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.

501-525 (2,079 Records)

Developing Perspectives on Tonto Basin Prehistory (1992)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Francis McManamon

This volume is the second in the Roosevelt Monograph Series and is based on papers presented by members of the research team of the Roosevelt Platform Mound Study at a symposium held at the Society for American Archaeology annual meeting in New Orleans in the spring of 1991. Three additional chapters have been added based on papers presented elsewhere during that year. We are grateful to the authors for their contributions and their early insights on the data recovered in the early phases of the...


Development of Modern Tree-Ring Chronologies in the Midwest: Arkansas, North Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri (1982)
DOCUMENT Citation Only David W. Stahle. Others.

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Devil's Sinkhole Area - Headwaters of the Nueces River. a Natural Area Survey, Part VIII (1975)
DOCUMENT Citation Only D. Kennard.

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Devonian Stratigraphy In Northern Wyoming and Adjoining Areas (1956)
DOCUMENT Citation Only J. M. Andrichuk.

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Diablo Grande Specific Plan Draft Environmental Impact Report: E. Cultural Resources (IV-134-IV-163) (1992)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lsa Associates, Inc..

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Digital Archive of Archaeological Documents Related to Dyess Air Force Base, Texas
PROJECT Air Combat Command, United States Air Force.

This project, created by Digital Antiquity under contract with the United States Air Force, contains documents and other resources from archaeological research conducted at Dyess Air Force Base (Dyess AFB). Dyess AFB, established in 1942 as Abilene Army Air Base (AAB), is a B1-Bomber base on 6,409-acre located in the southwest corner of Abilene, TX in Taylor County. The archaeology of the Taylor County area dates the human occupation of the area from about 12,500 B.C. into the present. ...


Digitizing The Anasazi Origins Project: A Geodatabase (2013)
DOCUMENT Full-Text David M. Plaza.

Archaeology is faced with the inheritance problem of managing legacy collections, partly due to the high expense of maintaining them. Often these datasets are unorganized, thus rendering them underutilized, and difficult to properly preserve or to integrate into the current archaeological dialogue. Unfortunately, this problem is a common issue. To address this problem, an examination of the condition of the records and artifacts of legacy archaeological collections is needed. In this thesis,...


Dine Bikeyah (1941)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard F. Van Valkenburgh.

diné bikéyah "The Navajo's Country", is primarily a guide book and gazetteer of the Navajo country and adjacent regions. While but a fraction of the Navajo place names have been listed, those given have been selected as most important and interesting to government employees, students, and travelers. Furthermore, it is hoped that diné bikéyah now using the official Indian Department system of writing the Navajo language, will make it possible to standardize and crystalize into universal spelling...


The Dinosaur Footprints of Roxborough State Park
DOCUMENT Citation Only Martin Lockley.

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Dinosaur Footprints of Roxborough State Park
DOCUMENT Citation Only Martin Lockley.

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Dinosaur Hill Interpretation Trail (1987)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Piontkowski.

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Dinosaur Ridge - Jefferson County (1992)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin D. Black.

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Dinosaur Ridge Tracks Excavation a Proposal By the Friends of Dinosaur Ridge (1992)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Martin Lockley. Joe Tempel. Karen Hester.

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Dinosaur Tracks: Various Reports By Martin Lockley (1991)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Martin G. Lockley.

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The Disappearing Island: The Effect of Imminent Displacement on Social Exchange Relations on Tangier Island (WGF - Dissertation Fieldwork Grant) (2018)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jonna Yarrington.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Tangier Island is a small, incorporated town, just over one square mile, of 470 inhabitants in the Chesapeake Bay, belonging to Accomack County, in the Commonwealth of Virginia, USA. Its residents are densely related watermen and their families--mostly white, lower income, politically conservative, Christian, and skeptical of science and climate change. Endogamous marriage is preferred,...


Discovery of a Neches River Ferryboat Big Thicket National Preserve (1992)
DOCUMENT Full-Text James E. Bradford.

In September 1991, Big Thicket National Preserve staff received a report of remains of a river craft exposed in the west bank of the Neches River about a mile downstream from the Sheffield boat ramp (Figure 1). Rangers from the Upper Neches River corridor Unit investigating the report found the remains of a small wooden craft projecting from the river bank--at that time about 6 to 7 feet above water level and almost 14 feet below the top of the river bank. Photographs of the craft were taken and...


