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.

201-225 (2,079 Records)

The Archaeology of Alamo Lake, Arizona: A Cultural Resources Sample Survey (1987)
DOCUMENT Full-Text David Gregory.

During July and August of 1987, Statistical Research, Inc., conducted a cultural resources survey of approximately 2,400 acres, located in and around Alamo Dam and Reservoir and within the property administered by the Los Angeles District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. During the survey, 44 archaeological sites and 8 isolated, non-site occurrences of cultural materials were discovered and recorded. Other environmental data relevant to the interpretation of cultural resources within the study...


Archaeology of Areas II and III Nellis Air Force Base Clark County, Nevada (1995)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathleen Ann Bergin.

Archaeology of Areas II and III Nellis Air Force Base Clark County, Nevada.


The Archaeology of Kennewick Man
PROJECT Francis McManamon. Corps of Engineers. Department of the Interior.

This project includes background information, detailed reports of investigations, summaries, and other documents related to the Kennewick Man. Kennewick Man, also called "the Ancient One" by some, is an ancient individual represented by his nearly complete skeletal remains. The remains were discovered in 1996 under the waters of Lake Wallula, a reservoir in the Columbia River, near Kennewick, Washington. Controversy concerning the study and treatment of the remains was not resolved until a...


The Archaeology of Schoolhouse Point Mesa, Roosevelt Platform Mound Study: Report on the Schoolhouse Point Mesa Sites, Schoolhouse Management Group, Pinto Creek Complex (1997)
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...


Archaeology of the Ak Chin Indian Community West Side Farms Project: Subsistence Studies and Synthesis and Interpretation (1990)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Lauren Jelinek

This volume contains subsistence information derived from the Ak.-Chin Archaeological Project sites, and a synthesis and interpretation of the various data. It is divided into two sections: Subsistence Studies and Synthesis. Four chapters provide the results of macrobotanical studies, pollen analysis, faunal analysis, and a synthesis of the subsistence studies. The Synthesis section includes two chapters. The first is an examination of the protohistoric Ak-Chin people; the second chapter places...


Archaeology of the Ak Chin Indian Community West Side Farms Project: The Land and the People (1990)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert E. Gasser. Christine K. Robinson. Cory Dale Breternitz. Soil Systems, Inc..

This volume presents an overview of the project area through environmental, geomorpological, and historical studies. The chapters contained herein represent only one aspect of the Ak-Chin Archaeological Project, which involved data recovery at 31 prehistoric, protohistoric, and historic sites. Four other volumes in the series provide the research design, reports on the sites studied, interpretations of the material culture and human remains from the sites, subsistence information derived from...


Archaeology of the Mixed Grass Prairie Phase I: Quartermaster Creek (1984)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy G. Baugh.

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The Archaeology of the Northeast Mojave Desert (1979)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Gary B. Coombs. Robert H. Crabtree. Elizabeth Warren.

This report is concerned with the results of an archaeological survey of approximately 17,000 acres in the northeastern portion of the Mojave Desert. For readers unfamiliar with the term, an archaeological survey (or inventory) generally consists of an on foot reconnaissance of a given area, in search of archaeological sites located on the surface of the ground. The survey includes the reconnaissance itself, together with the recording of site and other information. The Northeast Mojave survey...


The Archaeology of the Western Mojave (1979)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Gary B. Coombs. Richard McCarty. Tara Shepperson. Sharon Dean.

This report details the planning, implementation and results of a cultural resources inventory (or reconnaissance)of a 0.6% sample of approximately 1.4 million acres in the western portion of the Mojave Desert. The project was conducted in 1978-1979 by Archaeological Research, Inc. under my direction and in cooperation with the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (contract YA-512-CT8-160). This document is intended principally as a management and research tool. It was...


The Archaeology of Vernal Pools: An Example from Placer County (1981)
DOCUMENT Full-Text William Roop.

