Remote Sensing (Investigation Type)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Douglas C. McVarish. Lee Cox.

JMA conducted National Register eligibility studies of three Corps-owned breakwaters in Lake Champlain: Rouses Point (New York), Gordon’s Landing (Vermont), and Swanton Harbor (Vermont). The investigation consisted of background research, field investigations, and significance evaluations. Background research was conducted at a variety of universities, historical societies, archives, and websites. Field investigations consisted of visual inspection of the above surface components of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn C. Egan-Bruhy. Robert J. Watson. Kevin J. Mueller. Allison M. Lange. James B. Montney.

Commonwealth Cultural Resources Group, Inc. (CCRG) provided the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District (District), with a Geographic Information System (GIS) database (geodatabase) of cultural resource investigations undertaken as part of the District’s civil works projects. The geodatabase includes survey boundaries of all cultural resource investigations undertaken by or on behalf of the District on Corps fee properties and the locations of archaeological and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text William G. Monaghan. Michael Kolb. Daniel R. Hayes. Kathryn C. Egan-Bruhy.

The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) "Geoarchaeology in the Upper Mississippi Valley” project, conducted for the St. Paul District, investigated depositional processes and archaeological site formation in valley margin contexts of the Upper Mississippi River valley. The goal was to evaluate the types of depositional processes that commonly occur on valley margins, study their timing, and assess the range of impacts that these processes may have had on archaeological site taphonomy and burial....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Andrew Agha. Thomas G. Whitley.

Between 30 November 2009 and 7 May 2010, Brockington and Associates conducted intensive cultural resources survey fieldwork of a total of 2,519 acres at six different reservoirs in western Arkansas. This project was conducted under Contract No. W912-P9-D-0537 with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District (Corps) as part of an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) program enacted by congress in 2009. Archival research defined no previously recorded archaeological sites...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Gregory Waselkov.

Application of five geophysical survey methods - earth conductivity, magnetometry, thermal imaging, electrical resistivity and ground penetrating radar - in the search for archaeological remains of Fort Louis, original capitol of the French colony of Louisiane (1702-1711), has yielded divergent yet complementary results. This project included test excavations to ground truth the geophysical results and to evaluate the relative effectiveness of these five geophysical survey technologies in...

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Between 1997 and 1999, archaeological investigations at several sites along the Santa Cruz River in Tucson, Arizona, resulted in the collection of pottery from a wide variety of temporal contexts in a relatively limited geographic area. The analyses of these ceramics culminated in a selection of sherds from multiple sites for petrographic analyses. The result is four petrographic data sets with overlapping analytical requirements. In order of their temporal contexts, they are: (1) Tortolita...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Carol Poplin. Inna Burns.

"In July 2003, Brockington and Associates, Inc., conducted excavations in the portion of archaeological site 38JA272 that will be affected by the construction of Phase I of the South Carolina Pipeline Company’s (SCPC) 82 mile South System Loop Natural Gas Pipeline near Ridgeland in Jasper County, South Carolina. Archaeological monitoring of construction activities at site 38JA272 was conducted in November 2003. Archaeological site 38JA272 is a possible Civil War rifle trench with a surrounding...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael J. Lenardi.

This report presents a Monitoring, Treatment and Data Recovery Plan for Grangebel Park, located in the Town of Riverhead, Suffolk County, New York. The New York Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) in cooperation with the Federal highway Administration (FHWA) and the Town of Riverhead Community Development Agency have proposed improvements to Grangebel Park as part of a larger, more comprehensive plan to revitalize Riverhead. No prior archaeological investigations are known to have been...

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SRI conducted an archaeological survey for ring-midden features using lidar data in three localities in the foothills of the Guadalupe Mountains and Sacramento Mountains in southeastern New Mexico. The unique shape and prominence of ring middens were identified by remote sensing data and then verified in the field within the sampled areas. The result supports the use of lidar data for project scoping and landscape-level studies, but cannot substitute for Section 106 inventory due to the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael Heilen. Monica Murrell. Timothy Mills. Nahide Aydin. Phillip O. Leckman. Adam Byrd.

The final report presents the methodology and results of this experimental study to see if remote sensing data alone is able to identify the presence of ring-midden features. Lidar data obtained for sample areas was then verified on the ground, and found to be successful in identifying all but disturbed or low-profile ring middens. Therefore, the use of lidar data is appropriate for project scoping and landscape area studies, but not as an alternative to Section 106 survey.

PROJECT Hugh B. Matternes. J. W. Joseph. Shawn Patch.

This investigation addressed the location of an unmarked cemetery on property currently owned by Prince George County, adjacent to U.S. Army Fort Lee Military Reservation in eastern Virginia. Historical research indicated that the burial ground was associated with the laboring Sisters of the Vine Burial Association who used it as a cemetery in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Relic fences and property boundary markers indicated where the probable cemetery property boundaries...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John F. Hoffecker. K. Wescott. Matthew Greby.

