Burial Pit (Site Type Keyword)

Parent: Funerary and Burial Structures or Features

An unmarked human interment in a subterranean pit.

401-425 (563 Records)

The Pacific Coast: Arrival of the Northern Light: Four Days from the Isthmus of Panama: The Chiriqui Gold Fever: Rush of the Population for the Indian Burial-Places: Two Weeks Later From South America (1859)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Shelby Manney

This August 12, 1989 newspaper article covers the Chiriqui Gold Fields and the intense excitement that created a rush of gold hunters to Panama. It also covers news from Puru, South America, and Chilli.


Painted Cave Northern Arizona (1945)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Emil W. Haury.

The body of literature dealing with the archaeology of the San Juan drainage, while large, is strangely silent concerning the extreme northeastern corner of Arizona in the region of the Carrizo and Lukachukai Mountains. Prudden, in his classic study of the ruins in the San Juan watershed, mentions both surface and cave sites but they were small for the most part, and none received more than a cursory examination. Many years later, in 1924, a Peabody Museum expedition headed by Oliver LaFarge,...


Panama_Hydro Shapefile (2010)
GEOSPATIAL Karen Holberg.

The aim of the LEAP projects was to publish multi-layered e-publications and develop and link them to associated digital archives. The original LEAP project was funded by the AHRC while the LEAP II, A Trans-Atlantic LEAP, was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This shapefile is part of a 2011 LEAP II project "Placing immateriality: situating the material of highland Chiriquí" by Karen Holberg. All files associated with this record must be downloaded to ensure that the shapefile...


The Parque de Santa Cruz Project: Life on the Northern Margin of the Valencia Community (2009)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael W. Lindeman. Helga Wöcherl.

Prehistoric occupation of the Tucson Basin extends back at least 6,000 years. Not surprisingly, as a primary watercourse, the Santa Cruz River has been the focus of much of the prehistoric activity. Approximately 4,000 years ago, early agriculturalists began farming along the banks of the river, supplementing a diet composed primarily of wild foods. As agricultural technology developed, people built canals in the floodplain. The canals increased crop yields and reduced some of the risks...


Passive Accumulations: Archaeological Investigations in Support of Reconstruction and Extension of Runway 12L-30R at Williams Gateway Airport, Mesa, Arizona (2000)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Matthew E. Hill, Jr.. J. Simon Bruder.

Kimley-Hom and Associates are under contract with the Williams Gateway Airport Authority (WGAA) to provide services for design of the reconstruction and extension of Runway 12L-30R. A number of archaeological sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places (National Register) extend within the construction zone. Therefore, WGAA was required to take into account the potential for its undertakings to affect those archaeological sites under the terms of its lease agreement with the Air...


Patterns of Maya Jade Disposal at Blue Creek, Belize (2004)
DOCUMENT Full-Text thomas guderjan.

Jade was the most valued material in the Classic Maya world. Large numbers of jade artifacts have been recovered from diverse contexts from the Maya site of Blue Creek, Belize. This database allows for analysis of the distribution and disposal of jade artifacts. Further, jade’s role in Classic Maya political economies is unclear, with views alternating between jade having functioned as a currency and jade having been controlled by royal elites. The Blue Creek database is used to test the...


Payson/Star Valley Archaeology, CE800-1250
PROJECT Uploaded by: Harry Swanson

Archaeological and cultural assumptions based upon analysis of sites below the Mogollon Rim but within the Pine, Payson, Star Valley, Round Valley areas.


PET 2018 - Samples (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Veronica Perez Rodriguez.

PET 2018 Report of ceramic samples taken during the survey


PET 2018- Cedulas (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Uploaded by: Veronica Perez Rodriguez

PET 2018 Cedulas/forms created for each identified site


Petroglyph Concentration Final Map (2010)
GEOSPATIAL Karen Holberg.

The aim of the LEAP projects was to publish multi-layered e-publications and develop and link them to associated digital archives. The original LEAP project was funded by the AHRC while the LEAP II, A Trans-Atlantic LEAP, was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This final map project is part of a 2011 LEAP II project "Placing immateriality: situating the material of highland Chiriquí" by Karen Holberg. The files contained in this record include an .mxd map project and an image of the...


Petroglyph_Concentration Shapefile (2010)
GEOSPATIAL Karen Holberg.

The aim of the LEAP projects was to publish multi-layered e-publications and develop and link them to associated digital archives. The original LEAP project was funded by the AHRC while the LEAP II, A Trans-Atlantic LEAP, was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This shapefile is part of a 2011 LEAP II project "Placing immateriality: situating the material of highland Chiriquí" by Karen Holberg. All files associated with this record must be downloaded to ensure that the shapefile...


Petroglyph_Viewshed Shapefile (2010)
GEOSPATIAL Karen Holberg.

The aim of the LEAP projects was to publish multi-layered e-publications and develop and link them to associated digital archives. The original LEAP project was funded by the AHRC while the LEAP II, A Trans-Atlantic LEAP, was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This shapefile is part of a 2011 LEAP II project "Placing immateriality: situating the material of highland Chiriquí" by Karen Holberg. All files associated with this record must be downloaded to ensure that the shapefile...


Petroglyphs Shapefile (2010)
GEOSPATIAL Karen Holberg.

The aim of the LEAP projects was to publish multi-layered e-publications and develop and link them to associated digital archives. The original LEAP project was funded by the AHRC while the LEAP II, A Trans-Atlantic LEAP, was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This shapefile is part of a 2011 LEAP II project "Placing immateriality: situating the material of highland Chiriquí" by Karen Holberg. All files associated with this record must be downloaded to ensure that the shapefile...


