Traversing suspect terranes in the central Virginia Piedmont: From Proterozoic anorthosites to modern earthquakes

2012 ◽  
pp. 327-344
Author(s):  
Christopher M. Bailey ◽  
Brent E. Owens
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Piedmont

Collective Burial in Late Prehistoric Virginia: Excavation and Analysis of the Rapidan Mound

2003 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary H. Dunham ◽  
Debra L. Gold ◽  
Jeffrey L. Hantman
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
North America ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Late Prehistoric ◽  
Mortuary Ritual ◽  
New Information ◽  
Virginia Piedmont ◽  
Burial Mounds ◽  
Secondary Burial ◽  
Lines Of Evidence

Recent excavation and analysis of the remaining section of the endangered Rapidan Mound site (44OR1) in the central Virginia Piedmont provide new insights into a unique complex of burial mounds in the Virginia interior. Known since Thomas Jefferson's eighteenth-century description, the mounds are both earth and stone and accretional earthen mounds. Thirteen are recorded, all dating to the late prehistoric and early contact era (ca. A.D. 900-1700). Typically containing few artifacts, the accretional mounds are unusual in North America in the numbers of individuals interred, more than one thousand in at least two cases, and in the nature of the secondary, collective burial ritual that built up the mounds over centuries. Following a review of the characteristics of the mound complex, we focus on the Rapidan Mound and the analysis of the collective, secondary burial features in the mound. Precise provenience information and bioarchaeological analyses of two large and intact collective burial features provide new information on health and diet, and several lines of evidence for demographic reconstruction. Finally, we discuss the mortuary ritual conducted at the mounds within the cultural and historical context of the region.

Erosion Effects on Productivity of Cecil Soils in the Virginia Piedmont

1989 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 928-933 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. Thomas ◽  
T. W. Simpson ◽  
J. C. Baker
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Piedmont

scholarly journals Allometry Varies among 6-Year-Old Pinus taeda (L.) Clones in the Virginia Piedmont

2013 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy P. Stovall ◽  
Thomas R. Fox ◽  
John R. Seiler
Keyword(s):  
Pinus Taeda ◽  
Virginia Piedmont ◽  
Pinus Taeda L

scholarly journals Reassembling the Quarry: Quartzite Procurement and Reduction along the Potomac

1995 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 283-319
Author(s):  
Michael D. Petraglia
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Variation ◽  
Potomac River ◽  
River Drainage ◽  
High Position ◽  
Reduction Techniques ◽  
Loudoun County ◽  
Virginia Piedmont ◽  
Reduction Strategies ◽  
Experimental Analyses ◽  
Lithic Artifacts

This article presents the results of a refitting study performed on lithic artifacts from 44LD124, a quartzite quarry in Loudoun County, Virginia. Spatial variation in quarry debris and refits demonstrated differences in intrasite reduction strategies. In one section of the site, where fire-altered quartzite debris occurred, twenty sets of refits were obtained, fifteen of which bore signs of fire-cracking or heating. In another part of the site, eleven groups of debitage were reassembled, reforming cobbles and boulders. To examine the technological and spatial consequences of various reduction techniques, quartzite percussion experiments were conducted. The technological, spatial and experimental analyses suggested that some of the reassembled groups were reduced by anvil and hammerstone percussion, in a high position from the ground, likely employing standing or kneeling stances. The findings derived from analysis of the 44LD124 materials provide information regarding quartzite procurement in the Virginia Piedmont and the Potomac River drainage.

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