Building Materials (Material Keyword)

Materials used for construction (e.g., brick, wood, adobe)

5,351-5,375 (5,378 Records)

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....


Whitmore Canyon Area Arizona Site Steward File (1996)
DOCUMENT Full-Text John M. Herron.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Whitmore Canyon Area, comprised of U-shaped pueblos and artifact scatters, located on Bureau of Land Management land. The two sites within are comprised of U-shaped stone and adobe pueblos, lithic and sherd scatter, possible rock alignments, a roasting pit, a possible ceremonial structure, and retaining walls. The file consists of a site data form, two Bureau of Land Management cultural resource site records, maps of the site locations, hand drawn...


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.


Wildcat Hill Pithouse Village Site A4 Arizona Site Steward File (1997)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Brittany Clark

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Wildcat Hill Pithouse Village Site A4, located on State Trust land. The site is comprised of a pit house village with masonry features and a trash midden. The file consists of a site data form. The earliest dated document is from 1997.


Wildland fire in ecosystems: effects of fire on cultural resources and archaeology (2012)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Krista Deal. Leonard DeBano. Michael L. Elliot. Charles Haecker. Daniel F. McCarthy. Elizabeth Oster. Trisha Rude. Samantha M. Ruscava-Barz. Kevin C. Ryan. Nelson Siefkin. Rebecca S. Timmons. John R. Welch.

This state-of-knowledge review provides a synthesis of the effects of fire on cultural resources, which can be used by fire managers, cultural resource (CR) specialists, and archaeologists to more effectively manage wildland vegetation, fuels, and fire. The goal of the volume is twofold: (1) to provide cultural resource/archaeological professionals and policy makers with a primer on fuels, fire behavior, and fire effects to enable them to work more effectively with the fire management community...


William Howard Taft National Historic Site, Archeological Investigation of Foundation and Cistern (1975)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Deborah K. Bauxar.

Architects Anthony Crosby and Donald E. Hovland, Sr. of the Division of Historic Preservation, Denver Service Center, are currently in the process of developing a structural analysis for a Historic Structure report of the William Howard Taft National Historic Site in Cincinnati, Ohio. September 2-18, 1975 they visited the home in order to study the original structural system and state of repair. Of primary concern this trip was the extent and condition of the 1851 east addition foundation. In...


Windy Gap Archaeological Project (1982)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey L. Kenyon. Charles W. Wheeler.

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.


Winona Village Arizona Site Steward File (1990)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter J. Pilles.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file that contains the Winona Village site, located on Coconino National Forest and privately owned land. The site is comprised of pithouse villages, pueblos, a kiva, a ball court, both sheet and mound trash middens, and multiple human burials. The file consists of 12 site data forms.


Wirth Associates Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station Transmission System, Salt River Project, Maricopa County, Arizona: Final Report for Archaeological Impact Study: Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station Routing Alternate to Westwing Receiving Station (1975)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard A. Brook.

Wirth Associates contracted with the Museum of Northern Arizona to conduct an archaeological impact study of a proposed Salt River Project Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station Routing Alternate to Westwing Receiving Station. This study delineates areas with three levels of potential site occurence for the project area, and investigates potential effects on the cultural resources of the alternative corridors proposed by Salt River Project. A short data gathering phase, prior to field work,...


Women of New France - Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project Booklet Series, No. 1 (2011)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Western Michigan University - Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project.

The women of New France—French, Native, and métis—were active agents in a global process of colonization that led to interaction, conflict, and cooperation among peoples who participated in different cultural traditions, social institutions, and daily practices. In the course of migration from the Old World across the Atlantic, women helped to create the social, economic, and political conditions that fostered a French presence over a vast region for nearly two centuries. Documentary and...


Women of New France Panels (2010)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Western Michigan University - Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project.

Series of interpretive panels created for the 2010 Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project Open House. Individual panel themes are: Women of New France, Needle Arts, Clothing and Dress, Cooking, Music, Dance, and Diversions, Education and Literacy, Women in Trade and Diplomacy, and Women and Servitude.


Wood Documentation AZRU-G05.01 (2001)
IMAGE Gary Brown.

Aztec East, West Roomblock, Room 7 (photographed by Gary Brown). Tree-ring sampling in Room 7. Image AZRU-G05.01: Tom Windes coring lintels in north doorway looking NE. Image AZRU-G05.09: Tom Windes sharpening coring bit. Image AZRU-G05.10: Tom Windes and Peg Kaiser collecting tree-ring core samples.


Wooden Structure Photographs, SUCF Parking Facility Archaeological Site, Albany, NY (2001)
IMAGE Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc..

Photographs of wooden structures, including cribbing, ricking, wharves, and stockades, from the SUCF Parking Facility site, Albany, NY. Elements of the site were featured in an article from Historical Archaeology. McDonald, Molly R. 2011. Whatves and Waterfront Retaining Strucctures as Vernacular Architecture. Historical Archaeology 45 (2):42-68.


