Trash Midden (Site Type Keyword)
Parent: Midden
A substantial concentration of refuse, built up as a result of multiple episodes of deposition.
776-788 (788 Records)
Images illustrating the use of an on-site wet screening operation to maximize artifact recovery at the site of Fort St. Joseph, 2006-2010.
When Trash Becomes Treasure: A Postclassic Maya Obsidian Core Cache from Nojpeten (2014)
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: Report on the Rock Island Complex (1995)
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 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)
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)
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.
Willow Creek Trail Ruin Arizona Site Steward File (1991)
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)
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...
Winona Village Arizona Site Steward File (1990)
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.
Women of New France - Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project Booklet Series, No. 1 (2011)
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)
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.
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)
Work plan for site stabilization of four sites threatened by either erosion or construction at Kirtland Air Force Base.
Worked Bone Catalog (1996)
Worked bone inventory showing individual attributes of each analyzed artifact.
Zion Pueblo Arizona Site Steward File (2002)
This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Zion Pueblo, located on State Trust land. The file consists of an AZSITE Site Form. The earliest dated document is from 2002.