Phase II Data Recovery at Pozos de Sonoqui / AZ U:14:49 (ASM) within the Proposed Alignment in Queen Creek, Maricopa County, Arizona (2015)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: system user

This report documents Phase II data recovery at a portion of the project site performed by archaeologists from Jacobs Engineering (Jacobs) in Phoenix, Arizona. Under contract with Maricopa County Department of Transportation (MCDOT), archaeologists from Jacobs conducted data recovery at the site from January 8, 2013, through May 1, 2013. The Phase II data recovery resulted in the discovery of 104 features and excavation of 85 features, along with the recovery of thousands of artifacts.


Phase II Testing and Phase III Data Recovery of Site 220K908, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi (1999)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Joseph A. Gilberti. Homes Hogue. Justine McKnight. David Pettry. Dawn Reid.

In late March 1998, the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) contracted with Brockington and Associates, Inc., to conduct Phase II archaeological testing on site 220K908 (the Curr Dog site), in compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). This site was located within the proposed right-of-way for the Mississippi Highway 12 Relocation Project (MDOT Project No. 79-0018-03-018-10) in Starkville, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi. The Phase II testing was...


Photo Log to Accompany Field Photographs (2023)
DATASET Katherine Seikel. TxDOT/AmaTerra Environmental, Inc..

Photo log to accompany uploaded site photographs


Pit House, Presidio, and Privy: 1,400 Years of Archaeology and History on Block 180, Tucson, Arizona (1997)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Tyler Sutton

This report details the results of archival research and archaeological testing and data recovery on the historical Block 180 of the original townsite of Tucson. This work was conducted by Statistical Research, Inc., for the Pima County Facilities Management Department due to the planned construction of the Pima County Public Works Center and YMCA complex on the block. The investigations uncovered extensive evidence of human occupation of the block from the prehistoric Hohokam to the historical...


Plan Drawings Terrace S19 (2010)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Ronald Faulseit.

This pdf file contains the plan drawings from the excavations of Terrace S19 on Cerro Danush.


Plan Drawings Terrace S25, Cerro Danush (2015)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Ronald Faulseit.

This .pdf contains the plan drawings for the excavation units on Terrace S25, Cerro Danush, Oaxaca, Mexico. Please consult the project report for 2015 for more information.


POLLEN ANALYSIS OF SITES AT 88, AT 90 AND AT 91 ATOKA COUNTY, OKLAHOMA and POLLEN ANALYSIS OF SITE CO 244 COAL COUNTY, OKLAHOMA (1975)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda J. Scott.

POLLEN ANALYSIS OF SITES AT 88, AT 90 AND AT 91 ATOKA COUNTY, OKLAHOMA: Pollen samples from sites At 88, At 90, and At 91 in Atoka County, Oklahoma were submitted to the author for preparation and analysis. The purpose of the preparation and analysis of these samples was to ascertain the components of the environment in the area and to determine whether or not the cultural sequence at the site generated any factors which affected the environment. It was also hoped that information could be...


Potential for DNA Testing of the Human Remains from Columbia Park, Kennewick, Washington [Feb. 3, 2000] (2000)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Noreen Tuross. Connie J. Kolman.

At the request of the Department of Justice and Dr. Francis P. McManamon, Departmental Consulting Archaeologist of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior, the authors discuss the potential for DNA analysis of the human skeletal remains from Kennewick, Washington that are the objects of the lawsuit now pending (Bonnichsen et al., vs. United States of America, Civil No. 9601481-JE). The purpose of such an analysis would be to determine the genetic affinity of the above individual by...


Prehistory of the St. Johns Area, East-Central Arizona: The TEP St. Johns Project (1981)
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...


Preliminary Archaeological Testing at the West Branch Site, AZ AA:16:3, in the Saguaro Knolls Development Area (1997)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael W. Lindeman.

This document discusses the results of preliminary archaeological work for the Saguaro Knolls development project. The Saguaro Knolls project area is a 55 a tract of land that is slated for residential development. It lies wholly within a previously recorded archaeological site, AZ AA:16:3 (ASM), the West Branch site. A recent archaeological survey confirmed that archaeological remains were present on the surface of the parcel (Stephen 1997). As a result of these findings Desert Archaeology,...


Preliminary Field Report 3: Data Recovery at Eleven Prehistoric Sites in the Carlota Mine Area, Miami, Arizona (1997)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Danielle Desruisseaux. Randy Fox. Todd L. Howell. Darby Moore. Douglas R. Mitchell. David Purcell. Chris T. Wenker. Tom Yoder. Mark Zyniecki.

This report discusses the results of archaeological data recovery conducted at eleven prehistoric sites within the proposed Carlota Copper Mine (Carlota). The project area is located west of Miami, Arizona, principally on lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service, Tonto National Forest. In order to comply with the appropriate federal legislation regarding the cultural resources within the project area, Carlota contracted with SWCA to conduct archaeological investigations. A series of...


Preliminary Geoarchaeological Studies at Columbia Park, Kennewick, Washington, USA (1998)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Gary Huckleberry. Thomas W. Stafford, Jr.. James C. Chatters.

In August 1996 a well preserved, disarticulated human skeleton was found submerged in Lake Wallula within an area about 7 m offshore at Columbia Park in Kennewick, Washington. The skeleton's anatomy (non-Mongoloid physical features) and great antiquity attest to its tremendous scientific importance to New World archaeology. On August 26, 1997 an ARPA permit application was submitted by Drs. Gary Huckleberry (Washington State University), Robson Bonnichsen (Oregon State University), C. Vance...