Burial Pit (Site Type Keyword)
Parent: Funerary and Burial Structures or Features
An unmarked human interment in a subterranean pit.
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The following report describes the results of the archaeological investigations at the Lonetree site. Field investigations were conducted by Desert Archaeology, Inc. (formerly the Institute for American Research) under the sponsorship of the American Continental Corporation (AMCOR) between January and May of 1987. Lonetree (AZ AA:12:120 ASM) was identified as a multicomponent site occupied during the Pioneer period (A.D. 550-650) and the Sedentary period (A.D. 940-1150). A total of 256...
Archaeological Investigations at the Yuma Wash Site and Outlying Settlements Part 1 (2016)
The Yuma Wash site was a permanently occupied large Classic period village situated in the northern Tucson Basin at the juncture of the eastern bajada of the Tucson Mountains with the Santa Cruz River floodplain. The site area was also intermittently used on a much smaller scale during the rest of the Hohokam sequence and during the Early Agricultural and Early Ceramic periods, as well as during the Historic era. The project was conducted by Desert Archaeology, Inc., for the Town of Marana. The...
Archaeological Investigations at the Yuma Wash Site and Outlying Settlements Part 2 (2016)
The Yuma Wash site was a permanently occupied large Classic period village situated in the northern Tucson Basin at the juncture of the eastern bajada of the Tucson Mountains with the Santa Cruz River floodplain. The site area was also intermittently used on a much smaller scale during the rest of the Hohokam sequence and during the Early Agricultural and Early Ceramic periods, as well as during the Historic era. The project was conducted by Desert Archaeology, Inc., for the Town of Marana. The...
Archaeological Investigations for the Arizona State University Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building VII (ISTB 7) Project, Tempe, Maricopa County, Arizona (2021)
Logan Simpson multi-phased (Phases I and II) data recovery investigations and archaeological monitoring within the prehistoric Hohokam habitation site of AZ U:9:165(ASM)—also known as La Plaza or La Plaza de Tempe—and two historic periods linear sites (summarized below) on the Arizona State University (ASU) Tempe Campus in Tempe, Maricopa County, Arizona. The archaeological investigations were conducted at the request of ASU in advance of ground-disturbing construction of a new campus building...
Archaeological Investigations for the Fort McDowell Road Improvement Project
The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) assisted the Fort McDowell Indian Community (FMIC) with cultural resource investigations in advance of widening and realigning portions of Fort McDowell Road (also known as Mustang Way). These improvements were required to facilitate increased road use associated with the construction and operation of the Fort McDowell Indian Community Irrigated Farmland Development Project. This project presents the results of these undertakings.
Archaeological Investigations in Northern Los Pozos, AZ AA:12:91 (ASM), for the Pima County Bleeder Channel Project, Pima County, Arizona (2014)
Pima County Wastewater proposed construction of a bleeder channel on a City of Tucson-owned parcel in Pima County, Arizona. The parcel is within the northern boundary of the prehistoric site of Los Pozos, AZ AA:12:91 (ASM), a National Register of Historic Places-eligible property dating primarily to the Early Agricultural period (1200 B.C.-A.D. 50). The channel was planned from a bridge culvert on an access road to the RWRD Sweetwater Reclamation Campus to an existing rip-rap drainage channel...
Archaeological Investigations Near Mobridge, South Dakota (1961)
During the months of July and August, 1956, excavations were conducted by a University of Wisconsin field party at four village sites on the Missouri River in the vicinity of Mobridge, South Dakota. The field work formed part of the salvage operations in this region which was soon to be flooded by water impounded behind a dam constructed near the city of Pierre. The selection of the sites for study was based on a brief reconnaissance of the area made in April, 1956, in the company of Paul L....
Archaeological Investigations of Early Village Sites in the Middle Santa Cruz Valley: Analyses and Synthesis, Part II (1998)
A series of archaeological investigations were conducted from 1993 to 1995 at four prehistoric sites in the middle Santa Cruz Valley. This fieldwork was part of the Arizona Department of Transportation's archaeological mitigation program of the Interstate 10 Corridor Improvement Project through Tucson, Arizona. The sites included the remains of three early farming settlements--the Santa Cruz Bend (AZ AA:12:746 [ASM]), Square Hearth (AZ AA:12:745 [ASM]), and Stone Pipe (AZ BB:13:425 [ASM])...
