Nevada (State / Territory) (Geographic Keyword)
9,926-9,950 (15,118 Records)
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An Inventory of 111 Acres for a Bypass Road and Staging Area at Creech Air Force Base, Clark County, Nevada NAFB Report 07-03 (2007)
Results of a data review, records search, and native american observation of an 111-acre area.
An Inventory of 70 Acres for Box Canyon Storage Area, Range 63, Clark County, Nevada Test and Training Range (2007)
98th Range Wing (99 RANS), Nellis Air Force Base (NAFB), proposes expansion of an existing outdoor storage area in a pass in the south hills of the Pintwater Range. A 30-acre area was surveyed and used in 1998. Activities at Creech Air Force Base have dramatically increased. The addition would include storage of construction equipment and target vehicles. The Box Canyon Road gravel road bisects the project area. The storage addition is 70 acres and is the Area of Potential Effect (APE).
Inventory of Nellis Air Force Base Water Well Annex, South 42 Acres, Clark County, Nevada (2002)
Nellis Air Force Base (NAFB) proposes to release 42 acres of land in north Las Vegas Valley to private developers. Because the area surrounding the project area is 100% developed, the APE is considered to be the project area.
Investigating a Cannon Site Conundrum in Cahuita National Park, Costa Rica (2016)
A site comprising cannons, anchors, and dispersed bricks on the seabed of Cahuita National Park may represent scenarios of a scuttling trail, a wrecking event, or dramatic crew mutiny where sailors set fire to their ship after a disastrous voyage. Danish West Indies historic records and local Afro-Caribbean folklore center around stories of pirate ships and two 18th-century slave ships that were burnt or broken up by surf in this location. The ECU team investigated the distribution patterns of...
Investigating a possible Spanish Military Structure at the Site of San Joseph de Sapala, Sapelo Island, Georgia (2016)
For the past 10 years, the Sapelo Island Mission Period Archaeological Project (SIMPAP) has been surveying and testing the site of the Mission San Joseph de Sapala on Sapelo Island, Georgia. Over this time we have learned a great deal about the site’s Guale Indian and Spanish inhabitants. Among the most interesting contexts investigated is a Spanish structure with a likely military function. Architectural and other features associated with the structure yielded a relatively high frequency of...
Investigating Feather Harvesting of Captive Macaws at Wupatki Pueblo, Arizona (2018)
Macaws were imported into the pre-Hispanic American Southwest from central Mexico for hundreds of years; it is generally projected that the purpose of this practice was to supply feathers for ritual purposes. Recent zooarchaeological research has demonstrated that the wing feathers of Southwestern turkeys were regularly plucked, as evidenced by significant scarring on the birds’ ulnae. The author observed the presence of this scarring on the wing elements of archaeological macaw specimens from...
Investigating Interaction through Multilayer Material Culture Networks in the Western Pueblos (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Local and/or Exotic Interactions: Symbols, Materials, and Societies" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Comprehending the dynamics of regional interaction requires a holistic perspective. One artifact type falls short in capturing the richness of societal behavior, particularly when considering a sole attribute, such as paint style. Archaeologists are constrained by the availability of material culture and data, data...
Investigating Maker’s Marks Discovered on Artifacts from the Engine Room of the USS Monitor (2018)
The life of the Union Civil War ironclad USS Monitor is well known and its famous battle against the CSS Virginia well documented; but, there are still many stories to be discovered, especially those of the men who built the vessel in just over 100 days. Conservation of artifacts recovered from Monitor’s wreck site is ongoing at The Mariners’ Museum and Park in Newport News, Virginia. During the conservation process maker’s marks have been found on several objects from the ship’s engine room....
Investigating Parajes: An Exploration of “Camping” Sites on the Camino Real (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For three centuries, El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail served as the main wagon road transporting people and merchandise between the New Mexico colony and the interior of New Spain. Most archaeological investigations of this trail have focused on only two types of sites: actual trail segments, and associated camping areas known as...
Investigating Possible Hopi “Neighborhoods” at Pottery Mound (LA 416), New Mexico (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Hopi oral histories have a long tradition of migration and movement across the Greater Southwest and Mesoamerica. Archaeological evidence of the movement of Hopi people is well attested across the Middle Rio Grande Valley. Pottery Mound (LA 416) in the Lower Rio Puerco Valley has long been known to have connections with ancestral Hopi people through both...
Investigating Precontact Resource Conservation of Deer Populations in the San Francisco Bay Area (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mule deer were important resources for the Ancestral Ohlone populations in the California San Francisco Bay area. Researchers typically use artiodactyl abundance information derived from archaeological assemblages to understand past hunting and land use behavior. Building upon previous models (diet breadth, costly signaling, climate change, and resource...
Investigating Slave Life at an East Florida Sugar Plantation: Preliminary Results of the 2014 University of Florida Historical Archaeological Field School at Bulow Plantation, Flagler County, Florida (2015)
From 1821 until its destruction by the Seminoles in 1836, Bulow Plantation (8FL7) in Flagler County, Florida represented one of the largest sugar producing operations in East Florida. Beyond being a site of production, the plantation was also home to roughly two hundred enslaved African-Americans during this period. In the 2014 field season, the University of Florida conducted excavations focusing on a single domestic slave cabin. Preliminary results of these excavations will be presented with...
