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.

301-325 (2,079 Records)

Broad Prairies and Vast Distances: A Brief Environmental History of Dyess Air Force Base (2013)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Marsha Prior. Bill Hersch. Amy Whitt. Tanya McDougall.

Book detailing the environmental and cultural history of the area occupied by Dyess Air Force Base.


Brookville Lake: An Archaeological Study in the Whitewater Drainage (1992)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Beth Kolbe.

An archaeological survey and data enhancement project at Brookville Lake was conducted to determine the nature, density, and distribution of archaeological resources located on the property. The project was carried out through a review of recorded sites, a reconnaissance survey of portions of the shoreline and limited testing of Glidewell Mound.


Brookville Reservoir Survey 1991-1992
PROJECT US Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District. US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District.

An archaeological investigation of Brookville Reservoir was led by Beth Kolbe of Applied Archaeology Laboratories, Ball State University during 1991 and 1992. Brookville Reservoir spans Franklin and Union counties and is located along the east fork of the Whitewater River in the Whitewater drainage. Archaeological investigation of the Brookville Reservoir were performed to evaluate the nature and significance of sites in the area, determine how sites were being impacted by shoreline erosion,...


Building Material Artifact Photographs, Brookville Reservoir Survey 1991-1992 (2012)
IMAGE Veterans Curation Program.

Photograph of a building material artifact collected during the archaeological reconnaissance of the proposed Brookville Reservoir area in Franklin and Union Counties, Indiana.


Bukhta Zakat Artifact Photographs (2008)
IMAGE Uploaded by: Natalia Slobodina

Artifact photos from 2008 testing at Bukhta Zakat (Makanrushi Island)


Bukhta Zakat Site Photographs (2008)
IMAGE Mike Etnier.

Bukhta Zakat Site Photographs (some stitched from several photos).


Bull Shoals Lake: An Archeological Survey of a Portion of the Bull Shoals Lake Shoreline (1979)
DOCUMENT Citation Only A. Lee Novick. Charles Cantley.

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.


Burial Excavations in Plaza 1 of Los Pilarillos, Zacatecas, Mexico, 1997 Season (1998)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Ben Nelson. John Millhauser. Denise To.

Fieldwork from the 1997 season at Los Pilarillos.


Buried In the Bottoms: the Archeology of Lake Creek Reservoir Montgomery County, Texas (1987)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Leland C. Bement.

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.


Butser Ancient Farm Research Project - a Unique Experiment in World Archaeology (1978)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter J. Reynolds.

This article reports of the Conference in which P. Reynolds presents the idea of connecting archaeological evidence with experimental archaeology to increase the understanding and scientific approaches, as well as their outcomes for future research. He represents the Butser Ancient Farm Research Project in which he explains several projects: Reynolds talks about agriculture, like wheat spelt, barley and oats, and also opium poppy seeds and caraway as ingredients of the Iron Age life. But also...


CA-RIV-3508-H Palynology (1989)
DOCUMENT Full-Text James Schoenwetter.

Study of pollen records from the Historic Period Billingsley Dairy Site suggests the sampled deposits derived from an area where cattle were penned and fed.


California State Prison at San Diego Final Environmental Impact Report State Clearinghouse Number 81010704 (1982)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Westec.

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.


Calixtlahuaca Archaeological Project
PROJECT Uploaded by: Michael E. Smith

This project will archive data and materials from the Calixtlahuaca Archaeological Project, a NSF-funded fieldwork investigation of an Aztec-period urban center near Toluca, Mexico.


Cambrian and Ordovician Rocks of the East Flank of the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming (1963)
DOCUMENT Citation Only N. E. Cygan. F. L. Koucky.

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.


Camp Bullis Integrated Cultural Resources Management Plan and Environmental Assessment (2008)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Victoria Green Clow. Marsha Prior. Tiffany Osburn.

This Integrated Cultural Resources Management Plan (ICRMP) follows the requirements for the preparation of an ICRMP as defined in AR-2004 using the guidance found in DA PAM 200-4. This ICRMP serves as a guide, with the Historic Properties Component for the implementation of the Army Alternative Procedures for National Historic Preservation Act Section 106 Compliance activities at Fort Sam Houston. This text is designed to serve as a five-year plan for the integrated management of the historic...