Archaeological Investigations of Early Village Sites in the Middle Santa Cruz Valley: Descriptions of the Santa Cruz Bend, Square Hearth, Stone Pipe, and Canal Sites (1997)
As part of the archaeological mitigation program of the Arizona Department of Transportation's Interstate 10 Corridor Improvement Project, archaeological data recovery fieldwork was carried out from 1993 to 1995 at four prehistoric sites in the project right-of-way in Tucson. The sites included three early farming settlements occupied between about 800 B.C. and A.D. 550, and also having later occupations. The Santa Cruz Bend site (AZ AA:12:746, ASM) was occupied during the Cienega phase (ca. 800...
Archaeological Investigations of the Early Agricultural Period Settlement at the Base of A-Mountain, Tucson, Arizona (1997)
This report describes the archaeological investigations related to the A-Mountain Storm Drain project within the Clearwater site (AZ BB:13:6), the prehistoric settlement at the base of A-Mountain. Archaeological resources within the project area represent the Early Agricultural period. During the past five years, portions of about 10 Early Agricultural period archaeological sites have been excavated in floodplain settings within the Tucson Basin. The importance of this recent work is evident...
Archaeological Investigations West Papago - Inner Loop Sections of Interstate 10, Group 1, Los Aumentos, State and Private Lands, Maricopa County, Arizona (1890)
The Museum of Northern Arizona, under contract to the Arizona Department of Transportation, has completed test investigations in five areas along the route of the proposed West Papago-Inner Loop sections of Interstate 10. Area 1 - NA15,787 included a portion of a site identified by Midvale as the Los Aumentos Ruin. However, with the exception of two small canals, there was no subsurface evidence of prehistoric or important historic occupation. Area 2 - NA15,788 and Area 3 - NA15,789 were devoid...
Archaeological Monitoring for the Combined Building Demolition and Replacement at Bartlett Dam, Maricopa County, Arizona (2007)
Logan Simpson Design (LSD) conducted archaeological monitoring at the request of SRP during the demolition and replacement of the Combined building at Bartlett Dam, Maricopa County, Arizona. The building is located within AZ U:2:107 (ASM)/Middendrum site, a late Pioneer-Colonial period habitation site. Because dark midden deposits extending up to and beneath the Combined building were identified during previous ...
The archaeological problem of Chiriqui (1935)
The purpose of this 1935 paper by Osgood is to present information concerning the archaeology of the province of Chiriqui, Panama, and to summarize from the point of view of the field-worker certain phases of then previous work (cerca 1935) in order that data necessary for developing new lines of inquiry is more readily available.
The Archaeological Sequence from Sipolite, Oaxaca, Mexico (1966)
During February and March, 1962, excavations were conducted at Sipolite, near Puerto angel, Oaxaca, Mexico. The purpose of the excavation was to establish a cultural sequence and to study its interconnections with other pasts of Mesoamerica and to investigate possible relationships with central and South America. This report examines several Mesoamerican ceramic traditions through both a descriptive and statistical analysis. The report is a revised version of a dissertation presented in 1965...
An Archaeological Subsurface Examination of the Area 2A Parcel on the Fort Lee Military Reservation, Prince George County, Virginia (2011)
This investigation examined the archaeological signature of unmarked subsurface archaeological features with a particular emphasis on identifying unmarked graves. Previous investigations identified potential unmarked graves in Area 2A, a parcel located within the confines of United States Army Fort Lee Military Reservation in Prince George County, Virginia. Area 2A was in the immediate vicinity of the Davis house, a prominent historical structure near the center of Fort Lee. The grounds...
Archaeological Subsurface Surveys, Fort Lee Military Reservation, Prince George County (FL2011.018)
This investigation addressed the location of an unmarked cemetery on property currently owned by Prince George County, adjacent to U.S. Army Fort Lee Military Reservation in eastern Virginia. Historical research indicated that the burial ground was associated with the laboring Sisters of the Vine Burial Association who used it as a cemetery in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Relic fences and property boundary markers indicated where the probable cemetery property boundaries...
An Archaeological Survey Along a Proposed City of Peoria Utility Pipeline Alignment, Near Jomax Road, Peoria, Maricopa County, Arizona (2000)
On May 11, 2000, SWCA, Inc. completed a Class III archaeological survey. The survey was conducted at the request of Whitman & Company in order to comply with Section 106 (36 CFR part 800) of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended (Federal Register 1999), as may be required under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act. The purpose of the survey was to determine if any cultural resources existed that may be adversely impacted by the installation of a proposed City of Peoria water...
