Gray & Pape welcomes new Marine Services Division Manager Michael Tuttle

Mr. Tuttle brings over two decades of experience in marine archaeology, remote sensing research, and maritime history to HRA Gray & Pape's Marine Services Division. He manages the Division from the firm's Northeast and Caribbean Office in Providence, RI. The Marine Services Division provides our clients working in the maritime environment with the cultural resource management services required to meet project goals while effectively navigating federal and state permit requirements. Learn more at the HRA Gray & Pape website. http://hragp.com/ 

Gray & Pape, Inc., is pleased to announce the 2012 publication of:

A Persistent Place: A Landscape Approach to the Prehistoric Archaeology of the Greenlee Tract in Southern Ohio

About the Book:

A Persistent Place represents a unique approach to disseminating the archaeological results of a long-term cultural resource management project conducted along the Ohio River in southern Adams County, Ohio. This highly descriptive manuscript describes nearly 20 years of archaeological investigations that revealed some 12,000 years of persistent Native American occupation (Paleoindian - Fort Ancient) that took place upon a dynamic, aggrading landscape. Using a siteless landscape approach, A Persistent Place addresses various research topics including landform geomorphic histories and the potential for buried resources along the Ohio River; environmental patterns and cycles; settlement patterning and subsistence strategies; the organization of tool technologies; site layout and organization; and feature construction, maintenance, and cooking techniques; and, the rise of village life in the Ohio Valley. Several unique archaeological discoveries are highlighted including: 

Arguably the best evidence for Middle Archaic (6500-4000 B.C.) occupation found anywhere in the state;
Evidence for repeated, long-term Late Archaic occupation and intense resource exploitation;
A rare open-aired, paired-post Early Woodland (700 – 100 B.C.) ceremonial structure;
An isolated Middle Woodland domestic occupation with a lone burial; and
One of the largest Middle-Late Woodland (A.D. 300-600) villages in the region.

Rarely has such an array of topics been addressed in a single monograph project.

Contributors:
Matthew P. Purtill (editor), Karen Leone, Emmanuel Breitburg, W. Kevin Pape (forward).

Contents:
243 total pages, 71 figures, 27 tables, available in softcover, hardcover, or eBook
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Digging Up the Past for Future Development - Interview with Kevin Pape

http://www.soapboxmedia.com/features/0329graypapecincinnati.aspx

Pewter Sponsor for the Rhody Awards

Gray & Pape's Northeast and Caribbean Regional Office is a Pewter Sponsor for the Rhody Awards for Historic Preservation. The Rhody Awards are presented by Preserve Rhode Island and the Rhode Island Preservation & Heritage Commission and will honor great accomplishments and notable projects in preservation in Rhode Island.

Learn more about the Rhody Awards here:

http://www.preserveri.org/content/2011-preservation-celebration-rhody-awards 

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20110919/NEWS01/109200306/Turnout-may-mean-tours-VOA-Museum?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|s 

Employees in the News 

	Patrick O’Bannon, Senior Manager of Gray & Pape’s History/Architecture Group, received the National Council on Public History’s 2011 Award for Excellence in Consulting for his book “Working in the Dry: Cofferdams, In-River Construction, and the United States Army Corps of Engineers.” This solidly researched account, with a compelling selection of illustrations, was prepared for the Pittsburgh District of the Corps of Engineers.
Cinder Miller, VP of Operations, recently attended the ACRA CRM day in Washington, D.C.  Click on the pdf below to read about her lobbying experience.  CRM Day 2011
Pat Trader, Principal Investigator in the Archaeology Group, reviewed Archaeology and Cultural Resources Management:  Visions for the Future, edited by Lynne Sebastian and William D. Lipe. The review appeared in the journal Public Historian Volume 33(2): 116-117. Pat Trader, PI in the Archaeology Group has recently authored and co-authored two articles in the Illinois Archaeology journal. His co-authored article with Seth Mitchell, Charles Moffat, and Michael Hambacher provides an overview of the Rockies Express East Pipeline Project (REX-East), examining the significance of the archaeological investigations conducted in advance of the natural gas pipeline to Illinois archaeology. Trader was instrumental in organizing archaeologists from several consulting firms to contribute the results of their investigations in the current volume of Illinois Archaeology. Trader's solo contribution to the volume examines data recovery efforts conducted by Gray & Pape in 2008 at Site 11ST547, a predominately Late Woodland (A.D. 660 to 1120) site found in the interior uplands of Scott County, Illinois. Based on Trader's examination of prehistoric ceramics, he found that several prehistoric groups are represented at the site and suggests that the site inhabitants were living in a frontier or shatter zone at the time, and interprets the presence of hybrid pottery as a result of intermarriage or possibly forced captivity. Fragmented Frontier Examining a Late Woodland Settlement in West-Central Illinois (1643 KB) Illinois Archaeology (2102 KB) Trader, Patrick D. 2011 Fragmented Frontier: Examining A Late Woodland Settlement in West-Central Illinois. Illinois Archaeology 23:124-157. Mitchell, Seth T., Patrick D. Trader, Charles R. Moffat, and Michael J. Hambacher 2011 A Long Thin Line: Mitigating the Rockies Express Pipeline Across Illinois. Illinois Archaeology 23:1-22.

Employees from Gray & Pape's Providence RI office recently worked on a project on Block Island that generated the following news story.

http://block-island.villagesoup.com/news/story/indian-artifacts-lie-just-below-the-surface/107055

Gray & Pape Projects in the News