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.

476-500 (2,079 Records)

Cultural Resources Survey of the Proposed SC Route 165 Improvement Project (2007)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Inna Burns. Allison Wind.

"In April-June 2006, Brockington and Associates, Inc., conducted an intensive cultural resources survey of the proposed SC Route 165 Improvement Project in Dorchester County, South Carolina. This work was conducted through Davis & Floyd, Inc., for the Dorchester County Sales Tax Authority (DCTA) in advance of bridge replacement and road improvement activities along this portion of SC Route 165. ..."


Cultural Resources Survey of the Proposed SC Route 642 Improvement Project (2007)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Inna Burns. Allison Wind.

"... We identified five new historic architectural resources (Resources 1147, 1148, 1149, 1150, and 1151) within the architectural survey universe. We recommend Resources 1147-1151 not eligible for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). No further management consideration of these resources is warranted. In addition, we reassessed Resource 491 1047 (Salters Cemetery) because of its proximity to the project. Since the cemetery is not eligible for the NRHP and the current plans call...


Cultural Resources Survey of the Proposed US Highway 78 Improvement Project (2007)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Allison Wind. Inna Burns.

"In July–August 2006, Brockington and Associates, Inc., conducted an intensive cultural resources survey of the proposed US Highway 78 Improvement Project in Dorchester County, South Carolina. This work was conducted through Davis & Floyd, Inc., for the Dorchester County Sales Tax Authority in advance of road improvement activities along this portion of US Highway 78. The project corridor is approximately 39.6 kilometers (24.6 miles) long. The proposed project is located along existing US...


Cultural Resources Survey of the Stratford Parcel 13 Tract (2009)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Callie McLean. Jennifer Salo. Allison Wind. Damon Jackson. Erik Mischker.

"During November and December 2008, Brockington and Associates, Inc., conducted an intensive cultural resources survey of the 342-acre Stratford Parcel 13 Tract in Jasper County, South Carolina. The investigations were conducted for SLF III-Hardeeville, LLC, to provide compliance with state and federal regulations concerning the management of historic properties (i.e., sites, buildings, structures, objects, and districts eligible for or listed on the National Register of Historic Places [NRHP])...


Cultural Resources Testing at Las Canopas (AZ T:12:137[ASM]), Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text John Marshall.

Northland has completed cultural resources testing at two parcels. During the project, 83 trenches were mechanically excavated, totaling 1,613.3 meters. Trenches were roughly 20 m long, 65 cm wide, and 1.5 m deep. They were laid out in a checkerboard pattern across both loci, with trenches spaced 40 m apart east-west. This equates to approximately a 1.25 percent subsurface sample of the 20.7 acre project area. Testing confirmed the presence of features associated with Las Canopas (AZ...


Cultural Resourfe Inventory Report on the Proposed DOE #2-M-35 Location and Related Access N Garfield County, Colorado for Barrett Resources, Inc. (1995)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Carl E. Conner.

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Culture and Ecology of Chaco Canyon and the San Juan Basin (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Frances Joan Mathien.

Today Chaco Canyon is a tourist and research destination, but this was not always so. We now know that Archaic hunters and gatherers camped there over several millennia; ancestors of historic Pueblo people dependent on maize agriculture created the masonry structures for which Chaco Canyon National Monument was established. The canyon is now home to only a few National Park Service (NPS) employees, who live amidst Navajo sheep- and cattle-ranchers whose ancestors came to this area after the...


Current Northeast Paleoethnobotany II (2008)
DOCUMENT Full-Text John P. Hart. Mark A. McConaughy. Nancy Asch Sidell. Elizabeth Chilton. Ninian R. Stein. Tonya Largy. E. Pierre Morenon. Katy Serpa. Timothy C. Messner. Ruth Dickau. Eleanora A. Reber. William A. Lovis. G. William Monaghan. Robert H. Pihl. Stephen G. Monckton. David A. Robertson. Robert F. Williamson. Michael Deal. Sara Halwas. Jeffrey C. M. Bendremer. Elaine L. Thomas. Jack Rossen. John Edward Terrell.

In northeastern North America our understandings of prehistoric human–plant relationships, the subject of paleoethnobotany, continue to change as more samples are taken, examined, and compared to extant records. The results of these analyses are no longer relegated to the appendices of archaeological site reports, but constitute important contributions to our understandings of Native American lifeways in the Northeast, on their own and in combination with other lines of evidence. This volume is...


Current Trends in Southern Plains Archaeology (1986)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy G. Baugh.

