Shell (Material Keyword)

Modified or unmodified objects made from mollusc shell.

5,851-5,875 (7,104 Records)

A Report on the 1991 Excavations at Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site St. Louis, Missouri (1997)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Vergil E. Noble.

For three weeks during the summer of 1991, an archeological team investigated the abandoned estate of White Haven, family home of Julia Dent Grant, which now is referred to as Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site since coming into the National Park System in 1990. Those excavations served two major purposes: (1) to provide information on the structural evolution of White Haven for preparation of a Historic Structures Report on the property; and (2) to examine two large open grassy parcels...


Report on the 1997 Archeological Investigations at Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site St. Louis, Missouri (2009)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Karin M. Roberts. James E. Price.

From June 30 through July 25, 1997, subsurface archeological investigations were conducted at four areas of Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site, historically known as White Haven, in St. Louis, Missouri (Figure 1). Ground-disturbing activities were planned as part of the restoration and maintenance of the historic property and such investigations were necessary to mitigate any adverse impacts to significant buried archeological deposits within the project area. This project, the fifth...


Report On the Archaeological Investigation of the Shell Bluff Site (22Lo530) Tombigbee River Multi-Resource District Lowndes County, Mississippi (1980)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lourdes A. Henebry.

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Report on the Archaeological Site Examination of the Entrance Drive, Carriage House, Greenhouse, Vegetable Garden, Flower Garden, and Grapery at Gore Place (2006)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Leith Smith. Gregory Dubell.

A landscape restoration plan for the 45-acre Gore Place property in Waltham and Watertown, MA, calls for restoration of grounds, gardens and structures to depict and interpret the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century occupation of Massachusetts governor and United States senator, Christopher Gore, and his wife, Rebecca. The restoration plan includes archaeological investigation to help identify the location and integrity of six historically documented features on the Gore Place grounds....


Report On the China Ranch Area (1971)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Aileen McKinney. Duane Hafner. Jane Gothold.

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Report On the Excavation of Marin-374, Marin County, California (1967)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Novato Senior High Archaeology Club.

The site designated Marin-374 is located approximately ten miles northwest of Novato, California, about one-half mile west of the U.S. Highway 101. The site was first worked by a team from the Novate Senior High Archaeology Club on July 18, 1966. At that time, there existed in the locality of the site only a house pit and a test pit dug earlier by a group from the Northwestern California Archaeological Society. Marin-374 is a single-component, proto-historic deposit left by the Coastal Miwok...


Report On the Excavation of SDI-9098 and SDI-9099, Located On Otay Mesa Near the Internation Border (1983)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Hector.

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Report on the Huacals or Ancient Graveyards of Chiriqui (1860)
DOCUMENT Full-Text King Merritt.

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.


Report on the Investigation of Five Coastal Mattole Archaeological Sites Humboldt County, California (1981)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Valerie Levulett. Linda Bell. William Hildebrandt. Lee Motz. Margaret Biorn.

A field report on the identification and analysis of five prehistoric archaeological sites within the King Range National Conservation Area in southern Humboldt County, California.


Report on the Investigation of Five Coastal Mattole Archaeological Sites, Humboldt County, California (BLM) (1981)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Valerie Anne Levulett.

An archaeological field report on the identification and analysis of five prehistoric archaeological sites within the King Range National Conservation Area in southern Humboldt County, California


A Report on the Medicine Wheel Investigation (2008)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Wyoming Archaeological Society.

The archaeological investigation of the famed Medicine Wheel was undertaken with some trepidation because of two conditions imposed upon the operation. First, the excavation permit from the Forest Service contained the express restriction that no stones of the structure were to be disturbed. Second, the site had been badly disturbed by souvenir hunters since its discovery in the late 1880s. The extent of this disturbance was crucial in interpreting the results of the investigation, and a...


Report on the Mitigation of the Damage to Archaeological Site CA-Sbr-1913, Mojave Siphon Project, San Bernardino County, CA. 42PP (1996)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Parr. Mark Q. Sutton. David J. Scott.

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Report on the Mitigation of the Damage to Archaeological Site CA-Sbr-1913, Mojave Siphon Project, San Bernardino County, CA. 55PP (1997)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert E. Parr.

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Report On the Shell Heaps of Tampa Bay, Florida (1880)
DOCUMENT Citation Only S. T. Walker.

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Report on the Status and Condition of the Archaeological Site in a Portion of the Jamul / Dulzura Subregion Project: UJ0360 (1979)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Gary R. Fink. Joyce M. Corum.

