Shell (Material Keyword)

Modified or unmodified objects made from mollusc shell.

6,826-6,850 (7,097 Records)

The Tres Alamos Site on the San Pedro River, Southeastern Arizona (1947)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Carr Tuthill.

The ruins lie on the east bank of the San Pedro River some twelve miles by road north of the town of Benson. At this point the river has started to cut into an erosion terrace or bench on which the ruins are located. This bench rises about one hundred to one hundred and fifty feet above the bed of the river, and is eroded by relatively short but deep and steep-banked gullies or arroyos into several tongues of land fanning out toward the river. Evidences of prehistoric occupation are found on the...


Trial Excavations at CA-Sbr-5545 and -5547, in the Saratoga Springs Area, Death Valley National Monument, California (1986)
DOCUMENT Citation Only William J. Wallace.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.


Trigg Site, City of Radford, Virginia (1984)
DOCUMENT Citation Only William T. Buchanan, Jr..

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.


Trip Report for Unscheduled Emergency Archaeological Assistance at USAKA, Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, 17-18 March and 1-3 April, 1987 (1987)
DOCUMENT Citation Only C. F. Streck, Jr..

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.


Trudnaya 1 Artifact Photographs (2006)
IMAGE Uploaded by: Natalia Slobodina

Artifact photos from Trudnaya 1.


True Blue Plantation, Archaeological Data Recovery at a Waccamaw Neck Rice Plantation (1989)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Paul E. Brockington, Jr.. Eric C. Poplin.

True Blue Plantation, a nineteenth century rice plantation in Georgetown County, South Carolina, currently lies within the on-going development area of Heritage Plantation, a recreational and residential resort community near Pawleys Island. Archaeological data recovery activites were undertaken at True Blue Plantation (38GE372) prior to the development of this portion of the Heritage property. Exploratory excavations were conducted in four separate areas within the site that were previously...


Tucson Aqueduct Project Phase A
PROJECT Donald E. Weaver, Jr.. Donald E. Weaver, Jr.. USDI Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office.

Reaches 1 and 2 of the Tucson Aqueduct portion of the Central Arizona Project extend from the terminus of the Salt-Gila Aqueduct just east of Picacho Reservoir (12 km southeast of Coolidge) south along the western flanks of the Picacho Mountains, east along the southern flanks of the Picacho Mountains through Picacho Pass, and then south to the vicinity of Red Rock. A Class III archaeological survey of the aqueduct corridor and associated areas was conducted by Arizona State Museum...


Tucson Aqueduct Project Phase B
PROJECT Lynn S. Teague. Jon Czaplicki. John C. Ravesloot. USDI Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office.

The Tucson Aqueduct Phase B Project represents the first substantial archaeological investigations and excavations to be conducted in the Avra Valley. Prior to the 1983 intensive survey of the Phase B alignment by archaeologists from the Arizona State Museum, archaeological investigation of the Avra Valley had been limited primarily to occasional clearance surveys and test excavations. The identification of 47 prehistoric sites during the 1983 survey (Downum and others 1986) and the...


Tucson Aqueduct-Phase B, Central Arizona Project, Archaeological Data Recovery Studies, 1985-1986 Annual Report (1987)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jon S. Czaplicki.

Arizona State Museum's 1985-1986 Annual Report is a summary of the field­work and activities during the first contract year of the Tucson Aqueduct-Phase B, Mitigative Data Recovery Study in the Avra Valley. Management information and research results of the 15 Hohokam sites investigated are presented in this report. The plan of work for 1986-1987 involving field­work, analyses, report preparation and miscellaneous projects are also discussed in the annual report.


Tucson at the Turn of the Century: The Archaeology of Block 83 (1994)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jonathan B. Mabry. James E. Ayres. Regina L. Chapin-Pyritz.

During May of 1990, archaeologists investigated the historic remains on Tucson Block 83, still preserved beneath the debris of more recent buildings that had been demolished for construction of a new downtown bus station. With a specially-designed wide blade, a backhoe gently scraped away the foot-deep demolition debris to reveal adobe, brick, and stone house foundations, trash piles, well shafts, and privy pits dating between about 1880 and 1920 (most of them dating to near the turn of the...


Tulsa District Wister Lake NAGPRA Collection Rehabilitation Report (2009)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Amy Williams.

