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PROJECT Aaron Norment. W. Nicholas Trierweiler. Jen Anderson. Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT).

On February 11 and from February 20–March 11, 2019, AmaTerra Environmental, an ERG Company (AmaTerra) conducted archeological excavations at the Santa Land Site (41SM490) on behalf of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) in support of the proposed expansion of Interstate Highway 20 (IH-20) in Smith County, Texas (CSJ 0495-04-065). As TxDOT and the Texas Historical Commission (THC) deemed the site eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) and for...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Air Education and Training Command, U.S. Air Force. Marie H. Huhnke.

On August 6, 2003, the Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence (AFCEE) issued Task Order 0052 (Requisition F41623-03-R-9999/R002) under Contract F41624-01-D-8556 to Geo-Marine Inc. (GMI), to conduct archeological delineation and National Register site evaluation of historic and prehistoric sites on Lackland Air Force Base (AFB), Bexar County, Texas. The work was conducted to comply with Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act (16 USC 470 et. seq.), and the cultural resources...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey J. Richner.

The Platte River Campground archeological site (20BZ16) is located along the Platte River, within Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, Michigan. The site was discovered in 1985 and was also tested in that year. In 1987, the Midwest Archeological Center conducted archeological excavations at the site in advance of a planned campground redevelopment program which will impact portions of the site. Important information on site age and artifact assemblages was obtained. The site is...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Emil R. Liddell.

This report documents the excavation results obtained by the West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey's Archeology Section during the summer of 1973. Emil R. Liddell of Fairmont State College served as Field Supervisor for the four-week project, which was cosponsored by the National Park Service (Contract Number CX-4000-3-0064) and the Geological Survey. The Round Bottom area is located approximately 3.5 miles down the Ohio River (to the west) from Moundsville, West Virginia, on property...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert E. Reams.

The United States Air Force (USAF) at the Westover Air Reserve Base had the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) conduct a series of small Phase I surveys through a cooperative agreement between the two agencies. Previous research on the base has identified several areas that were considered to potentially contain sites eligible for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Due to need to clear trees that hinder the flight patterns of the bases’ planes, and the need to construct a softball field to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Janis L. Dial-Jones.

The Midwest Archeological Center conducted field investigations at Lincoln Home National Historic Site in Springfield, Illinois in 2005 and 2006 in conjunction with the preparation of Historic Structure Reports on two of the houses that originally stood in the Abraham Lincoln neighborhood in close proximity to the Lincoln Home itself, the Carrigan house immediately next door to the north and the Burch house directly across Eighth Street to the west. An archeological inventory and evaluation of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Frank Hole. Michael O'Brien. Bonnie Hole.

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Pat H. Stein.

In 1978, the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) directed the Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA) to complete an intensive archaeological survey of the proposed alignment for the Salt-Gila Aqueduct, a feature of the Central Arizona Project. The survey area was 11,115 acres and included the 60 mile-long transmission line (with a typical width of 200 meters), three proposed utility line locations, one flood retention dike location, 11 possible spoil or realignment areas, and a subsidence well....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas H. Gresham.

This report presents the results of archeological data recovery at 9Lc24, Lincoln County, Georgia, a multi-component site on Clarks Hill Lake characterized by seven rock piles. Complete excavation of six of the rock piles, testing with small test units, a 5 by 5 m block excavation, and extensive soil chemistry testing were employed to fully understand the function and culture chronology of the site. Excavation results showed that the rock piles were of historic origin and represented farmers'...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ann C. Bauermeister.

The Midwest Archeological Center (MWAC) conducted archeological inventory and evaluative testing efforts at site 33SU121, in Cuyahoga Valley National Park (CUVA), during the 2000, 2001, 2003, and 2006 field seasons. Site 33SU121 is located in Everett Village, Boston Township, Summit County, Ohio. The archeological investigations were initiated in response to two undertakings proposed by CUVA. The first was a proposed land exchange between the National Park Service (NPS) and the Church in the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ann C. Bauermeister.

The Midwest Archeological Center (MWAC) conducted archeological inventory and evaluative testing efforts at the Savacoal property, in Cuyahoga Valley National Park (CUVA), during the 2001, 2002, and 2007 field seasons. The investigations resulted in the identification of two archeological sites, both located on land Tract 109-107 in Boston Village, Boston Township, Summit County, Ohio. Site 33SU419 is an historic artifact scatter associated with the Savacoal Barn on the east side of the parcel....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter E. Siegel. Douglas C. McVarish. Mark A. Tobias.

John Milner Associates, Inc. (JMA) performed two Phase I archeological surveys and five Phase IA archeological sensitivity assessments in seven New Jersey Army National Guard (NJANG) installations: Picatinny, Morristown, West Orange, Lawrenceville, Fort Dix, Sea Girt, and Vineland. These investigations were performed for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE), St. Louis District on behalf of the New Jersey Army National Guard. The purpose of the studies is to assist in the preparation of an...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Dana Hartman. David Kuehn.

An intensive archeological survey of about 7.7 mi. of Salt River Project (SRP) Coronado-Silverking 500 KV transmission line easement extending from just east of the Sitgreaves National Forest to the APS-SRP Joint Corridor was conducted by Museum of Northern Arizona archeologists in December, 1977. The survey was requested by Bettina Rosenberg, SRP Archeological Administrator, in a letter dated December 12, 1977. The survey was conducted and this report prepared under the stipulations and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Dana Hartman.

