Midden (Site Type Keyword)

Parent: Archaeological Feature

An archaeological refuse deposit containing the broken or discarded remains of human activities. Use more specific term(s) if possible.

4,126-4,150 (4,152 Records)

Wet Screening (2010)
IMAGE Stephanie Barrante. Victoria Hawley. Jessica Hughes.

Images illustrating the use of an on-site wet screening operation to maximize artifact recovery at the site of Fort St. Joseph, 2006-2010.


What Are Burnt Rock Mounds of Texas? (1942)
DOCUMENT Citation Only J. Charles Kelley. T. U. Campbell.

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.


What is a Shell Midden? Data Recovery Excavations of Thom's Creek and Deptford Shell Middens, 38BU2, Spring Island, South Carolina (1994)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Christopher T. Espenshade. Linda Kennedy. Bobby G. Southerlin. David Lawrence. David C. Jones.

Data recovery excavations were conducted at five shell midden loci of site 38BU2, Spring Island, Beaufort County, South Carolina. The excavations included: four by four m blocks in three Deptford phase middens; a four by four m block in a Thom's Creek midden; a six by six m block in a Deptford midden; and two exploratory one by one m units in other Deptford middens. The analyses included detailed zooarchaeological and ethnobotanical studies, an investigation of oyster source environment and...


Whelan Lake (CA-SDI-6010): A La Jollan Campsite on the Lower San Luis Rey River, San Diego County, California (1993)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Rein Vanderpot. Jeffrey Altschul. Donn R. Grenda.

This report details the results of archaeological test excavations conducted in August, 1991, by Statistical Research, Inc., at the Whelan Lake site (CA-SDI 6010). Whelan Lake is an early La Jollan campsite dating between 6500 and 7400 B.P. The site is a moderately dense shell midden situated on a knoll overlooking the San Luis Rey River about 7 km upstream from the coast. The midden has a roughly oval shape and measures 90 m by 60 m. Over 200 m of backhoe trenches and 17 m 2 of test pits were...


When Trash Becomes Treasure: A Postclassic Maya Obsidian Core Cache from Nojpeten (2014)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Angela McArdle.

This paper examines an obsidian cache offering excavated near the corner of a Postclassic Maya platform structure in Nojpeten, on the island of Flores, Guatemala. The cache consists of approximately 190 obsidian prismatic blade cores and core fragments, but the original number of cores placed in the cache likely fell between 173 and 182, with a best estimate of 177, 178, or 180. The cores were found about 20 cm southwest of the structure in a circular concentration measuring approximately 35 cm...


Where the Rivers Converge, Roosevelt Platform Mound Study: Report on the Rock Island Complex (1995)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Owen Lindauer.

This report is the second site description volume for the Roosevelt Platform Mound Study. This volume describes the four sites investigated in the Rock Island Complex by the Roosevelt Platform Mound Study. It also presents some of the analyses and integrated conclusions that address the project's research objectives established by the Bureau of Reclamation and Tonto National Forest archaeologists and outlined in our research design. This volume primarily describes a single large site,...


Where the Rivers Converge: Report on the Rock Island Complex (1995)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Owen Lindauer.

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...


White Bend Site, IL (11HA938) Faunal Database REVISED 2 (2016)
DATASET Steven Kuehn.

Middle Archaic and Late Archaic faunal assemblage from the White Bend Site (11HA938), Hancock County, Illinois. Recovery methods included 1/4" mesh and flotation. Fauna identified by Steven Kuehn. This version of the file was used by the EAFWG.


White Bend Site, IL (11HA938) Project
PROJECT Uploaded by: Steven Kuehn

The White Bend site (11HA938) is located along the east bank of the West Fork of the LaMoine River valley bottomland near the confluence of an intermittent stream in eastern Hancock County in west-central Illinois. The Illinois State Archaeological Survey of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (formerly the Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program) conducted Phase III excavations at the site in in 2006 and 2007 and recovered faunal materials from Archaic occupations...


The White Lakes Drop Zone Survey: A Cultural Resource Survey for an Aerial Drop Zone for Kirtland Air Force Base along US 285 near White Lakes, New Mexico (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Lucas C. Kellett. Valerie Renner.

Between January and March 2005, a cultural resource survey was conducted on state owned land along US 285 in south Santa Fe County near White Lakes, New Mexico. The survey was completed under the request of Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Valerie Renner, Cultural Resource Manager at Kirtland Air Force Base, organized the survey of approximately 1000 acres on state land, with the aid of an archaeologist, Lucas C. Kellett, who is permitted to do archaeological survey...


