Agricultural Field or Field Feature (Site Type Keyword)

Parent: Agricultural or Herding

An area of land, often enclosed, used for cultivation. Fields are not necessarily formally bounded, and may be identifiable based on diagnostic features such as boundary markers or raised beds.

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The Desert Mountain Properties Archaeological Testing Project, Scottsdale, Arizona (1998)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: system user

Archaeological test excavations were conducted for Desert Mountain Properties, Inc. in north Scottsdale, Arizona. Testing was conducted at nine prehistoric sites, AZ U:1:132, U:1:148, U:1:149, U:1:150, U:1:153, U:1:154, U:1:168, U:1:169, and U:1:170 (ASM). The sites included two field house loci (U:1:132 and U:1:148), three artifact scatters (U:1:149, U:1:153, U:1:170), one artifact scatter with rock features (U:1:154) and three rock-feature agricultural fields (U:1:150, U:1:168, U:1:169). Two...


A Design for Salado Research (1990)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Keith Kintigh

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...


Distance in Space and Time: Issues with a Mortuary Database of the First Farmers in the Southern Southwest (2011)
DOCUMENT Full-Text James Watson.

This paper describes issues associated with the construction of a biocultural database from samples of the earliest farmers from the southern Southwest and northwest Mexico. Currently over a dozen archaeological sites dating to the Early Agricultural period (circa 1,600 B.C.-A.D. 150) have produced a large sample of mortuary features (n = 431). These samples, and thereby the data, face unique challenges in interpretation compared to similar large data sets in that the materials (sites, features,...


Draft Report: A Cultural Resource Survey for the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community and Salt River Project, Section 28, Township 2N, Range 6E, Maricopa County, Arizona (1994)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Sulgi Lotze

An archaeological survey of land owned by Salt River Project or a portion of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Reservation was conducted from September 17 through October 8, 1994, by students of Mesa Community College and members of the Southwest Archaeology Team and Arizona Archaeological Society, under the direction of Dr. Shereen Lerner and Mr. Sam Baar. The survey was conducted at the request of Dr. Judy Brunson-Hadley with Salt River Project (SRP) to inventory any cultural resources which...


The Eastern Mining Area Transmission Line Survey: Archaeological Resources in the Salt-Gila Uplands of Central Arizona (1994)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas N. Motsinger. Heidi Roberts. Richard V. N. Ahlstrom.

SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants (SWCA), of Tucson, Arizona, conducted the Eastern Mining Area (EMA) survey project under contract to Salt River Project (SRP) between October, 1993, and February, 1994. One central purpose of the project was to create an inventory of archaeological resources to assist in the planning of future improvements and other modifications to existing SRP transmission lines. The project included 107 person-field days of Class III archaeological survey along...


EMVPP Field & Lab Manual (2003)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith Kintigh. Greg Schachner. Joshua Watts. Tammy Stone. Todd Howell. Andrew Duff. Suzanne Eckert.

The field and lab manual for the 2003 El Morro Prehistory Project. The same manual was used in other EMVPP seasons. Most aspects of this manual can be applied to the Ojo Bonito Archaeological Project, the Heshotauthla Archaeological Research Project, the Upper Little Colorado Prehistory Project, and the Rudd Creek Archaeology Project. This manual describes field and laboratory procedures, how to fill out the forms, and how the provenience system works. It also has relevant ceramic type...


EMVPP Field & Lab Manual (2003)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith Kintigh.

The field and lab manual for the 2003 El Morro Prehistory Project. The same manual was used in other EMVPP seasons. Most aspects of this manual can be applied to the Ojo Bonito Archaeological Project, the Heshotauthla Archaeological Research Project, the Upper Little Colorado Prehistory Project, and the Rudd Creek Archaeology Project. This manual describes field and laboratory procedures, how to fill out the forms, and how the provenience system works. It also has relevant ceramic type...


End Of Fieldwork Interim Report: Archaeological Data Recovery And Burial Removal For A Proposed Building Footprint And Utilities Along A New Alignment Of Monroe Street, East Of 44th Street, at Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)), Phoenix, Arizona - DRAFT REPORT (2007)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Banks L. Leonard. Rebecca Hill.

Between May 24 and June 13, 2007, Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI) archaeologists conducted a limited data recovery and burial removal excavations for Sun America, Inc. to mitigate the adverse effects of construction in the Washington Park development in Phoenix, Arizona. The construction project was a proposed new building footprint and associated utilities along a proposed re-alignment of Monroe St, east of 44th St. Soil Systems personnel had already completed archaeological work in this area, but the...


