Platform Mound (Site Type Keyword)

Parent: Domestic Structures

A relatively high (over 1 meter), flat-topped mound, frequently constructed in several stages on which one or more structures were placed. Platform mounds are constructed using soil, shell, or refuse. They may incorporate earlier, filled-in structures in their substructure.

226-250 (473 Records)

History of Amateur Archaeology In the St. Louis Area (1989)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelly J. Pool.

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Hiwassee Island: An Archaeological Account of Four Tennessee Indian Peoples (1946)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas M. N. Lewis. Madeline Kneberg.

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.


Hohokam Settlement Along the Slopes of the Picacho Mountains, Volume 2, Part 1: The Brady Wash Sites (1988)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Lauren Jelinek

This volume documents the excavation and testing by the Museum of Northern Arizona of 92 structures, a platform mound, and numerous other features at 15 loci of the Brady Wash site and six small sites in Reach 1 of the Tucson Aqueduct Project, Phase A. These sites are a major segment of the Brady Wash Complex, a Hohokam community that inhabited the floodplain below the northwest slopes of the Picacho Mountains.These investigations provide detailed insight into long-term Hohokam adaptation to a...


Hohokam Settlement Along the Slopes of the Picacho Mountains, Volume 2, Part 2: The Brady Wash Sites (1988)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Lauren Jelinek

This second part of the second volume in the Tucson Aqueduct Phase A, Hohokam Archaeological Sites, Data Recovery Project series, presents the basic descriptive data for archaeological investigations of prehistoric sites in the Brady Wash area in Reach 1 of the Tucson Aqueduct. A series of archaeological excavations and supplemental surveys were carried out between December 1983 and January 1985 under the direction of staff personnel from the Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA) under Contract...


Hohokam Settlement Along the Slopes of the Picacho Mountains, Volume 6: Synthesis and Conclusions (1988)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Lauren Jelinek

This is the sixth and final volume in the series presenting the results of archaeological investigations of Hohokam sites along Reaches 1 and 2 of the Tucson Aqueduct, Phase A, Project. The project involved the investigation of two prehistoric platform mound communities in the Picacho Mountains area, which prior to these investigations were virtually unknown. The project focused on the Brady Wash community with lesser efforts in the Picacho community. The research efforts represented by the...


Informe parcial del Proyecto Valle de Malpaso La Quemada Temporada 1992 (1993)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Ben Nelson.

Field work from the 1992 season at La Quemada


Informe parcial del Proyecto Valley de Malpaso-La Quemada Temporada 1993 (1995)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Ben Nelson. Loni Kantor. Ian Robertson. Vincent Schiavitti. Nicola M. Strazicich. Paula Turkon.

Fieldwork from the 1993 season at La Quemada


Internal Settlement Designs of Two Mississippian Tradition Ceremonial Centers In Southeastern Missouri (1976)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Carl H. Chapman.

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Intra-Site Phosphate Analysis: a Test Case at Cold Springs (1979)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth C. Shirk.

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Introduction (1977)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Carl H. Chapman.

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Introduction To the Archaeology of Towosahgy State Archaeological Site (1977)
DOCUMENT Citation Only John W. Cottier. Michael D. Southard.

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Investigations and Comparison of Two Fortified Mississippian Tradition Archaeological Sites In Southeastern Missouri: a Preliminary Completation (1977)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Carl H. Chapman. John W. Cottier. D. Denman. D. R. Evans. D. E. Harvey. M. D. Reagan. B. L. Rope. M. D. Southard. G. A. Waselkov.

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Investigations At the Lilbourn Site 1970-1971 (1977)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Carl H. Chapman. David R. Evans.

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Irene Mound Site: Chatham County, Georgia (1941)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph R. Caldwell. Catherine McCann.

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Kincaid: a Prehistoric Illinois Metropolis (1951)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Fay-Cooper Cole. Robert E. Bell. John Bennett. Joseph R. Caldwell. Norman Emerson. Richard S. MacNeish. Kenneth Orr. Roger Willis.

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The Kleinpeter Site (16EBR5): the History and Archaeology of a Multicomponent Site in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana (1994)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Dennis Jones. Carl Kuttruff. Malcolm Shuman. Joe Stevenson.

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La Quemada-Malpaso Valley Archaeological Project (LQ-MVAP)
PROJECT Ben Nelson. Arizona State Universtity. Andrea Torvinen.

For over 15 years, Mexican and American archaeologists and students have dug ancient ruins, walked the high desert landscape, and worked in laboratories to understand the rise and fall of La Quemada, Zacatecas. We want to know why societies become complex, developing social hierarchies with specialized economic, political, and religious roles for their members. Why do civilizations expand? Northern Mexico's ancient past is an ideal context for studying these questions. During the period A.D....


Level Forms Terrace O8 (2015)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Ronald Faulseit.

This pdf file contains all of the level forms for Terrace O8, which were excavated in January of 2015.


Level Forms Terrace S19 (2010)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Ronald Faulseit.

This .pdf file contains all of the level forms for the excavations conducted on Terrace S19, on Cerro Danush in Oaxaca, Mexico. Excavations took place between August and November of 2009. The first two pages show the grid system and the level forms are organized by northing and easting. Please see the project report for 2010 for more information.


Level Forms Terrace S25 (2015)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Ronald Faulseit.

This .pdf file contains the level forms for the 2m x 2m units excavated on Terrace S25 of Cerro Danush in Oaxaca Mexico. This fieldwork was conducted between January of 2015 and June of 2015. The first page contains the grid system used to determine the unit northing and easting. For more information, please see the Project Report for 2015.


Limited Testing Program at Four Mound Sites in Greene County, Alabama (1989)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael G. Shogren.

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Los Guanacos: One Hundred Years Later, Recent Documentary and Archaeological Research Concerning a Prehistoric Hohokam Site First Investigated by the Hemenway Expedition of 1887 - 1888 (1988)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Judy Brunson. Scott L. Fedick.

Much current archaeological research into prehistoric Hohokam society deals with relationships among the variables of site size, types of architecture, chronological placement, and the development of the canal system through time. Unfortunately, an alarming number of Hohokam sites have been destroyed or severely altered during the last hundred years of agricultural and urban development in the Salt River Valley. Because of these losses, early historic descriptions of Hohokam sites are of vital...


The Lower Verde Archaeological Project
PROJECT Jeffrey A. Homburg. Richard Ciolek-Torello. Jeffrey Altschul. Stephanie M. Whittlesey. Steven D. Shelley. USDI Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office.

The Lower Verde Archaeological Project (LVAP) was a four-year data recovery project conducted by Statistical Research, Inc. (SRI) in the lower Verde River region of central Arizona. The project was designed to mitigate any adverse effects to cultural resources from modifications to Horseshoe and Bartlett Dams. The Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Arizona Project’s Office sponsored the research program in compliance with historic preservation legislation. The LVAP’s...


Malpaso Database (2008)
DATASET Uploaded by: Vincent Schiavitti

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Meddler Point Ruin Arizona Site Steward (1997)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Scott Wood. W. E.. Morris. Stone. H. S. G.. W. M.. J. E. Kisselburg.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Meddler Point Ruin, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of a pueblo compound with accompanying artifact scatter, roasting pit, trash middens, wall, and burials. The file consists of a site information sheet, two maps of the site location, two cultural resources inventory forms, five site maps, multiple unlabeled information forms, a written overview of the 1929 survey method, an Arizona State University site survey form, an...