The Landscapes in Military Installation Archaeology
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2018
Military installations offer unique modern and historical landscapes. Unlike many other large government owned properties, where the goal is to leave the property undisturbed, the mission of military installations is to utilize the property in its entirety and to evolve and transform with the military missions. This leads cultural resources managers to utilize a landscape's broader cultural view where they understand their lands within the context of their surrounding landscape, rather than view their lands on a site by site basis as is common with CRM and academic projects throughout the United States. This allows for the ability to see the big picture of a local landscape before the installation was built and the local component of a bigger picture when looking at the installation during historic military conflict landscapes. Also, explore the difference of working within the modern military landscape versus working in academia or general CRM.
Other Keywords
Preservation •
Military •
U.S. Army •
Predictive •
Modeling •
Cemeteries •
Landscape Archaeology •
Section 110 •
industrial •
nineteenth century
Temporal Keywords
19th and early 20th Century •
Pioneer and Rural Industrial Expansion periods •
1900-1910
Geographic Keywords
North America •
Coahuila (State / Territory) •
New Mexico (State / Territory) •
Oklahoma (State / Territory) •
Arizona (State / Territory) •
Texas (State / Territory) •
Sonora (State / Territory) •
United States of America (Country) •
Chihuahua (State / Territory) •
Nuevo Leon (State / Territory)
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Camp Atterbury's Grey Areas: Civilian Cemeteries on Military Property (2018)
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Many of the military installations in use currently were built at the beginning of 20th century. These usually displaced some communities and individual residences. When Camp Atterbury was built in 1941, it displace a few small communities, a few hundred farming families, and approximately two dozen churches. Many of each of these groups had burial grounds. At the very beginning of construction of the base many of these people and their memorials were also removed to an area just north of base....
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Camp McCoy: The Archaeology of Enlisted Men Before the Great War, ca. 1905-1910 (2018)
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Test excavations conducted within modern-day Fort McCoy (US Army Installation, Wisconsin) revealed portions of historic Camp McCoy/Camp Emory Upton, two seasonal Army manuever camps occupied sporadically from 1905-1910. Discovery of what appears to be a Company size bakery, butcher yard and supply station area, along with a period midden allows for a detailed archaeological understanding of the lives, equipment and diet of enlisted soldiers in the early "territorial" U.S Army. This site is...
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Nineteenth Century Domestic and Industrial Landscapes within Military Installations on the Panhandle of Florida (2018)
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The panhandle of Florida in the nineteenth century was a time of flux and hosted an array of settlement types across the landscape - from small, single family homesteads to larger established communities all exhibiting physical evidence of domestic and industrial land use over time. As the primary context for human behavior, the landscape shaped by early settlers of Florida can also reveal the economic class and social standing of those that lived there, with evidence of such found in structural...
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The Reality of Predictive Modeling: Experiences and Lessons Learned at Two Military Training Facilities (2018)
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Department of Defense military training facilities occupy large areas across the US encompassing over 30 million acres. Facilities range in size from several acres to several million acres and are present in every state. While similar in scope to the National Park system, military lands are working lands with missions that often revolve around and include destruction and construction in various forms. These activities typically constitute a federal undertaking requiring the application of...
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Using a Landscape Approach: Case Studies in Section 110 Compliance in Military Installations. (2018)
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Per Section 110 of the NHPA, federal institutions, including military installations, are required to identify and manage the cultural resources found therein. Funding to meet this requirement is typically limited and awarded within a yearly budget, allowing for disjointed surveys from one year to the next. The result is often recommendations based on a singular viewpoint of a site rather than a true reflection of the information the site can provide based on the regional setting and temporal...