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An Archeological Survey of the Gila River Farms Expansion, Pinal County, Arizona (1987)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Mary Sullivan. Monique Sawyer-Lang. Richard W. Effland, Jr.. Margerie Green.

An archaeological clearance survey of the proposed Gila River Farms Expansion area was undertaken by Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS). This survey was performed in accordance with the provisions and regulations of the National Historic Preservation Act in order to locate, identify, and assess cultural resources that might be adversely impacted when the Gila River Indian Community (GRIC) begins to utilize this land for agriculture. A total of four sites, four artifact scatters, and...


Archeological Survey of the Proposed Adobe Acres Drainage Improvements Project (Phase I), Bernalillo County, New Mexico (1992)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles W. Amseden.

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.


Archeological Survey of the Proposed Belair Revetment Project (M-66-67.5-L) Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana (1984)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Judy Shafer. A. Berle Clemensen. Diane Rhodes.

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.


An Archeological Survey Plan for the Pacific Islands Cluster, Pacific West Region, National Park Service: NPS Systemwide Archeological Inventory Program (2000)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Susan J. Wells. Robert J. Hommon.

The National Archeological Survey Initiative (NASI) was established to develop a Systemwide archeological Inventory Program (SAIP) which in tum should improve the National Park Service's (NPS) accountability for cultural resources. A plan for the Western Region, now called the Pacific West Region, was published in 1994 (Wells and others 1994). In 1998, the Pacific Islands Cluster archeologist and an archeologist from the Western Archeological and Conservation Center began revision of the plan...


An Archeological Survey Plan for the Western Region of the National Park Service: NPS Systemwide Archeological Inventory Program (1994)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Susan J. Wells.

The National Archeological Survey Initiative (NASI) was established to develop a System wide Archeological Inventory Program (SAIP) which in turn should improve the National Park Service's (NPS) accountability for cultural resources. Each region of NPS is required to produce a region wide survey plan. The Western Region of the National Park Service has 46 park units comprising more than 8,000,000 acres. Archeologically the region has a great deal of cultural diversity and a large number of...


Archeological Survey Report. Black Canyon Creek Stream Channelization Project. Adobe Valley. 9-Mno-120 Pm 44.60 / 45.66 (1987)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Martha Proctor.

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.


Archeological Survey Report: NASA Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster Facility Site on Merritt Island, Florida (1974)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard L. Smith.

This archaeological reconnaissance was undertaken by Florida Technological University personnel at the request of NASA for purposes of determining whether or not prehistoric or historic cultural remains occur in the area of the proposed Solid Rocket Booster Facility site, to be located not far south of the present VAB structure on Merritt Island. The survey resulted in locating only one historical site marked by remnants of a brick chimney and scattered domestic artifacts. No further evidence...


Archeological Survey, New Drop Zone, Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma (1993)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Rachel Fernandez

The U.S. Air Force, through contractual services with LABAT-ANDERSON Incorporated, conducted an archeological field investigation in Harmon County, Oklahoma. Four archeological assistants under the direct supervision of Joseph K. Anderson of the Museum of the Great Plains (MGP) performed the investigation between October 4 and 10, 1993. The investigation involved the examination of 640 acres [259.2 hectares (ha)].


Archeological Test Excavations at the Mustill House and Store, Site 33 Su 274, at Lock 15 of the Ohio and Erie Canal, Summit County, Ohio, 1998 and 1999 (2002)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey J. Richner.

This report documents Midwest Archeological Center fieldwork at the historic Mustill site located at Lock 15 in the Cascade Locks area of the Ohio and Erie Canal in Akron, Ohio. Located in southern Summit County, this area consists of a series of locks that raised the canal’s waters over the height of land separating the Lake Erie and Mississippi basins. Historic research indicates that the Mustill family, originally from England, lived and operated a store at the western side of Lock 15 from...


Archeological Testing and Monitoring of Powerline Trenching, 1981, Gateway National Recreation Area, Sandy Hook Unit, Middletown, New Jersey (1983)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Leonard Bianchi.

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.


Archeological Testing at the Miller House Site (11SG1318) Lincoln Home National Historic Site (LIHO), Illinois (2007)
DOCUMENT Full-Text William J. Hunt, Jr..

Test excavations at the Miller House site in Lincoln Home National Historic Site (LIHO), were undertaken in response to National Park Service (NPS) plans to restore and reconstruct the house to its original circa 1860 appearance. The scale of the construction is such that there is potential for considerable ground disturbance. This, in an archeological site which historical documentation and small-scale archeological investigations have demonstrated to contain or potentially contain intact...


Archeological Testing, Road Rehabilitation, Gateway National Recreation Area, Sandy Hook, New Jersey (1983)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Dana C. Linck.

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Archeological Tests at the Hoover Birthplace Cottage (HS-1) and a Shovel-Test Survey along the Route of a New Waterline to the Hoover Library Addition, Herbert Hoover National Historic Site, West Branch, Iowa (1996)
DOCUMENT Full-Text William J. Hunt, Jr..

The yard around the Hoover Cottage (also known as the Birthplace Cottage) and a portion of the meadow southwest of the cottage were tested by a Midwest Archeological Center crew between July 15 and July 26, 1991. This investigation was initiated in response to proposed construction and associated ground disturbance at the cottage and between the cottage and the Hoover Library expansion. The purpose of this work was simply to determine whether prehistoric or historic archeological resources...


Archeological, Historical and Unique Scenic Resources. In: Upper Bayou Nezpique Watershed, Draft Environmetnal Impact State (1974)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Gulf South Research Institute.

