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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Early version of the paper published in American Antiquity, 1974.
Pollen Study of Arizona N:4:6 (1969)
Letter report of pollen study suggests the Colorado Plateau Pollen Chronology (CPPC) is not applicable to sites in this part of the Verde River Valley. Distriution of economic pollen types suggets rooms 2 and 3 had different cultural functions.
A Pollen Study of the Abiquiu Reservoir (1979)
Draft of the paper published in J.D. Beal, 1980, "1979 Sample and Site Specific Testing Program at Abiquiu Reservoir." School of American Research Contract Archaeology Report.
Pomme De Terre Study Locality: Its Setting (1976)
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A Post-Glacial Pollen Sequence From Dark Canyon Cave, New Mexico (1961)
Unpublished report, 1961 Complacent pollen records associated with both extinct fauna and archaeological remains argues that Southwest has been semi-arid throughout Late- and Post-Pleistocene.
Potential for DNA Testing of the Human Remains from Columbia Park, Kennewick, Washington [Feb. 3, 2000] (2000)
At the request of the Department of Justice and Dr. Francis P. McManamon, Departmental Consulting Archaeologist of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior, the authors discuss the potential for DNA analysis of the human skeletal remains from Kennewick, Washington that are the objects of the lawsuit now pending (Bonnichsen et al., vs. United States of America, Civil No. 9601481-JE). The purpose of such an analysis would be to determine the genetic affinity of the above individual by...
Pottery type images for the western Tabasco Coastal Plain (2008)
This set of images documents common ceramics types found at La Venta, Tabasco. The examples here were recovered from San Andrés (Barí 1), a subsidiary elite community in the Lower La Venta area of the flood plain. The ceramics at San Andrés demonstrate a range of states from refired and eroded to well-preserved. The type images presented here are of generally well-preserved examples. These types are defined in my dissertation (von Nagy 2003), and will receive full treatment in a forth coming...
Pre-Construction Testing at the Off-Street Transit Center, 44th Street and Washington Street, Pueblo Grande AZ U:9:1(ASM), Phoenix, Arizona (2007)
This report presents the results of an archaeological pre-construction testing program completed at the location of the Off-Street Transit Center (Transit Center) at the southwest corner of 44th and Washington streets, within the City of Phoenix. The property is shaped like a right triangle measuring approximately 206 m (686 ft) from east to west and 127 m (422 ft) north to south. The parcel is bounded on the north and east by Washington Street and 44th Street, respectively. The southern...
Prehistoric Adaptive Strategies in the Chaco Canyon Region, Northwestern New Mexico (1982)
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Prehistoric Agricultural Strategies in West-Central New Mexico (1987)
Environmental fluctuations are frequently cited as a major factor effecting population displacement and cultural development in the American Southwest. Recent research suggests that the interaction of environmental, demographic, and behavioral variables might account for these presumed causal relationships, but behavioral responses to environmental fluctuations remain poorly understood. The environmental factors most likely to have been stressful to agriculturalists such as the prehistoric...
Prehistoric and Historic Occupation of the Lower Verde River Valley: The State Route 87 Verde Bridge Project (1992)
This study presents the results of archaeological investigations undertaken within the proposed corridor of State Route 87 on the Fort McDowell Indian Reservation and Tonto National Forest, in northeastern Maricopa County, Arizona. This work was funded by the Arizona Department of Transportation (Contract 89-28) and conducted under the aegis of the Tonto National Forest. Six archaeological sites were investigated for this project, including three prehistoric lithic procurement sites, a Hohokam...
Prehistoric and Historic Settlement in the Palau Islands, Micronesia (1983)
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Prehistoric Engineering Along a Meandering River: a Hypothesis (1984)
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Prehistoric Hunter-Fisher-Gatherers: Implications from Ethnohistory (1975)
Large portions of the world once were occupied by human populations subsisting by hunting, fishing and the gathering of wild plants. Archeologists have long been interested in understanding and explaining the life ways of these prehistoric populations. Human cultural evolution having proceeded as it did, almost no written records exist that report on human populations pursuing such a way of life in deciduous and boreal forestlands exist. This is unfortunate for ethnographic analogy, when...
Prehistoric Indian Settlements of the Changing Mississippi River Delta (1958)
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Prehistoric Irrigation Canals (1922)
This image is a 1922 map of prehistoric irrigation systems throughout the Salt River Valley. The map indicated where the Salt River meets the Gila River. The map labels and indicates the location of both the prehistoric irrigation canals and prehistoric settlements. Further, the map shows locations of petroglyph sites. The image also includes a short pamphlet outlining the history of the Hohokam existence and important time lines.
The Prehistoric Irrigation of the Casa Grande Ruins Area of the Gila River in Southern Arizona (1963)
This image reflects both prehistoric and historic landmarks as well as irrigation water ways feeding from the Gila River. In addition, the map shows roads, highways, modern canals, railroad line, cemeteries, modern buildings and their location surrounding the Gila River and Casa Grande Ruins. Every canal and ruin shown on the map was measured, photographed an dplotted to scale.
Prehistoric Man and His Environment: a Case Study In the Ozark Highland (1976)
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Prehistoric Morphology and Marsh Development of Pamet River Valley and Nauset Marsh (1981)
The purpose of this research was to expand upon the previous report prepared by O’Donnell and Leatherman (1980) regarding the geomorphic evolution of Outer Cape Cod. Two areas, the Pamet River Valley and Nauset Marsh, were identified as sites where additional data and field tests should be provided. These field data allowed for more accurate reconstruction of the prehistoric natural environment of these two areas of archeological significance. Specifically, this follow-on study was conducted in...
Prehistoric Plant Utilization in Southeastern New Mexico: A unique publication merging academic and public interests (2015)
The investigation of plant use, in southeastern New Mexico, in prehistory has been widely covered, this project continues this tradition by synthesizing and compiling all of the information to date in the region. The Carlsbad Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management, administrators of the Permian Basin Mitigation Program, is sponsoring the publication of a reference book on prehistoric plant use in Southeastern New Mexico. This free text will bring together recent work in radiocarbon...
Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the Sapillo Creek Valley, Gila National Forest, New Mexico (1995)
The Sapillo Valley Survey Project was undertaken in 1993 by Robert Stokes as a M.A. thesis project. The valley was 20 percent sample surveyed using 320 m wide transects that crossed the valley from high landform to high landform, thus ensuring that a variety of landforms would be sampled. The survey resulted in recording 62 sites ranging from Late Archaic/Early Pithouse sites to Late Pithouse villages to Classic Mimbres pueblos and fieldhouses. The sites included many large ceremonial structures...
Prehistoric Sites at Choke Canyon Reservoir, Southern Texas: Results of Phase II Archaeological Investigations (1986)
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Prehistoric Subsistence Exploitation in the Lower Trinity River Delta, Txas (1975)
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Prehistory and History Along the Upper Savannah River: Technical Synthesis of Cultural Resource Investigations, Richard B. Russell Multiple Resource Area, Volume I (1988)
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Prehistory and History of the Ojo Amarillo (1980)
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