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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Data Recovery Excavations at Wood Pottery (38AK493/931) (2010)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jon Bernard Marcoux. Thomas Whitley. Joan Gillard. Erin Kane. Michael Walsh.

Between May 23 and June 3, 2005, Brockington and Associates, Inc., conducted archaeological data recovery investigations at the Wood Pottery locus of site 38AK493/931 (Federal Aid Number: STP-UR02 [008], State File Number: 2.156B, PIN 30611) in Aiken County, South Carolina. These investigations were carried out under the Treatment Plan approved by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT), and the South Carolina State Historic...


Data Recovery Excavations at Wood Pottery (38AK493/931) Aiken County, South Carolina (2010)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jon Bernard Marcoux. Thomas Whitley. Joan Gillard. Erin Kane. Jennifer Salo. Michael Walsh. Allison Wind. Damon Jackson.

"Between May 23 and June 3, 2005, Brockington and Associates, Inc., conducted archaeological data recovery investigations at the Wood Pottery locus of site 38AK493/931 (Federal Aid Number: STP-UR02 [008], State File Number: 2.156B, PIN 30611) in Aiken County, South Carolina. These investigations were carried out under the Treatment Plan approved by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT), and the South Carolina State Historic...


Data Recovery Excavations of the Carriage House, Greenhouse, and Greenhouse/Carriage House Well at Gore Place, Waltham, Massachusetts (2011)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Christa Beranek. Leith Smith. John Steinberg.

Excavations and ground penetrating radar at Gore Place in Waltham, Massachusetts, examined the original 1793 carriage house site, the 1806 greenhouse, and the greenhouse/carriage house well, all associated with Christopher and Rebecca Gore. The carriage house was moved in 1968, and its cellar was filled at that time. Mechanical removal of the fill in a portion of the carriage house cellar revealed that the lower portion of at least the rear (north) foundation wall is well preserved along with...


Data Recovery Investigations of 30 Archaeological Sites at Talking Rock Ranch, Williamson Valley, Yavapai County, Arizona (2010)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Stewart Deats

This document details the data recovery results for mitigation of adverse effects to 30 archaeological sites within the 3,185-acre private development known as Talking Rock Ranch located approximately 17 miles northwest of Prescott in Williamson Valley, Yavapai County, Arizona. EnviroSystems Management, Inc. conducted archaeological data recovery investigations at these sites at the request of Harvard Investments, Inc. (the landowner and developer). The development required an Individual Permit...


Decker Creek Timber Sale (1974)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Salli A. Kurt.

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Derrio Wash Complex Arizona Site Steward File (1984)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Brian Kenny. P. G.. J. M.. B. J.. Jim Bayman. James Vinf.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Derrio Wash Complex, located on State Trust land. The complex is comprised of a Hohokam village, compound, mound, trash middens, ball court, artifact scatter, rock piles, check dams, and roasting pits. The file consists of a Site Steward Program resource nomination form, five Arizona State Museum Archaeological Survey forms, and two additional site maps. The earliest dated document is from 1984.


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...


Detailed Vat Photos from the Douw-Quackenbush Rum Distillery, Quackenbush Square Parking Facility Historic Archaeological Site, Albany, NY (2002)
IMAGE Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc..

Photographs of the distillery vats, still bases, and plumbing at the Douw-Quackenbush distillery, Quackenbush Square Parking Facility Site, Albany, NY. Citation for Figure 4: "Spirit Distillation." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Ann Arbor: MPublishing, University of Michigan Library, 2010. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0001.438>. Trans. of "Distillateur...


Determination of Eligibility of Sites 5Gf1070, 5Gf1100, 5Gf1101, 5Gf1102, 5Gf1103, 5Gf1104, 5Gf1105, and 5Gf1106 for Inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places (1983)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Judith A. Newkirk.

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.


Determination of Eligibility Report for Valley Auto Supply, 441 W. 5th St., San Bernardino, CA (1994)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Roger Hatheway.

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.


Determination of Eligibility Report: Historic Structure Remains Located at the Northeast Corner of Citrus & Summit Avenues, Fontana, San Bernardino, CA (1995)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeanette A. McKenna. Tamara L. Farris. Richard S. Shepard.

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Developing Perspectives on Tonto Basin Prehistory (1992)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Alaina Harmon

This monograph is a collection of papers presented at the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans. These papers present preliminary results after two years of work on the eight year mitigation program investigating Salado Platform Mound Villages in the Tonto Basin, Arizona. Each paper constitutes an individual chapter. They include: 1. Introduction 2. Pursuing Southwestern Social Complexity in the 1990s 3. Modeling the Development of Complexity in the...


Dewatering (2010)
IMAGE Stephanie Barrante. Victoria Hawley. Jessica Hughes.

Images illustrating the installation, utilization, and evolution, 2006-2010 of a dewatering system at the site of Fort St. Joseph to lower the ground water table sufficiently to allow for excavation.


