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.

1,926-1,950 (2,079 Records)

Surface Geology, Paleoenvironment, and Paleoclimate of Stonewall Mountain, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada (2014)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert P. Dickerson. Amy Foreman.

Field studies for geomorphology, paleoenvironment, paleohydrology, plant ecology, and isotope geology were conducted at Stonewall Mountain and Stonewall Flat during the spring and summer of 2010 in support of Nellis AFB archaeological and ethnographic studies of the Stonewall Mountain region. These studies revealed natural resources for water, shelter, lithic tools, sulfur, and certain earth pigments exist at Stonewall Mountain and the Goldfield Hills. The playa in Stonewall Flat hosted a robust...


Sustaining Irrigation Agriculture for the Long-Term: Lessons on Maintaining Soil Quality from Ancient Agricultural Fields in the Phoenix Basin and on the North Coast of Peru (2013)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Colleen Strawhacker.

Irrigation agriculture has been heralded as the solution to feeding the world’s growing population. To this end, irrigation agriculture is both extensifying and intensifying in arid regions across the world in an effort to create highly productive agricultural systems. Over one third of modern irrigated fields, however, show signs of serious soil degradation, including salinization and waterlogging, which threaten the productivity of these fields and the world’s food supply. Surprisingly, little...


Swan Lake Site (41As16) and the Holocene Highstand Hypothesis (1987)
DOCUMENT Citation Only J. G. Paine.

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Switzler's Illustrated History of Missouri, from 1541 To 1877.. (1881)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Chancy R. Barns.

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Sycamore Canyon State Vehicular Recreation Area Draft EIR Appendices (1983)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Westec.

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Symposium: Man and the Changing Environments In the Great Plains Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies Volume XI-Special Issue 1983 (1983)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Warren W. Caldwell. C. Bertrand Schultz. T. Mylan Stout.

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Synopsis of the Oshara Tradition (Arroyo Cuervo Region) (2013)
IMAGE David M. Plaza.

Image is a drafted (traced) figure from Irwin-Williams 1973. The figure was drafted using Adobe Illustrator and saved on as a JPEG. Original illustrator is unknown.


A Synthesis of Tonto Basin Prehistory: The Roosevelt Archaeology Studies, 1989 to 1998 (1998)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Claudine Gravel-Miguel

Between 1989 and 1993, the Bureau of Reclamation funded four archaeological projects in Tonto Basin of central Arizona, all associated with the modification of the Theodore Roosevelt Dam. The projects were assigned different research objectives and were conducted by separate research teams. The Roosevelt Bajada Survey (RBS) was a sampling survey by SWCA Inc. of portions of the bajada and foothills surrounding Tonto Basin. The Roosevelt Rural Sites Study (RRSS) conducted by Statistical Research...


Synthesis: the Archaeology of the San Gabriel Reservoir Districts (1982)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Duane E. Peter. Others.

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T. E. R. P. 30 and T. E. R. P. 31: TA'U Road Improvement Project - Environmental Impact Assessment (1990)
DOCUMENT Citation Only G. M. Meredith & Associates.

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Taking the Trail Home: Settlement Patterns of the K'enaht'ana Dena'ina… and Forgotten Knowledge (2008)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Daniel E. Stone.

In 2006, the Native Village of Eklutana, a federally recognized Tribe, acquired a National Park Service Historical Preservation Grant to seek out those physical landscapes along the periphery of Nuti (Knife Arm), from Point Woronzof up to the Knik River and back down to Point Mackenzie, that have a Dena'ina name. If it has a Dena'ina name the Dena'ina were there and used that land. Secondly, landscapes having a high potential for Dena'ina cultural resources would be investigated. Well over 100...


Tallahatta Formation In Clarke County, Alabama (1973)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Arthur B. Dunning.

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Tech Report on the Architectural and Historical Indentification and Evaluation and Archaeological Survey and Testing of Proposed Improvements to US 61, Muscatine and Scott Counties F-61-4(46)--20-70 (1991)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Derrick J. Marcucci.

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Technical Appendices to Draft Environmental Impact Report for the Proposed East County Squard Specific Plan, General Plan Amendment and Major Use Permit (1994)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lettieri, McIntyre and Associates.

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Technical Appendices: Ambrosia-Coronado 230kV Transmission Project Alternatives Evaluation and Macro Corridor Analysis (1991)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Plains Electric Generation & Transmission Cooperative, Inc..

This document describes the study methods and results of the regional environmental baseline studies conducted for the Ambrosia-Coronado 230kV Transmission Project between November 1989 and March 1990. The focus of the regional data collection effort was to identify environmental resources and features that would assist in developing locations for alternative transmission line corridors within the defined study area. The purpose of this section is to describe the regional scale visual resources...


Technical Assistance Study Fort Carson, Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site Dinosaur Trackway Erosion Protection for the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site Land Transfer (1989)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Unspecified.

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Technical Report 75-1: Faults On Skylab Imagery of the Salton Through Area,Southern California (1975)
DOCUMENT Citation Only P. M. Merifield. D. L. Lamar.

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Tennessee Colony III (1982)
DOCUMENT Citation Only J. Richner.

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Tensleep Sandstone of the Eastern Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming (1963)
DOCUMENT Citation Only J. H. Fisher.

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Tensleep-Amsden Sections of the Gros Ventre-Snake River Area, Northwestern Wyoming (1956)
DOCUMENT Citation Only J. L. Bachrach.

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Teotihuacan Valley Project
PROJECT Uploaded by: Susan Evans

The Teotihuacan Valley Project was designed to map pre-Hispanic and Colonial period occupations of the Teotihuacan Valley, the northeastern arm of the Basin of Mexico. Initiated in the 1960s by William T. Sanders, the project eventually produced five volumes of reports and many ancillary works, covering the ecology of the valley and the settlement patterns of its successive time periods.


Tepelmeme boundary (2017)
GEOSPATIAL Stephen Kowalewski.

Tepelmeme boundary


Tephrochronology and Its Application To Archaeology (1985)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Virginia Steen-McIntyre.

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Terminal Pleistocene Cultural Adaptation in Southern Texas (1976)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael B. Collins.

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Terrestrial Gastropods From the Rainbow Site (1990)
DOCUMENT Citation Only David A. Baerreis.

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