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.
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Regional location of Cerro Jazmin in the Mixteca
A Look at Paleoecological Inquiry in Archaeology (1963)
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archeology, 1963. Explores the question of how archaeologists may use paleoecological information to best advantage.
The Los Hornos Pollen Study (1980)
Major study intended as the draft of a chapter in a report on the archaeological mitigation program for a populous Hohokam village in the Salt River Valley, Arizona. Though the study generated an unusually large body of well controlled archaeological-context palynological data, it did not result in the discovery of new information about Hohokam prehistory. Assessments of this failure, however, led to significant methodological lessons for archaeological pollen studies.
Los Prietos Tri-Counties boot camp Project Joint environmental Document Federal NEPA Environmental Assessment County CEQA Initial Study / Negative Declaration 96-ND-27 (1996)
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Louisiana Chenier System (1979)
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Lower Mississippi River Delta (1936)
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The Lower Verde Archaeological Project
The Lower Verde Archaeological Project (LVAP) was a four-year data recovery project conducted by Statistical Research, Inc. (SRI) in the lower Verde River region of central Arizona. The project was designed to mitigate any adverse effects to cultural resources from modifications to Horseshoe and Bartlett Dams. The Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Arizona Project’s Office sponsored the research program in compliance with historic preservation legislation. The LVAP’s...
Macrobotanical Analysis of Feature ER2352/4, A Subfloor Pit Associated with a 19th-Century Slave Cabin from Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest (2009)
Macrobotanicals were analyzed from a sub-floor pit in a 19th century slave cabin located at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest plantation (Virginia) during the tenure of the Hutter family as plantation owners. The thousands of seed and wood remains recovered illustrate that the slaves’ main subsistence strategies were provisioning, or receiving food from the plantation owner, production, or growing their own food, and the procurement of wild resources. These various subsistence strategies...
A Macrobotanical Analysis of Site 11PK1771, a Late Woodlands site in Illinois (2009)
Forty-four flotation samples from a Late Woodlands site located in Pike County, Illinois were submitted to the Fiske Center for Archaeological Research for macrobotanical analysis. Charred wood, nutshells, and charred chenopodium (Goosefoot) seeds formed the majority of the botanical remains recovered. Bowes and Trigg note the excellent fuel woods recovered from the site, as well as the ubiquity and importance of walnuts, hickory nuts, and hazelnuts in Native diets. The large number of...
A Macrobotanical Analysis of Site 33PE807, an Early Archaic to Late Prehistoric Site in Ohio (2009)
Twenty-one flotation samples obtained from the Rockies East Pipeline archaeological project Site 33Pe807 were examined for botanical remains. Site 33Pe807 is located in Ohio and was occupied from the Early Archaic to the Late Prehistoric period. Bowes notes the predominance of hardwoods among the charred wood specimens recovered, as well as the presence of black walnut and hickory nuts. Many seeds and botanical remains were unidentifiable due to poor preservation.
A Macrobotanical Analysis of Site 33PE839, an Early and Middle Woodlands Period Lithics Workshop (2009)
Ten soil samples from an Early and Middle Woodlands period quarry-related lithics workshop in Ohio were submitted to the Fiske Center for Archaeological Research for macrobotanical analysis. This limited activity site was not expected to yield many botanical remains, although Bowes and Trigg did identify charred hickory (Carya), oak (Quercus), and elm (Ulmus) wood, as well as one hickory nutshell and one charred chickweed (Stellaria) seed among the remains submitted for analysis. Radiocarbon...
MACROFLORAL ANALYSIS AT SIX SITES IN THE SUBSURFACE HEATING EFFECTS STUDY AT BANDELIER NATIONAL MONUMENT, NEW MEXICO (1998)
Sediment samples from six sites in Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico, were floated to recover macrofloral remains as part of the Subsurface Heating Effects Study. The main purpose of this project was to determine the effects of fires on archaeological material. Saint Peter's Dome Fire of 1996 burned a total of 16,516 acres in northern New Mexico, including 4,779 acres in Bandelier National Monument. Of the six sites examined, four were burned in the 1996 Dome Fire, one was burned...
