Prehistoric (Culture Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Bruce Bevan

Conductivity survey for Donald J. Ortner and Bruno Frolich (Smithsonian) at the site of Bab edh-Dhra, near the Dead Sea, in Jordan.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jennifer Bedell.

While on Ossabaw Island conducting a survey for the Boarding House at the North End of the Island, members of the Archaeology Unit of the Historic Preservation Division of Department of Natural Resources decided to conduct a site assessment of a known burial site that has been eroding from the bank of Newell Creek. It was evident upon inspection that a pit feature was clearly visible in the bank profile (Figure 1). Jennifer Bedell and Ryan Kennedy cleaned up the profile to find a very...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Glennda Gene Luhnow.

Maricopa County Department of Transportation (MCDOT) plans to improve Northern Avenue to be a parkway in the Phoenix metropolitan area where no freeways are planned. At the request of Mr. Robin Shishido of Parsons, a cultural resource assessment of the project area of potential effects (APE) was conducted by Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS). The purpose of the cultural resource assessment was to identify any historic properties in the APE that could be affected by the undertaking...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Gregory Katz. Jason Shellenhamer.

The attached document includes the final report for the Phase I Archaeological Survey on the North Bank of Pine Hill Run, Naval Air Station Patuxent River, St. Mary's County, MD. On behalf of the Department of the Navy, Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Washington, The Louis Berger Group, Inc. (LBG), conducted a Phase I archaeological survey of three areas on the north side of Pine Hill Run at Naval Air Station Patuxent River (NAS Pax River), St. Mary’s County, Maryland (Figure 1)....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ray Pasquariello. James A. Clark. Gregory R. Dubell.

This is the final version of this report. This is volume 2 of 2 and includes appendices I-V including, qualifications of key personnel, survey block maps, artifact catalog, shovel test pit records, New Jersey State Museum site registration forms. TRC Environmental Corporation (TRC) conducted a Planning Level (Phase I) Cultural Resource Survey of approximately 162 hectares (400 acres) of selected, discontiguous Tactical Training Areas (TACs) on Fort Dix, New Jersey between December 2003 and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ray Pasquariello. James A. Clark. Gregory R. Dubell.

This version of the report is the final version. it is volume 1 of 2. TRC Environmental Corporation (TRC) conducted a Planning Level (Phase I) Cultural Resource Survey of approximately 162 hectares (400 acres) of selected, discontiguous Tactical Training Areas (TACs) on Fort Dix, New Jersey between December 2003 and March 2004. The purpose of the Phase 1 survey was to locate and identify any potentially significant cultural resources in portions of TACs 1D, 1E, 2A, 2B, 2C, 3A, 3B, 3C, 5A,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter Pagoulatos.

In 2004, a planning level (Phase I) survey was completed at the Fort Dix Military Installation in Burlington and Ocean Counties, New Jersey. Since 1995, Fort Dix has undertaken a long-term investigation to identify, evaluate, prioritize, and manage archaeological resources at the installation. A stratified research methodology was initially employed by placing standardized sampling units into zones of high and low sensitivity. Areas of high and low archaeological sensitivity consisted of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joseph Alotto. Gregory Boster. Nickolas Gervasoni. Keith Giacobozzi. Guilliam Hurte. Sarah Swanson.

This collection is referred to as “Archaeological Excavations for the Jenkins House Site (46CB41) 2002-2003.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is twenty six (26) linear inches. The documents date from 2002-2013. The investigation occurred in 2002, which explains the date in the investigation name. The range of dates includes analysis and report records. This collection was originally housed in acidic folders...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kelly O'Con.

This collection is referred to as "Brookville Reservoir Survey 1991-1992.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is one and a quarter (1.25) linear inches. The documents for this collection were acquired from human remains analysis boxes associated with the Brookville Reservoir Survey 1991-992 artifact investigation. The collection consisted solely of analysis records for Glidewell Mound (12FR24) with no oversized...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Tammie J. Bush.

The linear extent of this collection is 15 inches of paper, 9 inches of photographic materials and less than 1 inch of oversize materials. The MCX-CMAC utilizes the standard archival practice of unique naming of collections. The purpose of this is to avoid redundant and confusing collection names commonly found with archaeological investigations. Therefore, this collection is referred to as "Cooper Lake, 1970.” This naming practice is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folder...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Amy S. McPherson.

The MCX-CMAC utilizes the standard archival practice of unique naming of collections. The purpose of this is to avoid redundant and confusing collection names commonly found with archaeological investigations. Therefore, this collection is referred to as "Four Disposal Areas, Three Water-Control Structures and a Portion of the Tallahatchie River.” This naming practice is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folder titles, and box labels. The linear extent of this collection is one (1)...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Rein Vanderpot. Teresita Majewski.

