archaeology at the alcazar
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Do the archaeology of your Cleveland-area house: –My street has a dip. Is it a buried stream? –Why do Clevelanders landscape with boulders? –My house has stone trim. Where was it quarried? –Might I find an ancient arrowhead in my garden? Identify evidence for deep time in house & lot: –Sighting ancient landforms in the neighborhood. –Sourcing your house’s old brick and local stone. –Finding ancient history in old mortar and concrete. –Typing the rocks and rubble in your garden.TRANSCRIPT
Summer Fest talk/walk, Aug 10, 2014
Roy Larick, PhD
ArchaeologyAlcazar
Learn to think like a prehistoric archaeologist –My street has a dip. Is it a buried stream? –Why do Clevelanders landscape with boulders? –My house has stone trim. Where was it quarried? –Might I find an ancient arrowhead in my garden?
Identify evidence for deep time in house & lot –Sighting ancient landforms in the neighborhood. –Sourcing your house’s old brick and local stone. –Finding ancient history in old mortar and concrete. –Typing the rocks and rubble in your garden.
Cedar-Fairmount Summer Festival
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Finding deep time in your house and neighborhood
30-min introductory talk - 30-min neighborhod survey
Summer Fest talk/walk, Aug 10, 2014
ArchaeologyAlcazar
Slides 4-10Natural context for local building materials in the Cedar Fairmount neighborhood, Cleveland Heights.
Slides 11-14Readily identifiable small ‘lost’ local natural features.
Slides 15-17Local natural rock types in Cleveland-area houses/lots.
Slides 18-19Local gravel, clay & shale in common building materials.
Slide 20Very ancient projectile point types found on the East Side.
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Hannibal & Feldmann 1985
Age of Fishes terrains, 360 million years ago
Equator
Ice Age glacial retreat, <16 thousand years ago
Alcazar Hotel
Doan
Brook
B R B
Dugway
Brook
Ages of Fishes rocksIce Age waters
Cedar Fairmount
Cedar-Fairmount neighborhood
Barton R. Deming house 2485 Fairmount, 1914. Berea Sandstone quarried on site
House, 2256 Bellfield (1904) Faced with locally gathered glacial erratic boulders
Alfred & Flora Cook house 2267 Bellfield. Built, 1913, Euclid bluestone & Berea SS
Ambler Heights
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Kermode F. Gill house2178 Harcourt, 1910. bluestone & sandstone
Cedar Fairmountnature-culture weave
© 2014 Bluestone
Heights
Martin Gale quarryHts Med Bldg parking lot 1830s, Berea Sandstone
Deming mini-gulchBerea Sandstone
Glen Point quarryEuclid bluestone
Delaware ravine Berea Sandstone
Euclid Golf clubhouse DerbyshireBerea Sandstone
Cleveland Memory Project
Cleveland Memory Project
R. Larick
R. Larick
R. Larick
R. Larick
W.C. Barrow
Glen Point
Ambler ravine retaining wall Chestnut Hills at Elandon
Euclid bluestone quarried on site
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Euclid Heights
Euclid Golf upper links
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Alcazar
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D. Lawrence
Little Italy
D. Lawrence
MapleRidge
Euclid Golf lower links
Alcazar
Detroit Free Press Collection
Cedar Fairmountnatural landscape
© 2014 Bluestone
Heights
Martin Gale quarryHts Med Bldg parking lot 1830s, Berea Sandstone
Deming mini-gulchBerea Sandstone
Glen Point quarryEuclid bluestone
Delaware ravine Berea Sandstone
Cleveland Memory Project
R. Larick
W.C. Barrow
Glen Point
Nor
th
Ridg
e
Turk
ey
Archaeologyat the
Alcazar
bluesto
ne
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rrace
sandstone
t
errace
MapleRidge
Alcazar
Cedar FairmountEuclid Golf, 1901-1915
© 2014 Bluestone
Heights
Euclid Golf clubhouse DerbyshireBerea Sandstone
Glen Point
Nor
th
Euclid Golf upper links
Ridg
e
Turk
ey
Archaeologyat the
Alcazar
bluesto
ne
te
rrace
sandstone
t
errace
D. Lawrence
Little Italy
MapleRidge
Euclid Golf lower links
Alcazar
Detroit Free Press Collection
Barton R. Deming house 2485 Fairmount, 1914. Berea Sandstone quarried on site
House, 2256 Bellfield (1904) Faced with locally gathered glacial erratic boulders
Alfred & Flora Cook house 2267 Bellfield. Built, 1913, Euclid bluestone & Berea SS
Ambler Heights
Ce
da
r
He
igh
ts
Kermode F. Gill house2178 Harcourt, 1910. bluestone & sandstone
Cedar Fairmountearly suburban development
© 2014 Bluestone
Heights
Martin Gale quarryHts Med Bldg parking lot 1830s, Berea Sandstone
Deming mini-gulchBerea Sandstone
Cleveland Memory Project
Cleveland Memory Project
R. Larick
R. Larick
R. Larick
Glen Point
Ambler ravine retaining wall Chestnut Hills at Elandon
Euclid bluestone quarried on site
Nor
th
Euclid Heights
Ridg
e
Turk
ey
Archaeologyat the
Alcazar
bluesto
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te
rrace
sandstone
t
errace
D. Lawrence
Little Italy
D. Lawrence
MapleRidge
Alcazar
Local Building Materials
© 2014 Bluestone
Heights
buried stream sandstone outcrop
Euclid bluestone Berea Sandstone granite
cast stanchion low-fired clay high-fired shalesidewalk coarse mortar
Local Sandstone Glacial Erraticsquartzite
‘Developed’ Landforms
Archaeologyat the
Alcazar
Prehistoric Projectile
Points
Paleo-Indian (~10.000 years ago)
Archaic (<7,500 years ago)
block
Local BrickLake Erie Beach Gravel
sandstone outcrops
‘Developed’ Landforms
Berea Sandstone
Euclid bluestone
Sharon SandstoneCooley Farms, Highland Hills
Belvoir at Bluestone, South Euclid
Harcourt Dr, Cleveland Heights
buried streams
‘Developed’ Landforms
‘Creek 5’, Euclid
DeVoe Run, Euclid
granite
Glacial Erratics
quartzite
Lake Shore Blvd, Euclid
Gilchrist Dr, Euclid
Brookwood Beach, Euclid
Berea Sandstone
Local Sandstone Sidewalks
Euclid bluestoneHarcourt Dr, Cleveland Heights
Fairview Rd, Little Italy
Berea Sandstone
Random Rd, Little Italy
Grandview Rd, Cleveland Heights
Local Sandstone Ornamentation
Euclid bluestone
Murray Hill Rd, Little Italy
Hampshire Rd, Cleveland Heights
Local Sandstone Ornamentation
Lake Erie Beach Gravel
cast stanchion
sidewalk
concrete blocks
coarse mortar
Idlewild Beach, Euclid
Euclid Beach pier, Cleveland
Local Clay and Shale
low-fired clay brick high-fired shale brick
Prehistoric Projectile Points
Paleo-Indian (~10.000 years ago)
Archaic (<7,500 years ago)
D. Lawrence
Euclid Creek, South EuclidGilchrist Dr, Euclid
