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Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc., (CRA) is actively seeking supervisory-level archaeologists and architectural historians in all 50 states. CRA can be called upon with little or no notice ...
Published on 6/7/17
One Man’s Trash is an Archaeologist’s Treasure
If a man’s trash tells his story, then an archaeologist is the ghost-writer of the story. What may appear to most as discarded relics helps an archaeologist create a picture ...
Published on 5/12/17
Where the Wild Things are…or grow…in Georgia
By Paul G. Avery
Most archaeologists are drawn to the field by a desire for adventure and the thrill of discovery. Then we find out that our ‘adventures’ consist mostly of ...
Published on 4/19/17
A Letter to Pat Garrow: Happy Retirement
Today Pat Garrow will be retiring from CRA. While he has only been with CRA for 5 ½ years, his retirement marks the end of a career spanning over 50 ...
Published on 3/30/16
Presentation on Dead Horse Lateral Pipeline Cultural Resources Research
Lead archaeologist Colin R. Ferriman, Director of Operations - Wyoming, will be presenting the results of the research conducted during the Dead Horse Lateral Pipeline project at 3:30 pm January 29, ...
Published on 1/11/16
Bradbury and Bundy published in The Missouri Archaeologist
Andrew P. Bradbury and Paul D. Bundy were recently published in The Missouri Archaeologist. Their article "The Early Arcahic Hardin Barbed Component at the Baxter Lake Site, Lewis County, Missouri" ...
Published on 4/9/15
Pat Garrow Receives Carol V. Ruppe Distinguished Service Award
Pat Garrow, Director of Operations for the Knoxville, Tennessee office, recently attended the annual Society for Historical Archaeology meeting in Seattle, Washington, where he was awarded the Carol V. Ruppé ...
Published on 2/3/15
September is Kentucky’s Annual Archaeology Month
As the leaves start to turn and fall arrives, the Kentucky Organization of Professional Archaeologists (KyOPA) celebrates the rich history of Kentucky through the second annual Archaeology month in September. ...
Published on 9/10/14
Archaeolgoical work at Harbison Crossroads makes local news
You may remember a recent blog post discussing an archaeological investigation in East Tennessee in search of Reynold's Station. Although the investigation determined it was not the location of Reynold's ...
Published on 4/25/14
Looking for Reynolds Station: An Archaeological Investigation in Knox County, Tennessee
By: Paul Avery, Pat Garrow, and Jason Ross
Tennessee has been the location of many archaeological discoveries. The state’s landscape varies from relatively flat lands to the rolling landscape of eastern ...
Published on 3/21/14
Bradbury and Cooper Carskadon Site Article Published
Congratulations to Andrew P. Bradbury and D. Randall Cooper on their publication in the most recent issue of Missouri Archaeological Society Quarterly. Bradbury and Cooper discuss the excavations at the ...
Published on 2/5/14
Paleoethnobotany: Botanical analysis of archaeological sites
The paleoethnobotanical laboratory at CRA provides analysis of botanical remains for historic and prehistoric archaeological sites. Paleoethnobotany or archaeobotany is the study of the relationship between plants and people through ...
Published on 12/19/13
Cultural Resource Inventory for the Vivaldi Wind Farm in Montana
In 2009 Ecology and Environment, Inc., contracted CRA to perform a Class III cultural resource inventory for a proposed wind farm. This was undertaken in compliance with the requirements of ...
Published on 12/12/13
Archaeological Investigations of Site 15Ck478 at Lower Howard’s Creek
Prior to conducting the cultural resource survey in 2007, Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc., had conducted archaeological investigations in the Lower Howard’s Creek Nature and Heritage Preserve intermittently since 1998. Archival ...
Published on 12/4/13
Discovering Boone’s Station
In 1999, in cooperation with Dr. Don Linebaugh and Nancy O'Malley of the University of Kentucky, conductivity and magnetometry surveys were completed of the site of Daniel Boone's second Kentucky ...
Published on 11/13/13
Cultural Resource Inventory on Reclamation Property in and around the Pueblo Reservoir in Colorado
In June of 2006, the United States Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) solicited a requirement under Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act to conduct a Class III cultural resource ...
Published on 10/28/13
Diversity Analysis
Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc., employs a number of lithic specialists. Lithic specialists use various measures to better analyze the lithic assemblage from a site and create a picture of what ...
Published on 10/23/13
The Anvil Points Facility in Colorado
Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc. (CRA), conducted a Class III cultural resource inventory for Locality 5 of the Anvil Points Facility. Six other Localities were recorded by CRA personnel for a ...
