1-25 (276 Results)
Poster of the 1837 Ioway Map Project, presented at the 2003 ESRI International Users Conference.
The 1837 Ioway Map Project: Georeferencing a Historic Native American Map. (2003)
Conference presentation. The Ioway drew their map to help illustrate Ioway territorial boundaries to U.S. government officials. It represents a brief history of their culture, from the time of their creation until 1837. Locations on the map correspond to significant culture historical events and possibly to archaeological sites.
Access, Use/Reuse, and Preservation of Data and Information Using tDAR (the Digital Archaeological Record) (2017)
Like other public agencies, the US Army Reserve is responsible for the care of archaeological and cultural heritage resources on the facilities and land that they manage. Data and information about these resources also must be managed effectively for access, use, and sharing. This presentation illustrates how the tDAR repository is a tool that the US Army Reserve can use to meets its responsibilities. Use of tDAR also will make managing and using the data much more effective and...
Akins_Northern Rio Grande_Paper_Exploring Mortuary Variability in the Northern Rio Grande (2011)
The Pueblo Indians who live in the Northern Rio Grande belong to several distinct linguistic groups and their cultural differences may be reflected in past burial practices. With a few notable exceptions, much of the older data on Northern Rio Grande burials is presented as summaries without regards to age or sex and without definitions of exactly what is meant by the terms used to describe even basic treatment such as orientation and body position. Thus, the typical level of reporting is...
Alternative Mexico: a Mobile Application to Preserve Contemporary Heritage Values (2016)
“Alternative Mexico” is a mobile application drawing from the need to preserve and promote contemporary heritage resources that are of great value to its citizens. After more than a century of infrastructure building and promotion of urban lifeways to become a modern country, the experience has resulted in the appropriation of modern spaces and behaviors by Mexico’s citizens, with the inevitable creation of new heritage values. These new heritage resources oppose the national definition of...
Ambiguous beings: the ontological autonomy of Inuit dogs (2016)
Part of the attraction of relational ontology is its encouragement to discard conventional epistemological hierarchies. We needn’t frame our investigations with the usual weighty themes – economy, social relations, ideology – but can begin anywhere, with any sort of question, and tug on the thread until the archaeological fabric unravels. Here I begin with dogs, and their relations with humans and other animals in the Inuit past. Inuit had an exceptionally complex relationship with the dogs that...
The American Bottoms Pollen Chronology (1971)
Paper prepared for the 1971 Cahokia Ceramic Conference. This conference resulted in the chronological scheme of phases for American Bottoms and other Mississippian Culture sites that has remained in use to the present time. That scheme was published as Fowler, Melvin L. and R. H. Hall, 1972, Archaeological Phases at Cahokia. Illinois State Museum Research Series Papers in Anthropology No. 1. Springfield. The relationship of the pollen chronology to the ceramic phase sequence was not explored by...
An Analysis of American and British Ordnance from the 1781 Siege of Star Fort at Ninety Six, South Carolina (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. From May 22 to June 18, 1781, the American Continental Army under the command of General Nathanael Greene laid siege to a Loyalist detachment occupying the fortified village of Ninety Six in the backcountry of South Carolina. The Loyalist defenses included an eight-pointed, star-shaped earthwork fort that was the focus of the American siege, including a desperate and unsuccessful...
Analysis of an Unknown Component at 38CH2048, Johns Island, Charleston County, South Carolina (2016)
This paper addresses a possible Civil War era component at 38CH2048, Cane Slash Plantation.
An Analysis of Marked and Decorated White Clay Tobacco Pipes from the Lower Patuxent Drainage (2004)
This paper examines the types, quantities, and distributions of marked and decorated white clay tobacco pipes from four 17th century archaeological sites located along the lower Patuxent River in southern Maryland. Although marked pipes often account for a relatively small percentage of total pipe assemblages, important patterns in both their temporal and spatial distribution are clearly evident. For example, even though records indicate that Bristol pipemaker Llewellin Evans was working from...
Analyzing Magdalenian social networks in their environmental context (2016)
This research argues for a refocus of the study of prehistoric social networks that involves contextualizing the inter-site links often interpreted as indicators of social interactions between different groups. It focuses on the social networks created during the 3 sub-periods of the Magdalenian in the Cantabrian and Dordogne regions, and visible through similarities of portable art representations. It uses Species Distribution Modeling and Maximum Classification Likelihood on faunal presence...
ANCIENT RECIPES REVEALED: FTIR ANALYSIS OF CENTRAL PLAINS TRADITIONAL POTTERY (2010)
Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR): -FTIR studies how molecules absorb infrared radiation, between 4000-400 wavenumbers -Reveals the structure of specific organic molecules -Has been experiencing a renaissance for identifying organic substances -Currently considered one of the more powerful tools in organic and analytical chemistry -Used in forensic science -Two regions of the spectrum: functional group (4000-1500) and fingerprint region (1500-400) -Matching in the...