Everglades Headwaters Conservation Partnership: Final Environmental Assessment for the Establishment of the Everglades Headwaters National Wildlife Refuge and Conservation Area (2012)
DOCUMENT Full-Text U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service.

The Kissimmee River Basin in south-central Florida is a unique and biologically diverse landscape that is home to rare and unique habitats and wildlife found nowhere else, and an agricultural way of life that is slowly disappearing. With Florida’s population expected to double to 36 million from 2010 to 2060 (Zwick and Carr 2006) and many major development projects in the works, the time is now to conserve what is left. In 2010, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) helped initiate...


Excavations at the Blue Creek Ruin Northwestern Belize, 1992 Interim Report (1993)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas Guderjan.

1992 Field Report - Interim


Exploring The Rustic Life, Appendix, Millwood Plantation 1980 (1987)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Charles E. Orser, Jr.. Annette M. Nekola. James L. Roark.

Six hypotheses are presented and evaluated using archaeological historical, and bio-cultural data collected from Millwood Plantation and two small satellite sites located within the floodpool of the Richard B. Russell Reservoir currently being constructed. Millwood Plantation, located along the Savannah River in Abbeville County, South Carolina and Elbert County, Georgia, was owned and operated by James Edward Calhoun from 1832 until his death in 1889. After Calhoun's death, a number of tenants...


Exploring The Rustic Life, Volume I, Millwood Plantation 1980 (1987)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Charles E. Orser. Annette M. Nekola. James L. Roark.

Six hypotheses are presented and evaluated using archaeological historical, and bio-cultural data collected from Millwood Plantation and two small satellite sites located within the floodpool of the Richard B. Russell Reservoir currently being constructed. Millwood Plantation, located along the Savannah River in Abbeville County, South Carolina and Elbert County, Georgia, was owned and operated by James Edward Calhoun from 1832 until his death in 1889. After Calhoun's death, a number of tenants...


Exploring The Rustic Life, Volume II, Millwood Plantation 1980 (1987)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Charles E. Orser, Jr.. Annette M. Nekola. James L. Roark.

Six hypotheses are presented and evaluated using archaeological historical, and bio-cultural data collected from Millwood Plantation and two small satellite sites located within the floodpool of the Richard B. Russell Reservoir currently being constructed. Millwood Plantation, located along the Savannah River in Abbeville County, South Carolina and Elbert County, Georgia, was owned and operated by James Edward Calhoun from 1832 until his death in 1889. After Calhoun's death, a number of tenants...


Final Data Recovery And Burial Removal At Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)): Unit 15, The Former Maricopa Counry Sheriff's Substation, Washington And 48th Streets, Phoenix, Arizona (2008)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Banks L. Leonard. Donelle Huffer. Rebecca J. Hill. Andrew D. Lack. David R. Abbott. Blayne R. Brown.

In a development plan proposed in 1999, two areas were to be excavated below grade for a building foundation and a runoff detention basin and the rest of the parcel was to be resurfaced at grade. Because this parcel is immediately east of the Iarge Hohokam village site of Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)), a two-phase testing program determined the distribution of intact prehistoric cultural remains and established that mortuary features with human remains would be impacted if the existing...


Final Report for Class III Pedestrian Survey, Shovel Probe Testing, Limited Nonsite Backhoe Trenching, and Magnetometer Sampling for the San Xavier District Farm Rehabilitation Project, Tohono O’odham Nation, Pima County, Arizona (2012)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert J. Stokes.

This is part of the San Xavier Farm Rehabilitation Project. Additional entries related to this project can be found at the following link: https://core.tdar.org/collection/27482 The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) assisted the Tohono O’odham Nation’s (Nation) San Xavier District’s (District) Farm Cooperative (CoOp) in developing some 1,400 acres of new farm land along both sides of Interstate 19 south of the existing CoOp farm fields. This project was in accordance with the...


Final Report for Plan 6 Supplemental Cultural Resource Surveys (1985)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Margerie Green. R. W. Effland, Jr.. J. H. King.

This final report reflects a year of on-call Class III cultural resource surveys for Plan 6, the Regulatory Storage Division of the Central Arizona Project. Included are eight reports representing close to 6000 acres of survey performed in the vicinity of the planned New Waddell Dam by Archaeological Consulting Services for the Arizona Projects Office, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Because New Waddell Dam is designed to be rock filled, one of the focal points of the contract was to survey proposed...


Final Report for Plan 6 Supplemental Cultural Resource Surveys (1985)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Margerie Green.

