemented for locating and testing sites. The Survey discovered both historic and prehistoric sites. However, an emphasis was placed on the prehistoric record because of the expertise of the...
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Chapters in the Archeology of Cape Cod, I: Results fo the Cape Cod National Seashore Archeological Survey, 1979-1981, volume 1 (1984)
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The Cape Cod National Seashore Archeological Survey was one of the most thorough and intensive archeological surveys yet conducted in northeastern North America. Over 425 hectares (428 ha. or 1048.6 acres) were field tested by 214 sample units using a systematic shovel test pit discovery procedure. Roughly 200 historic and prehistoric sites were discovered and had additional initial examination tests done to determine their sizes, structure, and contents. Roughly 20 sites, mainly at Nauset and...
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Chapters in the Archeology of Cape Cod, I: Results fo the Cape Cod National Seashore Archeological Survey, 1979-1981, volume 2 (1984)
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The report, which is volume 2, deals with various kinds of prehistoric remains in a series of chapters. Each chapter uses a common set and sequence of units of analysis to minimize confusion about the identity and locations of concentrations. A series of foldout maps will help with the geographic orientation as well. Eight chapters are included in Volume 2. One of these is a description and analysis of the kinds of archeological deposits and lithic assemblages found by the survey. Another...
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Chapters in the Archeology of Cape Cod, II: The 1983 Excavations at 19BN281 (1985)
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Site 19BN281 is a Late Archaic habitation near High Head (Pilgrim Heights) in North Truro, Massachusetts. The site is on land of Cape Cod National Seashore in the town of Truro. The site is near the outer end of Cape Cod, where the land narrows to a width of two kilometers before expanding again to the northwest. The site was discovered and tested as part of the National Park Service's general archeological survey of the seashore. In the context of the survey's results, 19BN28l is of interest...
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Chapters in the Archeology of Cape Cod, III: The Historic Period and Historic Period Archeology (1985)
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Contains three parts: "Research on the Historic Period and Historic Period Archaeology" by FP McManamon (pp 1-16); "Changes in the Coastal Wilderness: Historic Land Use Patterns on Outer Cape Cod, 17th-19th Centuries" by Patricia E. Rubertone (pp 17-124); "Historic and Land Use and Settlement on Outer Cape Cod: An Exploratory Analysis of Archeological Data" by Francis P. McManamon and S. Terry Childs (pp 125-156). Historical information and archeological data are used to describe historic...
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Chapters in the Archeology of Cape Cod, IV: Faunal Analysis and Metallurgical Analysis from the Cape Cod National Seashore Archeological Survey (2011)
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Between 1979 and 1985 the National Park Service conducted an archeological survey of most of the area of the Cape Cod National Seashore (CACO). Many ancient and historic period sites were identified and evaluated. Some of the evaluated sites also had small areas excavated. The areas around Nauset Harbor in Eastham and High Head in North Truro contained high concentrations of sites. Additional archeological investigations were carried out at some of the sites in these two areas. Figure 1 shows...
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Collections Research and Collectors-Cape Cod National Seashore (1983)
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This is a collection of letters, memos, and handwritten and typed notes related to research done on collections made by Ross Moffett, an avocational archaeologist who lived and conducted archaeological research on outer Cape Cod. Some information also describes or lists other artifact collectors on the outer Cape. There is a transcript of an interview that FPMcManamon had with Fred Johnson, an archaeologist who worked with Moffett and was instrumental in Moffett's collections and notes being...
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The Indian Neck Ossuary (1988)
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In September, 1979, National Park Service archaeologists conducting an archaeolgoical survey of Cape Cod National Seashore were called to a site on Indian Neck, a peninsula in Wellfleet Harbor on outer Cape Cod. A backhoe operator digging a hole for a cottage's septic tank had unearthed human bones. Based on the condition of the exposed bones, the archaeologists determined that the burial was prehistoric. The cottage owners allowed the NPS archaeological team to excavate the remaining...
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The Indian Neck Ossuary: Chapters in the Archaeology of Cape Cod, V (1986)
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In September, 1979, National Park Service (NPS) archeologists working at Cod National Seashore were called to the scene of a discovery of a skeleton on Indian Neck near the shore of Wellfleet Harbor in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. The archeologists quickly determined that the skeletons probably were prehistoric. In order to salvage the remains before they were destroyed, it was agreed that the archeologists would excavate the remaining in situ materials. Two days of careful fieldwork revealed an...
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The Indian Neck Ossuary: A Preliminary Report, Bradly et al 1982 (1982)
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Late in the summer of 1979, human bones were unexpectedly uncovered during the construction of a septic system for summer cottages on Indian Neck, Wellfleet, Massachusetts. National Park Service archeologists, who were conducting a survey of the Cape Cod National Seashore, were contacted and the skeletal remains were identified as Native American . Construction had been halted when the bones were first noticed and it was determined that completion of the septic system would destroy the remaining...
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Prehistoric Land Use on Outer Cape Cod (1982)
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Preliminary analysis of archaeological survey data indicates that prehistoric land use of coastal southern New England (represented by outer Cape Cod, Massachusetts) was year-round and more diverse than has been suggested by the traditional emphasis on coastal shell middens. Prehistoric settlement seems to have been concentrated mainly in a few locations with large intervening unsettled areas. A stratified random sampling strategy allowed estimates of the relative frequency of different kinds...
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Research Design for the Archeological Survey of Cape Cod National Seashore, McManamon 1979 (1979)
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This research has two general goals: first, to identify the physical characteristics and estimate the numbers and locations of archeological sites within Cape Cod National Seashore (CACO); second, to assess the significance of these sites according to the information they might provide about history, prehistory, specific past ways of life and general patterns of human behavior.
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Units of Analysis and Prehistoric Land Use on Outer Cape Cod (1986)
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There are a number of problesm that must be resoloved in order to identify and delimit archaeological units of analysis that accurately correspond to past occupations. The general problem is to make operational definitions for concepts that are used and useful for intepretations about past human behavior or cultural systems. For the Cape Cod Archaeological Survey, an operational unit labeled "concentration" was used to subdivide archaeological site areas into smaller, more internally...