November 2009 Archeology E-Gram

Rick Kendall Named Superintendent of Saint-Gaudens
Rick Kendall has been selected as the superintendent of Saint-Gaudens NHS,
Cornish, New Hampshire. He holds a B.A. in archeology from the University
of Georgia and a M.A. in archeology from the University of Arizona. Kendall
began his career in the backcountry office at Olympic NP. Since then, his
career as an interpreter and manager has taken him to Lake Roosevelt NRA as
the education specialist, to Death Valley NP as supervisory park ranger,
and to the USS Arizona Memorial as acting chief of interpretation.

Kendall is currently completing the NPS Bevinetto Congressional Fellowship.
As part of this fellowship, he spent 2008 working as a member of the
legislative staff on the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Natural
Resources. This year, he has served as the liaison between the Director and
the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks,
working on national issues for the NPS and the DOI.

NPS Announces Winners of the 2008 Appleman-Judd-Lewis Awards
The NPS has announced the winners of the 2008 Appleman-Judd-Lewis Awards.
This prestigious award recognizes exceptional contributions of NPS
employees to the preservation and management of cultural resources. These
individuals represent the very best in park cultural resource management.
The 2008 awardees are:

Superintendent
H. Thomas McGrath, Jr., Superintendent, Historic Preservation Training
Center, Frederick, MD. Since 1989, McGrath has overseen the center’s growth
into an independent Learning and Development Center that offers maintenance
skills training, construction safety training and development, project
management, and technical advice on preservation techniques and
maintenance. Under his leadership, the center’s work in preserving historic
structures has included barns, cabins, lighthouses, canals, ships,
fortifications, and historic houses. The high standard to which he has held
himself and his staff has ensured that these cherished cultural resources
will last well into the future.

Cultural Resource Management Specialist
Jeanne Schaaf, Chief of Cultural Resources, Lake Clark NP&P, Katmai NP&P,
Aniakchak NP&P, and Alagnak Wild River, AK. Schaaf manages a cultural
resources program encompassing 8 million extremely remote, but culturally
rich acres. She has balanced and directed a multitude of projects to
document, understand, and, ultimately, communicate to the American people,
local history, ethnography, and archeology. Her four-year salvage
excavation of threatened Mink Island in Katmai produced new information
about prehistoric coastal ecosystems and resource utilization. She
demonstrated that fully developed maritime cultures with ocean-going boats
were established in Alaska more than 8,000 years ago.

Maintenance Specialist
Robert Fox, Facility Manager, Weir Farm NHS, CT. Fox has been the Facility
Manager at Weir Farm since its inception in 1990, and for the past 19 years
has assumed duties far beyond those of the typical facility manager. With
limited resources, he laid the framework for the development of projects
that stabilize, preserve, and make accessible many of the park’s structures
and cultural landscapes. Due in large part to Fox’s dedication, Weir Farm
is a fully operational park with excellent interpretive, educational, and
partnership programs.

Each recipient receives an engraved crystal plaque and a $2,500 cash award.
The awardees will present their award-winning accomplishments during a
December 11, 2009, ceremony. They will be honored again at the 2011 George
Wright Society Biannual Conference March 14-18, 2011.

PAST Gives Award to Retired NPS Archeologist
The PAST Foundation has honored Douglas D. Scott with the organization’s
Innovation Award. Teresa L. Liston, retired board of trustees president,
and Annalies Corbin, PAST’s executive director, bestowed the award
recognizing Scott’s lifetime of innovative leadership in partnering
archeology with science and technology.

Scott served as a PAST Foundation trustee for ten years, helping establish
PAST worldwide in fields of innovative educational programs and research.
Between 2001 and 2007, he led PAST as the board president, mentoring the
foundation through the early years of development and expansion. In 2006,
Scott and Melissa Connors piloted the bridge program, forensics in the
classroom (FITC), and the adult summer field school, for forensic
archaeology, founding the first programs of this kind in the U.S.

Scott, who currently teaches at University of Nebraska in the Department of
Anthropology and Geography and with the Forensic Science Program at
Nebraska Wesleyan University, retired from the NPS in 2006. He is one of
the preeminent experts in battlefield archeology and firearms
identification. In 2002, he was awarded the DOI Distinguished Service Award
for his innovative research at Little Bighorn Battlefield NM. Scott also
served as president of the Society of Historical Archaeology in 2006 –
2007.

The PAST Foundation is a non-profit educational and research team that
builds partnerships around compelling scientific and educational projects,
making them accessible to students and the public through transdisciplinary
program-based learning, experiential field schools, documentary film, and
interactive websites. For further information on PAST, visit their website
( http://www.pastfoundation.org/ ).

Archeology E-Gram Launches New E-Gram Feature
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Archeology E-Gram is a great way to let your colleagues know about new
peer-reviewed publications. The E-Gram is distributed to four list serves,
and archeologists inside and outside of Federal agencies. Send the title,
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will add it to the E-Gram under Federal Archeology Publications.

