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DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael K. Church. James D. Gallison. Michael H. Jennings. Christine Hajek.

This report presents the findings of the investigation and evaluation of two early historic-period archaeological sites at Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB). The two sites, LA 155815 and LA 156001, are eroding from the edge of an alluvial floodplain at the lower edges Tijeras Arroyo, leaving them exposed to impacts from Air Force security patrol vehicles. The presence of subsurface features led to a recommendation that the sites be considered eligible for listing on the National Register of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bruce B. Huckell. Tim Rollins. M. M. Farrell. Mark M. South. Barbara Murphy. Ronald Beckwith.

An archaeological survey of slightly more than 1.25 square miles (approximately 840 acres) of land located at the eastern edge of the Coronado National Forest (Nogales Ranger District) approximately 4.2 miles northwest of Sonoita has been performed by the Cultural Resource Management Division (CRMD) of the Arizona State Museum. The survey was done at the request of Genesis Real Estate and Development, Incorporated, as part of a proposed land exchange with the Coronado National Forest.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeremy Haines. S. Courtright. E. Morgan.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Fort Jeremy site, comprised of a fortified hilltop, clay hearth, and artifact scatter, located on Tonto National Forest land. The file consists of a heritage inventory form and map of the site location. The earliest dated document is from 1997.

PROJECT Uploaded by: Walter Crist

This study frames research on board games within a body of anthropological theory and method to examine the long-term social changes that effect play and mechanisms through which play may influence societal change. Drawing from ethnographic literature focusing on the performative nature of games and their effectiveness at providing a method for strengthening social bonds through grounding, I examine changes in the places in which people engaged in play over the course of the Bronze Age on...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John M. Herron.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Hidden Hills Area, comprised of the sites of Casa Blanca and Castle Di, located on Bureau of Land Management land. These sites contain C-shaped pueblos, a white limestone rock alignment, and artifact scatter. The file consists of a site data form, page of extra information on the Hidden Hill sites, and a Bureau of Land Management Arizona State Office cultural resource site record for each of the two sites. The earliest dated document is from 1994.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steve Fuller. William Gibson.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Howard Ruin site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of a Hohokam room block or pueblo with outlying compound, artifact scatter, burial pits, trash deposit, and a roasting pit. The file consists of a heritage inventory form, hand drawn site maps, maps of the site location, a page of notes, a Forest Service Archaeological and Historical Site Inventory form, and two Central Arizona Water Control Study site descriptions. The...

DOCUMENT Full-Text R. Neily. C. Donta. J. Howard.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Ister Flats site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of a Late Classic Sinagua room block with courtyards, trash mounds, a rock-lined pit, and artifact scatter. The file consists of a site data form, hand drawn maps of the site, maps of the site location, an artifact diversity form, a Tonto National Forest cultural resources inventory form, a Central Arizona Water Control Study site description form, and an Arizona State...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Scott Wood. Stone Morris.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the K.A. Ranch Site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of the remnants of two prehistoric canals, artifact scatter, and a storage pit. The file consists of a site data form, map of the site location, two Central Arizona Water Control Study site descriptions, two Arizona State University site survey forms, and a hand drawn site map. The earliest forms date from 1964.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Hayward H. Franklin.

The Center for Anthropological Studies completed an intensive archaeological survey of 3,789 acres of Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. A total of 305 artifacts were recovered from 282 isolated artifactual loci; and 15 archaeological sites were located, recorded and artifactually sampled. Two of these sites are provisionally assigned to the Archaic period (5000 B.C. - A.D. 1). One or them is a functionally specific site where lithic materials were collected and tool manufacturing was...

PROJECT Uploaded by: Charlene Collazzi

Project metadata for resources within the Kirtland Air Force Base cultural heritage resources collection.

DOCUMENT Full-Text James D. Gallison.

On 8 January 2003, e2M submitted a proposal for conducting an Archaeological Resource Protection Act (ARPA) damage assessment report to the New Mexico State Historic Preservation Office. The proposal was accepted later that same month and field work at the site was completed by the end of February with laboratory analysis continuing until the end of July 2004. The following is an Archaeological Resource Protection Act Damage Assessment Report of the vandalism to LA 2333. This report concludes...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James D. Gallison. Lisa W. Huckell. Dorothy Larson. Kari Schleher. Kari M. Schmidt.

This report covers the damage assessment and the stabilization suggestions for LA 2333.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bruce A. Jones.

