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This report presents the results of testing and data recovery efforts at four sites in Sun City Vistoso: AZ BB:9:152 (ASM), AZ BB:9:153 (ASM), AZ BB:9:154 (ASM), and AZ BB:9:190 (ASM). All four sites are Hohokam limited activity sites dating to the Sedentary period. Testing operations consisted of excavating narrowly-spaced backhoe trenches in an attempt to identify subsurface cultural features. No subsurface features were identified at AZ BB:9:152 and AZ BB:9:154; consequently, no further work...
Prehistory Of The Little Blue River Valley, Western Missouri: Archeological Investigations At Blue Springs Lake (1989)
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City District is presently constructing Blue Springs Lake on the East Fork of the Little Blue River in Jackson County, Missouri. The location of the project is in the tall grass prairie forest mosaic of the eastern Prairie Plains (Figure 1). This area is in the West Missouri Management Unit as defined by the Preliminary Draft Master Plan for Archaeological Resource Protection in Missouri prepared by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Completion...
Prehistory of the St. Johns Area, East-Central Arizona: The TEP St. Johns Project (1981)
The TEP (Tucson Electric Power) St. Johns Project was conducted by the Cultural Resource Management Section of the Arizona State Museum under contract to Tucson Electric Power Company and was designed to mitigate impacts to cultural resources located within a proposed railroad right-of-way corridor east of St. Johns, Arizona. The proposed corridor begins at a point 8 miles northeast of St. Johns and extends 27 miles southward to the proposed TEP SpringerviIle Generating Station north of...
Prehistory Report, Salamonie and Mississinewa Reservoirs 1961-1963 (1963)
The following reports the results of archaeological test excavations in the Mississinewa and Salamonie reservoirs, United States Army, Corps of Engineers, flood control projects presently under construction in the upper Wabash River drainage system in northeastern Indiana. The work was accomplished during the summer of 1963 under contract with the National Park Service.
Preliminary Analyses of San Esteban (41PS20) Lithic Data: Implications for Mobility, Investment, and Dietary Predictions (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Old Technology, New Methodology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Excavations between 2019 and 2022 at San Esteban Rockshelter (41PS20) in the Big Bend region of West Texas have generated a robust archaeological assemblage. San Esteban can inform on Holocene and, potentially, terminal Pleistocene human behavior in the relatively understudied Big Bend region. By employing Baka’s technological investment index and...
Preliminary analysis of Archaic lithic material from the Murrell Home in Cherokee County, Oklahoma (2017)
In 2016, excavations at the George M. Murrell Home, a mid-nineteenth century plantation home located in northeastern Oklahoma, yielded a number of chipped stone artifacts attributable to the Archaic period. Abandoned during the Civil War, the Murrell home is currently owned by the Oklahoma Historical Society and run as a living history museum and park. Located near the confluence of three major waterways, the site lies in an ecotone between broadleaf forests and prairie parkland. The lithic...
Preliminary Analysis of Faunal Remains from the 17th-Century John Hollister Site, Glastonbury, Connecticut (2018)
Recent archaeological investigations at the 17th century John Hollister Site in Glastonbury, Connecticut resulted in the recovery of thousands of extraordinarily well-preserved faunal remains. The diverse assemblage, which includes mammals, birds, fish, and shellfish, was recovered from three large, filled cellar contexts. The food remains provide an unprecedented look at the foodways, animal husbandry strategies, and food procurement activities of Connecticut’s earliest settlers, and...
A Preliminary Analysis of Lead Sheathing and Waterproofing Evidence from Queen Anne's Revenge (1718) (2018)
Throughout history, ocean-going watercraft have been the primary vehicle for global trade, colonization and exploration. Constant wear on ship’s hulls over time, coupled with damage from marine fouling organisms prompted sailors and shipwrights to develop a diverse range of methods and materials to protect their vessels from harm. Nautical sheathing refers to the exterior covering of a ship’s hull with a thin layer of metal or wood to protect the vessel from marine life fouling, and to stabilize...
A Preliminary Analysis of the Spatial Distribution of Prehistoric Sites within a 4,300-Acre Block of the Tularosa Basin, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. An ongoing cultural resource inventory on White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico identified over 100 prehistoric and multicomponent sites in the valley bottom of the Tularosa Basin, greatly exceeding the anticipated number of prehistoric resources for the approximately 4,300-acre study area. In an effort to elucidate a better understanding of the...