Campbell Hollow, IL (11ST144) Fauna dataset 1/16" flotation (1980)
DATASET Mona Colburn. Bonnie Styles.

The Campbell Hollow site (11ST144) is located in the lower Illinois River valley in Scott Country, Illinois. Late Woodland remains were primarily encountered in the plow zone, and two buried Archaic components were excavated in 1980 and 1981. Early and Middle Archaic remains were buried by over 2 m of sediment at the toe of colluvial slope on the east side of the Illinois River valley near the entrance of a small stream (Campbell Hollow Creek) into the main valley. The Archaic encampments are...


Campbell Hollow, IL (11ST144) Fauna dataset 1/4" screen (1980)
DATASET Mona Colburn. Bonnie Styles.

The Campbell Hollow site (11ST144) is located in the lower Illinois River valley in Scott Country, Illinois. Late Woodland remains were primarily encountered in the plow zone, and two buried Archaic components were excavated in 1980 and 1981. Early and Middle Archaic remains were buried by over 2 m of sediment at the toe of colluvial slope on the east side of the Illinois River valley near the entrance of a small stream (Campbell Hollow Creek) into the main valley. The Archaic encampments are...


Campbell Hollow, IL (11ST144) Project
PROJECT Uploaded by: Mona Colburn

The Campbell Hollow site (11ST144) is located in the lower Illinois River valley in Scott Country, Illinois. The site was excavated under the direction of Dr. C. Russell Stafford (Center for American Archaeology) for the Central Illinois Expressway project, with funding from the Illinois Department of Transportation. Late Woodland remains were primarily encountered in the plow zone and two buried Archaic components were excavated in 1980 and 1981. Early and Middle Archaic remains were buried by...


Can Hopi Corn Save Ethiopian Farms? Employing 1,400 Years of Pueblo Agronomic Knowledge Towards Global Sustainability (2016)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Timothy A. Kohler. Mark Caudell. Rob Quinlan. Karen Adams. Jade d'Alpoim Guedes. R. Kyle Bocinsky.

2016 Southwest Symposium Poster. Traditional crops and farming practices are not only nutritionally, economically, and spiritually important to human communities—they are reservoirs of resilience encapsulating generations of traditional agronomic and environmental knowledge. Can that knowledge be used to improve global food security? Using data from the MAÍS project and a state-of-the-art maize growth model, we simulate the potential productivity of several non-irrigated Pueblo maize varieties...


Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complexes 11 & 36 Phase I Cultural Resources Assessment Survey (2016)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Wendy Puckett. Martin Healey. Christine Mavrick. Inger Wood.

This report presents the results of a Phase I Cultural Resource Assessment Survey (CRAS) of a 306-acre proposed lease parcel. This survey was part of a larger Environmental Assessment (EA) required for this action under the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA). This is an appendix to an assessment of the existing Launch Complexes that already exist (LC 11, LC 36A, and LC 36B).


Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Resources
PROJECT Uploaded by: Rachel Fernandez

Project metadata for resources within the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station cultural heritage resources collection.


Cape Canaveral Lighthouse (8BR212) Soil Removal and Refurbishment Documents (2020)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Department of the Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories.

Documentation and background information associated with the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse site (8BR212). Documents include: soil removal consults, statements of work, lighthouse refurbishment, and the John Wesley Powell Prize for Historic Preservation nomination.


Carbonised seed, crop yield, weed infestation and harvesting techniques of the Iron Age (1985)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter J. Reynolds.

The article from 1985 describes the experiment of reconstructing and agricultural field from the Iron Age at the Butser Ancient Farm. The experiment had a few issues, such as the climate which was not the same in the 20th century, compared to the Iron Age. The climate can have major influences on the harvests and the results of the experiment. It has to be debated and treated critically. Another difference of the Iron Age and the 20th century is the soil. The soil might have been a lot...


Cedar Grove: An Interdisciplinary Investigation of a Late Caddo Farmstead in the Red River Valley (1984)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Neal L. Trubowitz.

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.


Cemvr-00-P-391550 - Louisa County Engineer - CT-71(4) - Vwh #98511 - a Phase I Archaeological Survey. Proposed Grading & Surfacing of 3.29 Miles of Louisa County Hwy H-220, Sec. 25, T73N-R3W - Sec. 28, 29, 30, T73N-R2W - COE Determination (2000)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lowell Blikre.

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.