Obsidian (Material Keyword)

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Hohokam Farmsteads Along Cave Creek, Arizona (2002)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: system user

In 1998 and 1999, archaeologists from SWCA and volunteers from the Desert Foothills Chapter of the Arizona Archaeological Society conducted archaeological investigations at four sites in the Estado de Cholla project area, located southwest of the town of Cave Creek, Arizona. Three isolated Hohokam habitation structures were fully excavated at two of the sites. Each of the three houses was catastrophically burned and each contained intact, abundant, floor-contact artifact assemblages. More than...


Howard Ruin Arizona Site Steward File (1975)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Steve Fuller. William Gibson.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Howard Ruin site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of a Hohokam room block or pueblo with outlying compound, artifact scatter, burial pits, trash deposit, and a roasting pit. The file consists of a heritage inventory form, hand drawn site maps, maps of the site location, a page of notes, a Forest Service Archaeological and Historical Site Inventory form, and two Central Arizona Water Control Study site descriptions. The...


Indian Burial Mounds in the Missouri River Basin (1960)
DOCUMENT Full-Text R. W. Neuman.

Since its inauguration in 1946, the Missouri Basin Project of the Smithsonian Institution, along with other cooperating Federal, State and local agencies, has concentrated its efforts toward the salvage of archeological materials that will be lost by the construction of dams and the flooding of reservoirs along the Missouri River and its tributaries. The surveys and excavations have been conducted at historic military forts, trading posts, pioneer settlements and Indian villages; however, most...


Intensive Archaeological Survey of a Portion of Kirtland Air Force Base (1978)
DOCUMENT Full-Text James B. Rodgers.

The Center for Anthropological Studies has recently completed an intensive field survey of an approximate 7.5 square mile area of Kirtland Air Force Base. Archaeological information was recorded from 19 non-site loci and 16 prehistoric and/or historic sites. The majority of the recovered archaeological remains suggests the seasonal use of particular parts of this area by Middle Rio Grande Pueblo Indians during the general interval between A.D.1150 and 1350. Earlier materials consist exclusively...


Intensive Archaeological Survey of the Department of Energy (DOE)/Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) Live-Fire Range Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico (1981)
DOCUMENT Full-Text William R. Neal.

Sandia National Laboratories contracted the Center for Anthropological Studies to perform and document the results of an intensive archaeological survey of a 168 acre portion of its proposed Department of Energy (DOE)/Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) Live-Fire Range. This survey project was undertaken and completed according to the professional and legal provisions for complying with Executive Order 11593 and the 1974 Archeological and Historic Preservation Act. Nine isolated loci of artifacts...


Island in the Sun: The Mesa del Sol Sample Survey (1989)
DOCUMENT Full-Text William H. Doleman.

This report documents the results of a Class II Cultural Resources Inventory of the Mesa del Sol property which lies south of Albuquerque and the Tijeras Arroyo, and is held in trust for the University of New Mexico by the State. A total of 2346 acres was surveyed in 14 120 m wide transects, and represents a 20 percent sample of the total of approximately 11,500 acres which comprises the property. A total of 32 archeological sites was documented in the course of the survey. The sites and...


Isolate record for VAFB-ISO-135 (1900)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Corinne Holloway

This document is the isolated find record for VAFB-ISO-135. The artifact is a distal end of a well, made of obsidian biface. Collaterally flaked, lenticular in cross section.


Isolate record for VAFB-ISO-136 (1989)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Corinne Holloway

This document is the isolated find record for VAFB-ISO-136. The artifact is a stemmed obsidian projectile point with the tip missing.


Isolate record for VAFB-ISO-157 (1987)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Corinne Holloway

This document is the isolated find record for VAFB-ISO-157. The artifact is an obsidian biface fragment.


Ister Flats Arizona Site Steward File (1992)
DOCUMENT Full-Text R. Neily. C. Donta. J. Howard.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Ister Flats site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of a Late Classic Sinagua room block with courtyards, trash mounds, a rock-lined pit, and artifact scatter. The file consists of a site data form, hand drawn maps of the site, maps of the site location, an artifact diversity form, a Tonto National Forest cultural resources inventory form, a Central Arizona Water Control Study site description form, and an Arizona State...


Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Resources
PROJECT Uploaded by: Rachel Fernandez

Project metadata for resources within the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson cultural heritage resources collection. This project is used to fill metadata for all resources part of the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson collection.


Kentuck Ridge Ruin Arizona Site Steward File (2002)
DOCUMENT Full-Text J.S. Wood. Morris. Stone.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Kentuck Ruin site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of a masonry pueblo of more than 100 rooms with accompanying lithic and ceramic scatter, burials, bedrock mortars, and outlying structures. The file consists of a Tonto National Forest heritage inventory form, hand drawn site maps, two Arizona State University site survey forms, a page with a brief handwritten site description, a site information card, and a map of the...


Kirtland Air Force Base 1979 Archaeological Survey Project (1980)
DOCUMENT Full-Text James B. Rodgers.

Portion of a report covering a 1979 survey of Kirtland Air Force Base. Record starts on page 49.


