Pit House / Earth Lodge (Site Type Keyword)
Parent: Domestic Structures
Semi-subterranean habitation that may have an oval, round or rectangular shape. Typically with a dome-like covering constructed using a wood frame covered by branches, reeds, other vegetation and earth.
676-700 (943 Records)
Public education and outreach brochure describing the survey and excavation projects at the Merchant site and Mescalero Plain of southeastern New Mexico
Quarterly Progress Report, National Park Service Activities with the Cooperation of the Smithsonian Institution, 1965 (1965)
This document contains three quarterly progress reports from Fiscal Year 1965. These statements are intended to provide the Field Committee with a summary of archeological studies within the Missouri Basin, undertaken by the River Basin Surveys of the Smithsonian Institution in cooperation with the National Park Service and other agencies.
Quarterly Progress Report, National Park Service Activities with the Cooperation of the Smithsonian Institution, 1966 (1966)
This document contains three quarterly progress reports from Fiscal Year 1966. These statements are intended to provide the Field Committee with a summary of archeological studies within the Missouri Basin, undertaken by the River Basin Surveys of the Smithsonian Institution in cooperation with the National Park Service and other agencies.
Quarterly Progress Report, National Park Service Activities with the Cooperation of the Smithsonian Institution, 1967 (1967)
This document contains three quarterly progress reports from Fiscal Year 1967. These statements are intended to provide the Field Committee with a summary of archeological studies within the Missouri Basin, undertaken by the River Basin Surveys of the Smithsonian Institution in cooperation with the National Park Service and other agencies.
Quarterly Progress Report, National Park Service Activities with the Cooperation of the Smithsonian Institution, 1968 (1968)
This document contains the first two quarterly progress reports from Fiscal Year 1968. These statements are intended to provide the Field Committee with a summary of archeological studies within the Missouri Basin, undertaken by the River Basin Surveys of the Smithsonian Institution in cooperation with the National Park Service and other agencies.
Quitchupah Creek Ethnographic Study for the Proposed Quitchupah Creek Coal Haul Road, Preliminary Draft (2004)
This is an Executive Summary of the field activities conducted by the University of Arizona (UofA) for the Southern Paiute Ethnographic Assessment of the Quitchupah Creek Road Proposal, Fishlake National Forest (USFS) and Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Richfield District, Sevier and Emery Counties, Utah. This executive summary contains (1) a brie overview of the proposed project and ethnographic study, (2) a detailed schedule of activities, (3) a talley of interviews, and (4) a sketch of the...
Rancho Vistoso Community Archaeological Site Inventory Report (1986)
Archaeological fieldwork for the Rancho Vistoso Survey was done between March 31, 1986 and July 3, 1986. A total of 240 person days was expended surveying the nearly 8,000 acres within the project boundaries. Forty-six sites and 128 non-sites were recorded and given field designations (FD’s). Two large prehistoric villages, known from earlier archaeological work in the area, were also mapped in detail and systematic surface collections made. The following section describes all surface artifact...
Rare Rocks (1985)
Items in the DAP nonflaked lithic tool assemblage and miscellaneous material files that represent “unusual materials of geologic origin” have been collected within a single rare rocks dataset (Keane and Clay 1987:507). More specifically, the dataset contains both naturally occurring and culturally modified items comprised of geological resources that are found in the Dolores Valley, or have been transported over long distances (Keane and Clay 1987). Items fashioned from rare material types are...
Rasshua 1 Test Excavation Site Photographs (Gjesfjeld) (2008)
Rasshua 1 Test Excavation Site Photographs (Gjesfjeld). Annotations are in the "Preserved Filename" field.
Recent Archeological Salvage Operations in the Missouri Basin (1955)
This is a reprint from “Progress, Missouri River Basin,” a Quarterly Report of the Interior Missouri Basin Field Committee, October-December, 1955. This document reports on archeological projects carried out during the summer of 1955. Three field units of the Missouri Basin Project of the Smithsonian Institution River Basin Surveys and four field parties sponsored by State institutions, in cooperation with the National Park Service, carried out archeological projects in two dam and reservoir...
Recent Research On Tucson Basin Prehistory: Proceedings of the Second Tucson Basin Conference (1988)
The study of Tucson’s prehistory has been pursued with an unprecedented intensity in recent years, and it seemed essential that the new results that were emerging be shared on a broader basis. This volume is the outcome of papers prepared for the Second Tucson Basin Conference in conjunction with the 1986 fall meeting of the Arizona Archaeological Council.
The Reeve Ruin of Southeastern Arizona (1958)
Archaeologists interested in the prehistory of the Gila-Salt drainage of southern Arizona proposed that a group of Pueblo people termed the Salado, moved into the desert area of northern Pimeria Alta sometime during the Classic Period of the Hohokam historical continuum. Although this hypothesis has become a tradition, certain researchers have, on occasion, questioned its validity. The Amerind Foundation, Inc., after working for a number of years in historic contact sites in Pimeria Alta, turned...
Relocation and Assessment of Twelve Sites on the Fort McDowell Indian Reservation Maricopa County, Arizona: Report (1994)
The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) assisted the Fort McDowell Indian Community (FMIC) with cultural resource investigations in advance of widening and realigning portions of Fort McDowell Road (also known as Mustang Way). These improvements were required to facilitate increased road use associated with the construction and operation of the Fort McDowell Indian Community Irrigated Farmland Development Project. At the request of Reclamation, Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS)...
Relocation, Reassessment, and Remapping of 74 Archaeological Sites Located Along Reaches 3, 4, and 5 of the Tucson Aqueduct (Phase B)
The Phoenix Area Office (PXAO), Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), has developed an archaeological site database for the Central Arizona Project (CAP) main stem canal. The current data is based on data resulting from Class III surveys conducted in the 1970s and 1980s prior to the canal’s construction. The majority of these sites have not been revisited since they were first recorded. An unknown number of these sites were destroyed by either construction or excavation, while others are no...
