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Hello and welcome to the PAST Foundation bookstore.
The PAST Foundation is a non-profit archaeological organization that partners with individuals and organizations to create compelling projects. One aspect of PAST is the publishing of our field studies, theses, and CRM reports. If you are interested in publishing your work, have an idea for a series, or would like more information on publishing, contact Kate McIntyre.We will be reconstructing the PAST website, as well as creating a PAST Publications website, so keep a look out!
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Print: $18.00 Download: $10.00 The papers presented in our first volume, The Environmental Public Policy White Pages, reflect the work from our spring 2008 Social Science classes. Presented with current global issues of Policy and the Environment, student teams chose topics. The student teams pursued their topics through research, interviews, and analysis, and culminating in written and podcast presentations. Part of the process entailed visiting elected officials in Washington, D.C. at the end of the term. This volume includes a selection of eight papers submitted by the students.
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Download: $14.00 Hardcover Print: $35.00 The Middle Island Life Saving Station was built in the early 1880s and was manned by crews that trained extensively in the use of boats and other lifesaving equipment. These life-saving stations were among the busiest on Lake Huron, saving thousands of lives. The station was abandoned in the 1950s. Andrew Weir explores and documents this historic Great Lakes maritime site.
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Print: $17.00 Download: $10.00 Discover how Oaxacan communities in Los Angeles, California utilize the sport of basketball to maintain their economic, political, social, and cultural systems. This exploration of transnational identity studies offers basic theoretical movements that can be applied to supplement any future research considering the examination of sport and community.
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Print: $13.00 Download: $10.00 With each swing of the settler's axe, the sylvan sea became mere wooded islands that dotted the English countryside. English shipbuilders regarded English oak with near sacred admiration. By the time of the Restoration in 1660, the precious compass timber had grown scarce in the English countryside.
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Print: $50.00 Download: $25.00 Originally a field study program created through many partnerships with experts in each field, this educational program walks students and teachers through the steps of forensic science including: investigating a crime scene, fingerprints, crime scene excavation, and blood spatter. Powerpoint slides are included with each subject, including a DNA slideshow.
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Print: $28.00 Download: FREE Garbology is a hands-on minds-on educational program that explores the global issues of waste management involving students in understanding what we really waste today and what are some of the alternatives for managing waste, today and tomorrow. This program includes three presentations and a Garbage Sort Activity that are aligned with the Ohio Content Standards and Benchmarks. The presentations and interviews with Dr. William Rathje, founder of the Garbage Project, are a great way to get students engaged and involved.
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Disc: $10.00 Included in this DVD are the slideshows for the four lesson presentations for the Garbology program as well as activities (sold in a separate book). Please visit New Jersey Clean Communities Council website at http://www.njclean.org/ for Dr. Bill Rathje's DVD.
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Print: $18.00 Download: $10.00 This report of Marshall/Firehole Hotel Underwater Archeology project is original research on the thermal Firehole River and the first hotel of Yellowstone National Park.
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Print: $38.00 Download: FREE Metro High School - An Emerging STEM School Community Study (ESSC) focuses on the Metro High School community and network in Columbus, Ohio. It is the first step in establishing a new approach to understanding how these educationally oriented, public networks form community and operate. The goal of this case study is to systematically explore the principles, processes, structure and expectations associated with the Metro High School community and network. Unlike raw student assessment, this case study examines how to optimize community building processes as well as the networks. In this way it is possible to recognize the strengths of each through systematic social science analysis, and identify community and network processes that are present in a given place and situation. The larger goal of understanding the Metro networked community is to identify the key mechanisms that ensure sustainability, and enable others to propagate the Metro High School model in different locales where STEM education is emerging.
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Print: $27.00 Download: FREE This work focuses on the Metro High School community and network in Columbus, Ohio. It is the first step in establishing a new approach to understanding how these educationally oriented public networks form community and operate. The goal of this case study is to systematically explore the principles, processes, structure and expectations associated with the Metro High School community and network.
