Architectural Survey (Investigation Type)

These investigations include field and/or document and records reviews to gather data on the presence and type of historic structures and provide a general understanding of architectural and cultural resources in an area.

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Down by the River: Archaeological and Historical Studies of the Leon Family Farmstead (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Homer Thiel.

A brief cultural background of the Tucson Basin and a set of research questions that guided work at BB:13:157 and BB:13:505 have been presented in Chapter 1. The work at prehistoric sites is presented in Chapter 2, while Chapter 3 chronicles the history of the Leon family and their property. Excavations at the Leon farmstead and the adjacent historic period canal are described in Chapter 4. The historic-period artifacts recovered from the Leon farmstead are examined in Chapter 5. Chapter 6...


Draft: National Register of Historic Places Eligibility Evaluation of Hangers 481 and 482, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico (2000)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Karen Van Citters.

Hangars 481 and 482 were evaluated using the National Register of Historic Places criteria for eligibility, appropriate historic contexts, drawings, photographs, and site visits. The structures were determined to be two of the select structures constructed toward the end of World War II and associated with the B-29 role in the final incendiary raids that devastated Japan before and after the atomic bomb was dropped. Although the structures were associated with this important period in the...


Dyess Air Force Base Cold War-Era Historic Property Survey Inventory (2009)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Rachel Fernandez

Inventory of the Cold War-Era Historic Properties at Dyess Air Force Base.


Dyess Air Force Base Cold War-Era Historic Property Survey Summary (2009)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Karen J. Weitze. Marsha Prior. Michelle D. Wurtz.

Summary of Cold-War Era historic properties at Dyess Air Force Base.


Dyess Air Force Base, Additional Evaluation and Character Defining Features of Selected Buildings at Dyess Air Force Base, Taylor County, Texas (2011)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Marsha Prior.

Architectural investigations at Dyess AFB included the development of character defining features for NRHP-eligible Cold War properties (Buildings 4314, 5020, 7007, 8129, 8130, 8131, and 9139), evaluation of a potential historic district (including Buildings 4314, 5020, 4312, 4315, 4316, 4317, and Aprons 541, 542, 543), and re-evaluation of an ammunition storage facility (Building 9136). For the potential historic district, hangars 4314 and 5020 (double cantilever hangars for the B-47 alert...


Early Systematic Looted Systematic Final Map (2010)
GEOSPATIAL Karen Holberg.

The aim of the LEAP projects was to publish multi-layered e-publications and develop and link them to associated digital archives. The original LEAP project was funded by the AHRC while the LEAP II, A Trans-Atlantic LEAP, was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This final map project is part of a 2011 LEAP II project "Placing immateriality: situating the material of highland Chiriquí" by Karen Holberg. The files contained in this record include an .mxd map project and an image of the...


Earthen Buildings Identified near Celano (AQ), Abruzzo (2017)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Gary Shaffer.

This report provides detailed descriptions of standing, earthen buildings examined in Abruzzo and Calabria, Italy, between 1979 and 2015. The structures date from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries and include former dwellings and small barns. Documentation of these earthen buildings is significant, because they represent examples of a rapidly disappearing cultural resource in Italy. Regional literature reviews and field interviews supplement the study. Finally, there are comparisons of...


East Base Historic Monument, Stonington Island, Antarctic Peninsula: Part I: A Guide for Management, Part II: Description of the Cultural Resources and Recommendations (1993)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Catherine Holder Spude. Robert L. Spude.

In October 1989 East Base, Stonington Island, Antarctic Peninsula, was designated as a historic monument under the Antarctic Treaty. The monument was described in the treaty as follows: East Base, Stonington Island (6811S, 67W). Buildings and artifacts and their immediate environs. These structures were erected and used during two U. S. wintering expeditions: the Antarctic Service Expedition (1939-1941) and the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948). The historic area is 1000 meters in...


