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DOCUMENT Full-Text Andrew Beaupré.

My research examines archaeologically recovered artifacts and documentary sources to gain an understanding of the role that religious material culture played on the French colonial frontier, ca. 1608-1763. This study revisits the claims made by Rinehart (1990), stating that religious items are more likely to be recovered from the archaeological record at sites near Jesuit missions. I examined a large portion of the French colonial archaeological literature and located 30 sites that have yielded...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Theodore J. Oliver. David Jacobs.

This two-part report is the seventh and final site description volume for the Roosevelt Platform Mound Study, an eight-year archaeological research project in the Tonto Basin of central Arizona that began in April 1989. It was funded by the Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior, and was conducted by the Office of Cultural Resource Management in the Department of Anthropology at Arizona State University. The work was performed under a permit from the Tonto National Forest. The...

PROJECT USDI Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office.

This project presents a series of publications associated with the Salt-Gila Aqueduct Archaeological Data Collection Studies and Supplemental Class III Survey Project (SGA). The research focused on data recovery at those sites potentially subject to impact as a consequence of Central Arizona Project construction. Salt-Gila Aqueduct Central Arizona Project construction occured along a route extending 97 km from a point south of Apache Junction, Arizona, to the Picacho Reservoir. Significant...

PROJECT USDI Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office.

The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) assisted the San Xavier District of the Tohono O'odham Nation with the construction of an extension of the Central Arizona Project (CAP) pipeline on reservation lands along the Santa Cruz River. The pipeline corridor crosses Loci F and H of AZ BB:13:16(ASM), a Hohokam occupation zone with many pithouses and other structures, varied pits, trash areas, and possibly human remains. Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) provided the labor,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Gay M. Kinkade.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the 1936 Sanchez Civilian Conservation Corps Camp, comprised of concrete and masonry walls, cobble walkways, and trash dumps, located on Bureau of Land Management land. The file consists of a site data form. The earliest dated document is from 1995.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bryan Haley. Jay Johnson.

A geophysical survey of a portion of the Old Mobile site (1MB94) was conducted on December 13-16, 2004, by the University of Mississippi's Center for Archaeological Research under contract with the University of South Alabama's Center for Archaeological Studies. The specific goal of the survey was to delineate features associated with Fort Louis de la Mobile, which stood on or near this site from 1702 to 1711. Survey techniques included electrical resistance and ground penetrating radar. Work...

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Settlement Dynamics on a Transitional Landscape: Investigations of Cultural Resources for the State Route 77 - Snowflake Passing Lanes Project, Navajo County, Arizona describes the results of investigations of seven prehistoric and historic sites along State Route 77 north of Snowflake, in Navajo County, Arizona. Between August 2009 and June 2012, fieldwork was conducted in three phases in advance of the construction of passing lanes and culvert extensions. Seven sites, with artifacts or...

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Investigations of 20 prehistoric and historic sites in the Globe-Miami area were undertaken as the result of plans for the realignment of State Route 88 (SR 88) between Tonto National Monument and the junction of US 60 in the Globe-Miami area, Gila County. Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) carried out this study under contract to the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT). Fieldwork was conducted on ADOT right-of-way on the Tonto National Forest (Forest) with special-use...

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Between April 1998 and April 2005, Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) conducted investigations of prehistoric and historic sites along State Route 188 (SR 188; formerly SR 88) from the junction of US 60 to Wheatfields, and from Hicks Wash to Tonto National Monument (TNM) in Gila County. These excavations were carried out under contract to the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) as part of the agency’s reconstruction and realignment of SR 88/188 between the US 60 junction near...

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Under the sponsorship of the Bureau of Reclamation, the New Waddell Dam Borrow Areas Mitigative Data Recovery Project, more simply known as the Waddell Project, performed data recovery at 17 sites in the vicinity of Lake Pleasant, Arizona. Supplemental surveys conducted under the same contract added two sites to the inventory slated for investigation. The project area, composed of multiple survey areas, was spread across two drainages, the Agua Fria and New River, in what is considered the...

