People
Projects
 Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest: Poplar Forest, in Bedford County, Virginia, is probably most well known as Thomas Jefferson’s retreat, where he started building a house in 1806. Members of the Cobbs-Hutter family owned the Poplar Forest property from 1828 to 1946. This website will try to open a window into life for the Hutters (bb).
African-American
Archaeology Listserv: A discussion group focused on the
archaeology of the African Diaspora in the New World. Anyone with
an interest in the the study of the material record of the diaspora
is welcome. Owned and moderated by Jamie Brandon and John McCarthy
(jb).
Archaeology
of the Spanish Cuban American War: A pilot project conducting
an assessment of the potential for archaeological work at sites
relating to the 1895-1898 war for Cuban independence (cc-d).
ArcGIS
and Archaeology: A Edward Tennant's site for practice
tutorials and practical advice to help other archaeologists use
ESRI's ArcGIS (et).
Cavanaugh
Mound in Fort Smith, Arkansas: This summary of previous
investigations brings new evidence to light, and raises new questions
concerning Cavanaugh Mound, a late prehistoric earthen structure
located in Fort Smith, Arkansas (gv).
Colonial
Arkansas Before the Louisiana Purchase : the Historic
Arkansas Museum will bring together internationally known scholars
and members of the Quapaw and Caddo nations for a history conference
and Powwow Oct. 9-11, 2003 in Little Rock Arkansas (jb).
Earthworms
and Archaeology: The Unlikely Story of a Tiny Slimy Hero:
Earthworms and archaeology. Does this seem to be an unlikely
combination of topics? Understanding how earthworms affect the
soil (and therefore the artifacts within the soil) is actually
quite important in archaeological research (gv).
Evergreen
Cemetery Recording Project: This project has involved
over 200 students and about 50 local volunteers to map and record,
in detail, all permanent features of the cemetery. The mapping
and recording are nearly complete, and much of the data has been
integrated into a GIS relational database. (gv, et).
From
Dalton to the Depression: Cane Hill (3WA1233): Excavations
concentrating on a nineteenth-century structure and its detached
kitchen in Cane Hill, Arkansas (jb).
GPS
in the Field: A practical guide to the theory and application
of GPS technologies (et).
HIstorical Metrology & the Toltec Module: Methodologically and theoretically, deriving prehistoric measurement systems from the evidence left to us today is difficult if not impossible in nearly all situations. The "Toltec Module" is one such fatally flawed measurement (gv).
Juliette
Street, Dallas, Texas:
at one time the center of Black Dallas, now archaeologists partner
with the descendant community to bring turn-of-the-century Dallas
to life. It was formerly the core of one of the earliest African-American
communities in Dallas—Freedman's Town or Old North Dallas
(jd, jb).
Kingsley
Plantation Fieldschool, Jacksonville, Florida, 2006: A
return to the site of the very first scientific excavation of
a slave cabin (1968) dug to explicitly address issues of slavery
and African-American life. This fieldwork will establish the base
line for a multi-year research driven investigation of Kingsley
Plantation, in addition to other plantations and African Diasporic
sites within the region ( jd).
Macomb
and Abert's 1870 Map of the Arkansas River: A digital
archive of a 1870 historic map of the Arkansas River created by
Greg Vogel. The map shows details along the river from Little
Rock Arkansas to Fort Gibson in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)
(gv).
Magnetic
Fractioning: a case study for remote sensing with magnetic
percentages inferring work areas within an 19th century blacksmith
shop (et).
Mounds
in the Northern Caddo Area: a study of late prehistoric
mounds constructed in the Northern Caddo Area of northwestern
Arkansas, northeastern Oklahoma, and southwestern Missouri. The
study concentrates on the relationship of the mounds to the landscape
and the implications for the environmental adaptations and social
structures of the people who built the mounds (gv).
Otago
Gold Fields: An overview of goldmining of the Otago Region
in New Zealand (et).
The
Peel Mansion Icehouse: A look at the results of a brief
excavation of a late-nineteenth century residential icehouse in
Bentonville, Arkansas (jb, jd).
Rock
Art in Arkansas: Arkansas possesses one of the richest
concentrations of rock art in eastern North America. These images
provide fascinating glimpses of the world as viewed by Arkansas'
former inhabitants (lw).
Schumann Cemetery: Sponsored by a grant from the History Channel's Save Our History program, this project is a collaborative effort between the Center for American Archeology and Calhoun and Carrollton High Schools to record historic Schumann Cemetery in Kampsville, Illinois (gv).
This Month in Archeology: Newspaper columns about archeology in western Illinois published in the Calhoun News Herald, the Jersey County Press, and the Greene Prairie Press Newspapers (gv).
Van
Winkle's Mill: a nineteenth-century sawmill community
in the Arkansas Ozarks with a lot to say about industry, race,
modernity and historical memory in the Ozarks (jb, jd, av, cc-d,
et).
Visualizing
the Past at the West Point Foundry, Cold Spring, New York:
A case study for the use of computer mapping and database
software as tools for the analysis of historic sites, including
the identification of archaeological remains and site management.
(av).
Zachary
Taylor & The Sisters of Mercy:
Excavations at what may
have been the Fort Smith home of Zachary Taylor (1841-1844) and
the first convent of the Fort Smith Sisters of Mercy (1853-1875)
(jb).
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