East South Wall of Kalasasaya Platform, Tiwanaku
PROJECT Uploaded by: Alexei Vranich

This project describes two important monuments of Tiwanaku: The Kalasasaya platform and the Putuni. These buildings span across the entire range of the occupation of the core of Tiwanaku. They were also excavated nearly in their entirety during the late 1950s and 60s and are, for the most part, underpublished. The vast majority of the raw data on their excavation is held by the author in the form of the field notes and drawings by the primary excavator, Cordero Miranda. The dataset contained...


East South Wall, Kalasasaya Platform composite (2014)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Alexei Vranich.

Composite of photographs, architecture plans, and elevations for East Wall of the Kalasasaya Platform at Tiwanaku. Digitized historic architectural drawings and phtoographs of Cordero Miranda's excavation at Tiwanaku from 1960 placed in the context of modern photographs and traced.


Eastern Range Launch Site Summary, Facilities & Launches 1950 through 1994 (1995)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark C. Cleary.

A historic overview of Cape Canavaral and Kennedy Space Center which includes a short history for each launch complex with the corresponding missiles and space launch vehicles that each site supported. Additional information includes the aircraft, surface vessels and submarines that served as launch platforms for hundreds of other operations on the Eastern Range. The work appears in two parts: 1) a narrative overview of each launch site and its major programs, and 2) an itemized listing of every...


Eaton Site
PROJECT Uploaded by: William Engelbrecht

This project contains data from 17 seasons of excavation from the Eaton Site in West Seneca, NY just south of the city of Buffalo. It is a multi-component site that was occupied intermittently from late Paleo-Indian times through the early 19th century when it contained a cabin on what was then the Buffalo Creek Reservation. The bulk of material recovered from the site is from an Iroquoian village dating to the mid-sixteenth century. The major portions of three longhouses and a palisade...


Ecology Needs Archaeologists: Archaeology Needs Ecologists (2006)
DOCUMENT Full-Text John Briggs. Katherine A. Spielmann. Hoski Schaafsma. Keith Kintigh. Melissa Kruse. Kari Morehouse. Karen Schollmeyer.

Over the past five decades, ecologists and archaeologists have dismantled two longstanding theoretical constructs. Ecologists have rejected the “balance of nature” concept and archaeologists have dispelled the myth that indigenous people were “in harmony with nature”. Rejection of these concepts poses critical challenges to both fields as current disciplinary approaches are inadequate to grapple effectively with real-world complexities of socioecological systems. In this review, we focus on the...


The Economic Base of an Ancient Maya City (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text thomas guderjan.

Intensive agriculture supported large ancient Maya populations. However, there have been few attempts to understand how agriculture was integrated with the political economy of a Maya city and that city’s interaction with other polities. The site of Blue Creek in northern Belize offers the opportunity to begin to assess these relationships. Blue Creek had access to enormous agricultural resources and direct access to the riverine coastal trade system. The combination of these factors enabled...


The Effects of Twentieth - Century Globalization on the Built Envrionment of Silvituc, Campeche, Mexico (2007)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Sandra Andrade.

To better understand the role of globalization in culture change, this thesis investigates how the growing global economy of the twentieth century has affected the Maya community of Silvituc, Campeche, Mexico, and how those influences are reflected in the archaeological record. By applying both a macro-scale and microscale approach this study demonstrates how wage labor and surrounding land developments, such as the introduction of a highway, have been incorporated into a subsistence-based...


El Potrerito Midden 1 Coring Field Notes (1998)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Paula Turkon.

Scanned copy of field notes recording the core sampling within Midden 1 at the site of El Potrerito.


Elmendorf Air Force Base, Volume I: Historic Context of World War II Buildings and Structures (1999)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Frank Broderick. Linda Cook. Brian Coffey. Karen Bretz. Anna Lee Hewko.

In 1995, Elmendorf Air Force Base (AFB) in Anchorage, Alaska, contracted with the National Park Service (NPS) Alaska Support Office to assess the eligibility of its World War II-era facilities for the National Register of Historic Places. Under that contract, a team of NPS historians and partners prepared, researched, and compiled this study of World War II history and resources. They had the assistance of archivists, property managers, and peers who contributed both their time and knowledge to...


