Isolated Burial (Site Type Keyword)

IMAGE Karen Holmberg.

Ngöbe woman with the Volcán Barú behind her; Photo courtesy of Howard Hill and taken during a seminar taught by K. Holmberg

IMAGE Karen Holmberg.

Municipal seal of Boquete, Panama showing the Volcan Baru in the upper left portion and pre-Columbian artifacts in the lower right; photo by K. Holmberg

IMAGE Karen Holmberg.

Cave site near the Volcan Baru in Boquete, Panama

IMAGE Karen Holmberg.

Chiriquí gold artifact. Courtesy, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution (Catalog Number: 232150.000)

IMAGE Karen Holmberg.

An 1849 handbill from the California Gold Rush advertising ship passage between New York and California; Wikimedia Commons.

IMAGE Karen Holmberg.

Map of Chiriquí in relation to some of the major museum collection locations

IMAGE Karen Holmberg.

Letter from Tiffany & Co. Dated Dec. 29th 1910. From WJF of Tiffany & Co. Letter was to Henry Walters, ESQ. The letter details what price Tiffany & Co. would sell "gold ornaments ... that were purchased from Indians that had been dug up from ancient graveyards" that were discovered in 1910. The graveyards were located in Panama and the boundary line of Costa Lion.

IMAGE Karen Holmberg.

Tierra Firma map (1640). © the James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota. From Laet, Joannes de. L’histoire du Nouveau Monde ou description des Indes Occidentales, contenant dix huit livres. Leyden, Bonaventure & Abrahm Elseuiers, 1640.

PROJECT Francis McManamon. Corps of Engineers. Department of the Interior.

This project includes background information, detailed reports of investigations, summaries, and other documents related to the Kennewick Man. Kennewick Man, also called "the Ancient One" by some, is an ancient individual represented by his nearly complete skeletal remains. The remains were discovered in 1996 under the waters of Lake Wallula, a reservoir in the Columbia River, near Kennewick, Washington. Controversy concerning the study and treatment of the remains was not resolved until a...

PROJECT Thomas Whitley.

Starting in 2004, Brockington and Associates, Inc. carried 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 planned mixed residential and commercial community known as...

PROJECT Uploaded by: Joshua Watts

WACC reports of archaeological excavation and survey projects within and near Montezuma Castle and Tuzigoot National Monuments and the Middle Verde Valley in general, Yavapai County, Arizona.

DOCUMENT Full-Text William Shirley Fulton.

The area covered in this paper is, generally speaking, the drainage of the upper Texas Canyon, near Dragoon, Cochise County, Arizona. But more specifically, the development in the season of 1933 was confined to a flat field on the ranch of the writer. The elevation at this point is about 4,800 feet, and the climate is typically that of the Southwest at a like elevation. In the winter months it is warm in the daytime, cold at night, with an occasional snow flurry, and very little rain. The summer...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Susan J. Wells. Keith M. Anderson.

Inventory survey of Montezuma Castle National Monument was conducted from April 11 to May 7, 1988. Of the 70 sites recorded, 30 were new additions to the site inventory. Cliff dwellings, rockshelters and pueblos were recorded along with one and two-room masonry structures, roasting pits and artifact scatters. Agricultural feature sites include the canals at Montezuma Well. A site with prehistoric cobble concentrations, a burial ground, a bedrock mortar site, a lithic scatter, a historical site...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter J. McKenna. H. Wolcott Toll.

In the summer of 1974, the Chaco Center, now the Division of Cultural Research, National Park Service, began its second season of field excavations in Chaco Canyon. The inventory survey of the canyon was essentially complete, and research emphasis had shifted to the study of Pueblo I sites. Excavation of 29SJ1360 (hereafter called 1360) was undertaken as part of an effort to examine the full temporal range of the canyon's Anasazi occupation. As it happened, excavations at 1360 did not produce...

PROJECT Uploaded by: Claudine Gravel-Miguel

The Arma Veirana cave is located in the Liguria region of Italy. Excavation of the cave begun in 2015 and has unearthed Neanderthal to Early Mesolithic material. This project was led co-jointly by Dr. Jamie Hodgkins, Dr. Caley Orr, Dr. David Strait, Dr. Stefano Benazzi, Dr. Marco Peresani, Dr. Christopher E. Miller, Dr. Julien Riel-Salvatore, and Dr. Fabio Negrino. The files contained in this repository focus on the Early Mesolithic portion of the stratigraphy. The micro-CT scans have...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Shelby Manney

This Newspaper clipping from August 12, 1859 discribes the Chiriqui gold discoveries in Panama and the arrival of the steamship the "North Star."

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Shelby Manney

This newspaper article dates August 12, 1859 and describes "The Grave-Digging Excitement at Chiriqui, the Collins Steamers, and the Business of the Panama Railroad."

PROJECT USDI Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office.

The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) Phoenix Area Office is assisting the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Navajo Division, in safety of dam modifications to Asaayi Dam in McKinley County, New Mexico. Located on Bowl Creek along the western edge of the Chuska Mountains, Asaayi Dam was completed in 1964 by the Navajo Nation to provide opportunities for recreation and irrigation. The dam is approximately 25 miles northeast of Window Rock, Arizona, and is scheduled to undergo major construction...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas E. Jones.

The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) Phoenix Area Office is assisting the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Navajo Division, in safety of dam modifications to Asaayi Dam in McKinley County, New Mexico. Located on Bowl Creek along the western edge of the Chuska Mountains, Asaayi Dam was completed in 1964 by the Navajo Nation to provide opportunities for recreation and irrigation. The dam is approximately 25 miles northeast of Window Rock, Arizona, and is scheduled to undergo major construction...

IMAGE Thomas E. Jones. Jon Czaplicki.

The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) Phoenix Area Office is assisting the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Navajo Division, in safety of dam modifications to Asaayi Dam in McKinley County, New Mexico. Located on Bowl Creek along the western edge of the Chuska Mountains, Asaayi Dam was completed in 1964 by the Navajo Nation to provide opportunities for recreation and irrigation. The dam is approximately 25 miles northeast of Window Rock, Arizona, and is scheduled to undergo major construction...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas E. Jones. Ilya Berelov.

The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) Phoenix Area Office is assisting the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Navajo Division, in safety of dam modifications to Asaayi Dam in McKinley County, New Mexico. Located on Bowl Creek along the western edge of the Chuska Mountains, Asaayi Dam was completed in 1964 by the Navajo Nation to provide opportunities for recreation and irrigation. The dam is approximately 25 miles northeast of Window Rock, Arizona, and is scheduled to undergo major construction...

IMAGE Uploaded by: Claudine Gravel-Miguel

3D scans of perforated shell from the excavation of an infant burial at Arma Veirana (Italy)

IMAGE Uploaded by: Claudine Gravel-Miguel

3D scans of perforated shell from the excavation of an infant burial at Arma Veirana (Italy)

IMAGE Uploaded by: Claudine Gravel-Miguel

3D scans of perforated shell from the excavation of an infant burial at Arma Veirana (Italy)

IMAGE Uploaded by: Claudine Gravel-Miguel

3D scans of perforated shell from the excavation of an infant burial at Arma Veirana (Italy)