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PROJECT Navy.

The two sites were located and initially tested during a survey of limited portions of the facility in 1985. At that time, the Posey Site was interpreted as a probable Contact Period deposit thought to date from ca. 1600 A.D. to an unknown terminal point. Several intact subsurface features were discovered, one of which yielded material radiocarbon dated to 1575 +/- 90 years A.D. The fieldwork conducted during the present investigation consisted of the excavation of 510 shovel test pits and 37...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James Harmon. Grace S. Brush. David B. Landon. Andrea Shapiro.

This report summarizes the results of a program of background research, archaeological fieldwork, and analysis conducted for the Department of Natural Resources of the Indian Head Division of the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Charles County Maryland. The subject of the project was the Posey Site (18CH281) and 18CH282, two archaeological sites located near Mattawoman Creek aboard the Surface Warfare Center. The investigation was undertaken by the Maryland Historical Trust’s Southern Maryland...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mary Bernard-Shaw.

This report presents the results of archaeological investigations at the Redtail site. Field investigations were conducted by Desert Archaeology, Inc. (formerly the Institute for American Research) under the sponsorship of the American Continental Corporation (AMCOR) between January and May of 1987. Redtail (AZ AA:12:149 ASM) was identified as a multicomponent site that was occupied during the Pioneer and Colonial periods (A.D. 700-900). A total of 148 features were excavated, tested, and/or...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Morgan R. Crook, Jr..

Archaeological investigations were undertaken at the Sapelo Island Lighthouse and its adjacent Oil House on December 14 and 15, 1996 (Figures 1 & 2). The limited goal of this investigation was to recover data from the interior of these two structures related to their form, function, and use in order to provide information useful for their accurate restoration and interpretation. This report provides a brief historic background for the lighthouse, details the excavation methods, summarizes...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ray Crook.

Archaeological investigations were undertaken at the Sapelo Island Lighthouse and its adjacent Oil House on December 14 and 15, 1996 (Figures 1 & 2). The limited goal of this investigation was to recover data from the interior of these two structures related to their form, function, and use in order to provide information useful for their accurate restoration and interpretation. This report provides a brief historic background for the lighthouse, details the excavation methods, summarizes the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ronnie Rogers.

Parks, Recreation, and Historic Sites Division plans to enhance an existing trail through the lighthouse complexes at the southern tip of Sapelo Island by replacing existing signage and adding additional interpretive signs. There are two lighthouse complexes on a small area of high ground off the south end of Sapelo. The older brick lighthouse was constructed in 1820. The 1820 facility grew to include a keeper's house, cistern, and oil house. The beacon was removed and the lighthouse was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica L. Neuwirth.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Ellen C. Ruble.

Desert Archaeology, Inc., was contracted by Entranco, Inc., as part of the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) improvement project to conduct phased archaeological data recovery prior to construction of a drainage ditch. The project area is located in the southeastern corner of the Valencia site (AZ BB:13:15 [ASM]), which is part of the larger Valencia community. The core area of the Valencia site is located at the southern end of the Valencia community. The community consists of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Marilyn Masson. Michael T. Lucas. Matthew Kirk.

Mid-nineteenth century archaeological investigation of stratigraphy, features, and artifacts associated with the Myers and Elkins residences, homes in the 1850s to African American abolitionists (and with later nineteenth century materials analyzed as well).

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark D. Elson.

Excavations by the Institute for American Research at the Tanque Verde Wash site (AZ BB: 13:68 [ASM]) uncovered a nearly complete segment of a single component Middle Rincon subphase (A.D. 1000-1100) hamlet. The site was located along Tanque Verde Wash, the largest permanent drainage within the eastern Tucson Basin. Nineteen pithouses, three trash mounds, and 66 extramural features were recovered within a 2500 square meter area, The excavation methodology, which involved the complete excavation...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Frederick W. Huntington.

The Institute for American Research conducted an archaeological mitigation program for the Pima County Department of Transportation. Mapping, testing, and excavation activities at the West Branch Site [AZ AA:16:3(ASM)], a large preclassic Hohokam village, are reported. Hohokam remains were primarily from the Early and Middle Rincon subphases of the Sedentary period. Analyses focused on the refinement of the ceramic typology for the Rincon phase and on the documentation of household units in...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Donald E. Weaver, Jr..

This report describes the archaeological excavations at, and subsequent laboratory analysis of material from, the Westwing Site, AZ T:7:27 (ASU), lying within the Salt River Project and the United States Bureau of Reclamation rights-of-way between the Westwing Substation and the Eastwing Substation, Maricopa County, Arizona. The excavations concentrated on the area to be impacted by construction of Tower Number 4 of the transmission line and the associated access road and support...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Stuart Fiedel. Katherine Kosalko. Stephanie Jacobe.

As part of a Cooperative Agreement with the United States Army Environmental Command, The Louis Berger Group, Inc. was tasked to complete the archaeological excavations at Site 44CE0110. The site is the probable core of Woodford Plantation (Windsor Plantation) with occupation from the 1700s to the mid-1900s. The location of a non-extant house is defined by a cellar depression. The brickwork suggests a construction date of the 1800s. Brick fragments and artifacts indicative of the occupation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David F. Overstreet.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Deborah L. Swartz.

The Yuma Wash site was a permanently occupied large Classic period village situated in the northern Tucson Basin at the juncture of the eastern bajada of the Tucson Mountains with the Santa Cruz River floodplain. The site area was also intermittently used on a much smaller scale during the rest of the Hohokam sequence and during the Early Agricultural and Early Ceramic periods, as well as during the Historic era. The project was conducted by Desert Archaeology, Inc., for the Town of Marana. The...

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The Yuma Wash site was a permanently occupied large Classic period village situated in the northern Tucson Basin at the juncture of the eastern bajada of the Tucson Mountains with the Santa Cruz River floodplain. The site area was also intermittently used on a much smaller scale during the rest of the Hohokam sequence and during the Early Agricultural and Early Ceramic periods, as well as during the Historic era. The project was conducted by Desert Archaeology, Inc., for the Town of Marana. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Randall D. Boedy. Johnny A. Faulkner.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Randy Franklin. Richard Carrico.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Carrico. Carolyn Kyle.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Helga Wöcherl.

In 2009, archaeological work was requested by Tucson Water to determine if significant archaeological resources are present within the proposed alignment of a planned collector pipeline at the Sweetwater Wastewater Reclamation Facility (SRF), (City Project No. 08-35). The City of Tucson is the sponsor and the landowner of the project area. The planned pipeline alignment crosses the boundaries of two known archaeological sites, Los Pozos, AZ AA:12:91 (ASM), and Wetlands, AZ AA:12:90 (ASM), both...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Matthew Peters.

On February 1 and 2, 2006, Archaeological Research Services, Inc. (ARS) conducted archaeological investigations at AZ T:12:238 (ASM), located on state-owned land, administered by the Laveen School District No. 69, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. Limited archaeological testing was carried out in advance of the construction of a proposed elementary school in order to determine the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) eligibility of a portion of A2 T:12:238 (ASM). Pueblo Primero, a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carlys Gilbert. Gary Reinoehl.

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Logan Simpson multi-phased (Phases I and II) data recovery investigations and archaeological monitoring within the prehistoric Hohokam habitation site of AZ U:9:165(ASM)—also known as La Plaza or La Plaza de Tempe—and two historic periods linear sites (summarized below) on the Arizona State University (ASU) Tempe Campus in Tempe, Maricopa County, Arizona. The archaeological investigations were conducted at the request of ASU in advance of ground-disturbing construction of a new campus building...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas F. Babcock. J. D. Hartley. C. A. Rolen.

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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.