Shell (Material Keyword)

Modified or unmodified objects made from mollusc shell.

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Weber I Middle Archaic faunal dataset (1983)
DATASET Beverley Smith.

Faunal Identifications from Middle Archaic -Zone 2 occupation


Weber I Site Late Archaic faunal database (1983)
DATASET Beverley Smith.

Faunal Identifications from Late Archaic -Zone 1


Weber I Site, MI (20SA581) Project
PROJECT Uploaded by: Beverley Smith

The Weber I site is a stratified Archaic period site located on the Cass River where it flows through the outskirts of Frankenmuth, Michigan in the Saginaw Valley region. The lower strata (Occupation Zone II) is the only sealed cultural occupation dated to the Middle Archaic period in the Upper Great Lakes in which organic remains are preserved. Seven features, lithic artifacts, and both faunal and floral materials indicate a late summer through fall season of multiple occupations. A total of...


Well Pad Shell Boxer #1 For Reese & Jones (1975)
DOCUMENT Citation Only K. Klager.

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.


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

This project includes files related to western lower Papaloapan basin projects, including particularly relevant Master's theses, term papers, drafts of codebooks or other working documents, and some hard-to-get or out-of-print publications (confidential because of copyrights). A list of publications, theses, and dissertations related to the projects appears in a file in the related "Introduction" project.


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

This archive is devoted to project images. The organization of the images is described in "Documentation of Image Archive." Each image has a unique accession number, and images are grouped into categories such as bone, chert, figurine, lapidary, lithic, obsidian, pottery, shell, and so forth. Information about each image is contained in an access database "Palm Image Archive." The image archive is not completed, and images have not been entirely edited. Contact Stark with questions. For...


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

This project contains a file introducing the project, funding, personnel, and publications.


Western Salt Industrial Park Archaeological Report. (1982)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven A. Apple.

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.


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...


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.


Whelk Shell Tool Blanks from Big Mound Key (8CH!0), Charlotte County, Florida: With Notes On Certain Whelk Shell Tools (1986)
DOCUMENT Citation Only George M. Luer. David Allerton. Dan Hazeltine. Ron Hatfield. Darden Hood.

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 Springs Site (22IT537) 1979-1986
PROJECT Eugene Futato. Robert Gilbert. US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District. US Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District.

This collection is referred to as, "White Springs Site (22IT537) 1979-1986.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is five (5) linear inches. The White Springs Site (22IT537) 1979-1986 archival collection was contained within acid-free boxes and in acid-free folders within the larger Shell Bluff collection. These collections are permanently housed at the Cobb Institute of Archaeology, University of Mississippi....


Whole Dacite Slabs recieved from the BE-16-KH (KOT) Graves (2010)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Karen Holmberg.

This document contains a table that lists the direction, angle, length, thickness, width (both horizontal and vertical from the middle and at each end). This is NOT published, but is part of the authors collection from her research.


Williams Site (13PM50): a Great Oasis Component In Northwest Iowa (1975)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Patricia McAllister Williams.

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.


The Willow Lake Site: Archaeological Investigations in Willow & Watson Lakes Park, Prescott, Arizona (2006)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: adam brin

Between October 2002 and April 2003, Logan Simpson Design Inc. (LSD) conducted archaeological excavations at six prehistoric Prescott Culture sites around Willow and Watson Lakes, situated in the Granite Dells, a picturesque area of exposed granite bedrock located approximately 6.5 to 8 km (4 to 5 miles) north of the city of Prescott. The results of these excavations and the specialized studies of recovered artifacts and cultural samples are presented herein and, it is hoped, contribute to an...


Wind River Canyon Burial and Cache (1985)
DOCUMENT Citation Only George C. Frison. Zola Van Norman.

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.


Windsong Shores Data Recovery Program for Site W-131, Carlsbad, California (1984)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Dennis Gallegos. Richard Carrico.

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.


Wittrock Excavations: Implications For the Study of Cultural Process Within the Initial Variant of the Middle Missouri Tradition (1986)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Duane C. Anderson.

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.