Ancient Earthwork (Site Type Keyword)
Parent: Mound / Earthwork
A non-residential cultural construction made from earth, shell or other materials, often formed to enclose or demarcate an area, or, in the case of causeways, to link areas. Examples include shell rings.
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The Central Arizona Project (CAP) was authorized by the Colorado River Basin Act (P.L. 90-537) in 1968. The following year, the Department of Anthropology at Arizona State University conducted a survey of the preliminary alignment of the Granite Reef Aqueduct and portions of the Salt-Gila Aqueduct for the Bureau of Reclamation under a National Park Service contract. The feasibility alignment extended from the Agua Fria River, southeast to the Gila River and was divided into eight sections: four...
A Cultural Resource Survey of the Proposed APS 230 kV Lincoln to Ocotillo Transmission Line (1982)
At the request of Ramon Fierros of the Environmental Management Department, Arizona Public Service Company (APS), Archaeological Consulting Services (ACS) initiated a cultural resource survey for the proposed relocation of the 230 kV transmission line which links the Lincoln and Ocotillo substations (Figure 1). The Lincoln substation is located on Lincoln Street and Third Avenue in Phoenix, and the Ocotillo substation is on University and McClintock in Tempe . Relocation of the line is necessary...
Cultural Resources Inventory for Use of the Red Cliff Mesa Top, Sierra County, New Mexico (1997)
During the spring of 1997, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' archaeologists conducted a cultural resources inventory of approximately 0.4 hectares (0.9 acres) near Elephant Butte Reservoir in Sierra County, New Mexico. The survey was conducted in support of baseline requirements for cultural resources management on Federally owned land utilized by the U.S. Air Force. The Corps found no cultural resource manifestations in the survey area. The Corps is of the opinion that the utilization of the area...
A Cultural Resources Survey of the Bush Highway for the Bush Highway Overlay Project: Power Road to State Route 87 (2015)
The Maricopa County Department of Transportation (MCDOT) is planning a pavement preservation project along the Bush Highway from Power Road to just south of State Route (SR) 87 (also known as the Beeline Highway), Maricopa County, Arizona (Figure 1). MCDOT tasked EcoPlan Associates, Inc. (EcoPlan) with cultural resource survey in advance of road improvement. The results of the survey are presented in this report.
A Design for Salado Research (1990)
The Roosevelt Platform Mound Study (RPMS) was one of three mitigative data recovery studies that the Bureau of Reclamation funded to investigate the prehistory of the Tonto Basin in the vicinity of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. The series of investigations constituted Reclamation's program for complying with historic preservation legislation as it applied to the raising and modification of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. Reclamation contracted with the Arizona State University Office of Cultural Resource...
EMVPP Field & Lab Manual (2003)
The field and lab manual for the 2003 El Morro Prehistory Project. The same manual was used in other EMVPP seasons. Most aspects of this manual can be applied to the Ojo Bonito Archaeological Project, the Heshotauthla Archaeological Research Project, the Upper Little Colorado Prehistory Project, and the Rudd Creek Archaeology Project. This manual describes field and laboratory procedures, how to fill out the forms, and how the provenience system works. It also has relevant ceramic type...
EMVPP Field & Lab Manual (2003)
The field and lab manual for the 2003 El Morro Prehistory Project. The same manual was used in other EMVPP seasons. Most aspects of this manual can be applied to the Ojo Bonito Archaeological Project, the Heshotauthla Archaeological Research Project, the Upper Little Colorado Prehistory Project, and the Rudd Creek Archaeology Project. This manual describes field and laboratory procedures, how to fill out the forms, and how the provenience system works. It also has relevant ceramic type...
End Of Fieldwork Interim Report: Archaeological Data Recovery And Burial Removal For A Proposed Building Footprint And Utilities Along A New Alignment Of Monroe Street, East Of 44th Street, at Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)), Phoenix, Arizona - DRAFT REPORT (2007)
Between May 24 and June 13, 2007, Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI) archaeologists conducted a limited data recovery and burial removal excavations for Sun America, Inc. to mitigate the adverse effects of construction in the Washington Park development in Phoenix, Arizona. The construction project was a proposed new building footprint and associated utilities along a proposed re-alignment of Monroe St, east of 44th St. Soil Systems personnel had already completed archaeological work in this area, but the...
Excavations at Casa Grande Arizona, 1906-1907 (1907)
This document is a book by Jesse Walter Fewkes, published by the Smithsonian Institution. It details excavations done in Compound A at the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. It contains sketches and photographs of this compound.
Final Data Recovery And Burial Removal At Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)): Unit 15, The Former Maricopa Counry Sheriff's Substation, Washington And 48th Streets, Phoenix, Arizona (2008)
In a development plan proposed in 1999, two areas were to be excavated below grade for a building foundation and a runoff detention basin and the rest of the parcel was to be resurfaced at grade. Because this parcel is immediately east of the Iarge Hohokam village site of Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)), a two-phase testing program determined the distribution of intact prehistoric cultural remains and established that mortuary features with human remains would be impacted if the existing...
Final Report: Archaeological Survey on the Lower Zuni River - 1984 Season (1984)
This report provides a substantive and administrative summary of the results of an intensive archaeological survey of about 9 square kilometers along the Zuni River in east-central Arizona that was conducted by the University of Arizona, Arizona State Museum. This survey was funded by a Survey and Planning Grant from the National Park Service administered by the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office and by matching funds provided by the University of Arizona. Because this final report for...
