Historic Background Research (Investigation Type)

These are investigations of the past using written records and other documents. Evidence from the records are compared, judged for veracity, placed in chronological or topical sequence, and interpreted in light of preceding, contemporary, and subsequent events.

6,601-6,625 (6,892 Records)

Treatment of Archeological Properties: a Handbook (1980)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Advisory Council on Historic Preservation.

This Handbook was created by the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) as a guide to principles, procedures, and methods for the treatment of archeological properties in accordance with 36 CFR Part 800. The handbook was approved by the ACHP's Archeology The handbook is an elaboration on and explanation of the Supplementary Guidance published on November 26, 1980, in the Federal Register (45 FR 78808), under the authority of the ACHP's Executive Director, set forth in 36 CFR Sec....


Treatment recommendations for Casa Grande Ruins National Monument (1967)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: alycia hayes

This document is a recommedation for treatments needed at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. There are 4 main areas of focus: Compound A, the Great House, the Ball Court and Compound B. There is some review of past treatment processes and how well those treatments weathered. There is discussion regarding the very poor condition of Compound B and how long it had been since there had been any attention given to that compound. The text includes a recommendtion to backfill Compound B.


Treaty-Reserved Rights on Department of Defense Lands (Legacy 99-1881)
PROJECT Wendy Eliason.

This report identifies Department of Defense (DoD) installation obligations arising from treaties and agreements negotiated by the United States and Indian nations between 1775 and 1954. In general, these treaties recognize tribal members rights to hunt, fish, gather, and otherwise continue longstanding use of lands now occupied by DoD installations.


Treaty-Reserved Rights on Department of Defense Lands - Report (Legacy 99-1881) (2002)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Wendy Eliason. Donald Fixico. Sharon O'Brien. Michael Stewart.

This report identifies Department of Defense (DoD) installation obligations arising from treaties and agreements negotiated by the United States and Indian nations between 1775 and 1954. In general, these treaties recognize tribal members rights to hunt, fish, gather, and otherwise continue longstanding use of lands now occupied by DoD installations.


Treaty-Reserved Rights on Department of Defense Lands - Summary (Legacy 99-1881) (2002)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Wendy Eliason. Donald Fixico. Sharon O'Brien. Michael Stewart.

This is a summary of a report that identifies Department of Defense (DoD) installation obligations arising from treaties and agreements negotiated by the United States and Indian nations between 1775 and 1954. In general, these treaties recognize tribal members rights to hunt, fish, gather, and otherwise continue longstanding use of lands now occupied by DoD installations.


Tree Ring Specimens / Original Timbers in Casa Grande Ruins (1964)
DOCUMENT Full-Text David Wilcox. Richard Howard. Gordon Vivian. A. H. Schroeder. Aubrey F. Houston.

These documents are a series of memorandums from both 1964 and 1976 regarding wooden timbers found in the Great House at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. The memos discuss the removal of the timbers and shipment for the purpose of dendrochronology. The condition of the timbers is discussed regarding the possible difficulting in dating them due to burning.


Tree-Ring Dating and the Village Cultures of the South Dakotas (1962)
DOCUMENT Full-Text W. W. Caldwell.

For the past several years the Smithsonian Institution has been concerned with the problem of dating cultural developments and climatic events along the main stem of the Missouri River (see Progress. Missouri River Basin, Oct.-Dec., 1959, pp.42-60). One of the most profitable approaches has been through dendrochronology, the charting and comparison of annual growth rings of trees. The study of dendrochronology is not new in the Plains. The work of Harry Weakly in central and western Nebraska,...


The Trico Ironwood Forest National Monument Pole Replacement Project: Cultural Resources Mitigation at Site AZ AA:11:80 (ASM), Pima County, Arizona (2004)
DOCUMENT Full-Text India S. Hesse.

SWCA Environmental Consultants (SWCA) conducted limited archaeological data recovery at site AZ AA:11:80 (ASM) within the Ironwood Forest National Monument between March 15 and March 18, 2004. The purpose of the work was to mitigate potential adverse effects to the site prior to proposed power line improvements in the area by Trico Electric Cooperative (Trico). Specifically, Trico proposes to replace 39 existing power poles and install 2 new power poles along the existing overhead power line....


The truth about Arkansas (1895)
DOCUMENT Citation Only William H. [from old catalog] Edmonds.

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.


Truth at Last. History Corrected. Reminiscences of Old John Brown (1880)
DOCUMENT Citation Only George W. Brown.

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.


Tularosa Basin and Coe Ranch, Ft. Bliss, TX - Brochure (2008)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Fort Bliss.