In the Spring of 1994, Statistical Research, Inc., conducted an archaeological study of the Apache scouts at Fort Huachuca. The project was completed under contract with Fort Huachuca and funded by a Legacy Resource Management Program grant awarded to Fort Huachuca by the Department of Defense. Most of the investigations focused on AZ EE:7:115 (ASM), a site comprising three distinct components: (1) a small, Formative- period prehistoric component; (2) a turn-of-the-century trash dump; and (3)...

DATASET Dean Snow.

Excel sheet containing data on the artifacts and sample recovered from the Fort Ann Quarry Site as part of the Lake George Regional Survey Project.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Dean Snow.

Fort Ann Quarry Site Catalog Guide and Survey Reports & Notes.

IMAGE Dean Snow.

Maps related to the Fort Ann Quarry Site of the Lake George Regional Survey Project.

PROJECT Dean Snow.

The Fort Ann Quarry Site was sampled in order to provide the laboratory crew with a range of Fort Ann chert samples. These were later used to classify raw materials found at Harrisena and other sites in the Lake George Project area. Fort Ann chert occurs at several locations in the eastern part of the Lake George Project area and unfortunately, more than one of these are locally referred to as "the Fort Ann Quarry" (additional information on these sites can be found in the Fort Ann Quarry Site...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Andrea Gerstle. Thomas C. Kelly. Cristi Assad.

The archaeological and historical investigations reported here result from a contract between the Fort Worth District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the Center for Archaeological Research, The University of Texas at San Antonio (Contract #DACA 63-77-6-0081). During this project, Thomas R. Hester served as principal investigator, with Dr. Joel Gunn as co-principal investigator. The archaeological field director, Thomas C. Kelly, his co-workers Andrea Gerstle and Cristi Assad, and the other...

IMAGE R. Christopher Goodwin and Associates.

Illustration of a foundation wall from Old Baltimore, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, US

PROJECT US Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg District. US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District. Charles E. Pearson.

The first step in the rehousing process is to obtain copies of cultural resource reports, artifact catalog sheets, and field notes pertaining to the collections from the St. Louis District archivist processing the archival collection. The analytical techniques employed by each organization to recover and process the collections were reviewed to gain familiarity with the archaeological work that had been conducted on the sites. The investigation, titled Tallahatchie River Survey, came to St....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael W. Diehl.

The City of Tucson is considering plans to develop the Rio Nuevo South property, a roughly 36-acre parcel of land located along the west bank of the Santa Cruz River near the downtown area. Although the parcel is presently vacant, archaeological testing and historic document research indicate that it was first used around 1000 B.C., and that its use continued intermittently through the present day. Based on the results of preliminary testing (Ahlstrom et al. 1994; Elson and Doelle 1987; Thiel...

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This project contains an artifact catalog and survey photographs from the examination of multiple sites during second quarter site updates, fiscal year 2011, at Fort Lee, Virginia.

PROJECT Uploaded by: Courtney Williams

This report includes discussions of rock art recording and analysis, and the archaeological test excavations in two small rockshelters on the Fort Huachuca military reservation. The area was occupied on repeated occasions (not permanently) as a temporary camp used while exploiting mammals and possibly wild plant foods during the 13th century.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey Altschul. Marie Cottrell. Clement W. Meighan. Ronald Towner.

This report includes discussions of rock art recording and analysis, and the archaeological test excavations in two small rockshelters on the Fort Huachuca military reservation. The area was occupied on repeated occasions (not permanently) as a temporary camp used while exploiting mammals and possibly wild plant foods during the 13th century.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven De Vore.

The National Park Service’s Midwest Archeological Center and Effigy Mounds National Monument staffs with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate student and the Volunteer-In-Parks participants conducted geophysical investigations at the Nezekaw Terrace Mound Group (Site 13AM82) located on the Effigy Mounds National Monument in Allamakee County, Iowa. The geophysical investigations were conducted between June 8 and 14, 2008. The archeological investigations were requested by an anthropology...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Nicholas Honerkamp. Morgan R. Crook, Jr..

“We can’t swing a shovel without waking someone up.” This statement, made by a Gullah-Geechee resident of the Hog Hammock community on Sapelo Island, Georgia, is important for two reasons. First, it speaks to an increasingly common problem occurring at the Island’s Behavior Cemetery: the presence of unmarked graves and disturbances to them from attempts to dig new graves. Second, it provided the impetus for a community-driven program of mortuary archaeological research at Behavior by the...