Maintaining Elements That Are Efficient by Design: What's Already Green About Our Historic Buildings (Legacy 09-456)
This document is intended to help Cultural Resources Managers (CRMs), architects, and engineers understand the existing green features of historic buildings and use those features optimally in adaptive reuse projects that are aimed at increasing energy efficiency and reaching sustainability goals.
Maintaining Elements That Are Efficient by Design: What's Already Green About Our Historic Buildings - Report (Legacy 09-456) (2010)
This document is intended to help Cultural Resources Managers (CRMs), architects, and engineers understand the existing green features of historic buildings and use those features optimally in adaptive reuse projects that are aimed at increasing energy efficiency and reaching sustainability goals.
Makapansgat and Buffalo Cave Palynology: A Brief Assessment of Studies During Spring, 1999 (1999)
Research initiated at the inception of the Spring 1999 semester by Mrs. Loren A.LeForce under my supervision, focused on recovery of pollen from samples collected at “the limeworks” fossil locality at Makapansgat and the Buffalo Cave locality, South Africa. The objective was assessment of the samples’ potential to provide sufficient pollen for meaningful analysis of paleoecosystem conditions, and identification of palynological contrasts amongst samples from the same locality and between...
Mammalian Remains (1982)
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Man and Settlement in the Upper Santa Ana River Drainage: A Cultural Resources Overview (1984)
Between July and October of 1984, Statistical Research, Inc., conducted a cultural resources overview and limited field checks of six proposed reservoirs and associated borrow sites in the Upper Santa Ana River Drainage. The proposed areas of impact are dispersed throughout the San Bernardino Valley, covering portions of both San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, California. Although each area is relatively small, in combination they touch on most areas of the San Bernardino Valley. Thus,...
Man, Models and Management: An Overview of the Archaeology of the Arizona Strip and the Management of Its Cultural Resources (1989)
The region encompassing the land north and west of the Colorado River in the State of Arizona is the subject of this Class I cultural resources overview. This region, commonly referred to as the Arizona Strip, contains approximately 3.5 million acres, of which 2.75 million acres are administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), 650,000 acres are under the jurisdiction of the USDA Forest Service, and the balance is controlled by various State and Federal agencies, Indian tribes, and...
Man, Models and Management: An Overview of the Archaeology of the Arizona Strip and the Management of Its Cultural Resources (1989)
The region encompassing the land north and west of the Colorado River in the State of Arizona is the subject of this Class I cultural resources overview. This region, commonly referred to as the Arizona Strip, contains approximately 3.5 million acres, of which 2.75 million acres are administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), 650,000 acres are under the jurisdiction of the USDA Forest Service, and the balance is controlled by various State and Federal agencies, Indian tribes, and...
Management of a Nike Site: A Feasibility Study for Management of Nike Site Summit, Fort Richardson, Alaska (1997)
Site Summit is a significant Alaskan Cold War Era property. In recognition of this, the Keeper of the National Register of Historic Places listed it on July 11, 1996. A Department of Defense (DoD) Legacy grant through Fort Richardson to the Alaska Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation's Office of History and Archaeology paid for research and preparation of the nomination. The Army obtained a second DoD Legacy grant for a feasibility study to help identify potential management actions for the...
Management Plan for California Department of Forestry's Historic Buildings and Archaeological Reports; California Department of Forestry Archaeological Reports Number 22 (2001)
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Manual of Field Geology (1962)
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Map of Affected Cultural Resources and Heritage Management Sites by 1998 Proposed Burn, Poinsett Electronic Combat Range, South Carolina (1997)
Maps of archaeological and heritage resources sites affected by the 1998 proposed burn on the Poinsett Electronic Combat Range, South Carolina.
Map of Prehistoric Canal System, Gila Valley (1926)
This image is a topographic map that details the prehistoric canal system throughout the Gila Valley. The map details both the Gila and McClellan rivers and the manner and location in which the canal connect with the rivers. The image also details, by grid system, the locations of prehistoric sites and existing towns.
Map of the Original Vergetation of Minnesota (1975)
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