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.

926-950 (2,079 Records)

Historic Aerial Photos of Travis Air Force Base (1953)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Rachel Fernandez

Aerial photos of Travis Air Force Base from 1943 and 1953.


Historic American Landscapes Survey Level II, Nike Hercules Missile Battery: Site Summit (ANC-00789; HALS AK-9), United States Air Force Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson, Alaska (2015)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Katherine Martin. Robert W. Lane.

The Nike Hercules Missile Battery Site Summit, Anchorage, Alaska, recording project was performed under contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) for Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson under the direction of the Alaska State Historic Preservation Officer and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. The historical reports and photographs were prepared by Jacobs Engineering Group. Robert Lane served as historian and Katherine Martin served as architect. This document includes the...


Historic Landscape Inventory with Recommendations for Landscape Treatment, Camp Bullis, Bexar County, Texas (1996)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Helen Tyson Siewers. Nicole Fleck.

The historic cantonment area at Camp Bullis represents a typical Army training facility built during the period between World Wars. An overview of the natural history of the region concludes that the Hill Country landscape was shaped by geologic and climatic conditions. The resulting landscape, with its varied terrain of rolling hills and open valleys is well suited to the needs of a training facility, yet at the same time quite sensitive to the effects of human disturbance. Unique natural...


Historic Landscape Survey, Randolph Air Force Base, Texas (2013)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Megan W. Tooker. Ellen R. Hartman. Adam D. Smith.

As an inventory and evaluation of the historic landscape and landscape features of Randolph Air Force Base (AFB), Texas, this document meets the requirement for federal agencies to address their cultural resources, defined as any prehistoric or historic district, site, building, structure, or object. Randolph AFB’s historic landscape is unique in its design and implementation. The base was planned and designed as an ideal “Air City” to meet flying training requirements while providing a...


Historic Maps of the Salt River and Gila Valleys
PROJECT Uploaded by: alycia hayes

This project contains various historic maps and images of the Salt River and Gila Valley. These maps include prehistoric canal systems of the Hohokam Indians. Some maps also include modern irrigation projects and water ways of the time period.


Historic Preservation Plan for the Kahuku Training Area, O'ahu, Hawai'i (Legacy 93-0539)
PROJECT Uploaded by: Courtney Williams

This Historic Preservation Plan was prepared for use by the Commanding Officer and staff of the Kahuku Training Area to help guide and advise on responsibilities and to assist with the protection, preservation, and enhancement of the prehistoric and historic resources under their jurisdiction.


Historic Preservation Plan for the Kahuku Training Area, O'ahu, Hawai'i - Plan (Legacy 93-0539) (1996)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Lisa Anderson. Scott Williams.

This Historic Preservation Plan was prepared for use by the Commanding Officer and staff of the Kahuku Training Area to help guide and advise on responsibilities and to assist with the protection, preservation, and enhancement of the prehistoric and historic resources under their jurisdiction.


Historic Properties Survey Cape Canaveral Air Station, Brevard County, Florida (1994)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Joe Joseph. Leslie Raymor. Charles E. Cantley. Mary Beth Reed.

The report presents the results of an intensive survey of 1,430 acres bordering the Banana River and investigations of previously identified archaeological resources located in the interior and eastern coastal regions of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Both historic and prehistoric occupations are discussed.


Historic Village of Fort Drum Tour: Visiting the Lost Villages of Sterlingville, Woods Mills, Lewisburg, and LeRaysville, Fort Drum Military Installation, Fort Drum, New York
PROJECT Uploaded by: Heather Wagner

This is a supplemental booklet to accompany the Lost villages bus tour. It provides maps to locations and additional information for each stop.


Historical Map of Salt River Valley (1905)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: alycia hayes

This document is a historic hand drawn map of the Salt River Valley. On the map are historic notes regarding milestone dates such as when the first cultivated field were put in and by whom. The notes also indicate John Y.T. Smith as the first white man to establish any habitation in the Salt River Valley in 1867 and government contracts he was awarded.


Historical Setting (1982)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert E. Warren.

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.


Historical Site Assessment: BOMARC Missile Site, McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey (2006)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Cabrera Services, Inc.

