Three-Eighty-Three: Honoring America’s New Deal Archaeologists on Labor Day 2012
By Bernard K. Means Over 79 years ago, in March 1933, federal work relief funding was first used to excavate …
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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 …
New Deal Archaeology in Somerset County, Pennsylvania: New Technologies and Old Data
by Bernard K. Means, Virtual Curation Laboratory My interest in New Deal archaeology began with work conducted in Somerset County, …
Helen Sloan Daniels (1899-1979) and NYA Archaeology around Durango, Colorado
by Dr. Bernard K. Means One of the lesser known programs that funded archaeological excavations during the Great Depression was …
Florida WPA Archaeology: Hillsborough County
I’m reading an interesting piece by Ripley Bullen (and isn’t Ripley a great archaeology sounding name?) entitled Eleven archaeological Sites …
New Deal Archaeology ≠ WPA Archaeology
One of the issues I encounter somewhat frequently when doing research on New Deal archaeology is the conflation of all …
Notes on New Deal Archaeology banner
For those of you curious about the banner graphic, this was derived from part of a flyer extolling the benefits …
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My goal with this WordPress site is fairly straightforward. As I present my own research into New Deal archaeology, I …
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