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.

1,851-1,875 (2,467 Records)

Mill Creek Pottery (1962)
DOCUMENT Citation Only John Chester Ives.

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Mill Site Reservoir Fup (1983)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Anonymous.

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Millwood Plantation 1980
PROJECT US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District. Charles E. Orser. US Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District.

This collection is referred to as "Millwood Plantation 1980.” The name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is twenty and a half (20.5) linear inches. The documents date from 1979 to 1987. The field work began in 1980, which explains the date in the collection name. The range of dates includes administrative documents and the final report. The collection was originally housed in acidic file folders in an acidic cardboard...


The Mimbres Transitional Phase: Examining Social, Demographic, and Environmental Resilience and Vulnerability from AD 900-1000 in Southwest New Mexico (2015)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jakob Sedig.

This dissertation uses new data from Woodrow Ruin to examine the Late Pithouse (AD 550-1000) to Classic period (AD 1000-1130) transition in the Mimbres region of southwest New Mexico. Prior explorations of the Mimbres Late Pithouse to Classic transition have lacked data from one of the largest sites in the region. Woodrow Ruin is a large, multi-component site that had previously received little professional investigation. Fieldwork at Woodrow Ruin for this dissertation demonstrated that it had a...


Missouri Basin Chronology Program Statements Nos. 1-5 (1964)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Smithsonian Institution, Missouri Basin Project.

This document includes the first five chronology program statements for the Missouri Basin Project. The Program, as it now stands, was developed during the winter of 1958 by the Personnel of the Missouri Basin Project, Smithsonian Institution; the laboratory of Anthropology, University of Nebraska; and the Nebraska State Historical Society; all of Lincoln, Nebraska; and the National Park Service, Region Two Office, in Omaha, Nebraska. Concern for an over-all program of chronology grew out of an...


Missouri River Headwaters Archaeology (1975)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Carling I. Malouf.

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Mistakis: the Archeology of Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, Archeological Inventory and Assessment Program 1993-1996 Final Technical Report, Volume II (2003)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian O. K. Reeves. Leslie B. Davis. Claire Bourges.

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Mitchell Springs Ruin Group
PROJECT Uploaded by: David Dove

The Mitchell Springs Ruin Group is located just south of Cortez Colorado in the heart of Montezuma Valley. This community was occupied from Basketmaker times through around A.D. 1240 and is made up of around 75 small pueblos, small great houses, a great kiva, 10+ meter diameter court kiva, and a tri-wall structure. Field schools conducted from 1990-2004 resulted in two publications.


Mitigation of Archeological Sites On Cities Service Crestion III Line, Carbon and Sweetwater Counties, Wyoming (BLM Rawlins District) Project #: WY-205-78 (1979)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Judy Pinner. Paul Sanders.

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Mitigation Plan for Archaeological Sites 48Sw4381 and 48Sw4383 On the Proposed Jim Bridger Power Plant Irrigation System, Sweetwater County, Wyoming (1982)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven D. Creasman.

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Mitigative Actions at Two Prehistoric Sites in Carbon County, Wyoming (1981)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Josephine Merewether. D. Vlcek. J. Benko. C. Cojeen. D. Grasso. N. Holloway. W. Shea.

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Modoc Rock Shelter Site, IL (11R5) 1953 Excavation Project
PROJECT Uploaded by: Mona Colburn

The 1953 excavation at Modoc Rock Shelter (11R5) was directed by Howard D. Winters and sponsored by the University of Chicago and the Illinois State Museum. Winters excavated two areas. An L-shaped area in the central portion of the Main Shelter area - was excavated in arbitrary 6-inch levels down to bedrock at a depth of about 19 feet below the post-road fill removal ground surface, or circa 118.72 m AMSL). The other area, which was located at the edge of the West Pillar, was excavated from...


Modoc Rock Shelter Site, IL (11R5) 1956 Excavation Project
PROJECT Uploaded by: Mona Colburn

The 1956 field season placed a deep excavation in the West Shelter area, and provided material from zones deeper than in previous years. An area approximately 20 x 30 feet was excavated in a contiguous block to circa 16 feet below the existing ground surface (the area had been subjected to removal of road fill). 117 5 x 5 foot units were excavated in 1-foot increments (levels). Dr. Melvin L. Fowler (Illinois State Museum) directed the excavations. The work was sponsored by the Illinois State...


Modoc Rock Shelter Site, IL (11R5) 1980 Excavation Project
PROJECT Bonnie Styles. Melvin L. Fowler.

This project includes data from the 1980 excavation season at Modoc Rock Shelter (11R5). The 1980 archaeological excavation was conducted by Drs. Bonnie Styles and Melvin Fowler under the auspices of the Illinois State Museum and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Funding was provided by a grant from the Department of Interior (Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service) to the Illinois State Museum Society. Initial excavations at Modoc were conducted in 1952, 1953, 1955, and 1956 by Dr....


Modoc Rock Shelter Site, IL (11R5) 1984 Excavation Project
PROJECT Bonnie Styles. Melvin L. Fowler.

This project includes faunal remains collected during the 1984 excavations at Modoc Rock Shelter (11R5). The 1984 archaeological excavation was directed by Drs. Bonnie Styles (Illinois State Museum) and Melvin Fowler (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee). Steven Ahler of the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee served as the field director. Funding was provided by National Science Foundation collaborative grants to the Illinois State Museum Society and the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee with...