Next month: Footprints. In the Footprints of Squier and Davis:
Archeological Fieldwork in Ross County, Ohio by Mark Lynott. NPS Midwest
Archeological Center Special Report Number 5, 2009.

NPS Solicits Data for Secretary’s Report to Congress on the Federal
Archeology Program
The NPS Archeology Program is currently soliciting information from Federal
agencies with responsibility for archeological resources, either as a land
managing agency, a development agency that provides funding for projects
that affect land, or as an agency that issues licenses for activities that
may affect archeological resources. The Departmental Consulting
Archeologist uses these data to prepare the Secretary’s Report to Congress
on the Federal Archeology Program for the Secretary of Interior. The report
is an important way to inform Congress and the American people about the
accomplishments and challenges that Federal agencies face in caring for
this national patrimony.

The Departmental Consulting Archeologist annually requests data submission
from the Federal Preservation Officer and other personnel within each
agency. Letters soliciting information about FY2009 activities were sent in
mid-October. An electronic online form for data submission has been
assigned to each agency; the data solicitation letter contains the web
address for the online form. Data may also be submitted via e-mail using
forms available on the NPS Archeology Program web site at
www.nps.gov/archeology/SRC/INDEX.HTM.

If you are responsible for responding to the annual survey for your agency
and have not received a letter or a copy of the letter for your agency,
please contact Karen Mudar, NPS Archeology Program (202-354-2103).

NPS develops Toolkit for NHPA Section 106 Nationwide Programmatic Agreement
A Nationwide Programmatic Agreement (PA) was signed on November 14, 2008,
to provide coordination between the NPS, the Advisory Council on Historic
Preservation (ACHP), the National Conference of State Historic Preservation
Officers (NCSHPO), federally recognized Indian tribes, and Native Hawaiian
organizations to implement NHPA Section 106. The NPS Archeology Program has
assisted in developing online guidance for implementing the PA. The PA
Toolkit provides park superintendents and cultural resource managers with
guidance on applying the PA. This guidance is also useful to anyone
involved in archeological Section 106 reviews in parks, including SHPOs,
THPOs, and federally recognized American Indian tribes.

The PA Toolkit unpacks key aspects of requirements and provisions of the
PA; links the PA with preservation law and NPS policy in the Section 106
process; provides a centralized location for professional guidance on
implementation of the PA; and offers professional training in the PA for
credit through DOI Learn. It consists of seven sections, plus a glossary
and resources. Within each section, look for downloadable aids such as
checklists or policy documents.

To use the PA Toolkit, go to
http://www.nps.gov/history/howto/PAToolkit/index.htm

Receive Credit for Module 440 in DOI Learn
Students can now receive credit through DOI Learn for the four courses in
NPS Module 440: Effective Interpretation of Archeological Resources. Module
440 encourages archeologists and interpreters to work together to interpret
archeological resources to the public. The series includes Archeology for
Interpreters, Interpretation for Archeologists, Study Tour of Archeological
Interpretation, and Assessment of Archeological Interpretation. Topics
include archeological methods, interpretive methods, cultural sensitivity,
collaboration, and self-assessment of interpretive products.

To receive credit for each course, first register in DOI Learn. Next,
review the course on the NPS Archeology Program website (
www.nps.gov/archeology/sites/inspire/index.htm). Finally, return to DOI
Learn to take a short assessment and receive a certificate.

For more information, contact Teresa Moyer, 202-354-2124.

Archeology Open House for Minute Man NHP 50th Anniversary
As part of the 50th anniversary celebration, in September Minute Man NHP
opened the doors of ten of the park’s historic homes, several of which are
rarely open to the public. Interpreters in period dress were at several
locations to relate the history of the houses and the lives of the families
who lived there in 1775.
Included in this special tour was the 1740 Job Brooks House.  Brooks was a
farmer and a currier at the Brooks Tannery. A Federal-style colonial, the
house is one of several owned by members of the Brooks family from this
period that are still standing today. Currently, it functions as the park’s
repository for archeology collections.

NPS Curator Terrie Wallace spoke to visitors about the history of the
structure and the park’s careful restoration. NPS Curator Alicia Paresi
Friedman talked about the artifacts which were recovered during
archeological excavations beginning in 1963. The Job Brooks House received
more than 700 visitors during the event. There was much excitement by the
visitors and park staff at this rare opportunity to view the archeological
collections.

To learn more about Minute Man NHP, go to www.nps.gov/mima/index.htm

NPS Offers Glass Bottle Workshop During Massachusetts Archeology Month
For Massachusetts Archeology Month 2009, the NPS Northeast Museum Services
Center in conjunction with Minute Man NHP held a workshop in the Major John
Buttrick House in the park in October. Got Old Bottles? focused on the
identification and dating of historic bottles. NPS Curator Alicia Paresi
Friedman gave a presentation on utilitarian bottles meant to be used (and
perhaps recycled a few times) and quickly discarded, using examples from
the Minute Man NHP’s museum collection. Because these bottles were made for
consumers, they are often found on historic-period archeological sites,
flea markets, and bottle shows.
Friedman, NPS Museum Specialists Jessica Costello and Teri DeYoung answered
visitors’ questions and discussed the bottles from the park collection. NPS
Volunteer Erica Cutone assisted visitors. Attendees were encouraged to
bring a bottle from their personal collection. NPS staff assisted in
identifying, describing, and dating individual bottles and the products
they may have contained.

