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Natural inorganic substance possessing a definite chemical composition in a crystalline form.

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Vanishing River List of Figures, Plates, Vessels and Figures (1997)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: M Scott Thompson

The Vanishing River List of Figures, Plates, Vessels, and Tables contains a table-of-contents style list for all figures, photos, and tables referenced in the Vanishing River volumes.

Vanishing River Volume 1: Part 1, Scorpion Point Village: Chapters 1 - 4 (1997)

DOCUMENT Full-Text WIlliam L. Deaver.

The Scorpion Point site is located on a remnant of a Pleistocene terrace about 37 m above the Verde River. Researchers began the fieldwork expecting to find no more than a dozen pit houses representing a few small pre-Classic period farmsteads scattered along the terrace above the Verde River. Instead, they found the remains of a ball court village with at least 50, and perhaps as many as 300, pit houses. At the conclusion of fieldwork at Scorpion Point Village, archaeologists with the Lower...

Vanishing River Volume 2: Agricultural, Subsistence, and Environmental Studies: Part 2: Chapters 4-7 (1997)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard Ciolek-Torello. Jeffrey A. Homburg. Jonathan Sandor.

Volume 2, Part 2 provides the results of detailed research on prehistoric agricultural systems and sites in the LVAP area. Chapter 4 presents the results of SRI’s field investigations at Classic period dry-farming agricultural fields and associated field houses in an almost-300-acre area west of Horseshoe Dam. This area encompasses the hilly and gently undulating to nearly flat terrain of basalt flows, terraces, and escarpments west of the Verde River floodplain. Within this large area, 23...

Vanishing River Volume 4: Chapter 04: An Overview of Research History and Archaeology of Central Arizona (1997)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Stephanie M. Whittlesey.

In Chapter 4, Whittlesey presents a thorough summary of archaeological research and intellectual history in central Arizona. The author's goal is to situate the LVAP research in the context of central Arizona archaeology. Whittlesey provides histories of the research that has been conducted in the Verde drainage, the Tonto Basin, the Agua Fria drainage, and the Phoenix Basin. She concludes with a summary of the research trajectories and the different explanatory models applied to central...

Velarde Community Ditch Project - New Mexico Phase III (Ditch Rehabilitation): Cultural Resources Investigations (1988)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Alaina Harmon

The on-the-ground survey of the ditches was designed to locate any remnants of prehistoric activities and to note the historic and historic/modern structures and use areas which reflect the past and intertwine with the ditches and fields to create the ambient that is the San Juan Valley. The notations and locations have been used to ensure that carrying out Stage III of the project would disturb or destroy as few resources as possible and to contribute to the general knowledge of the history of...

Verhüttungsexperimente mit Chalcopyrit-Erz nach Vorbildern aus dem bronzezeitlichen Ostalpenraum und Nepal (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Rose. Erica Hanning. Sabine Klein.

(Article is in German with English abstract and figure captions) During the summer of 2018, the German Mining Museum Bochum (DBM) and the Roman-Germanic Central Museum (RGZM) conducted copper ore smelting experiments at the Laboratory for Experimental Archaeology (LEA), RGZM in Mayen, Germany. The smelting experiments not only reconstructed a 4.000 year old smelting process, but also produced material that could then be used for scientific analysis. During the course of the experiments, copper...

Viking Unst Project Excavations at Hamar and the Upper House, Underhoull: Field Season 2007: Interim Report No. 2 (Data Structure Report) (2007)

DOCUMENT Full-Text J.M. Bond. Z. Outram. C.M. Freeth.

The Viking Unst Project began in August 2005 with an integrated survey of key sites in the island of Unst (Bond et al. 2006). Using a Penmap survey as well as simple annotated plans, this initial investigation aimed to thoroughly record the sites in terms of surviving earthworks and the surrounding area. The first excavation season was carried out in July 2006 and focused on the site of Hamar under the direction of Dr. Julie Bond, with work on the site of Belmont being carried out ...

Viking Unst Project, Excavations at Hamar and The Upper House, Underhoull: Field Season 2008: Interim Report No. 3 (Data Structure Report) (2008)

DOCUMENT Full-Text J.M. Bond. Z. Outram. C.M. Freeth.

Village Life at Yukaipa't: Archaeological Data Recovery at CA-Sbr-1000 / H, Yucaipa, CA. 207PP (1996)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Donn R. Grenda.

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Vol 9 Synthesis.pdf (2022)