Salt River Project (SRP) recently assumed responsibility for the construction of a 2 3/4 mile segment of the Coronado-Silverking APS-SRP Common Corridor Transmission Line. Due to this change in construction plans, Bettina Rosenberg, SRP Archeological Administrator, contacted the Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA) on November 30, 1977, and requested a resurvey of the tower locations on this portion of the transmission line. The line was originally surveyed by Arizona State Museum (ASM), but the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Frank T. Schnell.

The Cemochechobee Archeological District consists of a series of archeological exposures identified over a number of years by various institutions. The district has never been comprehensively surveyed. It is bounded on the north and northwest by the Walter F. George Lock and Dam, on the west by the Chattahoochee River (technically the uppermost end of the George W. Andrews Lake), on the south and east by Cemochechobee Creek, and on the northeast by a low rise bordering the alluvial river...

DOCUMENT Full-Text William Shirley Fulton.

In the paper “ Archeological Notes on Texas Canyon, Arizona ” (Vol. XII, No. 1 of this series) which covered the work accomplished at the Double F Ranch in 1933, it was intimated, if the findings warranted, that a further report would ensue for the season of 1934. In the publication above mentioned there was expressed the thought, though from very meagre evidence, that the culture here might be Hohokam with a few trade pieces intermingled. The work this season has strengthened the conclusion...

DOCUMENT Full-Text William Shirley Fulton.

In the introduction to Archeological Notes on Texas Canyon, Arizona, published in 1934 (Vol. XII, No. 2 of this series), certain conclusions were drawn and set forth as being “personal opinions, naturally subject to revision when and if..." In the earlier monograph referred to above, it was stated: ". . it is my present belief that from the time of the first settlement on this site, the inhabitants lived and developed in their own way without any interference, either friendly or otherwise, and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text William Shirley Fulton.

The area covered in this paper is, generally speaking, the drainage of the upper Texas Canyon, near Dragoon, Cochise County, Arizona. But more specifically, the development in the season of 1933 was confined to a flat field on the ranch of the writer. The elevation at this point is about 4,800 feet, and the climate is typically that of the Southwest at a like elevation. In the winter months it is warm in the daytime, cold at night, with an occasional snow flurry, and very little rain. The summer...

DOCUMENT Full-Text William Gardner. James L. Nolan. Edward Otter. Joel I. Klein.

This archeological overview and management plan provides a tool which can be used by DARCOM and decision makers at the Harry Diamond Laboratories - Blossom Point Test Site to assist in complying with regulations and procedures relating to historic preservation (Technical Manual 5-801-1, Technical Note No. 78-17, Resource Management; 32 CFR 650.181-850.193; Army Regulation 420-40; Army Regulation 200-1; Army Regulation 200-2; 36 CFR 800). This document summarizes data relating to the area's...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Teresa S. Moyer. Jay Sturdevant.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Archeology, Citizen Science, and the National Park Service" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The practice of citizen science in National Parks offers the public opportunities to engage with the past in cooperation with professional archeologists. The NPS aims to make science more accessible and relevant by enlisting the public to assisting scientists with their work. Citizen science, however, is also a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joshua L. Marano.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Recent Development of Maritime and Historical Archaeology Programs in South Florida" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The mission of the National Park Service (NPS) is to preserve and protect the natural and cultural resources of the NPS system for the betterment of this and future generations. Encompassing more than 1.7 million acres of land and water, Biscayne, Dry Tortugas, and Everglades National Parks...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven De Vore.

The continuation of a Class I archeological reconnaissance survey was conducted on three isolated parcels included in land additions for an assault runway to the east side of the Altus Air Force Base, Jackson County, Oklahoma. A total of 222.48 acres were surveyed between December 1 and December 3, 1991. The initial land addition survey was conducted in 1989. Four historic sites were located during this survey. All of these resources have been subjected to disturbances which have severely...

DOCUMENT Full-Text George Teague. Carole McClellan.

This project was undertaken to provide a partial inventory and assessment of cultural resources in the Grand Canyon Adjacent Lands study area. This area, illustrated in Figure 1, includes portions of Kanab, Whitmore, Parashant, and Andrus Canyons and a part of the Shivwits Plateau, all located in the part of northwest Arizona known as the Arizona Strip. The study area was divided into western (Shivwits) and eastern (Kanab) survey areas. Archeological survey was carried out in June and July 1977...

DOCUMENT Full-Text William M. Gardner. Lauralee Rappleye.

This report presents the results of an archeological reconnaissance of portions of the previously unsurveyed floodplains in the Richard B. Russell Reservoir, Savannah River, Georgia and South Carolina (Figure 1). The investigations were conducted by Thunderbird Research Corporation (TRC) under a contract with Interagency Archeological Services, Atlanta, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah, Georgia, District. The reconnaissance was conducted during October and November, 1979, with Dr....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Stephen Israel.

This resource is the report of a survey conducted at the Naval Recreation Center in Solomon's Island Maryland in 1986. The collection and records are curated at the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory on behalf of the Navy.