Lithic (Material Keyword)
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Summary of Phase II testing of five sites (40CF270‐ A, 40CF270‐ B, 40CF281, 40CF290 and 40CF297), all of which had an historic farmstead component as the main component. The Phase II investigation was designed to evaluate the archaeological resources within the previously recorded sites and make recommendations regarding their potential eligibility for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). 40CF270 and 40CF281 were not recommended eligible for listing on the NRHP. 40CF290 was found...
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009 Section 110 Compliance Report for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District, NHPA, Cultural Resources Investigations, Technical Report No. 28: Archaeological Survey of Shoreline, Dam Areas, and Recreation Areas for the US Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District, Lakes in Kentucky, Ohio, Virginia, and West Virginia (2011)
At the request of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District (Corps), ASC Group, Inc. (ASC), conducted National Historic Preservation Act Section 110 archaeological compliance surveys on Corps fee-title land at reservoirs in the Huntington District in Kentucky, Ohio, Virginia, and West Virginia. ASC was subcontracted to John Milner Associates, Inc. Shoreline surveys were carried out at Delaware Reservoir and North Branch of Kokosing Reservoir, Ohio, Beech Fork and East Lynn...
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009 Section 110 Compliance Report for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District, NHPA, Cultural Resources Investigations, Technical Report No. 9, Part 1, Phase II Cultural Resource Investigations of Fourteen Archeological Sites in Mississippi River Navagation Pools 11-14, 16, and 20 in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and Wisconsin (2011)
Phase II Cultural Resource Investigations of Fourteen Archeological Sites in Mississippi River Navigation Pools 11-14, 16, and 20 in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and Wisconsin. Phase II testing was conducted to determine the NRHP eligibility of 14 sites on the Mississippi River. 11CA117, 11JD86, 11RI44, 11RI510, 11RI511, 11RI516, and 13MC12 are recommended not eligible for the NRHP. The other seven sites are recommended NRHP eligible. 47GT271 contains Early through Late Woodland components and is...
An Archaeological Assessment of the Bear Creek Shelter, Lake Whitney, Texas (1978)
The Bear Creek Shelter (41HI17) was recorded and tested by the River Basin Surveys in 1947. At that time, the site was judged to be shallow and insignificant. Enlargement of Lake Whitney in 1975 subjected the site to wave action, which resulted in the exposure of numerous artifacts through erosion of the deposit. This was noticed and reported by members of the Texas Archaeological Society. Testing in 1976 and 1978 by the Archaeology Research Program of Southern Methodist University revealed a...
Archaeological Clearance Survey Ratscat Advanced Measurement Site, Rams, Rhodes Canyon, W.S.M.R., New Mexico (1982)
This survey was required as part of the Environmental Assessment process prior to initiation of construction of the proposed Advanced Measurement Site, RAMS. This project would involve construction of the radar testing complex, support facilities, and clearing and leveling of approximately 600 acres of land surface. Three large prehistoric sites, three small lithic scatters, one small lithic and ceramic scatter, a rock cairn and an historic road were located within the project area and...
An Archaeological Curation-Needs Assessment for the US Navy, Atlantic Division, Naval Facilities Engineering Command (1999)
At the request of the U.S. Navy Atlantic Division, Naval Facilities Engineering Command (LANTDIV), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections (MCX-CMAC), located at the St. Louis District, conducted a survey of archaeological collections and associated documentation generated from archaeological investigations conducted within the boundaries of LANTDIV facilities located in North Carolina, Puerto Rico, Virginia,...
Archaeological Excavations for the Jenkins House Site (46CB41) 2002-2003
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...
Archaeological Investigations at Lee Canyon: Kayenta Anasazi Farmsteads in the Upper Basin Coconino County, Arizona (1992)
The following report presents the results of archaeological data recovery carried out at two Kayenta Anasazi sites, AZ 1:1:15 (ASM) and AZ 1:1:24 (ASM), located at Lee Canyon in the Upper Basin, Coconino County, Arizona. The work was conducted in response to a realignment of State Route 64 by the Arizona Department of Transportation. During archaeological testing by Statistical Research, Inc., masonry structures and agricultural features at the two sites were located, suggesting the potential to...
Archaeological Investigations at the West Branch Site: Early and Middle Rincon Occupation in the Southern Tucson Basin (1986)
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...
Archaeological Investigations at the Yuma Wash Site and Outlying Settlements Part 1 (2016)
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...
Archaeological Monitoring and Sampling During Excavations for Bellows Excess Underground Storage Tank Removal, Phase I, Bellows Air Force Station Hawaii, Waimanalo, Ko'olaupoko District, O'ahu Island Hawaii (1998)
An installation restoration project requiring archaeological monitoring of five previously identified underground storage tank areas (USTs, each area designated UST-llA-E) and the subsequent removal of four tanks ranging in size from 300 to 10,000 gallons at Bellows Air Force Station Hawai'i, Waimanalo Bay, Waimanalo Ahupua'a, O'ahu Island has been completed. Archaeological monitoring and mitigation measures were conducted by SCS/CRMS, Inc. at the request of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,...
