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DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert F. Carr. James E. Hazard.

In 1956 The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, under contract from the Guatemalan government, began what would be a fifteen-year project of archaeological and biological research, site restoration and touristic development at the ancient Maya site of Tikal, Guatemala. As one of its first efforts, the Penn Project produced a series of paper maps of the site. Edwin M. Shook, field director, reports that much of the first two seasons (1956, 1957) was devoted to building camp, digging...

PROJECT Uploaded by: Christopher Carr

This archive is in two parts. The first part is Tikal Report 11, published in 1961, which presents the ten maps produced by the Tikal Project of The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania. The second part is georeferenced versions of the ten maps for use with GIS (Geographic Information Systems) software. The georeferencing was based on field data collected in 2010 by the Tikal Project of the University of Cincinnati. The maps should be useful for archaeologists, tourists and managers of...

PROJECT Uploaded by: Leigh Anne Ellison

A comprehensive series of reconstructed views rendered in colors approximating the original finishes of polished plaster and paint, with 42 different stages of development in three-dimensional form, show what the Acropolis looked like at various times from ca. 330 BCE to CE 600. On an accompanying CD-ROM 112 color plates show constructions of individual structures and some photos of Acropolis fabric at the time of excavation and consolidation. The text accompanying the color plates provides a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only H. Stanley Loten.

A comprehensive series of reconstructed views rendered in colors approximating the original finishes of polished plaster and paint, with 42 different stages of development in three-dimensional form, show what the Acropolis looked like at various times from ca. 330 BCE to CE 600. On an accompanying CD-ROM 112 color plates include constructions of individual structures and some photos of Acropolis fabric at the time of excavation and consolidation. The text accompanying the color plates provides a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text H. Stanley Loten.

The material included here is from a companion CD-ROM included with Additions and Alterations: A Commentary on the Architecture of the North Acropolis, Tikal, Guatemala, Tikal Report 34A, by H. Stanley Loten. 112 color plates include constructions of individual structures and some photos of Acropolis fabric at the time of excavation and consolidation. The text accompanying the color plates provides a rationale for the sequences illustrated and an interpretation of ancient Maya intentions in...

IMAGE Uploaded by: Natalia Slobodina

Artifact photos from Tikhaya 1.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard Effland. Valerie Conforti. Brian Kenny.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for Tiperrary Wash, comprised of a Sedentary Period Hohokam habitation site, located on State Trust land. The site is comprised of a ball court, cobble structures, trash middens, and an unspecified hilltop feature. The file consists of a Site Steward Program resource nomination form, Arizona State Museum archaeological survey form, criminal damage report, a cultural resource vandalism report, and five color photographs documenting site vandalism.

DOCUMENT Full-Text George Cowgill. Ian G. Robertson. Rebecca S. Sload.

This is an incomplete work in progress, written by Cowgill at various times in 2003 and 2004, with minor edits since then. It is a volume in the Urbanization at Teotihuacan series, edited by Rene Millon. This volume aggregates information about the Teotihuacan Mapping Project, including background, methods, and the types and locations of relevant files. It is complementary to a set of Access files recording tract-by-tract data.

IMAGE Tracy Miller.

Sample of tobacco pipes collected from Feature 4, a cylindrical brick privy (c.1841-1870), and Feature 3, a wooden privy (c.1870-1908), shared by residents at 112 and 114 Sheridan Avenue.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Saarah Munir

The Tonto Creek Archaeological Project (TCAP) area was located in the Tonto Basin of east-central Arizona. The project, funded by the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) was undertaken by Desert Archaeology in advance of the 1994-1996 realignment of Arizona State Route 188. The area available for investigation was a 61-m-wide (200-ft) corridor centered on the planned route for the realigned highway. The corridor followed a 13.3-km (8-mi) stretch of the western terrace overlooking Tonto...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Saarah Munir

The Tonto Creek Archaeological Project (TCAP) area was located in the Tonto Basin of east-central Arizona. The project, funded by the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) was undertaken by Desert Archaeology in advance of the 1994-1996 realignment of Arizona State Route 188. The area available for investigation was a 61-m-wide (200-ft) corridor centered on the planned route for the realigned highway. The corridor followed a 13.3-km (8-mi) stretch of the western terrace overlooking Tonto...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Scott Wood. Michael A. Sullivan. Linda B. Kelley. Steve Germick.

This document contains the management direction for the cultural resources of the Tonto National Forest during the planning period FY89 through FY92. The objectives of this assessment are to provide a framework for active cultural resources management on the Forest, to schedule specific management activities, and to update, refine, and implement the cultural resources elements of the Forest Land Management Plan. The assessment summarizes the current status and management of the Forest's...

