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J. Whittaker: Some of same material as 1978, but different book. Includes more info on atlatls and weapons, stone tool chapter by Bruce Bradley. [Quality of production is disgraceful - line drawings and text slightly murky, photos look like something printed in 1950s India.]
Prehistoric Irrigation in Arizona: A Context for Canals and Related Cultural Resources (1989)
This is a report that covers the prehistoric irrigation systems located within Arizona. Funded by the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office, this report describes the locations of irrigation works throughout Arizona, their use and descriptions, along with their importance and need for preservation. The appendices outline goals, strategies and priorities for future resource planning, suggested priorities for SHPO action, methods of dating, and lastly, historic properties eligible for...
Prehistoric Lake Cahuilla Shorelines Identified Using a Systematic Satellite Photograph and Ground Truth Methodology, Salton Sea Region, Imperial County, California (2018)
Lake Cahuilla is the archaeological representation of the modern Salton Sea and represents one of the largest rift lakes in the Western Hemisphere. Formed in the Salton Basin by western-trending Colorado River runoff, in-fillings and outflows from the Colorado to the Lake and thence into the Gulf of California were episodic yet constrained by the vast Colorado River Delta. Because modern agricultural development has buried many of the ancient shorelines, the Lake’s Holocene oscillation history...
Prehistoric Land Use in the Upper San Simon Valley and Chiricahua Mountains: A View from the Finley and Sally Richards Projectile Point Collection (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Community Matters: Enhancing Student Learning Opportunities through the Development of Community Partnerships" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Finley and Sally Richards collection represents the largest and most complete collection of projectile points documented from the remote corners of southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico. The collection, donated to the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society...
Prehistoric Land Use on Outer Cape Cod (1982)
Preliminary analysis of archaeological survey data indicates that prehistoric land use of coastal southern New England (represented by outer Cape Cod, Massachusetts) was year-round and more diverse than has been suggested by the traditional emphasis on coastal shell middens. Prehistoric settlement seems to have been concentrated mainly in a few locations with large intervening unsettled areas. A stratified random sampling strategy allowed estimates of the relative frequency of different kinds...
Prehistoric Mining in the High Mountains of Northern Colorado (2017)
Rupturing and buckling of fissures along the present valley of the Colorado River in Middle Park, Colorado, during the Miocene resulted in thick deposits of tuff and flow basalt which resulted in the Troublesome Formation. The Troublesome Formation primary consists of weakly consolidated siltstone, minor interbedded sandstone and conglomerate, and locally unconsolidated sand and gravels, and chalcedonies. As the result of the chalcedony filtering through the tuffaceous linear deposits of...
Prehistoric North American basketry techniques and modern distribution (1930)
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...
Prehistoric Painted Pottery of Southeastern Arizona (2000)
Statistical Research, Inc., was contracted in 1996 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to perform a variety of tasks pertinent to collections of prehistoric ceramics from archaeological work conducted on Fort Huachuca Military Reservation located in southeastern Arizona. The bulk of the contract consisted of two tasks—teaching a class on the ceramics and prehistory of southeastern Arizona and preparing a guide to prehistoric pottery found at sites in this region of the American Southwest. The...
Prehistoric Pets: An Examination of the Human-Dog Relationship in the American Southwest (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dogs have been human companions for at least 15,000 years (Morey 2010), with some of the earliest remains recovered in North America from Danger Cave, Utah (Schwartz 1997). How the relationship has been and is now defined, however, varies culturally and temporally. This research explores the complexity of our relationship with dogs in an intermediate space...
Prehistoric Pipe Replication and Analysis, A Deeper Look into the Bowl (2017)
Smoking pipes have played an integral role for many American Southwestern groups. My research project conducts a thorough investigation into the construction of prehistoric ceramic and stone pipes. Using only stone tools, I conduct construction and use-wear analysis on the tools used to create pipes as well as the pipes themselves. I analyze the two materials most used among Southwestern Native American groups, local Southwestern clay (from the Tucson Basin) and vesicular basalt. Measuring the...
Prehistoric Plant Utilization in Southeastern New Mexico: A unique publication merging academic and public interests (2015)
The investigation of plant use, in southeastern New Mexico, in prehistory has been widely covered, this project continues this tradition by synthesizing and compiling all of the information to date in the region. The Carlsbad Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management, administrators of the Permian Basin Mitigation Program, is sponsoring the publication of a reference book on prehistoric plant use in Southeastern New Mexico. This free text will bring together recent work in radiocarbon...
Prehistoric Population Aggregation of the Mt. Trumbull, AZ area (2018)
More than 20 years ago Margaret Lyneis published a thorough review of the Virgin Anasazi, summarizing what was known at the time about chronology, settlement, subsistence, spatial aggregation, exchange, and other topics. Her summary raised a number of key issues needing resolution. Among these was the nature of aggregation in the Plateau area of the Virgin Anasazi. She noted, despite evidence from other places in the Southwest of increasing residential aggregation in PII, there seemed to be...
Prehistoric Production or Enslaved Curation?: An Evaluation of the Temporal and Spatial Distributions of the Lithic Assemblage at The Hermitage. (2018)
The Hermitage assemblage is a treasure trove of 19th-century material culture. However, DAACS analyses have revealed that, in addition to hundreds of thousands of 19th century artifacts, over 23,500 fragments of lithic debitage, projectile points, and tools were unearthed from the plantation complex. This paper examines this lithic assemblage and evaluates whether its presence and distribution is the result of prehistoric Native Americans’ activities at the site or production/curation by the...
