Shell (Material Keyword)

Modified or unmodified objects made from mollusc shell.

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Archaeological Investigations for the Fort McDowell Road Improvement Project
PROJECT USDI Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office.

The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) assisted the Fort McDowell Indian Community (FMIC) with cultural resource investigations in advance of widening and realigning portions of Fort McDowell Road (also known as Mustang Way). These improvements were required to facilitate increased road use associated with the construction and operation of the Fort McDowell Indian Community Irrigated Farmland Development Project. This project presents the results of these undertakings.


Archaeological Investigations for the Monitoring Project and the Excavation of Seven Burials within the Court Street Cemetery, AZ BB:13:156 (ASM), Tucson, Pima County, Arizona (2013)
DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Homer Thiel. Jeremy W. Pye. James T. Watson.

Desert Archaeology, Inc., implemented an archaeological monitoring project for Pima County within the historic Court Street Cemetery, AZ BB:13:156 (ASM). Eleven locations within and adjacent to the cemetery were monitored during installation of a new plastic lining within the existing ceramic sewer pipes, first installed in the mid-1910s. The Court Street Cemetery was established in 1875, on what was then the far north side of Tucson. It was envisioned as the final resting place for...


Archaeological Investigations for the PGM Public Arts Walkway Project, Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park, Phoenix, Arizona (2016)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Connie A. Darby.

Archaeological testing and data recovery prior to construction of the PGM Public Arts Walkway and archaeological monitoring of subsequent construction activities within the grounds of the city-owned Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park.This report includes background information about the project area, descriptions of the field methods and results of the monitoring and data recovery effort, a summary of work accomplished, and recommendations for future work in the project area locale.


Archaeological Investigations for the Reimetz Lot Split at W-1856 Alpine, California (1979)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Dennis K. Quillen. Richard L. Carrico.

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Archaeological Investigations for the Sigurd to Red Butte No. 2 – 345kV Transmission Project
PROJECT Uploaded by: Sarah Creer

In May 2015, PacifiCorp (doing business as Rocky Mountain Power, Proponent) requested that SWCA Environmental Consultants conduct archaeological laboratory analyses and report preparation from data recovery testing and excavations conducted for the Sigurd to Red Butte No. 2 – 345kV Transmission Project (Project).The 277.32-kilometer (172.32-mile) Sigurd to Red Butte No. 2 – 345-kilovolt (kV) transmission line runs from the existing Sigurd Substation in Sevier County, Utah, to the existing Red...


Archaeological Investigations for the Sigurd to Red Butte No. 2 – 345kV Transmission Project in Beaver, Iron, Millard, Sevier, and Washington Counties, Utah: Volume 2 Appendices (2017)
DOCUMENT Full-Text SWCA Environmental Consultants.

Appendices to Volume 2 of the archaeological investigations report for the Sigurd to Red Butte Transmission Project. Appendices contain artifact analysis data and artifacts photographs and illustrations.


Archaeological Investigations in 2007 and 2008 at the Mission and Mission Garden Loci of the Clearwater Site, AZ BB:13:6 (ASM), and the Santa Cruz River Westside Canals, AZ BB:13:481 (ASM), Tucson, Pima County, Arizona (2018)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Rachel Fernandez

Desert Archaeology, Inc., personnel conducted archaeological fieldwork for the City of Tucson at the Mission and Mission Garden loci of the Clearwater site, AZ BB:13:6 (ASM), and the Santa Cruz River Westside Canal site, AZ BB:13:481 (ASM), in March through July 2007, and September through October 2008. The work was conducted to mitigate the effects of the planned construction of the Mission of San Agustín, Ancestral Village, Carrillo House, and Mission Garden components of the Tucson Origins...


Archaeological Investigations in Northern Los Pozos, AZ AA:12:91 (ASM), for the Pima County Bleeder Channel Project, Pima County, Arizona (2014)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Rachel Fernandez

Pima County Wastewater proposed construction of a bleeder channel on a City of Tucson-owned parcel in Pima County, Arizona. The parcel is within the northern boundary of the prehistoric site of Los Pozos, AZ AA:12:91 (ASM), a National Register of Historic Places-eligible property dating primarily to the Early Agricultural period (1200 B.C.-A.D. 50). The channel was planned from a bridge culvert on an access road to the RWRD Sweetwater Reclamation Campus to an existing rip-rap drainage channel...


Archaeological Investigations in Northern San Diego County, California: Frey Creek (1981)
DOCUMENT Citation Only D. L. True. G. Waugh.

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Archaeological Investigations In Platte and Clay Counties, Missouri (1943)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Waldo R. Wedel.

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Archaeological Investigations in Sections 1A, 1B, and 2, SR 260- Cottonwood to Camp Verde Archaeology Project (2002)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Rachel Fernandez

Four archaeological sites were investigated in advance of road realignment and improvements along State Route 260, between Cottonwood and Camp Verde, Yavapai County, Arizona. The work was done at the request of the Arizona Department of Transportation, as part of a larger project. Two sites were located in Segment 1A (AZ O:5:173 (ASM)/AR-03-09-05-378) and Segment 1B (AZ O:5:143 (ASM)/AR-03-09-05-249) on land administered by the Prescott National Forest. The other two sites (AZ O:5:131...


Archaeological Investigations in Support of the Phoenix Bioscience Center Project: Data Recovery at AZ T:12:70 (ASM), Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona (2008)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Daniel H. Sorrell.