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DOCUMENT Full-Text SWCA Environmental Consultants.

The following document presents the results of a cultural resources compliance survey conducted by SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants, at Hackberry, Mohave County, Arizona, and a research design for data recovery along the proposed Hackberry reroute of the preferred alignment of the proposed Mead to Phoenix 500kV transmission line. The project was undertaken to reroute the proposed line because Western Area Power Administration (Western) was unable to secure the original proposed right-of-way...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ben Nelson. Vincent Schiavitti.

Fieldwork from the 1989-90 seasons at La Quemada

DOCUMENT Full-Text Catherine B. Johnson.

Arizona State Parks proposes to add several hiking and equestrian trails in Patagonia Lake State Park that will also lead to the Sonoita Creek State Natural Area, in Santa Cruz County, Arizona. The land surveyed is partially owned by Arizona State Parks with other areas leased from the Arizona State Land Department. This report represents the results of a Class III cultural resources survey completed under ASM Blanket Permit #2001-22bl. Included is a resurvey of a proposed trail segment that...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Dea Mozingo. Connie Huddleston. Alana Lynch. Meagan Brady.

Palmetto Bluff, LLC, proposed to develop the Palmetto Bluff Phase I Development Tract in Beaufort County, South Carolina. Previous archaeological investigations by Brockington and Associates, Inc., documented significant archaeological sites within this tract (Poplin 2002). The Shell Crescent site (38BU1791) was designated as a Geographic Area of Particular Concern (GAPC) by the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) and the Office of Coastal Resource Management (OCRM) for its Woodland and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David H. Greenwald. Douglas R. Mitchell. Mary-Ellen Walsh-Anduze.

Archaeological investigations at Williams Air Force Base (WAFB), located in southeast Maricopa County, Arizona, were initiated in response to the 1991 Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission’s (the Closure Commission) recommendation to close WAFB following the passage of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 (the Closure Act) (Public Law 101-510, Title XXIX). SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants, conducted a cultural resource inventory on approximately 2000 acres of all...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David Wilcox. Richard Howard. Gordon Vivian. A. H. Schroeder. Aubrey F. Houston.

These documents are a series of memorandums from both 1964 and 1976 regarding wooden timbers found in the Great House at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. The memos discuss the removal of the timbers and shipment for the purpose of dendrochronology. The condition of the timbers is discussed regarding the possible difficulting in dating them due to burning.

DOCUMENT Full-Text David M. Brugge.

This report on the Navajo archeology of the Chaco region was planned as the final major contribution deriving from the Navajo studies conducted by the Division of Chaco Research. There is some work not finished as this is written. Whether it will see print before or after this is an imponderable, but it cannot be taken into account in my final summation in Part III, Concluding Remarks. Part III will have to stand as the primary effort at synthesis of the Navajo studies accomplished under the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Donald E. Weaver, Jr.. Richard Ciolek-Torello.

This report summarizes the first year of archaeological studies for the Tucson Aqueduct-Phase A Hohokam sites. A part of the Central Arizona Project, the work was carried out by Museum of Northern Arizona personnel under Contract to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. The report summarizes the work accomplished, reviews preliminary research results, suggests modifications to the project research design, and presents a work plan for the second year of the project, September 6, 1984 to September 5,...

PROJECT Donald E. Weaver, Jr.. Donald E. Weaver, Jr.. USDI Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office.

Reaches 1 and 2 of the Tucson Aqueduct portion of the Central Arizona Project extend from the terminus of the Salt-Gila Aqueduct just east of Picacho Reservoir (12 km southeast of Coolidge) south along the western flanks of the Picacho Mountains, east along the southern flanks of the Picacho Mountains through Picacho Pass, and then south to the vicinity of Red Rock. A Class III archaeological survey of the aqueduct corridor and associated areas was conducted by Arizona State Museum...

PROJECT Lynn S. Teague. Jon Czaplicki. John C. Ravesloot. USDI Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office.

The Tucson Aqueduct Phase B Project represents the first substantial archaeological investigations and excavations to be conducted in the Avra Valley. Prior to the 1983 intensive survey of the Phase B alignment by archaeologists from the Arizona State Museum, archaeological investigation of the Avra Valley had been limited primarily to occasional clearance surveys and test excavations. The identification of 47 prehistoric sites during the 1983 survey (Downum and others 1986) and the...

IMAGE Matthew Boulanger. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

These images show the individual sherds from Tukh analyzed by neutron activation at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). Photographs were taken at LBNL and scanned by the Archaeometry Laboratory at MURR. Individual files were named according to the official catalog numbers of each image assigned by the Graphic Arts Department at LBNL.