Articles in regional publications that pertain to a wide range of North Carolina-related topics.
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for "North Carolina Archaeology"
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8451
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On May 29, 1664, colonists arrived in what is now Brunswick County to establish a town. Most of the arrivals were English. They chose a site on a low knoll at the mouth of Town Creek, a large tributary of the Lower Cape Fear River. Considerations in selecting this site would have included navigation, anchorage, defense, and centrality of position within the colony. The settlement was intended to be an agricultural one. By the fall of 1667, the colony was abandoned. Forces far removed from the colony contributed to its decline, including failure to obtain essential patents and charters from the king and lords proprietors, England�s war with Holland, and internal squabbles among the colony�s backers. Loftfield discusses what excavations reveal about the colony.
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North Carolina Archaeology
(NoCar E 78 S55 S6), Vol. 54 Issue , Oct 2005,
p36-48, il, bibl
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35116
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Mary Fitts’ article covered the relationships facilitated between the American Indians groups residing in the Central Piedmont region between the sixteenth and first half of the eighteenth century. Highlighted were similar challenges the groups encountered. An examination of one of the groups inhabiting this region, the Catawba, involved factors such as their name’s possible origins, differences in class, social differences, and reasons for their becoming a confederacy of nations. With regards to their pottery, included were four tables and ten figures related to the locations and types. Their locations in this regions were revealed in three maps (see figures 2, 4, and 5), as well as locations for the archaeological expeditions (see figures 3 and 5).
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35124
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Discussed were artifacts, initially identified as Morrow Mountain Projectile Points, discovered in a site in Mount Olive, NC. To build his case, the author, proposing that the three butchering tools were actually knives, used this evidence: crafting method; shape, size, weight, and width of the blade; and perceived functions. Illustrations related to these factors were figures featuring images of knives recovered from other archaeological excavations.
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North Carolina Archaeology
(NoCar E 78 S55 S6), Vol. 57 Issue , Oct 2008,
p108-116
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18608
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Archaeology and geography staff and students from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro used multidisciplinary research to explore the occupation of Tannenbaum Historic Park in Greensboro from the American Revolution to the present. The Park is part of the Guilford Courthouse Battlefield National Historic Landmark and is believed to be the location where General Cornwallis formed the first British line of attack which proceeded into the current Guilford Courthouse National Military Park.
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North Carolina Archaeology
(NoCar E 78 S55 S6), Vol. 52 Issue , Oct 2003,
p20-52, map, bibl, f
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35198
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This article chronicled Stanley South’s excavation at Oak Island in 1960, with comparisons made between South’s excavation and others done in Northeastern NC (notably by Haag, Phelps, Loftfield, and Hargrove). These comparisons collectively chronicled the differences in ceramics, pottery, and stone weaponry for excavations sites such as Oak Island, White Island, and Hamp’s Landings. From this, Mathis surmised that the established Oak Island nomenclature system be substituted by the newly defined Hamp’s Landing series.
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20374
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Foodways studies can address numerous topics such as ritual, feasting, gender, status, and socioeconomic and political change. Work done on the faunal and botanical remains from the Coweeta Creek site in Macon County aid in understanding the subsistence trends of the 17th century Cherokee.
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North Carolina Archaeology
(NoCar E 78 S55 S6), Vol. 49 Issue , Oct 2000,
p59-77, il, bibl
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18638
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Port Brunswick along the Cape Fear River became a major exporter of pitch, tar, and raw turpentine. Robinson reviews the production of naval stores and the arrangement of port facilities through archaeological research.
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North Carolina Archaeology
(NoCar E 78 S55 S6), Vol. 46 Issue , Oct 1997,
p51-68, map, bibl, f
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35199
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The author deliberated the proper taxonomic sequence of ceramic series such as Oak Island, White Oak, Cape Creek, Thom’s Creek, Cape Fear, Hanover, and Papanow. Factors considered in the determination of actual dates that these ceramic series appeared included temper and surface. Radiocarbon and thermoluminescence dating methods determined which Woodland period these ceramic series appeared. Several figures identified the NC coastal counties containing these sites or featured images of ceramic sherds.
