Ancestral Puebloan (Culture Keyword)
5,201-5,225 (7,426 Records)
Addressing archaeology’s most compelling substantive challenges requires synthetic research that exploits the large and rapidly expanding corpus of systematically collected archaeological data. That, in turn, demands an integration procedure that preserves the semantics of the data when combining datasets collected by multiple investigators who employ different systematics in their recording. To that end, we have developed a general procedure that we call query-directed, on-the-fly data...
Data Recovery at Five Archaeological Sites in the Warm Springs Project Area, Washington City, Washington County, UT (2018)
This report presents HRA's final data recovery investigations at four prehistoric sites (42WS1748, 42WS4465, 42WS4718, 42WS4472 and 44WS4474) located on the north side of Washington City, in Washington County, Utah. A single pithouse at the fifth site, Obsidian Cache Pithouse (42WS4474), was excavated several years earlier between February and April of 2006. These five sites were excavated to recover the important information prior to the construction of residential housing development. The...
Data Recovery for Five Archeological Sites Desert View Road Realignment Grand Canyon National Park (2008)
Archeologists from the National Park Service, Western Archeological and Conservation Center (WACC), conducted archeological investigations at five sites that will be affected by the proposed re-alignment of Desert View Road at Grand Canyon National Park. Fieldwork during June of 2000 included the relocation, mapping, and testing of these sites, as well as data recovery. The analysis and cataloging of all recovered materials were accomplished during the summer and fall of the same year. This...
Data Recovery Investigations at Four Archaeological Sites in the Sandy Talus/Sienna Project Area in Washington City, Washington County, UT (2021)
In the fall and spring of 2018 HRA Inc., Conservation Archaeology (HRA) excavated three archaeological sites (42WS1802, 42WS1804, and 42WS4458) and the northern half of a fourth site (42WS1803). The work was conducted at the request of the State of Utah, School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration (SITLA). The purpose of the investigations was to mitigate impacts to the sites related to the development of new housing. The sites are in the Sandy Talus/Sienna Hills Residential Development...
Data Table: Lead Isotope Ratios for Glaze Paints and Mineral Pigments from Cañada Alamosa Project. (2024)
Data table including over Pb204 and over Pb206 ratio data from glaze paints and mineral pigments on pottery recovered from the Cañada Alamosa Project (Karl and Toni Laumbach, PIs). (PDF format; Excel file available upon request.)
Dates Associated with Excavated Sites (2012)
Chronometric dates obtained from excavations on Perry Mesa (after Fierro et al. 1980:259; Gummerman et al. 1975:31)
Days in the Painted Desert and the Petrified Forests of Northern Arizona: Contributions to the Archeology of Petrified Forest National Park 1988-1992 (1993)
This report presents the results of several archeological projects conducted at Petrified Forest National Park between the fall of 1988 and the spring of 1992. Projects include survey of large areas of the park, salvage of two eroding burials, collection of a basket, and initiation of a program of archeological site monitoring. Although preliminary information about these projects is on file at the Western Archeological and Conservation Center in Tucson, this report compiles the results and...
Dead Horse Ranch State Park: An Archeological Overview (1988)
On February 27, 1974, the Arizona State Parks Board adopted a Master Plan for Dead Horse State Ranch. The park covers some 320 acres. Though the proposed development plan has been altered on several occasions, it has included the construction of three man-made lakes for public fishing, the preservation of natural wildlife habitats and archaeological sites with appropriate interpretive programs, as well as the creation of hiking trails to afford recreational opportunities. Camping areas with...
Decorated ceramic jar data - Chapter 6 (2019)
Decorated jar data from Chapter 6. This dataset includes vessel provenience, ware, type, portion, volume, rim form, and rim diameter information for all decorated jar sherds and reconstructable vessels.
Department of Energy/Central Technical Authority (DOE/CTA) Live Fire Range Expansion: A Cultural Resources Survey (1991)
This report covers the results of a survey prior to the live fire range expansion. Six sites and several isolated finds were found. Three of the sites were determined to require fencing off while all of the sites were flagged for avoidance.
A Design for Salado Research (1990)
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...
Developing Perspectives on Tonto Basin Prehistory (1992)
This volume is the second in the Roosevelt Monograph Series and is based on papers presented by members of the research team of the Roosevelt Platform Mound Study at a symposium held at the Society for American Archaeology annual meeting in New Orleans in the spring of 1991. Three additional chapters have been added based on papers presented elsewhere during that year. We are grateful to the authors for their contributions and their early insights on the data recovered in the early phases of the...
Diagram of Proposed Construction Sequence at Pueblo la Plata (2005)
Map series showing proposed stages of construction at Pueblo la Plata
Dietary Change at Lower Pescado Village (NM12-I109) (1997)
Identification of all faunal osteological material from Lower Pescado Village on the Zuni Indian Reservation, including bone tools and a few specimens of human bone, was conducted using the vertebrate comparative collections at the Thomas Burke Memorial Washington Stale Museum at the University of Washington, and the Puget Sound Museum of Natural History at the University of Puget Sound, in concert with published criteria for distinguishing between closely related taxa (see Descriptive Summary...
