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.

2,051-2,075 (2,079 Records)

View of the Lead Mines of Missouri; Including Some Observations On the Mineralogy, Geology, Geography, Antiquities, Soil, Climate, Population, and Productions of Missouri and Arkansas and Other Sections of the Western County (1972)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Henry R. Schoolcraft.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.

Vodopadnaya 2 Artifact Photographs (2006)
IMAGE Uploaded by: Natalia Slobodina

Artifact photos from Vodopadnaya 2.

Vodopadnaya 2 Artifact Photographs (Part 1) (2007)
IMAGE University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Artifact photos from Vodopadnaya 2

Vodopadnaya 2 Artifact Photographs (Part 2) (2007)
IMAGE University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Artifact photos from Vodopadnaya 2.

Vodopadnaya 2 Artifact Photographs (Part 3) (2007)
IMAGE University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Artifact photos from Vodopadnaya 2

Vodopadnaya 2 Artifact Photographs (Part 4) (2007)
IMAGE University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Artifact photos from Vodopadnaya 2

Vodopadnaya 2 Artifact Photographs (Part 5) (2007)
IMAGE University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Artifact photos from Vodopadnaya 2

Vodopadnaya 2 Artifact Photographs (Part 6) (2007)
IMAGE University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Artifact photos from Vodopadnaya 2

Vodopadnaya 2 Artifact Photographs (Part 7) (2007)
IMAGE University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Artifact photos from Vodopadnaya 2

Vodopadnaya 2 Artifact Photographs (Part 8) (2007)
IMAGE University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

Artifact photos from Vodopadnaya 2

Vodopadnaya 2 Level Maps (2007)
IMAGE Ben Fitzhugh.

Vodopadnaya 2 Level Maps (field sketches and digitized drawings).

Vodopadnaya 2 Site Photographs (Etnier) (2007)
IMAGE Mike Etnier.

Vodopadnaya 2 Site Photographs (Etnier)

Vodopadnaya 2 Site Photographs (Fitzhugh) Part 1 (2008)
IMAGE Ben Fitzhugh.

Vodopadnaya 2 Site Photographs (Fitzhugh). 102/275 photos.

Vodopadnaya 2 Site Photographs (Fitzhugh) Part 2 (2007)
IMAGE Ben Fitzhugh.

Vodopadnaya 2 Site Photographs (Fitzhugh) Part 2. 173/275 photos.

Vodopadnaya 2 Site Photographs (Phillips) (2007)
IMAGE Colby Phillips.

Vodopadnaya 2 Site Photographs (Phillips)

Washington Square Mound Site
PROJECT Uploaded by: Zac Selden

Multi-component Caddo mound site located in Nacogdoches, Texas.

Water Insititutional Response to Social-Envrionmental Change: A Maya Case Study
PROJECT Uploaded by: Chris Caseldine

This project looks specifically at how the choices of Maya royalty and farmers in the face of environmental fluctuation affected their water control institutions. More generally this project looks how people in water institutions/systems respond to change.

West Ceres Annexation Area Draft Environmental Impact Report (1990)
DOCUMENT Citation Only R. Bass.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.

Wet Site Archaeology (1988)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Uploaded by: system user

Proceedings of International Conference on Wet Site Archaeology, Gainesville, Florida, December 12-14, 1986. This conference was sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and University of Florida. Wet Site Archaeology identifies the characteristics common to all archaeological wet sites, from Newfoundland to Chile, Polynesia to Florida and from the Late Pleistoscene to the twentieth century. The rewards and responsibilities of recovering unique assemblages from water-saturated...

Whelan Lake (CA-SDI-6010): A La Jollan Campsite on the Lower San Luis Rey River, San Diego County, California (1993)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Rein Vanderpot. Jeffrey Altschul. Donn R. Grenda.

This report details the results of archaeological test excavations conducted in August, 1991, by Statistical Research, Inc., at the Whelan Lake site (CA-SDI 6010). Whelan Lake is an early La Jollan campsite dating between 6500 and 7400 B.P. The site is a moderately dense shell midden situated on a knoll overlooking the San Luis Rey River about 7 km upstream from the coast. The midden has a roughly oval shape and measures 90 m by 60 m. Over 200 m of backhoe trenches and 17 m 2 of test pits were...

Where the Rivers Converge: Report on the Rock Island Complex (1995)
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...

Wildland fire in ecosystems: effects of fire on cultural resources and archaeology (2012)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Krista Deal. Leonard DeBano. Michael L. Elliot. Charles Haecker. Daniel F. McCarthy. Elizabeth Oster. Trisha Rude. Samantha M. Ruscava-Barz. Kevin C. Ryan. Nelson Siefkin. Rebecca S. Timmons. John R. Welch.

This state-of-knowledge review provides a synthesis of the effects of fire on cultural resources, which can be used by fire managers, cultural resource (CR) specialists, and archaeologists to more effectively manage wildland vegetation, fuels, and fire. The goal of the volume is twofold: (1) to provide cultural resource/archaeological professionals and policy makers with a primer on fuels, fire behavior, and fire effects to enable them to work more effectively with the fire management community...

Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat of American Samoa. I. Environment and Ecology (1982)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Binion A. Anderson, Jr.. W. Arthur Whistler. Terry D. Schwaner.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.

Windy Gap - a Technical Proposal For the Identification and Evaluation of Paleontological Resources Along the Windy Gap Pipeline Corridor, North of Granby (1981)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael S. Burney. Kenneth Carpenter.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.

Wood Identifications from the Aramingo Canal Timbers (2010)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Heather Trigg.

Nine wood samples from the Aramingo Canal site in Pennsylvania were submitted to the Fiske Center for Archaeological Research for taxonomic identification. All of the wood samples were found to be softwoods from the Pinaceae (Pine) family. Seven of the specimens were further identified to the Tsuga sp. (hemlock) genus, and the remaining two to the Pinus sp. (pine) genus. Both hemlock and soft pine were commonly used for timbers and both are described in 19th century historical documents as...