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.

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Aerial Maps of Andrews Air Force Base, Davidsonville, and Brandywine (2006)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Rachel Fernandez

Several figures and maps of Andrews Air Force Base, Davidson Transmitter Station, and Brandywine Receiver Station detailing environmental factors such as drainage and topography, land use, and overall installation maps.


Aerial Photographic Analysis, Andrews Air Force Base and Davidsonville Transmitter Study Areas Prince Georges and Anne Arundel Counties, Maryland: Volume 1 (1998)
DOCUMENT Full-Text C.E. Davis.

This report presents findings from an analysis of historical aerial photographs of the Andrews Air Forces Base and Davidsonville Transmitter study areas located in Prince Georges and Anne Arundel Counties, Maryland. The Andrews Air Force Base study area is located south of Forestville and east of Camp Springs in Prince Georges county. There are 30 sites within the Andrews Air Force Base study area. The aerial extent of the study area is approximately 448 hectares (1,106 acres). The Davidsonville...


Aerial Photographic Analysis, Andrews Air Force Base and Davidsonville Transmitter Study Areas Prince Georges and Anne Arundel Counties, Maryland: Volume 2 (1998)
DOCUMENT Full-Text C.E. Davis.

This report presents findings from an analysis of historical aerial photographs of the Andrews Air Forces Base and Davidsonville Transmitter study areas located in Prince Georges and Anne Arundel Counties, Maryland. The Andrews Air Force Base study area is located south of Forestville and east of Camp Springs in Prince Georges county. There are 30 sites within the Andrews Air Force Base study area. The aerial extent of the study area is approximately 448 hectares (1,106 acres). The Davidsonville...


The Age of Common Beans in the (Phaseolus vulgaris) Northeastern United States (1999)
DOCUMENT Full-Text John P. Hart. C. Margaret Scarry.

A radiocarbon date of A.D. 1070 ± 60 was linked to the remains of maize (Zea mays), beans (Phaseolus vulgaris), and squash (Cucurbita pepo) at the Roundtop site in the Susquehanna River valley of New York by William Ritchie in 1969 and 1973 publications. This date established the presence a/beans in the Northeast at an earlier time than in most other areas a/the eastern United States, where they are generally rare before A.D. 1300. Subsequently beans have been reported in pre-A.D. 1300 contexts...


Agricultural Sustainability and Environmental Change at  Ancient Gordion
PROJECT Uploaded by: Page Selinsky

This book publishes the results of 220 botanical samples from the 1993–2002 Gordion excavations directed by Mary Voigt. Together with Naomi Miller’s 2010 volume (Gordion Special Studies 5), this book completes the publication of botanical samples from Voigt’s excavations. The book aims to reconstruct agricultural decision making using archaeological and paleoenvironmental data from Gordion to describe environmental and agricultural changes at the site. Different political and economic systems...


Ainu Bay 1 and 2 Maps (2006)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Natalia Slobodina

Field sketches and GPS data-based maps.


Ainu Bay 1 Artifact Photographs (2008)
IMAGE Uploaded by: Natalia Slobodina

Artifact photographs from Ainu Bay 1.


Ainu Bay 1 Site Photographs from 2008 visit (Fitzhugh) (2008)
IMAGE Ben Fitzhugh.

Ainu Bay 1 Site Photographs from 2008 visit (Fitzhugh). Annotations are in the "Previous filename" field.


Ainu Creek Artifact Photographs (2006)
IMAGE Uploaded by: Natalia Slobodina

Artifact Photos from the 2006 excavation at Ainu Creek.


Ainu Creek Site Photographs (2007)
IMAGE Colby Phillips.

Ainu Creek Site Photographs


Ak-Chin Indian Community West Side Farms Data Recovery Project
PROJECT Cory Dale Breternitz. Robert E. Gasser. W. Bruce Masse. USDI Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office.

This project examined the cultural resources of the western half of the Ak Chin Community's lands prior to intensive agricultural development using waters from the Central Arizona Project. The project's research design assumed that Ak Chin had been used as a floodwater farming location for many centuries. The problem domains and research questions focused on the physical {geomorphological), biological, and cultural subsystems within the Ak Chin ecosystem. The investigation also considered the...


Alabama Piedmont Geology (1964)
DOCUMENT Citation Only R. W. Deininger. R. D. Bentley. T. J. Carrington. O. M. Clarke, Jr.. W. R. Power. T. A. Simpson.

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.


Algal Reef and Oolites On the Green River Formation (1929)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Wilmot H. Bradley.

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.


All Kenya Ochre Sources Sampled (2012)
DATASET Uploaded by: Andrew Zipkin

Ochre mineral pigment sources in the Kenya Rift Valley Sampled in 2012 for Zipkin's dissertation research project. Each entry represents a sample of ochre collected. Each sample has a unique identification code beginning with the prefic "KEN". Multiple samples were often collected from the same source in order to assess intra-source chemical variability. Source names are associated with each waypoint.


Alluvial and Palynological Reconstruction of Environments, Navajo Reservoir District (1964)
DOCUMENT Citation Only James Schoenwetter. Frank W. Eddy.

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.


