Plaza (Site Type Keyword)

Parent: Non-Domestic Structures

An area which may be partially or completely enclosed by structural remains (standing or collapsed), used for community activities. May contain temporary structures (e.g. sun shades or ramadas) as well as special activity areas (e.g. milling bins, hearths).

126-150 (532 Records)

Cultural Resources Overview for the Papago Park Planning Area (2016)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Soil Systems, Inc..

Cella Barr Associates contracted with Soil Systems, Inc. to prepare an overview of the cultural resources in the Papago Park planning area. A survey of pertinent literature and site record files was conducted and the results were summarized in this report. Recommendations for documentation and assessment of cultural resources within the park area conclude this report. A review of the archaeological and historical material encompassing the Papago Park planning area has revealed 20 archaeological...


Dainzú-Macuilxóchitl Archaeological Project
PROJECT Ronald Faulseit.

This archive contains all of the data derived from field research at the site of Dainzú-Macuilxóchitl in the Oaxaca Valley of Mexico. This is a multi-year project consisting of intensive survey and mapping, as well as comprehensive excavations. The mapping and survey are designed to provide a detailed topographic map of the site and provide a basic temporal and spatial settlement description. Intensive excavations are focused on residential areas. This project has been financially supported...


Decorated ceramic jar data - Chapter 6 (2019)
DATASET Sarah Oas.

Decorated jar data from Chapter 6. This dataset includes vessel provenience, ware, type, portion, volume, rim form, and rim diameter information for all decorated jar sherds and reconstructable vessels.


A Design for Salado Research (1990)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Keith Kintigh

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...


The Dolores Archaeological Program
PROJECT Robert A. Bye. Christine K. Robinson. David A. Breternitz. Allen E. Kane. Steven E. James. Timothy A. Kohler. William D. Lipe. Bureau of Reclamation.

From 1978 until 1985 the University of Colorado contracted with the Bureau of Reclamation (Contract No. 8-07-40-S0562) to mitigate the adverse impact of a large water impoundment project on the cultural resources in the project area. This complex and evolving long-term mitigation plan known as the Dolores Archaeological Program (DAP) has been called a “truly unique chapter in American archaeology” (Breternitz 1993:118) and was applauded by Lipe (1998:2) for its ability to “increase the power and...


Dolores Archaeological Program: Synthetic Report (1986)
DOCUMENT Citation Only D. A. Breternitz. Christine K. Robinson. Timothy Gross.

The Dolores Project was a large water-impoundment project constructed by the Bureau of Reclamation in southwestern Colorado. From 1978 until 1985 the University of Colorado contracted with the Bureau of Reclamation (Contract No. 8-07-40-S0562) to mitigate the adverse effects of the Dolores Project on the cultural resources in the project area; Washington State University was the major subcontractor. The mitigation program was called the Dolores Archaeological Program (DAP). This volume presents...


Dolores Archaeological Program: Synthetic Report 1978-1981 (1984)
DOCUMENT Full-Text David A. Breternitz.

The "Dolores Archaeological Program: Synthetic Report 1978-1981" is the second publication in a series of reports by the Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Department of the Interior, on the findings of the Dolores Archaeological Program including excavation activities, and the preservation and analysis of newly discovered artifacts.


The Dolores Legacy: A User's Guide to the Dolores Archaeological Program Data (1999)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Jesse Clark

A user's guide to the Dolores Archaeological Program data, compiled with assistance from a State Historical Fund grant from the Colorado Historical Society. This is highly recommended as a point of entry into the large and complex DAP datasets. It contains a general introduction to the DAP and its datasets, by Richard Wilshusen; an introduction to the provenience data and DAP temporal-spatial taxonomy and interpretations, by Christine Ward; brief descriptions of each of the major databases; an...


Dos Cerros Arizona Site Steward File (2004)
DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Whatley. T. Bone. C. Lovely. M Taylor. Nadia Arambula. D. Ericson. J. Beckley. Jennifer Burke. Scott Wood.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Dos Cerros site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of up to six room blocks, retaining walls, and artifact scatter; and was likely inhabited during the Hohokam Classic Period. The file consists of three heritage inventory forms with hand drawn site maps, as well as a map of the site location. The earliest dated document is from 2004.


Earl Cline Site Arizona Site Steward File (2000)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Judi Myers.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Earl Cline Site, comprised of a wall-enclosed pueblo site and one petroglyph, located on State Trust land. The file consists of a site data form, site steward heritage inventory record, map of the site location, nine black and white photographs of the site, and and Austin Archaeological Site Survey form. The earliest dated document is from 1979.


