Al,
The pavers in the parking lot are a great idea. I like how they mesh with
the interpretive panels. Clever.
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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On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 10:52 PM, Al Dart <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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
> [log in to unmask]
> www.oldpueblo.org
>
> 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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> -----Original Message-----
> From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of
> Linda Derry
> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 10:11 AM
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> Subject: archaeological interpretation
>
> 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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