Hearth (Site Type Keyword)

Parent: Archaeological Feature

Discolored area of soil, often including charcoal, ash deposits or fire cracked rock, exhibiting evidence of use in association with fire. May be bounded (e.g., rock ring) or ill-defined.

1,876-1,900 (2,467 Records)

Modoc Rock Shelter, IL (11R5)-1984 Unit D 1/4" Faunal data (1984)
DATASET Mona Colburn. Bonnie Styles.

Unit D was excavated in an elevated non-sheltered area between the Main Shelter and the West Shelter (the latter was excavated earlier, in 1980). Unit D shows that the two shelters areas at Modoc have independent and separate stratigraphies, and that they need to be treated as two sites. Faunal remains were recovered via 1/4" waterscreen and 1/16 " waterscreen. Remains include vertebrates, freshwater mussels, and gastropods. Faunal remains were identified by Mona Colburn using the...


Modoc Rock Shelter, IL (11R5)-1984 West Pillar 1/4" Faunal data (1984)
DATASET Mona Colburn. Bonnie Styles.

Faunal remains were excavated from the West Pillar (Unit F) at Modoc Rock Shelter (11R5) and processed with 1/4" waterscreening. Remains include vertebrates, gastropods, and freshwater mussels. Remains were identified by Mona Colburn using the Osteological Collections of the Illinois State Museum; and checked by Dr. Bonnie Styles.


Modoc Rock Shelter, IL (11R5)-1987 Fauna dataset-East Pillar-1/4" screen (1987)
DATASET Mona Colburn. Bonnie Styles. Paula Thorson.

Faunal remains reported here were recovered by dry-screening through 1/4 inch mesh and from flotation (heavy fraction) using 1/16 inch mesh. Using the comparative faunal collection at the Illinois State Museum, Paula Thorson identified vertebrate remains from 1/4" screen and flotation and Dr. Bonnie Styles identified freshwater mussels from 1/4" screen only. Dr. Bonnie W. Styles directed the faunal analyses and verified faunal identifications.


Modoc Rock Shelter, IL (11R5)-1987 Fauna dataset-East Pillar-Flotation 1/16" mesh (1987)
DATASET Mona Colburn. Bonnie Styles. Paula Thorson.

Faunal remains recovered during the 1987 field season by water flotation using 1/16 inch mesh. Identified by Paula Thorson using the comparative osteology collection at the Illinois State Museum. Identifications were verified by Dr. Bonnie W. Styles.


Monitoring of Construction of the Csg Amoco Champlin 261 Pipeline System, Carbon County, Wyoming (1980)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Edward Jess. John W. Greer.

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.


Montrose County Free-Use Riprap Procurement (Government Springs Area) (1984)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Frank G. Rupp.

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Mott Sauna Beach Excavation and Site Survey at Isle Royale National Park (1993)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Caven P. Clark.

The 1991 archeological projects on Isle Royale included the final phase of excavation at the Mott Sauna Beach site, a Terminal Woodland Juntunen phase site, which will be disturbed by the continued construction of housing units on Mott Island. In addition, the investigation of a grave-robbing incident on Cemetery Island and a number of small compliance surveys are reported as contributions towards the documentation and interpretation of Isle Royale's archeological record.


"My Heart is Still in My Old House" Archaeological Investigation at Hartstene's Chinquapin Hill Plantation (38BU1768), Beaufort County, South Carolina (2008)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey W. Gardner. Alexander Y. Sweeney. Carolyn Rock. Charles Philips Jr.. Meagan Brady. Alana Lynch. Dea Mozingo.

Brockington and Associates, Inc., conducted Phase III archaeological data recovery excavations at 38BU1768 in July and August 2003. Archaeological site 38BU1768 is located in the Palmetto Bluff Phase I Development Tract, Beaufort County, South Carolina. These investigations were conducted under the Treatment Plan approved by South Carolina Department of Archives and History on October 23, 2002, and in partial agreement of the stipulations of the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) among the State...


Napoleon Hollow, IL (11PK500) Project
PROJECT Bonnie Styles.

The Napoleon Hollow site (11PK500) is located in a colluvial fan below the blufftop and in the floodplain adjacent to the lower Illinois River in Pike County, Illinois. The site was excavated in 1979 and 1980 by the Center for American Archeology (Dr. Michael Wiant, Site Director) for the Central Illinois Expressway with funding from the Illinois Department of Transportation. Archaic deposits were encountered in alluvial deposits in the Illinois River and Napoleon Creek floodplains and in...


Napoleon Hollow, IL (11PK500)-Fauna dataset 1/16" flotation (1979)
DATASET Mona Colburn. Bonnie Styles.

Napoleon Hollow (11PK500) is located at the base of the bluff and in the floodplain adjacent to the lower Illinois River in Pike County, Illinois. The site was excavated in 1979 and 1980 by the Center for American Archeology (Dr. Michael Wiant, Site Director) for the Central Illinois Expressway with funding from the Illinois Department of Transportation. Archaic deposits were encountered in alluvial deposits in the Illinois River and Napoleon Creek floodplains and in colluvial fan deposits along...


Napoleon Hollow, IL (11PK500)-Fauna dataset 1/4" screen (1979)
DATASET Mona Colburn. Bonnie Styles.

