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.

426-450 (2,079 Records)

A Cultural Resources Assessment Survey for the New Space X Hangar Complex, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Brevard County, Florida (2013)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas E. Penders.

SpaceX obtained approval and modified existing LC-40 at CCAFS in Florida. The successful inaugural launch of the Falcon 9 from LC-40 occurred on June 4, 2010. SpaceX's future plans include launching a "heavy" vehicle from LC-40. In order to accommodate the new vehicle, expansion of the launch complex is required. Jn support of the proposed expansion to LC-40 the 45 SW CRM conducted a cultural resources assessment survey of the project area. The survey was conducted in June through August 2013....


A Cultural Resources Assessment Survey of Land Management Unit 109, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Brevard County, Florida (2010)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas E. Penders.

Land Management Unit 109 was subjected to a cultural resources assessment to identify the presence of archaeological sites or historic properties. Background research determined the area was highly disturbed and had little potential for intact cultural resources. The subject property was then subjected to a systematic archaeological survey which confirmed the findings of the background research. No further action is needed within this LMU.


A Cultural Resources Assessment Survey of Land Management Unit 89, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Brevard County, Florida (2010)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas E. Penders.

Land Management Unit 89 was subjected to a cultural resources assessment to identify the presence of archaeological sites or historic properties. Background research determined the area was highly disturbed and had little potential for intact cultural resources. The subject property was then subjected to a systematic archaeological survey which confirmed the findings of the background research.


A Cultural Resources Assessment Survey of Land Management Units 75 and 157, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Brevard County, Florida (2010)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas E. Penders.

Land Management Units 75 and 157 were subjected to a cultural resources assessment to identify the presence of archaeological sites or historic properties. Background research determined the area was highly disturbed and had little potential for intact cultural resources. The subject property was then subjected to a systematic archaeological survey which confirmed the findings of the background research.


A Cultural Resources Assessment Survey of the Proposed Industrial Area Stormwater Retention Pond, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida (2007)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas E. Penders.

In December 2006 the 45 Space Wing Cultural Resources Manager ( 45 SW CRM) was contacted by the IRP group regarding a proposed retention pond within the western portion of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) Industrial Area. A review of the proposed plan by the CRM indicated it was within the high sensitivity zone for prehistoric archaeological sites and a possible historic archaeological site might be present within the project area. The CRM determined a Phase l Archaeological Survey...


Cultural Resources Assessment Surveys for the Proposed Skid Strip Area Development Plan, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Brevard County, Florida 2009-2015 Volume 1: Report (2017)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas E. Penders.

Between FYs 2009 and 2015 a series of archaeological surveys were conducted within Skid Strip and adjacent parcels. These investigations were scheduled according to the proposed land clearing activities funded for each of the years. By the end of FY 2015 a total of five previously recorded site and 18 unrecorded sites were discovered.


Cultural Resources at Tennessee Colony Lake (1976)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey Richner. Reed Lee.

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.


Cultural Resources Evaluation of the North Gulf of Mexico Continental Shelf (1977)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Coastal Environments, Inc..

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Cultural Resources Evaluations of the Original Lighthouse Site (89BR234), the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse Site (8BR212), and the New Lighthouse Site (8BR1660), Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Brevard County, Florida (2006)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Tad Britt. Carey L Baxter.

This report provides a description of the cultural resource investigations, evaluations, and treatment recommendations of the Cape Canaveral Lighthouse Site, the prehistoric New Lighthouse Site and the Original Cape Canaveral Lighthouse Site.


Cultural Resources Inventory at Dinosaur Ridge, Jefferson County, Colorado. Appendix II: Unpublished Manuscript By Charles E. Nelson On the Morrison Area (1992)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin D. Black.

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Cultural Resources Investigation of the (Cape Fish Company) Stinktown Site (8BR239), Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Brevard County, Florida (2008)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Skye W. Hughes. C. Andrew Buchner. Jeanette Knowles.

Panamerican conducted archival research and fieldwork for an ethnographic study of the Cape Fish Co. site (8BR239) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Brevard County, Florida. The investigations involved an ethnohistoric approach integrating archival, historical, oral, and video, methods with an archeological review in order to better understand the lifeways of the inhabitants and local economy. During the project, eight informants were formally interviewed using a structured questionnaire...


Cultural Resources Investigations at Redstone Arsenal, Madison County, Alabama, Volume I (1980)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Prentice M. Thomas, Jr..

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Cultural Resources Investigations at the Fort Polk Military Reservation, Vernon, Sabine and Natchitoches Parishes, Louisiana: Appendices (1982)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Prentice M. Thomas, Jr.. Steven Shelley. L. Janice Campbell. Mark T. Swanson. Carol S. Weed. John P. Lenzer.

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Cultural Resources Investigations for the Sonora Golf Partnership (Powell Ranch Golf Course) (1989)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Shelly Davis-King.

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Cultural Resources Investigations in the Mojave River Forks Reservoir, San Bernardino County, California (1985)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey Altschul. Martin R. Rose. Michael K. Lerch.

Between April and June of 1985, Statistical Research conducted a cultural resources survey of approximately 1,000 acres and a limited site-relocation program in the Mojave River Forks Reservoir, San Bernardino County, California, for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District. Prior to the fieldwork, a documents search identified 17 previously recorded or reported prehistoric sites, 2 historic properties, and 1 isolated prehistoric artifact in the study area. During the survey, 17...