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18607
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Native American archaeological sites post-dating A.D. 1450 are rare in the Appalachian Summit of northwestern North Carolina, which includes Allegheny, Ashe, Avery, and Watauga counties. The only confirmed sites at high elevations provide evidence that climate change allowed agriculture above 2,500ft after A.D. 900, human settlement was restricted to individual households, and permanent settlement was restricted after 1450.
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North Carolina Archaeology
(NoCar E 78 S55 S6), Vol. 52 Issue , Oct 2003,
p1-19, map, bibl, f
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18629
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Fish remains recovered from prehistoric archaeological sites along the Roanoke River in Virginia and North Carolina have been found to not be native to the Roanoke, as well as a lack of species that should be found in the area. Reconsiderations of previous research will help determine if this discrepancies are unique to the prehistoric fisheries of the Roanoke.
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North Carolina Archaeology
(NoCar E 78 S55 S6), Vol. 57 Issue , Oct 2008,
p97-107, map, bibl, f
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35123
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This project was undertaken to deepen the understanding of Deep Creek ceramics from the early Woodland period, established by archaeological excavations at the Northern Coastal Plain’s Parker and Barber Creeks by David Phelps (1975, 1977, 1983). Methodology employed during this site work involved surface treatment and temper analyses of sherds. A conclusion drawn from analyses was a consistency between wares recovered and ceramic artifacts dating from this period. Data was represented in figures featuring images of the sherds from these sites and tables depicting temper size, abundance, and inclusions.
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20364
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Gray examines two regional North Carolina sites to discern possible differences and similarities in archaeological artifacts. Although in some instances Brunswick Town artifacts are similar, there are differences between this site and those of the Albemarle Sound in function, showing regional differences in household assemblages.
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North Carolina Archaeology
(NoCar E 78 S55 S6), Vol. 46 Issue , Oct 1997,
p69-83, il, bibl
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35122
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In 2000, excavation teams from East Carolina University returned to this area after a twenty plus year absence. Examined were the area’s early and middle Holocene chronology, typology, and geoarchaeology of the middle to late Archaic periods. Data was gathered through sedimentology, site formations, and mapping and shovel testing of the sand ridge. Recovered were flakes and sherds of ceramics and stone tools. Complementing the qualitative data were figures detailing sherd and site images. Tables contained data related to ceramic types and sample sizes for tool flakes and sherds.
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35205
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An examination of the region’s geographical aspects that encouraged the archaeological developments of residing Native Americans intended to interpret the sedimentary processes of the Holocene and Pleistocene periods. Methods utilized included aerial photographs, soil profiles, and sediment sampling. Conclusions derived: a cultural horizon buried in an Aeolian deposit; shallow and deeper deposits in the excavation sites; sediment erosion on the southwest slope and buildup on the northeastern slope; thicker post-aeolian deposits on the northeastern slope; porous sand and gravel suggesting Native American occupancy. From these conclusions, the author suggested that this model can be used for future Coastal Plain soil studies.
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North Carolina Archaeology
(NoCar E 78 S55 S6), Vol. 52 Issue , Oct 2003,
p101-119
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35207
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Keith Seramur and Ellen Cowan examined the region’s geographical aspects that encouraged the archaeological developments of residing Native Americans intended to interpret the sedimentary processes of the Holocene and Pleistocene periods. Methods utilized included aerial photographs, soil profiles, and sediment sampling. Conclusions derived: a cultural horizon buried in an Aeolian deposit; shallow and deeper deposits in the excavation sites; sediment erosion on the southwest slope and buildup on the northeastern slope; thicker post-aeolian deposits on the northeastern slope; porous sand and gravel suggesting Native American occupancy. From these conclusions, the author suggested that this model can be used for future Coastal Plain soil studies.
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North Carolina Archaeology
(NoCar E 78 S55 S6), Vol. 52 Issue , Oct 2003,
p101-119
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