Navajo County (County) (Geographic Keyword)
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The primary interpretive site open to the public at Homol'ovi State Park (the Park) is Homol'ovi II. To enhance the visitors experience and understanding of what they are seeing, one large Kiva (structure 708) and five rooms and an outside activity area (structures 211, 212, 215, 216, 217, and 221) were excavated and previously stabilized. The Park's interpretive trail and signage lead the visitor to these areas and provide information. These areas have been impacted by visitation and weathering...
Arizona Archaeological Society Stabilization Project at Homol'ovi I & II Part 2: Homol'ovi I (2012)
Stabilization work on Room I, 27 wall tops, and several erosional channels over Room Block 300 on the south face of the North Pueblo was begun in May 2011 and completed in September 2011 by members of the Arizona Archaeological Society under the direction of Jim Britton.
Bean Patch Arizona Site Steward File (1991)
This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Bean Patch site, comprised of multiple pueblos, pit houses and possible pit houses, artifact scatter, trash middens, and a great kiva, located on Archaeological Conservancy land. The file consists of 20 Arizona State Museum archaeological survey forms. The earliest dated document is from 1956.
Bechtel Power Corporation 1978 Arizona Station Plant Site Study, Salt River Project, State and Private Lands, Apache and Navajo Counties, Arizona: An Addendum to Preliminary Draft for Phase I: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Research (1974)
As a result of the Salt River Project consultant's meeting on June 18, 1974, additional, more current information on the Arizona Station Project was made available to the Museum of Northern Arizona. Because of this, it was decided that the archaeological recommendations for the project should be reviewed and re-submitted. This report discusses the new developments and presents the basis for conclusions made regarding the archaeological assessments.
Bechtel Power Corporation 1978 Arizona Station Plant Site Study, Salt River Project, State and Private Lands, Apache and Navajo Counties, Arizona: Final Report for Phase I: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Research (1974)
The initial Phase I investigation for the Salt River Project 1978 Power Plant Study has been completed. This report presents that data which was collected during library research and actual field reconnaissance and is intended to offer a background on the archaeological and ethno-historical resource base of the two proposed areas being considered for plant site and wellfield location. A discussion of the possible impacts with alternatives to these is also included. The report includes...
Black Mesa: Archaeological Investigations on Black Mesa, the 1969-1970 Seasons (1972)
Black Mesa is large elevated land mass which comprises a part of the Navajo and Hopi Indian reservations in the northeast corner of Arizona. This report is the second volume in a series devoted to the archaeology of the region by the Prescott College Archaeological Field School. It is mainly a descriptive account of the survey of 193 Anasazi, Navajo, and Anglo sites and the excavation of nine of the Kayenta Anasazi villages.
Black Mesa: Survey and Excavation in Northeastern Arizona - 1968 (1970)
During the month of June and part of July, 1968, the Center for Anthropological Studies operated an archaeological field school on Black Mesa on the Hopi and Navajo Indian reservations under sponsorship of the Peabody Coal Company of St. Louis, Missouri. A total of eight sites was excavated and 56 sites were surveyed. What follows is a descriptive report of these investigations. It should he emphasized that this report is mainly descriptive, and that interpretations, where they occur, are...
Brigham City Cemetery Arizona Site Steward File (1978)
This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Brigham City Cemetery, in use by Mormon Pioneers of the United Order between 1876 and the 1880s, located on State Trust land. A petrified wood monument with a bronze plaque was erected on August 23, 1934, by the Latter Day Saints and the Utah Pioneer Trails and Landmarks Association. The file consists of a site data form, an Arizona state historic property inventory form, a National Register of Historic Places inventory nomination form, two maps of...
Bryant Ranch Fauna (2014)
Bryant Ranch Fauna
The Changing Physical Environment of the Hopi Indians of Arizona (1942)
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...
Chevelon Ruin (AZ P:2:11 [ASM]) Mapping Project (2002)
From July 1-11, 2002, staff, students, and volunteers with the Homol'ovi Research Program, Arizona State Museum, the University of Arizona traced and mapped wall alignments at Chevelon Ruin (AZ P:2: 11 [ASM]). Outlines to a total of 67 rooms comprising most of two of the seven room blocks at Chevelon were documented. These data will be used to develop an excavation strategy for fieldwork at Chevelon over the next three summers. Sixty-two of the documented rooms came from Room Block 200 (RB200)...
Chevelon Ruin Arizona Site Steward File (1982)
This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Chevelon Ruin, comprised of an Ancestral Puebloan masonry room block town with a plaza, trash middens, and possible ceremonial rooms, located on Game and Fish Department land. The file consists of a site data form and an Arizona State Museum archaeological survey form. The earliest dated document is from 1981.
Cholla Project Archaeology, Volume 3, The Q Ranch Region (1982)
The Arizona Public Service Cholla-Saguaro Transmission Line Mitigation Project, an undertaking as large in scope as its full title suggests, began in April of 1977. It is hereafter referred to as Cholla. The project's purpose was to mitigate construction impact on prehistoric sites along that portion of the line extending from the Cholla generating plant near the Little Colorado River to the upper drainage of Devore Wash south of Lake Roosevelt, a distance of 135 transmission line miles. This...
