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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Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)): Unit 15, Washington and 48th Streets: SSI Kitchell Data Recovery, Photography Log (PHOTO) Data (2000)
DATASET Maria Martin.

The Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1 [ASM]): Unit 15, 48th and Washington; Kitchell Data Recovery: Photography Log (PHOTO) Data sheet contains basic information about the photographs taken during the Kitchell data recovery effort at Pueblo Grande. The data set may be used to locate photographs for additional research. The Kitchell Data Recovery photographs are curated at the See Partial Data Recovery and Burial Removal at Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)): Unit 15, The Former Maricopa County Sheriff's...


Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)): Unit 15, Washington and 48th Streets: SSI Kitchell Data Recovery, Provenience Designation (PD) Data (2000)
DATASET Maria Martin.

The Kitchell Data Recovery Provenience Designation (PD) data sheet summarizes the PD's excavated during the Kitchell data recovery project (SSI Project No. 99-01) at Pueblo Grande. It is the master list for all excavated contexts in the Kitchell data recovery effort. It contains information about each PD and the features recorded during excavation. See Partial Data Recovery and Burial Removal at Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)): Unit 15, The Former Maricopa County Sheriff's Substation,...


Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)): Unit 15, Washington and 48th Streets: SSI Lauth Data Recovery, Faunal Data (1997)
DATASET Maria Martin.

The Lauth Data Recovery Faunal (FAUNAL) Data sheet contains data on the faunal remains recovered during SSI's additional recovery work in Unit 15 of Pueblo Grande. The data set lists the provenience designation (PD) and Field Specimen (FS) number of the remains (Note that it is essential that the PD and FS remain associated to identify a given faunal specimen). If the specimen was recovered from an identified feature, the data set also provides the feature number and feature type. The data sheet...


Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)): Unit 15, Washington and 48th Streets: SSI Lauth Data Recovery, Field Specimen (FS) Data (1997)
DATASET Maria Martin.

The Lauth project Field Specimen (FS) Data sheet contains basic artifact data for the cultural material recovered in each PD unit. It lists the PD number, the specimen (FS) number (specimen numbers range from 1 to n for each PD unit), and the point location (PL) number (if applicable). Please note that a combination of a PD number AND FS number is necessary to identify an artifact specimen. The table then provides data on artifact type, lithic material (if applicable), lithic condition (if...


Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)): Unit 15, Washington and 48th Streets: SSI Lauth Data Recovery, Provenience Designation (PD) Data (1997)
DATASET Maria Martin.

The Lauth project Provenience Designation (PD) data sheet summarizes the PD's excavated during the project's data recovery efforts. It is the master list for all excavated contexts (i.e., trenches, excavation units, features, sub-features, etc) in the Lauth data recovery effort. It contains information about each PD and the features recorded during excavation.


Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)): Unit 15, Washington and 48th Streets: SSI Lauth Data Recovery, Rough Sort Ceramic (RS_CERAMICS) Data (1997)
DATASET Maria Martin. David Abbott. Andrew Lack.

The Lauth project Ceramic Rough Sort (RS_CERAMICS) Data sheet contains data from the rough sort analysis of ceramics recovered during the Lauth data recovery project. It contains information on ceramic types, tempers and counts; it also records vessel and rim forms where applicable. The data sheet also contains rim circumference and rim diameter measurements for some ceramic specimens.


Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)): Unit 15: SSI Lauth Data Recovery_Feature 8251 (2008)
IMAGE Soil Systems, Inc.

From February to April 2007, Soil Systems archaeologists completed an archaeological data recovery and burial removal project (SSI Project No. 06-03) on a parcel of land (Unit 15) along the east side of Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)). SSI performed the archaeological clearance for the Lauth Property Group, LLC. SSI's previous work in this same parcel under Project Nos. 97-08 and 99-01 resulted in the archaeological clearance of a section of the property for the Kitchell Development Co. (see...


Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)): Units 08 and 09, Pueblo Grande Cultural Park and Washington St: Soil Systems, Inc. Pueblo Grande Museum Expansion Monitoring and Testing Project
PROJECT City of Phoenix Parks and Recreation Department. Cory D. Breternitz.

In 1990, Soil System's archaeologists completed a testing project (SSI Project No. 90-08) within the Pueblo Grande Cultural Park to help prepare development plans for a museum expansion. The project was conducted for the City of Phoenix Parks, Recreation, and Library Department. SSI tested an area west of the original museum building and public parking lot (in Units 08 and 09 of Pueblo Grande). The testing project included both backhoe trenching and stripping. Eight backhoe trenches 182 m in...


Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)): Units 08 and 09, Pueblo Grande Cultural Park: SSI Pueblo Grande Museum Expansion Testing, Field Specimen (FS) Data (1990)
DATASET Maria Martin.

The Pueblo Grande Museum Expansion Monitoring and Testing Project Field Specimen (FS) data sheet contains data about the artifact types recovered in each PD unit during this investigation (SSI Project No. 90-08) at Pueblo Grande. It lists the PD number, the field specimen (FS) number (specimen numbers range from 1 to n for each PD unit), and the point location (PL) number (if applicable). The table then provides artifact type, lithic material (if applicable), lithic condition (if applicable),...


Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)): Units 08 and 09, Pueblo Grande Cultural Park: SSI Pueblo Grande Museum Expansion Testing, Provenience Designation (PD) Data (1990)
DATASET Maria Martin.

The Pueblo Grande Museum Expansion Monitoring and Testing Project Provenience Designation (PD) data sheet summarizes the PD's excavated during SSI Project No. 90-08 in the Pueblo Grande cultural park. It is the master list for all excavated contexts in the monitoring and testing effort. It contains information about each PD and the features recorded during excavation. The data derived from this testing project were used to plan the placement of three new buildings in areas that would have the...


Pueblo Grande Field Report, Site No. 62 (1939)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: system user

Pueblo Grande Field Report for site 62, owned by the Salt River Indian Reservation, and includes the features: trashmounds, sherd areas, house mounds, a ball court and Old Pima Round Houses and artifacts like: tin, porcelain recovered and construction material.


The Pueblo Grande Museum Expansion Data Recovery Project (1995)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael Foster. Lorrie Lincoln-Babb. Mark R. Hackbarth. David Abbott. JoAnne Miller. Heidi Moore. Susan J. Smith. Korri Dee Turner. Tobi Taylor.

During July 1994, Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI) conducted an archaeological data recovery project at Pueblo Grande, AZ U:9:1(ASM). The project area lies immediately west and north of the original 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 Library...


Pueblo Grande Site Map, with Spatial Unit Numbers and Well-Defined Cultural Features/Areas (2012)
IMAGE M Scott Thompson. Colleen Winchell.

This composite map depicts the entirety of Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)) in Phoenix, AZ. The map shows the locations of the spatial units that SSI and other cultural resource firms defined to bound their archaeological projects and associated cultural features. In addition, the map displays the locations of well-defined prehistoric cultural features (platform mound, ballcourt, compounds) and areas (habitation areas, burial groups) within the known site boundaries. Finally, the map depicts modern...


pXRF Chemical Signatures for Obsidian Sample from Terrace S19, Cerro Danush (2013)
DATASET Ronald Faulseit.

These are the raw data recorded for particular trace metals from the pXRF detector. The provenience of each piece is reported. For further information on provenience or the sample, consult the project report 2010


pXRF Obsidian Sample Data from Terrace S25, Cerro Danush (2015)
DATASET Ronald Faulseit.

These are the provenience, description, and measurement data for the obsidian pieces analyzed through pXRF from Terrace S25 on Cerro Danush. See Project Report 2015 for further information on proveniences and such.