During May through August of 1998, ten 611th Air Support Group (611 ASG) installations covering a total of 12,210 acres were inventoried for archaeological remains. These installations included: Anvil Mountain Radio Relay Station (RRS), Cape Lisburne Long-Range Radar Site (LRRS), Cape Newenham LRRS, Cape Romanzof LRRS, Fort Yukon LRRS, Galena Airport, Kotzebue LRRS, Murphy Dome LRRS, Sparrevohn LRRS, and Tin City LRRS. Archaeological remains were documented at Cape Lisburne and Tin City, and a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Roger K. Harritt.

This study discusses the 2008 cultural resource survey at the King Salmon Forward Operating location. The areas evaluated included the Air Force property in the vicinity of building T-524, the Old Marina building located on the northeast bank of the Naknek River, and the vicinity of Naknek Recreation Camp No. 1.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Gregory Waselkov.

Following the discovery by James C. "Buddy" Parnell of archaeological features at the French colonial site of Old Mobile, 1MB94, in the spring of 1989, the University of South Alabama began excavations and a systematic shovel testing survey of the site. With grant support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Alabama Historical Commission, the State of Alabama, and numerous private sponsors, the archaeological research team was able to locate, by 1991, the remains of at least 26...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Gregory Waselkov. Diane Silvia.

The LaPointe-Krebs House or "Old Spanish Fort" (archaeological site 22JA526) in Pascagoula, Mississippi, is evidently the oldest standing structure in that state. Archaeological test excavations in and adjacent to the house in 1979, 1992, and 1994, 1995, and 2010 have revealed a complex sequence of colonial-period occupation and building on that site. Apart from some sporadic prehistoric occupation during the Middle Woodland period about two millennia ago, the major occupation occurred between...

PROJECT Aaron Norment. W. Nicholas Trierweiler. Jen Anderson. Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT).

On February 11 and from February 20–March 11, 2019, AmaTerra Environmental, an ERG Company (AmaTerra) conducted archeological excavations at the Santa Land Site (41SM490) on behalf of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) in support of the proposed expansion of Interstate Highway 20 (IH-20) in Smith County, Texas (CSJ 0495-04-065). As TxDOT and the Texas Historical Commission (THC) deemed the site eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) and for...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Scott Stadler.

From April 1997 to January 1998 trenchlng for the installation of a fire suppression system was undertaken at Fort Scott National Historic Site, Kansas. The excavations were monitored to determine if cultural features or artifacts were located in the areas of disturbance. Monitoring revealed historic features and artifacts relating to the military and post-military hlstory of the fort.

IMAGE Gregory Waselkov.

Artifact photos from Structure 1 at Old Mobile (1MB94). A sampling of European and Indian artifacts found at Structure 1 at the Old Mobile site, including porcelain, San Luis polychrome, stoneware, and olive jar fragments.

IMAGE Gregory Waselkov.

A sampling of European and Indian artifacts found at Structure 3 at the Old Mobile site (1MB94), including coins, buckles, buttons, and pipes, as well as a variety of different ceramic types.

IMAGE Gregory Waselkov.

A sampling of European and Indian artifacts found at Structure 14 at the Old Mobile site (1MB94), including beads, a bar shot, a sword guard, a scabbard clip, coins, faience, and porcelain.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Amy Portell. Amy Williams.

The procedures employed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), St. Louis District, Curation and Archives Analysis Branch, Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections to rehouse the archaeological material from USACE, Vicksburg District are discussed below. In the rehousing process of each investigative effort for the Vicksburg District collection, staff generally followed the same standard procedures. Upon completion of the curation...

DOCUMENT Full-Text 611th Civil Engineer Squadron.

Various photographs from the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line Radar Station Bar-1 in the early 1960s.

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This report details work by the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center (Crow Canyon) during the Basketmaker Communities Project, a multi-faceted research and public education archaeological initiative undertaken by Crow Canyon from 2011 through 2017. The primary purpose of the Basketmaker Communities Project was to study the history and social organization of a large Basketmaker III period (A.D. 500–750) settlement in the central Mesa Verde region and to track the long-term impacts of that settlement...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robin L. Sutherland. Frederick P. Gaske.

Reports, photographs, maps and SHPO correspondence related to the Beach Trail Site, 8BR02174.

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Archaeologists often use high-resolution satellite imagery to identify potential archaeological sites or features, including ancient settlements, burial mounds, roads, and even subtle differences in vegetation or topography. Over the last several decades, satellite imagery and other remote sensing techniques (including aerial photography and LiDAR data) have been used to thoroughly map the extensive settle-ment complex of the Greater Angkor Region (1 500 km2, 9th – 14th centuries CE) in...