Hi Linda,

At the West fork prehistoric site along the highway to the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument, New Mexico, the Federal Highway Administration, USDA Forest Service, and National Park Service collaborated to create an exhibit showing where multiple pueblo and pithouse features had been identified during an archaeological data recovery project prior to a road-paving project. The exhibit includes brick pavers set into an asphalt-surfaced parking pull-out to mark the courses of ancient pueblo walls, with interpretive signs. Although the archaeological features were destroyed by the road construction this is a nice exhibit where passersby would never have known there was an archaeological site had the project not taken place. Photos:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/3cfw2fpdgu040wn/20140621-02%20Gila%20Cliff%20Dwellings%20West%20Fork%20site%20exhibit.JPG?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/k508wf8b2bgj005/20140621-03%20Gila%20Cliff%20Dwellings%20West%20Fork%20site%20sign%201.JPG?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ususz1vxw0u413i/20140621-04%20Gila%20Cliff%20Dwellings%20West%20Fork%20site%20sign%202.JPG?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xdw39ijbom40k99/20140621-05%20Gila%20Cliff%20Dwellings%20West%20Fork%20site%20sign%203.JPG?dl=0

You might consider embedding pavers into the ground along the outlines of the 15th century moat in combination with planting tall grass (or maybe spreading decorative landscaping gravel) within the moat between the paver outlines.


al

Allen Dart, RPA 12244, Executive Director (Volunteer)
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center
PO Box 40577
Tucson AZ 85717-0577  USA
		520-798-1201 
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Disclosure: Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's Executive Director Allen Dart is a USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service cultural resources specialist who volunteers his time to Old Pueblo. Views expressed in Old Pueblo Archaeology Center communications do not necessarily represent views of the U.S. Department of Agriculture or of the United States.
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Histarchers,

Can anyone suggest some good examples  of sites where the locations of very large buried archaeological features have been marked for public interpretation without digging up the features or harming them in any way?

For example, in Franklin TN, I saw that a portion of backfilled Civil War trenches were marked out using grey slag on the ground surface.  The slag
was contained by landscape edging.   I noticed that grass was beginning to
emerge through the rock  so it might not be a permanent installation unless there was a plan to regularly spray the rock with chemical weed killer.

I want to mark the location of a very large semi-circular moat around a 15th century late Mississippian village.  It was back filled in the mid 19th century, but was used for a few decades as the centerpiece of an early 19th town plan.  I thought about planting a tall prairie style grass, but I what I really need is something that is a visual clue but something that visitors can easily walk across to access the acreage inside the
semicircle.   I am hoping to accomplish this without much disturbance to
the mid-19th century fill in side the moat. And of course, I do not have an unlimited budget.

Any ideas or examples?  I know there is someone out there that can help me solve this puzzle.

Linda Derry
Site Director, Old Cahawba Archaeological Park Alabama Historical Commission
9518 Cahaba Road, Orrville, AL 36767
park:  334/ 875-2529
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