This public brochure is a historic context including Coe family history, military expansion/acquisition, and the development of Fort Bliss.


Tuolumne Community Cultural Resources Survey, Tuolumne County, California. (2001)
DOCUMENT Citation Only M. V. Thornton. C. M. Francis. A. Bloomfield. B. Ananian. S. Davis-King. C. M. De Ferrari. Architectural Resources Group.

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.


Tuolumne County Parking Lot Project / Green Street, Reconnaissance, Zimmerman Lot (2001)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Charla Francis.

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.


Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Its Early Days, 1816-1865 (1958)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew W. Clinton.

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.


Tuttletown, Registered Landmark #124. California Historical Landmark Series edited by V. A. Neasham. (1937)
DOCUMENT Citation Only J. C. Kean.

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.


Tutuila, Samoa, U. S. Naval Station, 1900 - 1951
DOCUMENT Citation Only E. M. Hall.

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.


Tuzigoot: An Archaeological Overview (1976)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Dana Hartman.

This report is the result of a proposed subterrene drainage project at Tuzigoot National Monument. In June, 1975, the Museum of Northern Arizona contracted with the National Park Service (Contract No. CX81005004) to study the impact of the drainage project on the archaeological resources at the Monument. In conjunction with this phase of the project, Museum archaeologists were to locate all possible undisturbed deposits in the pueblo. These deposits would be plotted on an archaeological base map...


Twentieth Century Adventure with Juan Mateo Manje (1961)
DOCUMENT Full-Text George W. Chambers.

Juan Mateo Manje was an old and close companion. After all, Arizona Silhouettes had lived with him for almost three years during our work with the late Harry J. Karnes, who translated Manje's Luz de Tierra lncognita, from the Francisco Fernandez del Castillo Spanish version; the first English translation we published in 1954. This was the day-by-day diary of Manje from February l, 1694, through April 15, 1701, covering seven major trips of discovery with Fray Eusebio Francisco Kino. These two...


Two Ancient Rock Inscriptions Indicate an Archaic Chinese Presence in the American Southwest (2017)
DOCUMENT Full-Text John Ruskamp.

This paper documents and offers translations for two sets of ancient, highly complex inscriptions readable as Chinese that were pecked into the rocks of Arizona and New Mexico an estimated 2,500 years ago. Here is what appears to be conclusive epigraphic evidence that Chinese explorers not only reached the Americas in pre-Columbian times but also interacted positively with Native populations, sharing both intellectual and cultural information.


A Typology of PreColumbian Entheogenic Paraphernalia
PROJECT Uploaded by: Robert Caldwell

Classification and Typology for PreColumbian Entheogen Paraphernalia, of the objects used to collect, srore, prepare, and administer Entheogens in PreColumbian cultures throughout the history of the hemisphere


U. S. 160: Durango to Bayfield Corridor Final Historic Resources Inventory, La Plata County, Co. (Fc-NH(Cx) 160-2(48)) (2000)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Cheryl Eckhardt. Robert J. Mutaw.

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.


The U. S. Naval History of the Samoan Defense Group - LT. Commander John Burke, Usna (1945)
DOCUMENT Citation Only John Burke.

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.


U.S. Air Force Integrated Cultural Resources Management Plan (ICRMP) - Joint Base Charleston (2017)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Rachel Fernandez

The Integrated Cultural Resources Management Plan (ICRMP) is a planning document used to manage an installation's cultural resources management program. The document identifies cultural resource activities such as surveys and building inventories, that have taken place on an installation. It also identifies and describes historic resources within installation boundaries, identifies Native American groups affiliated with an installation, and provides a plan for staying in compliance with cultural...


U.S. Air Force Integrated Cultural Resources Management Plan Mount Ka‘ala Air Force Station and Kōke‘e Air Force Station (2022)
DOCUMENT Full-Text .

This ICRMP was developed to provide for effective management and protection of cultural resources. It summarizes the history and prehistory of the installation, and reviews past historical and archaeological survey efforts. It outlines and assigns responsibilities for the management of cultural resources, discusses related concerns, and provides standard operating procedures (SOPs) that will help to preserve the cultural resources of the installation within the context of the mission. The ICRMP...


U.S. Air Force Integrated Cultural Resources Management Plan, Cavalier Air Force Station (2020)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Rachel Fernandez

This ICRMP was developed to provide for effective management and protection of cultural resources. It summarizes the history and prehistory of the installation and reviews past historical and archaeological survey efforts. It outlines and assigns responsibilities for the management of cultural resources, discusses related concerns, and provides standard operating procedures (SOPs) that will help to manage or preserve the cultural resources of the installation within the context of the mission....