Preliminary Archaeological Investigation, Interstate Pump Station, 2100 Area, Saylors Pond Road, Fort Dix Military Installation, Burlington County, New Jersey (1998)
In October of 1996, the Fort Dix Historic Preservation Office (FDHPO) completed a preliminary archaeological investigation in the 2100 Area at Fort Dix. Fort Dix plans to construct a pump station on the south side of Saylors Pond Road, about one-quarter mile west of Route 68. The proposed pump station (0.23 AC) will be used to augment the flow of aircraft fuel in the existing underground pipeline that links the Jacksonville Tank Farm with McGuire AFB. This study was performed at the request of...
Preliminary Archaeological Investigation, Tank Training Areas, Tactical Training Areas 9-13, Fort Dix Military Installation, Ocean County, New Jersey (1998)
In June and July of 1998, the Fort Dix Historic Preservation Office (FDHPO) completed a preliminary archaeological investigation in Tactical Training Areas (TTA) 9-13 at Fort Dix. A total of thirteen training areas encompassing about 209 acres were field inspected during this present survey by the FDHPO. This study was performed at the request of the New Jersey Pinelands Commission (NJPC) in order to determine the presence or absence of Euro-American or Native American cultural resources in the...
Preliminary Archaeological Investigations at the Crooked River Site (9CAM118) (1984)
Preliminary archaeological investigations, consisting of detailed topographic mapping and limited test excavation, were conducted at the Crooked River Site (9 Cam 118) over a ten-day period during December 1983 and February 1984. The site is located on the southern Georgia coast within the extreme northeastern part of Crooked River State Park in Camden County. The purpose of the archaeological investigation was two-fold. First, a detailed topographic map of the site showing the distribution...
Preliminary Archaeological Testing at the West Branch Site, AZ AA:16:3, in the Saguaro Knolls Development Area (1997)
This document discusses the results of preliminary archaeological work for the Saguaro Knolls development project. The Saguaro Knolls project area is a 55 a tract of land that is slated for residential development. It lies wholly within a previously recorded archaeological site, AZ AA:16:3 (ASM), the West Branch site. A recent archaeological survey confirmed that archaeological remains were present on the surface of the parcel (Stephen 1997). As a result of these findings Desert Archaeology,...
A Preliminary Archeological Reconnaissance Survey of the Naval Ordnance Station Indian Head, Maryland (1985)
Report Abstract: This report presents the results of a preliminary archeological reconnaissance conducted at the Naval Ordnance Station on Cornwallis Neck, Indian Head, Charles County, Maryland. The survey resulted in the discovery of 45 archeological sites, ranging in time from the Early Archaic through to the Late Woodland/Contact period. In addition to these periods, three sites dated to the 19th Century and one to the 19th/20th Century . Testing was also conducted at 18CH71, a site that...
A Preliminary Archeological Reconnaissance Survey of the Naval Ordnance Station, Indian Head (1995.015), Maryland
This project represents the results of a preliminary survey the Naval Ordnance Station, Indian Head, Maryland undertaken by Bill Barse in 1985. Collections from the survey include artifacts from 40 identified sites and five different non-site areas surveyed. Records include the technical report and a few field records that were later scanned for inclusion as an appendix in a subsequent project report (MHT Report CH 83). Collections are curated at the Maryland Archaeological Conservation...
Preliminary Assessment of Recent Research at the Old Vero Site (8IR009), Vero Beach, Florida (2018)
Intensive excavations and attendant analyses conducted at the Old Vero Site (8IR009) from 2014-2017 have revealed a long and complex stratigraphic succession which dates from ca. 30,000 B.P. to the present. The excavations have documented not only 195 species of plants and animals but also a human presence which extends back to at least 11,000 B.P. and, perhaps, earlier. Terminal Pleistocene extinction dates are provided on several taxa as well as observations about the environments within which...