For more information about historic glass bottles, go to
www.blm.gov/historic_bottles/

DOS Announces New Web Site for the Cultural Heritage Center.
The Department of State Cultural Heritage Center has a new website! The
Cultural Heritage Center supports the foreign affairs functions of the U.S.
Department of State related to the protection and preservation of cultural
heritage. It serves as a center of expertise on global cultural heritage
protection issues. It administers U.S. responsibilities relating to the
1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the
Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property. The
Center also administers the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural
Preservation, the Iraq Cultural Heritage Initiative, and special cultural
heritage programs.

Learn more about these programs by going to
http://exchanges.state.gov/heritage/

History Program Posts Archeology Reports
Four NPS archeology reports have recently been added to the NPS History
Program web site. The NPS History Program now has almost 4,000 reports and
articles on a variety of different topics posted on the web site.

http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/alfl/alibates_road_archeology.pdf
Archeological Investigations Along the Proposed Alibates Tour Road (pdf)
(1989)

http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/sapu/quarai_pueblo_excavation.pdf
The 1939-1940 Excavation Project at Quarai Pueblo and Mission Buildings,
Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument (pdf) (1990)

http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/deva/california_archeology.pdf
Contributions to California Archeology: The Surface Archeology of Butte
Valley, Death Valley National Monument National Park and Preserve (pdf)
(1996)

http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/katm/naknek_chronicle.pdf
A Naknek Chronicle: Ten Thousand Years in a Land of Lakes and Rivers and
Mountains of Fire, Katmai National Park and Preserve (pdf) (2005)

Visit the NPS History Program website to find more archeology reports, at
http://www.nps.gov/history/

National Preservation Institute Offers NHPA Section 106 Training
The NPI is offering NHPA Section 106 training on December 8-10, 2009, in
Alexandria, VA. Learn the basics of project review under Section 106. This
seminar emphasizes practicalities, such as how to avoid pitfalls and
victimization through inaccurate information. Training will discuss recent
changes in regulations and procedures, with an emphasis on coordination
with the National Environmental Policy Act and other laws.

Instructor. Allyson Brooks, Ph.D., Washington State Historic Preservation
Officer; formerly with Minnesota DOT, the South Dakota Preservation Office,
and the U.S. Forest Service; specializing in transportation issues, tribal
concerns.

The National Preservation Institute, a nonprofit organization founded in
1980, educates those involved in the management, preservation, and
stewardship of our cultural heritage.

To register, go to www.npi.org/register.html.
For more information, contact Jere Gibber, Executive Director, National
Preservation Institute; 703-765-09100.

SHA Offers NHPA Section 106 Training at 2010 Conference
The Society for Historical Archaeology is partnering with the Advisory
Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) to offer two workshops on NHPA at a
reduced cost at the 2010 SHA Conference. ACHP offers both fully accredited
workshops in a one-day format on January 6, 2010, at the Amelia Island Inn
and Plantation Conference Center.

Introduction to Section 106
This workshop introduces participants to NHPA Section 106 and its review
requirements for Federal project planning. The course provides an overview
of the process while emphasizing key terms and concepts. A combination of
small group activities and lectures acquaint those new to Section 106 with
the fundamentals to understand when Section106 applies, who participates,
what information is required, and how reviews are concluded.
Workshop Leader: John Eddins
Cost: $200 for SHA members; $250 for non-members (regular rate for this
course is $295)

Advanced Section 106 Seminar
This workshop focuses on the effective management of complex or
controversial undertakings that require compliance with NHPA Section 106.
Taught in a smaller, interactive setting, this seminar encourages group
discussion and problem solving. Designed for experienced Section 106 users,
the seminar focuses on the challenges of seeking consensus and solving
adverse effects to historic properties.
Workshop Leader: Tom McCulloch
Cost: $325 for SHA members; $375 for non-members (regular rate for this
course is $450)

For more information, go to SHA website: www.sha.org

Projects in Parks: The NPS LOOT Clearinghouse
The Listing of Outlaw Treachery (LOOT) Clearinghouse consists on
information about adjudicated legal cases concerning the theft,
trafficking, destruction, or defacement of cultural resources on public
lands. LOOT came about in 1986 as an initiative to improve implementation
of the, then, recently passed Archaeological Resources Protection Act
(ARPA). The NPS has maintained the clearinghouse for the past 20 years. To
our knowledge, this is the only ongoing effort to collect information
specifically on these types of legal cases.

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