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WACC reports of archaeological excavation and survey projects in Death Valley National Park (formerly Death Valley National Monument).

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WACC reports from survey and excavation projects at the Manzanar National Historic Site, Inyo County, California.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Nancy E. Pearson.

This report describes the results of an archeological inventory and testing project that archeologists from the Western Archeological and Conservation Center (WACC) completed in the Death Valley Scotty Historic District (DVSHD), in Death Valley National Park (DEVA), California, between February 27 and March 9, 2001. The inventory was completed in site CA-INY-5702/H to rerecord the site to standards required by Director's Order 28 (DO-28) (NPS 1997) and by the Standards and Guidelines for...

DOCUMENT Full-Text C. Micheal Barton.

This report describes the results of an archeological clearance survey along 61 km of the northern and northeastern boundaries of Death Valley National Monument. The purpose of this survey was to identify cultural resources within a right-of-way for a fence, planned for this part of the monument boundary, in order the assess the impact of fence constructi on on these resources. Bri ef di scussi ons of the present and past environment and the cultural history of the survey area...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Krista Deal. Lynne D'Ascenzo.

In late 1986, archeologists from the Western Archeological and Conservation Center conducted two phases of archeological fieldwork at Death Valley Scotty's Lower Vine Ranch property in northern Death Valley National Monument, California. The completion of a large-scale instrument map of the structures and grounds composing the historic ranch complex and a pedestrian survey of the ranch access road were the primary objectives of the initial phase of fieldwork at Lower Vine, carried out from...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffery F. Burton.

The National Park Service conducted archeological investigations at 23 sites, features, and loci along U.S. Highway 395 within and around the Manzanar National Historic Site in Inyo County, California. Caltrans has proposed upgrading the current two-lane highway in the vicinity of the National Historic Site to a four-lane divided highway. The archaeological work was deemed necessary to determine the research potential of the cultural resources and to make recommendations about how...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Alan P. Garfinkel.

The report represents the culmination of a three month effort to characterize the cultural resources of the Fossil Falls/Little Lake archaeological locality. The areal focus for this study was concentrated on the National Resource Lands adjacent to the geological site known as Fossil Falls. However, it was found by this researcher, the prehistory of the area would best be served by a more general examination. Since the action of the pluvial Owens River and the relative fluctuations of the spring...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffery F. Burton. Jeremy D. Haines. Mary M. Farrell.

Between December 1999 and M:lrch 2001 the Western Archeological and Conservation Center of the National Park Service conducted archeological investigations at the relocation center cemetery in Manzanar National Historic Site. A total of 19 surface features were investigated: 104 square meters and 210 linear meters of trench were excavated. In addition an area of 575 square meters was scraped to depths of up to 10 cm. This work discovered that many of the rock outlines and grave markers present...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost. Kathryn Puseman.

Two coprolites from the Chapman Caves collection were submitted for pollen, phytolith, starch, parasite, and macrofloral analyses. Chapman Caves, site CA-INY-1534, is located on the Naval Air Weapons Center (NAWS), China Lake, California, and consists of two small rockshelters/caves that had been previously excavated from 1967-1969 by Timothy Shaw Hillebrand. The two coprolites submitted for analysis had not been previously recorded and were recently found labeled in the Chapman Caves collection...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Nancy E. Pearson.

This report describes the results of an archeological inventory project that archeologists from the Western Archeological and Conservation Center (WACC) completed between 11 and 24 March 2001, in the proposed Hungry Bill's Ranch Historic District (HBRHD), an ethnohistorical and archeological complex of sites and resources in Death Valley National Park (DEVA), California. The inventory was completed so that these cultural resources, which stretch for nearly two miles along the bottom lands and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffery F. Burton. William W. Bloomer. Lynn Johnson.

The National Park Service conducted archeological investigations at the Eureka Dunes archeological site (CA-INY-2489) within Death Valley National Park. Proposed developments to protect the unique Eureka Dunes ecosystem would affect less than 1/2 of 1 percent of the archeological site. However, the archeological work was designed to investigate the whole site. Archeological field work included mapping, intensive controlled surface collection, and subsurface testing. Over 26,000 artifacts were...

DOCUMENT Full-Text William J. Wallace. Edith S. Taylor.

This paper presents the results of an archaeological survey of Butte Valley, Death Valley National HontlDlent. The reconnaissance was part of a larger program of archaeological research in the Monument being carried on under a contract between the Department of Anthropology, University of Southern California, and the National Park Service.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffery F. Burton.

This report presents the results of archeological investigations at Manzanar National Historic Site in the Owens Valley of eastern California. The Manzanar Relocation Center was one of ten such facilities at which Japanese American citizens and Japanese immigrants were interned during W orId War II. The archeological work was designed to inventory and evaluate all historical and prehistoric archeological resources within the National Historic Site, as well as other archeological resources near...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffery F. Burton.

This report presents the results of archeological investigations at Manzanar National Historic Site in the Owens Valley of eastern California. The Manzanar Relocation Center was one of ten such facilities at which Japanese American citizens and Japanese immigrants were interned during W orId War II. The archeological work was designed to inventory and evaluate all historical and prehistoric archeological resources within the National Historic Site, as well as other archeological resources near...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffery F. Burton.

This report presents the results of archeological investigations at Manzanar National Historic Site in the Owens Valley of eastern California. The Manzanar Relocation Center was one of ten such facilities at which Japanese American citizens and Japanese immigrants were interned during W orId War II. The archeological work was designed to inventory and evaluate all historical and prehistoric archeological resources within the National Historic Site, as well as other archeological resources near...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Martyn D. Tagg.

In March 1984, the author and J. Michael Bremer, archeologists from the Western Archeological and Conservation Center, conducted two small archeological projects in Death Valley National Monument. The first consisted of a 200-acre land survey in and around Timba-Sha Indian village, which overlooks the salt pan in central Death Valley, California. The second consisted of data collection from four sites located in the Grapevine Mountains in southwest Nevada. Although the projects are...