A Preliminary Assessment of the Potential of the Warren Lasch Conservation Center to Become a National Underwater Archaeological Conservation and Curation Center (2000)
This report is written to summarize the potential for the Warren Lasch Conservation Center to become a National Underwater Archaeological Conservation and Curation Center at the Charleston Naval Complex in North Charleston, South Carolina. The Center's location, site, building, equipment, and staff were evaluated and potential exists for the Warren Lasch Conservation Center to become a National Underwater Archaeological Conservation and Curation Center.
Preliminary Assessment Screening Demolition and Disposal of Building 1030, Fort Sam Houston, Texas (1997)
The purpose of this Preliminary Assessment Screening (PAS) is to obtain approval for demolition/disposal of Building 1030. The building is located in the north area of the post. The building itself was used as a storage facility consisting of 8,214 square feet.
A Preliminary Autopsy on Coffins Beach, Gloucester, Massachusetts (2017)
From June to September 2014, the remains of a previous unknown shipwreck emerged from the sands of Coffins Beach. Named for the Coffin family and not a funerary item, it is a north facing barrier beach, Gloucester, Massachusetts. Initial field investigation revealed a much older vessel. Detailed documentary research identified up to 80 shipwrecks occurring in the vicinity since 1635; two thirds occurring prior to 1860, chiefly described as shallops, sloops, and early schooners. The extant...
Preliminary Biological Resources Survey Results, Arizona Section, Proposed Transportation Corridor (1987)
The Salt River Project (SRP) is in the process of permitting a coal mining operation near Quemado, New Mexico which will provide coal for the Coronado Generating Station near St. Johns, Arizona. In order to move coal from the mine to the generating station, it will be necessary to construct approximately 45 miles of railroad. Obtaining the appropriate permits from the states of Arizona and New Mexico will require an assessment of biological resources along the proposed alignment. A major...
Preliminary Case Report, Concerning Cultural Resources Along the Granite Reef Aqueduct and Granite Reef Aqueduct Transmission System, Central Arizona Project (1978)
This report only contains the Appendices A - J. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is requesting proposals for supplementary inventory survey and mitigation of cultural resources to be impacted by construction of the Granite Reef Aqueduct and Granite Reef Aqueduct Transmission System. This aqueduct and transmission system are features of the Central Arizona Project (CAP), which is a multipurpose water resource development and management project designed to provide supplemental water to central and...
Preliminary Cultural Resource Assessment Survey of the Avon Park Air Force Range, Polk and Highlands Counties, Florida (1986)
A preliminary cultural resource assessment survey was conducted of the 106,210 acre Avon Park Air Force Range (APAFR) in Polk and Highlands Counties, Florida. The purpose of the survey was to provide base level data on the types, distribution, and potential significance of archaeological and historic period sites located on the APAFR. An extensive literature search and a systematic field survey were conducted by Piper Archaeological Research, Inc. A total of 37 archaeological sites were located...
Preliminary Data for Developing a Fine-Scale Model of Socioecological Change on Ossabaw Island, Georgia (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research project examines the history of human-environment interaction on Ossabaw Island, Georgia. Archaeological collections for Woodland (ca. 1000 BC–AD 1000) and Mississippian period (ca. AD 1000–1700) occupations of the island are combined with environmental data synthesized from the analysis of sediment cores taken from five freshwater ponds on...
Preliminary Data Recovery Results at Pueblo del Rio, AZ T:12:116 (ASM), Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona (2006)
The results of backhoe trenching and data recovery excavation at the site of Pueblo del Rio within SunState Builders’ parcel. The area consists of 77.72 acres of land previously tested in 2005 (Lots 6, 7, 12, 13, and 14) and in 2006 (Lots 8, 9, 10, and 11). Following the completion of extensive backhoe trenching in the various lots, twelve feature areas containing likely habitation structures, relic canals, and burials were selected for data recovery— three along the planned road corridors in...
Preliminary Draft Environmental Assessment, US Army Research Laboratory at Adelphi Laboratory Center, H.E.A.R.T.S. Program (1994)
This Environmental Assessment (EA) focuses on the impacts of activities related to implementation of the proposed action to improve self-confidence, awareness, and responsibility, as well as interpersonal communication, honesty, and mutual support, viz., teamwork, in the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) workforce at the Adelphi Laboratory Center (ALC). The focus includes consideration of other actions being taken at ALC to ensure that cumulative impacts are assessed. This Environmental Assessment...