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All ground stone tool sets: Information about the images of experimental use-wear contained in this project (2018)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Tammy Buonasera.

Methods, materials, and acknowledgments for generating the ground stone use-wear reference materials.


Analyses of Archaeological Use-Wear on Artifacts Recovered from the Salado Draw Watershed, Lea County, New Mexico (2023)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Samuel Cason.

This lithic use-wear study is a component of an undertaking entitled Salado Draw Archaeological Survey, Small-scale Excavation, and Geomorphological Characterization, GSA Contract No. GS-10F-0396P. The work was commissioned by the U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Carlsbad Field Office (CFO) as part of research carried out under the Permian Basin Programmatic Agreement, Blanket Purchase Agreement No. 11, Contract No. L14PA00010. It addresses Task 16 (lithic use-wear and...


Ancient Starch Research In California: Results from CA-SBA-53 (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jenna Santy.

Acorns were an essential foodstuff across prehistoric California; the transition to acorn use is currently being investigated. CA-SBA-53, a single-component Middle Holocene site on the mainland coast near Santa Barbara, contains an assemblage fairly evenly split between mortars and pestles, traditionally associated with acorn processing, and manos and metates, generally associated with seeds.; furthermore, these mortars and pestles are some of the oldest known in California. By extracting and...


Archaeological Data Recovery at a Small Storage Shelter (CA-Sbr-6055 / H) Located in the Castle Mountains Area of the Eastern Mojave, San Bernardino County, CA (1994)
DOCUMENT Citation Only John A. Torres. Margaret M. Lyneis. Richard Hughes.

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Archeological Survey Report of Langford Well and Red Pass Lake (Final) 42PP (1996)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Saic.

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Artifact Report, Monroe County Archaeological Investigation 1984 (2012)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Trey Stone.

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Louisville District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Project’s (VCP) St. Louis laboratory in the fall of 2009. The VCP St. Louis laboratory was established by USACE, St. Louis District’s Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections using American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 funds and staffed through Brockington and Associates, Inc. The procedures employed to re-house the...


Characteristics of an Upland Cypro-PPNB Ground Stone Assemblage (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Renee Kolvet.

This is an abstract from the "Pushing the Envelope, Chasing Stone Age Sailors and Early Agriculture: Papers in Honor of the Career of Alan H. Simmons" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The diverse ground stone assemblage at Ais Giorkis in western Cyrpus is comprised of tools typically associated with early Neolithic sites. Certain tool categories however, appear to be underrepresented. The dearth of grinding slabs, querns, large mortars, and...


Characterizing Hunter-Gatherer Ground Stone Bedrock Features in the Northeastern Chihuahuan Desert (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda M. Castañeda.

Ground stone bedrock features are common at archaeological sites in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of southwest Texas. These features are human-made depressions pecked, ground, or worn into bedrock or large boulders, and were used for a variety of processing activities by the indigenous peoples. Although archaeologists in the region have informally recognized different "types" of ground stone bedrock features (e.g., slicks, grinding facets, deep mortars), there have been no dedicated studies of...


Class III Cultural Resource Evaluation: Molycorp Mountain Pass Mine Facility and Nipton Road Borrow Source (1994)
DOCUMENT Citation Only James J. Schmidt.

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A Class III Section 110 Cultural Resources Survey of 130 Acres of Bureau of Reclamation Withdrawn Lands Along the Verde River, Prescott National Forest, Yavapai County, Arizona (2017)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Travis Cureton.

At the request of the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) Phoenix Area Office (PXAO), Logan Simpson performed an intensive Class III cultural resources survey of approximately 130 acres of Reclamation withdrawn lands managed by the Prescott National Forest (PNF). The Class III inventory was conducted in compliance with Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). There is no undertaking associated with this survey. Number of Sites Recorded: 22 (all newly recorded):...


A Class III Section 110 Cultural Resources Survey of 970 Acres of Bureau of Reclamation Withdrawn Lands Along the Verde River, Prescott National Forest, Yavapai County, Arizona
PROJECT Mark Hackbarth. Michael Terlep. Ted Tsouras. USDI Bureau Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office.

The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) identified approximately 970 acres of land for a Class III cultural resource survey for Section 110 inventory purposes. The land was withdrawn for the Salt River Project and is located within the Prescott National Forest (PNF), south of Camp Verde. At the request of Reclamation, Logan Simpson conducted an intensive cultural resources survey of the project area to provide baseline cultural resource data to assist in the development of density models for...


A Class III Section 110 Cultural Resources Survey of 970 Acres of Bureau of Reclamation Withdrawn Lands Along the Verde River, Prescott National Forest, Yavapai County, Arizona: Report (2016)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael Bryk. Ted Tsouras. Michael Terlep.

At the request of Reclamation, Logan Simpson conducted an intensive cultural resources survey of the project area to provide baseline cultural resource data to assist in the development of density models for planning and resource management purposes. The survey was conducted under PNF Permit No. PNF72 between November 17, 2015 and December 6, 2015. Logan Simpson identified four previously recorded sites, 38 newly recorded sites. and 35 Isolated Occurrences. One site (AR-03-09-05-569) was...


A Class III Section 110 Cultural Resources Survey of Reclamation Withdrawn Lands Along the Verde River, Coconino and Prescott National Forests, Arizona
PROJECT Josh Whiting. Josh Whiting. USDI Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office.