Modoc Rock Shelter Site, IL (11R5) 1987 Excavation Project
PROJECT Bonnie Styles. Steven Ahler. Melvin L. Fowler.

This project includes data from the 1987 excavation season at Modoc Rock Shelter (11R5). The 1987 archaeological excavation was directed by Dr. Steven Ahler under the auspices of the Illinois State Museum. Funding was provided by grants from the National Geographic Society (Grant No. 3621-87) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (Grant No. RO-21430) to the Illinois State Museum Society. Dr. Steven Ahler served as the Principal Investigator with Drs. Bonnie Styles and Melvin L. Fowler...


Modoc Rock Shelter, IL (11R5)-1953 Fauna dataset Central Pit 1/4" Screen (1953)
DATASET Mona Colburn. Bonnie Styles.

The 1953 faunal remains from the Central Pit at Modoc Rock Shelter (11R5) were initially identified by Paul W. Parmalee of the Illinois State Museum. In 1980, Karli White and Bonnie Styles (Illinois State Museum) re-examined the 1953 identifications, augmented the identifications, and entered them into a database.


Modoc Rock Shelter, IL (11R5)-1953 Fauna dataset West Pillar 1/4" Screen (1953)
DATASET Mona Colburn. Bonnie Styles. Paul W. Parmalee. Karli E. White.

The 1953 faunal remains from the West Pillar at Modoc Rock Shelter (11R5) were initially identified by Paul W. Parmalee of the Illinois State Museum. In 1980, Karli White and Bonnie Styles (Illinois State Museum) re-examined the 1953 identifications, augmented the identifications, and entered them into a database.


Modoc Rock Shelter, IL (11R5)-1956 West Shelter Gastropod dataset (1956)
DATASET James L. Theler. Mona Colburn.

Gastropod remains from the 1956 field season deep excavation in the West Shelter area. Gastropods were recovered via either hand picking or screening through 1/4" (6.4mm) mesh. In 1991, a sample of 1956 strata was chosen by Steven R. Ahler to represent a contiguous cross-section of the 1956 excavations. The gastropod samples from the 1956 excavation were identified and analyzed by James L. Theler (University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse). In 2015, Mona Colburn (Illinois State Museum) entered data...


Modoc Rock Shelter, IL (11R5)-1980 Fauna dataset-West Shelter 1/16 inch waterscreen (1980)
DATASET Mona Colburn. Bonnie Styles. James R. Purdue.

This data set contains the faunal data recovered by 1/16 inch waterscreening during the 1980 excavations conducted at Modoc Rock Shelter (11R5). Modoc Rock Shelter is in the central Mississippi River valley in Randolph County, Illinois. The site is on the National Register of Historic Places and is a National Historic Landmark. Excavation was conducted by Bonnie Styles, Melvin Fowler, and Steven Ahler under the auspices of the Illinois State Museum and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee....


Modoc Rock Shelter, IL (11R5)-1980 Fauna dataset-West Shelter 1/4 inch waterscreen (1980)
DATASET Mona Colburn. Bonnie Styles. Holly Ann Carr.

This data set contains the faunal data recovered with 1/4 inch waterscreening during the 1980 excavations conducted at Modoc Rock Shelter (11R5). Modoc Rock Shelter is in the central Mississippi River valley in Randolph County, Illinois. The site is on the National Register of Historic Places and is a National Historic Landmark. Excavation was conducted by Bonnie Styles, Melvin Fowler, and Steven Ahler under the auspices of the Illinois State Museum and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee....


Modoc Rock Shelter, IL (11R5)-1980 West Shelter-Snails in 4 liter-Stratigraphic Samples (1980)
DATASET Mona Colburn. James L. Theler.

The 1980 excavations at Modoc Rock Shelter collected an approximately 4 liter sediment sample from each of the major stratigraphic zones exposed in the profiles in the West Shelter for malacological analysis. David Baerreis (University of Wisconsin, Madison) and James Theler (University of Wisconsin, Madison) and identified an analyzed the gastropods recorded in this database.


Modoc Rock Shelter, IL (11R5)-1980-West Shelter Units C, D, and F-Snails in Flot Samples (1980)
DATASET Mona Colburn. James L. Theler.

The database includes gastropods identified and analyzed by James Theler (University of Wisconsin, Madison). The gastropods were recovered in the heavy fraction from flotation samples, usually 15 liters in volume, from Excavation Units C, D, and F from the 1980 excavations in the West Shelter at Modoc Rock Shelter.


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

This data set contains the vertebrate and freshwater mussel data excavated in 1984 from the East Pillar and processed with 1/4" waterscreening. The East Pillar is located within the Main Shelter area of Modoc; it includes Units G, H, and J (no bones were identified from J). Vertebrate remains were identified by Mona Colburn using the Illinois State Museum Osteological Comparative Collection, and checked by Dr. Bonnie Styles. Freshwater mussels were identified by Bonnie Styles and verified...


Modoc Rock Shelter, IL (11R5)-1984 Main Trench 1/4" Fauna (1984)
DATASET Mona Colburn. Bonnie Styles.

This data set contains the vertebrate and molluscan remains excavated in 1984 from the Main Trench, and processed with 1/4" water-screening. The Main Trench, which is located within the Main Shelter area of Modoc, includes Units A, B, I, C, and E. 1984 excavations were funded by the National Science Foundation. Vertebrate remains were identified by Mona Colburn using the Osteological Collections of the Illinois State Museum; and checked by Dr. Bonnie Styles. Bivalves were identified by...