Building Materials (Material Keyword)

Materials used for construction (e.g., brick, wood, adobe)

5,401-5,417 (5,417 Records)

Wooden Structure Photographs, SUCF Parking Facility Archaeological Site, Albany, NY (2001)
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.


Wooden timber maintenance on the Great House, Compound A (1996)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Donald L. Spencer. H. David evans.

These documents are: a form for assessment of action that would impact cultural resources in the Great House in Compound A at the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument and a document supporting the proposed action. The recommendation supports replaced areas on a rotting timber with wood as opposed to epoxy.


Woodlawn Plantation, MT. Vernon, Virginia: Archeological Reconnaissance Survey (1985)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Edward J. Flanagan.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.


Working Plantations on Sapelo Island: High Point Versus Chocolate (2008)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Nicholas Honerkamp.

Back-to-back archaeological surveys on Sapelo Island, Georgia by the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga have concentrated on two sites: a substantial, intensively occupied plantation dating primarily to the first half of the 19th century (Chocolate) and an earlier, sporadically occupied operation that included a short-lived French component (High Point). This paper compares the archaeological manifestations of slave occupations at both sites and identifies distinct material contrasts...


World Museum Map Final Map (2010)
GEOSPATIAL Karen Holberg.

The aim of the LEAP projects was to publish multi-layered e-publications and develop and link them to associated digital archives. The original LEAP project was funded by the AHRC while the LEAP II, A Trans-Atlantic LEAP, was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This final map project is part of a 2011 LEAP II project "Placing immateriality: situating the material of highland Chiriquí" by Karen Holberg. The files contained in this record include an .mxd map project and an image of the...


World_Oceans Shapefile (2010)
GEOSPATIAL Karen Holberg.

The aim of the LEAP projects was to publish multi-layered e-publications and develop and link them to associated digital archives. The original LEAP project was funded by the AHRC while the LEAP II, A Trans-Atlantic LEAP, was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This shapefile is part of a 2011 LEAP II project "Placing immateriality: situating the material of highland Chiriquí" by Karen Holberg. All files associated with this record must be downloaded to ensure that the shapefile...


World_PoliticalBoundaries Shapefile (2010)
GEOSPATIAL Karen Holberg.

The aim of the LEAP projects was to publish multi-layered e-publications and develop and link them to associated digital archives. The original LEAP project was funded by the AHRC while the LEAP II, A Trans-Atlantic LEAP, was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This shapefile is part of a 2011 LEAP II project "Placing immateriality: situating the material of highland Chiriquí" by Karen Holberg. All files associated with this record must be downloaded to ensure that the shapefile...


Wreck of the Tracy D: Discovery of an Unidentified Shipwreck on Ossabaw Island (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Daniel Elliott.

Archaeological investigations at the North End Plantation, Ossabaw Island took place during the winter of2005. Several of the archaeology project team members participated in an unrelated discovery of a shipwreck on the South End Point of Ossabaw Island in St. Catherines Sound during that period. This previously unknown and, as yet, unidentified wreck was first discovered by Tracy Dean, who noticed nineteenth century bottle glass and ballast flint on the beach and the wreck site was named in her...


Wright Creek Pueblo Site Arizona Site Steward File (2002)
DOCUMENT Full-Text John Wooten.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Wright Creek Pueblo Site, comprised of sherd and lithic scatter as well as a collapsed pueblo, located on Bureau of Land Management land. The file consists of a site map, archaeological site survey worksheet, page of field notes, a blank version of the worksheet, and nine pages of archaeological site surveying technique notes. The earliest dated document is from 2002.


Yaeger F. S. Station Arizona Site Steward File (2000)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jim McKee.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Yeager F. S. Station site, comprised of the remnants of ranger station, located on Prescott National Forest land. The file consists of a site data form.


Yale's Valuable Find: Collection of Chiriqui Antiques Stored Away for Years (1905)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Shelby Manney

This newspaper clipping from December 3, 1905 briefly describes a discovery of a collection of Chiriqui artifacts found at the Peabody Museum.


Yellowstone National Park: Submerged Resources Survey (2003)
DOCUMENT Full-Text James E. Bradford. Matthew A. Russell. Larry E. Murphy. Timothy G. Smith.

During August 1996, the National Park Service's (NPS) Submerged Cultural Resources Unit (SCRU) conducted a multiresource remote-sensing survey in Yellowstone Lake, Yellowstone National Park (YELL). The general strategy was to apply methodology developed by SCRU for marine resource hydrographic survey to specific management issues at Yellowstone Lake. The first submerged resources surveys designed specifically for Geographic Information System (GIS) applications were conducted several years...


Yuma Crossing and Associated Sites National Historic Landmark: An Archaeological Perspective (1983)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Lyle M. Stone.

This is a partial document containing only the portion of the full report relating to the water facility. A water facility, including a water storage tank and a pumphouse had been constructed at the Quartermaster Depot by 1869. The water tank, a stone masonry building approximately 34 ft east-west by 22 ft north- south in size, exists at present and is owned by the State of Arizona. The pumphouse or enginehouse, located to the north of the tank just above the Colorado River, was present in...


Yuma Wall Stabilization, Yuma Territorial State Prison, Arizona (1981)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Donald E. Surface.

The State Parks Board and department personnel have expressed the desirablility of developing a wall finish over the existing caliche material that could achieve the texture and color of the original white plaster used in the early 1900s. Previous work with cast-in-place concrete on a similar wall in the New Yard area was completed at a cost of $25.00 to $32.00 per square foot of wall face. A built-up roof frame was also considered in this report. Due to the natural appearance of the other...


Zion Pueblo Arizona Site Steward File (2002)
DOCUMENT Full-Text John H. Madsen.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Zion Pueblo, located on State Trust land. The file consists of an AZSITE Site Form. The earliest dated document is from 2002.


Zooarchaeological and Stable Isotope Analysis of Deer at Isla Cilvituk, Campeche, Mexico (2018)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Paisley C. Palmer.

The purpose of my thesis is to analyze the deer from the zooarchaeological assemblage recovered from the archaeological site of Isla Cilvituk, Campeche, Mexico, to determine if environmental depression affected Isla Cilvituk. Isla Cilvituk is a Maya archaeological site located in a lacustrine region on the Yucatán peninsula. Environmental depression is defined as the destruction of ecosystems by the mismanagement of resources and/or climate shifts. I focus on deforestation and animal...


Zuni Heaven In-Lieu Land Selections: Archeological Survey in Apache County (1987)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Judy L. Brunson. William R. Gibson. Eric Peterson.

The Zuni Heaven project is a proposed land selection for Apache County, Arizona. Nearly 5,900 acres will be available for transfer to the County. In three phases, between October 1985 and July 1987, BLM inventoried over 7,100 acres to locate sufficient acreage for transfer. During the surveys, 32 sites were recorded in 19 different parcels. A total of 5,977 acres have been recommended for transfer to Apache County, excluding parcels which contain National Register potential properties.