Distribution of Paleoindian Sites in Kansas (1986)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kenneth L. Brown. B. Logan.

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Diversity in Hohokam Subsistence Strategies: A View from The Big Canal (1986)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert E. Gasser.

This paper will synthesize the macrobotanical findings from the Tucson Aqueduct Project, Phase A (TAP), conducted by the Museum of Northern Arizona and will highlight some of the pollen and flotation results from the Salt-Gila Aqueduct Project (SGA), completed by the Arizona State Museum. Both projects were segments of the Central Arizona Project, a huge canal bringing water from the Colorado River to the farms and towns of southern Arizona. The ...


Dogan Point: a Shell Matrix Site in the Lower Hudson Valley (1995)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Cheryl P. Claassen.

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The Dolores Archaeological Program
PROJECT Robert A. Bye. Christine K. Robinson. David A. Breternitz. Allen E. Kane. Steven E. James. Timothy A. Kohler. William D. Lipe. Bureau of Reclamation.

From 1978 until 1985 the University of Colorado contracted with the Bureau of Reclamation (Contract No. 8-07-40-S0562) to mitigate the adverse impact of a large water impoundment project on the cultural resources in the project area. This complex and evolving long-term mitigation plan known as the Dolores Archaeological Program (DAP) has been called a “truly unique chapter in American archaeology” (Breternitz 1993:118) and was applauded by Lipe (1998:2) for its ability to “increase the power and...


Dolores Archaeological Program Technical Reports, DAP-014: Climatic Reconstruction (1982)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Kenneth L. Peterson.

Pollen records from two locations in the spruce (Picea engelmannii) forest of the La Plata Mountains, southwestern Colorado, provide paleoclimatic information for the headwater region of the Dolores River. Because of the difference in spruce growth response to climatic variation at its upper and lower elevational limits, the pollen records from Twin Lakes and Beef Pasture yield paleoclimatic information unobtainable from either record alone. Radiocarbon dates, tree-ring indices, and historic...


Dolores Archaeological Program Technical Reports, DAP-019: Botanical Studies (1982)
DOCUMENT Full-Text William J. Litzinger.

The Environmental Studies crew supervised recovery of paleobotanical samples at seven sites in the Dolores Project area during the first field season. Work was begun on initial characterization of the project area environment and site catchment analysis. Identification of macrobotanical samples was undertaken and water separation of bulk soil samples was begun. Charred corn (Zea mays) fragments represent the major type of macrobotanical remains identified from these sites. Juniperus, Pinus,...


Dolores Archaeological Program Technical Reports, DAP-050: Geology of the Dolores Project Area (1982)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Frank C. Leonhardy. Vickie L. Clay.

Integrated geological studies for the Dolores Archaeological Program provide project wide descriptions of landforms, rock units, Quaternary sediments, soils, and drainage systems. Additionally, geological studies provide alternative chronological control for archaeological material recovery and climatic reconstructions. During the 1979 field season preliminary geologic mapping of soils, landforms, bedrock, and drainage areas was completed. Archaeological stratigraphy was recorded and samples...


Dolores Archaeological Program Technical Reports, DAP-061: Environmental Studies Report (1980)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Bruce F. Benz. Vickie L. Clay.

The Environmental Studies Group has completed laboratory and field studies that serve as a comparisons for projections back in time. These include maps that inventory the present day bedrock geology, landforms, soils stream orders, and present and potential-natural vegetation. Two experimental gardens provide case studies of the potential of subsistence agriculture in the Dolores Archaeological Project area under present day conditions. Analysis to date of geological, faunal, and floral...


Dolores Archaeological Program Technical Reports, DAP-062: Preliminary Report, Demonstration and Experimental Garden Studies 1979 and 1980 (1983)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Rita Shuster.

Remains of corn, beans and squash recovered from prehistoric sites excavated in the Dolores Project area indicate that the Anasazi were successfully farming the area. To help answer questions about prehistoric farming practices, experimental gardens were planted in the project area in 1979 and 1980. These gardens were closely monitored and various experiments with different crops were conducted. Resultant yields from the gardens indicate that despite problems of low rainfall, insects, and a...