Rock Shelter (Site Type Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd..

ACS conducted Phase 2 data recovery at the Lake Pleasant Rockshelter site (AZ T:4:150[ASM]) in 2010 at the request of the Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office. The proposed work plan for Phase 2 (Pinter et al. 2009) was accepted by Reclamation, and was implemented in two sessions due to inclement weather and rising lake levels. The first session occurred in January 2010, followed by a hiatus to allow the lake level to drop and the weather to cool; the second and final session occurred in...

IMAGE Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd..

ACS conducted Phase 2 data recovery at the Lake Pleasant Rockshelter site (AZ T:4:150[ASM]) in 2010 at the request of the Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office. The proposed work plan for Phase 2 (Pinter et al. 2009) was accepted by Reclamation, and was implemented in two sessions due to inclement weather and rising lake levels. The first session occurred in January 2010, followed by a hiatus to allow the lake level to drop and the weather to cool; the second and final session occurred in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Carrico.

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.

DOCUMENT Citation Only John G. Hedden.

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.

DOCUMENT Citation Only David G. Stanley. Lowell R. Blikre. Alan P. Olson. Scott C. Shaffer. Robert C. Vogel.

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.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark A. Giambastiani. Emily S. Middleton.

This report documents the results of a Phase II cultural resources inventory of 7,000 acres on Range 77 (EC South), Nellis Air Force Base (NAFB), Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) Nye County, Nevada. Surveyed acreage encompasses two adjacent drainage corridors, lower Thirsty Canyon and lower Rocket Wash, both of which had been selected for the establishment of targets to be used in live-fire air-to-ground combat training. The NAFB/NTTR proposes to establish seven target zones in Thirsty...

IMAGE Mary Prendergast.

View of Mumba Rockshelter from the northwest (photograph by M. Prendergast). Note total station and person at right side for scale.

IMAGE Mary Prendergast.

View of Mumba Rockshelter from above, with excavation units indicated. Photograph by M. Prendergast.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Arizona State University (ASU).

Papago Park in the City of Tempe extends from Tempe Butte northward across the Salt River bed into the southern portion of the Papago hills. The archaeological sites in the park are relatively small, but they represent both the Indian and Anglo occupation of the Salt River Valley, and span more than one thousand years of history (A.D. 800 to late 1800s and early 1900s). Excavations at two of the sites have produced artifacts dating to a) the prehistoric Indian period, b) the early historic...

IMAGE Mary Prendergast.

Plan of Mumba Rockshelter, showing Kohl-Larsen excavation area (center) and dump (left), and Mehlman’s trenches (I-IV) and Prendergast et al.'s trenches (5-8). Adapted by M. Prendergast from the original plan drawn by Mehlman (1989:Figure 4.2). Tr. = Trench/Unit

DATASET Uploaded by: James McGrath

The artifact analysis data set for the PP5-6 mineral pigment assemblage. The first page (PP5-6 Data Notes) provides information on the coding fields, while the second page (PP5-6 Data) provides the complete data set.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard H. Brooks. Daniel O. Larson.

The Los Angeles Water and Power Company Navajo-McCullough Transmission Line Right-of-Way corridor is located for the most part in Clark County, Nevada, but also diagonals across the southeast corner of Lincoln County, Nevada. The total length of the corridor in Nevada is over 100 miles long and the archaeological survey was conducted within a 50 meter distance to either side of the center line. Access roads added to the distance that was intensively surveyed. Where it was observed that there was...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Stephanie D. Livingston. Christopher Pierce.

This report documents the methods and results of archaeological investigations conducted by the Desert Research Institute Social Sciences Center i n the Buckhorn Mining District of the Cortez Mountains, Nevada. The investigations were conducted for Cominco American to mitigate the adverse impacts to significant cultural resources resulting from expansion of the Buckhorn Mine onto land administered by the Bureau of Land Management. Mitigation efforts included avoidance of impacts by project...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Patricia M. Spoerl. John C. Ravesloot.

Archaeological investigations by the Central Arizona Ecotone Project in the New River area form the basis for an examination of the so-called fortified sites of central Arizona. Our interpretation of the defensive role these settlements may have played in prehistoric times differs from explanations which have been proposed for fortified sites in southern Arizona. We suggest that competition and conflict over resources led to the need for various kinds of defensive settlements in the northern...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Jim deVos

As part of Nellis Air Force Base and Range Complex (NAFR) Historic Preservation Program, the Air Force in 1996 conducted archaeological research in this cave. This research was designed to contribute significantly to the Air Force's ability to evaluate other historic properties on NAFR. In a research design approved by the Nevada State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) and Region 1 of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Air Force...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Deborah A. Westfall.

The TEP (Tucson Electric Power) St. Johns Project was conducted by the Cultural Resource Management Section of the Arizona State Museum under contract to Tucson Electric Power Company and was designed to mitigate impacts to cultural resources located within a proposed railroad right-of-way corridor east of St. Johns, Arizona. The proposed corridor begins at a point 8 miles northeast of St. Johns and extends 27 miles southward to the proposed TEP SpringerviIle Generating Station north of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Sulgi Lotze

This report only contains the Appendices A - J. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is requesting proposals for supplementary inventory survey and mitigation of cultural resources to be impacted by construction of the Granite Reef Aqueduct and Granite Reef Aqueduct Transmission System. This aqueduct and transmission system are features of the Central Arizona Project (CAP), which is a multipurpose water resource development and management project designed to provide supplemental water to central and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael H. Jennings. Michael K. Church. James D. Gallison. Hannah Fretwell.

In the period between May 2007 and August 2007, engineering-environmental Management, Inc. (e2M) conducted a cultural resources update and testing project of 17 sites at Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB) to determine their eligibility to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Seven of the sites (n=7) are recommended eligible to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), under Criterion (D) and one of the sites, LA 81732, is also recommended eligible under Criterion (C). The...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Donald R. Keller. Donald E. Weaver, Jr..

Summary of study units 1-22 of sites selected throughout Arizona and Nevada. Includes a table listing the presence of vegetation and cultural remains, accompanied by a base map for each of the study units.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Myles Miller

Public outreach and education booklet describing the results of documentation and interpretation of 21 prehistoric and historic rock art sites in southeastern New Mexico

DOCUMENT Full-Text Smithsonian Institution, River Basin Project.

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.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard W. Stoffle. Kathleen A. Van Vlack. Fletcher P. Chmara-Huff.

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...

DATASET Mary Prendergast.

Includes dates from Mehlman (1989) and Prendergast et al (2007; Prendergast 2008) excavations. Does not include dates currently in progress by Gliganic, Jacobs and Roberts.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Arthur M. Miller.

Description of several archaeological and paleontological cave sites excavated in 1922 by Arthur McQuiston Miller. All described cave sites are primarily located within Wayne County, in southern Kentucky.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Craig Weaver. L. Finchum. James P. Holmlund. Henry D. Wallace.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Red Rock Canyon sites, comprised of petroglyphs, pictographs, a rock shelter, and artifact scatter, located on Bureau of Land Management land. The file consists of a site data form, cultural resource vandalism report form, a site steward patrol report form, two pages with sketches of graffiti, six Arizona State Museum archaeological survey forms, and a map of the site location. The earliest dated document is from 1988.