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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"Historical archaeology"”.
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Makeshift assemblages: Queer maneuverings in historical archaeology
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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Advances in Archaeological Geophysics: Case Studies from Historical Archaeology
… and two nineteenth century historic military archaeology sites at Paint Rock, Texas and Alcatraz Island, California. I demonstrate the ability of the Geonics EM-63 time-domain electromagnetic-induction metal detector to detect and localize historical metal artifacts at an experimental site and …
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The historical archaeology of settlement at Pitcairn Island 1790-1856
This thesis examines the historical and archaeological evidence of the mutineer settlement at Pitcairn Island from the time of the arrival of HMAV Bounty in 1790 to the removal of the entire population to Norfolk Island in 1856. The mutiny aboard the Bounty has been the focus of intense interest …
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Drugs and dirt: The historical archaeology of19th century medicines in Springfield, Illinois
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01
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Dig In! The Historical Archaeology of Gendered Foodways in Sulphur, Nevada, 1909-1959
… survey, excavation, spatial analysis, historical research, and oral history inform interpretations of Sulphur's foodways, revealing the complex nature of gender's influences.
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Behind the Legend: A Historical Archaeology of the Buffalo Shooting industry, 1875-1958
… and inter-disciplinary study, combining historical archaeology and folkloristics, 'excavates' the memory of the buffalo shooting industry across a cultural continuum whilst providing historical reinterpretation of this unique industry.
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Behind the Legend: A Historical Archaeology of the Buffalo Shooting industry, 1875-1958
… and inter-disciplinary study, combining historical archaeology and folkloristics, 'excavates' the memory of the buffalo shooting industry across a cultural continuum whilst providing historical reinterpretation of this unique industry.
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Intercultural Colonization and the Landscape: The Historical Archaeology of San Emigdio, South Central California
… material, from other disciplines and from the historical record (primarily maps, photographs, historic accounts, and census records), the themes are developed to provide an understanding of what ownership means in an intercultural landscape. Themes of ownership and sense of belonging are …
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Entangled By Salt: Historical Archaeology of Seafarers and Things in the Venezuelan Caribbean, 1624–1880
… assemblages of practice. as an interdisciplinary historical archaeological project, this dissertation research employs the documentary record, oral sources and an analysis of the archaeological remains and their depositional contexts systematically excavated at the saltpan sites of Punta Salinas …
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A Historical Archaeology of Whisky in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. c.1500-1850
This is a study of the historical archaeology of whisky distilling in the Highlands<br/>and Islands of Scotland from c.1500AD to c.1850AD. Historical archaeology, as a<br/>combination of historical and archaeological methods is utilised throughout the thesis<br/>to investigate two core research …
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History, Historical Archaeology, and Cultural Resource Management: A Case Study from Jasper County, South Carolina
Virgil Noble (1996) has noted a deficiency in historical archaeological research within the sphere of cultural resource management, attributable to inadequacies within regulatory agencies, resulting in trite methodological exercises. This thesis demonstrates that another problem can be found in the …
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A state of change : an historical archaeology of Doukhobor identity at Kirilovka village site (FcNs-1)
… four households is investigated in this thesis. Historical characterizations of the Doukhobors in Saskatchewan tend to be uncertain as to whether the Doukhobors were an ethnic group and/or religious sect, and to the degree of internal cohesion and homogeneity at the community level. Combined …
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A New Method of Ceramic Economic Indexing in Historical Archaeology with a Case Study from Springfield, Missouri
… George Miller's ceramic indexing method to the historical archaeological record to quantify ceramic expenditure patterns. However, Miller's method is suited primarily to antebellum assemblages of ceramic artifacts. In this study, I developed a new ceramic economic indexing method, designed …
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Historic settlement on Unst, Shetland. An holistic study of abandoned settlements on Unst, Shetland utilising historical archaeology and prospection approaches
… highland society as ahistoric and unchanging. Historical, archaeological and geographic evidence for settlement on Unst were used to assess the geographical distribution of historic settlement on the island. Two detailed case studies integrated archaeological prospection techniques with the …
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The historical archaeology of Marothodi : towards an understanding of space, identity and the organisation of production at an early 19th century Tlokwa capital in the Pilansberg region of South Africa
… of an interdisciplinary approach to the historical archaeology of Tswana towns of the late Moloko period in South Africa, and asserts the importance of examining such sites on a case by case basis against the defined backdrop of their unique historical, political and biophysical contexts. …
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Better Together: Collaborative Archaeology at the Stewart Indian School
… the initial results of the 2013 Collaborative Historical Archaeology Field School at the Stewart Indian School site, 26-OR-568, in Carson City, Nevada. The excavations were conducted largely in order to locate the original, wooden school building that was built in 1890, and to also locate the …
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Animal exploitation in medieval Ireland
… with it, the zooarchaeological record and the historical record. Three problems present themselves in such an endeavour. The first is a more general problem within the realm of historical archaeology, and that is the integration of the archaeological and historical records. As will be discussed …
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The Potosi-Cobija route: archaeology of colonial transportation in the south Central Andes
… colonial transportation in archaeological and historical terms based on the Potosi-Cobija route case. Potosi was a strategic extractive region during the expansion of the world-economy. In this region, the Spanish Empire obtained large quantities of silver and produced the main international …
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BIOGRAPHIES OF PEOPLE AND PLACE: THE HAREWOOD ESTATE, 1698-1813
… to challenge the taken-for-granted stories of historical archaeology. A detailed account of the Harewood Estate is presented in order to contextualise the landscape developments, led by Edwin Lascelles, 1st Baron Harewood (1712-1795) from 1755. It is situated within the broader context of …
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Sweet Spring: The Development and Meaning of Maple Syrup Production at Fort Drum, New York
… dissertation project uses archaeological and historical information to examine the cultural dynamics of maple syrup making at Fort Drum, New York, in the period between 1880 and 1940. This project combines a processual approach with an interpretive assessment, covering the social, economic and …
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