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551-575 (5,511 Records)

Archaeological Investigations at the Windsor Plantation (Site 44CE0110) Fort A.P. Hill, Caroline County, Virginia (2012)
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...


Archaeological Investigations at the Yuma Wash Site and Outlying Settlements Part 1 (2016)
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...


Archaeological Investigations at W-2145 and W-2146, the Doxey Project, Ramona, California (1979)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Randy Franklin. Dennis Quillen.

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Archaeological Investigations for the Arizona State University Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building VII (ISTB 7) Project, Tempe, Maricopa County, Arizona (2021)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Katelyn Roessel

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...


Archaeological Investigations for the Menlo Park Storm Drain Project: Prehistoric and Historic Canal Systems at the Base of A-Mountain (1999)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Andrea K. L. Freeman. William H. Doelle. Mark D. Elson. Allison Cohen Diehl.

The Menlo Park Storm Drain and Reclaimed Water Main Project was designed by the City of Tucson to alleviate flooding in the residential neighborhood. As part of the City's planning process, Desert Archaeology, Inc. performed an archaeological survey and records check of the project area (Freeman 1995). On the basis of this preliminary work, Desert Archaeology recommended that an archaeological testing program be initiated to determine if significant cultural resources were present beneath the...


Archaeological Investigations in Downtown San Diego, Horton's Addition Block H, Final Report. (1996)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca Allen.

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Archaeological Investigations in Downtown San Diego, Horton's Addition, Block H (1995)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca Allen.

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.


Archaeological Investigations in Support of the Military Munitions Response Program, New Boston Air Force Station, 2008-2011, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire (2013)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Sarah P. Sportman. Derrick Marcucci. Susan Gade.

This report documents archaeological investigations conducted at New Boston Air Force Station (NBAFS) located in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire (Figure 1.1). The work was performed in support of Remedial Investigations (RI) conducted as part of the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Military Munitions Response Program (MMRP) by the United States Army Corps of Engineers for the United States Air Force. The work was carried out by Landmark Archaeology, Inc. (Landmark) of Altamont, New York who was...


Archaeological Investigations of a Mission Period Shell Midden 9MC23, Sapelo Island, Georgia (2009)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard W. Jefferies.

In 2004, University of Kentucky archaeologists started a new research project designed to assess the nature, intensity, and extent of Mission period activity in and around Shell Ring II in the northern portion of the Sapelo Shell Ring complex (9Mc23) (Jefferies and Thompson 2005) (Figure 3). We have employed a diversified data recovery strategy incorporating geophysical survey, shovel probing, soil auguring, metal detector survey, and test unit excavation (Jefferies and Moore 2009).


Archaeological Investigations of Areas Slated for Expansion at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, San Antonio, Texas (1982)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Eric C. Gibson. Courtenay J. Jones. Dennis A. Knepper.

During April 1982, archaeologists from the Center for Archaeological Research at The University of Texas at San Antonio conducted a cultural resource survey and evaluation of 31.68 acres slated as an expansion area for the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio, Texas. This was accomplished through two research methods: (1) a literature and archival search supplemented by interviews of knowledgeable persons; followed by (2) a planned subsurface archaeological testing program. One...


Archaeological Investigations of Georgia Department of Transportation Project #RR-0001-01(001), The Augusta Railroad Demonstration Project, Richmond County, Georgia and Aiken County, South Carolina (1979)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Wiliam R. Bowen.

"This report describes the archaeological investigations of the Augusta Railroad Demonstration Project (GDOT Project #RR-0001-Ol(OOl)) in Richmond County, Georgia, and Aiken County, South Carol ina. Project, environmental, historical, and archaeological backgrounds are given and the archaeological research design, describing purpose and methodology, is set forth. Survey results are described and interpreted and National Register determination requests are made and mitigation discussed. The...


Archaeological Investigations of SDI-185 Isham's Springs (1992)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Van Wormer.

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Archaeological Investigations of SDI-4614 Carmel Valley, Sna Diego, California (1989)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Robbins-Wade. G. Timothy Gross.

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Archaeological Investigations of Site 15Li55 at the William Whitley State Historic Site, Lincoln County, Kentucky (2000)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Nancy O'Malley.

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.


Archaeological Investigations of the Tucson Pressed Brick Company, Tucson, Arizona (1996)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael W. Diehl. Allison Cohen Diehl.

In February 1995, Parsons Brinckerhoff contracted with Desert Archaeology, Inc., to conduct archaeological investigations along the route of the A-Mountain storm drain. The A-Mountain testing phase was conducted concurrently with the first phase of testing on Rio Nuevo South and revealed a similar pattern of Early Agricultural features, prehistoric and historic canals, remnants of the brickyard, and a portion of an area occupied by Chinese gardeners. Significant features were found both in the...


