Ball Court (Site Type Keyword)
Parent: Non-Domestic Structures
An unroofed structure associated with the playing of the Mesoamerican ball game, found in the American southwest and parts of Mesoamerica.
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This is an abstract from the "Digging Deeper: Pushing Ourselves to Engage the Public in Our Shared Heritage through Outreach and Education" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The United Comstock Merger Mill, locally known as the American Flat Mill, was a cyanide mill constructed in 1922 on the eastern portion of the American Flat near Virginia City, Nevada. This mill, located within the boundaries of the Virginia City National Historic Landmark,...
Presidential Pipe Bowl from Features 6 and 163 (2014)
1848 Lewis Cass Presidential Pipe Bowl from Features 6 and 163. (PCN 782 and 1097).
Privy Photographs from the 625 Broadway Archaeological Site, Albany, NY (2002)
Photographs of several privies from about 1740-1880 at the 625 Broadway Archaeological Site, Albany, NY
The Process of Aggregation in the Post-Chacoan Era: A Case Study from the Lower Zuni Region (1995)
During the post-Chacoan period (A.D. I 175- 1225) the first aggregated sites in the Zuni Region of the American Southwest were built. This research examines a shift in regional settlement patterns and the reorganization of sociopolitical systems during this initial period of aggregation in the lower Zuni River region. A chronology for the post-Chacoan settlements in the case study area is built using ceramic type data. The results suggest that the process of aggregation in the Zuni region can...
Profile Drawings from Terrace S19 (2010)
This pdf file contains profile drawings from the structures and unit on Terrace S19, Cerro Danush, Dainzú-Macuilxóchitl, Oaxaca, Mexico
Profile Drawings Terrace O8, Cerro Danush (2015)
This .pdf contains profile drawings taken on Terrace O8, Cerro Danush, Oaxaca Mexico. The first page contains the excavation grid for reference. See project report for 2015 for more information.
Programmatic Testing Plan for the S.R. 260 - Payson to Heber Archaeological Project (2000)
This report describes known sites in the project area and provides a plan of work appropriate for their testing. The discussion is organized by site type (for example, lithic scatter, artifact scatter, multicomponent site, historic structure) and generalized work plans are provided for these sites based upon what is known of other similar sites in the project area.
(Project 03-09) Review Draft: A Research Design and Data Recovery Plan for Seven Archaeological Sites along the Santan Expansion Project Pipeline Corridor from Gilbert to Coolidge, Maricopa and Pinal Counties, Arizona (2003)
This document presents a research design and data recovery plan for seven archaeological sites located along a 36-mile-long natural gas pipeline that the Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (SRP) is planning to construct between Gilbert and Coolidge, Arizona. All of the sites are associated with the prehistoric Hohokam culture and are considered eligible for the Arizona and National Registers of Historic Places, based on their potential to contribute important...
Project Artifact Catalog, Terraces 08 and S25 (2015)
This file contains basic information on the sample of artifacts that were registered and cataloged from the 2015 excavations of Terrace S19 and O8 on Cerro Danush in Oaxaca Mexico
Project Bibliography (2008)
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Project Data, Cedar Point Golf Course Renovation, Naval Air Station Patuxent River (2000)
This resource contains a Microsoft Access database that contains the artifact inventory, depth, cultural affiliation, and date of excavation for each site and lot of the Phase I Cedar Point Golf Course renovation project in St. Mary's County, Maryland.
Project Muestrario/Registro Terrace S19, Cerro Danush (2010)
This pdf file contains a description of all of the materials stored in the project muestrario and registered with INAH. Materials come from the excavation of Terraces S19 and S20 on Cerro Danush.
