Data Recovery / Excavation (Investigation Type)

These investigations include substantial field investigation of an archaeological site (or sites) involving the removal, and systematic recording of, archaeological matrix. These activities often mitigate the adverse effects of a public undertaking. This includes the description, analysis, and specialized studies of artifacts and samples recovered during excavations.

26,951-26,975 (27,264 Records)

Western Lower Papaloapan Archaeology (Veracruz, Mexico): Databases
PROJECT Uploaded by: Barbara Stark

This project contains excel or access databases for sites and artifacts from work in the Proyecto Arqueologico La Mixtequilla. See the "Introduction" project for information about the project.


Western Material Culture at Utqiagvik (1990)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jody Cargill. Timothy Smith.

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.


Westmoreland-Barber Site (40Mi-11), Nickajack Reservoir, Season II (1966)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles H. Faulkner. J. B. Graham.

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.


Wet Screening (2010)
IMAGE Stephanie Barrante. Victoria Hawley. Jessica Hughes.

Images illustrating the use of an on-site wet screening operation to maximize artifact recovery at the site of Fort St. Joseph, 2006-2010.


Wet Sites in the Pacific Northwest (1976)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard D. Daugherty. Dale R. Croes.

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.


Wetherill Mesa Salvage Archaeology, University of Colorado Research Center Research Center Summer 1971 (1972)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen J. Hallisy. L. V. Nordby. D. A. Breternitz.

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.


Wexpusnime (45Ga61): Preliminary Report (1971)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Frank Leonhardy. G. Schroedl. J. Bense. S. Beckerman.

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.


What is a Shell Midden? Data Recovery Excavations of Thom's Creek and Deptford Shell Middens, 38BU2, Spring Island, South Carolina (1994)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Christopher T. Espenshade. Linda Kennedy. Bobby G. Southerlin. David Lawrence. David C. Jones.

Data recovery excavations were conducted at five shell midden loci of site 38BU2, Spring Island, Beaufort County, South Carolina. The excavations included: four by four m blocks in three Deptford phase middens; a four by four m block in a Thom's Creek midden; a six by six m block in a Deptford midden; and two exploratory one by one m units in other Deptford middens. The analyses included detailed zooarchaeological and ethnobotanical studies, an investigation of oyster source environment and...


What Mean These Bones? Studies in Southeastern Bioarchaeology (1991)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary L. Powell. Patricia S. Bridges. Ann M. W. Mires.

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.


What Price Victory: Human Remains Uncovered at Big Hole National Battlefield, 1991 (Restricted) (1992)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Melissa A. Connor.

During the August, 1991, metal detector inventory of Big Hole National Battlefield, a partial human skeleton was uncovered. The remains are those of an unidentified girl in her late teens. The skeleton was on top of a camas oven, which is consistent with historical accounts of the disposal of some of the bodies from the battle. The body showed evidence of extensive post-mortem mutilation. The arms had been cut off and laid below the pelvis, one leg had been detached and was not with the remains,...


Wheeler Lee Site (34Pu-102) (1982)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher R. Lintz.

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.


Whelan Lake (CA-SDI-6010): A La Jollan Campsite on the Lower San Luis Rey River, San Diego County, California (1993)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Rein Vanderpot. Jeffrey Altschul. Donn R. Grenda.

This report details the results of archaeological test excavations conducted in August, 1991, by Statistical Research, Inc., at the Whelan Lake site (CA-SDI 6010). Whelan Lake is an early La Jollan campsite dating between 6500 and 7400 B.P. The site is a moderately dense shell midden situated on a knoll overlooking the San Luis Rey River about 7 km upstream from the coast. The midden has a roughly oval shape and measures 90 m by 60 m. Over 200 m of backhoe trenches and 17 m 2 of test pits were...


Whelan Lake CA-SDI-6010, a La Jollan Campsite on the Lower San Luis Rey River (1993)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Rein et al. Vanderpot.

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.


Whelan Site, a Late Caddoan Component in the Ferrell's Bridge Reservoir, Northeastern Texas (1958)
DOCUMENT Citation Only E. Mott Davis.

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.


When is a Great Kiva? Excavations at McCreery Pueblo (1993)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffery F. Burton.

During August 1992, the National Park Service conducted archeological test excavations at McCreery pueblo, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. McCreery Pueblo is a late Pueblo II-early Pueblo III site consisting of a small masonry room block, a great kiva, a trash mound, and nine other features. Over 65 m2 were excavated at the site. Recovered were 5,128 sherds, 3,332 flaked-stone artifacts, 18 hammerstones, 15 ground-stone artifacts, and 18 ornaments. Numerous floral and faunal...


When Trash Becomes Treasure: A Postclassic Maya Obsidian Core Cache from Nojpeten (2014)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Angela McArdle.

This paper examines an obsidian cache offering excavated near the corner of a Postclassic Maya platform structure in Nojpeten, on the island of Flores, Guatemala. The cache consists of approximately 190 obsidian prismatic blade cores and core fragments, but the original number of cores placed in the cache likely fell between 173 and 182, with a best estimate of 177, 178, or 180. The cores were found about 20 cm southwest of the structure in a circular concentration measuring approximately 35 cm...


Where Did the Calico Artifacts Come From? (1987)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Janet L. Boley.

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.


Where the Rivers Converge, Roosevelt Platform Mound Study: Report on the Rock Island Complex (1995)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Owen Lindauer.

This report is the second site description volume for the Roosevelt Platform Mound Study. This volume describes the four sites investigated in the Rock Island Complex by the Roosevelt Platform Mound Study. It also presents some of the analyses and integrated conclusions that address the project's research objectives established by the Bureau of Reclamation and Tonto National Forest archaeologists and outlined in our research design. This volume primarily describes a single large site,...


Where the Rivers Converge: Report on the Rock Island Complex (1995)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Owen Lindauer.

The Roosevelt Platform Mound Study (RPMS) was one of three mitigative data recovery studies that the Bureau of Reclamation funded to investigate the prehistory of the Tonto Basin in the vicinity of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. The series of investigations constituted Reclamation's program for complying with historic preservation legislation as it applied to the raising and modification of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. Reclamation contracted with the Arizona State University Office of Cultural Resource...


White Bend Site, IL (11HA938) Faunal Database REVISED 2 (2016)
DATASET Steven Kuehn.

Middle Archaic and Late Archaic faunal assemblage from the White Bend Site (11HA938), Hancock County, Illinois. Recovery methods included 1/4" mesh and flotation. Fauna identified by Steven Kuehn. This version of the file was used by the EAFWG.


White Bend Site, IL (11HA938) Project
PROJECT Uploaded by: Steven Kuehn

The White Bend site (11HA938) is located along the east bank of the West Fork of the LaMoine River valley bottomland near the confluence of an intermittent stream in eastern Hancock County in west-central Illinois. The Illinois State Archaeological Survey of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (formerly the Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program) conducted Phase III excavations at the site in in 2006 and 2007 and recovered faunal materials from Archaic occupations...


White Oak Point Mounds (21IC1) (1940)
DOCUMENT Citation Only L. A. Wilford.

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White Owl Site (32DU621): a Late Prehstoric-Protohistoric Campsite and Knife River Flint Procurement Locality On the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, Dunn County, North Dakota (1992)
DOCUMENT Citation Only B. L. Olson.

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.


Whitehall Catalog (1977)
DATASET Dean Snow.

This file contains the Whitehall Rock Shelter catalog from the excavations of 1977-78.


Whitehall Catalog guide (2008)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Dean Snow. Katherine Sterner.

This file contains the Whitehall Rock Shelter catalog guide from the excavations of 1977-78.