Military Cultural Resources Management

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather Hardy.

This is an abstract from the "Military Cultural Resources Management" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Negative impacts from military and recreational activity occurs on easily accessible archaeological sites on U.S. Army Garrison Alaska managed lands. Vehicular and foot traffic causes vegetation disruption, soil disturbance, and erosion. Implementation of site protection measures including physical obstacles, experimental site capping, signage,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Heilen.

This is an abstract from the "Military Cultural Resources Management" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the United States, cultural and natural resources are managed following separate sets of regulations, guidelines, methods, and workflows. The US Department of Defense (D0D) and other federal agencies seek to streamline and synergize management efforts by integrating cultural and natural resource management. While attention has been paid to why...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chris Howell.

This is an abstract from the "Military Cultural Resources Management" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne) is supporting the Air Force Civil Engineer Center (AFCEC) with an ongoing enterprise-wide initiative striving for full compliance with Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) of 1990 for archaeological collections dating to prior to November 16, 1990. This poster discusses the general...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bernard Means.

This is an abstract from the "Military Cultural Resources Management" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As a Department of Defense Legacy Resource Management Program project, the Virtual Curation Laboratory (VCL) at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) explored different techniques for three-dimensional (3-D) documentation of cultural heritage on the island of O’ahu in March 2024, with the principle goal of creating a 3-D virtual public tour of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Jankiewicz.

This is an abstract from the "Military Cultural Resources Management" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Avon Park Air Force Range (AFR), located in the heart of central Florida, contains archaeological resources vulnerable to severe weather and flooding, as well as ecological and anthropogenic disturbances. Avon Park AFR in partnership with Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Houston's National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping, is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Orr.

This is an abstract from the "Military Cultural Resources Management" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Located on 1,630 and 3,800 acres in the high plains east of Colorado Springs, Peterson and Schriever Space Force Bases (SFBs) have experienced human activity across pre-contact, historic, and Air Force eras, as well as natural disturbance from watercourses. Both natural and cultural activities have led to ground disturbance that could affect the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brooks Lawler.

This is an abstract from the "Military Cultural Resources Management" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Department of the Air Force, Eielson AFB in Alaska has maintained historic gray literature informing cultural resource management since the early 90's. Updated cultural resource management practices and techniques are essential to federal compliance with the NHPA but can be informed greatly by gray literature and records organization. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michelle Wurtz Penton.

This is an abstract from the "Military Cultural Resources Management" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Avon Park Air Force Range (APAFR), located in central Florida, was established in 1942 as a gunnery and bombing range, encompassing over 100,000 acres within the Kissimmee River watershed. Archaeological surveys at APAFR began in the early 1980s, but it wasn’t until the early 2000s that these surveys were conducted according to state standards...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Lowry.

This is an abstract from the "Military Cultural Resources Management" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Port Tampa Cemetery is a Black cemetery dating to the early twentieth century. It was documented in death records, the Works Progress Association (WPA) cemetery survey, and the oral histories of longtime Port Tampa residents. In the first half of the twentieth century the exact cemetery location was lost during construction of MacDill Airforce...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Abplanalp.

This is an abstract from the "Military Cultural Resources Management" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne) is supporting the Air Force Civil Engineer Center (AFCEC) with an on-going enterprise-wide initiative striving for full compliance with Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) of 1990 for archaeological collections dating to prior to November 16, 1990. Argonne and AFCEC are partnering...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Stowe.

This is an abstract from the "Military Cultural Resources Management" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the fall of 2023, the White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) Cultural Resources Team contracted Versar, Inc. to conduct a unique project to assess the potential for using remote sensing technologies to analyze the subsurface characteristics of buried cultural sites to support National Register of Historic Places nominations within several locations...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Candice Disque.

This is an abstract from the "Military Cultural Resources Management" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Landscape Archaeology can be defined as the interplay between humans and their environment as derived through scientific approaches, historical studies, and ethnography. Sections 106 and 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act require federal agencies to manage historic properties and consider project-specific and cumulative effects to...