Wildcat Hill Pithouse Village Site A4 Arizona Site Steward File (1997)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Brittany Clark

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Wildcat Hill Pithouse Village Site A4, located on State Trust land. The site is comprised of a pit house village with masonry features and a trash midden. The file consists of a site data form. The earliest dated document is from 1997.


Williams Site and Central Texas Archeology (1959)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Dee Ann Suhm.

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.


Willow Creek Trail Ruin Arizona Site Steward File (1991)
DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Scott Wood. E. Morgan. T. Bone.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for Willow Creek Trail Ruin, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site consists of a Hohokam room block with accompanying agricultural rock piles, terrace, checkdams, artifact scatter, cemetery, and petroglyphs. Additional features may include roasting pits and a sleeping circle. However, site descriptions vary greatly including in the number and configuration of rooms. The file consists of a heritage inventory form, cultural resources preliminary...


The Willow Lake Site: Archaeological Investigations in Willow & Watson Lakes Park, Prescott, Arizona (2006)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: adam brin

Between October 2002 and April 2003, Logan Simpson Design Inc. (LSD) conducted archaeological excavations at six prehistoric Prescott Culture sites around Willow and Watson Lakes, situated in the Granite Dells, a picturesque area of exposed granite bedrock located approximately 6.5 to 8 km (4 to 5 miles) north of the city of Prescott. The results of these excavations and the specialized studies of recovered artifacts and cultural samples are presented herein and, it is hoped, contribute to an...


Willow Spring Grazing Improvement. 16PP (1977)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Russell L. Kaldenberg.

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.


Winona Village Arizona Site Steward File (1990)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter J. Pilles.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file that contains the Winona Village site, located on Coconino National Forest and privately owned land. The site is comprised of pithouse villages, pueblos, a kiva, a ball court, both sheet and mound trash middens, and multiple human burials. The file consists of 12 site data forms.


Wittrock Excavations: Implications For the Study of Cultural Process Within the Initial Variant of the Middle Missouri Tradition (1986)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Duane C. Anderson.

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.


Women of New France - Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project Booklet Series, No. 1 (2011)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Western Michigan University - Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project.

The women of New France—French, Native, and métis—were active agents in a global process of colonization that led to interaction, conflict, and cooperation among peoples who participated in different cultural traditions, social institutions, and daily practices. In the course of migration from the Old World across the Atlantic, women helped to create the social, economic, and political conditions that fostered a French presence over a vast region for nearly two centuries. Documentary and...


Women of New France Panels (2010)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Western Michigan University - Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project.

Series of interpretive panels created for the 2010 Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project Open House. Individual panel themes are: Women of New France, Needle Arts, Clothing and Dress, Cooking, Music, Dance, and Diversions, Education and Literacy, Women in Trade and Diplomacy, and Women and Servitude.


The woodside component of the Slone Site, Pike County, Kentucky (1971)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert C. Dunnell. Lee H. Hanson. Donald L. Hardesty. Bettye J. Broyles.

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.


Work Plan for Conducting Data Collection and Site Stabilization for Four Endangered Archaeological Sites (LA 38136, LA 38910, LA 112472, and LA 148019) Located on Lands Owned by the US Air Force and on Cibola National Forest Lands Withdrawn to Kirtland Air Force Base (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text James D. Gallison. David J. Kilby.

Work plan for site stabilization of four sites threatened by either erosion or construction at Kirtland Air Force Base.


Worked Bone Catalog (1996)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Statistical Research, Inc.

Worked bone inventory showing individual attributes of each analyzed artifact.


Yamisevul: An Archaeological Treatment Plan and Testing Report for CA-RIV-269, Riverside County, California (1987)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey Altschul. Steven D. Shelley.

Limited archaeological testing and archival research was conducted on three cultural resources located along Mission Creek in Riverside County, California. All three resources are located on land formerly belonging to the Mission Creek Indian Reservation. Two of the resources, the Kitchen/Thomas settlement complex and a subterranean stone structure, were occupied by former residents of the reservation during the early portion of the twentieth century. The third resource, CA-RIV-269, consists of...


Young Bay Midden Cultural Resource Investigations (1982)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen Swanson. Stanley D. Davis.

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.


Yuma City River Park/Yuma Territorial Prison Historic Trash Dump Site (2001)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael A. Freisinger.

A historic trash dump site was discovered by the City of Yuma while excavating a handicap access sidewalk for a washroom facility building below the Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park and a City River Park. The excavation area is partially on City property and State Land (Arizona State Parks). The area of concern is in a recently excavated cut-bank containing historic trash; large mammal bones (cow), glass, metal, porcelain, and ceramics. Approximately 10-15 artifacts and 50+ bones and...