DIETARY INFERENCES FROM HOY HOUSE COPROLITES: A PALYNOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION (1978)
The pollen analysis of 59 coprolites from Hoy House and Lion House in Johnson Canyon, Colorado, has yielded information concerning the diet of the Anasazi living at these sites during PIII times. Based on combined pollen and macro-floral analyses, the diet appears to be composed primarily of the cultigens Zea, Cucurbita, and Phaseolus, with heavy reliance on the possibly encouraged Cleome, and other manipulated or wild plants including the Cheno-ams, Oryzopsis, Physalis , and the Umbelliferae ....
Digitizing The Anasazi Origins Project: A Geodatabase (2013)
Archaeology is faced with the inheritance problem of managing legacy collections, partly due to the high expense of maintaining them. Often these datasets are unorganized, thus rendering them underutilized, and difficult to properly preserve or to integrate into the current archaeological dialogue. Unfortunately, this problem is a common issue. To address this problem, an examination of the condition of the records and artifacts of legacy archaeological collections is needed. In this thesis,...
Documentation for Chapters in Prehistory of Eastern Arizona, II (1964)
This document is a catalog of all the stone, bone, shell and baked clay artifacts recovered at the Carter Ranch Site during the two seasons, 1961-1962, by the Southwest Archaeological Expedition of the Chicago Natural History Museum. A generalized description and specific dimensions of individual specimens are given along with other details. In addition, detailed site maps, showing the distribution of 175 elements of pottery designs at the Carter Ranch Site used in the analysis of stylistic...
Documentation for Prehistoric Investigations in the Upper Little Colorado Drainage, Eastern Arizona (1961)
This report contains statistical and descriptive data that resulted form the excavation of eight villages and the reconnaissance of one hundred and seventy sites in east central Arizona. This information was gathered during 1959 and 1960 by the Southwest Archaeological Expeditions of the Chicago Natural History Museum under the leadership of Dr. Paul S. Martin. The sites investigated during this expedition included the Hooper Ranch Pueblo, the Rim Valley Pueblo, the Thode Site, three small...
Documentation for Some Late Mogollon Sites in the Upper Little Colorado Drainage, Eastern Arizona (1960)
This report includes the documentary materials pertaining to an archaeological reconnaissance and to the excavating of two archaeological sites in east central Arizona. This work was accomplished in 1959 by the Southwest Archaeological Expedition of the Chicago Natural History Museum. Classification, measurements, and proveniences of all stone and bone tools; complete pottery counts by rooms and levels; and a description of all sites observed on the archaeological survey are included...
Documentation of Chapters in Prehistory of Eastern Arizona, III (1966)
The data published herewith present all details of all artifacts excavated at Broken K Pueblo, Arizona, during the season of 1963. The descriptions include name of type; descriptive details, such as measurements, frequency of each type, find-spot; and complete rendering of all counts of potsherds by types, by levels and by provenience. These materials were recovered by the Southwest Archaeological Expedition of the Field Museum of Natural History under the direction of Martin, Hill, and...
The Dolores Archaeological Program
From 1978 until 1985 the University of Colorado contracted with the Bureau of Reclamation (Contract No. 8-07-40-S0562) to mitigate the adverse impact of a large water impoundment project on the cultural resources in the project area. This complex and evolving long-term mitigation plan known as the Dolores Archaeological Program (DAP) has been called a “truly unique chapter in American archaeology” (Breternitz 1993:118) and was applauded by Lipe (1998:2) for its ability to “increase the power and...
Dolores Archaeological Program Technical Reports, DAP-001: Introduction to Field Investigations and Analysis (1981)
In 1978, the University of Colorado began field operations for the Dolores Project Cultural Resources Mitigation Program. The Bureau of Reclamation funded the Program before constructing a multipurpose water storage and distribution system on the Dolores River. Before field investigations, a general research design was formulated that had five major problem domains: economy and adaptation, paleodemography, social organization and settlement pattern, foreign relationships, and cultural process,...
Dolores Archaeological Program Technical Reports, DAP-059: Additive Technologies Group Midlevel Research Design (1983)
The Dolores Archaeological Program's Additive Technologies Group analyzes ceramic and worked vegetal artifacts. Preliminary analyses are carried out for each material class to provide descriptive data for inventory control and field reports. Ceramic data includes the temper classification, technological attributes, typological affiliation, and vessel form. Worked vegetal artifacts data include the technological attributes and material identifications. Both preliminary and intensive analyses were...
Dolores Archaeological Program: Final Synthetic Report (1986)
This is the final synthetic report of the Dolores Archaeological Project. It includes an overview of the project itself, as well as final reports from the additive and reductive technologies, and environmental archaeology groups. The final report also includes summation of the prehistorical context for the Dolores River Valley and modeling, resource, and population studies. Information on the various technologies---lithics, ceramics, and facilities---are also examined. This report also...
Dolores Archaeological Program: Synthetic Report (1986)
The Dolores Project was a large water-impoundment project constructed by the Bureau of Reclamation in southwestern Colorado. From 1978 until 1985 the University of Colorado contracted with the Bureau of Reclamation (Contract No. 8-07-40-S0562) to mitigate the adverse effects of the Dolores Project on the cultural resources in the project area; Washington State University was the major subcontractor. The mitigation program was called the Dolores Archaeological Program (DAP). This volume presents...