Relocation, Reassessment, and Remapping of 74 Archaeological Sites Located Along Reaches 3, 4, and 5 of the Tucson Aqueduct (Phase B) (2013)
The Phoenix Area Office (PXAO), Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), has developed an archaeological site database for the Central Arizona Project (CAP) main stem canal. The current data is based on data resulting from Class III surveys conducted in the 1970s and 1980s prior to the canal’s construction. The majority of these sites have not been revisited since they were first recorded. An unknown number of these sites were destroyed by either construction or excavation, while others are no...
Report of a Phase II Archaeological Data Recovery for Four Acres Located Partially Within the Site of Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1[ASM]), Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona (2013)
This report provides documentation for archaeological data recovery conducted within a four-acre parcel. The parcel includes a roughly 0.73-acre area within the recorded boundary of the prehistoric Hohokam site of Pueblo Grande, AZ U:9:1(ASM). Data recovery efforts were designed to recover human remains and collect information from a sample of non-burial features in order to mitigate the impacts of proposed commercial development within the project area. Fifty-one archaeological features were...
A Report on Archaeological Test Excavations in a Portion of AZ AA:1:139 (ASM), Casa Grande, Pinal County, Arizona (2001)
KB Home of Phoenix, Arizona is planning the residential development of approximately 80.0 acres on the northern edge of the community of Casa Grande, Arizona. A previous archaeological survey of the parcel resulted in the identification of a single prehistoric Hohokam site, AZ AA:1:139 (ASM), in the northern half of the project area (Hart 2001). The site, which appears to extend beyond the boundary of the parcel, is described as an artifact scatter (ceramics and flaked stone) with a single...
Report on Stabilization Efforts at Archaeological Site LA 53672 (AR-03-03-05-358), Cibola National Forest Withdrawn Lands, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico (2000)
This report represents an addendum to an earlier report in which the extent of mechanical damages to archaeological site LA 53672 (USFS No. AR-03-03-05-358) were evaluated and suggestions for stabilization of the damaged portions of the site were provided. As such, the present report documents efforts by Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and Escondida Research Group (ERG) to construct a stabilization structure at archaeological site LA 53672 in order to...
Report On the Excavation of Marin-374, Marin County, California (1967)
The site designated Marin-374 is located approximately ten miles northwest of Novato, California, about one-half mile west of the U.S. Highway 101. The site was first worked by a team from the Novate Senior High Archaeology Club on July 18, 1966. At that time, there existed in the locality of the site only a house pit and a test pit dug earlier by a group from the Northwestern California Archaeological Society. Marin-374 is a single-component, proto-historic deposit left by the Coastal Miwok...
Research Design for the Roosevelt Community Development Study (1992)
The Roosevelt Community Development Study (RCD) was one of three data recovery mitigative 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 Desert Archaeology, Inc. to complete the research for...
Research Design: For Archaeological Data Recovery Along the Salt River Project Coronado Coal Haul Railroad (1990)
The following document constitutes a research design for archaeological data recovery within planned expansions of the Salt River Project Coronado Coal Haul Railroad.The project area is located in Apache County, Arizona, south of Interstate 40 near the town of Navajo. Three sites were listed in the project RFP and specific information regarding the impacts to those sites and the location of the sites in relation to the Coal Haul Railroad were provided in that document. The research design is...
Results of Additional Archaeological Data Recovery and Monitoring at La Lomita (AZ U:9:67 [ASM]), Phoenix, Arizona (1997)
A small archaeological data recovery program was conducted October 16-21, 1996 at the prehistoric Hohokam site of La Lomita, AZ U:9:67 (ASM), Phoenix, Arizona. The current archaeological work augments previous testing, data recovery, and monitoring efforts conducted prior to, and during, construction and renovation of buildings within the school grounds. The archaeological investigations and monitoring within the grounds were conducted by SWCA, Inc. for Balsz School District No. 31. Four...
Results of Archaeological Data Recovery at Site AZ AA:12:73 (ASM) for the Avra Valley Road Improvements Project, Pima County, Arizona (1998)
Huntington Ruin, site AZ AA:12:73 (ASM), is a large Hohokam village site located just northwest of Rillito Peak at the northern tip of the Tucson Mountains. Between February 17 and 28, 1998, archaeologists from SWCA. Inc., Environmental Consultants (SWCA) conducted data recovery excavations at the northern periphery of this site as part of the Avra Valley Road Improvements Data Recovery Project. The goal of the project was to mitigate impacts to buried cultural deposits located within the...
Results of Archaeological Site Identification Testing for the Silverbell Road, Road Improvement Project, Tucson, Arizona (2014)
The City of Tucson (COT) proposes to widen Silverbell Road. The project would entail construction of a four-lane divided roadway with raised medians, paved shoulders, a multi-use path, pavement markings, striping and signing, and drainage improvements. Funding for the project would be provided by the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA). The area of potential effects (APE) for this 1.15-mile-long project is located between the west bank of the Santa Cruz River and the toe of the Tucson...
Results of Archaeological Testing Along The Wapa 115-KV Transmission Line Through Continental Ranch, Marana, Arizona: Sites AZ AA:12:146 (ASM) and AZ AA:12:147(ASM) (1988)
From March 8 through March 17, 1988, archaeologists from the Institute for American Research spent 22 person-days conducting exploratory excavations at two archaeological sites within the proposed Continental Ranch development in Marana, Arizona. This subsurface testing project, referred to hereafter as the "CR-WAPA testing" project, was sponsored by the American Continental corporation, developer of the property that contains the two archaeological sites. The archaeological sites tested during...