Ground Disturbance Monitoring (Investigation Type)

Observations and investigations conducted during any ground disturbing operation carried out for non-archaeological reasons (e.g. construction, land-leveling, wild land fire-fighting, etc.) that may reveal and/or damage archaeological deposits.

226-250 (407 Records)

POSTER: Evaluation of the Effect of the Permian Basin Programmatic Agreement on the Archaeological Record: Field Survey and Document Review of 164 Projects (2018)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Myles R. Miller.

Poster presentation


The Prehistory and Early History of the Niobrara River Basin (1953)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard P. Wheeler. Hubert G. Smith.

This report has been prepared in compliance with a letter dated February 2, 1953 from the Assistant Director, Region 7, Bureau of Reclamation, to the Acting Chief, Missouri Basin Project, Smithsonian Institution. The report is based, in part, on a previous report by the Missouri Basin Project, River Basin Surveys, Smithsonian Institution, entitled "Appraisal of the Archeological and Paleontological Resources of the Niobrara River Basin, Nebraska, August 1951". The present report, as well as...


Preliminary Report of Boundary Testing and Phase 2 Data Recovery for Avalon Villas (2020)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Andrea Gregory.

Corona Partners, LP is proposing to construct Avalon Villas, a multifamily, affordable housing project, at 825 West Broadway Road in Phoenix, Arizona using low-income housing tax credits (LIHTC) provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HOME funds awarded by the City of Phoenix (COP). The project site is currently privately owned vacant land and is zoned as a multifamily residence. Because the proposed project is receiving federal funding it is subject to compliance...


Preliminary Report: Archaeological Monitoring of a U S West Communications Fiber Optic Cable Trench Along the South Side of the Grand Canal near Pueblo Grande National Historic Landmark, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona (1994)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Holly S. DeMaagd. Barbara S. Macnider.

At the request of U S West Communications (US West), Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) performed archaeological monitoring along a utility right-of-way. The right-of-way is within the south side access road for the Grand Canal, which passes through the City of Phoenix administered Pueblo Grande National Historic Landmark (Pueblo Grande; AZ U:9:7(ASM)). The canal is administered by the Salt River Project and owned by the Bureau of Reclamation. Limited testing within the right-of-way...


Publications in Salvage Archeology, 10: Bibliography of Salvage Archeology in the United States (1968)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jerome E. Petsche.

Within the past few years, the description and interpretation of archeological sites in the United States threatened or destroyed by programs of water impoundment, or natural agencies, has accelerated rapidly-virtually all of it as an outgrowth of the work of the Inter-Agency Archaeological Salvage Program. The resulting manuscripts and published reports have grown so voluminous since the inception of the program in 1945 that a checklist and guide to the accumulated scientific literature is...


Publications in Salvage Archeology, 11: La Roche Sites (1968)
DOCUMENT Full-Text John J. Hoffman.

The La Roche sites are located near the southern boundary of Stanley County, South Dakota, where the Missouri River, flowing to the east, makes a 90-degree turn to the south (Fig. 1). At this point, the high bluffs on the right bank of the river swing back and reveal a small, fertile floodplain known as the La Roche Bottoms. Prior to inundation in 1964, this bottom land and adjacent terrace contained the La Roche sites. Among these was 39ST9, one of the largest aboriginal occupations in the...


Publications in Salvage Archeology, 12: Bighorn Canyon Archeology (1969)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Wilfred M. Husted.

This monograph constitutes the report of archeological salvage operations in the upper Yellowtail Reservoir of Montana and Wyoming. The investigations were conducted by the River Basin Surveys, Smithsonian Institution in cooperation with the National Park Service as a part of the Inter-agency Archeological and Paleontological Salvage Program. Archeological investigation of the Yellowtail Reservoir area by the River Basin Surveys spanned an 18-year period, from 1946 through the summer of 1964....


Publications in Salvage Archeology, 13: The Grand Detour Phase (1969)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Warren W. (Warren Wendell) Caldwell. Richard E. Jensen.

This report in an outgrowth of activities of the Inter-agency Archeological and Paleontological Salvage Program. Since the program's inception in 1945, it has been sponsored, administered, and funded by the National Park Service, Department of the Interior. The National Park Service, following an agreement with the Smithsonian Institution in 1945 (revised 1961, 1965 ), assumed responsibility for over-all programing, funding, and administration. The Smithsonian Institution acts in a dual...


Publications in Salvage Archeology, 1: The Fire Heart Creek Site (1966)
DOCUMENT Full-Text D. J. Lehmer.

