Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex (Site Type Keyword)

The locations and/or archaeological remains of a building or buildings used for human habitation. Use more specific term(s) if possible.

17,601-17,625 (17,852 Records)

Wasit Ceramics: Photographs (2011)
IMAGE Matthew Boulanger. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

These images show the individual sherds from Wasit analyzed by neutron activation at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). Photographs were taken at LBNL and scanned by the Archaeometry Laboratory at MURR. Individual files were named according to the official catalog numbers of each image assigned by the Graphic Arts Department at LBNL.


Waster images (2012)
IMAGE Barbara Stark.

These images show wasters from figurine, pot, or other ceramic production. See "Documentation of Image Archive" and "Palm Image Archive" for information about variables and images.


Waterfall Canyon Rockshelter Arizona Site Steward File (2015)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Raymond Schell.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Waterfall Canyon Rockshelter, comprised of a rock shelter, located on Maricopa County land. The file consists of a site data form. The earliest dated document is from 2015.


Watering the Desert: Late Archaic Farming at the Costello-King Site: Data Recovery at AZ AA:12:503 (ASM) in the Northern Tucson Basin (1998)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Joseph A. Ezzo. William L. Deaver.

In August 1995, Statistical Research, Inc., performed data recovery on an area approximately 3,200 m2 at AZ AA: 12:503 (ASM), a Late Archaic period site in the northern Tucson Basin. The site is located on a parcel of land owned by Waste Management of Southern Arizona, and the project was undertaken in response to the plans of Waste Management to construct a new southern Arizona headquarters. Three of the four stratigraphic units defined at the site yielded cultural features. One hundred...


Watson_Early Ag Period in the Sonoran Desert_Mortuary and Biological Data (2011)
DATASET James Watson.

In this data set, Watson presents mortuary and biological data for a sample (n = 431) of Early Agriculural period (1,600 B.C - 150 A.D.) burial features excavated at 12 archaeological sites in southeastern Arizona and northern Sonora, Mexico. Variables include age, sex, body position, body orientation, material accompaniments, trauma, and several paleopathological conditions.


Wavema Archaeological Research Project
PROJECT Uploaded by: Matthew Liebmann

PXRF data for 2222 obsidian artifacts from 31 ancestral Jemez pueblo villages occupied between AD 1175-1700


Wavema Archaeological Research Project Obsidian XRF Database (2016)
DATASET Matthew Liebmann.

PXRF data for chipped obsidian collected from surface midden contexts at 31 ancestral Jemez pueblo villages


Welden correspondence (1992)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Dean Snow.

This is Dean Snow asking Charles Welden to write a letter that he has been informed of the nomination of Indian Castle as a national landmark.


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 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): Images
PROJECT Uploaded by: Barbara Stark

This archive is devoted to project images. The organization of the images is described in "Documentation of Image Archive." Each image has a unique accession number, and images are grouped into categories such as bone, chert, figurine, lapidary, lithic, obsidian, pottery, shell, and so forth. Information about each image is contained in an access database "Palm Image Archive." The image archive is not completed, and images have not been entirely edited. Contact Stark with questions. For...


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.


Wetherill Mesa, M.V.N.P Bioarchaeological Data (2021)
DATASET Emily Edmonds.

Analysis of bioarchaeological indicators of stress and skeletal fractures from selected Wetherill Mesa sites in Mesa Verde National Park. Data was collected in 1995 in compliance with NAGPRA.


What is a Shell Midden? Data Recovery Excavations of Thom's Creek and Deptford Shell Middens, 38BU2, Spring Island, South Carolina (1994)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Christopher T. Espenshade. Linda Kennedy. Bobby G. Southerlin. David Lawrence. David C. Jones.

Data recovery excavations were conducted at five shell midden loci of site 38BU2, Spring Island, Beaufort County, South Carolina. The excavations included: four by four m blocks in three Deptford phase middens; a four by four m block in a Thom's Creek midden; a six by six m block in a Deptford midden; and two exploratory one by one m units in other Deptford middens. The analyses included detailed zooarchaeological and ethnobotanical studies, an investigation of oyster source environment and...


When is a Great Kiva? Excavations at McCreery Pueblo (1993)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffery F. Burton.

During August 1992, the National Park Service conducted archeological test excavations at McCreery pueblo, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. McCreery Pueblo is a late Pueblo II-early Pueblo III site consisting of a small masonry room block, a great kiva, a trash mound, and nine other features. Over 65 m2 were excavated at the site. Recovered were 5,128 sherds, 3,332 flaked-stone artifacts, 18 hammerstones, 15 ground-stone artifacts, and 18 ornaments. Numerous floral and faunal...


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,...


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

The Roosevelt Platform Mound Study (RPMS) was one of three mitigative data recovery studies that the Bureau of Reclamation funded to investigate the prehistory of the Tonto Basin in the vicinity of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. The series of investigations constituted Reclamation's program for complying with historic preservation legislation as it applied to the raising and modification of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. Reclamation contracted with the Arizona State University Office of Cultural Resource...


Whistle images (2012)
IMAGE Barbara Stark.

These images show whistles, flutes, and other musical instruments. See "Documentation of Image Archive" and "Palm Image Archive" for information about variables and images.


The Whitesburg Bridge Site, Mav10 (1948)
DOCUMENT Citation Only William S. Webb. David L. DeJarnette.

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.


Whitmore Canyon Area Arizona Site Steward File (1996)
DOCUMENT Full-Text John M. Herron.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Whitmore Canyon Area, comprised of U-shaped pueblos and artifact scatters, located on Bureau of Land Management land. The two sites within are comprised of U-shaped stone and adobe pueblos, lithic and sherd scatter, possible rock alignments, a roasting pit, a possible ceremonial structure, and retaining walls. The file consists of a site data form, two Bureau of Land Management cultural resource site records, maps of the site locations, hand drawn...