Hamlet / Village (Site Type Keyword)

Parent: Settlements

Relatively small, self-contained groups of dwellings and associated structures providing shelter and a home base for its human inhabitants. Typically occupied for a number of years or decades, and in some cased for centuries.

26-50 (5,620 Records)

Application of Complementary Geophysical Survey Techniques in the Search for Fort Louis at Old Mobile: A Comparative Case Study (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Gregory Waselkov.

Application of five geophysical survey methods - earth conductivity, magnetometry, thermal imaging, electrical resistivity and ground penetrating radar - in the search for archaeological remains of Fort Louis, original capitol of the French colony of Louisiane (1702-1711), has yielded divergent yet complementary results. This project included test excavations to ground truth the geophysical results and to evaluate the relative effectiveness of these five geophysical survey technologies in...


Appraisal of the Archeological and Paleontological Resources of the Niobrara River Basin, Nebraska (1951)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Theodore E. White.

The archeology of the Niobrara River Basin has not been investigated systematically, but during the last twenty years the University of Nebraska Laboratory of Anthropology and the Nebraska State Historical Society have recorded some 46 sites in the area, and in 1946 the Missouri River Basin Survey located a small buried occupational level, site 25DW1, in the Box Butte Reservoir area, Dawes County, Nebraska. Eleven of these sites have been excavated or partly excavated and three have been...


Appraisal of the Archeological Resources of Kelsey Creek Reservoir, Lake County, California (1948)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Philip Drucker.

The River Basin Surveys, Smithsonian Institution examined the area to be inundated by Kelsey Creek Reservoir in Lake County, California for archaeological resources. Clarence E. Smith carried out the field work in the fall of 1947. Although the area is small, no less than 13 sites were found within it. Four of the sites were habitation sites, as indicated by the presence of middens. The other 9 sites were likely "workshop" sites.


Appraisal of the Archeological Resources of Millwood Reservoir, Little River, Arkansas (1954)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Edward B. Jelks.

An archeological survey of the area to be affected by the Millwood Reservoir,, Arkansas, was undertaken by the Austin office of the River Basin Surveys, National Park Service, as a project of the nationwide program of archeological and paleontological salvage being conducted by the National Park Service and the Smithsonian Institution with cooperation of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation. Three separate field excursions were made to the Millwood area, the...


Appraisal of the Archeological Resources of Monticello Reservoir Area, Napa County, California (1948)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Philip Drucker.

This report describes the archaeological survey that the River Basin Surveys, Smithsonian Institution made during October and November of 1947. Clarence E. Smith, Archaeologist, and a team of graduate students from the University of California carried out the field work. A total of 50 archaeological sites were found during the survey. Sites consist of habitation and activity areas. It is worth noting that two of the major sites were identified as villages occupied and recorded during the...


Appraisal of the Archeological Resources of the Dardanelle Reservoir, Arkansas (1957)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert E. Greengo.

The Dardanelle Reservoir is to be a power pool formed by a dam across the Arkansas River 3 miles above the town of Dardanelle in Yell county,West Central Arkansas. The surface area of the reservoir will be about 37,000 acres. Flooding is scheduled to begin in 1963. A survey of the archeological potentialities of the area to be flooded by the reservoir was conducted during a five-week period from March 18 to April 19, 1957, by the Smithsonian Institution, River Basin Surveys. The...


Appraisal of the Archeological Resources of the Oahe Reservoir, North and South Dakota (1953)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Paul L. Cooper.

The present report is intended as a brief, non-technical statement of the archeological resources known to exist in the Oahe Reservoir area (for information relative to the results of archeological research in the area to date, reference should be made to the list of literature cited at the end of this report). It is based primarily upon information collected by Missouri Basin Project reconnaissance parties 1948-1952, but use has been made of various other resources. During the late summer of...


AR-03-12-03-197 Arizona Site Steward File (1987)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Joseph Crary.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the sites AR-03-12-03-197, AR-03-12-03-198, AR-03-12-03-199, AR-03-12-03-200, and AR-03-12-03-227, located on Tonto National Forest land. These Hohokam sites include multiple rock shelters, a pit house village, bedrock grinding features, a field site, terraces, and checkdams. Sites may represent both Hohokam pot and gravity irrigation systems. The file consists of five heritage inventory forms and five preliminary inventory forms. The earliest dated...


AR15-IMAGES, Archaeological Investigations of the Wohl Site, Wy-165, and Big Blue Lake Fieldwork: A 1978 Summer Field School in Wayne County, Indiana.
PROJECT B. K. Swartz, Jr..