Kirtland Air Force Base 1980B Archaeological Survey Project (1981)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Hayward H. Franklin.

The Center for Anthropological Studies completed an intensive archaeological survey of 3,789 acres of Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. A total of 305 artifacts were recovered from 282 isolated artifactual loci; and 15 archaeological sites were located, recorded and artifactually sampled. Two of these sites are provisionally assigned to the Archaic period (5000 B.C. - A.D. 1). One or them is a functionally specific site where lithic materials were collected and tool manufacturing was...


Kirtland Air Force Base 1980B Archaeological Survey Project, Bernalillo County, New Mexico (1981)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Hayward H. Franklin. James B. Rodgers.

This report presents the results of an intensive archaeological survey of 3,789 acres of Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. A total of 305 artifacts were recovered from 282 isolated artifactual loci; and 15 archaeological sites were located, recorded, and artifactually sampled. Two of these sites are provisionally assigned to the Archaic period (5000 B.C. - A.D. 1). One of them is a functionally specific site where lithic materials were collected and tool manufacturing was performed. Three...


The Kirtland Air Force Base Coyote Test Field Archaeological Survey, Bernalillo County, New Mexico (1985)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Earl S. Mead.

Sandia National Laboratories and the Center for Anthropological Studies, both of Albuquerque, New Mexico, have entered into a cultural resource management project (Document No. 44-1498). The primary objectives are: 1) to conduct an intensive archaeological survey of 7,100 acres of land to find out what, if any, cultural resources are located within the project boundary; 2) to assess the significance of such finds, and evaluate each in terms of the criteria found in 36 CFR 60.6 for eligibility...


Kirtland Air Force Base Project Metadata
PROJECT Uploaded by: Charlene Collazzi

Project metadata for resources within the Kirtland Air Force Base cultural heritage resources collection.


Land Use and Resource Exploitation of the Sonoran Desert: A Sample Survey of Cultural Resources in Mohave, La Paz, and Yavapai Counties, Arizona (1990)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Bruce A. Jones.

In April and November, 1989, Statistical Research conducted a cultural resource survey of nearly 4,000 acres of land owned by the State of Arizona in Mohave, Yavapai and La Paz counties. The field reconnaissance documented 16 archaeological sites consisting of artifact scatters, trails, rock features, rock art and stationary grinding-features. The non-random survey strategy was based on a stratified sample of 640 acre-study units in the Hualapai and Aquarius Mountains, the Big Sandy Valley and...


The Legacy of Buckhorn Springs: Phase I and II Cultural Resources Investigations Edwards AFB, Kern County, California, Volume I (1998)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Susan L. Bupp. Evelyn Chandler. Cary Cotterman. Kevin T. Doyle. Kyle M. Guerrero. Valerie M. Hallett. Brenda D. Smith.

The primary purpose of this Legacy Demonstration Project was to inventory all cultural resources within the Buckhorn Springs area (Phase I) and to evaluate those resources for eligibility to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) (Phase II).


Level Forms Terrace O8 (2015)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Ronald Faulseit.

This pdf file contains all of the level forms for Terrace O8, which were excavated in January of 2015.


Level Forms Terrace S19 (2010)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Ronald Faulseit.

This .pdf file contains all of the level forms for the excavations conducted on Terrace S19, on Cerro Danush in Oaxaca, Mexico. Excavations took place between August and November of 2009. The first two pages show the grid system and the level forms are organized by northing and easting. Please see the project report for 2010 for more information.


Level Forms Terrace S25 (2015)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Ronald Faulseit.

This .pdf file contains the level forms for the 2m x 2m units excavated on Terrace S25 of Cerro Danush in Oaxaca Mexico. This fieldwork was conducted between January of 2015 and June of 2015. The first page contains the grid system used to determine the unit northing and easting. For more information, please see the Project Report for 2015.


Lithic Use-Wear Data for Formative Period (900 BC - AD 150) Sites in Tlaxcala, Mexico (2021)
DATASET David Walton.

Lithic use-wear data for Formative period sites in Tlaxcala, Mexico including the villages of Amomoloc (900–650 BC), Tetel (750–500 BC), and Las Mesitas (600–500 BC) and town of La Laguna (600–400 BC & 100 BC–AD 150). The data were obtained via high magnification use-wear analysis in 2015 with reanalysis of the photographic archive in 2020. This dataset overrides the data provided in my 2017 dissertation.


Little Maggie May Arizona Site Steward File (1987)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Paul Stewart. J. S. Wood. Elaine Zamora.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file that consists of the Little Maggie May site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site consists of multiple residential structures, sherd and lithic scatter, terracing, and possible trash deposits. The first file contains multiple copies of a site heritage inventory form, maps of the site location, hand drawn site maps, and a Forest Service archaeological and historical site inventory form. The second file contains a site data form, two maps of the...


Little Obsidian Arizona Site Steward File (1997)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Connie L. Stone.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Little Obsidian site, located on Bureau of Land Management land. The site is comprised of grinding features, petroglyphs, and artifact scatter. The file consists of a site data form, topographic and hand drawn maps of the site location, a list of botanical species in the vicinity, and eight color photographs of the site and its features. The earliest dated document is from 1997.