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DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael W. Lindeman.

This report details the results of excavations at the Sunset Mesa Ruin, AZ AA:12:10 (ASM). The predominant occupation of Sunset Mesa Ruin was during the Middle Rincon phase (A.D. 1000-1100). However, limited use of the area was identified during the Early Agricultural period (800 B.C.-A.D. 100) and the later Tucson phase (A.D. 1300-1450). Evidence of Historic period use, first as a turn-of-the-century homestead and later as a dairy, has also been documented (Ciolek-Torrello, Huber, and Neily...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christopher M. Schoen.

In August, 1984 the Midwest Archeological Center, National Park Service conducted limited testing at the Freeman School, Homestead National Monument. The test excavations served two purposes. First, the impact of the proposed ground recontouring on cultural resourses was evaluated. Second, paraprofessional archeological training was conducted. The following year, the Midwest Archeological Center contracted with the Department of Anthropology, University of Nebraska to conduct additonal,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kristin L. Griffin.

In March, 1989, the Midwest Archeological Center conducted excavations inside Historic Structure 4, the New Commissary, at Fort Larned National Historic Site, Kansas. The excavations were intended to mitigate the impact from the planned adaptive restoration of the structure. The excavations succeeded in determining the depth of fill deposited after the close of the military-period, locating remnant segments of the floor joist supports, and locating a single post feature which dates to the...

PROJECT Gregory Waselkov.

In 1996 the University of South Alabama's Center for Archaeological Studies conducted archaeological excavations at the proposed site of the Gulf Coast Exploreum and Science Center in downtown Mobile, Alabama. Bonnie Gums and George Shorter directed field work in two areas explored in depth. Among several important finds was the remains of an earthfast Spanish-colonial building's foundations and associated discarded possessions of the Espejo family, our first archaeological glimpse of that...

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This Environmental Assessment (EA) analyzes the potential environmental consequences resulting from the proposed consolidation of the dining facilities at Camp Bullis, Texas. The proposed action is to upgrade the dining facilities at Camp Bullis to support growing demands and correct risks to health and safety at the existing facilities.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven De Vore. William J. Hunt, Jr..

Fort Union served as the major trading establishment for the American Fur Company and its St. Louis descendants (Bernard Pratte and Co. and Pierre Chouteau, Jr., and Co.) on the Upper Missouri River between 1828 and 1865. In 1865, Charles Chouteau sold Fort Union to Hubble, Hawley and Smith, otherwise known as the North Western Fur Company. During its last years of existence, between 1864 and 1866, the traders shared the post's facilities with the U.S. Army, the latter utilizing Fort Union as a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text William J. Hunt, Jr..

National Park Service archaeological excavations at Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site from 1968 through 1972. Although a preliminary report describing the extent and nature of the excavations was produced shortly after the close of each season's fieldwork, until recently the extensive collection of artifacts and other materials recovered during that work has remained largely unanalyzed and unreported for want of sufficient funding. A systematic effort to analyze and report all...

DOCUMENT Full-Text William J. Hunt, Jr..

National Park Service archaeological excavations at Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site from 1968 through 1972. Although a preliminary report describing the extent and nature of the excavations was produced shortly after the close of each season's fieldwork, until recently the extensive collection of artifacts and other materials recovered during that work has remained largely unanalyzed and unreported for want of sufficient funding. A systematic effort to analyze and report all...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Charles F. Lawson.

In December of 2006, the Southeast Archeological Center (SEAC) conducted a ground penetrating radar (GPR) survey at Fort Jefferson in Dry Tortugas National Park (DRTO). The survey was designed to include all open and clear ground surfaces of the fort’s parade ground, and a limited area outside the fort’s walls in the campground and picnic area. The goal of the project was to identify subsurface historic features that could be imaged using GPR and to provide maps of these features to the park to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Erwin N. Thompson.

This report on Grand Portage National Monument is in effect a basic data study, although the criteria for such was developed after the report was in progress. The study has been prepared in accordance with Historical Resource Study Proposal, Grand Portage-H-lc, "Grand Portage: A History of French, British , and United States Usage, ca. 1660- 1842."

DATASET Matthew Boulanger. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

This dataset contains compositional (elemental abundance) and descriptive data for a total of 1198 ceramic and clay specimens from Greece, analyzed by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). These data were generated by neutron activation analysis (NAA) at LBNL between the late 1960s and early 1990s. Data from the LBNL were transferred to the Archaeometry Laboratory at the University of Missouri, where they were digitized for distribution through tDAR. Compositional data for some...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Pournelle. Carrie Hritz. Jennifer R. Smith.

Final Report to the National Science Foundation for NSF-BCS High Risk Research in Physical Anthropology and Archaeology Award # 1045974. 18 Figures, 1 Table, 1 Appendix.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Philip Thomason.

The Multiple Property Documentation Form for the Historic and Architectural Resources of Randolph AFB, Bexar County, Texas is organized with reference to two contexts: Army Air Corps Training, 1931-1941; and Army Air Corps and Air. Force Training, 1941-1950. These contexts are preceded by a discussion of Randolph AFB’s geographical information and historic overview.

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Black and white photograph of Building 542 at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas.

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Black and white photograph of the circular drive at the entrance to Randolph Air Force Base, Texas.

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Black and white photograph of the Post Exchange's patio at Randolph Field, Texas. The post exchange is recorded as Building 200.

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Captain Norfleet Bone was Randolph Field's landscape architect and engineer from 1929-1933. This collection of black and white photographs was taken of Randolph Field in the 1930s and document Randolph's greenhouse, fields, barns, warehouses, the post exchange, administration building, school building, cadet barracks, the building area for the officers' quarters, noncommissioned quarters, the beginnings of Washington Circle with the star, and numerous images of Randolph's progress of...

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Black and white photographs of the Administration Building, popularly known as the "Taj Mahal," at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. The structure is recorded as Building 137.

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Black and white photographs taken in 1930 and 1931 of the Greenhouse and its surrounding acreage at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas.

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Black and white photographs taken in 1931 and 1932 of the Post Exchange and its patio at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas.

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Black and white photographs taken of Randolph Field during its construction and development. Included are aerial views of the officers quarters, school building, cadet barracks, enlisted mens barracks, noncommissioned quarters, warehouses, and overall general views of the progress of development.

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Miscellaneous black and white photographs covering a number of subjects at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas. Included are historic photographs of the air field's dedication ceremony, the headquarters, air fields, testing sites, front circle, aerial street grid, flight line, base entry, guardhouse, Harmond Drive, Taj construction, firehouse, airplane hangars, cadet complex, airpark, chapel, a family in residence at Randolph and uniform examples. The few photographs that are labeled date to the...

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Architectural surveys of historic buildings at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas prepared for the Air Education and Training Command. Included are maps, preliminary historic preservation survey forms, and photographs of each building.

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A collection of photographs taken of Randolph Air Force Base and its many features from the early 1900s to the present day.

DOCUMENT Full-Text A. E. Rogge. Cindy L. Myers.

In June 1986, the Bureau of Reclamation awarded a three-year contract for historical archaeological studies as part of the mitigation program for the Central Arizona Project's Regulatory Storage Division, designated as Plan 6. This study focuses on reconstructing the social history of the workers and their families who lived in several temporary dam construction camps dating from the 1890s to 1940s. The first chapter discusses experience in managing the study during the first year of the...