American Southwest (Geographic Keyword)

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Additional Work in the Little Green Valley Segment: Results of Archaeological Investigations Along Forest Road 405A, Tonto National Forest, Gila County, Arizona (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Sarah A. Herr.

In advance of road realignment for access into the Wood Canyon Development, the current data recovery investigations documented features along a segment of historic road currently designated as Forest Road 405A. Six historic period features were recorded and the history of the road and its designation were reviewed.


Analyses of Archaeological Use-Wear on Artifacts Recovered from the Salado Draw Watershed, Lea County, New Mexico (2023)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Samuel Cason.

This lithic use-wear study is a component of an undertaking entitled Salado Draw Archaeological Survey, Small-scale Excavation, and Geomorphological Characterization, GSA Contract No. GS-10F-0396P. The work was commissioned by the U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Carlsbad Field Office (CFO) as part of research carried out under the Permian Basin Programmatic Agreement, Blanket Purchase Agreement No. 11, Contract No. L14PA00010. It addresses Task 16 (lithic use-wear and...


Animal Husbandry at Pimería Alta Missions: El Ganado en el Sudoeste de Norteamérica ​ (2010)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman.

Documentary evidence from the southwestern region of North America indicates that Spanish missionaries attempted to alter the daily lives of native peoples through the introduction of Eurasian domesticated animals and animal husbandry practices. However, our understanding of the degree to which these efforts were successful is hindered by a dearth of zooarchaeological evidence. Excavations at 18th-century missions in present-day northern Sonora and southern Arizona provide an opportunity to...


Animal Species Descriptions and Ethnographic Uses and Beliefs (2007)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael O'Hara.

Report on the ethnographic uses and beliefs pertatining to animals in the U.S. Southwest.


Archaeological Survey and Small-Scale Excavation in the Salado Draw Watershed, Lea County, New Mexico (redacted) (2023)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Samuel Cason. Michael Heilen. Phillip Leckman. Taylor McCoy.

This report is a component of an undertaking entitled Salado Draw Archaeological Survey, Small-Scale Excavation, and Geomorphological Characterization, General Services Administration Contract No. GS- 10F-0396P. The work was commissioned by the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Manage- ment– (BLM–) Carlsbad Field Office (CFO) as part of research to be carried out under the Permian Basin Programmatic Agreement, Blanket Purchase Agreement No. 11, Contract No. L14PA00010. It...


Archaeological Survey for an Arizona Department of Transportation Waste Area West of Little Green Valley, Tonto National Forest, Gila County, Arizona (2001)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Sarah A. Herr. Pat Stein.

This report presents the results of a 2.3-acre survey west of the Little Green Valley segment of State Route 260.


Archaeological Survey of Additional Right-of-Way for the Kohls Ranch Construction Segment, the SR 260–Payson to Heber Project, Gila County, Arizona, Part II (2002)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Sarah A. Herr.

Archaeological survey of Kohls Ranch construction segment to accommodate a change in the Arizona Department of Transportation right-of-way between the former Camp Geronimo and Indian Gardens locales, as part of the proposed State Route (SR) 260 realignment through the Tonto National Forest.


Archaeological Survey of Additional Right‐of‐Way for the Kohls Ranch Construction Segment, the SR 260–Payson to Heber Project, Gila County, Arizona (2002)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Sarah A. Herr.

Archaeological survey in the Kohls Ranch construction segment to accommodate slight change in Arizona Department of Transportation right‐of‐way for proposed State Route 260 realignment through the Tonto National Forest.


Artifact and Identity: Seeking Cultural Markers on the Vázquez de Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542 (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Schmader.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Colonial Ventures and Native Voices: Legacies from the Spanish and Portuguese Empires", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In early 1540, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado led a large exploration from Mexico’s west coast into the American Southwest, searching for an overland route to Asia. Coronado enlisted 360 Europeans and 1,300 or more Mexican Indigenous soldiers (indios amigos) to achieve Spain’s goal of...


Bedrock Mortars in the Salado Draw Watershed, Lea County, New Mexico (2023)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Samuel Cason. Michael Heilen. Kimberley Babicz.

This report on bedrock mortars (BMs) is a component of an undertaking titled Salado Draw Archaeological Survey, Small-scale Excavation, and Geomorphological Characterization, General Services Administration (GSA) Contract No. GS-10F-0396P. The work was commissioned by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management Carlsbad Field Office (BLM-CFO) as part of research to be carried out under the Permian Basin Programmatic Agreement, Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) No. 11, Contract No. L14PA00010. It addresses...


Cosmology in the New World
PROJECT Santa Fe Institute.

This project consists of articles written by members of Santa Fe Institute’s cosmology research group. Overall, the goal of this group is to understand the larger relationships between cosmology and society through a theoretically open-ended, comparative examination of the ancient American Southwest, Southeast, and Mesoamerica.


County-level radiocarbon dates for the upland US Southwest (2020)
DATASET Kyle Bocinsky. Darcy Bird. Robert Kelly.

These are the radiocarbon data reported in Robinson et al. 2020, "Dendrochronological dates confirm a Late Prehistoric population decline in the American Southwest derived from radiocarbon dates". The dates are drawn from the NSF project ‘Populating a Radiocarbon Database for North America’, which have been uploaded to the Canadian Archaeological Radiocarbon Database (CARD; https://www.canadianarchaeology.ca). Dates are aggregated to county level for the upland US Southwest, and are...


Cultural Resource Management Archaeology in the Southwest (2008)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Sarah A. Herr.

Textbook excerpt with State Route 260 project as case study.


Cultural Resource Management Program Mapco's Rocky Mountain Liquid Hydrocarbons Pipeline (1983)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan M. Naughton. Janice R. Hutton.