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Report on the Survey Work in the Map Cultural Center in Yap, Federated States of Micronesia (1984)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Michiko Intoh.

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Representative Eighteenth Century Buttons (2014)
IMAGE RGA Inc. . Allison Gall.

Left to Right: Brass Button (PCN 997); Brass Button (PCN 970); Pewter USA Button (PCN 960); White Metal Button (PCN 1035); Decorative Button (PCN 1083).


Representative Teaware (2014)
IMAGE RGA Inc. . Allison Gall.

Top Row, Left to Right: Wheildonware (PCN 1089; 4c); White Salt Glazed Stoneware (PCN 1112; 27c); Earthenware Teapot (PCN 1087; 114c). Bottom Row, Left to Right: China Glaze Saucer (PCN 970; 1); Porcelain (PCN 1087); Porcelain (PCN 1086); Porcelain Saucer (PCN 1086; 23c).


RERPORT OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD RESEARCH IN 2007, INCLUDING GEOLOGICAL DESCRIPTIONS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL LOCALES. (2009)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Ben Fitzhugh.

This report documents the archaeological field results from the 2007 expedition to the Kurils. This expedition was sponsored by the Sakhalin Regional Museum under the direction of Dr. Tatiana P. Roon and the Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics under the direction of Dr. Boris W. Levin, with Dr. Alexander Rybin serving as expedition leader. Dr. Valery O. Shubin of the Sakhalin Regional Museum served as the lead Russian archaeologist. Dr. Ben Fitzhugh is the international director of the...


Research Design for Proposed Driveway Access Across Archaeological Site Easement For SDM-W-370a and Reassessment of Site Boundaries at SDM-W-370A&B Mother Grundy Acres TM 3819, EAD Log 78-19-65 (1980)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Advance Planning & Research Associates.

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Research Design for the Archeological Survey of Cape Cod National Seashore, McManamon 1979 (1979)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Francis McManamon.

This research has two general goals: first, to identify the physical characteristics and estimate the numbers and locations of archeological sites within Cape Cod National Seashore (CACO); second, to assess the significance of these sites according to the information they might provide about history, prehistory, specific past ways of life and general patterns of human behavior.


Research Design for the Investigation of Cultural Resources Along the Granite Reef Aqueduct and Transmission Lines, Central Arizona Project (1978)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Glen Rice. Patricia E. Brown.

Under contract with the Bureau of Reclamation, the Office of Cultural Resource Management (OCRM), Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, completed a general research design for completion of archaeological survey and mitigation of cultural resources that would be impacted by the construction of the Granite Reef Aqueduct for the Central Arizona Project. Because it was not possible to specify the extent of the work to be completed at the initiation of the project, general...


Research Design for the Roosevelt Community Development Study (1992)
DOCUMENT Full-Text William H. Doelle. Henry D. Wallace. Mark D. Elson. Douglas B. Craig.

The Roosevelt Community Development Study (RCD) was one of three data recovery mitigative studies that the Bureau of Reclamation funded to investigate the prehistory of the Tonto Basin in the vicinity of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. The series of investigations constituted Reclamation's program for complying with historic preservation legislation as it applied to the raising and modification of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. Reclamation contracted with Desert Archaeology, Inc. to complete the research for...


A Research Design for the Upper and Lower Ruins, Tonto National Monument (1997)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark D. Elson.

Tonto National Monument, in the Tonto Basin of central Arizona, contains two well-known cliff dwelling sites: the Upper Ruin (AZ U:8:49 [ASM]) and the Lower Ruin and South and North Annex (AZ U:8:47 [ASM]). The integrity of both of these sites, but particularly the Upper Ruin, is threatened by natural deterioration and continued ground disturbance from rodent and water action. Mitigating these disturbances may entail subsurface archaeological excavation in future years. The research design...


A Research Design for Tucson Aqueduct, Phase B Data Recovery (1986)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jon S. Czaplicki. John C. Ravesloot. Lynn S. Teague.

In 1985, the Bureau of Reclamation directed the Cultural Resource Management Division of the Arizona State Museum to develop a research design for data recovery at 15 selected archaeological sites along the Phase B alignment of the Tucson Aqueduct portion of the Central Arizona Project. Phase B included Reaches 4, 5, and 6 of the alignment. The sample included five Hohokam settlement sites: Fastimes (AZ AA:12:384 [ASM]), Waterworld (AZ AA:16:94[ASM]), AZ AA:16:97(ASM), AA:16:104(ASM), and...