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.

251-275 (369 Records)

Modoc Rock Shelter, IL (11R5)-1987 Fauna dataset-East Pillar-Flotation 1/16" mesh (1987)

DATASET Mona Colburn. Bonnie Styles. Paula Thorson.

Faunal remains recovered during the 1987 field season by water flotation using 1/16 inch mesh. Identified by Paula Thorson using the comparative osteology collection at the Illinois State Museum. Identifications were verified by Dr. Bonnie W. Styles.

Mumba Rockshelter (Tanzania) re-excavation

PROJECT Uploaded by: Mary Prendergast

Mumba Rockshelter is located in Mang'ola Basin, at ca. 1046 m asl, about 2.3 km from the current shore of Lake Eyasi (which is dry most of the year). It is found in a series of inselbergs (containing several other shelters) called the Laghang-Ishimijega hills, running parallel to the lake. The shelter contains rock paintings documented by L. Kohl-Larsen (1943). It was excavated in 1934-36 and a very large "test" excavation was led by M. Kohl-Larsen in 1938 (L. Kohl-Larsen 1943, Müller-Beck...

Mumba Rockshelter stratigraphy

IMAGE Mary Prendergast.

Revised Mumba stratigraphy after 2005 excavations. Plan (upper left) shows excavation units, which are shaded in the profile drawing. Upper right diagram shows correlation between our revised geological units and Mehlman’s Beds I-VI. Drawing by L. Luque of the Teruel Paleontological Foundation, Spain (Prendergast et al. 2007: Figure 7).

National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form for Table Mountain Historic District (1982)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Pat Welch.

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.

Native American Historic Land Use At Kirtland Air Force Base Bernalillo County, New Mexico (Draft) (1996)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard D. Holmes.

Historic land use of the Kirtland Air Force Base area by Native American groups was researched by TRC Mariah Associates, Inc. The principal questions were what ways did these groups use the land and what areas were used. Potential Native American groups using the project area include people of Isleta Pueblo, Sandia Pueblo, residents of the Salinas Province east of the Manzano Mountains, as well as Apaches and Comanches. The focus is on the people of Isleta Pueblo in that they are the closest to...

Nellis Air Force Base: Final Report, Section 110 Archaeological Survey, Area II, Clark County Nevada (2018)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lisa M. Smith.

The Area II survey conducted by SWCA resulted in the documentation of 50 archaeological sites and 78 isolated finds. Sixteen of the archaeological sites were newly discovered, and of the 44 previously documented sites, 33 were found and reinvestigated. The archaeological sites included 15 prehistoric/ethnographic sites associated with Native Americans, 32 historic sites potentially associated with Euro‐Americans, and 3 multi‐component sites with prehistoric/ethnohistoric and historic components....

Nonriverine Hohokam Adaptation, Preliminary Results from the Tucson Aqueduct Project (1984)

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

The Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA) has been conducting archaeological investigations in the Picacho Mountains area of south central Arizona since late 1983. Under contract to the Bureau of Reclamation, MNA archaeologists have surveyed and partially or completely surface collected, tested and excavated more than 30 Hohokam sites scattered along a 1 mi wide and 42 mile long aqueduct right-of-way (Figure 1).It is important to note that the sample of sites under investigation suffers from all of...

OBAP 1984 LZ0001-0108 Survey Forms (1984)