Archaeological Survey of East Lynn Reservoir 1964-1965
Under contract to the National Park Service, the West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey undertook an archaeological survey for cultural resources in the East Lynn Reservoir, Wayne County, West Virginia (McMichael and Mairs 1965). The principal investigators were Edward McMichael and Oscar Mairs. Fieldwork was conducted in June 1964 and April 1965. The investigation consisted of an intensive survey and shovel testing of the areas to be flooded within the East Lynn Reservoir. Fifteen sites...
An Archaeological Survey of East Lynn Reservoir, Wayne County, West Virginia (1965)
The East Lynn Reservoir is currently being constructed on the East Fork of Twelve Pole Creek, in Wayne County, West Virginia. This dam will be located about 3 miles upstream from the small town of East Lynn. Maximum pool after construction will be 701 feet from sea level. During the spring of 1964, the senior author made preliminary survey of the area and in the spring of 1965 the junior author conducted intensive survey and testpitting in the area to be affected by the reservoir. Generally the...
Archaeological Survey of Two Parcels at Navajo Generating Station and the SRP/PWCC Coal Loading Station, Coconino and Navajo Counties Arizona (2017)
Past Peoples Consulting, LLC, was requested by Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (SRP) to complete a pedestrian survey to identify and evaluate cultural resources at two facilities in northern Arizona. One survey parcel was within the boundary of the Navajo Generating Station near Page and the second parcel was within the fenced boundary of the SRP/Peabody Western Coal Company (PWCC) Coal Loading Station near Kayenta. Fieldwork took place between March 26 and 30,...
Archaeological Test Excavations along the Santan Expansion Project Pipeline Corridor from Gilbert to Coolidge, Maricopa and Pinal Counties, Arizona (2003)
Northland Research, Inc. (Northland) has completed archaeological testing at nine of the ten sites along a proposed natural-gas pipeline at the request of the Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (SRP). The purpose of the testing was to determine the extent and eligibility status of the ten sites for the Arizona and National Registers of Historic Places (AZ/NRHP). Four of the sites, AZ U:10:2(ASM), AZ U:10:116(ASM), AZ U:10:175(ASM), and AZ U:14:74(ASM), have been...
Archaeological Testing along the Salt River Project Coronado Railroad Spur, Apache County, Arizona (1990)
Archaeological Consulting Services Ltd. (ACS) conducted limited testing at seven archaeological sites in Apache County at the request of Dr. Judy Brunson of Salt River Project (SRP). The project was conducted to assess the presence of subsurface deposits and features at these sites, and to evaluate whether these sites would be adversely impacted by the proposed 100 ft (30.48 m) to 200 ft (60.96 m) widening of the existing coal haul railroad corridor (Figure 1). The seven sites are located on...
Archaeological Testing and Evaluation of AZ U:9:48 (ASU): A Prehistoric Hohokam Habitation Site in Tempe, Maricopa County, Arizona (1986)
Archaeological Research Services, Inc. conducted an archaeological testing program at site AZ U:9:48 (ASU), a prehistoric Hohokam habitation site in Tempe, Maricopa County, Arizona. The site is situated on land owned by the Salt River Project (SRP) which has been selected as the potential location of the proposed SRP Central Support Complex. The testing program involved both surface and subsurface investigations intended to evaluate the site in terms of eligibility for inclusion on the...
Archaeological Testing at a Portion of La Ciudad de Los Hornos: The Superstition Freeway and Priest Drive Locale (AZ U:9:48 ASM) (1991)
SWCA, Inc. Environmental Consultants conducted test excavations at a portion of La Ciudad de los Hornos located south of the Superstition Freeway in Tempe, Maricopa County, Arizona. The testing was performed for the Arizona Department of Transportation (Contract Number 90-29), with fieldwork taking place from 21 January 1991 to 18 February 1991. Sixty-eight backhoe trenches (most being 20 m in length) were placed in a systematic pattern throughout the project area. Testing was conducted at a...
Archaeological Testing at AZ AA:12:352 (ASM): The Schomac Parcel (2019)
Archaeological testing of a land parcel owned by the Schomac Group, Inc. identified 14 prehistoric cultural features on a remnant of the T2 Holocene terrace of the Santa Cruz River within the boundaries of the previously recorded site AZ A A:12:352 (ASM). Clustered on the eastern part of the parcel, they are preserved at a shallow depth beneath the present ground surface, and include two pit structures, one possible pit structure, three cremations, four possible cremations, three small pits, and...