Environment Research (Investigation Type)

These are studies that examine aspects of the present or past natural environment to provide a context, often off-site, for interpreting archaeological resources. Sometimes reported in stand-alone volumes representing significant research, such investigations may include geomorphological, paleontological, or palynological work.

1,051-1,075 (2,079 Records)

A Late-Postglacial Pollen Chronology From the Central Mississippi Valley (1962)
DOCUMENT Full-Text James Schoenwetter.

Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists, 1962. Discusses pollen sequence from Cahokia Creek slough profiles. Pollen diagrams missing.


Leafy Legacies: The Ecofactual Value of Surface Vegetation and a Critique of its Documentation (2017)
DOCUMENT Full-Text John S Harris.

This landscape archaeology-oriented presentation concerns on-going thesis research that seeks to change the way archaeologists perform site surveys, as the prevailing method of recording site surface vegetation is of little research value. This presentation seeks to draw attention to the under-appreciated value of surface vegetation at sites as ecofacts, offering a critique of how it is presently documented on site forms, and suggesting some procedural solutions to increase their usefulness to...


Letter from Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt to Secretary of the Army Louis Caldera Regarding Disposition of the Kennewick Human Remains (2000)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Bruce Babbitt.

This letter describes the Department of Interior's (DOI) final determination and resolution of the issues delegated to DOI by the Department of the Army (DOA) in a March 1998 interagency agreement. In this agreement, DOI agreed to make the following two determinations related to the set of human skeletal remains recovered on July 26, 1996, from Columbia Park, land controlled by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE), near the city of Kennewick, Benton County, Washington: 1) whether these human...


Letter from the Office of the Post Veterinarian to the Commanding General, Report of Proceedings of Board of Officers, Fort Sam Houston and Camp Bullis, Texas (1945)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Laurence R. Bower. Millard Butcher. Lothard T. Jessen.

This letter details the findings, considerations and recommendations of the Board of Officers that the Leon Springs Military Reservation has inadequate forage and water during the summer months to properly subsist the number of deer now present. It is believed the scarcity of water is of particular importance. That the Commanding General, or his designated representative, permit controlled hunting by military personnel located at Fort Sam Houston, and Camp Bullis. It is suggested that this...


Letter Preliminary Report of Phase 2 Data Recovery at AZ U:15:1(REC) on SCIDD Property and Trenching for Additional Canal Exposures on Federal Land Near Ashurst-Hayden Diversion Dam, Pinal County, Arizona (2012)
DOCUMENT Full-Text E. Melanie Ryan.

As authorized under the Arizona Water Settlements Act of 2004, the San Carlos and Irrigation Drainage District (SCIDD) is undertaking a 10-year rehabilitation project of its irrigation system. SCIDD is the non-Indian irrigation component of the San Carlos Irrigation Project (SCIP), which provides irrigation water to the communities of Florence, Coolidge, and Casa Grande in Pinal County, Arizona. The initial focus of the SCIDD Rehabilitation Project is the rehabilitation of the Ashurst-Hayden...


Letter Report: Brushy Creek (1992)
DOCUMENT Citation Only E. Arthur III Bettis.

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Letter Report: Camp Wapello Comorphological Study (1993)
DOCUMENT Citation Only E. Arthur III Bettis.

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Letter Report: Cen CR-Oo-S-294460 (1994)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Raymond J. Horton. James H. Blancher.

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Letter Report: Geomorphological Examination of Waterworks Park IN Rightof Way of the Proposed Martin Luther King Parkway (1994)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Rolfe Mandel.

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Letter Report: Twin Rivers Drive; Archaeological Site 13Le183, EDA Project # 05-01-02440, IDOT Projct # Rm-3952(1)--90-56 (1993)
DOCUMENT Citation Only David G. Stanley.

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Letter--Departmental Consulting Archeologist, DOI-NPS, to the US Army Corps of Engineers regarding questions about Kennewick Man [Dec. 23, 1997] (1997)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Francis McManamon.

This letter, written by Francis P. McManamon, Departmental Consulting Archeologist, to Lt. Colonel Donald Curtis, Jr., United States Army Corps of Engineers-Walla Walla District, provides answers to a set of questions posed regarding aspects of the Kennewick Man case. Col. Curtis asked Dr. McManamon to address these questions because the DCA office was responsible for providing governmentwide expertise on implementation of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.