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Archaeological and historical studies were undertaken by Desert Archaeology, Inc., selected and procured via a professional services procurement process approved by the FAA, to address legal compliance of the City of Phoenix Community Noise Reduction Program (CNRP) with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. The purpose of the CNRP is to offer noise mitigation services to residential neighborhoods most severely impacted by noise from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. The...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kevin Boness. Al Hendricks. John Madsen. Keith Pajkos. E. Pasanea. Ken Rozen.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Sheep Hill site, comprised of Sinagua pit houses and a field house with accompanying artifact scatter, located on State Trust land. The file consists of 11 Arizona State Museum archaeological survey forms. The earliest dated document is from 1986.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Arthur Vokes.

This appendix summaries the shell material recovered from the Lake Elsinore excavations. A sample of 1418 fragmentary and approximately 1018 specimens. The great majority of these are freshwater gastropods; although a number of marine taxa are well represented in the sample.

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Faunal data sets from the Green River, Kentucky, Archaic sites, including shell mounds or middens and non-shell middens.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Lauren Jelinek

Shelltown (AZ AA: 1:66[ASM]) and the Hind site (AZ AA: 1:62[ASM]) were small, surprisingly uncommon prehistoric settlements inhabited by members of the Hohokam culture in south-central Arizona between the early 8th and late 10th centuries A.D. Although they seem relatively large now – the Hind site is approximately 20 acres and Shelltown is a protean 178 acres – neither site appears to have been occupied by more than a couple of extended families at any one point in time. However, at Shelltown,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Nancy Asch Sidell.

Report on macrobotanical remains recovered from five privies at the Sheridan Hollow Parking Facility site. Sidell's report was included as an appendix to the Sheridan Hollow Parking Facility site data recovery report.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark Hackbarth.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for Shoger Ruin, located on State Trust land. The site is comprised of an agricultural filed with rock piles and alignments, isolated cobble structures, a compound structure, plaza, trash middens, possible roasting mounds, canal, and artifact scatter. The file consists of an Arizona State Museum archaeological site card, two maps of the site location, criminal damage report, hand drawn site map, photo log, and 15 color photographs of potholes. The earliest...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lori S. Hawthorne-Tagg.

This report is a follow-up to a survey and evaluation of Cold War military archaeological sites in Maneuver Areas 1 through 8 on Fort Bliss (Hawthorne-Tagg 2001). Whereas the first project focused on Fort Bliss’ maneuver areas, the current report documents the role of McGregor Range within the Army’s Military-Industrial context of the Cold War. The project objectives included (1) preparing a historical context of McGregor Range in the Cold War period and (2) locating and documenting cultural...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Connie L. Stone.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for Site 74, comprised of a rock shelter with accompanying midden and sherd and lithic scatter, located on Bureau of Land Management land. The file consists of a site data form and map of the site location. The earliest dated document is from 2002.

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In 2013, Pima County planned to construct a temporary channel in a small City of Tucson parcel along the northwestern margin of Los Pozos, AZ AA:12:91 (ASM). A limited data recovery program conducted in the parcel revealed a new portion of a known paleochannel complex related to the Santa Cruz River eastern floodplain and a small area with Hohokam era features, including several burials and a possible ceramic kiln. The discovery of these significant cultural features, with the potential to...

IMAGE Gregory Waselkov. Bonnie L. Gums. George W. Shorter, Jr.. Diane Silvia.

Site overview photos from the Old Mobile site (1MB94) and a map.

IMAGE Ann Mesrobian.

Sketch map of site 41BX1015, Camp Bullis, Texas. Included are site boundaries and some topographical information.

IMAGE Janee Taylor.

Sketch map of site 41BX1024, High Hills and Lewis Spring (Area 4C), Camp Bullis, Texas. Specifically detailed is a trash scatter in association with the site. Included are site boundaries, archaeological features, artifact locations, and some topographical information.

IMAGE Bonnie Rose. Tom Dureka.

Sketch map of site 41BX1024, High Hills and Lewis Spring (Area 4C), Camp Bullis, Texas. Included are site boundaries, archaeological features, artifact locations, and some topographical information.

IMAGE Jonathan Grant.

Site plan of 41BX1365, Camp Bullis, Texas. Included are site boundaries and some archaeological and topographical features.