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Cyclic Sedimentation in the Mississippi River Deltaic Plain (1964)
DOCUMENT Citation Only J. M. Coleman. Sherwood M. Gagliano.

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.


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

Artifact photos from Danilova 2.


Data Recovery Excavations at Site PO-21, Cerrillos River Valley, Puerto Rico (1987)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher T. Espenshade. John Foss. J. W. Joseph.

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.


Data Recovery Excavations at the Cranks Creek Site (15Hl58), Harlan County, Kentucky (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Andrew Bradbury.

Between June 17 and August 9, 2002, Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc. personnel conducted phase III data recovery excavations at the Cranks Creek site (15Hl58). The project was initiated in conjunction with the proposed realignment of US 421 near the community of Cranks in southeastern Harlan County, Kentucky (Item Number 11-254.00). The data recovery excavations were implemented to mitigate the adverse effects posed to the site from the proposed road construction. The excavations generally...


Data Recovery Investigations at Site 15CT118 in Clinton County, Kentucky: Terminal Archaic-Early Woodland Occupations of South-Central Kentucky (2012)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Brian DelCastello.

Between June 1 and June 9, 2011, Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc., personnel conducted data recovery investigations at Site 15Ct118 in southern Clinton County, Kentucky, for the planned west Albany bypass. The project was conducted at the request of David M. Waldner on behalf of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (Item No. 8-260.01). The site was situated along a knoll overlooking Spring Creek. A total of 15 prehistoric cultural features were identified at the site. The data recovery...


Data Recovery Investigations at Waterford Plantation (38GE550) (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Inna Burns. Autumn Morrison.

"Brockington and Associates, Inc., conducted archaeological data recovery investigations at portions of site 38GE550 in the Allston Bluffs tract, Georgetown County, South Carolina in February through April 2003....These investigations recovered considerable information about the colonial and antebellum occupations of 38GE550. We employed this information to address all of the research questions outlined in the approved Treatment Plan for 38GE550, as well as other issues that the data provided...


Data Recovery Plan for Portions of Site 13PK61, Polk County, Affected by Martin Luther King, Jr. Parkway Project Stage 1-4, SW 5th Street Storm Sewer Project (1998)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Dale R. Henning.

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Data Retrieval Investigation, Sheridan Hollow Parking Facility Historic Archeological Site, Albany, New York
PROJECT Uploaded by: Justin DiVirgilio

From 2003 to 2005, Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc. conducted a series of archeological investigations in advance of the construction of a parking facility in the Sheridan Hollow neighborhood of Albany, New York. The archeological examination, required by Section 14.09 of the New York State Historic Preservation Act, focused on two urban residential lots on Sheridan Avenue, occupied about 1840-1920. For most of the 19th century, the neighborhood was occupied by Irish immigrants and...


Datasets used for d'Alpoim Guedes and Bocinsky (In Review)
PROJECT Uploaded by: Jade d'Alpoim Guedes

This collection contains the datasets used to support d'Alpoim Guedes and Bocinsky (In Review). It contains: 1.) the China Vegetation Atlas 2.) A database containing records for appearance and period of usage of crops across Eurasia.


Dating Techniques Applicable to Great Plains Archeological and Geological History (1983)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Wayne M. Wendland.

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Deir for Piedras Pintadas Cultural Resource Management Plan and Interpretive Plan (1995)
DOCUMENT Citation Only City of San Diego.

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Delineation of Range 74 Kawich Valley Target Disturbance Zone Nevada Test and Training Range Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada (2004)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith Myhrer. Tracy Henderson.

The goal of this study is to examine the status of cultural resources research and development of targets in the center portion of Kawich Valley. The project area or Area of Potential Effect (APE) for this review is called the Range 74 Kawich Valley Target Disturbance Zone (R74 TDZ), depicted in Maps 1 and 2 and defined as 51,000 acres in size. The purpose of this study was defined by five objectives. 1) Define the boundaries of the target zone in Kawich Valley, Range 74C, characterized by live...


The dentition of Dryopithecus and the origin of man (1926)
DOCUMENT Citation Only William K. (William King) Gregory. Milo Hellman.

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Depositional and Geomorphic History of the Lower Colorado River: Appendix 2.5D (1975)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Gaylon K. Lee. John W. Bell.

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The Depositional and Post-Depositional History of Sediments at Beartail Rockshelter, Alabama: a Micromorphological Analysis (1997)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Trina L. Arpin.

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Detailed Assessment Report, Yosemite National Park, Highwater 97A. (1997)
DOCUMENT Citation Only B. J. Griffin. H. Grovert. K. Cann.

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