Johnny Ward's Ranch: A Study in Historic Archaeology

Fontana, Bernard L.; Greenleaf, J. Cameron; Ferguson, C. W.; Wright, Robert; Frederick, Doris

doi:10.1080/00231940.1962.11757631

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“…Archaeological research related to cattle ranching (e.g., [55]) has not been able to keep up with the loss of information over the last century [44,56,57]. UAV-based photogrammetry, used in this research, has documented cattle-related features rapidly in high detail useful in digital heritage preservation and archaeological research.…”

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Aerial Photogrammetry in the American West: Documenting the Construction of Cattle Water Tanks by Texas Cowboys

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Aerial photogrammetry is increasingly being used to discover, document, and interpret the cultural heritage of landscapes. Information on the constructed cultural heritage left behind by the first cattle ranchers in the American West is being lost as the land is transformed and modified, and stewardship of the land changes across generations. An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has been used in this research to record and interpret two surface water cattle tanks constructed by Texas cowboys in the mid-1880s. Similar size rocks have been used and placed in a similar pattern across the walls of both tanks. This similarity suggests both tanks were constructed at the same time. This research also demonstrates that UAV photogrammetry can be used to rapidly record and analyze the constructed cultural heritage of American West cowboys.

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Aerial Photogrammetry in the American West: Documenting the Construction of Cattle Water Tanks by Texas Cowboys

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“…Typological recording and basic quantification has become the aim, with no link to wider usage or deposition interpretations. A notable exception to this is American historic archaeology where machine‐made nails have been employed for dating buildings, and determining site‐usage and layout (Fontana 1962; Barnes 2018).…”

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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Nails? A New, Multi‐period Methodology and Typology for Recording Iron Nails

Manby

2024

Oxford J Archaeology

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SummaryThis paper sets out new recommendations for recording structural iron nails. Despite their ubiquity, iron nails have received limited analytical and interpretative attention and recording practices are highly variable. Too often current recording is time‐consuming and costly without providing meaningful information. This paper proposes a new recording methodology, developed through analysis of the Roman structural nail assemblage from the MHI A14 Cambridge‐Huntingdon excavations alongside experiments in nail shaping, with wider context provided by medieval and post‐medieval assemblages from the City of London. This approach includes a new nail typology, recommendations for bulk recording of basic details for whole assemblages (using counts and typologies), alongside detailed recording (shank morphology and further metric data) for certain nail groups. Shank morphology is a particularly important aspect proposed here, being indicative of how nails were used in antiquity.

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“…Since then, historical archaeologists trained within the tradition of anthropology have demonstrated this point (Deagan, 1988;Deetz, 1977;Fontana and Greenleaf, 1962;Kutsche et al, 1976;Lightfoot, 1995;Schuyler, 1978Schuyler, , 1988Schuyler, , 1991). Yet the picture that archaeologists and historians alike have painted of the past on the southern Great Plains has suffered from a clear bias towards political and economic reconstructions based on documents generated well outside the area under discussion.…”

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2002

Journal of Social Archaeology

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A narrow focus on architecture and surrounding features, situated in predominately political and economic reconstructions of historical context, has limited our understanding of Native and non-native occupations of the Plains in southeastern Colorado. Anglo, Hispano and Native groups came to the territory with different ideas as to the land’s promise, and therefore engaged in different subsistence strategies. Influenced by the terrain and by each other, they created new cultural landscapes. Large blocks of federally-owned land provide opportunities for archaeologists to look at such anthropogenic landscapes writ large. Researchers can combine archaeological data and historical documents in order to examine culturally constituted perceptions of land and landscape, and the effects of such perceptions on land use: in short, the transformation of land into homeland.

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Johnny Ward's Ranch: A Study in Historic Archaeology

Cited by 29 publications

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Aerial Photogrammetry in the American West: Documenting the Construction of Cattle Water Tanks by Texas Cowboys

Aerial Photogrammetry in the American West: Documenting the Construction of Cattle Water Tanks by Texas Cowboys

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Nails? A New, Multi‐period Methodology and Typology for Recording Iron Nails

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