Rock Shelter (Site Type Keyword)

Parent: Domestic Structures

Overhang, indentation, or alcove formed naturally by rock fall or in a rock face; generally not of great depth. Rockshelters may or may not be modified with structural elements for human use.

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An Archaeological Transect Across the Western Prescott Periphery: Prehistoric Site Distribution Based on Combined Survey Results (1996)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas E. Wright. David E. Purcell.

Three archaeological surveys have been conducted along parallel transects through west-central Arizona: the Museum of Northern Arizona's survey of the Mead to Phoenix powerline right-of-way, SWCA's survey of Mead to Phoenix project construction access roads, and Archaeological Research Services's survey of the U. S. Highway 93 right-of-way for the Arizona Department of Transportation. Combining the results of these surveys and previous research reveals three major concentrations of sites. These...


The Archaeology of Alamo Lake, Arizona: A Cultural Resources Sample Survey (1987)
DOCUMENT Full-Text David Gregory.

During July and August of 1987, Statistical Research, Inc., conducted a cultural resources survey of approximately 2,400 acres, located in and around Alamo Dam and Reservoir and within the property administered by the Los Angeles District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. During the survey, 44 archaeological sites and 8 isolated, non-site occurrences of cultural materials were discovered and recorded. Other environmental data relevant to the interpretation of cultural resources within the study...


The Archaeology of Alamo Lake, Arizona: A Cultural Resources Sample Survey (1988)
DOCUMENT Full-Text David A. Gregory.

During July and August of 1987, Statistical Research conducted a cultural resources survey of approximately 2400, acres, located in and around Alamo Dam and Reservoir and within the property administered by the Los Angeles District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. During the survey.,44 archaeological sites and eight isolated, non-site occurrences of cultural materials were discovered and recorded. Other environmental data relevant to the interpretation of cultural resources within the study area...


Archaeology of the Manzanita Mountains: 2002 Survey of the Eastern Portion of Kirtland Air Force Base and Department of Energy Lands Withdrawn from the US Forest Service, Bernalillo County New Mexico (2003)
DOCUMENT Full-Text James D. Gallison. David Wilcox. Roberto Herrera.

From 3 June to 1 November 2002, engineering-environment Management, Inc., (e2M), under contract with Kirtland Air Force Base conducted a Section 110 cultural resources investigation of 6,000 acres of US Forest Service lands withdrawn to Kirtland Air Force Base (4,850 ac) and the Department of Energy (1,150 ac) located in the Manzanita Mountains of New Mexico (Contract DACA45-02-D-0010 ). Fifty-one new sites were located in the field and evaluated for eligibility to the National Register of...


The Archaeology of the McCain Valley Study Area in Eastern San Diego County, California: a Scientific Class II Cultural Resource Inventory (1981)
DOCUMENT Full-Text George Harris. Edward Dittmar. John Cook. Cliff Gates. Ken Hedges. Andrew Christenson. Terri Jacques. Scott Fulmer.

The results of a Class II Cultural Resource Inventory are reported for the McCain Valley Study Area. The Class II study is designed to accommodate the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) planning and management needs by providing a data base from which objective estimates can be made of the nature and distribution of cultural resources within a defined area. The data base was acquired through implementation of a seven percent multi-stage sample field inventory using an 80-acre transect as the unit...


Archaeology of the Western Manzanita Foothills: 6,654 Acre Survey of the Western Portions of Kirtland Air Force Base and Department of Energy Lands Withdrawn from the US Forest Service , Bernalillo County, New Mexico (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text James D. Gallison. J. David Kilby. Roberto Herrera. Michael Church. Nicole Ramirez. Lucas Kellett.

This study is a continuation of the inventory survey work initiated by e2M in 2002 (Gallison et al. 2003) and continued by e2M in 2003 (Gallison et al. 2005a) and reflects the completion of a 20,000-acre pedestrian survey of the remaining western portion of the withdrawn area located on the Tijeras and Mount Washington USGS 7.5 minute Quadrangles. The survey resulted in updating 133 of the 139 previously recorded sites and recording 54 newly discovered cultural resource sites on New Mexico ARMS...


Archaeology of the Western Manzanita Mountains: Cultural Resource Survey of the West-Central Portion of Kirtland Air Force Base and Department of Energy Lands Withdrawn from the US Forest Service Bernalillo County, New Mexico (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text James D. Gallison. David Kilby. David Wilcox. Roberto Herrera.

Beginning in January 2003, engineering-environment Management, Inc., (e2M), under contract with Kirtland Air Force Base, conducted a Section 110 cultural resources investigation of 6,654 acres of United States Forest Service (USFS) lands withdrawn to Kirtland Air Force Base (4,824 acres) and the Department of Energy (1,830 acres) located in the Manzanita Mountains of New Mexico (DACA45-03-D-0005). The primary objectives of the survey were to revisit and update previously recorded archaeological...


An Archeological Inventory of Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California, Volumes 1, 2 and 3. (1995)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathleen L. Hull. Michael S. Kelly.

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.


Archeological Investigations in the Central Sierra Nevada: the 1981 El Portal Project. (1982)
DOCUMENT Citation Only M. F. Baumler. S. L. Carpenter.

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.


An Archeological Overview and Assessment of the Ozarks National Scenic Riverways, Missouri (2006)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Fred A. Finney.

In 1964 Congress authorized Ozark National Scenic Riverways (OZAR) and the park was officially established in 1972. It is one of the initial eight wild and scenic rivers designated by the federal government. OZAR encompasses a linear corridor along ca. 241 km (ca. 150 miles) of the Current and Jack Fork Rivers in the Ozark Highlands of southeast Missouri. The park contains a variety of prehistoric and historic archeological resources. A total of 480 sites are recorded in the files of either...