This final report includes eight reports representing close to 6,000 acres of survey performed in the vicinity of the planned New Waddell Dam. The survey areas include locations for geologic test trenches, road relocations, borrow areas, spillways, and the Waddell Canal. These surveys yielded a total of 43 sites and 2018 loci of isolated artifacts. All but one of the sites were located in two borrow areas. These two study areas evidence differences in use of habitation, agriculture and artifact...


Final Report: Archaeological Survey on the Lower Zuni River - 1984 Season (1984)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith Kintigh.

This report provides a substantive and administrative summary of the results of an intensive archaeological survey of about 9 square kilometers along the Zuni River in east-central Arizona that was conducted by the University of Arizona, Arizona State Museum. This survey was funded by a Survey and Planning Grant from the National Park Service administered by the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office and by matching funds provided by the University of Arizona. Because this final report for...


Final Report: Historic Archaeological Site Evaluation - Pre 1941 (2002)
DOCUMENT Full-Text W. J. Bennett, Jr.. Jeffrey Blakely. Diane Everman. William Isenberger. Mary Bennett. John Northrip. Robert Bennett. Michael Bradley. Gerald Smith.

This Report discusses the efforts made to complete the documentation of the nineteenth and twentieth century’s archaeological record at Arnold Air Force Base prior to the creation of Camp Forrest in 1941. This effort involved an examination of historic vintage aerial photographs and historic cartographic sources to note the locations of farms and facilities on Arnold Air Force Base prior to 1941. This was done by incorporating these sources into the ArcView GIS and plotting the locations of...


Final Report: Prehistoric Settlement Along the Lower Zuni River - 1987 Season (1987)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith Kintigh.

This report provides a substantive and administrative summary of the results of an intensive archaeological survey of about 8 square kilometers along the Zuni River in east-central Arizona about 25 miles north-northeast of St. Johns. The survey was directed by Keith W. Kintigh of the Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University. This survey has been funded with the assistance of a matching grant-in-aid from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service, under provisions of the...


Final: Environmental Assessment (EA), Pinnacle Peak-Papago Buttes 230kV Transmission Line Project (1986)
DOCUMENT Full-Text C. Randall Morrison.

The Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District, proposes to construct a 230 kV transmission line to connect the Pinnacle Peak Receiving Station (located northwest of Pinnacle Peak and Scottsdale Roads, Phoenix, Arizona) and the Papago Buttes Receiving Station (located near 64th Street and Thomas Road, Scottsdale, Arizona). Two of the identified alternatives cross federal land within the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs constituting a major federal action.


Finding Aid, Millwood Plantation 1980 (2018)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Ali Ali. Maria Halkiadakis. Rogelio Hubbard. Sanchez Sanchez-Garcia. Aixa Seales.

This collection is referred to as "Millwood Plantation 1980.” The name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is twenty and a half (20.5)linear inches. The documents date from 1979 to 1987. The field work began in 1980, which explains the date in the collection name. The range of dates includes administrative documents and the final report. The collection was originally housed in acidic file folders in an acidic cardboard...


Fish Canyon Survey (1988)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Bruce B. Huckell. Tim Rollins. M. M. Farrell. Mark M. South. Barbara Murphy. Ronald Beckwith.

An archaeological survey of slightly more than 1.25 square miles (approximately 840 acres) of land located at the eastern edge of the Coronado National Forest (Nogales Ranger District) approximately 4.2 miles northwest of Sonoita has been performed by the Cultural Resource Management Division (CRMD) of the Arizona State Museum. The survey was done at the request of Genesis Real Estate and Development, Incorporated, as part of a proposed land exchange with the Coronado National Forest.


The Ford Plantation Project, Georgia
PROJECT Thomas G. Whitley. Scott Butler. The Ford Plantation L.L.C. (Richmond Hill, Georgia).

Brockington and Associates, Inc., conducted an intensive Phase I cultural resources survey and Phase II testing project in 1998, for the Ford Plantation Development, in Bryan County, Georgia. The project encompassed approximately 720 hectares (1,800 acres). Survey consisted of background archival research (to locate previously identified cultural resources and to assess the potential for new discovery), fieldwork (excavation of shovel test probes, pedestrian reconnaissance, and 2 by 2 meter test...


General Resources from the Long Term Vulnerability and Transformation Project
PROJECT Margaret Nelson. National Science Foundation.

Long-Term Coupled Socioecological Change in the American Southwest and Northern Mexico: Each generation transforms an inherited social and environmental world and leaves it as a legacy to succeeding generations. Long-term interactions among social and ecological processes give rise to complex dynamics on multiple temporal and spatial scales – cycles of change followed by relative stasis, followed by change. Within the cycles are understandable patterns and irreducible uncertainties; neither...