Final Report: Prehistoric Settlement Along the Lower Zuni River - 1987 Season (1987)
This report provides a substantive and administrative summary of the results of an intensive archaeological survey of about 8 square kilometers along the Zuni River in east-central Arizona about 25 miles north-northeast of St. Johns. The survey was directed by Keith W. Kintigh of the Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University. This survey has been funded with the assistance of a matching grant-in-aid from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service, under provisions of the...
Great House Formation: Agricultural Intensification, Balanced Duality, and Communal Enterprise at Mitchell Springs (2021)
Mitchell Springs provided the central Montezuma Valley of southwestern Colorado a rare and reliable water source that has been used by ancients for millennia. People began to settle near the springs in the middle of the AD seventh century and by the twelfth century a sprawling watershed-wide community with large-scale architectural and agricultural works had formed. Using a combination of data from surveys and recent excavations, this article explores the ties between the rise of elite...
Hinkson Site Palynology (1990)
Use of sediment samples collected from the Hinkson Site for a classroom research project late in 1989 provided opportunity to extract and examine the pollen they contained. Since the effort was undertaken by students with no prior experience of pollen study, the raw data is to some degree suspect. However, the student work was supervised by experienced personnel, and students were encouraged to rely on supervisory help whenever a problematic issue arose. The samples should be re-observed before...
Hopewell Culture Administrative History (1999)
This report is a history of the administration of the area and cultural resources encompassed by what once was known as the Mound City Group National Monument and is now designated Hopewell Culture National Historical Park. The report describes the administration, management, and preservation of the cultural resources in the park. The period covered is generally from the late 1940s into the late 1990s. President Warren G. Harding signed a presidential proclamation on March 2, 923,...
Interactions with the Incorporeal in the Mississippian and Ancestral Puebloan Worlds (2014)
This research explores how people’s relationships with the spirits of the dead are embedded in political histories. It addresses the ways in which certain spirits were integral “inhabitants” of two social environments with disparate political traditions. Using the prehistoric mortuary record, I investigate the spirits and their involvement in socio-political affairs in the Prehispanic American Southeast and Southwest. Foremost, I construct a framework to characterize particular social...
Interactions with the Incorporeal in the Mississippian and Ancestral Puebloan Worlds
This research explores how people’s relationships with the spirits of the dead are embedded in political histories. It addresses the ways in which certain spirits were integral “inhabitants” of two social environments with disparate political traditions. Using the prehistoric mortuary record, this study investigate the spirits and their involvement in socio-political affairs in the Prehispanic American Southeast and Southwest. Foremost, this research constructs a framework to characterize...
Investigations at Ojo Bonito: The 1988 Arizona State University Summer Field School (1988)
The 1988 Arizona State University Archaeological Field School under the direction of Dr. Keith Kintiqh was held at the privately-owned Hinkson ranch just southwest of the Zuni Indian Reservation. The Hinkson ranch holds qreat research potential because of a dense prehistoric occupation (primarily Pueblo II & III) that has been relatively undisturbed by pothuntinq or other destructive processes. If the great house and great kiva of the Hinkson Complex were built and occupied after the collapse...
Irene Mounds Mortuary Data: Body Treatment Raw Data and Multiple Correspondence Analysis Scores (2013)
In the dissertation titled "Interactions with the Incorporeal in the Mississippian and Ancestral Puebloan Worlds," the author analyzed the Irene Mortuary Data: Inhumation Body Treatment data set in an examination of the performance of mortuary ritual at Middle and Late Mississippian period settlement on the Georgia and South Carolina coast. The analysis of body treatment and the larger consideration of mortuary ritual were designed to understand the identities of the spirits of the dead in...
Irene Mounds Mortuary Data: Burial Facility Raw Data and Multiple Correspondence Analysis (2013)
Documentation of this data set in tDAR is in progress.
Irene Mounds Mortuary Material Accompaniment Data (2013)
In the dissertation titled "Interactions with the Incorporeal in the Mississippian and Ancestral Puebloan Worlds," the author analyzed the Irene Mounds Mortuary Material Accompaniment data set in an examination of the performance of mortuary ritual at the Mississippian period Irene Mounds site. The analysis of mortuary accompaniments and the larger consideration of mortuary ritual were designed to understand the identities of the spirits of the dead in Mississippian period villages of the...
Jesse Walter Fewkes
This project contains diverse works of Jesse Walter Fewkes over time on the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument including tables, maps, images and reports.
Kirtland Air Force Base Project Metadata
Project metadata for resources within the Kirtland Air Force Base cultural heritage resources collection.
Kitchell Project Mortuary Vessel Data (1997)
This sheet contains data for whole and reconstructible vessels recovered from mortuary contexts at Pueblo Grande in Phoenix, AZ. Soil Systems, Inc (SSI) excavated the features during their data recovery work for the Kitchell project (SSI 99-01), located east of Pueblo Grande Museum near the intersection of 48th St. and Washington. The data set records information on the following variables for each vessel: form, ware and type, temper description, and comments
The Lower Verde Archaeological Project
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...