This document is a radiological historical site assessment (HSA) for the Boeing Michigan Aeronautical Research Center (BOMARC) Missile Site on the Fort Dix Military Reservation, Plumsted Township, New Jersey (see Figure 1). In 1958, the 46th Air Defense Missile Squadron (ADMS) from McGuire Air Force Base (AFB) was authorized use of approximately 220 acres of Fort Dix property for the construction of a missile facility. The Site is approximately 11 miles east of McGuire AFB. This facility...


A History of the Building and Structure of Faraway Ranch: Historic Structure Report and Archeological Data sections, Chiracahua National Monument, Arizona (1985)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Louis Torres. Mark Baumier.

The significance of the Faraway Ranch Historic District has been thoroughly and completely stated in the National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form. At the risk of being redundant, this writer wishes to condense the statement of significance entered on the nomination form if only to emphasize the more important aspects of history associated with the several existing structures that form an integral part of the historic district.


History, Philosophy, and Perspectives (1985)
DOCUMENT Citation Only John A. Gifford. George Rapp, Jr..

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.


Hohokam Archaeology Along Phase B of the Tucson Aqueduct Central Arizona Project, Volume 4: Small Sites and Specialized Reports (1989)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Lauren Jelinek

Volume 4 of the Tucson Aqueducet Phase B project, the fourth in a series of five reports, describes the results of the investigations at all archaeological sites other than the two large Rillito phase settlements Water World and Fastimes. It reports the results of excavations at 11 sites: four limited activity sites (AZ AA:12:383, AA:l2:465, AA:l2:481, and AA:l2:484, better known as Hawk's Nest); two farmstead-field house sites (AZ AA:l6:97 and AA:l6:161); a probable protohistoric site (AZ...


Hohokam Irrigation and Agriculture on the Western Margin of Pueblo Grande: Archaeology for the PHX Sky Train Project (2015)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: adam brin

The results of phased data recovery efforts for the City of Phoenix Aviation Department in advance of construction of the PHX Sky Train are presented in this report. Investigations were conducted within the Sky Train's 44th Street Station area, located immediately west of 44th Street and south of the Grand Canal in Phoenix, Arizona. Twelve medium to large prehistoric canals were encountered during the project, which was an anticipated discovery given the project's location northwest of the Park...


Hohokam Irrigation Communities: A Study of Internal Structure, External Relationships and Sociopolitical Complexity (2006)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jerry Brian Howard.

The relationship between large-scale water control projects and the development of sociopolitical complexity is an important theoretical domain in anthropology that can benefit from the diachronic nature of archaeological data. It is argued that irrigation systems are socio-technic entities, designed not only to satisfy engineering requirements but also to accommodate the social groups operating it. This study develops a new theoretical framework for identifying the task groups operating these...


Hohokam Settlement Along the Slopes of the Picacho Mountains, Volume 5: Environment and Subsistence (1988)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Lauren Jelinek

This is the fifth volume in a six volume series presenting the results of archaeological studies at Hohokam sites along the Tucson Aqueduct.The volume focuses on pollen, flotation and faunal studies in an effort to understand the paleonenvironment of the study area during the periods the sites were occupied and the subsistence strategies of the sites' occupants. Primary site-specific emphasis is on determining feature functions as they relate to biological results. The studies presented document...


Holocene Alluvial Stratigraphy and Landscape Development In Soap Creek Watershed. Appanoose, Davis, Monroe, and Wapello Counties, Iowa (1987)
DOCUMENT Citation Only E. Arthur III Bettis. John P. Littke.

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.


Holocene Alluviation and Erosion In the White River Badlands, South Dakota (1985)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Everett M. White. Adrien Hannus.

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.


Holocene Dynamics (1982)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael J. O'Brien. Robert E. Warren.

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.


Holocene Geoarchaeology and Prehistory of the Ray Roberts Lake Area, North Central Texas (1997)
DOCUMENT Citation Only C. Reid Ferring. Bonnie C. Yates.

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Holocene Geomorphic and Stratigraphic Framework of Archeological Sites Along the Missouri River, Central South Dakota (1987)
DOCUMENT Citation Only A. H. Coogan.

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.


Holocene Landscape Evolution IN Western Iowa--Concepts, Methods and Implications for Archaeology (1981)
DOCUMENT Citation Only E. Arthur III Bettis. Dean M. Thompson.

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Holocene Paleoclimates: An Annotated Bibliography (1984)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Martha Andrews.

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