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DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas Guderjan.

This paper summarizes more than a decade of excavations in the monumental core precinct of the Maya center of Blue Creek in Northwestern Belize.

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....

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...

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...

PROJECT Cory D. Breternitz. Banks L. Leonard.

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DATASET Maria Martin.

The Sun America Data Recovery and Burial Removal Field Specimen Data sheet contains data about the artifact types recovered in each PD unit during the Sun America data recovery effort (SSI Project No. 97-24) at Pueblo Grande. It lists the PD number, the field specimen (FS) number (specimen numbers range from 1 to n for each PD unit), and the point location (PL) number (if applicable). The table then provides artifact type, lithic material (if applicable), lithic condition (if applicable), and...

PROJECT City of Phoenix Parks and Recreation Department. Cory D. Breternitz.

In 1990, Soil System's archaeologists completed a testing project (SSI Project No. 90-08) within the Pueblo Grande Cultural Park to help prepare development plans for a museum expansion. The project was conducted for the City of Phoenix Parks, Recreation, and Library Department. SSI tested an area west of the original museum building and public parking lot (in Units 08 and 09 of Pueblo Grande). The testing project included both backhoe trenching and stripping. Eight backhoe trenches 182 m in...

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Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI) of Phoenix, Arizona conducted a 16-month data recovery project at the large Hohokam village of Pueblo Grande. The site is located on the north bank of the Salt River in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona. Approximately 20 to 25 percent of the site was excavated as the result of the expansion of the urban freeway system in Phoenix. The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) sponsored the project. Pueblo Grande was one of the primary villages in the Phoenix Basin and is...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Joshua Watts

Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI) of Phoenix, Arizona conducted a 16-month data recovery project at the large Hohokam village of Pueblo Grande. The site is located on the north bank of the Salt River in metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona. Approximately 20 to 25 percent of the site was excavated as the result of the expansion of the urban freeway system in Phoenix. The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) sponsored the project. Pueblo Grande was one of the primary villages in the Phoenix Basin and is...

IMAGE Gary Brown.

Aztec East, West Roomblock, Room 12 (photographed by Gary Brown). First story in two-story room (see Richert 1964). Image AZRU-G05.02: Interior view of doorway in south wall looking SE. Image AZRU-G05.03: Interior view looking SE at intact roof.

IMAGE Gary Brown.

Aztec East, West Roomblock, Room 9 (photographed by Gary Brown). First story in two-story room. Image AZRU-G05.04: Interior view of doorway in north wall looking NNW. Image AZRU-G05.05: Interior view of doorway in north wall looking SE.

IMAGE Gary Brown.

Aztec East, West Roomblock, Room 11 (photographed by Gary Brown). First story in two-story room. Image AZRU-G05.06: Interior view of doorway in north wall looking north.

IMAGE Gary Brown.

Aztec East, West Roomblock, Room 8 (photographed by Gary Brown). First story in two-story room. Image AZRU-G05.07: Interior view of intact roof looking up and east. Image AZRU-G05.08: Interior view of intact roof looking up and south.

IMAGE Gary Brown.

Aztec East, West Roomblock, Room 7 (photographed by Gary Brown). First story in two-story room. Image AZRU-G05.11: Interior view of intact roof looking up and east. Image AZRU-G05.12: Interior view of intact roof looking up and NE. Image AZRU-G05.13: Interior view of looter's hole through west wall looking NW into wall core.

IMAGE Gary Brown.

Aztec East, West Roomblock, Room 6 (photographed by Gary Brown). First-story interstitial room NE of Kiva S. Image AZRU-G05.14: Interior view of looter's hole through east wall of kiva housing looking NE into wall core. Image AZRU-G05.15: Interior view of looter's hole through east wall of kiva housing looking NE into wall core. Image AZRU-G05.16: Interior view looking west at Kiva S wall exterior abutting north interior wall of kiva housing. Image AZRU-G05.17: Interior view looking south at...

IMAGE Gary Brown.

Aztec East, West Roomblock, Room 14 (photographed by Gary Brown). First story in two-story room. Image AZRU-G05.20: Interior view of intact roof looking up and east. Image AZRU-G05.12: Interior view looking north through doorway in north interior wall.

IMAGE Gary Brown.

Aztec East, West Roomblock, Room 2 (photographed by Gary Brown). First story in two-story room. Image AZRU-G05.21: Interior view of intact roof and walls looking SW. Image AZRU-G05.22: Interior view looking SW through doorway in south interior wall.

IMAGE Gary Brown.

Aztec East, West Roomblock, Room 4 (photographed by Gary Brown). First story in two-story room. Image AZRU-G05.23: Interior view looking SE into looter's hole through south wall. Image AZRU-G05.24: Interior view looking south at blocked vent in south interior wall. Image AZRU-G05.25: Interior view looking up and SE through hatch in intact roof.

IMAGE Gary Brown.

Aztec East, West Roomblock, Room 4 (photographed by Gary Brown). Second story in two-story room. Image AZRU-G05.26: Interior view looking SW at hatch through second-story floor into first-story room.

IMAGE Gary Brown.

Aztec East, West Roomblock, Room 3 (photographed by Gary Brown). First-story interstitial room SW of Kiva S. Image AZRU-G05.27: Interior view looking SE at Kiva S wall exterior abutting south interior wall of kiva housing. Image AZRU-G05.28: Interior view looking SE at Kiva S wall exterior abutting south interior wall of kiva housing. Image AZRU-G05.29: Interior view looking NW at Kiva S wall exterior abutting west interior wall of kiva housing.

IMAGE Gary Brown.

Aztec East, West Roomblock, Room 6 (photographed by Gary Brown). First-story interstitial room NE of Kiva S. Image AZRU-G05.30: Interior view looking south at intact roof and Kiva S east buttress abutting east interior wall of kiva housing.

IMAGE Gary Brown.

Aztec West, Sector 3, Kiva G (photographed by Gary Brown prior to backfilling). Kiva was built in front rooms during reorganization. No publication exists on the kivas excavated by AMNH (but see unpublished Morris kiva notes). Image AZRU-G02-10: View of second story looking east from kiva enclosure toward Room 49. Image AZRU-G02-12: Overview of kiva looking west from second story Room 49. Image AZRU-G02-13: Overview of kiva interior looking south. Image AZRU-G02-14: Close-up of south recess...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Myles Miller.

Poster presentation describing the 2019 investigations at the Merchant Site (LA 43414)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Myles Miller.

Public education and outreach brochure describing the survey and excavation projects at the Merchant site and Mescalero Plain of southeastern New Mexico

DOCUMENT Full-Text Myles Miller. Timothy B. Graves. Charles Frederick. Mark Willis. John D Speth. J. Phillip Dering. Susan J. Smith. Crystal Dozier. John G. Jones. Jeremy Loven. Genevieve Woodhead. Jeffery Ferguson. Mary Ownby.

This report presents the results of the second season of investigations at the Merchant village site (LA 43414) in southeastern New Mexico. The excavations and analyses were sponsored by the Carlsbad Field Office (CFO) of the Bureau of Land Management and funded under the Permian Basin Programmatic Agreement. Excavations focused on sections of room blocks in two areas of the main village, the agricultural fields, and midden deposits.