Building Materials (Material Keyword)

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

5,326-5,350 (5,378 Records)

Volcan_12k_Clip Raster (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 raster 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 raster file opens...


Volcan_50k_Clip Raster (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 raster 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 raster file opens...


W-2035 the Gonzales Canyon Adobe. (1978)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard H. Norwood.

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.


Wabash Grant Huntington County (12HU1299-12HU1315) 2008
PROJECT US Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District. US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District.

Normally, the VCP only processes USACE collections. The artifacts for Wabash Grant Huntington County (12HU1299–12HU1315) 2008 were originally thought to be USACE owned. The artifacts were processed at the VCP. Later communications between Ball State University collections manager, Christine Keller, Louisville District archaeologist, Jan Marie Hemberger, and MCX CMAC collections manager, Cathy Van Arsdale confirmed that this investigation was not owned by USACE. The investigation was related and...


Wagner Hill Ball Court Arizona Site Steward File (1994)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Neil Weintraub.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the site Wagner Hill Ball Court, comprised of a masonry ball court, located on Kaibab National Forest land. The file consists of a site data form. The earliest dated document is from 1994.


Walnut Canyon National Monument: An Archeological Survey: Archeological Investigations in the Walnut Canyon Drainage, North Central Arizona (1985)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Anne R. Baldwin. J. Micheal Bremer.

The 1985 survey of Walnut Canyon recorded 242 sites, of which the majority were prehistoric. The first period of occupation dates to the Sunset phase, from A.D. 800 to 950, when the southeast section of the monument was most obviously occupied; there is some indication of sporadic early use in other parts of the monument. There is a hiatus from around A.D. 950 to 1066, the date of eruption of Sunset Crater. At the beginning of the 12th century there is a dramatic increase in...


Wando Shipping Terminal Expansion: Archaeological Data Recovery at 38CH351, Charleston County, South Carolina (2010)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jon Bernard Marcoux. Edward G. Salo. David S. Baluha.

Brockington and Associates, Inc., conducted archaeological data recovery investigations at Site 38CH351 between August 20 and December 21, 2009. These investigations were conducted for the South Carolina State Ports Authority (SCSPA). Archaeological survey by Bailey and Ellerbee (2007) and testing by Marcoux and Salo (2008) documented 38CH351 and determined the site eligible for the National Register of Historic Places based on its research potential. This report details field investigations and...


Ward Castle: An Historic Structure Report (1981)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Bruce Popkin.

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.


Washington Square Mound Site
PROJECT Uploaded by: Zac Selden

Multi-component Caddo mound site located in Nacogdoches, Texas.


The Wayman Property: An Archaeological Survey Near Pala, California. (1978)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard H. Norwood.

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.


Weaver Pottery Site: Industrial Archaeology in Knoxville, Tennessee (1981)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: system user

Nineteenth century archaeological sites in urban areas of Tennessee have been consistently neglected by archaeologists. This neglect has been primarily due to the erroneous belief that these late historic sites, even if reasonably well preserved, would not contribute substantial knowledge about cultural development in the American South. It has become increasingly apparent that although extensive surface modifications have occurred in our urban centers, extensive filling of areas has often...


Well #1 Hunt, Quanah Company, BLM Lease #27-2920-84-A. (1985)
DOCUMENT Citation Only James Briscoe.

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.


West Franklin Watershed Report (1976)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lorraine Heartfield. G. R. Dennis Price.

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.


West of the Maricopa Mountains: A Cultural Resources Inventory in Support of the Proposed Gila River Transmission Project (2001)
DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Simon Bruder. Cara Lonardo. A.E. (Gene) Rogge.

APS proposes to construct (1) two parallel 500 kilovolt (kV) transmission lines within a 450-foot-wide right-of-way, (2) an 80-acre 500kV switchyard, and (3) a 230kV interconnection line in Maricopa County. The project will provide transmission interconnection for the Panda Gila River generating station to the Western Systems Coordinating Council transmission grid.


West Ruin great house architectural documentation AZRU-G04-01 (2000)
IMAGE Gary Brown.

Aztec West, Architectural Documentation team (photographed by Joanie Tracy). Summer 2000 Architectural Documentation. Image AZRU-G04-01: Beth Chambers and Gary Brown in doorway of Room 118; view NW.


West Ruin great house architectural documentation AZRU-G04-02 (2000)
IMAGE Gary Brown.