Prehistoric Research Context for Camp Bullis and Fort Sam Houston, Bexar and Comal Counties, Texas (1993)
This document provides a framework for archeological research, evaluation of significance, and determination of the potential National Register eligibility of prehistoric archeological sites on the U.S. Army property at Camp Bullis and Fort Sam Houston in Bexar and Comal counties, Texas. These installations are in the Salado and Cibolo creek drainage basins and encompass ca. 28,000 and 3,400 acres, respectively. Over the past 30 years, a number of archeological investigations in these basins...
Prehistoric Rock Art and Historic "Graffiti": Petroglyphs at a Multicomponent Site in Eastern New Mexico (2017)
Recent field investigations at Los Ojitos, a multicomponent site in the Middle Pecos River Valley, have focused on refining the site chronology and documenting the land-use practices of Hispanic homesteaders who settled this area in the late nineteenth century. Like earlier visitors to this site, the Hispanic settlers were attracted to the clean water provided by several little springs ("ojitos") that empty into the river. Survey of one of these spring-fed drainages identified at least 45...
Prehistoric Settlement and Adaptation in the Ramah Valley, New Mexico (1973)
This paper will attempt to reconstruct the valley-wide systems of subsistence of six pueblos occupying a small valley in northwestern New Mexico around 1300 A.D. As any investigation of this nature must be, it is a hypothetical model, built using data rom a variety of sources, including archaeological excavation, settlement pattern analysis, ethnographic analogy, and the natural limitations of the environment.
: Prehistoric Settlement Patterns of the Los Alamitos Bay, Southern California (2017)
The details of prehistoric settlement patterns in the Alamitos Bay area of southern California are not well documented. Due to rapid urban develop throughout the 20th century, the archaeological record has been explored with only limited excavations. The lack of systematic investigations have limited our knowledge about prehistoric populations and their variability in terms of subsistence practices and settlement patterns. Using a review of information gleaned from archaeological studies...
Prehistoric Site Photographic Menu Board Test Unit Conversion Numbers, 2000.020_0198 (1995)
A photo record form for the US Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, White Oak project which were loaded by J. Gunn. A note concerning the numbers assigned in the photographs to prehistoric site (18PR465) test unit profile photographs is that the numbers on the menu board are not the same as those reported in the text and notebooks. On the photographic contact sheets, negatives, and slides, the numbers on the menu board correspond to the test units numbers listed in the form.
Prehistoric Spatial Patterning and Subsistence Studies: Archaeological Investigations at Sample Unit U19arP4 (1992)
This report documents the methods and results of archaeological investigations at Sample Unit U19arP4 on Pahute Mesa at the Nevada Test Site (NTS). Eight sites were located there: four lithic artifact scatters (26NY1370, 26NY1372, 26NY3666 and 26NY3667), two temporary camps (26NY3665 and 26NY5418), one artifact locality (26NY5419), and one quarry (26NY3664). One of the lithic scatters, 26NY3667, incorporated a previously recorded rock ring, 26NY1371 , that could not be relocated during...
Prehistoric textile materials: technology of dyeing with Blodroot (2003)
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...
Prehistoric Tool Stone Acquisition and Use in the Central Mojave Desert (2018)
Diverse rocks of the Precambrian to the Late Cenozoic are exposed across the greater Mojave Desert Region. In the central Mojave, locations with concentrations of knapable materials are prevalent. Most of these sources are deflated alluvial fan deposits; less than five percent are outcrops. Over the last 13,000 years people have been using the area, percussion biface reduction dominated at both the material extraction sites and habitation and special activity sites. Igneous materials were...
Prehistoric trap systems of Northern Arizona (2010)
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...
Prehistoric Tree Island Use in the Northern Everglades: New Evidence from the Late Archaic (2017)
A season of test excavations at a late archaic tree island site in south Florida has produced several interesting, if broad, patterns in the practices of prehistoric peoples living within this landscape. Stratigraphic evidence further supported by AMS dating reveal use of the tree island spanning nearly 1000 years of periodic long-term human occupation. Evidence attests to a certain "social fabric" at the settlement, suggesting its identity as a memorable place on the landscape, a quality...
Prehistoric Uses of a Developing Floodplain: Archaeological Investigations on the East Bank of the Santa Cruz River at A-Mountain (1999)
Between 18 March and 12 April 1997, archaeological fieldwork was conducted at two sites in the Congress Street to Twenty-ninth Street segment of the Arizona Department of Transportation's Interstate 10 Corridor Improvement Project in Tucson, Arizona. Both sites are buried in the eastern Holocene terrace of the Santa Cruz River, directly opposite A-Mountain. In Locus 1 were stratified alluvial deposits containing features dating to the early Cienega phase (800-400 B.C.) and late Cienega phase...
Prehistory and Paleoenvironment at Pintwater Cave, Nevada: Results of Field Work During the 1996 Season (1997)
As part of Nellis Air Force Base and Range Complex (NAFR) Historic Preservation Program, the Air Force in 1996 conducted archaeological research in this cave. This research was designed to contribute significantly to the Air Force's ability to evaluate other historic properties on NAFR. In a research design approved by the Nevada State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) and Region 1 of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Air Force...