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.


Archeology in Herbert Hoover's Neighborhood 1989: Excavations at the L. Miles and E.S. Hayburst Houses, West Branch, Iowa (1997)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey J. Richner.

This report documents archeological excavations conducted by the Midwest Archeological Center, National Park Service, at two historic properties at Herbert Hoover National Historic Site (HEHO), West Branch, Iowa. This fieldwork occurred in 1989 in support of a major structural restoration program at the Laban Miles and E.S. Hayhurst Houses. These late nineteenth-century structures formed part of a West Branch neighborhood that would have been familiar to Herbert Hoover during his childhood...


The Archeology of Faraway Ranch, Arizona: Prehistoric, Historic, and 20th Century (1984)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark F. Baumler.

From its tenuous beginning as an 1880s pioneer homestead in the Chiricahua Mountains, to its development into a thriving 20th century Arizona ranch, Faraway Ranch exemplifies the changing history of rural life on the western frontier. This report chronicles a part of that history through its material remains, as revealed by the first complete archeological survey of the now-abandoned ranch property. Intended primarily as an inventory and management tool for the National Park Service...


Archeology of Pajarito Park, New Mexico (1904)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Hewett Edgar L..

In the summer of 1896 the writer commenced to investigate the archeology of the plateau between the Jemez mountain range and the Rio Grande in New Mexico. The ethnological significance of this region seemed at that time to have been overlooked, nor has it yet received much attention. The studies then begun have continued intermittently ever since. The first object was to obtain such facts as could be obtained by exploration, photography, and a limited amount of excavation. I hope to be...


Architectural Assessment: Fort Verde State Historic Park (1992)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert Munson. Nora Graf. Jeff Moore. Terri Leverton.

Fort Verde State Historic Park provides a vivid glimpse into post Civil War garrison life on the frontier. Though only four of the Fort buildings remain, staff have achieved a forceful interpretation of the history of the Fort, and, more importantly, a clear and present sense of the soldiers who served a portion of their lives there. The Park is unusual amongst historic site museums in the degree to which aggressive research and documentation is woven through exhibits. The results of this...


Architectural Database of a Sample of Early Ceramic Through Sedentary Period Hohokam Pithouses in the Tucson Basin, Arizona (2015)
DATASET Uploaded by: Kye Miller

This database contains basic information of a sample of 313 Early Ceramic through Sedentary Period pithouses from 8 excavated sites in the Tucson Basin, Arizona.


Architectural Documentation: Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS No. CA-2669), AFSWP Q Area, Travis Air Force Base, Buildings No. 904, 906, 908, 909, 912, 925, 930, 931, 932, 933, 934, and 942 (1997)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Andrea Urbas. John Snyder.

This document contains photographs, written historical and descriptive information for buildings in the AFSWP Q Area, Travis Air Force Base. HABS No. CA-2669. Contains records for buildings CA-2669-C (Building No. 904), CA-2669-C (Building No. 904), CA-2669-D (Building No. 906), CA-2669-E (Building No. 908), CA-2669-F (Building No. 909), CA-2669-G (Building No. 912), CA-2669-A (Building No. 925), CA-2669-H (Building No. 930), CA-2669-I (Building No. 931), CA-2669-J (Building No. 932), CA-2669-K...


The Architectural History of the Catoctin Furnace Iron Master's House (1981)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglass C. Reed. Paula Reed.

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.


Architectural Images, Susquehanna, Naval Air Station Patuxent River (1989)
IMAGE Southern Maryland Regional Center. Julia A. King.

This resource contains a collection of photographs of the historic house and dairy house structures at Susquehanna, Maryland (18ST399). It also contains photographs of Rousby cemetery.


Architectural Survey of the Proposed Williston Bypass, Barwell County, South Carolina, And Archaeological Survey of the Proposed U.S. 78 Improvements, Aiken to Elko, Aiken and Barnwell Counties, South Carolina (1995)
DOCUMENT Full-Text C.S. Butler. M. Virginia Markham.

"This study was carried out as part of planning for improvement of Highway U.S. 78 in Aiken and Barnwell Counties. The report describes results of background and archival history research, intensive architectural resources and archaeological survey. Much of the archival research relating to the Williston area was previously conducted in 1992 and included the study by Butler and Poplin (1992b). The archival research included a review of the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) listings...


Architecture and Dendrochronology of Chetro Ketl, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico (1983)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffery S. Dean. Peter J. McKenna. Richard L. Warren. Florence Hawley Ellis.

Chetro Ketl is one of the largest ruins in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico. The visible architecture of Chetro Ketl dates from the early eleventh to the early twelfth centuries A. D. The rear wall of the building is about 480' long. The ruins cover almost 3 acres, with almost half of that area consisting of enclosed plaza. Chetro Ketl, at its largest, had between 200 and 225 ground-floor rooms, and a total of 450 to 550 rooms on all stories. Twelve kivas are currently visible,...


Architecture and Material Culture of 29SJ1360 Chaco Canyon, New Mexico (1984)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter J. McKenna. H. Wolcott Toll.

In the summer of 1974, the Chaco Center, now the Division of Cultural Research, National Park Service, began its second season of field excavations in Chaco Canyon. The inventory survey of the canyon was essentially complete, and research emphasis had shifted to the study of Pueblo I sites. Excavation of 29SJ1360 (hereafter called 1360) was undertaken as part of an effort to examine the full temporal range of the canyon's Anasazi occupation. As it happened, excavations at 1360 did not produce...