Alternative Approaches to Pollen Analysis at Two Midlands Sites (1995)
DOCUMENT Full-Text James Schoenwetter.

Discussion of archaeological implications of further study of pollen at Mesolithic sites in the Marden-Saddleworth area. Draft of article prepared for a British journal but not submitted on advice of colleagues.


Altithermal Environment in the Ozarks (1971)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Henry M. Miller.

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.


Amended Final Draft Report: A Class III Archaeological Inventory of 720 Acres for Borrow Pit Infrastructure on Range 61, Nevada Test and Training Range, Lincoln County, Nevada (2016)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Ashley N. Mason.

Nellis Air Force Base (NAFB) has proposed construction of a borrow pit and associated infrastructure elements within Range 61 (R61) on Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR), Lincoln County, Nevada. Associated elements will include two access roads and two staging areas. Figure 1 Illustrates the extent of the area of potential effects (APE).


The American Bottoms Pollen Chronology (1971)
DOCUMENT Full-Text James Schoenwetter.

Paper prepared for the 1971 Cahokia Ceramic Conference. This conference resulted in the chronological scheme of phases for American Bottoms and other Mississippian Culture sites that has remained in use to the present time. That scheme was published as Fowler, Melvin L. and R. H. Hall, 1972, Archaeological Phases at Cahokia. Illinois State Museum Research Series Papers in Anthropology No. 1. Springfield. The relationship of the pollen chronology to the ceramic phase sequence was not explored by...


American Indian Perspectives on the Legislative Environmental Impact Statement for the Nellis Air Force Range Renewal (1997)
DOCUMENT Full-Text American Indian Writers Subgroup, Consolidated Group of Tribes and Organizations.

The resource document was produced in response to the preparation of an LEIS for the Nellis Air Force Range Renewal, Nevada. The consultation focused specifically on the proposed action and alternatives concerning the future renewal of the NAFR. However, the present CGTO's response to this consultation is not limited to the LEIS, but also integrates relevant recommendations and insights made by Indian people based on previous and existing federal projects in which American Indians participated.


American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009 Section 110 Compliance Report for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District NHPA, Cultural Resources Investigations Technical Report No. 29, Volume 3 Geoarchaeology in the Upper Mississippi River Valley: Depositional and Archaeological Site Formation Processes along Valley and Channel Belt Margins (2011)
DOCUMENT Full-Text William G. Monaghan. Michael Kolb. Daniel R. Hayes. Kathryn C. Egan-Bruhy.

The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) "Geoarchaeology in the Upper Mississippi Valley” project, conducted for the St. Paul District, investigated depositional processes and archaeological site formation in valley margin contexts of the Upper Mississippi River valley. The goal was to evaluate the types of depositional processes that commonly occur on valley margins, study their timing, and assess the range of impacts that these processes may have had on archaeological site taphonomy and burial....


Amerind Pleistocene Lake I, The Archaeology of the Willcox Playa (1985)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Anne I. Woosley. D. Carol Kriebel.

Our 1985 survey of the Willcox Playa environs resulted in a wealth of Archeological data, the findings of which are presented in the following chapters. We have added to the Archaic database from the Cazador through San Pedro stages of the Cochise sequence, and suggest a tentative Archaic settlement system integrated with local habitats and accompanying resources. Though it is a partial picture, the ceramic period settlement system is also beginning to emerge. Our knowledge of the early ceramic...


Amistad National Recreation Area: Archeological Survey and Cultural Resource Inventory (2002)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Phil Dering.

This draft report is submitted in partial fulfillment of Cooperative Agreement No. 1443-CA-1250-6-005 between the National Park Service and Texas A&M University (TAMU). It presents a basic description of the Systemwide Archeological Inventory Survey (SAIP) of 19921993, and subsequent surveys conducted during a reservoir drawdown period in 1995, 1996, and 1997. Survey descriptions are based on draft documents and site data recording forms submitted to TAMU. The sample of 500 sites is discussed...


Analysis and Report of Collections for the Newcomb Site (12CL2) in Clark County, Indiana (2018)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jonathan Kerr. Renee Bonzani. Brian DelCastello. Tanya Faberson. Richard Herndon.

This report constitutes Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc.’s analysis of a portion of cultural materials from the Newcomb Site (12Cl2) near the city of Clarksville in Clark County, Indiana. The materials were recovered by Amec Earth & Environmental, Inc., in 2004 and identified in a collapsed portion of Emery Lane and the riverbank of the Ohio River. The analysis, report writing, and laboratory processing of the material remains were conducted at the request of Jay Jani of ECS-GEC JV on behalf of...


The Analysis of a Late Holocene Bison Skull from Fawn Creek, Lemhi County, Idaho, and Its Implications for Understanding the HIstory and Ecology of Bison in the Intermountain West (1997)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Kenneth P. Cannon.

In 1995 the skull of a subadult male bison was recovered from the cutbank of Fawn Creek, Lemhi County, Idaho, by a ranger for the Salmon-Challis National Forest. After slowly drying the skull for about a year it was turned over to the Midwest Archeological Center in order to be stabilized and analyzed for clues to the ecology of Late Holocene bison in the Intermountain West. A number of analytical techniques were applied to the skull in order to understand its age of deposition and ecology....