Anthropogenically driven decline and extinction of Sapotaceae on Nuku Hiva (Marquesas Islands, East Polynesia) (2015)
The native forests of the central and eastern Pacific Islands were extensively modified by Polynesian settlers, but our understanding of these processes are generalised. In the first large study of anthropogenic forest change in the Marquesas Islands, the identification of two members of the Sapotaceae family in archaeological charcoal assemblages was notable. Plants from this taxonomic group are poorly represented in Eastern Polynesia today, and the findings of Planchonella and another species...
The Application of Palynology to Archaeology, Limitations and Practical Suggestions (1976)
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archeology. Explores types of information archaeologists can and cannot expect to obtain from initial palynological investigations at archaeological sites. Includes suggestions on pollen sampling.
Approaches To Recording And Preserving A WWI Training Camp In Houston's Memorial Park (2020)
This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Upon entering World War I the United States built 32 army training camps across the country. Most disappeared beneath commercial and residential development or were incorporated into permanent military installations. Archaeological investigations of WWI camps have been rare. Camp Logan in Houston is unique in that after closing, the city purchased the core of the Camp Logan property to...
Archaeological Ceramics for Beginners: A Hands-On Activity for Introductory Classes (2015)
Poster from the 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Anthropology in San Fransisco, April 2015. Presented as part of the poster session, Teaching Archaeology in the Twenty-first Century: Activities for the College Classroom, chaired by Benjamin Carter.
Archaeological Indicators of Native American Influences on English Life in the Colonial Chesapeake (2005)
All too often, archaeological studies of the Contact Period, as it occurred in the Chesapeake Bay region, have focused on the European impact on Native American life. The opposite side of this interaction—the effects Indians had on colonial life—has been downplayed. Indian-made artifacts found on colonial sites are often seen as little more than indicators of “trade.” However, a closer examination of the evidence suggests that the Native impact on English settlers was more profound. Using data...
Archaeological Palynology and Correspondence Analysis: A Case Study (1996)
Paper presented at the IX International Pollen Conference, Archaeological Palynology Symposium, Houston TX.
Archaeological Resource Management and the National Park Service: Historical Perspective, Current, and Future Challenges (2016)
The stewardship of archaeological monuments and sites began even before the NPS was created. In the US some of these early efforts occurred at sites that later would become part of the National Park system. The management of archaeological resources has become more scientific and systematic since its earliest days, but we still learn from past efforts and codify what works into contemporary practice. Current efforts focus on the maintenance and protection of archaeological resources; improving...
Archaeological Resources and the Shared Heritage of Place
This document describes a set of presentations and forum discussion at the international cultural heritage conference, "Why Does the Past Matter?," held 3 - 7 May 2011 at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA. The session abstract and list of participants follows. In all but a few parts of the world the archaeological record is invisible to most people. Usually, the remains of past dwellings and other structures, places of activity, ceremony, manufacturing, and sport are covered...
Archaeological Science, Archaeology of Science: Tools for Closing the Gap between Practice and Ideals (2018)
Computational methods are increasingly being used by archaeologists and appearing in archaeological science journals. But does this make archaeology more or less scientific? On one hand, computers are anti-science because they are often used as black boxes. On the other hand, many computational tools enable unprecedented transparency of the analytical workflow. I briefly review how archaeological science has recently been defined and how the practice compares to the ideals. I then evaluate these...
Archaeological Signatures for Mechanized Threshing Operations in the Midwest and the Plains (2016)
Nineteenth and twentieth century grain threshing operations left imprints on the rural landscape and social fabric of midcontinental North America. Traces of threshing activity are seldom recognized archaeologically, despite the importance of this activity to the history of agricultural development and rural lifeways in the Midwest and Plains regions. Changes in threshing technology followed a chronological sequence with inter-regional variability. Different stages of the technology can be...
The Archaeology of Souls: A Foundation through Systematic Survey of Historic Woodland and Plains Native American Soul Concepts (2016)
The potential for accurately reconstructing prehistoric Woodland and Plains Indian societies’ notions of human soul-like essences using symbolically rich mortuary remains and art can be improved when analogous, comparative ethnohistorical information is collected systematically and with sensitivity to tribal and regional variations. Literature on 49 historic Woodland-Plains tribes produced 643 cases informing on nine selected subjects: number and locations of souls in an individual, number of...
Archaeology on the Desert River: Cultural Resource Management on the Gila River Indian Community (2016)
2016 Southwest Symposium Poster. The Gila River Indian Community (GRIC), home of the Akimel O’odham and Pee Posh tribes, is situated in south-central Arizona. Increasing levels of development on the Community and a desire to oversee Cultural and Heritage Resource planning within the Community prompted the GRIC to establish a Tribal Historic Preservation Office (THPO) as well as a Cultural Resource Management Program (CRMP). For more than twenty years the CRMP staff has been comprised of a...
Archeological Sites and Archeology in the Landscape (2006)
November 8, 2006 Powerpoint presentation on archeology and the landscape by the Chief Archeologist of the National Park Service (converted to pdf).