At the request of the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) Phoenix Area Office (PXAO), Logan Simpson performed an intensive Class III cultural resources survey of approximately 474 acres of Reclamation withdrawn lands managed by the Coconino National Forest (CNF) and 130 acres of Reclamation withdrawn lands managed by the Prescott National Forest (PNF). The Class III inventory was conducted in compliance with Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). There is no undertaking...


A Class III Section 110 Cultural Resources Survey Report of Bureau of Reclamation Withdrawn Lands Along the Verde River, Coconino National Forest, Yavapai County, Arizona (2017)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Travis Cureton.

At the request of the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) Phoenix Area Office (PXAO), Logan Simpson performed an intensive Class III cultural resources survey of approximately 474 acres of Reclamation withdrawn lands managed by the Coconino National Forest (CNF) south of Camp Verde, Yavapai County. The Class III inventory was conducted in compliance with Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). There is no undertaking associated with this survey. The survey areas known as...


CRMR #05-16-1109, Cultural Resources Management Report for the Dodge, North District, and Westbank Salvage Timber Sales, Volumes One and Two. (1996)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Randall Milliken. Julia G. Costello. Judith Marvin.

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Cultural Resource Survey of the Proposed Stanislaus River Underburn Project, Cultural Resource Management Report 05-16-1103, in Tuolumne County, California. (1996)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Timothy Keefe.

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Cultural Resources Inventory and Evaluation of the Proposed Lucerne Valley to Big Bear Valley 115-Kv Electrical Transmission Line (1994)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Philip de Barros. Joel Paulson.

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Cultural Resources Inventory Testing & Evaluation for the Proposed Edison Pipeline & Terminal Company (Eptc), Tonner Canyon Pipeline Modification Project, San Bernardino County, CA. 42PP (1996)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeanette A. McKenna. Shelley M. Owen.

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Early Agricultural Use of Ground Stone in Southern Sonora (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jaron Davidson. John Carpenter. Guadalupe Sánchez. Matthew Pailes.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent excavation at the site of Las Chachalacas in Quiriego, Sonora produced evidence for Early Agricultural period (EAP) occupation. Dating likely between the Silverbell Interval and the San Pedro phase this settlement would have been contemporaneous with other important early agricultural sites in Sonora, Chihuahua, and Arizona such as La Playa, Cerro...


Early Hunter-Gatherers and Historic Settlers Along San Sevaine Creek: Data Recovery Efforts a the Hunter's Ridge Community Development Project. 260PP (1998)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Donn Grenda. Christopher Doolittle. Matthew A. Sterner.

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The exchange of ground nephrite celts across the Rocky Mountains (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jesse Morin. Tood Kristensen. John Duke. Andrew Locock. Courtney Lakevold.

Non-local nephrite (jade) artifacts are reported from archaeological sites in northern and central Alberta and are derived from nephrite tool producing areas in southwest British Columbia. This is evidence of trade extending more than 800 km distant across the Rocky Mountain divide. We provide results from a variety of non-destructive techniques (portable X-ray fluorescence, X-ray diffraction, and near-infrared spectrometry) to determine the geochemistry and mineralogy of nephrite ground stone...


Exploring the Viability of Geochemically Sourcing Elaborate Metates Through XRF Spectroscopy (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Abtosway.

The Central American elaborate metate is a perplexing group of ground stone artifacts. Their function continues to be the subject of debate, with interpretations ranging from hallucinogenic and food preparation to ritual seating. It is difficult to deny, however, the substantial labor investment represented and likely symbolic significance. X-Ray fluorescence spectroscopy has proven an invaluable tool in the non-destructive geochemical sourcing of archaeological obsidian, providing insights into...


Feeding the Household and the Spirit During the Ubaid Period at Kenan Tepe, Turkey (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Marie Hopwood.

This is an abstract from the "From Households to Empires: Papers Presented in Honor of Bradley J. Parker" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the Ubaid Period, a small village overlooked the Tigris River at the site we now call Kenan Tepe. Here, household members carried out activities both inside and around their houses, as well as utilizing roof-top spaces. During its habitation one of the structures burned and collapsed, preserving evidence...


Formative Settlements on the Pinaleno Mountains Bajada: Results of Phased Archaeological Treatment of Sites AZ CC:6:40 and AZ CC:6:43 (ASM) within the U.S. Highway 191 Right-of-Way between Mileposts 110.40 and 117.60 south of Safford, Graham County, Arizona (2004)
DOCUMENT Full-Text David E. Purcell.

Data recovery at two prehistoric archaeological sites along U.S. Highway 191 south of Safford in Graham County, southeastern Arizona.


Geochemical Evidence for Dispersed Ground Stone Tool Production at Hohokam Villages in the Middle Gila River Valley, Arizona. (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Craig Fertelmes.

A recent geochemical provenance analysis of Hohokam vesicular basalt grinding tools argued for the nucleated production of trough manos and metates during the Pre-Classic (A.D. 500-1100) and Classic (A.D. 1100-145) periods (Fertelmes 2014). One locus of production was suggested to have been the primary village of Upper Santan, which acquired vesicular basalt from the Santan Mountains and then distributed finished or nearly complete grinding tools to settlements across the Middle Gila River...