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Archaeological fieldwork was conducted on Block 181, in the historic heart of downtown Tucson, at various times between 2003 and 2006. Work took place before and during the stabilization and restoration of the historic Siqueiros-Jácome House, built in the 1860s and 1870s. Work was also conducted in the backyard of the house and beneath an adjacent parking lot, once the location of the Dodge Boarding House (circa 1898-1954). Hundreds of features were located. Noteworthy were several Early...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Karolyn Jackman Jensen. Margaret Glass.

Cathy Johnson of Arizona State Parks asked Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) to analyze historic material recovered from salvage excavations at the Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park (AZ X:6:90(ASM)), which was used from 1876 to 1909. The artifacts were unexpectedly encountered during the demolition of a deteriorating adobe wall. This wall will be replaced by a reproduction of the original 18-ft walls that enclosed the old prison yard. Most of the artifacts were recovered...

PROJECT US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District. William D. Updike. US Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District.

USACE, Huntington District was tasked with fulfilling a congressional-authorized restoration of the Albert Gallatin Jenkins House Site (46CB41), located in Cabell County, West Virginia. USACE, Huntington District was responsible for determining the location of the outbuildings and if they could accurately be reconstructed. Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc. (CRAI), headquartered in Lexington, Kentucky, conducted archaeological testing and data recovery excavations for the presence, integrity, and...

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The arrival of the Southern Pacific Railroad in Tucson on 20 March 1880, dramatically changed the community. Historic Block 83 was located across the street from the railroad depot and developed rapidly in response to the sudden influx of departing or arriving travelers. Boarding houses, a hotel, saloons, restaurants, barber shops, a pool hall, a Chinese laundry, and several small stores were among the businesses that catered to these people. The southeastern corner of the block was associated...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Homer Thiel.

Historic Block 94 was a scene of controversy in the late 1980s as the City of Tucson planned the demolition of the historic Catalina Hotel. An elevated highway was to pass the block, and the Catalina Hotel was in its path. This building served as housing for many of the town's indigent population, and its inexpensive rooms and sparse surroundings were much better than life on the streets. Advocates wanted to know what was to become of these people. At first, the preservationists failed. The...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sara Stebbins.

The Concho Well Field Water Transmission Pipeline, constructed by the Salt River Project, originates in the Concho Well Fields just north of Concho, Arizona, and extends to the Coronado Generating Station Power Plant three miles north of St. Johns, Arizona. The pipeline route either impinges upon or crosses 15 prehistoric and historic sites, including two possible Archaic or Basketmaker lithic sites and two Spanish-American homesteads. These four sites provide the basis for most of the analysis...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard A. Brook.

Since May, 1975, the Museum of Northern Arizona, Department of Anthropology (hereafter "Museum"), has conducted archaeological investigations for the Salt River Project - Coronado Generating Station, Coronado-Dinosaur Transmission System, North End Project. This work, supported by contractual agreement, has consisted of an intensive archaeological survey of the proposed right-of-way, from Sta. 0+00 - Sta. 3874+21, and a realignment around Sta. 1748+30 to Sta. 2375+50, and the analysis and report...

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Specimen catalog for shovel tests conducted at site number 18PR437, in the 200 area, Historic Foundation #2.

DOCUMENT Full-Text David A. Gregory. Diane L. Douglas.

The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), United States Department of the Interior, was in the initial stages of the Water Management Project designed to bring Central Arizona Project water to the Gila River Indian Community (GRIC). Under terms of a contract signed in 1992 with the GRIC, facilities designed and constructed by Reclamation would deliver 173,000 acre-feet of water annually onto the reservation. Federal law mandates consideration of potential impacts of such projects upon cultural...

DATASET Veterans Curation Program.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Huntington District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Program’s (VCP) Alexandria laboratory in April 2014. The Alexandria VCP laboratory is a USACE, St. Louis District’s Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections program, which is staffed through New South Associates (NSA) headquartered in Stone Mountain, Georgia. During the course of this project, the VCP was successively staffed...

DATASET US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District.

The procedures employed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), St. Louis District, Curation and Archives Analysis Branch, Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections to rehouse the archaeological material from USACE, Vicksburg District are discussed below. In the rehousing process of each investigative effort for the Vicksburg District’s collection, staff generally followed the same standard procedures. Upon completion of the curation...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Natalie Hoff.

