Navajo County (Geographic Keyword)
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During 1974-1978, the Museum of Northern Arizona conducted an extensive archaeological mitigation program for the Salt River Project prior to the construction of the Coronado Generating Plant near St. Johns, Arizona, and its energy corridors, the Coronado-Silver King Transmission Line and the Coronado Coal-Haul Railroad. Ceramic material from those corridors was separated from remaining project data and reported on herein. Over 148 ceramic-bearing sites produced a wide range of decorated and...
The Kayenta Anasazi: Archaeological Investigations Along the Black Mesa Railroad Corridor, Volume 2 - Site Descriptions (1986)
This volume presents available data on each of the 50 sites excavated during the course of project investigations. The sites are presented in numerical order beginning with NA6706 and ending with NA11,251. Each site description begins with an account of the general setting and the immediate environment. This is followed by a description of site excavation and stratigraphy. Detail in this section is generally very limited. Every site that contains architecture is shown in a schematic map. Next,...
Niche Construction and Common Pool Resource Management in Marginal Environments: A Diachronic Approach (WGF - Dissertation Fieldwork Grant) (2018)
This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Anthropologists have long been concerned with the immense variety of collective institutions developed by small-scale societies to foster solidarity, inculcate values, and manage resources. Long-term studies tracking the development and maintenance of such institutions would greatly benefit a range of social science disciplines, but are unfortunately rare. To this end, the proposed project...
A Research Report and Restoration Considerations for the Interpretive Development of Historic Resources at Brigham City, A.T. (1980)
Brigham City, a fortified Mormon settlement on the Little Colorado River near the City of Winslow, Navajo County, Arizona, was established in 1876 as a United Order community and abandoned by the Church in 1881. The property was subsequently incorporated into the La Prade farm and dairy, which was in operation from about 1897 until the mid-1940's. At present, the site is owned by the City of Winslow. Much of the arable land surrounding the site has been leased to a Winslow resident for...