Cultural Resources Investigations Related to the West Belle Pass Headland Restoration Project, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana (1994)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard A. Weinstein.

Cultural resources investigations were conducted for the West Belle Pass Restoration Project, located in extreme lower Lafoiirche Parish, Louisiana. The investigations involved archaeological, historical and geological background research, pedestrian survey and site testing. The survey covered an area of approximately 2,188 acres, and either discovered or revisited five prehistoric archaeological sites. Three of the sites, 16 LF 82, 16 LF 83, and 16 LF 84, were deemed not significant and no...


Cultural Resources Management Plan for Fort Huachuca Military Reservation, Arizona (1997)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Carla R. Van West. Mark T. Swanson. Jeffrey Altschul.

This Cultural Resource Management Plan (CRMP) describes Fort Huachuca's legal responsibility for management of its cultural resources and summarizes what is known about its archaeological and historical-period properties. As of the fall of 1994, 343 prehistoric and historical-period components occurring as 315 reported archaeological sites have been recorded on Fort Huachuca. Two hundred and fifty-one components are prehistoric, 92 are historical period, and 28 are dual prehistoric-historical...


Cultural Resources Management, Environmental Quality, Department of the Army Pamphlet 200-4 (1998)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Dennis J. Reimer.

This pamphlet provides guidance for implementation of the Army’s policy as prescribed in AR 200-4 Cultural Resources Management. Cultural resources are defined as historic properties as defined in the National Historic Preservation Act, cultural items as defined in the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, archeological resources as defined in the Archeological Resources Protection Act, sacred sites as defined in Executive Order 13007 to which access is provided under the...


Cultural Resources of the Aleutian Region Volume I and II (1977)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Gary C. Stein.

There are many problems inherent in attempting to fully assess the cultural resources of an area such as that encompassed in the boundaries of the Aleut Corporation. While there are many things which bind the area together into a unified whole, there are also many differences which must be taken into consideration. Yet both the differences and the unifying aspects are, in large part, caused by the geographic location and environmental effects of the region upon its inhabitants. Volume II of...


A Cultural Resources Overview of the Colorado Desert Planning Units (1981)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Elizabeth von Till Warren. Robert H. Crabtree. Claude N. Warren. Martha Knack. Richard McCarthy.

The Colorado Desert study area covers approximately 11,000 square miles (28,500 km. sq.) of which over two-thirds is managed by the Bureau of Land Management. The land is divided among the Imperial, Santa Rosa, Orocopia, Twentynine Palms, Bristol/Cadiz, Palen, Turtle Mountain, Whipple Mountain, Big Maria and Picacho planning units, which together will be referred to here as the Colorado Desert planning units. The area is bounded on the north by Interstate 40. Its southern boundary is the...


Cultural Resources Reconnaissance and Geomorphological Analysis of the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant, Des Moines County, Iowa, (Sewer Construction). (2000)
DOCUMENT Citation Only David F. Overstreet. Jennifer R. Harvey. Michael F. Kolb.

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Cultural Resources Regulatory Analysis, Area Overview, and Assessment of Previous Department of Energy and Kirtland Air Force Base Inventories for Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico (1993)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven R. Hoagland. Kenneth J. Lord.

The following regulatory analysis and literature review of archaeological and historic resources on the Sandia National Laboratory/New Mexico (SNL/NM) occupied properties was prepared by the Chambers Group Inc. in January 1992. Based upon compliance surveys of Technical Area I through V undertaken in 1990 and 1991 the report concludes that, although consultation with the Department of Energy and State Historic Preservation Officer will still be required for particular projects, cultural...


Cultural Resources Site Examination Report of the Deansboro Creamery Co. Site, Town of Marshall, Oneida County, New York (2012)
DOCUMENT Full-Text David Staley.

The Deansboro Creamery Co. Site (NYSM 12220, A06514.000044) is comprised of primarily historic late nineteenth and early twentieth century industrial and architectural debris associated with stone masonry piers and a masonry boiler platform. The piers and the artifacts mark the location of a cheese factory originally built in 1886 or 1887, burned in 1891, rebuilt and used as a cheese factory until 1902. It was later refitted and used as a gate factory and as a warehouse between 1911 and the...


Cultural Resources Site Examination Report of The Rogers Island-Bridge Street Site (NYSM#11617), The #3 Bridge Street Site (NYSM#11645), PIN 1025.10.121, NY Route 197/ Hudson River East Branch, Village of Fort Edward, Washington County, New York (2007)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Barry R. Dale.

This report represents the results of phase II Site Examination for the Following Sites: The Rogers Island Bridge Street Site (NYSM #11617) prehistoric and historic, and the #3 Bridge Street Site (NYSM #11645) prehistoric and historic. Multiple levels of occupation and land use are definable at the Rogers Island-Bridge Street site. Modern road, bridge, and home construction have only slightly impacted the upper levels of the site. The deepest portions of the tested area produced prehistoric...


Cultural Resources Studies in the Pearl River Mouth Area, Louisiana-Mississippi, Orleans and St. Tammany Parishes, Louisiana (1979)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Sherwood M. Gagliano. Susan Fulgham. Bert Rader.

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