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.


Cultural Resources Survey for Utility and Well Locations for the Little Green Valley Segment, State Route 260–Payson to Heber, Gila County, Arizona (2008)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Sarah A. Herr. Pat Stein.

Cultural resources block survey of a well field in advance of the construction of wells and access roads, and a linear survey of the existing and proposed alignments for an APS powerline in advance of the movement of poles and improvement of the powerline road.


Cultural Resources Survey of Additional Right-of-Way, Waste Area, and Access Roads in the Doubtful Canyon Construction Segment, the SR 260–Payson to Heber Project, Gila County, Arizona (2003)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Sarah A. Herr.

Cultural resources survey of five parcels in the Doubtful Canyon construction segment of the State Route 260 Payson to Heber highway realignment project to accommodate changes in the Arizona Department of Transportation right-of-way, the creation of waste area, and access routes.


Designing and Carrying Out Digital Curation for Data Management, Research, and Data Sharing (2018)
DOCUMENT Full-Text William Doelle. Sharlot Hart. Lauren Jelinek. Teresita Majewski.

This record describes a session at the 2018 Arizona Historic Preservation Conference that provided short presentations and a discussion on the curation of digital archaeological data and current practices to carry it out. The PPT slides by McManamon introduce the topic and the panelists. Doelle used a set of PPT slides, also provided here, to illustrate examples of the past use of large amounts of digital data to examine ancient coalescent communities and other Southwest social...


Dilzhe’ ‘e bii tian: Archaeological Investigations of Apache Sites near Little Green Valley, Arizona, State Route 260 – Payson to Heber Archaeological Project, Gila County, Arizona (2011)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Karina Casey

The four Apache components reported here were excavated as part of the archaeological work conducted in advance of the Arizona Department of Transportation’s realignment of State Route 260 between Payson and Heber. All archaeological work on this project is confined to that portion of the highway below the Mogollon Rim, on Tonto National Forest land and private inholdings. The sites described here were excavated during the Preacher Canyon segment and the Little Green Valley segment of the...


Documents and Data from Hegmon et al. Mimbres Pottery Designs in their Social Context
PROJECT Uploaded by: April Kamp-Whittaker

This is the data used in the chapter "Mimbres Pottery Designs in their Social Context" by Michelle Hegmon, James R. McGrath, F. Michael O'Hara, III, and Will G. Russell in New Perspectives on Mimbres Archaeology: Three Millennia of Human Occupation in the Desert Southwest edited by Particia A. Gilman, Roger Anyon, and Barbara Roth


Early Desert Farming and Irrigation Settlements, Archaeological Investigations in the Phoenix Sky Harbor Center, Volume 1: Testing Results and Data Recovery Plan (1994)
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The Phoenix Sky Harbor Center Project evolved as a result of the planned development of an area slightly larger than 800 acres west of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. This volume focuses on the testing phase of the project undertaken by the Community and Economic Development Department of the City of Phoenix in consultation with the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office. Historic records of the area and recent studies within the project boundaries indicated that prehistoric...


Early Desert Farming and Irrigation Settlements, Archaeological Investigations in the Phoenix Sky Harbor Center, Volume 2: Dutch Canal Ruin (1994)
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This volume, which focuses on archaeological data recovery efforts at Dutch Canal Ruin, is the second of four prepared for the Phoenix Sky Harbor Center Development Project. Investigators identified 20 individual loci during the testing phase within the Phoenix Sky Harbor Center at Dutch Canal Ruin and excavated a sample of eight loci (Areas 1 through 8). During the monitoring of the remote parking facility in the eastern portion of the project area, SWCA discovered and excavated additional...


Ethnographic Field Work with Apache Consultants, S.R. 260 Payson to Heber Project, May 16 and 17, 2000: Preliminary Report (2000)
DOCUMENT Full-Text T.J. Ferguson. Roger Anyon.

Report detailing two days of fieldwork with Apache consultants on the S.R. 260 - Payson to Heber project.


An Experimental Project to Conduct Digital Survey for Ring Midden Features using Aerial Lidar Data (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Heilen. Monica Murrell.

This poster presents an experimental research project performed for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s Permian Basin Mitigation Program exploring the use of aerial lidar data to identify and document ring midden features. The project was carried out in three study areas in southeastern New Mexico situated along the eastern foothills of the Guadalupe and Sacramento Mountains. Previous archaeological surveys indicate that ring middens are common along rocky escarpments in the piedmont zone and...


Explaining Change in Production and Distribution of Olivine-Tempered Ceramics in the Arizona Strip and Adjacent Areas in the American Southwest (Department of Anthropology, UCSB 2014) dataset (2014)
DATASET Sachiko Sakai.

This data base is for dissertation of Sachiko Sakai: Explaining Change in Production and Distribution of Olivine-Tempered Ceramics in the Arizona Strip and Adjacent Areas in the American Southwest (Department of Anthropology, UCSB 2014). This file includes LA-ICP-MS data of sherds from Mt. Trumbull and lowland Virgin area in Nevada conducted by Sakai at IIRMES in CSULB and INAA data of sherds from Mt. Trumbull. For abbreviation used in the table, refer the appendix A in Sakai dissertation.


Farming on the Floodplain: Archaeology fo the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport Center Runway (Runway 7L-25R) Reconstruction Project, Part 2: Appendices (2007)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: system user

Between December 2000 and June 2005 Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) of Tempe, Arizona, completed five field sessions of archaeological monitoring, testing/data recovery I, and data recovery II. The entire airport is highly modified by grading, modern fill, paving, and building; thus, the ground surface offers few clues to what lies beneath. However, the airport is bounded by known historic and prehistoric archaeological sites, including Pueblo Salado to the immediate west and...