Arizona (State / Territory) (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Todd Bostwick.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file that consists of the Shaw Butte Fortified Hilltop, comprised of a stone masonry compound and petroglyphs, located on City of Phoenix land. The file consists of a site data form.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Todd W. Bostwick. Stan Plum.

The Sonoran Desert of Southern Arizona was once occupied by the prehistoric Hohokam, a group of agriculturalists who constructed thousands of kilometers of irrigation canals as well as public architecture, including platform mounds and bailcourts. They also appear to have been keen astronomical observers, although the subject of Hohokam archaeoastronomy remains underexplored. This paper summarizes previous Hohokam archaeoastronomy studies, discusses O'odham (Piman) Indian calendar systems,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J.S. Wood.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Sheep Bridge site, comprised of two late historic Basque suspension bridge abutments and deadmen, located on Tonto National Forest land. The file is comprised of a heritage inventory, Central Arizona Water Control Study historic site description, and map of the site location.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Connie L. Stone.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Sheep Gulch Glyph site, comprised of sherd scatter and a petroglyph, located on Bureau of Land Management land. The file consists of a site data form, map of the site location, and a black and white photograph of the petroglyph. The earliest dated document is from 1997.

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 Citation Only Carolyn Kennedy.

Steamboat construction of the early nineteenth century remains largely forgotten and unstudied.  Historical records provide little detail to how construction techniques were evolving in this experimental phase of steam-powered vessels.  A survey of Lake Champlain’s Shelburne Shipyard revealed the remains of four nineteenth-century steamboats, three of which were built prior to 1840.  The four hulls were recorded for comparative study during a field school which took place in the month of June,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carolyn Kennedy.

A team of nautical archaeologists from Texas A&M University, the Institute of Nautical Archaeology and the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum returned to Shelburne Shipyard in June 2015 to continue examining Wreck 2, a steamboat wreck from the early 1800s.  Wreck 2 was surveyed during a preliminary investigation of four steamboat hulls in June 2014 and determined to be the oldest of the four.  The 2015 team recorded Wreck 2 using both traditional archaeological methods and photogrammetric...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Brad Geeck.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for Sheldon Rock, a rock inscribed "Sheldon-1864," located on State Trust Land. The file consists of a site data form and a news piece from The Arizona Miner in 1869 relating the murder of an Arizona pioneer named James Sheldon.

DOCUMENT Citation Only T. Kurt Knoerl.

This is an abstract from the "Submerged Cultural Resources and the Maritime Heritage of the Great Lakes" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For the Ojibwa First Nations in the Lake Superior region water was not only a source of life, but it permeated their cosmology, their music, their daily routines, and their very identity as well. This paper reports on research conducted in 2018 that took advantage of interviews, artwork, material culture, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha Sanft.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples in northeastern North America had been modifying marine shell for cultural use. However, the circulation of marine shell expanded and contracted over time. Few to no shell artifacts are recovered from fourteenth and fifteenth century sites in the Northeast, suggesting a gap in the cultural use of shell materials during this period; but over the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Scott Wood. Denise Ryan.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the site Shell Bracelet, comprised of a pit house village, located on Tonto National Forest land. The file consists of a site data form. The earliest dated document is from 1997.

DOCUMENT Full-Text H. DeMaagd. L. Champagne.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Shell House site, comprised of rock rings, possible mining test pit markers, telephone line crossbeams, and artifact scatter, located on Bureau of Land Management land. The site is historic, and may represent a failed claim by Draper Richardson and/or his brothers. The file consists of an Arizona State Museum archaeological site card. The earliest dated document is from 2000.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cristina García-Moreno. James T. Watson.

This is an abstract from the "Crossing Boundaries: Interregional Interactions in Pre-Columbian Times" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeological site of El Cementerio, dated between the Middle and Late Sonoran Ceramic Period (circa AD 1000-1521) and located in central Sonora along the Yaqui River, displays several characteristics suggestive of closer links to West Mexican coastal settlements including the presence of shell jewelry and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jan Welton. Errett Callahan.

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 EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these 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 using the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only June Burke.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Current studies on nacreous shell jewelry, those with an iridescent inner layer, during the Early Agricultural period (2100 BC - 150 AD) (Vint 2017) have chiefly examined how the material was brought into the Tucson Basin without much consideration for if it’s presence in the region was purely due to chance or if it was specifically chosen. Central to that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hugh Radde. Weston McCool.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this study, we utilize rocky intertidal data from long-term marine biology surveys coupled with targeted archaeological sites on the California Channel Islands to explain the timing of intensified fishing strategies. The Ideal Free Distribution Model (IFD) offers a framework to test predictions relating to human decision making in varying ecological...

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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 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,...

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Shelltown and The Hind Site were excavated as part of the construction of the Santa Rosa Canal, a large distribution aqueduct intended to bring water to several irrigation districts and two American Indian communities in central Arizona, and also as part of the fabrication of the delivery canals for the Maricopa-Stanfield Irrigation and Drainage District, which is one of those recipient districts. The Santa Rosa Canal originates at the Tucson A Division of the main CAP aqueduct a little...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Errett Callahan. Errett Callahan.

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 EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these 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 using the...

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This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Shelter R-4 site, comprised of a rock shelter, located on State Trust land. The file consists of a site data form. The earliest dated document is from 1997.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jim Walker.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Sherwood Ranch, located on Archaeological Conservancy land. The file consists of a site data form.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Garrett Fesler. Paul Nasca.

Alexandria Archaeology recently completed excavation of a 12 ft. deep well feature located in the basement of a historic building in the Old Town section of Alexandria, Virginia.  The artifacts recovered from the well indicate that it was filled ca. 1820, when Thomas Shields operated the property as a tavern and bathhouse.  Shields most likely dug the well in order to draw water directly from the premises instead of hauling water from a public pump down the street.  Alas, the story does not have...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephanie Hacker.

In 1997 Site 8 was uncovered at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello through excavations conducted by the staff of the Monticello Department of Archaeology and students in the Monticello-University of Virginia Archaeological Field School. Six features identified as either storage pits or cellars provide evidence of four buildings that once stood to house enslaved field hands between c. 1770 and c. 1800. This occupation is contemporaneous with the period in which Thomas Jefferson shifted Monticello’s...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katrina C. L. Eichner.

This is an abstract from the "Frontier and Settlement Archaeology" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Traditional histories of the American West tend to privilege and centralize the perspectives of the white male elite. But what hidden pathways into the past have been ignored as we continue to privilege this well worn historiography? What would happen if we shifted our perspective to the margins? Could reorienting our focus to those so often left...