Pit House / Earth Lodge (Site Type Keyword)
Parent: Domestic Structures
Semi-subterranean habitation that may have an oval, round or rectangular shape. Typically with a dome-like covering constructed using a wood frame covered by branches, reeds, other vegetation and earth.
226-250 (940 Records)
Black Mesa is large elevated land mass which comprises a part of the Navajo and Hopi Indian reservations in the northeast corner of Arizona. This report is the second volume in a series devoted to the archaeology of the region by the Prescott College Archaeological Field School. It is mainly a descriptive account of the survey of 193 Anasazi, Navajo, and Anglo sites and the excavation of nine of the Kayenta Anasazi villages.
BLM Utah Project Metadata
Project metadata for cultural resources reports scanned from the Utah BLM office.
Botanical Resources: Corn (1985)
The corn dataset was used in association with an intensive botanical study designed to identify different varieties of corn in the assemblage of corn cobs and plant fragments recovered in the course of DAP fieldwork. The variables in this dataset contain information and measurements pertaining to the number or rows of kernels on an ear, its shape and size, and various details about glumes, cupules, and kernels. Variables for the CORN10 dataset have been described by Wilshusen et al. (1999);...
Botanical Resources: Pollen (1985)
The pollen dataset contains basic provenience data for each pollen sample collected. These data are accompanied by taxonomic classification and the grain count per taxon. Detailed locational information can be obtained by linking this dataset with the provenience dataset. Variables for the corn dataset have already been described by Wilshusen et al. (1999). In most cases, their descriptions are suitable for use as metadata and have been repeated almost verbatim here. Selected resources from the...
Boundary Definition Testing at Hodges Ruin, AZ AA:12:18 (ASM), Pima County, Arizona (2009)
The results of boundary definition testing at the southeastern margin of AZ AA:12:18 (ASM), the Hodges Ruin, are presented in this report. Hodges Ruin has been determined to be eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places. The parcels are owned by the Flowing Wells School District and the district intends to construct an Early Childhood Center on the parcels. The goal of the fieldwork was to determine the extent of archaeological features on the parcels with the hope that...
Boundary Delineation and Limited Testing of Several Sites on the Fort McDowell Indian Reservation, Maricopa County, Arizona (1994)
Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) conducted survey of 200 acres and limited testing of cultural resources on Fort McDowell Mohave-Apache Indian Community (FMIC) land at the request of Mr. Jon Czaplicki of the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation). The work was performed to define the boundaries of archaeological sites to be avoided by agricultural development. Eight sites were slated for preservation; however, only seven sites were relocated and flagged, and two new sites were...
Building a Village: Excavations at La Villa (2016)
The Hohokam village was one of the largest pre-Classic settlements in the Phoenix Basin. The recorded site boundary covers more than 80 acres, extending from the edge of the Salt River floodplain northward. Founded during the Vahki phase (A.D. 500-650), when settlement aggregated around two large plazas, the village thrived until the Santa Cruz phase (A.D. 850950), when people began to leave the village, possibly settling in villages further down the canal system. Final abandonment occurred...
Bukhta Zakat Artifact Photographs (2008)
Artifact photos from 2008 testing at Bukhta Zakat (Makanrushi Island)
The Carlota Copper Mine Testing Project: Prehistoric Occupation in the Globe Uplands, Gila and Pinal Counties, Arizona (1994)
The Carlota Prehistoric Testing Program, conducted for the Carlota Copper Company near Miami, Arizona, because of proposed mining operations, sought to determine which sites in a previously surveyed area contained data classes that would allow specific Historic Contexts to be addressed. The survey identified 87 sites, 55 of them prehistoric, in thé 2600-acre study area. After study area boundary reductions, 51 prehistoric sites were examined during the testing project. The Apache Tribe...
The Cemetery and Architectural Features of the Stadium Locus of Tempe Plaza (AZ U:9:72 ASU) (1991)
In January of 1988, during construction activities in the parking lot of the Arizona State University football stadium, a number of prehistoric features (cultural surfaces and cremations) were encountered. Construction activities were temporarily halted, and salvage excavation was undertaken by the Office of Cultural Resource Management of Arizona State University under the direction of Glen Rice and Paul Minnis (Laurene Montero and Philip Weiss, crew chiefs). Excavation was carried out during...
Ceramics: Temporal-Spatial Dataset (1988)
The Additive Technologies Group (ATG) was responsible for supporting the broad research goals of the DAP through the implementation of mid-level research design governing the collection and analysis of data from “material culture that results from the technological combinations of a variety of raw materials” (Blinman 1986a:57). While these items include worked vegetal material (e.g., basketry and textiles), much of the work performed by the ATG relates to a large ceramic assemblage including...
Ceremony and Symbolism at Los Guanacos: Excavations at the Salt River Project Kyrene Generating Station (2003)
This report presents the results of the data recovery phase at the Hohokam village site of Guanacos (AZ U:9:116 [ASM]), as part of the proposed expansion of the existing Kyrene Generating Station in Tempe, Arizona, by the Salt River Project (SRP). Prior to construction of the generating station, SRP implemented an archaeological data recovery project within the proposed project area and contracted with SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants (SWCA) to conduct the investigations. The project was...
Cholla Project Archaeology, Volume 2, The Chevelon Region (1982)
The Arizona Public Service Cholla-Saguaro Transmission Line Mitigation Project, an undertaking as large in scope as its full title suggests, began in April of 1977. It is hereafter referred to as Cholla. The project's obvious purpose was to mitigate construction impact on prehistoric sites along that portion of the line extending from the Cholla generating plant near the Little Colorado River to the upper drainage of Devore Wash south of Lake Roosevelt, a distance of 135 transmission-line miles....
