Settlements (Site Type Keyword)
Parent: Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
Locations, or the remains of multiple structures or features, that were inhabited by humans in the past. Use more specific term(s) if possible.
176-200 (9,110 Records)
The following report contains the description and interpretation of archaeological data recovered from AZ T: 8:31 (ASU), AZ T:8:35 (ASU), and AZ T:8:38 (ASU). Situated within south-central Arizona, these sites form an integral part of the Cave Creek Archaeological District. Impact on these cultural resources will result from the construction along Reach 10 of the Granite Reef Aqueduct, a feature of the Central Arizona Project. A plan to mitigate this adverse impact through a program of research...
An Archaeological Investigation of The Historic Black Settlement at Mobile, Arizona (1992)
An archaeological investigation of the historic black settlement at Mobile, Arizona was conducted in November 1991. This investigation was conceived by Pat H. Stein and Bruce Jones, of the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office and Statistical Research, respectively. The work was performed by Mark T. Swanson. This work has been funded with the assistance of a matching grant-in-aid from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service, under provisions of the National Historic...
Archaeological Investigations Along Reach 1 of the Granite Reef Aqueduct, Central Arizona Project (1980)
Under contract with the Bureau of Reclamation, the Office of Cultural Resource Management (OCRM), Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, completed archaeological survey of Reach 1 and several adjacent roads that would be added or modified for its construction. Reach 1 of the Granite Reef Aqueduct extends about 18 miles from the Buckskin Mountain Tunnel, east to the Bouse Hills Pumping Plant. OCRM archaeologists identified and documented 16 field loci, 31 isolated artifacts, and...
Archaeological Investigations Along Reach 3 of the Granite Reef Aqueduct, Central Arizona Project (1978)
Under contract with the Bureau of Reclamation, the Office of Cultural Resource Management (OCRM), Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, completed an archaeological survey of Reach 3. Reach 3 of the Granite Reef Aqueduct extends about 15 miles from Highway 72, northwest of Vicksburg, southeast to Hovatter Road, south of Interstate 10. OCRM archaeologists identified and documented 22 field loci and 18 isolated artifacts during the Reach 3 surveys. Based on relative density of...
Archaeological Investigations Along Reach 7 of the Granite Reef Aqueduct, Central Arizona Project (1978)
Under contract with the Bureau of Reclamation, the Office of Cultural Resource Management (OCRM), Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, completed an archaeological survey of Reach 7, the Hassayampa, Jackrabbit, and Centennial Wash Siphons, and two borrow areas. Reach 7 of the Granite Reef Aqueduct extends about 11 miles from the Hassayampa-Wickenburg Road west to the Hassayampa River. OCRM archaeologists identified and documented 35 field loci and over 100 isolated artifacts...
Archaeological Investigations at AZ U:6:2(ASU), An Historic Camp on the Banks of the Salt River, Maricopa County, Arizona (1978)
Under contract with the Bureau of Reclamation, the Office of Cultural Resource Management (OCRM), Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University conducted a cultural resource study of AZ U:6:2(ASU), an historic site located adjacent to Granite Reef Dam on the south side of the Salt River. A portion of the historic camp was contained within the construction right-of-way of the Salt River Siphon, a feature of the Central Arizona Project which connects the Granite Reef and Salt-Gila...
Archaeological Investigations at AZ U:6:87, U:6:105, and U:6:253(ASM) on the Fort McDowell Mohave-Apache Indian Community, Maricopa County, Arizona: Report (1997)
The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) assisted the Fort McDowell Indian Community (FMIC) with cultural resource investigations in advance of widening and realigning portions of Fort McDowell Road (also known as Mustang Way). These improvements were required to facilitate increased road use associated with the construction and operation of the Fort McDowell Indian Community Irrigated Farmland Development Project. Reclamation requested that Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS)...
Archaeological Investigations at AZ U:9:8 (ARS), A Santa Cruz Phase Hohokam Site in Mesa, Arizona (1985)
This report presents the results of an archaeological testing program conducted for Salt River Project (SRP) at the location of a construction site in Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona. The SRP project involved the excavation of a footing trench for a masonry wall to surround an existing water well. In the process of excavating the trench on the south bank of the Tempe Canal, SRP personnel encountered prehistoric material in the project area. Construction work was discontinued and SRP requested...
ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS AT HE NEWELL CREEK SITE (9CH155), Ossabaw Island, Georgia, 2003 Season (2003)
On June 25-27, 2003, the Office of the State Archaeologist, housed in the Historic Preservation Division of Georgia Department of Natural Resources, participated in an educational program for scouts held on Ossabaw Island, in Chatham County, Georgia. Ossabaw consists of ca. 26,000 acres of marsh, tidal streams, and uplands. With the exception of DNR facilities, a mansion dating to the time when wealthy families and corporations owned the coastal islands, and ruins of structures dating to the...
Archaeological Investigations at La Ciudad de Los Hornos: Lassen Substation Parcel (1990)
The archaeological investigations at the Lassen Substation were designed to address four primary research issues: 1) the structure of and changes in domestic household arrangements, 2) chronology and dating of the early Hohokam occupation at Los Hornos, 3) subsistence, and 4) architectural construction and variability. The methods employed during the excavation and the subsequent analyses were selected with these research objectives in mind.
Archaeological Investigations at Lee Canyon: Kayenta Anasazi Farmsteads in the Upper Basin, Coconino County, Arizona (1992)
The following report presents the results of archaeological data recovery carried out at two Kayenta Anasazi sites, AZ I:1:15 (ASM) and AZ I:1:24 (ASM), located at Lee Canyon in the Upper Basin, Coconino County, Arizona. The work was conducted in response to a realignment of State Route 64 by the Arizona Department of Transportation. During archaeological testing by Statistical Research, Inc., masonry structures and agricultural features at the two sites were located, suggesting the potential to...
Archaeological Investigations at Rudd Creek Pueblo (AZ Q:16:63 [ASM]), a Tularosa Phase Site near Springerville, Apache County, Arizona (2002)
This report summarizes the results of the 1996 season of fieldwork conducted by the Rudd Creek Archaeological Project (RCAP) as part of the Arizona State University Archaeological Field School at the Sipe White Mountain Wildlife Area. This field school derives from a long-term research project focused on prehistoric developments in the Cibola region. The 1996 excavations at Rudd Creek Pueblo (AZ Q:16:63 [ASM]) focused on two main goals. The first goal was to document the architecture and...
Archaeological Investigations at the Carns Site, Coast Guard Beach, Cape Cod National Sea Shore, Massachusetts (2005)
In November, 1990, the NPS archaeologists were contacted to assess an eroding ancient feature at Coast Guard Beach within the Cape Cod National Seashore. Additional archaeological testing was recommended. The subsequent investigation revealed a deelpy buried ancient ground surface and raised the liklihood of additional significant deposits. Over the next 16 months five episodes of archaeological fieldwork werer conducted at this site. Two factors were responsible for converting an...
Archaeological Investigations at the Posey Site (18CH281) and 18CH282 Indian Head Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (2005.012)
The two sites were located and initially tested during a survey of limited portions of the facility in 1985. At that time, the Posey Site was interpreted as a probable Contact Period deposit thought to date from ca. 1600 A.D. to an unknown terminal point. Several intact subsurface features were discovered, one of which yielded material radiocarbon dated to 1575 +/- 90 years A.D. The fieldwork conducted during the present investigation consisted of the excavation of 510 shovel test pits and 37...
Archaeological Investigations at the Posey Site (18CH281) and 18CH282 Indian Head Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Charles County, Maryland (1999)
This report summarizes the results of a program of background research, archaeological fieldwork, and analysis conducted for the Department of Natural Resources of the Indian Head Division of the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Charles County Maryland. The subject of the project was the Posey Site (18CH281) and 18CH282, two archaeological sites located near Mattawoman Creek aboard the Surface Warfare Center. The investigation was undertaken by the Maryland Historical Trust’s Southern Maryland...
Archaeological Investigations at the Tanque Verde Wash Site, A Middle Rincon Settlement in the Eastern Tucson Basin (1986)
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...