Letter: Tribal letters Regarding Bighorn Sheep Methodology for NTTR (2016)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael A. Freeman.

Tribal letters sent regarding 2016 Bighorn Sheep Methodology for Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) Legislative Environmental Impact Statement.


Life at the River's Edge: Hohokam Irrigation and Settlement Along the Red Mountain Freeway Between the Price Freeway and McKellips Road (1998)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: adam brin

Archaeological testing and data recovery were conducted along a segment of the Red Mountain Freeway (Loop 202) corridor between the Price Freeway and McKellips Road, including a realigned segment of Dobson Road in Mesa, Arizona. Conducted under contract to Stanley Consultants, Inc., for the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT), the work was done in four phases (testing and data recovery for each of two segments) between October 1994 and April 1996. One site (AZ U:9:6 [ARS]) was found to...


Lindsay Mammoth Site (24DW501): Paleontology and Paleoecology (1971)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Leslie B. Davis.

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Lithic Artifact Photographs, Brookville Reservoir Survey 1991-1992 (2012)
IMAGE Veterans Curation Program.

Photographs of lithic artifacts collected during the archaeological reconnaissance of the proposed Brookville Reservoir area in Franklin and Union Counties, Indiana.


Little Caney River Prehistory (Copan Lake): 1978 Field Season (1980)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Terry J. Prewitt.

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Little Caney River Prehistory: 1977 Field Season (1979)
DOCUMENT Citation Only James D. Keyser. James A. Farley.

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Little Caney River Prehistory: 1979 Field Season (1981)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Marvin Kay.

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Little Freeman Cave (23PU565)- Mollusk dataset-1/16" Flot (1996)
DATASET Mona Colburn. Bonnie Styles. Robert Warren.

Freshwater mussels from 1/16" heavy fraction flotation fom Little Freeman Cave (23PU565), Missouri. Identifications by Robert Warren. Data entered from hand written tallies by Mona Colburn.


Little Freeman Cave (23PU565)- Mollusk dataset-1/4" screen (1996)
DATASET Mona Colburn. Bonnie Styles. Robert Warren.

Freshwater mussels from Little Freeman Cave (23PU565), Missouri. Identifications by Robert Warren. Data entered from hand written tallies by Mona Colburn.


Little Freeman Cave (23PU565)- Vertebrate Fauna, 1/16" Flot (1996)
DATASET Mona Colburn. Bonnie Styles. Karli E. White.

Flotation (1/16 inch mesh) vertebrate faunal remains from Test Units 1, 2, and 3 at Little Freeman Cave (23PU565) in Missouri.


Little Freeman Cave (23PU565)-Vertebrate Fauna, 1/4" screen (1996)
DATASET Mona Colburn. Bonnie Styles. Karli E. White.

Faunal remains collected from Test Units 1 through 5 and 8 by screening through 1/4 inch mesh at Little Freeman Cave (23PU565) in Missouri.


Little Freeman Cave, MO (23PU565) Project
PROJECT Bonnie Styles.

Little Freeman Cave (23PU565) is a large cave (25 m x 28 m with a current ceiling height of 6 m) situated in the oak-hickory forest on the south facing bluff overlooking the Big Piney River in the Central Ozark Highland in the Fort Leonard Wood military reservation in Pulaski County, Missouri. Phase II testing at the site in 1996 and more extensive excavations in 1997 by the Illinois State Museum (under the direction of Dr. Steven Ahler), under contract with the United States Army Corps of...


Little Midden Site Documents (8BR01933) (1993)
DOCUMENT Full-Text C. Van Voorhies. Robert J. Muncy. William M. Wingo.

Site forms, cultural resource reports, and background documentation for the Little Midden Site (8BR01933). Includes the reports "Species Profiles: Life Histories and Environmental Requirements of Coastal Fishes and Invertebrates (Gulf of Mexico)" and "A Cultural Resources Assessment Survey of the Little Midden Site, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Brevard County, Florida."


Llano Grande Project (2004)
DOCUMENT Full-Text James Schoenwetter. Lisa D. Lavold.

Documents related to pollen studies at the Llano Grande site, Jalisco, Mexico. The 2002 report on this research contains tables of pollen observed, but presents interpretations based on a preliminary assessment of site stratigraphy. The 2004 report was prepared after a more thorough, final, 2000 report on site stratigraphy (included) had been generated. The 2004 report was presented at the annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology in the context of a symposium on studies of...