Cholla Project Archaeology, Volume 3, The Q Ranch Region (1982)
The Arizona Public Service Cholla-Saguaro Transmission Line Mitigation Project, an undertaking as large in scope as its full title suggests, began in April of 1977. It is hereafter referred to as Cholla. The project's purpose was to mitigate construction impact on prehistoric sites along that portion of the line extending from the Cholla generating plant near the Little Colorado River to the upper drainage of Devore Wash south of Lake Roosevelt, a distance of 135 transmission line miles. This...
Chronometric Dating (1985)
The results of chronometric analysis on special specimen samples collected for dating can be found in this dataset. Samples are linked to basic provenience data such as site and field specimen number. The temporal range for each sample will be indicated by variables for earliest and latest dates. These variables give the innermost and outermost dates of wood submitted for dendrochronological dating and their corresponding Tree-Ring Lab symbols indicating how close the date provided is to the...
Cibola Prehistory Project (Project)
Project for documents and data that pertain to more than one project among the following: El Morro Valley Prehistory Project, the Heshotauthla Archaeological Research Project, the Ojo Bonito Archaeological Project, and the Upper Little Colorado Prehistory Project directed by Keith Kintigh, the Cibola Archaeological Research Project directed by Patty Jo Watson, Steve LeBlanc, and Charles Redman, and the Rudd Creek Archaeological Project directed by Todd Howell.
Cibola Prehistory Project - Summary Information on Excavated Sites (2015)
Summary information on sites excavated by CARP, EMVPP, OBAP, HARP, ULCPP, RCAP. Dates based on Peeples and Schachner (2012) Journal of Archaeological Science seriation and tree ring dates. Available tree ring dates also available on tDAR.
Cibola Prehistory Project Integrated Ceramic Data (2017)
Integrated dataset of ceramic survey and excavation data from CARP, OBAP, HARP, ULCPP, EMVPP, and RCAP projects. Dataset has provenience, collection type, ceramic type and ceramic form. It has 45,995 entries representing 242,592 potsherds. This integrated database was created using the public integration at https://core.tdar.org/workspace/integrate/930.
The CityScape Project: Archaeological Investigations of Pueblo Patricio and Block 22 in the Original Phoenix Townsite Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona (2012)
Final report of testing and data recovery excavations within Block 22 of the original City of Phoenix Townsite in compliance with the Arizona Antiquities Act under Section 802(A.1) of the City of Phoenix's Historic Preservation Ordinance. Testing determined that significant cultural resources—prehistoric and historic features and cultural deposits—did exist below the asphalt-capped parking lot operated by the City of Phoenix Central Parking System and resulted in the westward expansion of the...
A Class I Cultural Resources Inventory for the Pinal West to Southeast Valley/Browning 500 kV Project, Pinal and Maricopa Counties, Arizona (2004)
Greystone Environmental Consultants, Inc., on behalf of Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (SRP), has developed this Class I Cultural Resources Inventory for the Pinal West to Southeast Valley/Browning 500 kV Project (Project) as part of the Certificate of Environmental Compatibility (CEC) Application. SRP contracted with Greystone Environmental Consultants, Inc. (Greystone) to complete the Class I report. The Project includes the construction of one single circuit...
A Class I Cultural Resources Survey of the Moapa and Virgin Valleys, Clark County, Nevada (1996)
This document constitutes a Class I cultural resources survey of lands situated adjacent to the Overton Arm of Lake Mead and the Muddy and Virgin Rivers in Clark County, Nevada. Reclamation Instructions 376.11 require that Reclamation maintain a record of cultural resources on lands that it owns, acquires, or withdraws from public use. A Class I cultural resources survey, which is primarily a literature and records search, is the first step in this process. A Class I cultural resources survey...
Class II Cultural Resource Survey, Upper Gila Water Supply Study, Central Arizona Project, Volume 2 (1985)
The Upper Gila class II survey inventoried 45.9 km2 (17.7 mi2) of landscape in eight project areas and identified 157 site locations reflecting prehistoric and historic occupation. The objectives of this chapter are to summarize the frequencies of occurrence and physical variations among those sites to enable evaluation of the relative magnitude of potential impacts upon different project areas.
Class II Cultural Resource Survey, Upper Gila Water Supply Study, Central Arizona Project: Appendix I (1985)
This appendix contains basic descriptive information for all archaeological and historical site locations encountered during the Upper Gila Project survey. For each site location a brief narrative emphasizing setting, site content, and spatial arrangement of features is provided. Accompanying the narrative is a computer generated format which summarizes all other categories of information documented for each site. An explanation of the variables, variable titles, and variable codes is given...
Class III (Intensive) Cultural Resources Survey of Approximately 2,530 Acres of Reclamation Withdrawn Land Along the Salt River at Coon Bluff
Other entries related to work done on the withdrawn lands along the Salt River can be found at the following link: https://core.tdar.org/collection/27771 The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) has identified approximately 2,530 acres of land for a Class III (intensive) cultural resource survey for Section 110 inventory purposes. The land was withdrawn for the Salt River Project (SRP) and is located upstream from the Granite Reef Diversion Dam on the south side of the Salt River. The withdrawn...
Class III (Intensive) Cultural Resources Survey of Approximately 2,530 Acres of Reclamation Withdrawn Land Along the Salt River at Coon Bluff: Photo Log (2006)
Other entries related to work done on the withdrawn lands along the Salt River can be found at the following link: https://core.tdar.org/collection/27771 The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) has identified approximately 2,530 acres of land for a Class III (intensive) cultural resource survey for Section 110 inventory purposes. The land was withdrawn for the Salt River Project (SRP) and is located upstream from the Granite Reef Diversion Dam on the south side of the Salt River. The withdrawn...