Archaeological Survey of Beech Fork Lake 1973-1975
The West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey was contracted to conduct the archaeological survey. The majority of the field work took place between 1973-1975 around Beech Fork Lake in Cabell, Mason, and Wayne Counties, West Virginia. Site numbers for the project include; 46CB12, 46MS49, 46WA22, 46WA24, 46WA25, 46WA26, 46WA28, 46WA35, 46WA36, 46WA37, 46WA38, 46WA39, 46WA54, 46WA55, 46WA57, 46WA58, 46WM2, 46WM12, and 46WM20. The project's intention was to result in the construction of a...
Archeological Site Survey, Basic Data Report, BPI_0517, N.D. (2018)
This site, northeast of a bulldozed area, contained no shell middens. Recovered material included quartz and quartzite lithic material, ceramics, fire-cracked rock, and a fragment of mammal bone.
Archeological Testing of Two Prehistoric Sites at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico (1990)
The present report fulfills the stipulations of the COE contract, and presents the results of (a) interpretive analyses of the lithic assemblage from LA 67591, a probable late Archaic hunting site, and (b) ethnobotanical analyses of organic materials from LA 75258, a burned pit structure formerly designated IO 48. A radiocarbon sample has been submitted from LA 75258.
Artifact Analysis for NMCRIS 89005 (2023)
GMI Ceramic Analysis Form, GMI Groundstone Analysis Form, and GMI Lithic Analysis Form for NMCRIS Number 89005
Artifact Catalog, Archaeological Excavations for the Jenkins House Site (46CB41) 2002-2003 (2018)
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...
Artifact Database, Mary Ann Cole Site (12CR1) 1979-1981 (2012)
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Louisville District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Project’s (VCP) St. Louis laboratory in the fall of 2009. The VCP St. Louis laboratory was established by USACE, St. Louis District’s Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections using American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 funds and staffed through Brockington and Associates, Inc. The procedures employed to re-house the...
Artifact Database, Surveys at Patoka Lake 1977 (2012)
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Louisville District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Project’s (VCP) St. Louis laboratory in the fall of 2009. The VCP St. Louis laboratory was established by USACE, St. Louis District’s Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections and staffed through Brockington and Associates, Inc. In the re-housing process of each investigative effort of the USACE, Louisville District collection,...
Artifact Report, Cultural Resources Survey of Proposed Pennsylvania Route 166 Bridge 1993 (2013)
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Pittsburgh District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Program’s (VCP) Washington DC laboratory in the winter of 2010 and then moved to the Alexandria laboratory in August 2011. 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 was staffed through John Milner Associates, Inc., an archaeological contract firm...
Bellows Air Force Station Resources
Project metadata for resources within the Bellows Air Force Station cultural heritage resources collection.
A Block Clustering Approach to the Definition of Site Classes: San Xavier Archaeological Project (1985)
The San Xavier Archaeological Project conducted an intensive survey of more than 18 square miles in the southern portion of the Tucson Basin. In all, 150 sites were recorded, of which 147 dated at least in part to either the prehistoric or protohistoric periods. One of the primary goals of the project was to determine the types of sites located in the project area and to examine the relationships between the various site types. Traditionally, archaeologists define site types from surface data on...
Camera Pad Road Sand Removal Out of Compliance Project Investigation Holloman Air Force Base Otero County New Mexico (1996)
Report and SHPO correspondence regarding a ground disturbing project on Holloman AFB (HAFB) which had been conducted without the proper cultural resources clearance. The project consisted of the removal of the edge of an active sand dune using heavy equipment. An investigation was completed to determine if nearby archaeological sites had been disturbed by the activity.
A Cultural Resource and Geological Study Pertaining to Four Selected Petroglyph/Pictograph Sites on Nellis Air Force Range and Adjacent Overflight Lands, Lincoln and Nye Counties, Nevada (1999)
This study documents comparative results of four petroglyph and/or pictograph sites: two on Nellis Air Force Range and two on adjacent Nellis AFR aircraft overflight lands administered by the BLM. A fifth cultural resources site, situated east of Beatty, Nevada, was studies as a control site for the sonic boom aspect of the study. Work focused on determining aircraft sonic boom effects on rock formations containing petroglyphs/pictographs and contrasting the two differing land management...
Cultural Resources Survey of Proposed Pennsylvania Route 166 Bridge 1993
NPW Consultants, Inc., conducted cultural resource investigations on April 19, 1993 of an area which was going to be disturbed by the construction of the Pennsylvania Route 166 Bridge replacement located in the community of New Geneva, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. The study is part of the construction of the Grays Landing Lock and Dam on the Monongahela River at mile 82 near Masontown, Pennsylvania. The principal investigators were Hettie L. Ballweber and Ronald L. Michael. Five 1 x 1-meter...
Early Farmers of the Sonoran Desert: Archaeological Investigations at the Houghton Road Site, Tucson, Arizona (1998)
The following report presents the results of archaeological testing and data recovery at the Houghton Road site (AZ BB:13:398 [ASM]). These investigations provide important new insights into a virtually unknown time in Tucson Basin prehistory. The Houghton Road site represents a seasonally or semipermanently occupied hamlet that dates primarily to the Plain Ware horizon, the first period of Formative culture in southern Arizona. Excavations at the Houghton Road Site (AZ BB:13:398) add to the...