Shell (Material Keyword)

Modified or unmodified objects made from mollusc shell.

776-800 (7,413 Records)

Archaeological Investigations at Guapiabit, CA-Sbr-1913. 85PP (1999)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Q. Sutton. Joan S. Schneider.

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS AT HE NEWELL CREEK SITE (9CH155), Ossabaw Island, Georgia, 2003 Season (2003)
DOCUMENT Full-Text [NFM] Various. Ronnie Rogers.

On June 25-27, 2003, the Office of the State Archaeologist, housed in the Historic Preservation Division of Georgia Department of Natural Resources, participated in an educational program for scouts held on Ossabaw Island, in Chatham County, Georgia. Ossabaw consists of ca. 26,000 acres of marsh, tidal streams, and uplands. With the exception of DNR facilities, a mansion dating to the time when wealthy families and corporations owned the coastal islands, and ruins of structures dating to the...


Archaeological Investigations at High Country East, San Diego County, California (sites W-2058 Through W-2061). (1979)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Randy Franklin. Richard L. Carrico.

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Archaeological Investigations at Honey Bee Village, a Prehistoric Hohokam Ballcourt Village in the Cañada del Oro Valley of Southern Arizona: Description of Excavated Structures (2011)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Rachel Fernandez

Honey Bee Village, AZ BB:9:88 (ASM), is a large, prehistoric ballcourt village in the northern Tucson Basin. It is situated on the southeastern bajada of the Tortolita Mountains in the southern Cañada del Oro Valley. The site area is adjacent to a large alluvial basin at the juncture of Big Wash and Honey Bee Canyon at a mean elevation of 878 m (2,880 ft) above sea level. In this report, descriptions of the excavated structures are provided for the most recent and most extensive archaeological...


Archaeological Investigations at Indian Cove (9LC24) 1985
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...


Archaeological Investigations at La Ciudad de Los Hornos: Lassen Substation Parcel (1990)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard W. Effland, Jr..

The archaeological investigations at the Lassen Substation were designed to address four primary research issues: 1) the structure of and changes in domestic household arrangements, 2) chronology and dating of the early Hohokam occupation at Los Hornos, 3) subsistence, and 4) architectural construction and variability. The methods employed during the excavation and the subsequent analyses were selected with these research objectives in mind.


Archaeological Investigations at La Ciudad, AZ T:12:1(ASM), The Frank Luke Addition Locus, Volume 1: Introduction, Feature Descriptions, Chronology, and Canals (2016)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: system user

Logan Simpson conducted archaeological excavations between February and June 2013 for the City of Phoenix’s Frank Luke Addition (FLA) Project. The excavations were completed within a 9.1-acre parcel situated within the prehistoric site of La Ciudad (AZ T:12:1[ASM]), a Hohokam village located north of the Salt River. The FLA Project is located within a highly urbanized portion of the City of Phoenix (COP) in the Phoenix Basin, south-central Arizona. Historical documents indicate that the FLA...


Archaeological Investigations at La Ciudad, AZ T:12:1(ASM), The Frank Luke Addition Locus, Volume 2: Analytical Studies, Synthesis, and Data Appendixes (2016)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: system user

Logan Simpson archaeologists recovered a total of 18,799 ceramic artifacts during testing and data recovery within the FLA Phase 2 and Phase 3 loci. The collection mainly consists of body sherds (92 percent) and rim sherds (8 percent) from pottery vessels, but small numbers of non-vessel ceramic artifacts (e.g., figurines, pipe stems, and raw clays), partially reconstructible vessels (PRV), and a complete vessel (CV) also were recovered. The PRVs generally consist of multiple refitted sherds...


Archaeological Investigations at La Lomita, AZ U:9:67 (ASM) (2004)
DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Scott Courtright.

In conjunction with plans for a sewer line to be constructed by the City of Phoenix Water Services Department under east Van Buren Street in Phoenix, Arizona, cultural resource data recovery was undertaken within a 3.9-acre portion of La Lomita, AZ U:9:67 (ASM). The site, located in south-central Arizona, is north of the Salt River within the Phoenix Basin. Additionally, construction monitoring was also conducted along portions of the sewer line south of the site boundaries, and irrigation...


Archaeological Investigations at Lakeview Lake: 1979 and 1980 (1982)
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...


Archaeological Investigations at Los Guanacos: Exploring Cultural Changes in Late Hohokam Society (1993)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Todd L. Howell.

This report describes archaeological investigations at the site of Los Guanacos, AZ U:9:116(ASM). The investigations involved a data recovery program, conducted by Northland Research, Inc. for the Salt River Project (SRP). Los Guanacos was a primarily Classic period Hohokam community. Only a portion of the site is contained in the approximately 103-acre land parcel owned by SRP in Tempe, Arizona. The archaeological investigations reported here document only a small portion of the total community...


Archaeological Investigations at Los Morteros: A Prehistoric Settlement in the Northern Tucson Basin Complete Report, Part I (1995)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Henry D. Wallace.

Excavations at the large Hohokam ballcourt settlement of Los Morteros, AZ AA: 12:57 (ASM), in 1987 and 1988 resulted in the identification of 770 prehistoric cultural features, including 349 structures, an adobewalled compound enclosure, and at least five discrete cemeteries in the northern and southern portions of the kilometer-long site. Ninety-eight of the structures were fully or partially excavated. Also identified were a historic canal and evidence pointing to the location of the historic...


