Environment Research (Investigation Type)

These are studies that examine aspects of the present or past natural environment to provide a context, often off-site, for interpreting archaeological resources. Sometimes reported in stand-alone volumes representing significant research, such investigations may include geomorphological, paleontological, or palynological work.

1,376-1,400 (2,079 Records)

Phase II Test Excavation IN the Central Des Moines River Valley, Primary Roads Project F-500-1(5&20)--20-77, A.K.A. PIN 777-77290-1 & 3, Polk County (1992)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael J. Perry.

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Phase III Archaeological Investigations at the Hayes Site (15Cl67) Carroll County, Kentucky (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Christopher Hall.

Between March 8 and 22, 2004, Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc. (CRAI), personnel conducted phase III data recovery excavations at the Hayes site (15Cl67) in Carroll County, Kentucky, to mitigate adverse affects of the installation of a force main sewer line associated with the proposed Carrollton Wastewater Treatment Plant. Mr. Terry A. Roach requested this work on behalf of Carrollton Utilities to comply with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. This project is federally...


Phase III Archaeological Data Recovery Investigations at 40SV232, Seiver County, Tennessee (2018)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Andrew Bradbury. Jason Ross.

Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc. (CRA), was contracted by K-Va-T Food Stores, Inc., to conduct Phase II archaeological testing and Phase III archaeological data recovery investigations at site 40SV232 in Sevier County, Tennessee. The site is located north of the Dolly Parton Parkway along the front portion of a low lying terrace overlooking the floodplain of the Little Pigeon River. Data recovery excavations were designed to implement the research design developed for the project. The results of...


Phase III Archeological Data Recovery at the Lyonsfield III Site (18BA433), Baltimore County, Maryland (1997)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey H. Maymon. Michael A. Simons. Donald Maher. Thomas Majarov. Kathryn McGrath.

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Phase III Archeological Data Recovery of Site 18PR119, Sherwood II Development, Prince George's County, Maryland (1997)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Katheryn J. McGrath. Thomas F. Majarov. Thomas W. Davis.

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Phase III Archeological Data Retrieval, National Grid Mohican-Batten Kill 115kV Transmission Line, Town of Moreau, Saratoga County, NY (2013)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc..

Phase III report for the MB #33 Precontact Site, a Late Woodland site on the Hudson River. Report written by Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc. for National Grid (project sponsor). Report (.pdf) includes floral and faunal analyses and radiocarbon dating as appendices. Locational data redacted since the large portions of the site are still intact.


Philip's Meadow (Site 18CH654) Phase III Archeological Data Recovery, Charles County, Maryland (2000)
DOCUMENT Citation Only K. Mock. B. Fischler. Janet Friedman. Cynthia Pfanstiehl.

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Phrase I Survey Eroding Slope Repair, McClelland Road at Naval Submarine Base, San Diego (1995)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca McCorkle Apple. Stephen Van Wormer.

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Physical and Cultural Setting of the Mixed Grass Prairie (1984)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy G. Baugh.

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Physical Divisions of Northern Alabama (1930)
DOCUMENT Citation Only William D. Johnston.

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Physical Geology: Laboratory Manual (1967)
DOCUMENT Citation Only W. K. Hamblin. J. D. Howard.

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Phytogeography as a Survey Technique in Wisconsin (1969)
DOCUMENT Full-Text James Schoenwetter.

Abstract of paper presented at the annual meetings off the Society for American Archeology, 1969. The antiquity of certain sites in north-central Wisconsin may be predicted by the character of associated forest vegetation. The data also justify paleoecological hypotheses relevant to culture historical reconstructions.


Phytolith Analysis of Samples from Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota (1980)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Susan Collins. George Rapp, Jr.. John A. Gifford. Dennis Rondine. Margaret Thompson.

Seventy-six plant samples and forty sediment samples from voyageurs National Park were analyzed for phytoliths. Leaf, stem, root, inflorescence, and where possible, seed phytoliths were extracted from each plant sample as a key against which sediment phytoliths could be compared. All phytoliths were examined by light microscopy using a research petrographic microscope equipped with a Nomarski Differential Interference Contrast (DIC) system. Some phytoliths were also studied using a Scanning...


Phytoliths in the Flora of Ecuador Project
PROJECT Deborah M. Pearsall.

The Phytoliths in the Flora of Ecuador project was undertaken by Deborah M. Pearsall and colleagues from 1997 to 2008, with periodic work through 2012, to establish diagnostic phytolith types and phytolith vegetation signatures to enhance archaeological and paleoenvironmental phytolith applications in coastal and Amazonian Ecuador. Research was conducted in Ecuador and at the University of Missouri (MU) Paleoethnobotany Laboratory. Outcomes or products of the project include: descriptions and...