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Print: $25.00 Download: $10.00 Over thirty years ago, students in engineering and history at the Maine Maritime Academy joined forces to apply science and technology to a mystery of history, the final disposition of the ships engaged in the 1779 Penobscot Fleet disaster. The result was this discovery of the American Revolutionary War privateer, Defence.
Thus began an odyssey of amazing partnerships and archaeological discoveries as numerous institutions, companies and organizations banded together to examine the rare 18th-century find. The material culture recovered from Defence was diverse and abundant capturing a unique glimpse of life at sea aboard an American privater in 1779.
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Print: $15.00 Download: $10.00 Within the Roanoke region of North Carolina, the Roanoke River has served as a natural route for trade and settlement. The river was at the core of economic activity. Human activity has created a rich historical and archaeological record. The author studies anthropological trends regarding human behavior, economics, and archaeological signature of the Roanoke in pursuit of themes of legitimation, risk, industrial locational convenience, and legal and illicit forms of commerce.
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Print: $15.00 Download: $10.00 This report explains the development of steambarges, an important nineteenth-century vessel type. Steambarges were different than other contemporary bulk cargo carriers because they accomplished a successful hybrid of the carrying capacity of sail powered cargo ships and steam technology. The primary question raised by steambarges is whether or not they are a distinctive vessel type that represents the missing link between sail and steam
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Print: $74.00 Download: $20.00 In the summer of 2004, researchers from across the US and Canada partnered together to investigate biological and archaeological questions relating to seven World War II era shipwrecks discovered in the Gulf of Mexico. The team included microbiologists, marine vertebrate and invertebrate zoologists, a molecular biologist, an oceanographer, marine archaeologists, ROV technicians, and a professional marine survey crew. The United States Department of the Interior, Minerals Management Service, NOAA's Office of Ocean Exploration, and the National Oceanographic Partnership Program sponsored this multidisciplinary project.
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Print: $37.00 Download: $10.00 The late-nineteenth century Polish cotton carrier, Slobodna, was one of the last sailing ships in a critical period of international trade. On her last voyage Slobodna was hauling a full load of cotton from New Orleans to the industrial mills of Northern Europe. Wrecked on the outer edge of the Florida Keys the shipwreck Slobodna today delights scuba divers with the remains of the once mighty ship. This monograph looks at the site formation process and comparative historic artifact collections in an effort to better understand the shipwreck site and ship's role in history.
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Print: $22.00 Download: $10.00 In January 1982 word buzzed around the archaeological field that the excavations at 175 Water Street in Manhattan were producing remarkable finds. The wharfing, antiquated water-transport system, industrial refuse middens, and surprisingly, the intact hull of an eighteenth century merchant ship represented more archaeological information about eighteenth century New York than anyone could have imagined. The results were originally presented as a report not yet published.
Over the years, new evidence has surfaced and conclusions drawn in the spring of 1983 have been changed or modified.
The publication of this twenty-five year old manuscript makes available important comparative data and gives archaeologists and historians a precise glimpse of 18th century maritime trade.
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Print: $17.00 Download: $10.00 The archaeological survey of the Frolic shipwreck took place over two seasons in 2003 and 2004. The goals of the survey were to create baseline artifact and biota collections to assist the Department of California Parks and Recreation in future management of the newly formed marine protected area surrounding the shipwreck. In addition, the survey sought to examine the wrecking of Frolic and the configuration of the brig. This was accomplished in part by thoroughly examining the various artifact collections that were recovered over the years from the site and then returned to people of California. The artifact collection encompasses over three thousand items representing the cargo, hull, gear and personal belongings of the crew.
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Print: $18.00 Download: $10.00 The Low-Tech Archaeological Survey Manual is a clear, easy-to-read guide to doing archaeological fieldwork. Although focusing on underwater survey techniques, the methods and guidelines presented here are equally adaptable to land sites. The Low-Tech Archaeological Survey Manual is a solid addition to the field kit of any student or professional archaeologist.
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Print: $12.00 Blank journal laid out in standard archaeological format, especially designed for maritime archaeology
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