Contributions to the Archeology of Petrified Forest National Park, 1985-1986 (1987)
Archeological work conducted during the summers of 1985 and 1986 produced much new data which was badly needed to update our perceptions of Petrified Forest prehistory. A total of 120 sites along the park boundaries and in the developed areas were recorded, many of them for the first time. Surveys to fulfill compliance requirements prior to installation of a new water system (NPS Package No. Ill) and developed area surveys provided data on prehistoric land use and settlement patterns in...
The Coronado Project Archaeological Investigations: Studies Along the Transmission Line Corridor (1983)
Intensive archaeological field investigations along the Coronado-Silver King Transmission Line (North End) began in September, 1976. These investigations were conducted by the Museum of Northern Arizona under contract with the Salt River Project. Forty-six sites along the transmission line route required mitigation procedures; site recording, collection, testing, and excavation were conducted as appropriate. Subsequent laboratory analysis confirmed a number of impressions resulting from the...
A Cultural Resource Survey of 15.0 Miles Along the Salt River Project Coronado to Silverking 500 kV Transmission Line, Pleasant Valley Ranger District, Tonto National Forest, Gila County, Arizona (2006)
Salt River Project (SRP) maintains the 500-kilovolt (kV) Coronado to Silverking transmission line that traverses the Tonto National Forest (TNF), Gila County, Arizona. To control encroaching vegetation, SRP plans to employ the use of a Slashbuster® - a brush cutting and mulching device mounted onto heavy excavating equipment. The proposed action, which has the potential to impose adverse impacts upon cultural resources, requires permitting from TNF and, as such, is an undertaking subject to...
Cultural Resources Inventory of Three Routes Crossing BLM and Private Lands to Access the Proposed APS Second Knolls Substation, Navajo County, Arizona (2007)
The project consists of a Class III cultural resources inventory for three possible access routes to the proposed Second Knolls Substation. Two of the proposed access routes leave State Route (SR) 77 in a westerly direction and follow section lines for 2.35 miles, where they split, one heading north under or adjacent to an existing APS sub-transmission line and one heading north-northwest along the existing Reidhead Road. The third proposed access route follows the northernmost 25 feet of...
A Cultural Resources Survey of 1,946 Acres on Black Mesa for Peabody Western Coal Company, Mine Areas J-19, J-21, and N-11 Extension South, Kayenta Mine Complex, Navajo County, Arizona (2017)
SRP requested that Logan Simpson conduct a Class 111 cultural resources inventory of 1,946 acres within Mine Areas J-19, J-21, and N-11 Extension South in Peabody Western Coal Company's, Kayenta Mine Complex (KMC). This is part of a larger environmental impact study (EIS) for the continued operation of the Navajo Generating Station (NGS) and the KMC from December 23, 2019 to December 22, 2044. Reclamation is the lead federal agency, and the BIA and OSMRE are cooperating agencies. Re-permitting...
A Cultural Resources Survey of 1,971 Acres on Black Mesa for Peabody Western Coal Company, Mine Area J-21 West, Kayenta Mine Complex, Navajo County, Arizona (2017)
SRP requested that Logan Simpson conduct a Class 111 cultural resources inventory of 1,971 acres within Mine Area J-21 West (J-21-W) in Peabody Western Coal Company's proposed Kayenta Mine Complex (KMC). This is part of a larger environmental impact study (EIS) for the continued operation of the Navajo Generating Station (NGS) and the KMC from December 23, 2019 to December 22, 2044. Reclamation is the lead federal agency, and the BIA and OSMRE are key cooperating agencies. Re-permitting of the...
A Cultural Resources Testing Program, Holbrook, Arizona (1989)
This report presents results of an archaeological testing program at two archaeological sites east of Holbrook and a historic evaluation of approximately 50 standing structures in the Perkins Addition of Holbrook, Arizona. The work is the result of plans by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to construct a levee in response to periodic flooding of the town by the Little Colorado River. In the course of the testing program, three components were identified at each of the archaeological sites, and...
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...
A Description, History and Finder's Guide for the Joseph City Irrigation System, Navajo County, Arizona
Located in Joseph City, Navajo County, Arizona, portions of the Joseph City Irrigation System is being rehabilitated so it can function more efficiently and reliably for local water-users. The historic irrigation system was determined to be eligible for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places under Criteria A, C, and D based on archival research conducted by Archaeological Consulting Services (ACS) for the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) (Schilling 2004). To mitigate the...
A Description, History and Finder's Guide for the Joseph City Irrigation System, Navajo County, Arizona: Report (2005)
Located in Joseph City, Navajo County, Arizona, portions of the Joseph City Irrigation System is being rehabilitated so it can function more efficiently and reliably for local water-users. The historic irrigation system was determined to be eligible for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places under Criteria A, C, and D based on archival research conducted by Archaeological Consulting Services (ACS) for the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) (Schilling 2004). To mitigate the...
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...
Eligibility Evaluation of the Joseph City Irrigation System, Navajo County, Arizona for the Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office
The rural community of Joseph City, Arizona, is located off Interstate 40 west of Holbrook, on the Little Colorado River in Navajo County, Arizona. The Joseph City Irrigation Company received a grant from the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) to install new pipe in approximately 2,500 feet of the existing 10-mile-long irrigation ditch. Prior to installing the pipe, Reclamation must determine if the historic irrigation system is eligible for nomination to the National Register of Historic...