Reconnaissance / Survey (Investigation Type)
An activity employed to gather a general impression of the nature and distribution of archaeological or cultural resources in an area. Relatively little field work is conducted in relation to the size of the research area.
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New Philadelphia, Illinois Landowner Records, Block 8
New Philadelphia, Illinois Landowner Records, Block 9 (2006)
New Philadelphia, Illinois Landowner Records, Block 9
New route through Chiriqui (1861)
Public Domain Article: Chronicles his first hand account of an expedition to Chiriqui in the 1850's (spans almost the entire decade). This magazine article provides a good first hand account, more as an ethnohistorical piece, in a fantastical adventuristic tone.
New-Granada: The Chiriqui Diggings Completed (1859)
This newspaper clipping from 1859 briefly describes what was found in Chiriqui and the estimated dollar amount.
Northeastern North America Archaeology
Documents and other data related to the archaeological record of Northeastern North America
Note on the Aboriginal Races of the North-Western Provinces of South America (1884)
This 1884 article by White refers to a strip of country about 600 miles in length and 250 miles in width on the west of the pacific ocean. The author describes his interpretation of the cultures and provides regional/locational differences. He also describes past and present burial rituals and techniques.
Note on the Archaeology of Chiriqui (1913)
This brief 1913 article argues that the "...faunal environment of a given region is apt to be reflected in its primitive art, especially when the art is primarily of local origin." The region of interest is Chiriqui Panama. The author, George MacCurdy, describes the animal forms of the ceramic art found in the region to illustrate his argument.
Note sur les sepultares indiennes du department de Chiriquí, Panamá (1866)
This article is in Spanish and describes the tombs in Chiriqui, Panama
Ojo Bonito Archaeological Project (OBAP)
A survey and excavation project directed by Keith Kintigh and executed from 1983 through 1994. Approximate 58km2 were surveyed and 560 sites were recorded. Substantial excavations were undertaken at the Hinkson Site great house complex and Jaralosa Pueblo. Test excavations were completed at H-Spear, a Chacoan Great House located by the project and Ojo Bonito Pueblo. The project took place on the ranch of Mrs. Everett (Mabel) Hinkson (deceased). Most of the project work was done as a part of...
Orange Grove
Multi-component project containing both historic and pre-historic elements. It is located in Pala San Diego. This project is for JPOWER and will consist of a new Power Station that will be placed directly onto the footprint of a historic orange grove. The other impacts will include water, natural gas, and energy lines that will be dug and laid between 10 and fifteen miles coming to the power plant. The power station location is approx. 4 miles from the Pala mission and the eastern boarder...
Orange Grove (2009)
Multi-component project containing both historic and pre-historic elements. It is located in Pala San Diego. This project was for JPOWER and consisted of a new Power Station that will be placed directly onto the footprint of a historic orange grove. The other impacts included water, natural gas, and energy lines that will be dug and laid between 10 and fifteen miles coming to the power plant. The power station location is approx. 4 miles from the Pala mission and the eastern boarder of the...
The Pacific Coast: Arrival of the Northern Light: Four Days from the Isthmus of Panama: The Chiriqui Gold Fever: Rush of the Population for the Indian Burial-Places: Two Weeks Later From South America (1859)
This August 12, 1989 newspaper article covers the Chiriqui Gold Fields and the intense excitement that created a rush of gold hunters to Panama. It also covers news from Puru, South America, and Chilli.
Photographs (1985)
Photographs are one of the few remaining ways to examine the now inundated archaeological sites in the DAP. Photographic images add context to specific aspects of Anasazi life in the DAP area; in a sense, DAP photography "provides the investigator with ways to understand the spatial integration of households and communities" (Wilshusen et al. 1999:115). Only a fraction of all photographs taken during the project can be found in the published series of DAP reports. Individuals wishing to access...
Post-Chacoan Social Integration at the Hinkson Site, New Mexico (1996)
The century following the collapse of Chaco is often viewed as a time of cultural backsliding. However, imposing sites with Chaco-inspired public architecture provide evidence of large communities, dating between A.D. 1200 and 1275, that laid the organizational foundations of well-known Pueblo IV towns. This article reports on excavations at one such Zuni-area settlement. the Hinkson site. In this site, 32 residential room blocks surround a great house complex that includes an unroofed, oversize...