This tDAR Project contains all the artifact images and 3D artifact models available for all chapters in AR15. To find details on the context of each artifact, the user is referred to the projects in this collection for the respective chapters. Archeological Report 15 (Archaeological Investigations of the Wohl Site, Wy-165, and Big Blue Lake Fieldwork: A 1978 Summer Field School in Wayne County, Indiana. Includes Update to Archaeological Report 5’s Literature Index) from the Applied Anthropology...


An Arachaeological Reconnaissance of Aurbrey Reservoir (1973)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Britt Bousman. Linda Verrett.

This report describes the result of an archaeological reconnaissance conducted within the area of the proposed Aubrey Reservoir. Within the limits of the reservoir 26 archaeological sites were located and recorded. The period of occupation represented by these sites extends from approximately 2000 B.C. to A.D. 1870. Hunting and gathering were the main subsistence activities of the Indians who inhabited the area. No evidence of occupation during the Paleo-Indian stage was recorded in the...


Archaeofauna from Vatnsfjörður, Westfjords, Iceland lab (lab report) (2008)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Albína Hulda Pálsdóttir. Marjorie Gorsline. Thomas McGovern.

The Vatnsfjörður archaeological project started in 2003. This report contains results of analysis of bones from 2003-2007. Analysis has been completed on the material from 2003 and 2004 but is only partially complete on bones from 2005-2007. This is the second preliminary report of the archaeofauna from the Vatnsfjörður excavation. Analysis is still ongoing and the results presented here are by no means final. The Vatnsfjörður material dates to two time periods, the Viking Age component and...


Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Survey at Tennessee Colony Lake 1975 (1977)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey J. Richner. Reed Lee.

Archaeological investigations at Tennessee Colony Lake in 1975 were directed toward examining site distributions and densities within a variety of survey sampling strata. Utilizing data derived from the 1974 transect survey to refine field and analysis procedures, a series of 52 quadrats were surveyed as a part of this phase. In all 46 sites that were located, sites shed considerable light on the locations, differences, and similarities in prehistoric, protohistoric, and historic land-use...


Archaeological and Historical Survey of the Lake Thonotosassa By-Pass Canal Right-of-Way in Hillsborough County, Florida (1976)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Joan Deming.

This report summarizes the findings of an archaeological and historical survey conducted for the Southwest Florida Water Management District to assess the cultural resources on land that will be impacted by the construction of the Lake Thonotosassa By-Pass Canal. Field investigation of this tract, which measured approximately ten square miles, occurred during November, 1976. Both the fieldwork and preparation of this final report were accomplished under the supervision of Dr, J. Raymond...


An Archaeological Assessment of the Coronado to Goldfield 230kV Transmission Line (1991)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Lanita C. Van Nimwegen.

Northland Research, Inc. (Northland) has completed a Class III archaeological survey of portions of the Coronado to Goldfield 230kV transmission line located on Arizona State lands, USDI Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands and Salt River Project (SRP) right-of-ways across privately held lands. Reconnaissance of state and private (patented) lands was completed on April 24 and 25 of 1991 under Permit Number 90-39, and BLM lands were surveyed on May 3, Under Permit Number AZ-000065. As a result...


Archaeological Data Recovery at 38CH1473 A Christ Church Parish Slave Row (2004)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Carol Poplin. Inna Burns.

"Brockington and Associates, Inc., conducted archaeological data recovery investigations at 38CH1473 between 16 March and 26 April 2000 as per the Data Recovery Plan submitted to the South Carolina State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) and the US Army Corps of Engineers-Charleston District (USACE). Historic property 38CH1473 is the remnants of a slave settlement in the Franke Home Tract, off Rifle Range Road (SC 51) in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. During their work at adjacent site...


Archaeological Data Recovery at Riverfront Village (38AK933): A Mississippian/Contact Period Occupation (2013)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas Whitley. Jana Futch. Kandice Hollenbach. Jon Bernard Marcoux. Kim Wescott. Maggie Needham. Jessica Allgood.

In 2004, Brockington and Associates, Inc., was asked by the South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) to carry out Phase II Testing for the Georgia Avenue Extension Project (GAEP) in North Augusta. The GAEP was an undertaking that entailed design and construction of new roadway associated with the City of North Augusta’s planned riverfront revitalization. More than one year earlier, the city teamed with the Leyland Alliance (a private development partnership) to design and build a...