Archeological Progress report No. 12, Field Season of 1967 (1967)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Smithsonian Institution, Missouri Basin Project.

This is the twelfth in a series of annual reports summarizing current field and research activities within the Missouri River Basin under the auspices of the Inter-Agency Archeological Salvage Program. Smithsonian Institution River Basin Surveys research continued apace in 1967 although field operations were somewhat curtailed for fiscal reasons. Three River Basin Surveys field parties operated within the Missouri Basin during the season and one made a brief reconnaissance of the Garrison...


Archeological Progress Report No. 2, Field Season of 1957 (1957)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Smithsonian Institution. Missouri Basin Project.

The 1957 summer field season began the twelfth year of continuous operation of the Missouri Basin Project and of the Inter-Agency Archeological and Paleontological Salvage Program. The first eleven years have been outstandingly productive despite several setbacks. The twelfth year began with an even more encouraging prospect than many of the previous years. The areas within the Missouri Basin that have been or soon will be lost forever to scientific archeological investigation due to dam...


Archeological Progress Report No. 8, Field Season of 1963 (1963)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Smithsonian Institution, Missouri Basin Project.

This is the eighth in a series of reports presented to provide a resume of current archeological work within the Missouri River Basin. During the summer of 1963 there were twenty-one field parties, representing one Federal and six State agencies, working in the Missouri Basin under the aegis of the Inter-Agency Archeological Salvage Program. A further breakdown shows that the Missouri Basin Project of the Smithsonian Institution, had twelve field parties working in reservoirs and proposed canal...


Archeological Progress Report No. 9, Field Season of 1964 (1964)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Smithsonian Institution, Missouri Basin Project.

This is the ninth in a series of reports presented to provide a summary of current field activities within the Missouri River Basin. Twenty-three field parties, representing one federal and seven state agencies, participated in the Inter-Agency Archaeological Salvage Program within the Missouri Basin during the summer of 1964. Fourteen parties were fielded by the Missouri Basin Project of the Smithsonian Institution. Eleven of these worked within the Oahe, Big Bend, and Fort Randall reservoirs...


Archeological Reconnaissance in Stanislaus National Forest, California: Dome Timber Sale Tract. (1977)
DOCUMENT Citation Only L. K. Napton. E. A. Greathouse.

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.


Archeological Reconnaissance of Lands Adjacent To Grand Canyon (1978)
DOCUMENT Full-Text George Teague. Carole McClellan.

This project was undertaken to provide a partial inventory and assessment of cultural resources in the Grand Canyon Adjacent Lands study area. This area, illustrated in Figure 1, includes portions of Kanab, Whitmore, Parashant, and Andrus Canyons and a part of the Shivwits Plateau, all located in the part of northwest Arizona known as the Arizona Strip. The study area was divided into western (Shivwits) and eastern (Kanab) survey areas. Archeological survey was carried out in June and July 1977...


Archeological Survey in Stanislaus National Forest, California: Camp Clavey Timber Sale Tract. (1976)
DOCUMENT Citation Only L. K. Napton. A. D. Albee. E. A. Greathouse.

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.


Archeological Survey in Stanislaus National Forest, California: Flat Timber Sale Tract. (1976)
DOCUMENT Citation Only L. K. Napton. A. D. Albee. E. A. Greathouse.

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.


Archeology in Garrett County (1955)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Frank R. Corliss, Jr..

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Archeology in Garrett County, Maryland: 1945 - 1954 (1954)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Frank R. Corliss, Jr..

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.


Arizona State University: 1988 and 1990 Field Season Survey, Preliminary Reports (1991)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Tammy T. Stone.

The 1988 and 1990 Arizona State University archaeological field schools were part of a continuing, long term research project in and around the Zuni Indian Reservation of west central New Mexico. This is a preliminary report on these two seasons. In addition to survey, excavation was carried out at two sites, the Hinkson Ranch Site and Heshotauthla. These excavations will be reported on elsewhere and are not the subject of this report other than a brief statement of their relationship to the...


Artifact Report, Archaeological Survey of East Lynn Reservoir 1964-1965 (2019)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Veterans Curation Program.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Huntington District archaeological collections were delivered to the Veterans Curation Program's (VCP) Alexandria, Virginia, laboratory in September 2014. The Alexandria VCP laboratory is a USACE, St. Louis District's Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections program, which is staffed through JMA, an archaeological contract firm located in Alexandria, Virginia. The procedures employed to re-house the...


Assessing the Relationship between Vegetation Zones and Archaeology on the Nevada Test and Training Range (2008)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Marcus P. Grant. Sherri Wenzlau.

Geo-Marine, Inc., Las Vegas, Nevada, conducted intensive cultural resources inventories on 10,624 acres and an experimental inventory on an additional 2,220 acres near Black Mountain (for a grand total of 12,844 acres) within the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR). As a result of this effort, 143 archaeological sites were recorded; an additional 41 site locations were noted but not fully recorded during experimental inventories in the Black Mountain area.


An Assessment of Cultural Resources Located on the Viejas Indian Reservation, San Diego County, California (1980)
DOCUMENT Citation Only James D. Swenson. Philip J. Wilke.

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AZ F:16:15 (ASM) Arizona Site Steward File (1977)
DOCUMENT Full-Text A. Ferg. L. C. Hammack.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file that consists of the site AZ F:16:15 (ASM), located on Bureau of Land Management land. The file consists of an Arizona State Museum archaeological survey form. The earliest dated document is from 1977.