JMA's Cultural Resources Department is well known for its leading-edge work and nationwide reputation in urban historical archeology, as well as its strong capabilities in prehistoric archeology, rural historical archeology, industrial archeology, maritime and underwater archeology, cemetery archeology, and geoarcheology. JMA's professional staff has conducted the full scope and scale of archeological projects, ranging from small, routine Phase I surveys and construction monitoring to large, complex, multi-year Phase III data recovery excavations with attendant research, analysis, and reporting. Based on JMA's extensive experience, virtually no archeological assignment is beyond the capabilities of our Cultural Resources Department. Archeological Services – Prehistoric – Historical – Urban – Industrial – Underwater – Phase I Survey – Phase II Evaluation – Phase III Data Recovery – Archeological Monitoring and Supervision – HAZMAT Conditions Investigations Representative Projects   Portland Natural Gas Transmission System Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont Portland Natural Gas Transmission System JMA conducted Phase IA, IB, II, and III archeological investigations of this 185-mile-long natural gas pipeline over a six-year period. Of 11 historic and prehistoric sites subjected to Phase II evaluation, one prehistoric and five historic sites were recommended eligible to the National Register. The former is the Neal Garrison site, a Paleoindian occupation in Eliot, Maine. Middle Archaic-period Merrimack projectile points, Tasha-Bodwell site, New Hampshire (Photo: JMA).     Blocks 1 and 2, Independence Mall Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Day & Zimmermann Infrastructure, Inc. and the National Park Service, Denver Service Center JMA conducted Phase I - III archeological investigations on the site of a new visitor center on Independence Mall. Eight brick-lined shaft features were found beneath the basement floors of the nineteenth-century buildings that had once stood on the block. The report focused on the evolving urban landscape and the households of an eighteenth-century accountant and a nineteenth-century comb maker.   Unusual octagonal-shaped brick-lined icehouse and associated basements on Block I (Photo: JMA).     Blocks 863 and 866, Route 19 Connector Corridor Paterson, New Jersey New Jersey Department of Transportation JMA conducted Phase I - III investigations on two blocks in a neighborhood called Dublin that housed Irish skilled and unskilled workers in Paterson's many nineteenth-century industries. Owner-occupied and tenant households were compared and a study of the decorated clay pipes recovered suggested that Irish symbols were associated with the labor movement in which Irish workers took an active role.   Historic archeology in an urban context: privy excavations in progress (Photo: JMA).     Carrell Farmstead Site Warrington, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Newman Development Group of Warrington, LLC Background research conducted in conjunction with Phase II investigations at this nineteenth-century farmstead site led to a surprising finding: JMA researchers located the last residents of the farm, now retired in Florida. The farmstead was destroyed by fire in 1970. Mrs. Carrell Wallace, an amateur watercolor painter, provided JMA with paintings of the farmstead in the early 1940s. The visual images added rich detail to the archeological and historical data, which is unusual in archeological studies.   Watercolor of Carrell Farmstead showing barn and outbuildings (Image: Joan Carrell Wallace).     New Bedford Harbor Superfund Site (HAZMAT) New Bedford, Massachusetts Foster Wheeler Environmental Corporation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New England District Most cultural resources staff members have completed OSHA-certified hazardous materials training and have conducted cultural resources investigations at contaminated sites. The New Bedford Harbor project was unusual in that it involved testing in the inter-tidal zone in contaminated sediments, necessarily at low tide. One historic and six prehistoric sites were identified in the inter-tidal zone.   Field work in New Bedford Harbor inter-tidal zone under HAZMAT conditions (Photo: JMA).     Long Island Beach Reformulation Study Long Island, New York The Greeley Polhemus Group and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New York District One of the most noteworthy aspects of this substantial project, which was conducted in advance of dredging to stabilize Long Island's southern shoreline, was an intensive historic records search to identify known and potential underwater shipwrecks in the off-shore dredge zone. At least 453 potential shipwreck locations were identified which will be avoided or further investigated prior to dredging.   The S.S. Atlantic, a side-wheel-paddle passenger steamer, wrecked off the Long Island coast in 1846 (Image: "American Steam Vessels," by Samuel Ward Stanton, 1895).     C&O Canal Locks and Basin Walls Cumberland, Maryland U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District JMA performed archeological investigations in conjunction with the C&O Canal locks and basin walls. This atypical archeological project involved the exposure and assessment of the historic canal box culvert, lock, and basin walls to determine whether they retained sufficient integrity to withstand rewatering of the canal. In addition, several sunken canal boats were exposed and archeologically recorded.   Exposed canal boats mired in muck on canal bottom (Photo: JMA).   Additional Projects Foley Square - Five Points National Museum of the American Indian Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel Oberly Island Site Stratford Hall To Top