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 …
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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 …
World War II and New Deal archaeology
by Bernard K. Means As today is officially Veteran’s Day, I thought I’d focus on how New Deal archaeology—and archaeologists—were …
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 …
A Shovel Ready flyer
by Bernard K. Means Still trapped in the world of indexing Shovel Ready so this post is limited to the …
The Proof is in the Book–Shovel Ready: Archaeology and Roosevelt’s New Deal for America
by Bernard K. Means This post is a bit of a plug (I’ll let the reader decide whether it is …
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 …
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