Pictures, Patterns and Objects: Rock-Art of the Torres Strait Islands, Northeastern Australia
PROJECT Liam Brady.

This series showcases innovative research in Indigenous studies, history and culture. Thematically, it profiles ways in which settler society and Indigenous cultures have intersected, clashed, melded and meshed. Each book emerges out of research conducted in close collaboration and partnership with Indigenous people and communities. The series is geographically confined to Oceania. It is wide-ranging in subject-matter, yet it has a distinct focus on cross-cultural dialogues. Its intention is to...


Pilot Pollen Study at Acoma Pueblo (1990)
DOCUMENT Full-Text James Schoenwetter.

Pilot study suggests archaeological-context pollen research may be applied to determining local irrigation history and early historic water rights.


A Pilot Study of Holocene Tephrochronology and Spring Paleoecology in the Kawich Range, Nevada Test and Training Range, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada (2007)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jill Onken.

Seven springs in the northern Kawich Range were investigated to determine whether Holocene volcanic ash layers exist in alluvial deposits within the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR). Although no discrete ash layers were visible in the exposures studied, microtephra analysis of sediment samples collected at Rose Spring and Cedar Spring revealed the presence of varying concentrations of ash shards. Radiocarbon dating and stratigraphic relationships suggest that both Mono-Inyo Craters and...


PIN 2016.77.101
PROJECT Federal Highway Administration. New York State Department of Transportation.

This project contains reports falling under PIN 2016.66.101 which include historical background research, and field evaluation of historical architecture in advance of construction under PIN 2016.77.101, as well as systematic archaeological field survey of the project area. The architectural survey identified four historical building properties are located within the project limits. All four have been evaluated as non-NRE properties older than fifty years. A total of 162 artifacts were...


PIN 5002.07
PROJECT New York State Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration.

This project contains archaeological reports generated as the result of PIN 5002.07.121. 1996 investigations including archaeological and architectural survey in advance of plans for proposed improvements to New York State Route 18F, and the addition of a pedestrian walkway. Records search indicated the presence of 18 prehistoric sites within 2 miles of the project area, and no structures located on properties falling within the project area had been inventoried, or were listed on the State...


PIN 6066.41.101
PROJECT Uploaded by: system user

This project consists of two reports under Project 6066.41.101. Kastl 1996 presents the findings of the architectural reconnaissance for PIN 6066.41.101, which is located on NY Route 17 and County Roads 8 and 60 in the Town of Ashland in Chemung County, and Loren et al. 1996 present historical, and prehistoric background research of the project area, along with field investigations.


PIN 9002.09
PROJECT New York State Department of Transportation.

This project contains archaeological reports generated as the result of PIN 9002.09, including a cultural resource management survey that includes both paragraph 3 reconnaissance and paragraph 4 site examination in the PIN 900.09/BIN 1-00981-0 project area in Broome County, New York, as well as a Data Recovery Plan for the Thomas Creek Site (SUBi-1546/NYSM #10135). Paragraph 4 examinations were performed on the Thomas Creek Site, which was found have artifacts diagnostic of Middle and Late...


Pioneer Memorial Park Palynology (1992)
DOCUMENT Full-Text James Schoenwetter.

Draft version of the chapter published in Schroeder, K.J. (ed), 1994, "Pioneer and Military Memorial Park Archaeological Project in Phoenix, Arizona, 1990-1992, Volume 1: Project Parameters and the Prehistoric Component." Roadrunner Publications in Anthropology 3, Phoenix:232-243.


The Place of the Storehouses: Roosevelt Platform Mound Study, Part 1 (1996)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Owen Lindauer.

The Roosevelt Platform Mound Study (RPMS) was one of three mitigative data recovery studies that the Bureau of Reclamation funded to investigate the prehistory of the Tonto Basin in the vicinity of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. The series of investigations constituted Reclamation's program for complying with historic preservation legislation as it applied to the raising and modification of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. Reclamation contracted with the Arizona State University Office of Cultural Resource...


The Place of the Storehouses: Roosevelt Platform Mound Study, Part 2 (1996)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Owen Lindauer.

The Roosevelt Platform Mound Study (RPMS) was one of three mitigative data recovery studies that the Bureau of Reclamation funded to investigate the prehistory of the Tonto Basin in the vicinity of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. The series of investigations constituted Reclamation's program for complying with historic preservation legislation as it applied to the raising and modification of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. Reclamation contracted with the Arizona State University Office of Cultural Resource...


Plan of Utilization East Mesa Agricultural Investigation: Federal Geothermal Lease Nos. 966 and 1903 (1978)
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