A New Deal for the Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, California
by Bernard K. Means, director of the Virtual Curation Laboratory @ VCU The Great Depression was a challenging time for …
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Arthur R. Kelly’s WPA (and CWA) Archaeological Excavations at the Macon North Plateau
By Bernard K. Means One of the great advantages of the internet with respect to New Deal archaeology is the …
Happy New Year’s Eve from the WPA’s Somerset County Archaeological Society
by Bernard K. Means, Virtual Curation Laboratory There were was only one day that the WPA-funded Somerset County Archaeological Society …
Christmas Eve, WPA-style: Winter Excavations at the Hanna Site, Somerset County, PA
by Bernard K. Means The W in WPA stands for work. If WPA crews did not work, they did not …
Digging the New Deal
by Bernard K. Means I began my interest in New Deal archaeology somewhat obliquely. In the early 1990s, the Pennsylvania …
Up the Creek WITH a Paddle: Digital Access to Alabama WPA Records
By Bernard K. Means Access is always one of the challenges to using New Deal archaeology records for historical research …
New Deal archaeology in Maryland—the Old Line State
By Bernard K. Means Unlike Pennsylvania to its north, but more like Virginia to its south, Maryland saw limited archaeological …
New Deal archaeology in the Garden State: New Jersey’s WPA-funded Indian Site Survey
By Bernard K. Means As the Shovel Ready book inches to completion—it’s off my hands for the weekend, anyhow—I planned …
New Deal Archaeology in the Evergreen State: NYA Excavations in the Upper Columbia Region
by Bernard K. Means (bkmeans@vcu.edu) Online access to archived journals is certainly critical to my efforts to examine all New …
Cornhuskers and Work Relief Archaeology: New Deal Archaeology in Nebraska
By Bernard K. Means Just over 25 percent of Nebraska’s 93 counties saw some form of work relief archaeology. With …
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