Quackenbush Square Parking Facility Historic Archaeological Site, Albany, NY
PROJECT Uploaded by: Justin DiVirgilio

Phase III data recovery and subsequent investigations for Section 106 compliance in Albany, NY. The project focused on recovery of archaeological data from three colonial and early federal contexts. The first two were a brickyard and brickmaker's house from the 17th century. The house was built in the 1630s to lease to a brickmaker; it was burned and rebuilt in the 1650s and finally abandoned about 1686. The brickyard operated from about 1654 until the late 1680s. The third context was a rum...


The Quackenbush Square Parking Facility Site Faunal Analysis and Interpretation (2002)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Marie-Lorraine Pipes.

Analysis of faunal remains from the Quackenbush Square Parking Facility site in Albany, NY. Includes analysis of wild game remains from a 17th-c. context. Originally appeared as an appendix to the Phase III report for the Quackenbush site.


R Code for Corrugated Ceramic Technological Analysis (2018)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Matthew Peeples.

This document contains the R code (checked in version 3.0) for conducting statistical analyses, clustering, and network visualization of corrugated ceramic technological data from the greater Cibola region as described in Chapter 5 of: Peeples, Matthew A. (2018) Connected Communities: Networks, Identity, and Social Change in the Ancient Cibola World. University of Arizona Press. Tucson, AZ.


Radiocarbon Analysis Report, Beta Analytic (2010)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Ronald Faulseit.

This file contains the report from Beta Analytic regarding their analysis of 10 charcoal samples collected during the 2010 project. For more information on sample provenience and collection methods, please read the Project Report for 2010


Radiocarbon Analysis Report, Center for Applied Isotope Studies, UGA (2015)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Ronald Faulseit

This file includes the radiocarbon analysis report for 18 charcoal samples collected during the 2015 field season on Terrace S25, Cerro Danush. Because the lab did not conduct the calibrations, I conducted them using the program Calib v. 7.1, which uses the program intcall13.14c, (Stuiver and Reimer 1993).


Rainbow Point Overlook (1979)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Anonymous.

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.


Rancho Vistoso Community Archaeological Site Inventory Report (1986)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Douglas B. Craig.

Archaeological fieldwork for the Rancho Vistoso Survey was done between March 31, 1986 and July 3, 1986. A total of 240 person days was expended surveying the nearly 8,000 acres within the project boundaries. Forty-six sites and 128 non-sites were recorded and given field designations (FD’s). Two large prehistoric villages, known from earlier archaeological work in the area, were also mapped in detail and systematic surface collections made. The following section describes all surface artifact...


Recent Research On Tucson Basin Prehistory: Proceedings of the Second Tucson Basin Conference (1988)
DOCUMENT Full-Text William H. Doelle. Paul R. Fish.

The study of Tucson’s prehistory has been pursued with an unprecedented intensity in recent years, and it seemed essential that the new results that were emerging be shared on a broader basis. This volume is the outcome of papers prepared for the Second Tucson Basin Conference in conjunction with the 1986 fall meeting of the Arizona Archaeological Council.


A Reconnaisance Inventory of Air Combat Command Cold War Material Culture (1995)
DOCUMENT Full-Text R. Blake Roxlau. Karen Lewis. Katherine J. Roxlau.

Mariah Associates, Inc. (Mariah), under contract with the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District, is conducting a reconnaissance inventory of Cold War material culture on selected Air Force bases throughout the continental United States and in Panama for the Air Combat Command (ACC (Figure 1.1). As each base is inventoried, a report is completed. Once all 27 bases in the study have been inventoried, a final report will be compiled integrating all evaluated resources and...


A Record of a Portion of the Yuma/California Main Canal and the Yuma Valley Railroad (2009)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Sarah Stringer-Bowsher, M. A..

The Yuma Irrigation Project (YIP) was an early and essential Reclamation project in the Southwest, and the Yuma/California Main Canal and the Yuma Valley Railroad were important contributors to the success of the YIP and the early development of Yuma, Arizona. Construction on the YIP began shortly after a new federal agency - United States Reclamation Service - had been given authority to reclaim arid and semi-arid lands in the West in 1902. In only a couple of decades, the YIP infrastructure...