Earthen Face of Civilization: Mapping and Testing at Poverty Point, 1983 (1984)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jon L. Gibson.

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.


The Economic Base of an Ancient Maya City (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text thomas guderjan.

Intensive agriculture supported large ancient Maya populations. However, there have been few attempts to understand how agriculture was integrated with the political economy of a Maya city and that city’s interaction with other polities. The site of Blue Creek in northern Belize offers the opportunity to begin to assess these relationships. Blue Creek had access to enormous agricultural resources and direct access to the riverine coastal trade system. The combination of these factors enabled...


EMVPP Field & Lab Manual (2003)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith Kintigh. Greg Schachner. Joshua Watts. Tammy Stone. Todd Howell. Andrew Duff. Suzanne Eckert.

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)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith Kintigh.

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)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Banks L. Leonard. Rebecca Hill.

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...


Evaluation of Previously Recorded Archaeological Sites and Geomorphology at the Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site, Ganado, Arizona
PROJECT USDI Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office.

The Superintendent of Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site (HUTR) requested that the Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office (Reclamation) reidentify and reassess historic and prehistoric cultural remains that had been identified during previous surveys of the 160-acre historic site. The Superintendent also requested that a small sample survey be undertaken to help evaluate the accuracy of the previous surveys. On behalf of HUTR and the National Park Service (NPS), Reclamation...


Evaluation of Previously Recorded Archaeological Sites and Geomorphology at the Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site, Ganado, Arizona: Photo Log (2002)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Margerie Green. Paige Barlow.

The Superintendent of Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site (HUTR) requested that the Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office (Reclamation) reidentify and reassess historic and prehistoric cultural remains that had been identified during previous surveys of the 160-acre historic site. The Superintendent also requested that a small sample survey be undertaken to help evaluate the accuracy of the previous surveys. On behalf of HUTR and the National Park Service (NPS), Reclamation...


Evaluation of Previously Recorded Archaeological Sites and Geomorphology at the Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site, Ganado, Arizona: Photos (2002)
IMAGE Margerie Green. Shirley Powell.

The Superintendent of Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site (HUTR) requested that the Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office (Reclamation) reidentify and reassess historic and prehistoric cultural remains that had been identified during previous surveys of the 160-acre historic site. The Superintendent also requested that a small sample survey be undertaken to help evaluate the accuracy of the previous surveys. On behalf of HUTR and the National Park Service (NPS), Reclamation...


Evaluation of Previously Recorded Archaeological Sites and Geomorphology at the Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site, Ganado, Arizona: Report (2002)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Shirley Powell. Bruce Phillips. Paige Barlow.

The Superintendent of Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site (HUTR) requested that the Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office (Reclamation) reidentify and reassess historic and prehistoric cultural remains that had been identified during previous surveys of the 160-acre historic site. The Superintendent also requested that a small sample survey be undertaken to help evaluate the accuracy of the previous surveys. On behalf of HUTR and the National Park Service (NPS), Reclamation...


Excavations at Casa Grande Arizona, 1906-1907 (1907)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jesse W. Fewkes.

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.


Excavations at La Villa: Continuity and Change at an Agricultural Village (2015)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: system user

The archaeological excavations documented in this volume examine the Hohokam village of La Villa, AZ T:12:148 (ASM). From its founding in the sixth century A.D., until abandonment in the eleventh century, La Villa was one of the largest villages in the Phoenix Basin. Current excavations preceded the installation of a storm drain that was part of the larger Storm Drain project and provided a rare glimpse of a large pre-Classic period village. Fieldwork occurred in multiple phases. Archaeological...


Excavations in Compound A, Casa Grande National Monument 1963 (1963)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Charlie R. Steen.

This document is a 1963 report by Charlie Steen. It includes sketches and maps of Compound A illustrating both the outer buildings and the Great House along with charts and photographs about the artifacts found during excavation. It discusses the damage done by previous archaeologists and superintendents to the plaza in terms of future archaeology efforts and the inability to capture information going forward.


Faunal Analysis Data for Terrace S25 (2015)
DATASET Ronald Faulseit.

This file contains all of the data from Dr. Heather Laphams analysis of the animal bones collected during the 2015 excavation of Terrace S25 on Cerro Danush, Dainzú-Macuilxóchitl, Oaxaca, Mexico


Faunal Analysis Report for Terrace S25 (2015)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Ronald Faulseit.

This is the report by Dr. Heather Lapham of the analysis of the faunal materials recovered during the 2015 excavations of Terrace S25 on Cerro Danush.


Feature Excavation Forms, Terrace S25, Cerro Danush (2015)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Ronald Faulseit.

Excavation forms for features excavated on Terrace S25