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This collection is referred to as “Archaeological Field Reconnaissance at Dora-New Holland Recreation Area 1979.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is one quarter (0.25) of a linear inch. The collection consists of one brochure labeled “Salamonie Lake, Indiana,” which was found in good condition within an artifact box for the project State Recreation Areas Arbitrary Investigation 1979 1985. One side of the...
Archaeological Field Reconnaissance at Miami County Recreation Area 1979
This collection is referred to as "Archaeological Field Reconnaissance at Miami County Recreation Area 1979.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is a half (0.5) of a linear inch. The document collection included correspondence requesting a records search with a map of the Department of Natural Resources project areas E15-702A and E15-702B, a letter with a cost estimate for the records search, and a final report...
Archaeological Field Reconnaissance Brookville Reservoir Waterfowl Marsh 1980
Under the direction of Dr. Ronald Hicks, the Archaeological Resources Management Service of Ball State University performed an archaeological reconnaissance in preparation to create two proposed waterfowl marshes. One of the marshes was to be a two-acre marsh, constructed just south of the Union County line in Franklin County. The other waterfowl marsh was to be constructed in Union County along the valley of Elly’s Creek and would inundate some 45 acres of former farmland. The reconnaissance...
Archaeological Field Reconnaissance Mississinewa Reservoir Force Main 1979
Following a request from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, an archaeological field reconnaissance was completed for the Mississinewa Reservoir Force Main near Peoria, Miami County, Indiana. The principal investigator was Ronald Hicks of Ball State University. The project involved the construction of 1600 feet of force main and a lift station between the two existing treatment plants. The field reconnaissance, conducted on April 28, 1979, was an intensive pedestrian survey of the...
Archaeological Field Reconnaissance Quakertown Recreation Area 1980
In 1980, an archaeological field reconnaissance was conducted by Dr. Ronald Hicks of Ball State University on the area affected by the proposed improvements to the Quakertown Recreational Area in Liberty Township, Union County, near Dunlapsville, Indiana. Since vegetation obscured ground surface visibility, the entire area was shovel probed at 30-foot intervals. The survey and shovel probe testing revealed no cultural material. Neither the owner of a nearby farm nor an employee at the Quakertown...
Archaeological Field Reconnaissance Salamonie Reservoir Visitor’s Center 1980
This collection is referred to as "Archeological Field Reconnaissance Salamonie Reservoir Visitor’s Center 1980.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is three quarters (0.75) of a linear inch. All records were in generally good condition. The collection included only paper and oversized materials; no photographic materials were present. Nowhere in this collection of documents does there appear to be an...
Archaeological Field Reconnaissance Salamonie Reservoir Wildlife Ponds 1979
This collection is referred to as "Archaeological Field Reconnaissance Salamonie Reservoir Wildlife Ponds 1979.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is three quarters (0.75) of a linear inch. This collection includes correspondence for the request, reply, and authorization of an archaeological reconnaissance for the Unit 29 area of the Salamonie Reservoir for the proposed construction of seven wildlife...
Archaeological Intensive Assessment of Huntington Municipal Airport (12HU1068) 1993
Starting in May 1993, at the request of MSE Corporation, a field reconnaissance of the Huntington Municipal Airport and surrounding area was conducted prior to the planned expansion of the airport and the construction of a new boat ramp access road located approximately one mile east of the airport (Zoll 1993). At this time USACE, Louisville District owned some of the land involved in this investigation. Donald R. Cochran from Ball State University was the principal investigator for this...
Archaeological Investigation, East Land Range No. 1, Naval Recreation Center Solomons (2008.027)
This collection contains an excavation photographs for archaeological investigations at Naval Recreation Center Solomons, East Land Range No. 1, Calvert County, Maryland. The MAC Lab accession number for these images is 2008.027. This collection also includes the project page Archaeological Investigation, East Land Range No. 1, Naval Recreation Center Solomons (2008.027).
Archaeological Investigations at the Posey Site (18CH281) and 18CH282 Indian Head Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (2005.012)
The two sites were located and initially tested during a survey of limited portions of the facility in 1985. At that time, the Posey Site was interpreted as a probable Contact Period deposit thought to date from ca. 1600 A.D. to an unknown terminal point. Several intact subsurface features were discovered, one of which yielded material radiocarbon dated to 1575 +/- 90 years A.D. The fieldwork conducted during the present investigation consisted of the excavation of 510 shovel test pits and 37...
Archaeological Investigations, Site 44HT27, Fort Monroe (FM2004.002)
This collection contains reports, photographs and artifact inventories of Phase I, II, and III investigations of site 44HT27, Hygeia Hotel, located at Fort Monroe, Hampton, Virginia. Phase II evaluation studies were conducted at four loci at Fort Monroe, Hampton, Virginia. The entire property of Fort Monroe, a National Historic Landmark, has been assigned the State site number of 44HT27. The loci studied in this report are Locus 1, Locus 15, Locus 18 and Locus 20 and a Phase III monitoring of...
