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.

326-350 (369 Records)

Reevaluation of Archaeological Sites on Nellis Air Force Base (2001)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith Myhrer. Susanne J. Rowe.

Report of results from a revaluation of archaeolgoical sites on Nellis Air Force Base.


Report of an Archaeological Reconnaissance Survey of Lost Valley Reforesta-Tion Project, Lost Valley Scout Reservation (1991)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Dana Bleitz. Paul Porcasi.

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.


A Report of Archaeologial Resources Survey Extended Initial Study and Phase II Investigation for a Proposed Highway Widening Project on Route 15 in San Diego and Riverside Counties (1979)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian F. Smith. James R. III Moriarty.

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.


Report of Archaeological Data Recovery Excavations at CA-MRP-382, Mariposa County, California, Publications in Anthropology No. 13. (1991)
DOCUMENT Citation Only K. L. Hull.

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.


Report of the Preliminary Archaeological Reconnaissance of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory Site 300 San Joaquin County, California
DOCUMENT Citation Only Archaeological Consulting & Research Services, Inc..

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.


Report of the Sheer Timber Compartment Archaeological Reconnaissance. (1979)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas L. Jackson.

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.


A Report on a Bluff Shelter in Northeastern Oklahoma (D1-47) (1959)
DOCUMENT Full-Text David A. Baerreis. Joan E. Freeman. J. T. Curtis. A. Elkins.

This report on D1-47, a bluff shelter in northeastern Oklahoma, is one of a series of reports on sites in Delaware County prepared by the staff and graduate students of the Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin. An extensive series of sites were excavated between 1937 and 1940 by means of the Works Projects Administration archaeological program sponsored by the University of Oklahoma prior to the inundation of much of the river valley land by the construction of a dam on the Grand...


Research Design Archaeological Characterization Sampling For the EC South Range, Nevada Test and Training Range, Nellis Air Force Base (2008)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Marcus Grant.

The purpose of this project is to conduct a characterization sampling study for the EC South which includes a portion of Quartz Mountain. They are mountainous areas that research has demonstrated has high potential for identifying significant sites. This project is a 4% sample of 200,000 acres to identify eligible sites for preservation, management with the mission, and Native American visitation.


A Research Design to Conduct an Archaeological Characterization Study of the Belted Range and Southern Kawich Valley, Nevada Test and Training Range, Nellis Air Force Base (2010)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Far Western Anthropological Research Group, Inc..

Far Western Anthropological Research Group, Inc. (Far Western), was retained by Nellis Air Force Base (AFB) to complete a research design to conduct an archaeological characterization study of the Belted Range and southern Kawich Valley as part of the Air Force’s ongoing Section 110 compliance. The following research design includes a synthesis of existing data on the environmental context and known archaeology of the area, and provides an issue-oriented research and sampling methodology for...


Results of an Archaeological Survey and the Evaluation of Cultural Resources at the Indian Hills Campground Project (1992)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian F. Smith.

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.


Results of Archaeological Survey and Site Investigations for Year 2, Pintwater Cave Area Archaeological Research Program (1997)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Desert Research Institute.

The Treatment Plan identified three research issues as vital for adequate scientific understanding of the prehistory and paleoenvironments of Pintwater Cave and the vicinity: (1) the meaning of variability seen in southern Nevada dart points; ( 2) local effects of climatic variability on human occupation; and (3) Archaic period subsistence. Report comments attached.


Rockshelters, Rockart and Grinding Activity: A Preliminary Assessment of Relationships in Picket Wire Canyonlands, Comanche National Grasslands (2003)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Ralph J. Hartley. Anne Wolley Vawser.

The Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site (PCMS) has undergone extensive inventory over the last two decades. Although several thousand Native American sites have been recorded within the PCMS boundaries there are 662 that can be used for this analysis. In these cases, the observations were recorded in a consistent fashion. This limited database contains both nominal and categorical variables or fields. Within this data set there are 171 sites that possess observations with at least one of the following...


Salt River Project, Coronado Generating Station Project, State and Private Lands, Apache and Navajo Counties, Arizona: Final Report for Phase I and II: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Research (1974)
DOCUMENT Full-Text David N. Siegel. James E. Bradford.

