Thanks for that url, Gwyn!  :-)

Smoke

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Gwyn Alcock <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Caltrans recently published
> Historical Context and Archaeological Research Design for Mining Properties in
> California
> (14 MB .pdf file)
>
> http://www.dot.ca.gov/ser/downloads/cultural/mining_study.pdf
>
>
> Gwyn Alcock
> Riverside, CA
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Robert Dean <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 11:04:40 AM
> Subject: the archaeology of underground workings
>
> I think I've exhausted the sources available to me at this point, so I
> thought I'd put this out to the list - in case anyone has any input on the
> subject that might guide me to more info.
>
> I'm studying historic mining extraction sites in southcentral Alaska, and
> have been trying to find any archaeologists, and other non-mine engineers,
> who have studied underground (or surface hard-rock) workings as part of an
> analytic process (using morphology, measurements, etc of underground
> workings) to understand some research question of an
> archaeological/anthropological nature - processual or interpretive. I have
> found many studies of mining sites, but a great many focus on households,
> and sometimes buildings - whatever the case, it is rarely the mine workings
> that are treated, and I have found very little on underground workings.
>
> At this point I've found only a few articles dealing with extractive and
> milling workings in general....Not sure what I am missing.
>
> Are there some CRM or agency reports, which go beyond a descriptive/national
> register approach, that have come out of federal/state mine remediation in
> California, Idaho, Montana, etc. that just haven't shown up in my searches?
> Some regional journals that aren't listed on the search tools I've used?
>
> Thanks in advance if anyone can help me with this one-
>
> Max Dean
> University of Alaska, Anchorage Grad Student
> Archaeologist, Chugach NF
>



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