Aztec West, Architectural Documentation overview (photographed by Gary Brown prior to backfilling). Summer 2000 Architectural Documentation. Image AZRU-G04-02: Site overview looking north across plaza from first-story Room 151. Image AZRU-G04-03: Site overview looking SW across North Wing from third-story Room 64.


West Ruin great house architectural documentation AZRU-G04-30 (2000)
IMAGE Gary Brown.

Aztec West, Sector 6, overview (photographed by Gary Brown prior to backfilling). Summer 2000 Architectural Documentation. Image AZRU-G04-30: Exterior view looking east along west facade from west of West Ruin.


West Ruin great house room backfilling AZRU-G03-11 (2000)
IMAGE Gary Brown.

Aztec West, Sector 3, Backfilling Kiva F (photographed by Gary Brown during backfilling operation). Two-story room conveyor set-up. No publication exists on the kivas excavated by AMNH (but see unpublished Morris kiva notes). Image AZRU-G03-11: Mechanical loading of conveyors for Kiva F delivery. Image AZRU-G03-12: Spreading backdirt in Kiva F. Image AZRU-G03-13: Mechanical loading of conveyors for Kiva F delivery. Image AZRU-G03-14: Mechanical loading of conveyors for Kiva F delivery. Image...


Western Argolid Regional Project (WARP), Field Manual 2014-2016 Seasons (2020)
DOCUMENT Full-Text William Caraher. Grace Erny. Alyssa Friedman. Scott Gallimore. Melanie Godsey. Machal Gradoz. Sarah James. Stephanie Steinke. Dimitri Nakassis.

The Western Argolid Regional Project (WARP) is an interdisciplinary archaeological project that sought to collect and interpret evidence of human activity from prehistory to the modern day in the western Argolid, Greece. Our survey area consists of 30 km2 to the northwest of the ancient and modern city of Argos, where the fertile Argive Plain transitions into a series of mountainous valleys along the course of the Inachos River, which we surveyed over three field seasons from 2014-2016. Although...


Western Lower Papaloapan Archaeology (Veracruz, Mexico): Documents
PROJECT Uploaded by: Barbara Stark

This project includes files related to western lower Papaloapan basin projects, including particularly relevant Master's theses, term papers, drafts of codebooks or other working documents, and some hard-to-get or out-of-print publications (confidential because of copyrights). A list of publications, theses, and dissertations related to the projects appears in a file in the related "Introduction" project.


Western Lower Papaloapan Archaeology (Veracruz, Mexico): Forms
PROJECT Uploaded by: Barbara Stark

This archive includes an introduction to the field projects and publications as well as copies in pdf of original field and laboratory forms, digitized data files (generally in excel), and files with descriptions of variables in digitized files. The files will be added to tdar through a series of updates. The projects were sponsored by funding various agencies, with permission from the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Mexico.


Western Lower Papaloapan Archaeology (Veracruz, Mexico): Introduction
PROJECT Uploaded by: Barbara Stark

This project contains a file introducing the project, funding, personnel, and publications.


Wet Screening (2010)
IMAGE Stephanie Barrante. Victoria Hawley. Jessica Hughes.

Images illustrating the use of an on-site wet screening operation to maximize artifact recovery at the site of Fort St. Joseph, 2006-2010.


When Trash Becomes Treasure: A Postclassic Maya Obsidian Core Cache from Nojpeten (2014)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Angela McArdle.

This paper examines an obsidian cache offering excavated near the corner of a Postclassic Maya platform structure in Nojpeten, on the island of Flores, Guatemala. The cache consists of approximately 190 obsidian prismatic blade cores and core fragments, but the original number of cores placed in the cache likely fell between 173 and 182, with a best estimate of 177, 178, or 180. The cores were found about 20 cm southwest of the structure in a circular concentration measuring approximately 35 cm...


Where the Rivers Converge, Roosevelt Platform Mound Study: Report on the Rock Island Complex (1995)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Owen Lindauer.

This report is the second site description volume for the Roosevelt Platform Mound Study. This volume describes the four sites investigated in the Rock Island Complex by the Roosevelt Platform Mound Study. It also presents some of the analyses and integrated conclusions that address the project's research objectives established by the Bureau of Reclamation and Tonto National Forest archaeologists and outlined in our research design. This volume primarily describes a single large site,...