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.
1,101-1,125 (2,079 Records)
A small percentage of the maps reproduced from field data can be found in the series of published DAP reports, but a much larger collection of original material can be accessed via the Anasazi Heritage Center, Colorado. The maps dataset allows users to easily know what maps are available for any provenience. Maps were sequentially numbered within each site and later classified as one of 47 taxa, according to the type of information the map was meant to convey. Documenting the contents of a site...
Marine Toxins From the Pacific II: The Contamination of Wake Island Lagoon (1969)
A study and historical account of the contamination at Wake Island Lagoon on June 20, 1965.
Marshaling the Past: Indigenous Regimes of Ownership in Amazonian Ecologies (WGF - Dissertation Fieldwork Grant) (2020)
This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project investigates how people marshal the past to secure a sustainable future. I ask how Amerindian people in Amazonia attribute historical and ecological values and meanings to anthropogenic landscapes, while simultaneously building an understanding of themselves within a complex set of changing relations between humans, nonhuman agents, and the environment. I propose an ethnography...
Marshland of Cities: Deltaic Landscapes and the Evolution of Early Mesopotamian Civilization (2003)
Prevailing theories of the evolution of early complex societies in southern Mesopotamia presume a uniform, arid landscape transited by Tigris and Euphrates distributaries. These theories hold that it was the seventh millennium BCE introduction of irrigation technologies from the northern alluvium to the south that began the punctuated evolution of Mesopotamian irrigation schemes. In this view, irrigation-dependent agro-pastoral production was the primary stimulus to urbanization and, millennia...
The Mascot Saloon: Archeological Investigations in Skagway, Alaska (2005)
A group of buildings built between 1898 and 1904 cover a series of archeological deposits associated with the Mascot Saloon, the longest lived saloon operated by the same owner at the same location in the gold rush town of Skagway, Alaska. Built during the gold rush, and then continuing to cater to the working class men of this railroad and shipping port until local prohibition in July 1916 the Mascot Saloon witnessed all phases of saloon life. A thorough contextual history explores the...
MB #33 Precontact Site Artifact Inventory (2013)
Artifact inventory from Phase II and III investigations at the MB #33 and MB #81 sites.
MB #33 Precontact Site, Moreau, NY
Digital resources from Phase II and III investigations at the MB #33 precontact site on the Batten Kill in the Town of Moreau, Saratoga County, NY. Surveys conducted by Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc. on behalf of National Grid, Inc.
McCoy Area Paleontology - Miscellaneous Reports (1987)
This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.
McCoy Paleontological Area (Letter Report) (1997)
This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.
McGuire Air Defense Missile Site Plutonium Remediation, Site Historical Preservation Report, New Egypt, New Jersey (2005)
The US developed a vast air defense network system from both Air Force and Army elements consisting of supersonic jets, anti-aircraft guns and missiles, radar detection capabilities, and ground observation to counter the Soviet threat of bombers equipped with nuclear weapons. As part of this air defense system, the Air Force along with private industry developed the BOMARC surface to air missile system, the BOMARC, named from "BO" for Boeing and "MARC" for Michigan Aeronautical Research Center,...
The Mead to Phoenix 500kV Transmission Line Project: An Archaeological Survey of Expanded Right-of-Way for Cable Pulling at Ten Point-of-Turn Towers (1995)
SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants (SWCA), conducted a comprehensive Class III archaeological survey of expanded right-of-way at ten point-of-turn towers as part of ongoing cultural resources compliance for the Mead to Phoenix 500kV Transmission line project. These activities constituted only one phase of cultural resource compliance for this project undertaken by SWCA for Salt River Project (SRP). Other phases relevant to this project include relocation and re-evaluation (Anduze and Sorrel...
Mead-Phoenix 500kV DC Transmission Line Project, Volume 1: Objectives, Procedures and Results (1983)
Western Area Power Administration (Western), Salt River Project (SRP), Southern California Public Power Authority (SCPPA) and M-S-R Public Power Agency (Modesto-Santa Clara-Redding) propose to construct, operate and maintain a ±500kV direct current (DC) transmission line from the Phoenix area in Arizona to the Mead Substation near Boulder City, Nevada (see Figure 2-1). The proposal includes a ±500kV DC transmission line, two terminal facilities, associated communication facilities, and ground...