Archaeological Investigations, Windsor Plantation (Site 44CE0110), Fort A.P. Hill (AP2012.002)
As part of a Cooperative Agreement with the United States Army Environmental Command, The Louis Berger Group, Inc. was tasked to complete the archaeological excavations at Site 44CE0110. The site is the probable core of Woodford Plantation (Windsor Plantation) with occupation from the 1700s to the mid-1900s. The location of a non-extant house is defined by a cellar depression. The brickwork suggests a construction date of the 1800s. Brick fragments and artifacts indicative of the occupation...
Archaeological Method and Theory: Papers in Honor of James M. Skibo, Part I
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Archaeological Method and Theory: Papers in Honor of James M. Skibo, Part I," at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. James M. Skibo has made significant contributions to the discipline of archaeology since the 1980s and has been recognized for his work through a number of awards and honors, including Distinguished Professor at Illinois State University and the SAA’s Excellence in...
Archaeological Method and Theory: Papers in Honor of James M. Skibo, Part II
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Archaeological Method and Theory: Papers in Honor of James M. Skibo, Part II," at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. James M. Skibo has made significant contributions to the discipline of archaeology since the 1980s and has been recognized for his work through a number of awards and honors, including Distinguished Professor at Illinois State University and the SAA’s Excellence...
Archaeological Microhistory at a Planned Colonial Town in Highland Peru
A generation after the Spanish invasion of the Inka Empire, the indigenous communities of the Viceroyalty of Peru were subjected to one of the largest mass resettlement programs by a colonial power: the Reducción General de Indios (General Resettlement of Indians). Over a million native people were resettled to reducción towns to facilitate religious indoctrination and tribute collection, and more broadly, to colonize the deepest recesses of everyday practice to produce newly "civilized"...
Archaeological Perspectives on the Evolution of Forager Cooperation
Habitual cooperation among non-kin is biologically unusual and yet a defining behavior of the human species. Understanding how such altruistic behavior emerges and persists among human populations remains an active and heavily debated area of anthropological and ecological research. While ethnographic forager studies have played a particularly prominent role in the discourse, contributions from prehistoric forager studies remain sparse due to the inherent challenges of studying past populations...
Archaeological Perspectives on the World of George Washington
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Archaeological Perspectives toward Medicine and Global Health
With recent outbreaks of infectious diseases such as Ebola and Zika and rising rates of chronic disease such as asthma and obesity worldwide, there has been a growing awareness of the urgency to develop novel approaches to public health and the investigation of disease. As biomedical and genomic research generate new data, knowledge, and methods of treatment, many questions remain about the evolution, proliferation and history of a number of conditions of global health concern. Archaeology, as...
Archaeological Reports
Archaeological reports and data from Example Base, County, State.
Archaeological Research and Preservation of US Navy Ship and Aircraft Wrecks
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Archaeological Research in Montezuma Canyon, San Juan County, Utah
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Archaeological Research in Montezuma Canyon, San Juan County, Utah," at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the 1960s, faculty from Brigham Young University have conducted archaeological research in southeastern Utah. The focus has been Montezuma Canyon, a long, winding drainage renowned for its rich archaeological heritage, especially Ancestral Puebloan ruins. Ray Matheny...
Archaeological Research in Petrified Forest National Park
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Archaeological Research in Petrified Forest National Park," at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Petrified Forest National park has been the subject of archaeological research for well over 100 years. In 2004 Congress authorized a boundary expansion, effectively doubling the protected land in Petrified Forest National Park. As these lands are slowly added to the park, new and...
Archaeological Research in the Cañete Valley, Peru
This session focuses on current archaeological research performed in the Cañete Valley located in the Peruvian south-central coast. Speakers will present results from excavations and/or surveys taken place in different archaeological sites pertaining to different temporal periods, mainly Early Intermediate Period, Middle Horizon, Late Intermediate Period and Late Horizon (Inca) The objective of this session is to share and exchange information from the different research projects focused on the...
Archaeological Research in the Chincha Valley, Southern Peru
In this symposium we focus on recent archaeological finds in the Chincha valley on the Peruvian South Coast, with a particular focus on the iconic Paracas culture. Paracas is the first complex society in this area. It was central to the work of such luminaries as Max Uhle, Luis Lumbreras, and Julio C. Tello. Paracas is named from the Peninsula less than 50 km to the south of Chincha. Paracas materials have been found in many valleys throughout the southern coast (from Chincha to Palpa). Our...
Archaeological Research of the 17th Century Chesapeake
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Archaeological Research of the 17th Century Chesapeake," at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. With new sites discovered in the Chesapeake region, and old sites re-examined, our understanding of the 17th century European settlements is evolving. At the Eyreville site on the Eastern Shore in Northampton County Virginia, we are beginning to see a complex social and cultural...