Investigating Social Boundaries in Southwestern New Mexico (2018)
Social network analyses provide insight into the strength and weakness of social connections across geographic areas. Discussions in the literature of the Mimbres region in New Mexico have stated that during the Classic period, the Mimbres ceramic tradition is confined to southwestern New Mexico, though this has not been tested with statistical assessments of data. Using ceramic style data from sites within and surrounding the Mimbres region, I investigate the levels of social ‘boundedness’ in...
Investigating Spanish Colonial Features Using GPR in Urban Settings (2017)
Archaeologists at Raba Kistner Environmental, Inc. (RKEI) have been utilizing 3-D ground penetrating radar (GPR) surveys to rediscover Spanish Colonial features such as acequias and foundations in San Antonio, Texas. Many Spanish Colonial sites in San Antonio are located in urban settings and are often covered by roads, parking lots, and sidewalks. Use of 3-D GPR, archival research, and, in some cases, subsurface testing, has allowed us to determine under what geomorphological and burial...
Investigating The Ancient Port Of Sanitja, Menorca (2016)
Their strategic location in the Mediterranean caused numerous cultures, empires, and countries to fight over and conquer the Balearic Islands of modern-day Spain. In the ancient world, Menorca - the easternmost island of the Balearics - was influenced or conquered by the Minoans, Carthaginians, Romans, and Vandals, respectively. Prior to the Romans’ arrival, the native Baleares were known for their skills with the sling and were hired as mercenaries throughout the Mediterranean. The...
Investigating The Fortifications At Beech Grove (2018)
The Beech Grove Confederate encampment, December 5, 1861 to January 19, 1862, was positioned so that it took advance of the natural defenses provided by White Oak Creek and the Cumberland River. But an exposed area to the north and west had to be fortified with entrenchments and numerous earthworks. These earthworks were recently better identified with the use of LiDAR mapping. Archaeological trenching into an earthwork provided even more information about their construction.
Investigating the Intersection of Chinese and Euro-American Healthcare Practices in Nevada from 1860-1930 (2013)
This paper discusses the exchange of healthcare practices between Overseas Chinese and Euro-Americans in Nevada from 1860-1930. Analysis of medicinal artifacts from seven archaeological sites in Nevada yielded evidence of Chinese consumption of Euro-American patent medicines and Euro-American use of Chinese medicines. A number of different factors may have influenced the decision of Chinese individuals to purchase and consume Euro-American medicines. These include discrimination from public...
Investigating the nature and timing of the earliest human occupation of North America using a novel integration of biogeochemistry and micromorphology (2017)
Paisley Caves, Oregon, is one of the key sites in current debates surrounding the peopling of the Americas. Ancient DNA evidence for human occupation of the cave has been debated, and coprolites have been said to be visually dissimilar to human faeces. This has implications for how we understand early occupation and migration in this part of North America. Our project will contribute to this debate, using a novel integration of biogeochemistry and sediment microstratigraphy. The aim is to assess...
Investigating the Royal Navy submarine HMS/M A7 lost in Whitsand Bay, Cornwall, in 1914; (2018)
In 1914 A7 was on a training run and subsequently began her training dive, she was unable to surface again. Attempts were made to relocate her, but by that time all hands were lost, a total of 11 lives. The Royal Navy was then unable to recover her, and she was abandoned. Forgotten till sports divers relocated her in the 1970’s, then in 2001 A7 was designated a Controlled Site, under the Protection of Military Remains Act. Little was known of the wreck site due to a lack of monitoring of its...
Investigating the Spatial and Behavioral Factors that Influence Regional Lithic Assemblage Variability (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Lithic scatters are commonly the most abundant site type recorded in regional archaeological surveys. Paradoxically, lithic scatters are widely considered typologically homogeneous and are typically classified as limited-activity sites. These practices have contributed to the view that lithic scatters are of limited research value in understanding the origins...
Investigating the Spread of the Bow and Arrow in California Using Large Datasets (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Old Technology, New Methodology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists in North America often think of the bow and arrow as appearing more or less instantaneously, a conception baked into many culture historical schemes. However, this specialized technology likely has a more complex history. From a single Old World origin, it is thought to have spread to North America via the Arctic after about 5000 cal BP....
Investigating Turkey Husbandry on the Chacoan Frontier: Stable Isotope Results from Three Pueblo II Great House Communities in West Central New Mexico (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Current Research on Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) Domestication, Husbandry and Management in North America and Beyond" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Growing research in animal domestication in the prehistoric western hemisphere has revealed a complex relationship between humans and the only originally domesticated animal in North America, the turkey (Meleagris gallopavo). Research suggests reasons for turkey...
Investigation and Mitigation of Four Archaeological Sites Within the Oakwood Housing Development For Green Valley Investment Company of Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada (1985)
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Investigation and Mitigation of Six Archaeological Sites Within the Lake At Las Vegas Reservoir Location in Las Vegas Wash, Clark County, Nevada (1985)
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