Heritage Management (Investigation Type)

PROJECT US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District. US Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District.

This collection is referred to as "Archaeological Investigation of Fort Norfolk (44NR1) 1977.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is a quarter (0.25) linear inch. The documents date from 1977 to 1979. The investigation primarily occurred in 1977, which explains the date in the project name. The range of dates includes additional archaeological catalogs dating to 1979. The majority of the documents were...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Matthew A. Sterner.

This report details construction monitoring of AZ BB: 13:445 (ASM) and data recovery on discovered features by Statistical Research, Inc. (SRI). The site includes portions of two city blocks, known as historic Blocks 406 and 451 (based on designations used on Sanborn Fire Insurance maps), known to have been occupied since at least 1902. The project area was being prepared for the construction of the Main Gate Center office complex and accompanying multilevel parking facility. Following an...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Inna Burns.

"Archaeological data recovery investigations at 38CH691, an archaeological site eligible for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), exposed the remnants of the primary settlement of the colonial-antebellum Schieveling Plantation, three late eighteenth-early nineteenth century slave residences in outlying portions of the site, and a buried occupation horizon associated with the Middle to Late Woodland occupation of the site. In total, these investigations encompassed 1,528.65 m2 or 28.7...

PROJECT US Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District. US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District.

Gray and Pape, Inc., a cultural resource management firm located in Cincinnati, Ohio, conducted fieldwork at site 46SU633 in the Bluestone Reservoir in the Huntington District of West Virginia in September and October 1997. The fieldwork consisted of shovel testing and unit excavation. There is no report available for this investigation so it is not known why the investigation was initiated for site 46SU633. Due to the lack of information for the investigation it was named after the site number...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Wade P. Catts. John P. McCarthy. Thomas M. Johnson.

Archeological investigations were conducted at 36FA404, the New Geneva Pottery Waster/Loading Dock Site. Field work consisted of both manually and mechanically excavated test units and trenches. Portions of the waster dump used by the New Geneva potters in the final two decades of the nineteenth century and into the early years of the twentieth century were excavated on Lot 167. Excavations on Lot 166 recovered artifacts associated with the Arthur Robbins’ pottery (circa 1907-1914). The...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas P. Barrett.

A proposal to Andrews Air Force Base by Greenhorne & O'Mara, Inc. (G&O) to provide archaeological investigations and testing for a Safety Zone Tree Control project. This includes a project plan, schedule, G&O's experience, and other requisite information for their proposal.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Brockington and Associates. Eric C. Poplin. Ed Salo.

Archaeologists with Brockington and Associates, Inc., monitored the installation of a swimming pool at 82 Pitt Street in Charleston, South Carolina, to satisfy a preservation easement held by the Historic Charleston Foundation on this property. Test excavations and construction monitoring identified two primary features in the area scheduled for the pool. These are a brick and bone floor and a brick-lined well. The floor may once have been covered by a single-story building based on the presence...

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In August through October of 1980, New World Research, Inc., conducted Phase I investigations at four sites (9EB92, 9EB207, 9EB208, 9EB219) known collectively as the Beaverdam Group. Previous research at three of the sites had indicated the presence of a possible Stallings Island occupation at 9EB219, and Lamar-related Mississippian occupations at 9EB92, 9EB207, and 9EB219. Only survey level work had been conducted at 9EB208, but Taylor and Smith (1978) had indicated that the site might be a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text A. Joachim McGraw.

During December 1985, a cultural resources assessment was made within the 350-acre property of Eisenhower Park in northern Bexar County, Texas. Systematic survey of the property and limited subsurface testing at four newly recorded and two previously recorded prehistoric sites were done. All sites are characterized by a deflated scatter of lithic debris. None of the sites examined are deemed potentially eligible for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places or to be designated as a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Allison Cohen Diehl. Timothy W. Jones. J. Homer Thiel.

Archaeological excavations at El Dumpe (AZ BB: 13:110 ASM) and the Embankment site (AZ BB: 13:159 ASM) were conducted by Desert Archaeology, Inc. in the summer of 1994. The Arizona Department of Transportation had made plans to install frontage roads on each side of the interstate. Archaeological testing had previously suggested these sites might be National Register eligible. Work at El Dumpe involved collecting samples from this 1930s to 1940s dump. The University of Arizona Garbage Project...

PROJECT US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District. Thomas Gresham. US Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District.

This collection is referred to as “Archaeological Investigations at Indian Cove (9LC24) 1985.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is one and a half (1.5) linear inches. The documents date from 1985 to 2011. The investigation occurred in 1985, which explains the date of the project name. The range of dates includes further correspondence regarding the collection inventory and transfer. The documents were...

DOCUMENT Full-Text L. Mark Raab. Allan J. McIntyre. James E. Bruseth. Daniel E. McGregor. C. Reid Ferring. Nancy G. Reese.

The following report is a synthesis of archaeological investigations in the Lakeview Lake Project area. Following an archaeological survey of the project (Phase One) by Skinner and Connors (1979; see below), sequential years of test excavations (Phase Two, 1979; and Phase Three, 1980) were carried out. The results of Phase Two and Three investigations were accumulated in two annual reports (Raab, Bruseth and McIntyre 1979; Ferring and Reese 1979 and Raab, McGregor and McIntyre 1979; Ferring and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lyle M. Stone.