Mead-Phoenix 500kV DC Transmission Line Project: Volume 3: Human Environment (1983)
The land use study was conducted by Wirth Associates as a portion of the environmental studies for the proposed Western Area Power Administration (Western), Southern California Public Power Authority (SCPPA) and the Salt River Project (SRP) Mead to Phoenix Area ±500kV DC Transmission Line Project. This report is composed of inventory and impact assessment sections for the alternative 500kV transmission corridors between the Mead Substation and the Westwing Substation in addition to the proposed...
The Medicine Bows (1985)
An Intensive Cultural Resource Survey of Wyoming's Mountain Country The significance of the Medicine Bow region is tied to its abundant natural resources in close proximity to major 19th century migration routes. The high mountain lakes and streams, rugged rocky peaks and endless vistas of forest remain popular with outdoorsmen who travel from afar to enjoy the unsullied natural world that still remains there.
''Meet, O Lord, On the Milk-White Horse'' Archaeological Data Recovery at Rephraim Plantation sites 38BU1385 and 38BU1803 (2005)
Brockington and Associates, Inc., conducted archaeological data recovery investigations at sites 38BU1385 and 38BU1803 between 27 January and 14 February 2003. Archaeological sites 38BU1385 and 38BU1803 are located in the Palmetto Bluff Phase I Development Tract, Beaufort County, South Carolina. These investigations were conducted under the Treatment Plan (approved by the South Carolina Department of Archives and History) in partial fulfillment of the stipulations of a Memorandum of...
Merchant Site Southeast New Mexico
The Carlsbad Field Office contracted Versar, Inc. to conduct remedial archaeological data recovery excavations at the Merchant site (LA 43414), a complex village settlement in southeastern New Mexico. The Merchant site was excavated by the Lea County Archaeological Society (LCAS) from 1959 to 1965, but the results of the excavations were never fully reported. The site was fundamental to the definition of the Ochoa phase, but the nature of the phase had remained poorly known since the excavations...
Metal Artifact Photographs, Brookville Reservoir Survey 1991-1992 (2012)
Photograph of a metal artifact collected during the archaeological reconnaissance of the proposed Brookville Reservoir area in Franklin and Union Counties, Indiana.
Method and Theory in Paleoethnobotany (2014)
Paleoethnobotany, the study of archaeological plant remains, is poised at the intersection of the study of the past and concerns of the present, including agricultural decision making, biodiversity, and global environmental change, and has much to offer to archaeology, anthropology, and the interdisciplinary study of human relationships with the natural world. Method and Theory in Paleoethnobotany demonstrates those connections and highlights the increasing relevance of the study of past...
Methods of Correlating Cultural Remains With Stages of Coastal Development (1959)
This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.
Metropolitan Denver Water Supply EIS (BLM GSRA #959) (1986)
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Micromorphology of Dust Cave Sediments: Some Preliminary Results (1993)
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Micronesian Resources Study: Pohnpei Archaeology Component: Salapwuk Archaeology: a Survey of Historic and Cultural Resources on Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia (1997)
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Middle Archaic Complex of Northwest Arkansas (1969)
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Mineralogical Identification of the Trachite In Trego County, Kansas (1990)
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MIS5e Sites in Eurasia (2020)
Site locations and references for Neanderthal sites dating to the MIS5e, or Eemian Period, in Europe/Western Eurasia. Sites in this dataset were used in two publications: 1. Nicholson, C. 2019. Shifts Along a Spectrum: a longitudinal study of the western Eurasian hominin fundamental climate niche. Environmental Archaeology: Journal of Human Palaeoecology. 1461-4103:1-16 2. Slimak, L., and C. Nicholson, 2020. Cannibals in the Forest: A comment on Defleur and Desclaux (2019). Journal of...