Archaeological Data Recovery at the Leake Site, Bartow County, Georgia (vol. 1) (2010)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Scot Keith.

Southern Research, Historic Preservation Consultants, Inc. conducted two archaeological data recovery excavations at the Leake site between 2004 and 2006. The first excavation, from November 2004 through September 2005, was carried out for the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) to mitigate the adverse impacts to the site from the proposed widening of State Routes 61 and 113. A second smaller data recovery, carried out in December of 2006, was done for the Bartow County Water Department...


Archaeological Data Recovery at the Leake Site, Bartow County, Georgia (vol. 2 - Appendices) (2010)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Scot Keith.

Appendices for Leake site data recovery report


Archaeological Data Recovery for the Santan Mountains Land Exchange (1989)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Kim Adams. Ann Valdo Howard. Barbara S. Macnider.

In December 1988, Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) conducted an archaeological survey in and around the eastern portion of the Santan Mountains in preparation for a land exchange between Julian Berry and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Phoenix District Office (Adams et al . 1989). As a result, 13 sites, 112 artifact scatters, and 284 isolated finds were recorded. Testing and data recovery measures were recommended for six of the sites.The sites are located within the Basin and...


Archaeological Data Recovery of AZ N:4:110(ASM) at Grey Fox Ridge, Cottonwood, Yavapai County, Arizona (2011)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Stewart Deats

This document presents the results of archaeological data recovery investigations at Site AZ N:4:110(ASM) within the private development known as Grey Fox Ridge. EnviroSystems Management, Inc. conducted the work at the request of the property owner who needed to mitigate the adverse effects to the site resulting from land development. The site is approximately one-half mile northwest of downtown old Cottonwood and one-quarter mile southwest of the Verde River in Yavapai County, Arizona. The...


An Archaeological Data Recovery Plan for La Lomita, AZ U:9:67 (ASM), and Eight Prehistoric Canals, City of Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona (2001)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Gregory B. Brown, M.A., R.P.A..

The project proposes to construct a buried sewer line under east Van Buren Street between 30th Street and 37th Street. From the intersection of east Van Buren and 37th Street, the sewer line will be constructed north and will pass under the Grand Canal and State Route 202L (Papago Freeway). North of the Papago Freeway, the sewer will be constructed parallel to the Freeway right-of-way to the east and will extend midway between the 37th Street and 38th Street alignments. From this...


Archaeological Data Recovery Plan for the Ellsworth Road (Hunt Highway to Cloud Road) Widening Project, Queen Creek, Maricopa County, Arizona (2008)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Pamela J. Cox. A.E. (Gene) Rogge.

The Maricopa County Department of Transportation (MCDOT) is planning to widen about 2.3 kilometers (1.4 miles) of Ellsworth Road to six lanes from near the Hunt Highway (just north of Empire Boulevard) north to Cloud Road. The project will involve construction of a new aggregate base and asphaltic concrete; bike lanes; a raised median; curb, gutter, and scupper structures; sidewalks; and lighting arrays. MCDOT retained URS Corporation to conduct a cultural resource study to provide assistance in...


Archaeological Excavations at Nine Sites Near the Mouth of Pima Canyon, Tucson, Arizona (1996)
DOCUMENT Full-Text David P. Doak.

In the fall of 1995, archaeological test excavations were conducted on nine archaeological sites near the mouth of Pima Canyon, north of Tucson, Arizona. The operation involved the excavation of approximately 200 1 x 1 m test units. This was intended not only to test the sites in question, but also to mitigate impending damages to as many of those sites as possible, so that further archaeological work would not have to be done. In the case of seven of these sites, the level of mitigation...


Archaeological Excavations at Qassiarsuk, 2005 – 2006 (field report) (2007)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Tol Cherry

This is the data structure report of the Qassiarsuk international archaeological project in 2005 and 2006 at the ruin Ø29a (KNK61V3-III-539). Here can be found, a.o., descriptions of the methodology selected for the excavation, the excavations themselves, lists of everything that was recorded during the two seasons, i.e. finds, samples, archaeological units, etc. Here are also published the preliminary interpretations of the data and discussion for future work at Ø29a. The main aim of...


Archaeological Field Examination Sample Unit Record Lake Ridge/Cooskie Creek Burn, Humboldt County, California (BLM) (1988)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Marlene Greenway.

An archaeological field survey report for a survey in Humboldt County, California, undertaken opportunistically after a fire improved ground surface visibility. One prehistoric archaeological site, the Mattole village of bitcibi was located during this survey.