Prehistory at Milehigh (1973)
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Preliminary Report on the Vertebrate Faunal Remains from the Ojo Bonito Archaeological Project (1998)
Excavations conducted by the Ojo Bonito Archaeological Project (OBAP) in 1987, 1988, and 1994 have recovered a relatively large and well-preserved faunal assemblage. This report presents the results of a preliminary study ofthe animal bone from these excavations. In the first part of analysis, an overview of the taxonomic composition of the OBAP assemblage is provided and the diversity and proportional distribution of identified fauna are described. More in-depth analyses of intra- and intersite...
Proyecto Salinas de los Nueve Cerros
Archaeology, ethnohistory, ethnography, geology, and community development at the largest Precolumbian saltworks in the Maya world. Salinas de los Nueve Cerros was a Maya city located at the highland-lowland transition along the Chixoy River that produced up to 24,000 tons of salt/year during the Late Classic period (AD 600-850). It was occupied from at least 800 BC through the Classic collapse, and continued to be occupied throughout the Postclassic and colonial periods, with salt production...
Public Architecture, Ritual, and Temporal Dynamics at the Maya Center of Blue Creek, Belize (2004)
This paper summarizes more than a decade of excavations in the monumental core precinct of the Maya center of Blue Creek in Northwestern Belize.
Publications in Salvage Archeology, 2: The Black Partizan site (1966)
The Black Partizan Site, a large fortified earth-lodge village in Lyman County, South Dakota, was excavated by the Missouri Basin Project, Smithsonian Institution as a part of the Inter-Agency Archeological and Paleontological Salvage Program within the Big Bend Reservoir. During the past decade and a half, salvage investigations have been carried out in a number of reservoirs along the main stem of the Missouri River but work has been most intensive in the lower Oahe and Big Bend Country of...
Publications in Salvage Archeology, 7: Arikara Archeology: the Bad River Phase (1968)
The Oahe Dam vicinity, just upstream from Pierre, South Dakota, was particularly rich in archeological remains. Few areas of similar size in the Missouri Basin exemplify so well the accomplishment of the Inter-agency Archeological and Paleontological Salvage Program. Five major archeological sites were located on the right bank of the Missouri less than a mile and a half above or below the axis of the dam, and a sixth (39HU22) lay across the river on the left bank (Fig. 20). All were...
Report on Shovel Test Pit Surveys at the New Philadelphia Archaeology Site, Pike County, Illinois (11PK455), Summer 2005, By Christopher Fennell, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, July 18, 2006 (2006)
Report on Shovel Test Pit Surveys at the New Philadelphia Archaeology Site, Pike County, Illinois (11PK455), Summer 2005, By Christopher Fennell, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, July 18, 2006
Report on the Huacals or Ancient Graveyards of Chiriqui (1860)
Describes an 1858 Discovery by two Spanish creole farmers in Chirique of a cash of golden artifacts and eventually a graveyard. The two excavated the artifacts without being discovered until May of 1859. After they were discovered thousands of people looted the graveyard located in Huscal (25 miles from the current city of David). Thousands of pounds of gold were reportedly taken from the gravesite. This document also contains bulletins from the subsequent meetings.
A Review of Human and Natural Changes in Maya Lowlands Wetlands over the Holocene (2009)
In the Maya Lowlands of Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala two main types of wetlands have played important roles in human history: bajos or intermittently wet environments of the upland, interior Yucatán and perennial wetlands of the coastal plains. Many of the most important Maya sites encircle the bajos, though our growing evidence for human-wetland interactions is still sparse. The deposits of these wetlands record two main eras of slope instability and wetland aggradation: the...
River Basin Surveys Papers, No. 35: Archeological Investigations at the Hosterman Site (39PO7), Oahe Reservoir Area, Potter County, South Dakota, 1956 (1964)
The Hosterman site, named for John B. Hosterman, owner of the property, is located in sec. 36, T. 119 N., R. 79 W., Potter County, S. Dak., on a high bluff on the east bank overlooking the Missouri River about 21;2 miles north of Whitlocks Crossing. It is on the western margins of the Coteau du Missouri, "that part of the Missouri Plateau section of the Great Plains province which lies east of the Missouri River." The name of the Coteau dates back to the days of the French fur traders. The...
River Basin Surveys Papers, No. 36: Archeological Investigations at the Hickey Brothers Site (39LM4), Big Bend Reservoir, Lyman County, South Dakota (1964)
The Hickey Brothers site (39LM4) was excavated during the summer of 1958 as part of the investigations of the Missouri Basin Project, Smithsonian Institution, within the projected Big Bend Reservoir of central South Dakota. The site was approached with every expectation of adding materially to the corpus of data bearing upon the "middle period" of village occupation along the Missouri main stem. The Hickey Brothers site appeared to be particularly important because it was fortified in a...