Archaeological data recovery was conducted in advance of the development of a small portion of the Phoenix Bioscience Center site. Data recovery efforts were implemented following the results of prior archaeological testing of the study area, which is located within the boundaries of a previously documented archaeological site AZ T:12:70 (ASM) (Pueblo Patricio). In total, nineteen features were investigated, including eight aboriginal (historic and protohistoric/historic) features, nine...


Archaeological Investigations in Support of the South Phoenix Loop Street and Landscaping Projects: Data Recovery at AZ T:12:231 (ASM), Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona (2009)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Daniel H. Sorrell.

This report presents the results of an archaeological testing and data recovery program conducted by EcoPlan for COP on approximately three acres of land in south Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. These archaeological investigations were conducted in advance of the COP Neighborhood Services Department’s South Phoenix Village Loop Street and Landscaping project (COP Cost Center Numbers ND30010010 and ND30010011). Because project activities associated with these projects were deemed likely to...


Archaeological Investigations in the Adobe Dam Project Area (1983)
DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Simon Bruder.

The Adobe 4 archaeological mitigation program was carried out at the site of a flood control dam to be constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Skunk Creek in north Phoenix, Arizona. The project area, which covers approximately 750 h, is situated 30 km north of the Salt River. Thus, it is located within the northern Hohokam periphery. This study presents information concerning prehistoric land use in the study area during the Colonial and Sedentary periods. The primary goal of the...


Archaeological Investigations In the Big Horn Basin. (Part 2 of 3, Master's Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Wyoming) (1971)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Joanne Mack.

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Archaeological Investigations in the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport: A Class I and II Survey for the Master Plan Improvements Project (1993)
DOCUMENT Full-Text David H. Greenwald. M. Zyniecki.

This report presents the results of archival and archaeological document studies and archaeological testing for the Sky Harbor International Airport Master Plan Improvements project. Investigations were initiated on April 9, 1992, and completed on May 15, 1992, by SWCA, Inc. Environmental Consultants, under contract to Griener, Inc. Griener was under contract to the City of Phoenix Aviation Department to complete an environmental impact statement for expansion of airport facilities. The Federal...


Archaeological Investigations in the Tims Ford Reservoir, Tennessee, 1966 (1968)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles H. Faulkner.

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Archaeological Investigations in the Yucaipa Valley (1958)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Frederic Hicks.

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Archaeological Investigations Near Mobridge, South Dakota (1961)
DOCUMENT Full-Text David A. Baerreis. John E. Dallman.

During the months of July and August, 1956, excavations were conducted by a University of Wisconsin field party at four village sites on the Missouri River in the vicinity of Mobridge, South Dakota. The field work formed part of the salvage operations in this region which was soon to be flooded by water impounded behind a dam constructed near the city of Pierre. The selection of the sites for study was based on a brief reconnaissance of the area made in April, 1956, in the company of Paul L....


Archaeological Investigations of a Mission Period Shell Midden 9MC23, Sapelo Island, Georgia (2009)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard W. Jefferies.

The arrival of Spanish missionaries on the Georgia and Florida coasts in the mid-16th century began what is known as the Mission period (1568-1684), a time of sustained interaction between the Spanish and many coastal Indian polities. At the time of Spanish contact, much of the central and northern Georgia coast was occupied by Muskogean-speaking people known as the Guale (Worth 2004a). Sapelo Island, one of the Georgia "barrier" islands, is the site of at least one Spanish mission, the...


Archaeological Investigations of a Mission Period Shell Midden 9MC23, Sapelo Island, Georgia (2009)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard W. Jefferies.

In 2004, University of Kentucky archaeologists started a new research project designed to assess the nature, intensity, and extent of Mission period activity in and around Shell Ring II in the northern portion of the Sapelo Shell Ring complex (9Mc23) (Jefferies and Thompson 2005) (Figure 3). We have employed a diversified data recovery strategy incorporating geophysical survey, shovel probing, soil auguring, metal detector survey, and test unit excavation (Jefferies and Moore 2009).


Archaeological Investigations of a Portion of the Lombeye Ruin, AZ T:12:109(ASM), in South Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona (2004)
DOCUMENT Full-Text John M. Lindly. Douglas R. Mitchell.

This report presents the results of archaeological testing and limited data recovery for a portion of the Lombeye Ruin, AZ T:12:109(ASM), in Phoenix, Arizona. Two Salt River Project (SRP) canals, owned by the Bureau of Reclamation, are to be relocated as part of a proposed residential development by Providence Development, Inc. A previous archaeological survey determined that the canal relocations would adversely affect the Lombeye Ruin (Fangmeier 2003). In compliance with Section 106 of the...


Archaeological Investigations of a Shell Midden (41HR39) at De Zavala Point, Harris County, Texas (1985)
DOCUMENT Citation Only A. Taylor.

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Archaeological Investigations of a Shell Midden (41Hr39) at Dezavala Point, Harris County, Texas (1985)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna J. Taylor.

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Archaeological Investigations of Early Village Sites in the Middle Santa Cruz Valley, Analyses and Synthesis, Part I (1998)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: adam brin

A series of archaeological investigations were conducted from 1993 to 1995 at four prehistoric sites in the middle Santa Cruz Valley. This fieldwork was part of the Arizona Department of Transportation's archaeological mitigation program of the Interstate 10 Corridor Improvement Project through Tucson, Arizona. The sites included the remains of three early farming settlements--the Santa Cruz Bend (AZ AA:12:746 [ASM]), Square Hearth (AZ AA:12:745 [ASM]), and Stone Pipe (AZ BB:13:425 [ASM])...