Ochre (Material Keyword)

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Ochre mineral pigment sources in the Kenya Rift Valley Sampled in 2012 for Zipkin's dissertation research project. Each entry represents a sample of ochre collected. Each sample has a unique identification code beginning with the prefic "KEN". Multiple samples were often collected from the same source in order to assess intra-source chemical variability. Source names are associated with each waypoint.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey J. Richner. Reed Lee.

Archaeological investigations at Tennessee Colony Lake in 1975 were directed toward examining site distributions and densities within a variety of survey sampling strata. Utilizing data derived from the 1974 transect survey to refine field and analysis procedures, a series of 52 quadrats were surveyed as a part of this phase. In all 46 sites that were located, sites shed considerable light on the locations, differences, and similarities in prehistoric, protohistoric, and historic land-use...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark D. Elson.

Excavations by the Institute for American Research at the Tanque Verde Wash site (AZ BB: 13:68 [ASM]) uncovered a nearly complete segment of a single component Middle Rincon subphase (A.D. 1000-1100) hamlet. The site was located along Tanque Verde Wash, the largest permanent drainage within the eastern Tucson Basin. Nineteen pithouses, three trash mounds, and 66 extramural features were recovered within a 2500 square meter area, The excavation methodology, which involved the complete excavation...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Deborah L. Swartz.

The Yuma Wash site was a permanently occupied large Classic period village situated in the northern Tucson Basin at the juncture of the eastern bajada of the Tucson Mountains with the Santa Cruz River floodplain. The site area was also intermittently used on a much smaller scale during the rest of the Hohokam sequence and during the Early Agricultural and Early Ceramic periods, as well as during the Historic era. The project was conducted by Desert Archaeology, Inc., for the Town of Marana. The...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Carmen Moss.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Pittsburgh District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Program's (VCP) Washington, DC laboratory in the winter of 2010 and then moved to the Alexandria laboratory in August of 2011. The Alexandria VCP laboratory is a USACE, St. Louis District's Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections program, which is staffed through John Milner Associates, Inc., an archaeological contract firm...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Brad Geeck. Shelley Rasmussen.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file that consists of Camp Date Creek, located on State Trust Land. The site is comprised of a prehistoric hearth, military parade ground, artifact scatter, and structures from multiple phases of use. The area served as an U. S. Army outpost beginning in 1867 and an Indian reservation between 1871 and 1873. The file consists of a site data form, cultural resource vandalism report, correspondence concerning site vandalism, site map, a synopsis of observed...

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Field specimen catalog sheets for the Cooper Lake 1970 investigations conducted in Hopkins County. The Cooper Lake investigations consisted of a two month archaeological site survey of the area to be included within the proposed limits of the Cooper Reservoir, Delta and Hopkins counties, northeast Texas. One hundred and five prehistoric sites were recorded during the survey, 85 of which will be directly affected by construction of the dam and reservoir. Upon completion of the survey limited...

PROJECT US Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District. US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District. James V. Sciscenti.

One hundred and five archaeological sites were located and recorded within the area of the proposed Cooper Reservoir, Texas. Sites occur in six topographic situations and are further divided into two time periods, the Archaic and Caddo. Analysis of the lithic samples from each site is correlated with site distribution in an attempt to determine the location of specific maintenance activities. A research design is proposed for the salvaging of the archaeological resources of the reservoir area...

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The results of each ablation performed on an ochre sample are presented in this table with elements in parts per million and oxides in percent weight, as measured by Homogenized Ochre Chip Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (HOC LA-ICPMS). *Mean FeO as percent weight Fe2O3+FeO was determined by Electron Microprobe Analysis of each ochre chip and was used as an internal standard for LA-ICPMS data reduction. Elements labeled in red should be excluded from statistical...

PROJECT The George Washington University. Andrew Zipkin. Alison Brooks.

Symbolism, including language, is widely viewed as an essential element of modern human behavior. Documenting the evolutionary origins of such behavior, however, has proven difficult. Ochre pigments (iron oxides) form a major part of the evidence used to interpret when humans began communicating through symbols. Excavations at Olorgesailie, Kenya; Karonga, Malawi; and Twin Rivers, Zambia have yielded ochre artifacts that may indicate very early occurrences of symbolism. Yet mineral pigments may...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Melissa K. Logan. Linda Scott Cummings.

Originally, two obsidian bifacial scrapers were submitted for protein residue analysis using CIEP from the Yearling Spring Obsidian Biface Cache, located in Park County, Montana. An obsidian biface reduction flake coated with ochre residue was submitted in March 2012. A portion of the ochre residue was removed from the obsidian biface and tested for protein residues. In addition, a piece of ochre/soil matrix recovered from close proximity to the ochre coated tool was tested for protein residues...

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Shovel test excavation forms for the Blossom Point Field Test Facility at site 18CH227.

PROJECT US Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District. Michael Beckes. US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District.

The Stonewall Jackson Reservoir Archaeological Investigation was conducted under the National Park Service contract number CX-4000-4-0037 from June to August of 1974. The primary purpose for this archaeological survey was to investigate cultural resources prior to construction of the proposed Stonewall Jackson Dam, a combination flood control and recreation project by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District (Beckes 1975) located in north-central West Virginia. The work was...

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Test unit forms for the Blossom Point Phase II project on site 18CH155.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Eric S. Nocerino. Clayton G. Lebow.

This contractor generated Section 106 report is a historic property inventory and an assessment of adverse effects associated with the D2–D4 Circuit Electric Lines Replacement Projects. The purpose of the document is to compile any prior or current studies performed in support of the D2–D4 Circuit Electric Lines Replacement projects as a single Section 106 report. This report provides the information needed by the California State Historic Preservation Officer to concur on the project findings...