Paper presented at both the Society for California Archaeology and the Vernal Pool Society in 1981 on the archaeological investigations within Placer County on vernal pools conducted as part of an environmental impact assessment by Archaeological Resource Service. The two separate parcels totaling 1550 acres, located between the towns of Roseville and Lincoln in Southern Placer County, California. A total of 25 cultural resources were identified within the two parcels. Isolated finds of...


Archaeoloigcial and Paleontological Resources of Granby Reservoir (1948)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert F. Burgh.

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Archaeomagnetism (1985)
DOCUMENT Citation Only D. H. Tarling.

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Archaeoparasitology of Sheridan Hollow Features: Evaluation of Function and Pathogen Contamination (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Karl Reinhard.

Microscopic analysis of parasitological archaeological remains from several features at the Sheridan Hollow Parking Facility site. Reinhard's report was included as an appendix to the Phase III data recovery report. The analysis covered 10 features at the site and found a variety of human-borne parasites. This study provides a comparative example to other similar studies elsewhere in Albany.


Archaic and Late Prehistoric Human Ecology in the Middle Onion Creek Valley, Hays County Texas, Volume 2: Topical Studies (1994)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert A. Ricklis. Michael B. Collins.

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The Archaic Maize Pollen of Koster An Essay on Canons of Evidence (1981)
DOCUMENT Full-Text James Schoenwetter.

Argues that the canons of evidence that apply to artifactual evidence of prehistoric behavior patterns are sometimes distinct from those that apply to non-artifactual evidence, and the logic and archaeological value of the latter is not less simply because it is different. The essay is intended to instruct and sensitise archaeologists to this issue as much as it is to allay concern that the pollen evidence for Archaic maize cultivation at the Koster site may not be credible. 49 p. Also see...


Archaic Occupation on the Santa Cruz Flats: The Tator Hills Archaeological Project (1993)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Lauren Jelinek

This report describes the results of archaeological investigations undertaken northeast and in the vicinity of the Tator Hills at the southern edge of the Santa Cruz Flats. The archaeological investigations were funded by the Bureau of Reclamation, Arizona Projects Office, and identified as Tasks 43 and 45 of Contract 3-PA-30-00740. The work was conducted to mitigate the impact to prehistoric resources in the construction of the Central Arizona Irrigation and Drainage District, Central Unit IV...


Archaic Prehistory and Paleoenvironments in the San Juan Basin, New Mexico: the Chaco Shelters Project (1984)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Alan H. Simmons.

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Archaic Record at Lubbock Lake (1986)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Eileen Johnson. Vance T. Holliday.

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Archeobotany of the Deshazo Site (1982)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard I. Ford.

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Archeological and Bioarcheological Resources of the Northern Plains (1996)
DOCUMENT Citation Only George C. Frison. Robert C. Mainfort.

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Archeological Geology of the Savannah River Valley and Main Tributaries in the Richard B. Russell Multiple Resource Area (1985)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Antonio V. Segovia.

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The Archeological Investigation of Four Lighthouse Complexes at the Western End of Lake Superior: The 1988 Testing Program Within Apostle Islands National Lakeshore (1993)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Vergil E. Noble.

During June and July of 1988, archeologists from the Midwest Archeological Center performed limited testing at four historic lighthouse complexes within Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. The lighthouses, which still protect shipping at the western end of Lake Superior, were scheduled for exterior restoration work. Specifically, immediate plans called for the installation of drainage systems about certain structures on Sand Island, Michigan Island, Outer Island, and Devils Island to mitigate...


Archeological Investigations at Fort Gibson, Mayes, Cherokee and Wagoner Counties, Oklahoma (1985)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel R. Hayes.

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Archeological Investigations at Lakeview Lake: 1979 and 1980 (1982)
DOCUMENT Citation Only L. Mark Raab. Others.

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Archeological Investigations at Proposed Big Pine Lake, 1974-1975: Lamar and Red River Counties, Texas (1976)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert J. Mallouf.

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