Elmendorf Air Force Base, Volume II: List of Historic Facilities, WWII Buildings and Structures (1997)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Frank Broderick. Linda Cook. Karen Bretz. Brian Coffey. Anna Lee Hewko.

The buildings and structures inventoried in Volume II represent the field survey component of this study. The inventory includes the known World War II era buildings and structures built between 1940 and 1945 and five Cold War era buildings as specified in the contract. The project team conducted the survey primarily in 1996 with additional site visits in 1997 and 1998. The team visited and assessed each building and wrote current building descriptions based on this fieldwork. Each entry...


Eolian Deposition and Soil Fertility in a Prehistoric Agricultural Complex in Central Arizona (2012)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Dana Nakase.

Prehistoric farmers in the semi-arid American Southwest were challenged by marked spatial and temporal variation in, and overall low levels of, precipitation with which to grow their crops. One strategy they employed was to modify their landscape with rock alignments in order to concentrate surface water flow on their fields. A second challenge that has been less focused on by archaeologists is the need to maintain soil fertility by replenishing nutrients removed from the soil by agricultural...


Est_Looted_Graves_Area Shapefile (2010)
GEOSPATIAL Karen Holberg.

The aim of the LEAP projects was to publish multi-layered e-publications and develop and link them to associated digital archives. The original LEAP project was funded by the AHRC while the LEAP II, A Trans-Atlantic LEAP, was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This shapefile is part of a 2011 LEAP II project "Placing immateriality: situating the material of highland Chiriquí" by Karen Holberg. All files associated with this record must be downloaded to ensure that the shapefile...


Evaluation for National Register of Historic Places Eligibility of Five Sandia National Laboratory Buildings, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico (1993)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven R. Hoagland.

A National Register of Historic Places evaluation has been conducted for Sandia National Laboratory (SNL) Buildings 824, 828, 834, 838, and 839. This evaluation is the second phase completed in response to a New Mexico State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) reply (Lynne Sebastian, letter of 7 /12/91 to Albert Chernoff) that questioned the significance of these and two other early laboratory buildings (814 and 815). The eligibility of Buildings 814, 815, and their potential for inclusion into...


Evaluation for National Register of Historic Places Eligibility of Sandia National Laboratory's Buildings 814 and Building 815, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico (1991)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven R. Hoagland.

A National Register of Historic Places evaluation has been conducted for Sandia National Laboratory (SNL) Buildings 814 and 815. This evaluation was conducted in response to a New Mexico State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) response (Lynne Sebastian, letter of 7 /12/91 to Albert Chernoff) that questioned the significance of these and five other early laboratory buildings. The State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) response went on to recommend that historical and architectural...


Evaluation of Historic Buildings Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee (2008)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomason Phillips.

This project was designed to address deficiencies in the 2006 GeoMarine report on the historic facilities at Arnold Air Force Base, specifically those associated with the Cold War. Additional background and archival research was undertaken to more fully develop the Cold War context within which Arnold Air Force Base should be evaluated. The result of this research and evaluation of Arnold Air Force Base is that the area containing the testing complexes meets the criteria for listing on the...


Evaluation Report for an Archaeological Collections Center for the Presidio Trust San Francisco, California (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Heather Pobst. Daryl Atchley. Jennifer Riordan.

At the request of the Presidio Trust of San Francisco, California, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections (MCX-CMAC), located at the St. Louis District, assessed archaeological collections and associated documentation generated from archaeological investigations conducted within the boundaries of the Presidio of San Francisco and preformed an architectural evaluation of its current collections facility...


Excavated Archaeofaunal Data from the Agua Fria National Monument (2004)
DATASET Legacies on the Landscape Project, Arizona State University.

Excavated Archaeofaunal Data from the Agua Fria National Monument