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DOCUMENT Full-Text W. R. Wood. A. R. Woolworth.

In 1947 an archeological field party, sponsored by the University of North Dakota and the State Historical Society of North Dakota, carried out excavations in the upper limits of the Oahe Reservoir, in North Dakota. Test excavations were made at the Paul Brave site (32SI4). also known as the Fort Yates site. The elevation of this prehistoric village is between 1,600 and 1,610 feet. The site will be flooded by the Oahe Reservoir when backwater reaches the maximum pool level of 1,620 feet. The...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Alan R. Woolworth. W. Raymond Wood.

In the summer of 1956 an archeological field party from the State Historical Society of North Dakota carried out excavations at the Demery site, in the upper part of the Oahe Reservoir, in Corson County, South Dakota. Funds for the project were provided under a cooperative agreement with the National Park Service, Department of the Interior, and through appropriations by the North Dakota State Legislature. The excavations were conducted between June 18 and August 31, 1956, under the supervision...

PROJECT Donald R. Cochran.

This is the tDAR Project page that represents Reports of Investigation 039 from the Applied Anthropology Laboratories, Ball State University. Archaeological investigations of the Gronauer lock #2 revealed the presence of the well-preserved lower portion of the lock and associated cribbing. Clearing of the fill in the lock proper and wing area and test excavations in the southern cribbing provided important details on the construction of the lock which were not completely consistent with the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cindy K. Parish.

Archaeological investigations of the Gronauer lock #2 revealed the presence of the well-preserved lower portion of the lock and associated cribbing. Clearing of the fill in the lock proper and wing area and test excavations in the southern cribbing provided important details on the construction of the lock which were not completely consistent with the historical documentation and building specifications. Few artifacts directly associated with the construction and use of the lock were found...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cameron S. Griffith.

Northland Research, Inc. (Northland), was contracted by Salt River Project (SRP) to perform a Class III cultural resources survey for proposed SRP receiving station site RS # 3, associated transmission line (230 kV and 65 kV) right-of-way corridors, and alternatives. The survey was conducted from 30 October to 3 November 1995. The work involved 11 person days of labor. No significant archaeological resources were encountered.

PROJECT USDI Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office.

This project presents a series of publications associated with the Salt-Gila Aqueduct Archaeological Data Collection Studies and Supplemental Class III Survey Project (SGA). The research focused on data recovery at those sites potentially subject to impact as a consequence of Central Arizona Project construction. Salt-Gila Aqueduct Central Arizona Project construction occured along a route extending 97 km from a point south of Apache Junction, Arizona, to the Picacho Reservoir. Significant...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Karolyn Jackman Jensen. Margaret Glass. Catherine Johnson.

In 1993 Arizona State Parks received an Arizona Heritage Fund/State Historic Preservation Office grant to rebuild the historic wall that originally surrounded the New Yard at Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park(AZ X:6:90(ASM)). The project entailed removing a reconstructed adobe wall and replicating the original adobe wall, which was originally built by the prisoners in 1900. Although a previous archaeology survey noted that subsurface cultural remains may be present surface indications...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Rachel Fernandez

Archaeological and historical studies were undertaken by Desert Archaeology, Inc., selected and procured via a professional services procurement process approved by the FAA, to address legal compliance of the City of Phoenix Community Noise Reduction Program (CNRP) with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. The purpose of the CNRP is to offer noise mitigation services to residential neighborhoods most severely impacted by noise from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. The...

IMAGE Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc..

Photographs of the site taken from a hydraulic lift. Includes site map as well.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Rachel Fernandez

The Kohls Ranch highway section lies at the center of the State Route (SR) 260 —Payson to Heber project area. This section also crosses a number of central places of the past. Here, near its headwaters, Tonto Creek is a mountain stream, whose terraces widen briefly near the highway before the canyon narrows into the Hells Gate Wilderness to the south. Indian Garden, a mile to the east, is a spring-fed meadow. Geology transitions in this area, as the topography created by the friable granites to...

DATASET Penny Crook. Abi Belfrage. Alex Thorn.

This dataset includes the names and prices of over 55,000 ceramic, glass, footwear and jewellery items sold in 49 trade catalogues from Australia (Anthony Hordern & Sons 1894, 1897, 1899 and Mutual Store: 1892, 1900, 1907), the United Kingdom (Army & Navy Co-operative Society 1883, 1887, 1898; Bullene, Moores, Emery & Co. 1886-87; Civil Service Supply Association 1880; Harrod's Stores Ltd 1895; Henry S King & Co. 1880; Silber & Fleming 1860s, 1872, 1876, 1879, 1880s, 1889); United States...

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.

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...

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

PROJECT Uploaded by: Marilyn Masson

Investigations at the Myers, Elkins, and Ten Broeck properties in historical Albany, NY. Project focused on archaeological questions of daily life of African American abolitionists of the mid-1800s, excavating spaces to the rear of the Myers and Elkins residential locations. The project also investigated the daily lives of enslaved persons of the early 1800s, from the perspective of deposits associated with two rear outbuildings at the Ten Broeck mansion. Research was part of a University at...

DOCUMENT Full-Text HDR Sciences.

This document contains the field notes, graphics, and other records pertaining to archaeological excavations conducted by HDR staff archaeologists for M-X facilities sitings at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California (September-December 1980). The original field notes have been edited, supplemented, and typed. Most of the pertinent original graphics, such as profiles, have been reproduced from field copies into final forms and their implications are briefly discussed. However, most of the original...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Arthur B. Cohn. Adam I. Kane. Christopher, R. Sabick. Edwin R. Scollon. Justin B. Clement.

This report presents the results from the 1999 through 2004 field seasons of the Valcour Bay Research Project (VBRP), a Phase I underwater archaeological investigation of the submerged battlefield at Valcour Bay, in Lake Champlain. Valcour Bay is located in Clinton County, New York, between the town of Peru and Valcour Island within Lake Champlain. On October 11, 1776, General Benedict Arnold engaged the British Navy in perhaps the most important naval contest of the American Revolution. After...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Tracy Miller. Justin DiVirgilio. Walter Wheeler.

Phase III Data Retrieval Report, including macrobotanical, faunal, and parasitic analyses; inventory of artifacts; figures; and site forms. The site consists of features and deposits associated with the urban residential occupation of Sheridan Hollow spanning from c. 1840-1920. Throughout most of the 19th century, the site was populated principally by Irish immigrants and first-generation Irish-Americans. The site components include the architectural remains of two rowhouses, seven privy vaults,...

IMAGE Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc..

Photographs of wooden structures, including cribbing, ricking, wharves, and stockades, from the SUCF Parking Facility site, Albany, NY. Elements of the site were featured in an article from Historical Archaeology. McDonald, Molly R. 2011. Whatves and Waterfront Retaining Strucctures as Vernacular Architecture. Historical Archaeology 45 (2):42-68.

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Homer Theil.

Fort Union served as the major trading establishment for the American Fur Company and its St. Louis descendants (Bernard Pratte and Co. and Pierre Chouteau, Jr. and Co.) on the Upper Missouri River between 1828 and 1865. In 1865, Charles Chouteau sold Fort Union to Hubble, Hawley and Smith, otherwise known as the North Western Fur Company. During its last years of existence, between 1864 and 1866, the treaders shared the post's facilities with the U.S. Army, the latter utilizing Fort Union as a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis of several locations on a shirt in the Buffalo Bill Museum collection identified pigments present in the pigment used on the shirt and/or to cure the hide.