Between January 27 and February 15, and February 25 to May 6, 1974, the Museum of Northern Arizona acted as a consultant to Wirth Associates to study a series of alternate transmission line corridors to connect proposed Salt River Project coal-fired power plants at either the Snowflake or St. Johns localities to three substations in the Phoenix area. Then from April 11 to May 3, 1974, the Museum was contracted by Bechtel Power Corporation to complete Phase I survey investigations of the proposed...


Scanned Asset Key, Archaeological Survey of East Lynn Reservoir 1964-1965 (2019)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jessica Costello.

This is the scanned asset key for the Archaeological Survey of East Lynn Reservoir 1964-1965 collection stored at Archaeological Collections Facility, Grave Creek Mound Historic Site.


The Shaw Butte Hilltop Site: A Prehistoric Hohokam Observatory (1996)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Todd W. Bostwick. Stan Plum.

The Sonoran Desert of Southern Arizona was once occupied by the prehistoric Hohokam, a group of agriculturalists who constructed thousands of kilometers of irrigation canals as well as public architecture, including platform mounds and bailcourts. They also appear to have been keen astronomical observers, although the subject of Hohokam archaeoastronomy remains underexplored. This paper summarizes previous Hohokam archaeoastronomy studies, discusses O'odham (Piman) Indian calendar systems,...


Shelter R-4 Arizona Site Steward File (1997)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Brittany Clark

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Shelter R-4 site, comprised of a rock shelter, located on State Trust land. The file consists of a site data form. The earliest dated document is from 1997.


Short Form, 1989 Insect / Drought Salvage, Cultural Resource Inventory Report, CRIR #05-16-340: 1989 Summit District Small Insect Salvage Sales. (1990)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles E. Whitesell.

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.


Site 74 Arizona Site Steward File (2002)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Connie L. Stone.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for Site 74, comprised of a rock shelter with accompanying midden and sherd and lithic scatter, located on Bureau of Land Management land. The file consists of a site data form and map of the site location. The earliest dated document is from 2002.


Site D1-29, A Rockshelter in Northeastern Oklahoma (1960)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Joan E. Freeman. A. Elkins.

The site under discussion in this report was one of approximately seventy-five which were excavated in the area immediately along the Grand or Nesho Rover in 1938-1940. The excavations were conducted through the Works Projects Administration under the sponsorship of the University of Oklahoma. They were designed to salvage as much archaeological material as possible before the dam being constructed on the Grand River backed up water which would inundate the sites. This site and others were...


Site Plan, 41BX1344 Shelter, Camp Bullis, Texas (1999)
IMAGE Uploaded by: Chelsea Walter

The shelter plan of site 41BX1344, Camp Bullis, Texas. Included is the site location, boundaries, shovel test locations, and some archaeological and topographical features.


Site Plan, 41BX1344, Camp Bullis, Texas (1999)
IMAGE Uploaded by: Chelsea Walter

Sketch map of site 41BX1344, Camp Bullis, Texas. Included is the site location, boundaries, and some archaeological and topographical features.


Site Plan, 41BX802, Camp Bullis, Texas (1989)
IMAGE Uploaded by: Chelsea Walter

Sketch map of site 41BX802, Camp Bullis, Texas. Detailed is the plan and profile of a rock shelter located on the site.


Stanislaus National Forest, Heritage Resources 1996 Sierra Nevada Programmatic Agreement Project Certification: Defroster Thinning Sale; Report #05-16-2138. (1998)
DOCUMENT Citation Only B. Montgomery.

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.


State Route 260 - Payson to Heber
PROJECT Arizona Department of Transportation.

Reports from the State Route 260 - Payson to Heber archaeological project, sponsored by the Arizona Department of Transportation.


Sunset Crater Archaeology: The History of a Volcanic Landscape, Introduction and Site Descriptions, Part 1 (2006)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: adam brin

The U.S. 89 Archaeological Project investigated 41 prehistoric sites located approximately 30 km north of Flagstaff, Arizona. All sites were on Coconino National Forest (CNF) land. The project was conducted by Desert Archaeology, Inc., for the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) prior to the widening and improvement of 26.7 km (16.6 miles) of U.S. 89, between the southern boundary of Wupatki National Monument in the north, and the town of Fernwood in the south. Archaeological fieldwork...