Wooden timber maintenance on the Great House, Compound A (1996)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Donald L. Spencer. H. David evans.

These documents are: a form for assessment of action that would impact cultural resources in the Great House in Compound A at the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument and a document supporting the proposed action. The recommendation supports replaced areas on a rotting timber with wood as opposed to epoxy.


Woodlawn Plantation, MT. Vernon, Virginia: Archeological Reconnaissance Survey (1985)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Edward J. Flanagan.

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.


Working Plantations on Sapelo Island: High Point Versus Chocolate (2008)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Nicholas Honerkamp.

Back-to-back archaeological surveys on Sapelo Island, Georgia by the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga have concentrated on two sites: a substantial, intensively occupied plantation dating primarily to the first half of the 19th century (Chocolate) and an earlier, sporadically occupied operation that included a short-lived French component (High Point). This paper compares the archaeological manifestations of slave occupations at both sites and identifies distinct material contrasts...


World Museum Map Final Map (2010)
GEOSPATIAL Karen Holberg.

The aim of the LEAP projects was to publish multi-layered e-publications and develop and link them to associated digital archives. The original LEAP project was funded by the AHRC while the LEAP II, A Trans-Atlantic LEAP, was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This final map project is part of a 2011 LEAP II project "Placing immateriality: situating the material of highland Chiriquí" by Karen Holberg. The files contained in this record include an .mxd map project and an image of the...


World_Oceans Shapefile (2010)
GEOSPATIAL Karen Holberg.

The aim of the LEAP projects was to publish multi-layered e-publications and develop and link them to associated digital archives. The original LEAP project was funded by the AHRC while the LEAP II, A Trans-Atlantic LEAP, was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This shapefile is part of a 2011 LEAP II project "Placing immateriality: situating the material of highland Chiriquí" by Karen Holberg. All files associated with this record must be downloaded to ensure that the shapefile...


World_PoliticalBoundaries Shapefile (2010)
GEOSPATIAL Karen Holberg.

The aim of the LEAP projects was to publish multi-layered e-publications and develop and link them to associated digital archives. The original LEAP project was funded by the AHRC while the LEAP II, A Trans-Atlantic LEAP, was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This shapefile is part of a 2011 LEAP II project "Placing immateriality: situating the material of highland Chiriquí" by Karen Holberg. All files associated with this record must be downloaded to ensure that the shapefile...


Wreck of the Tracy D: Discovery of an Unidentified Shipwreck on Ossabaw Island (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Daniel Elliott.

Archaeological investigations at the North End Plantation, Ossabaw Island took place during the winter of2005. Several of the archaeology project team members participated in an unrelated discovery of a shipwreck on the South End Point of Ossabaw Island in St. Catherines Sound during that period. This previously unknown and, as yet, unidentified wreck was first discovered by Tracy Dean, who noticed nineteenth century bottle glass and ballast flint on the beach and the wreck site was named in her...


Wright Creek Pueblo Site Arizona Site Steward File (2002)
DOCUMENT Full-Text John Wooten.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Wright Creek Pueblo Site, comprised of sherd and lithic scatter as well as a collapsed pueblo, located on Bureau of Land Management land. The file consists of a site map, archaeological site survey worksheet, page of field notes, a blank version of the worksheet, and nine pages of archaeological site surveying technique notes. The earliest dated document is from 2002.


Yaeger F. S. Station Arizona Site Steward File (2000)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jim McKee.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Yeager F. S. Station site, comprised of the remnants of ranger station, located on Prescott National Forest land. The file consists of a site data form.


Yale's Valuable Find: Collection of Chiriqui Antiques Stored Away for Years (1905)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Shelby Manney

This newspaper clipping from December 3, 1905 briefly describes a discovery of a collection of Chiriqui artifacts found at the Peabody Museum.


Yellowstone National Park: Submerged Resources Survey (2003)
DOCUMENT Full-Text James E. Bradford. Matthew A. Russell. Larry E. Murphy. Timothy G. Smith.

During August 1996, the National Park Service's (NPS) Submerged Cultural Resources Unit (SCRU) conducted a multiresource remote-sensing survey in Yellowstone Lake, Yellowstone National Park (YELL). The general strategy was to apply methodology developed by SCRU for marine resource hydrographic survey to specific management issues at Yellowstone Lake. The first submerged resources surveys designed specifically for Geographic Information System (GIS) applications were conducted several years...


Yuma Crossing and Associated Sites National Historic Landmark: An Archaeological Perspective (1983)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Lyle M. Stone.

This is a partial document containing only the portion of the full report relating to the water facility. A water facility, including a water storage tank and a pumphouse had been constructed at the Quartermaster Depot by 1869. The water tank, a stone masonry building approximately 34 ft east-west by 22 ft north- south in size, exists at present and is owned by the State of Arizona. The pumphouse or enginehouse, located to the north of the tank just above the Colorado River, was present in...