The Fire Heart Creek site report by Donald J. Lehmer, is the first publication in the Smithsonian venture, Publications in Salvage Archeology, which was designed to report the results of investigation carried out under the federal archaeological salvage program. This series, published by the River Basin Survey of the Smithsonian Institution, included a total of 13 reports issued between 1966 and 1969. The Fire Heart Creek site is located on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, on the west...


Publications in Salvage Archeology, 2: The Black Partizan site (1966)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Warren W. Caldwell.

The Black Partizan Site, a large fortified earth-lodge village in Lyman County, South Dakota, was excavated by the Missouri Basin Project, Smithsonian Institution as a part of the Inter-Agency Archeological and Paleontological Salvage Program within the Big Bend Reservoir. During the past decade and a half, salvage investigations have been carried out in a number of reservoirs along the main stem of the Missouri River but work has been most intensive in the lower Oahe and Big Bend Country of...


Publications in Salvage Archeology, 3: The Hitchell Site (1967)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard B. Johnston.

The Hitchell Site is one of a group of major village and burial areas excavated by the Smithsonian Institution and cooperating agencies within the Fort Randall Reservoir on the mainstem of the Missouri River in south-central South Dakota. Field investigations of one sort or another were completed at a substantial number of sites but, unfortunately, only a few were extensively excavated. Funds for salvage archeology were sharply limited and personnel were thinly spread so that, inevitably,...


Publications in Salvage Archeology, 4: Molstad Village (1967)
DOCUMENT Full-Text John J. Hoffman.

The Molstad Village report, by J. J. Hoffman, provides a comprehensive analysis of the Chouteau Aspect (Extended Coalescent Horizon), an important group of complexes that foreshadow the historic period within the Middle Missouri area. The generic "La Roche" development, which includes the Chouteau Aspect, is the most widespread of the archeological horizons presently recognized within the Middle Missouri. At the same time, the constituent complexes have been thought to be characterized by a...


Publications in Salvage Archeology, 5: Pony Creek Archeology (1967)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Lionel A. Brown.

During the late spring of 1962 the River Basin Surveys, Smithsonian Institution, conducted an archeological survey of the Pony Creek Watershed in Mills County, Iowa, as a part of the Inter-Agency Archeological Salvage Program. The watershed was surveyed and archeological sites in danger of destruction or inundation were tested or excavated. The preliminary investigation was directed by the writer with the assistance of Wilfred M. Husted and Lee G. Madison, both of the River Basin Surveys,...


Publications in Salvage Archeology, 6: Hells Canyon Archeology (1967)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Warren W. Caldwell. Oscar L. Mallory.

Archeological investigations in the Hells Canyon area of the Snake River (Figs. la, b) have a chequered past. Like much of the Northwest, the great gorge forming the boundary between northeastern Oregon and central Idaho was substantially unknown until the advent of the postwar archeological salvage program. An initial reconnaissance of the upper canyon was completed by the River Basin Surveys of the Smithsonian Institution during August of 1950 (Shiner 1951). The survey was undertaken in...


Publications in Salvage Archeology, 7: Arikara Archeology: the Bad River Phase (1968)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Donald J. Lehmer. David T. Jones.

The Oahe Dam vicinity, just upstream from Pierre, South Dakota, was particularly rich in archeological remains. Few areas of similar size in the Missouri Basin exemplify so well the accomplishment of the Inter-agency Archeological and Paleontological Salvage Program. Five major archeological sites were located on the right bank of the Missouri less than a mile and a half above or below the axis of the dam, and a sixth (39HU22) lay across the river on the left bank (Fig. 20). All were...


Publications in Salvage Archeology, 8: The Two Teeth Site (1968)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Carlyle S. Smith. Alfred E. Johnson.

The Two Teeth Site (39BF204) is situated on the left, or northeast, bank of the Missouri River in Buffalo County, South Dakota (Fig. 1; Pl. la), about three miles west of Fort Thompson, the administrative center of the Crow Creek Indian Reservation. The site lies on a minor terrace a few feet above the heavily wooded flood plain that, prior to inundation by the Big Bend Reservoir, formed an important element in the regional ecology. The area of occupation shows negligible relief but it has a...


Publications in Salvage Archeology, 9: Big Bend Historic Sites (1968)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Hubert G. Smith.

Historic sites within and near the Big Bend Reservoir area of South Dakota have been listed in a compilation of documentary evidence, prepared for the National Park Service by Ray H. Mattison (1962). The work is one of a series of special reports on historic sites and features of various reservoir areas of the Missouri Basin. Correlated archeological salvage operations conducted by the River Basin Surveys, Smithsonian Institution, yielded material evidence for some of these Big Bend historic...


Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)) Soil Systems, Inc. Master Provenience Table: Projects, Unit Numbers, and Feature Numbers (2008)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Soil Systems, Inc..

This document contains two tables that serve as a guide to the archaeological projects conducted at Pueblo Grande from 1990 to 2008. The tables contain information on the post-Hohokam Expressway projects from SSI's Pueblo Grande Cultural Park Testing project to ACS' Lightrail Preconstruction project. The Master Provenance Table lists project names and numbers, the unit number(s) for each project, the provenience designation (PD) numbers used during each project, and the feature numbers used...


Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)): Unit 11, Van Buren and 44th Streets: Soil Systems, Inc. DMB Property Testing and Data Recovery
PROJECT Cory D. Breternitz. Banks L. Leonard.

Between 4 and 28 April, 1997, Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI) archaeologists completed archaeological test excavations (SSI Project No. 97-02) in an 8.42-ac (34.07 ha) area (Unit 11) northeast of the corner of 44th and Van Buren Streets, Phoenix, Arizona for the DMB Corporation. Based on previous research, the parcel lies along the north edge of the large Hohokam urban site of Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1[ASM], see Bostwick and Downum 1994a; Downum and Bostwick 1993; Breternitz 1994). Because archaeological...


Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)): Unit 12, Gateway and 44th Streets: Kitchell Development Testing Project
PROJECT Cory D. Breternitz. Banks L. Leonard.

Pueblo Grande Unit 12 (Gateway Lot 4 at the southeastern corner of Gateway Blvd and 44th Streets) is a 3.8 ac parcel that was scheduled for commercial development in 1997. The parcel is located less than 300 ft (91 m) northeast of Unit 7 of the prehistoric site of Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)), where archaeological features including burials had been encountered (Breternitz et al. 1990). Because of its proximity, there was a likelihood that archaeological remains including burials would also be...


Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)): Unit 13, NE Corner of Van Buren and 44th Streets: SSI DMB Utility Trench Monitoring, Field Specimen (FS) Data (1998)
DATASET Maria Martin.

The DMB Utility Trench Monitoring project Field Specimen (FS) Data sheet contains basic artifact data for the cultural material recovered in each PD unit. It lists the PD number, the specimen (FS) number (specimen numbers range from 1 to n for each PD unit), and the point location (PL) number (if applicable). Please note that a combination of a PD number AND FS number is necessary to identify an artifact specimen. The table then provides data on artifact type, lithic material (if applicable),...


Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)): Unit 13, NE Corner of Van Buren and 44th Streets: SSI DMB Utility Trench Monitoring, Provenience Designation (PD) Data (1998)
DATASET Maria Martin.

The DMB Utility Trench Monitoring Provenience Designation (PD) data sheet summarizes the PD's excavated during the project's data recovery efforts. It is the master list for all excavated contexts in the DMB trench monitoring effort. It contains information about each PD and the features recorded during excavation.


Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)): Unit 13, Northeast Corner of Van Buren and 44th Streets: Soil Systems, Inc. AZ Federal Credit Union Testing and Data Recovery Project
PROJECT Cory D. Breternitz. Banks L. Leonard.

Between 22 April and 8 May 1997, personnel from Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI) completed archaeological test excavations on a 3.26-acre parcel, scheduled for commercial development by the Arizona Federal Credit Union (AFCU) at the northeast corner of 44th and Van Buren Streets in Phoenix, Arizona. The archaeological work was conducted under SSI Project No. 97-09. Based on previous research, the parcel was believed to be located near the northwest edge of the large Hohokam village site of Pueblo Grande...


Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)): Unit 13, Northeast Corner of Van Buren and 44th Streets: Soil Systems, Inc. DMB Utility Trench Monitoring
PROJECT Cory D. Breternitz. Banks L. Leonard.

In March 1998, Soil Systems archaeologists monitored and inspected the construction of three utility lines for the DMB Corporation on a parcel of land (in Unit 13 of Pueblo Grande) east of 44th Street and north of Van Buren Street, along the northern margin of the Hohokam site of Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)), in Phoenix, Arizona. The utility lines (a water line, a sanitary sewer, and a storm sewer) were intended to service a newly constructed street and/or two newly constructed buildings on the...


Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)): Unit 14, Washington Park Development and Ruby Tuesdays: Soil Systems, Inc. Sun America Data Recovery and Burial Removal
PROJECT Cory D. Breternitz. Banks L. Leonard.

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