Archaeological Investigations of Tucson Block 94: The Boarding House Residents of the Hotel Catalina Site (1993)
DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Homer Thiel.

Historic Block 94 was a scene of controversy in the late 1980s as the City of Tucson planned the demolition of the historic Catalina Hotel. An elevated highway was to pass the block, and the Catalina Hotel was in its path. This building served as housing for many of the town's indigent population, and its inexpensive rooms and sparse surroundings were much better than life on the streets. Advocates wanted to know what was to become of these people. At first, the preservationists failed. The...


Archaeological Investigations of Two Turn of the Century Farmsteads (38BU966 and 38BU967), Hilton Head Island, South Carolina (1991)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Christopher T. Espenshade. Linda Kennedy. Ramona Grunden.

Archeological investigations were conducted at two late nineteenth/early twentieth century farmsteads (38BU966 and 38BU967), on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Work was conducted on 38BU967 in October of 1989, followed almost a year later b¥ excavations at 38BU966 during September 1990. Block excavation proceeded in 10 and 15 em, arbitrary levels, and was controlled by 2 by 2 m excavation units. All fill was screened through 0.25 inch screen. All cultural material was retained. Samples of...


Archaeological Investigations on Bathtub Creek, Eagle Peak District. (1979)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Lou Heuett.

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Archaeological Investigations On the Cheroske Property, Mount Laguna, San Diego County, California (1985)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Roger D. Mason.

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Archaeological Investigations Within a Floodwater Detention Basin, Reach 5A, Granite Reef Aqueduct, Central Arizona Project, Yuma and Maricopa Counties, Arizona (1976)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Patricia E. Brown.

Under contract with the Bureau of Reclamation, the Office of Cultural Resource Management,Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, undertook the investigation of four sites located within a floodwater detention basin situated immediately to the north of Reach 5A of the Granite Reef Aqueduct, Central Arizona Project. These sites were initially located and recorded during a survey completed by the Office of Cultural Resource Management in February, 1976 (Brown 1976a) (see...


Archaeological Investigations Within the Proposed Argosy Lawrenceburg Casino Expansion Project Area in Dearborn County, Indiana (2010)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jennifer L. Barber.

Between December 2006, and March 2007, Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc., personnel conducted a phase III mitigation of Sites 12D508, 12D520, and 12D585, located in the historic Germantown neighborhood of Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, Indiana. The mitigation was conducted at the requests of Randee Bach, Vice President of Design and Contract Administration of the Argosy Gaming Company and Michael McGrew, Vice President of Construction of the Penn National Gaming Company, Inc. Three historic sites...


Archaeological Investigations, Salt River Project, Coronado Generating Station Coal Haul Railroad, Federal, State, and Private Lands, Apache County, Arizona: Preliminary Report for Intensive Survey of the Proposed Coronado Generating Station Coal Haul Railroad (1976)
DOCUMENT Full-Text J. James Trott. Gale McPherson.

At the request of the Salt River Project, the Museum of Northern Arizona has conducted an intensive survey of the proposed Coronado Generating Station Coal Haul Railroad right-of-way. A total of 55 sites was recorded by the survey, 47 of them located at least partly within the right-of-way. Recommendations concerning each of these sites have been prepared. A cost estimate for additional archaeological investigations, which are recommended in the event of direct impact from the proposed railroad...


Archaeological Investigations, Site 44HT27, Fort Monroe (FM2004.002)
PROJECT William M. Gardner.

Phase II evaluation studies were conducted at four loci at Fort Monroe, Hampton, Virginia. The entire property of Fort Monroe, a National Historic Landmark, has been assigned the State site number of 44HT27. The loci studied in this report are Locus 1, Locus 15, Locus 18 and Locus 20 and a Phase III monitoring of portions of Locus 16. Thunderbird Archeological Associates, Inc. (TAA), Woodstock, Virginia, conducted the archeological research for Environment and Engineering, Inc., of Virginia...


Archaeological Investigations, Windsor Plantation (Site 44CE0110), Fort A.P. Hill (AP2012.002)
PROJECT U.S. Army Environmental Command. US Army Garrison, Fort A. P. Hill. Eric Voigt. Stuart Fiedel.

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...


Archaeological Investigations: Arizona Nuclear Power Project, BLM and Private Land, Maricopa County, Arizona: Final Report for Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station Waste Water Conveyance System (1977)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Pat H. Stein.

This report attempts to document, assess, and develop a plan for conserving archaeological resources along the waste water conveyance system for the Arizona Nuclear Power Project. The paper describes 13 sites which were discovered during an intensive survey of the proposed facility, evaluates these sites in relation to the archaeological resource base of the Lower Gila River Valley, and recommends procedures for mitigating the adverse effects of construction on these cultural remains. The survey...