The Tulsa District tasked the St. Louis District with identifying NAGPRA-related materials within the Wister Lake collections and separating these from the general, non-burial materials. Through consultation between the St. Louis and the Tulsa Districts, it was determined that the best course of action would be to transfer the Wister Lake NAGPRA collection of artifacts to the St. Louis District’s archaeological rehabilitation laboratory for this process. This is an arbitrary collection of...


Tumacacori Plaza Excavation, 1979: Historical Archeology at Tumacacori National Monument, Arizona (1981)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Lee Fratt.

Excavations conducted at Tumacacori National Monument, Arizona in 1979 recovered data that would have been destroyed by the installation of an underground drainage system in the Franciscan mission plaza and adjacent to the west wall of the mission church. This system was designed to aid in the stabilizaton of the historic structures. This report describes the surprisingly intact stratigraphy of the excavated area. Features and deposits were grouped into four areas of associated deposits and...


Turin: a Middle Archaic Burial Site In Western Iowa (1985)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Alton K. Fisher. W. D. Frankforter. Joseph A. Tiffany. Shirley J. Schermer. Duane C. Anderson.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.


Turkey Creek Caves Arizona Site Steward File (1997)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jim McKie. Euler. Abel.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Turkey Creek Caves site, comprised of two caves with smoke-blackened roofs and accompanying artifacts, located on Prescott National Forest land. The file consists of a site data form, Museum of Northern Arizona card, map of the site location, and a black and white photograph of the site. The earliest dated document is from 1954.


Turkey River Mound Group (13CT1) (1988)
DOCUMENT Citation Only William Green. Shirley J. Schermer.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.


Tutuila's Past: Maloata and A'a
DOCUMENT Citation Only William S. Ayres. David Eisler.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.


Tuzigoot Burials (1992)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith M. Anderson.

Tuzigoot Pueblo is the type site for the Tuzigoot Phase of the Southern Sinagua Tradition and was occupied from c. A.D. 1140 to c. 1400. This report gives the results of re-analysis of data from burials excavated at Tuzigoot in 1933-1934. The purpose of the study is to abstract the organizing principles of social status, a subject of current archeological interest. This project was conducted within constraints that would be imposed by repatriation of mortuary remains. Nearly all of the 411...


The Tuzigoot Survey and Three Small Verde Valley Projects: Archaeological Investigations in the Middle Verde Valley, Arizona (1986)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Martyn D. Tagg.

This report presents the results of the TUZI 86A archeological project, whose main objective was the inventory of cultural resources within Tuzigoot National Monument and a proposed land acquisition area adjacent to the monument. It states the results of the survey, presents a summary of previous work in the project area, and discusses the cultural history and natural setting of the region. This is followed by site descriptions, artifact analyses and results, interpretations of the subsistence...


Twelfth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology: Report On the Mound Explorations of the Bureau of Ethnology (1894)
DOCUMENT Full-Text J. W. Powell. Cyrus Thomas.

The Twelfth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology contains J. W. Powell's description of the Bureau's plans and operations in the fiscal year 1890 - 1891. The majority of the report is Cyrus Thomas' accompanying paper entitled "Report on the Mound Explorations of the Bureau of Ethnology." Thomas documents the Bureau's directive to examine the mounds constructed throughout the Midwest and Eastern Woodlands, from the Southeast north to the Great Lakes region. His report describes mounds in the...


Two Months Research in the Sand and Shell Mounds of Florida (1918)
DOCUMENT Citation Only R. D. Wainwright.

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Two Worked Shell Objects from a Uleta River Shell Midden (1961)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Dan D. Laxson.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.


A Typology of PreColumbian Entheogenic Paraphernalia
PROJECT Uploaded by: Robert Caldwell

Classification and Typology for PreColumbian Entheogen Paraphernalia, of the objects used to collect, srore, prepare, and administer Entheogens in PreColumbian cultures throughout the history of the hemisphere


U.S. Census Data, 1850 Agricultural Census, Hadley Township, Pike County, Illinois (2006)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Christopher Fennell

U.S. Census Data, 1850 Agricultural Census, Hadley Township, Pike County, Illinois


U.S. Census Data, 1850 Mortality Schedule, Hadley Township, Pike County, Illinois (2006)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Christopher Fennell

U.S. Census Data, 1850 Mortality Schedule, Hadley Township, Pike County, Illinois


U.S. Census Data, 1850 Population, Hadley Township, Pike County, Illinois (2006)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Christopher Fennell

U.S. Census Data, 1850 Population, Hadley Township, Pike County, Illinois