In April and November, 1989, Statistical Research conducted a cultural resource survey of nearly 4,000 acres of land owned by the State of Arizona in Mohave, Yavapai and La Paz counties. The field reconnaissance documented 16 archaeological sites consisting of artifact scatters, trails, rock features, rock art and stationary grinding-features. The non-random survey strategy was based on a stratified sample of 640 acre-study units in the Hualapai and Aquarius Mountains, the Big Sandy Valley and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Anne E. Haaker.

Correspondence from the Deputy Illinois State Historic Preservation Officer to Scott Air Force Base, regarding the rehabilitation of Building 6, Fitness Center.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Roger Kelly. J. S. Wood.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Lion Spring Ruin site, comprised of a compound with a granite room block, trash, and a possible cemetery, located on Tonto National Forest land. The file consists of a heritage inventory form, hand drawn site map, and a Museum of Northern Arizona form. The earliest dated document is from 1967.

DOCUMENT Full-Text James D. Gallison. J. David Kilby.

In the period between July 2004 and November of 2005, engineering-environmental Management, Inc. (e2M) conducted a cultural resources update and testing project of 16 sites at Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB) to determine their eligibility to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The results of the testing and evaluation for 16 sites are documented in this report. Five of the sites are located on lands administered by the Department of Defense (DoD) (LA 47905, LA 108013, LA 108017, LA...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter J. Reynolds.

This is a short description of an archaeological experiment. The first roman hypocaust built with the original material in about 1600 years in Hampshire, Britain.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jodi L. Johnson.

A Phase I archaeological survey was conducted by Du Vall & Associates, Inc. at the request of the Tennessee Chapter of The Nature Conservancy in conjunction with the United States Air Force. This area spans portions of both Coffee and Franklin counties, between the Duck and Elk Rivers, in southern Middle Tennessee. This survey was completed as part of a contract for a five year (1996-2000) assessment of cultural resources on selected land tracts currently maintained as pine timber stands. In...

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 Michael K. Church. James D. Gallison. J. David Kilby. Roberto Herrera.

This report describes the results of testing, limited data recovery, and stabilization of LA 112472 (U.S. Forest Service site number AR-03-03-05-850), a small structure dating to the late Developmental to Coalition period (AD 1170-1280). The site, located on U.S. Forest Service land withdrawn to the Department of Energy and managed by the Department of Defense at Kirtland Air Force Base, was exposed in a south-facing cut bank created by the construction and maintenance of Coyote Creek Road. When...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael K. Church. James D. Gallison. J. David Kilby.

This report describes the results of testing at LA 38136, a multi-component site that includes a Folsom artifact scatter, a Late Developmental-Coalition Period artifact scatter, and a series of small stone structures that date to the early historic Period. To determine whether the site warranted protection and potentially stabilization, we placed seven 1 x 1 m excavation units at the site’s three loci. Testing of the site led to three primary discoveries. First, the Folsom component is only...

DOCUMENT Full-Text M. Zyniecki.

An archaeological testing program was conducted at the proposed new lagoon site/borrow pit in Dead Horse Ranch State Park. The project was undertaken by SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants, under contract to Entranco Engineers, Inc. and was sponsored by the Arizona Department of Transportation and Arizona State Parks. The area tested was 33,910 m² (8.4 ac.). Twenty-eight systematically located backhoe trenches and two judgmentally placed backhoe trenches were excavated. Sixteen artifacts were...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Alaina Harmon

The Roosevelt Community Development Study (RCD) involved the testing and excavation of 27 sites in the Lower Tonto Basin of central Arizona. This is one of three related data recovery projects undertaken in the Tonto Basin for the Bureau of Reclamation prior to the raising of the Roosevelt Lake dam. The results of the RCD project are presented in four Anthropological Papers of the Center for Desert Archaeology: Anthropological Papers No. 12 is the research design; Anthropological Papers No. 13...

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Under the sponsorship of the Bureau of Reclamation, the New Waddell Dam Borrow Areas Mitigative Data Recovery Project, more simply known as the Waddell Project, performed data recovery at 17 sites in the vicinity of Lake Pleasant, Arizona. Supplemental surveys conducted under the same contract added two sites to the inventory slated for investigation. The project area, composed of multiple survey areas, was spread across two drainages, the Agua Fria and New River, in what is considered the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Scott Wood. Elaine Zamora.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file that consists of the site Sunflower Mesa Ruin, comprised of a masonry pueblo and retaining walls with accompanying sherd and lithic scatter, located on Tonto National Forest land. The file consists of a site data form, two maps of the site location, and an Arizona State University site survey form.