Archaeological Investigations at the West Branch Site: Early and Middle Rincon Occupation in the Southern Tucson Basin (1986)
The Institute for American Research conducted an archaeological mitigation program for the Pima County Department of Transportation. Mapping, testing, and excavation activities at the West Branch Site [AZ AA:16:3(ASM)], a large preclassic Hohokam village, are reported. Hohokam remains were primarily from the Early and Middle Rincon subphases of the Sedentary period. Analyses focused on the refinement of the ceramic typology for the Rincon phase and on the documentation of household units in...
Archaeological Investigations at the Yuma Wash Site and Outlying Settlements Part 1 (2016)
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...
Archaeological Investigations for the Fort McDowell Road Improvement Project
The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) assisted the Fort McDowell Indian Community (FMIC) with cultural resource investigations in advance of widening and realigning portions of Fort McDowell Road (also known as Mustang Way). These improvements were required to facilitate increased road use associated with the construction and operation of the Fort McDowell Indian Community Irrigated Farmland Development Project. This project presents the results of these undertakings.
Archaeological Investigations in 2007 and 2008 at the Mission and Mission Garden Loci of the Clearwater Site, AZ BB:13:6 (ASM), and the Santa Cruz River Westside Canals, AZ BB:13:481 (ASM), Tucson, Pima County, Arizona (2018)
Desert Archaeology, Inc., personnel conducted archaeological fieldwork for the City of Tucson at the Mission and Mission Garden loci of the Clearwater site, AZ BB:13:6 (ASM), and the Santa Cruz River Westside Canal site, AZ BB:13:481 (ASM), in March through July 2007, and September through October 2008. The work was conducted to mitigate the effects of the planned construction of the Mission of San Agustín, Ancestral Village, Carrillo House, and Mission Garden components of the Tucson Origins...
Archaeological investigations in Mývatnssveit 2007 (Field Report) (2008)
In 2006 a campaign of major archaeological excavations in Mývatnssveit, the area around Lake Mývatn in NE-Iceland, wound to a close with the completion of fieldwork at Hrísheimar and Sveigakot. Together with the excavation of Hofstaðir, which was completed in 2002, these formed the backbone of extensive archaeological fieldwork focused on the Lake Mývatn area which had begun in 1991, and which became subsequently known as the Landscapes of Settlements project. In addition to the three large...
Archaeological Investigations in Sections 1A, 1B, and 2, SR 260- Cottonwood to Camp Verde Archaeology Project (2002)
Four archaeological sites were investigated in advance of road realignment and improvements along State Route 260, between Cottonwood and Camp Verde, Yavapai County, Arizona. The work was done at the request of the Arizona Department of Transportation, as part of a larger project. Two sites were located in Segment 1A (AZ O:5:173 (ASM)/AR-03-09-05-378) and Segment 1B (AZ O:5:143 (ASM)/AR-03-09-05-249) on land administered by the Prescott National Forest. The other two sites (AZ O:5:131...
Archaeological Investigations in Support of the South Phoenix Loop Street and Landscaping Projects: Data Recovery at AZ T:12:231 (ASM), Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona (2009)
This report presents the results of an archaeological testing and data recovery program conducted by EcoPlan for COP on approximately three acres of land in south Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. These archaeological investigations were conducted in advance of the COP Neighborhood Services Department’s South Phoenix Village Loop Street and Landscaping project (COP Cost Center Numbers ND30010010 and ND30010011). Because project activities associated with these projects were deemed likely to...
Archaeological Investigations in Vatnahverfi, Greenland 2008 Season Preliminary Report (field report) (2008)
July and August 2008 was the fourth season of the collaborative Norse Settlement in the Vatnahverfi Region, South Greenland ca. AD 985 – 1450 Project. The Danish Middle Ages & Renaissance Department at The Danish National Museum and the Greenland National Museum and Archives (NKA) collaborated with the Northern Science and Education Center at City University of New York (NORSEC/CUNY) to complete an archaeological project in Southwestern Greenland, in the Qaqortoq Municipality. The...
Archaeological Investigations National Park Service, Grand Canyon National Park, Grand Canyon Cross Canyon Corridor Survey, Coconino County, Arizona; Arizona Archaeological Center (Western Anasazi Reports Vol. 2, No. 1) (1974)
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