Project Report 2008 (2008)
Project Report approved by the Consejo de Arqueología of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico. Covers the 2007-2008 Survey, Mapping, and Surface Collections at Cerro Danish, Dainzú-Macuilxóchitl
Project Report 2010 (2010)
Project Report to the Consejo de Arqueología of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, accepted in 2010. Project consisted of comprehensive excavations on Terrace S19 of Cerro Danush
Project Report 2015 (2015)
Project Report to the Consejo de Arqueología of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. Project covers extensive site mapping of the entire site, as well as comprehensive excavations on Cerro Danush. The file is large, so it has been divided up into four .pdf files. Project supported by the National Science Foundation (BCS 1353793)
A Proposal to Conduct Archaeological Excavations at the "Bead Maker's" Shell Midden, Site OSS 73, Ossabaw Island, Georgia (1998)
This document represents a proposal submitted to the Ossabaw Island Foundation to conduct archaeological excavations at a small, Irene phase shell midden located at site OSS 73 on Ossabaw Island, Georgia. Test excavations conducted at the midden in 1974 by Charles Pearson (Pearson 1974; 1979) produced a variety of cultural materials, including ceramics, bone, charred wood and other items typical of late prehistoric shell middens in the region. In addition, this ...
Proposed Gas Pipeline Was Surveyed for Cultural Resources. One Isolated Find Was Recorded and One Previously Recorded Site Reevaluated (1985)
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.
Proposed Mead to Phoenix 500kV DC Transmission Line Project: Appendix D: Eastwing Substation and Westwing Substation Expansion: Archaeological Surveys (1983)
Two proposed substation site alternatives along the Agua Fria River were surveyed for archaeological resources by the Museum of Northern Arizona in December 1982. One small previously recorded potsherd concentration and a number of isolated artifacts were located within the Westwing area. An extensive Hohokam site was located within the Eastwing parcel, along with a segment of the historic Marinette Heading Canal. The Westwing substation alternative is strongly recommended in preference to the...
Proposed pit inside Great House (1962)
This document is regarding a proposed 12 foot deep pit to be dug in the center room of the Great House at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. It is a series of communications regarding the risks vs the rewards of this proposed project. The communications are between the park archaeologist and the regional archaeologist and the document includes a construction project proposal.
PROTEIN ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES FROM SITE LACANJÁ TZELTAL, CHIAPAS, MEXICO (2019)
Lacanjá Tzeltal is a Classic Period Maya site located in Ocosingo, Chiapas, Mexico. A cache containing artifacts was recovered beneath a large limestone altar, situated in the center of a ballcourt (Andrew Scherer, personal communication, November 29, 2019). One chert spear point and two obsidian blades from the cache were submitted for protein residue (CIEP) analysis to determine if the tools were used on plants or animals prior to being deposited in the cache.
Proyecto Laguna Costera Catalógo ● Muestras de Cerámica (2003)
Catalog of ceramic type collections on file with the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). This is part of the Proyecto Laguna Costera document set.
Public Architecture in the Greater Cibola Region (2018)
Table of sites in the greater Cibola region (ca. AD 1000-1400) with public architectural features. This table also provides information on the specific form of those public architectural features. The data are confidential as they include site locations. These data accompany Chapter 8 of: Peeples, Matthew A. (2018) Connected Communities: Networks, Identity, and Social Change in the Ancient Cibola World. University of Arizona Press. Tucson, AZ.
Public Outreach Booklet - Rocks Telling Stories: Rock Art in New Mexico's Guadalupe Mountains / Carlsbad Region (2019)
Public outreach and education booklet describing the results of documentation and interpretation of 21 prehistoric and historic rock art sites in southeastern New Mexico
Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)) Soil Systems, Inc. Master Provenience Table: Projects, Unit Numbers, and Feature Numbers (2008)
This document contains two tables that serve as a guide to the archaeological projects conducted at Pueblo Grande from 1990 to 2008. The tables contain information on the post-Hohokam Expressway projects from SSI's Pueblo Grande Cultural Park Testing project to ACS' Lightrail Preconstruction project. The Master Provenance Table lists project names and numbers, the unit number(s) for each project, the provenience designation (PD) numbers used during each project, and the feature numbers used...
Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)): Unit 08, Pueblo Grande Cultural Park: Soil Systems, Inc. Pueblo Grande Museum Expansion Data Recovery Project
During July 1994, Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI) conducted an archaeological data recovery project at Pueblo Grande, AZ U:9:1(ASM). The project area was immediately west and north of the original Pueblo Grande museum building. The data recovery project carried out by SSI was conducted under contract to the City of Phoenix and was associated with the expansion of the museum facilities at the Pueblo Grande Museum and Cultural Park, which are administered by the City of Phoenix Parks, Recreation, and...