In 1975, the Arizona State Parks Board acquired a portion of lot 38 within the Town of Florence, Pinal County, Arizona. This lot, located north of Fifth Street between Granite Street on the west and Main Street on the east, is adjacent to the north side of McFarland State Historical Park (Figure 1). The State Park is located on lot 67 and includes the restored 1877-1878 first Pinal County Courthouse. Lot 38 is now a part of the park property and it has been proposed that a new archives building...

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 Thomas C. Kelly. Thomas R. Hester.

In August, 1976, the Center for Archaeological Research, The University of Texas at San Antonio, conducted an intensive archaeological survey of the proposed Floodwater Retarding Structure No. 1 area, in the Upper Cibolo Creek Watershed, Kendall County, Texas. The work was carried out under the terms of a contract (135-TX-SCS-76) with the U.S.D.A. Soil Conservation Service. An initial survey of this area had been conducted in February, 1975; two historic and 17 prehistoric archaeological sites...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Deborah L. Swartz.

This project encompasses a portion of the area owned by Cottonwood Properties known as the Dove Mountain Development in the southern foothills of the Tortolita Mountains. Testing was conducted at 11 sites and more extensive excavations were done at three sites. The sites selected for more intensive investigations were the only ones that had evidence of habitation structures. Site AZ AA:12:172 (ASM) contained a single pithouse and, although only plain ware ceramics were recovered, the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James L. Rudolph. David J. Hally.

This report summarizes excavations by the University of Georgia at the Beaverdam Creek mound and village in the Savannah River valley in Elbert County, Georgia. The excavations were conducted as part of large-scale investigations of prehistoric and historic sites in the Richard B. Russell Reservoir, which were funded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah District. The Beaverdam Creek site was occupied around A.D. 1200-1250. We have used the pottery from the site to assign it to the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Gerald M. Macomber.

Archaeological investigations were conducted at the Cape Cod Air Force Station (CCAFS) in Bourne, Massachusetts to identify areas within the boundaries of the CCAFS that were sensitive for the presence of archaeological remains. The intensive survey was conducted at the location of a new water well water supply pipeline, and water storage tank. The results of the cultural reconnaissance survey determined that because of rugged terrain and the scarcity of existing or past water resources on or...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Simon Bruder.

This report presents the results of mitigation activities at the 99,000 square meter Hedgpeth Hills petroglyph and ground stone manufacturing site which is located in the Deer Valley area, northwest Phoenix, Arizona. Material from 13 smaller rock art sites from the northern Hohokam periphery is incorporated into the analysis in order to provide a regional perspective. The major goals of the project were to inventory and record rock art at the Hedgpeth site and to undertake preliminary analysis...

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The following pages describe the work conducted by members of Eastern New Mexico University Anasazi Origins Project at two archaeological sites, LA 9500 (La Bajada) and LA 9501 (the La Bajada Annex), located approximately 27 kilometers southwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Dr. Cynthia Irwin-Williams served as Principal Investigator for the Anasazi Origins Project, while the actual fieldwork discussed herein was conducted under the direction of Marshall Gettys and R. Bruce Grove. This report has...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Homer Thiel.

An archaeological survey conducted by Desert Archaeology on a parcel of state land slated for sale resulted in the discovery of a small historic site. This site is located at the base of the Mule Mountains and consists of a small, dry-laid rock foundation and an associated artifact scatter. The site was potentially eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places under criterion D. As a result, it was decided to mitigate the site prior to its transfer to private ownership. Desert...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mary Bernard-Shaw.

This report presents the results of archaeological investigations at the Redtail site. Field investigations were conducted by Desert Archaeology, Inc. (formerly the Institute for American Research) under the sponsorship of the American Continental Corporation (AMCOR) between January and May of 1987. Redtail (AZ AA:12:149 ASM) was identified as a multicomponent site that was occupied during the Pioneer and Colonial periods (A.D. 700-900). A total of 148 features were excavated, tested, and/or...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Frederick W. Huntington.

The Institute for American Research conducted an archaeological mitigation program for the Pima County Department of Transportation. Mapping, testing, and excavation activities at the West Branch Site [AZ AA:16:3(ASM)], a large preclassic Hohokam village, are reported. Hohokam remains were primarily from the Early and Middle Rincon subphases of the Sedentary period. Analyses focused on the refinement of the ceramic typology for the Rincon phase and on the documentation of household units in...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Stuart Fiedel. Katherine Kosalko. Stephanie Jacobe.

As part of a Cooperative Agreement with the United States Army Environmental Command, The Louis Berger Group, Inc. was tasked to complete the archaeological excavations at Site 44CE0110. The site is the probable core of Woodford Plantation (Windsor Plantation) with occupation from the 1700s to the mid-1900s. The location of a non-extant house is defined by a cellar depression. The brickwork suggests a construction date of the 1800s. Brick fragments and artifacts indicative of the occupation...

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The Yuma Wash site was a permanently occupied large Classic period village situated in the northern Tucson Basin at the juncture of the eastern bajada of the Tucson Mountains with the Santa Cruz River floodplain. The site area was also intermittently used on a much smaller scale during the rest of the Hohokam sequence and during the Early Agricultural and Early Ceramic periods, as well as during the Historic era. The project was conducted by Desert Archaeology, Inc., for the Town of Marana. The...