The procedures employed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), St. Louis District, Curation and Archives Analysis Branch, Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections to rehouse the archaeological material from USACE, Vicksburg District are discussed below. In the rehousing process of each investigative effort for the Vicksburg District’s collection, staff generally followed the same standard procedures. Upon completion of the curation...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Gregory R. Seymour. Mark Slaughter. WIlliam L. Deaver. Richard V. N. Ahlstrom.

This report documents the results of a testing program completed by SWCA, Inc. Environmental Consultants in August of 1990 in anticipation of the modification of Bartlett Dam. Modifications to the dam were planned as part of the Central Arizona Project's Regulatory Storage Division (Plan 6) and the Safety of Dams Project. During the month of April, 1990, archaeologists from Northland Research, Inc. conducted an archaeological survey of approximately 929 acres located on the Lower Verde River...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Peter Kováčik. Jennifer L.B. Milligan.

A figurine collected from an undisclosed location along the Myakka River, southwest Florida, and a leather fragment sheath and wood fragment from an estuary also in southwest Florida were submitted for analyses. Analytical techniques utilized to determine the figurine’s composition include pXRF, FTIR, and observation. A photographic record of the figurine documents our observations on its physical characteristics. Although a radiocarbon date was requested for the figurine, it is not...

PROJECT B. K. Swartz. US Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District. US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District.

The purpose of the research conducted primarily at sites 12G9 and 12G10 was to document the activities of the Battle of the Mississinewa and the related role of the Miami and Delaware villages along the Mississinewa Reservoir in Grant and Wabash counties. Upon the passing of budget item H.E.B. 1102, the principal investigator, B.K. Swartz Jr., initiated research with a field school from Ball State University in 1975. A second field school in relation to this investigation was conducted in 1976....

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This document is a site form for site 38OR119 recorded by the University of South Carolina.

IMAGE Veterans Curation Program.

Photograph of a leather artifact collected during the archaeological reconnaissance of the proposed site 12G10 along the Mississinewa Reservoir in Grant and Wabash Counties, Indiana.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Erik Steinbach. Mark Hackbarth. Glen E. Rice.

The Frank Luke Addition was built in 1952 as one of three public housing complexes making up the City of Phoenix East Asset Management Program (East AMP). In an effort to revitalize the City’s public housing facilities and meet goals of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the City of Phoenix Housing Department proposes to redevelop the Frank Luke Addition. A portion of the Frank Luke Addition falls within the 250 foot buffer zone around the Patrick Locus, which is a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Megan Cochrane. Shane McCorkle. Nathan Montague. Carrie McCorkle.

Report of Phase II archaeological investigations at ten previously recorded historic sites within the Arnold Air Force Base (AAFB) in Coffee and Franklin Counties, Tennessee (Versar Contract F41624-03-8620, Task Order 0027). Testing was conducted at Sites 40CF271, 40CF286, 40CF292, 40CF293, 40FR228, 40FR472, 40FR473, 40FR478, 40FR479, and 40FR480. Phase II archaeological investigations were conducted to identify the presence and extend of archaeological remains and to determine the integrity of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Connie L. Stone. Powys Gadd.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for Plaza Nueva, located on Bureau of Land Management land. The site is comprised of a historic townsite, in use between roughly 1860 and 1890. Multiple structures are present, including a sandstone house; and are accompanied by a trash scatter, fence posts, and a possible corral site. The file consists of a site data form and a cultural resource site records form, including artifact sketches. The earliest dated document is from 1987.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Melissa K. Logan.

Seven sediment samples from the Lyukas-kurgan located near Hajdúnánás, Hungary were originally submitted for pollen analysis. Later, an additional nine samples that included sediment, ceramics, wood, a mat fragment, and a possible leather fragment were submitted for pollen, phytolith, protein, and organic residue analysis. Organic residue samples were tested using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR).

DOCUMENT Full-Text R.A. Varney. Chad Yost.

One sample of a fragment of the leather cover from a ledger/daybook curated at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum was submitted for protein residue analysis and AMS radiocarbon dating to ascertain the animal source and age of the hide.

PROJECT US Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg District. US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District. Richard A. Weinstein.

The USACE, Vicksburg District contracted with Coastal Environments, Inc. (CEI) to conduct an intensive survey of the area around Sunflower Landing that would be affected by the construction of the Rena Lara berm in Coahoma County, Mississippi. The survey was conducted between May 22 and 29, 1985. Richard A. Weinstein served as principle investigator. It was during this time that the 16 sites were discovered: Cypress Brake (22CO704), Forked Ridge (22CO705), Eubanks (22CO706), Sheep Pen (22CO707),...

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.

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...