Published on 10/14/13
Exploring Argosy
Between November 2004, and June 2007, CRA conducted survey, testing, and data recovery programs to identify, assess, and mitigate impacts to the cultural resources affected by the expansion of the ...
Published on 9/24/13
Data Recovery for Baker’s Bluff Site in Licking County, Ohio
In 2006, the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT), District 5 contracted CRA to conduct archaeological data recovery investigations at the multi-component Baker’s Bluff site (33LI1094/1096) located within the alignment of ...
Published on 9/23/13
Archaeological Survey for the Brooks Property Development in Clermont County, Ohio
In 2006, Flora Church of CRA conducted a phase I archaeological survey for the proposed 33.2 ha (82.0 acre) Brooks Property Development in Pierce Township, Clermont County, Ohio. The work ...
Published on 9/17/13
Prehistory of the Upper Cumberland River Drainage in the Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee Border Region
Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc., routinely conducts archaeological surveys throughout Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia. Jon Kerr, the Director of Operations for the Kentucky office and Prehistoric Ceramics Specialist, has compiled an ...
Published on 8/27/13
CRA Unearths Indiana’s First State Prison
While working on the Louisville-Southern Indiana Ohio River Bridges (LSIORB) project in Downtown Jeffersonville, Clark County, Indiana, CRA unearthed what is believed to be Indiana's first state prison. Though the ...
Published on 8/20/13
Hoosier Heartland Highway Reconstruction
Between June and November 2008, under an indefinite delivery contract with INDOT, CRA conducted phase II National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) evaluations at six archaeological sites (12C499, 12C511, 12C513, ...
Published on 7/29/13
Archaeological inspection and monitoring of the MAPL-WEP Pipeline in Sweetwater and Uinta Counties, Wyoming
Between September 2007 and July 2008, the CRA office in Longmont, Colorado, completed an archaeological inspection and monitoring project in Wyoming. CRA was contracted by Enterprise Products, LLC, to conduct ...
Published on 7/24/13
Testing Procedures for Historic Cemeteries
Christopher L. Borstel and Charles M. Niquette
ACRA Edition, Volume 6, Number 5. October 2000
Introduction
In an effort to determine what hazards might be anticipated with respect to historic cemetery excavations, the ...
Published on 6/16/13
The Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia Radiocarbon Database
Robert F. Maslowski, Charles M. Niquette and Derek M. Wingfield*
Published in 1995, the article that follows appeared originally in the West Virginia Archeologist (Volume 47:1-2). It is provided here with ...
Published on 6/16/13
Mountain States Transmission Intertie Environmental Impact Statement in Idaho and Montana
Locations: Idaho (Clark, Butte, Jefferson, Blaine, Bonneville, Bingham, Lincoln, Minidoka, Power, and Jerome Counties); Montana (Broadwater, Jefferson, Deer Lodge, Silver Bow, Beaverhead, and Madison Counties)
Client: PBS&J
Date: 2009-2010
CRA Project Manager: ...
Published on 5/26/13
Excavations at the Artesian Branch Site
by Richard Herndon, Principal Investigator
Artesian Branch was a large Late Woodland site investigated during the course of the AOS project (see http://www.modot.org/ehp/AvenueofSaints.htm on the MoDOT website for a summary of ...
Published on 5/6/13
Pottery and Tools Recovered from the Carskadon Site Tell a Story
by Richard Herndon, Principal Investigator
Yesterday I introduced the Carskadon Site that CRA excavated during the AOS project. The site has a Middle Woodland occupation (circa A.D. 1–250). Many of the ...
Published on 5/3/13
Excavations at the Carskadon Site
by Richard Herndon, Principal Investigator
Carskadon was another site investigated during the course of the AOS project (see http://www.modot.org/ehp/AvenueofSaints.htm on the MoDOT website for a summary of the AOS project). This ...
Published on 5/2/13
Excavations at the Baxter Lake Site
by Andrew Bradbury, Principal Investigator
Today I would like to present some information that we learned as a result of our excavations at the Baxter Lake site . The site was ...
Published on 5/1/13
Excavations at the Berhorst Site
by Andrew Bradbury
During the course of the AOS project, CRA had the opportunity to investigate a number of interesting sites. Here, I’ll discuss one aspect of our analysis of the ...
Published on 4/30/13
An introduction to the Avenue of Saints Project, Missouri
Over the next week, Andrew Bradbury and Richard Herndon will discuss the Avenue of Saints Project conducted in Lewis and Clark Counties, Missouri, between November 2004 and August 2006.
By Andrew ...
Published on 4/29/13