Archaeological Investigations at Los Morteros: A Prehistoric Settlement in the Northern Tucson Basin Complete Report, Part II (1995)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Henry D. Wallace.

Excavations at the large Hohokam ballcourt settlement of Los Morteros, AZ AA:12:57 (ASM), in 1987 and 1988 resulted in the identification of 770 prehistoric cultural features, including 349 structures, an adobe-walled compound enclosure, and at least five discrete cemeteries in the northern and southern portions of the kilometer-long site. Ninety-eight of the structures were fully or partially excavated. Also identified were a historic canal and evidence pointing to the location of the historic...


Archaeological Investigations at Los Pozos, AZ AA:12:91 (ASM), for the EW-010A and Regional Reclamation Facility Effluent Pumping Projects, Pima County, Arizona (2017)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Rachel Fernandez

Data and interpretations from four archaeological projects at the City of Tucson (COT) Reclaimed Water Treatment Plant are presented in this volume. The work areas lie entirely within the prehistoric site of Los Pozos, AZ AA:12:91 (ASM). The work was conducted by Desert Archaeology, Inc., in advance of projects by Tucson Water: the drilling of well EW-010A (EW10) (COT Project No. 13-01) and the Regional Reclamation Facility Effluent Pumping project (RRFEP) (COT Project No. 13-08). Monitoring...


Archaeological Investigations at Molpa, San Diego County, California (1974)
DOCUMENT Citation Only D. L. True. C. W. Meighan. Harvey Crew.

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Archaeological Investigations at Muscupiabit (1988)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Donn R. Grenda.

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Archaeological Investigations at Nine Sites in the Madera Highlands Development, Pima County, Arizona (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jerry D. Lyon.

Between March 27 and June 1, 2001, SWCA Environmental Consultants conducted archaeological investigations at nine archaeological sites on the 920-acre Madera Highlands property owned by Harvard Investments. The property encompasses lower bajada ridges and upper river terraces on the east side of the Santa Cruz River near the towns of Continental and Green Valley, Pima County, Arizona. The SWCA's excavations at Madera Highlands involved testing and data recovery at nine ridgetop sites in the...


Archaeological Investigations at Palo Verde Ranch, Units 1 and 2, Alpine California. (1978)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard L. Carrico. Keith D. Rhodes.

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Archaeological Investigations at Petroglyph Sites in the Painted Rock Reservoir Area, Southwestern Arizona (1989)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Henry D. Wallace.

As early as 1749, European visitors to the Painted Rocks region commented on the rock art they observed. The Painted Rock Reservoir, dam, and the mountains to the south, are all named after a large petroglyph site along the main east-west trail through the area, the Painted Rocks site (S:16:1 [note that unless otherwise designated, all site numbers in this document are assigned by the Arizona State Museum and all are prefaced by "AZ"]). While most of the early attention on rock art focused on...


Archaeological Investigations at Pueblo Viejo: The Paradise Palms Component Phoenix, Arizona (2000)
DOCUMENT Full-Text David R. Hart.

Northland Research, Inc. (Northland) has completed archaeological testing of a 6.4 acre parcel of private land for the Paradise Palms II development. The purpose of the testing was to determine the nature, extent, and potential significance of buried cultural resources within the Paradise Palms II parcel. The testing was necessary because the housing development is partially located within the recorded boundary of Pueblo Viejo, a large prehistoric Hohokam settlement that is eligible for the...


Archaeological Investigations at Rancho Carrillo Estates Carlsbad, San Diego County, California. (1975)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Russell L. Kaldenberg.

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Archaeological Investigations at Rancho Del Dios, Units Land 2 Rancho Santa Fe, California. (1975)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Russell L. Kaldenberg.

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Archaeological Investigations at Rudd Creek Pueblo (AZ Q:16:63 [ASM]), a Tularosa Phase Site near Springerville, Apache County, Arizona (2002)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Tiffany Clark. Greg Schachner. Keith Kintigh.

This report summarizes the results of the 1996 season of fieldwork conducted by the Rudd Creek Archaeological Project (RCAP) as part of the Arizona State University Archaeological Field School at the Sipe White Mountain Wildlife Area. This field school derives from a long-term research project focused on prehistoric developments in the Cibola region. The 1996 excavations at Rudd Creek Pueblo (AZ Q:16:63 [ASM]) focused on two main goals. The first goal was to document the architecture and...


Archaeological Investigations at Rudd Creek Pueblo (AZ Q:16:63 [ASM]), a Tularosa Phase Site near Springerville, Apache County, Arizona (2002)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Tiffany Clark. Greg Schachner. Keith Kintigh.

This report summarizes the results of the 1996 season of fieldwork conducted by the Rudd Creek Archaeological Project (RCAP) as part of the Arizona State University Archaeological Field School at the Sipe White Mountain Wildlife Area. This field school derives from a long-term research project focused on prehistoric developments in the Cibola region. The 1996 excavations at Rudd Creek Pueblo (AZ Q:16:63 [ASM]) focused on two main goals. The first goal was to document the architecture and...


Archaeological Investigations at SDi-265a ( O'Neal Tentative Parcel No. 13163). (1977)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Carrico.

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