Napoleon Hollow (11PK500) is located at the base of the bluff and in the floodplain adjacent to the lower Illinois River in Pike County, Illinois. The site was excavated in 1979 and 1980 by the Center for American Archeology (Dr. Michael Wiant, Site Director) for the Central Illinois Expressway with funding from the Illinois Department of Transportation. Archaic deposits were encountered in alluvial deposits in the Illinois River and Napoleon Creek floodplains and in colluvial fan deposits along...


National Register Evaluation of the Lindon Fork Rockshelter (15WO107), Wolfe County, Kentucky (1992)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles M. Niquette. Myra A. Hughes.

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National Register Testing of Site 41WB933 and Intensive Survey of Seven Retention Ponds in Webb County, TX
PROJECT Robert Lassen. Christopher Ringstaff. Aaron Norment. Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT).

From November 10–19, 2021, AmaTerra Environmental, Inc. (AmaTerra) conducted archeological excavations and survey on behalf of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) in support of the proposed construction of the Hachar-Reuthinger Loop in Webb County, Texas (CSJs 0922-33-165 and 0922-33-166). The investigations entailed the excavation and evaluation of site 41WB933 to determine the site's eligibility for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) and for designation as...


Navajo Generation Station at Page, Arizona, Preliminary Report (1969)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter J. Pilles.

An archaeological investigation of the proposed Navajo Generation Station was conducted by the Museum of Northern Arizona from December 10 through 12, 1969, for the purpose of archaeological clearance. The Museum was represented by Alexander J. Lindsay, Jr., Curator of Anthropology, and Peter J. Pilles, Jr., Salvage Archaeologist, who found five prehistoric sites and two modern Navajo sites during the course of the survey. This proposed facility is a large steam operated electrical generation...


The Navajo Project: Archaeological Investigations, Page to Phoenix 500 kV Southern Transmission Line (1980)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Donald C. Fiero. Robert W. Munson. Martha T. McClain. Suzanne M. Wilson. Anne H. Zier.

In the spring of 1970, the Museum of Northern Arizona contracted with Arizona Public Service Company to provide archaeological investigations for the Navajo Project 500kV Southern Transmission Lines from Page to Phoenix, Arizona. The right-of-way, 330 feet wide and approximately 256 miles long, crossed four major environmental zones - plateau, mountain, transition, and desert - and portions of five prehistoric culture areas. Eighty-eight sites were recorded along the line, 20 of which were...


Nebo Hill (1978)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kenneth C. Reid.

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Nelson et al. - Trabajos conducidos por La State University of New York dentro del Proyecto La Quemada 1989-90 (1992)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Ben Nelson.

Field report of work conducted at La Quemada in the 1989-90 field season


New Contributions to the Archeology of Oahe Reservoir (1954)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard Wheeler.

This conference paper addresses the Oahe Reservoir area and its many archeological potentialities demonstrated through excavation in the early to mid-1900s. In 1947 the Oahe Reservoir Project of the Army Corps of Engineers was announced. This meant that within the next ten or twelve years a large and important archeological area would be obliterated. Action was imperative. The Missouri Basin Project of the Smithsonian Institution has conducted field surveys in the Oahe are during part of each...


New Melones Archaeological Project--Stanislaus River, Calaveras and Tuolumne Counties, California: Phase VI; Part 4, Archaeological Sampling (1976)
DOCUMENT Citation Only M. J. Moratto. L. M. Riley.

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Newspaper Articles (1993)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Zion Banks. Jon Banks.

Newspaper articles related to Elsinore project. This is information for the general public and contains pictures and very basic comments on what was being learned at the time of the article.


Non-flaked Lithic Tools: Temporal-Spatial Dataset (1985)
DATASET Carl J. Phagan.

The Reductive Technologies Group (RTG) was responsible for supporting the broad research goals of the DAP through the implementation of mid-level research design governing the collection and analysis of data from “artifacts which were manufactured by reductive, or subtractive techniques” (Phagan 1986a:79). The RTG was headed by Roger A. Moore between 1978 and 1979 and by Carl J. Phagan from 1979 to 1985, with the assistance of T. Homer Hruby between 1980 and 1984; supporting work was provided by...


Nonriverine Hohokam Adaptation, Preliminary Results from the Tucson Aqueduct Project (1984)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Donald E. Weaver. Richard Ciolek-Torello.

The Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA) has been conducting archaeo­logical investigations in the Picacho Mountains area of south central Arizona since late 1983. Under contract to the Bureau of Reclamation, MNA archaeologists have surveyed and partially or completely surface collected, tested and excavated more than 30 Hohokam sites scattered along a 1 mi wide and 42 mile long aqueduct right-of-way (Figure 1).It is important to note that the sample of sites under investiga­tion suffers from all of...


Notes on Aboriginal Structures of Protohistoric or Historic Age In the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming (1987)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Christian J. Zier.

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Notes to Accompany the Fort St. Joseph, Niles, Michigan Magnetic Survey Data (2004)
DOCUMENT Full-Text William Sauck.

Explains raw data contained in Excel spreadsheets.


Nuvuk Archaeological Project (NAP)
PROJECT Anne Jensen.

This NSF and Department of Education (ECHO) funded project involves excavation of a village and cemetery at Nuvuk, Point Barrow, Alaska. Ipiutak and Early Thule through recent Inupiat were documented. There is a large associated aDNA project dealing with the human remains, with Dennis O'Rourke as PI.