The Dinosaur: Archaeological Investigations Within the Gila River Valley for the Salt River Project's Pinal Central to Dinosaur 500 kV Transmission Line, Pinal County, Arizona (2010)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: adam brin

Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (SRP) plans to construct an 88-mile-long 500-kV extra-high voltage transmission line linking the Pinal West, Santa Rosa, Pinal Central, Abel, and Dinosaur substations (ACC CEC Case No. 126). This report presents the results of Phase I data recovery (extent testing) and Phase II data recovery within a 40-m- (130-ft-) wide corridor at seven sites located on State Trust Land administered by the Arizona State Land Department (ASLD) (ASLD...


Dirt to Desk: Macrobotanical Analyses From Fort St. Joseph (20BE23) and The Lyne Site (20BE10) (2009)
DOCUMENT Full-Text David Martinez.

Fort St. Joseph, a seventeenth- to eighteenth-century archaeological site in southwestern Michigan, and the adjacent Lyne site provide a recent and ongoing example of historical archaeology posing questions about the notion of culture contact during French colonialism. Effective research questions, increasingly systematic procedures, and a balance between historical and archaeological material have served to solidify and situate the Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project’s contributions to...


Documentary and Archival Research On the Toll House Site, U.B. 1579 Addendum To Reports of the Archaeological Survey, Volume 10, Number 22 (1979)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark S. Aldenderfer.

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Draft: Treatment and Work Plan for Archaeological Investigations and Monitoring at Eight Sites Along the Southwest Valley 500 kV Transmission Line Project, Maricopa County, Arizona (2002)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Kris Dobschuetz. Matthew E. Hill, Jr.. Sharon K. Bauer.

APS and SRP were issued a Certificate of Environmental Compatibility (CEC) by the Arizona Corporation Commission for their Southwest Valley 500kV Transmission Line Project (Southwest Valley Project). The project consists of approximately 37 miles of 500 kilovolt (kV) transmission line to interconnect electric generation resources in the west valley with the existing 230kV system in the metropolitan Phoenix area.


Early Collecting in the Vicinity of Fort St. Joseph (1900)
IMAGE Uploaded by: Erin Claussen

Early 20th century collectors, likely Beeson and Crane in the vicinity of the site of Fort St. Joseph. At the time, the land was in till.


Early Manors of Sioux Falls (1976)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Anonymous.

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Early Pueblo III great house Kiva D overviews (1998)
IMAGE Gary Brown. Joel Gamache.

Aztec West, Sector 1, Kiva D overviews (room photographed in 1998 by Art Ireland prior to backfilling). Early PIII above ground kiva added to south East Wing of West Ruin(see Morris 1924, 1928). Image AZRU-E Wing_Kiva D_1A: SE Quad overview looking east copied from IMG0022; Image AZRU-E Wing_Kiva D_1B: SE quad overview looking SE copied from IMG0023; Image AZRU-E Wing_Kiva D_1C: SE quad overview looking south copied from IMG0024; Image AZRU-E Wing_Kiva D_1D: NE quad overview copied from...


Early Pueblo III great house Kiva D overviews (1998)
IMAGE Gary Brown. Joel Gamache.

Aztec West, Sector 1, Kiva D southern recess overviews (room photographed in 1998 by Art Ireland prior to backfilling). Early PIII above ground kiva added to south East Wing of West Ruin(see Morris 1924, 1928). Image AZRU-E Wing_Kiva D_2A: Close-up of southern recess copied from IMG0044; Image AZRU-E Wing_Kiva D_2B: East wall of southern recess copied from IMG0045; Image AZRU-E Wing_Kiva D_2C: West wall of southern recess copied from IMG0046. References: Earl Morris, 1924, Burials in the...


Early Pueblo III great house Room 14 overviews (1998)
IMAGE Gary Brown. Joel Gamache.

Aztec West, Sector 1, Room 14 overviews (room photographed in 1998 by Art Ireland prior to backfilling). Early PIII one-story room added to south East Wing of West Ruin(see Morris 1928). Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 14_1A: East wall cap copied from IMG0097; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 14_1B: East interior wall NE oblique copied from IMG0096; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 14_1C: North interior wall NE oblique copied from IMG0089. Reference: Earl Morris, 1928, Notes on Excavations in the Aztec Ruin, Volume...


Early Pueblo III great house Room 16 overviews (1998)
IMAGE Gary Brown. Joel Gamache.

Aztec West, Sector 1, Room 16 overviews (room photographed in 1998 by Art Ireland prior to backfilling). Early PIII one-story room added to south East Wing of West Ruin(see Morris 1928). Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 16_1A: North interior wall NW oblique copied from IMG0020; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 17_1B: East interior wall NE oblique copied from IMG0023; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 17_1C: South interior wall SW oblique copied from IMG0027; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 17_1D: South interior wall SE oblique...


Early Pueblo III great house Room 17 overviews (1998)
IMAGE Gary Brown. Joel Gamache.

Aztec West, Sector 1, Room 17 overviews (room photographed in 1998 by Art Ireland prior to backfilling). Early PIII one-story room added to south East Wing of West Ruin(see Morris 1928). Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 17_1A: West interior wall NW oblique copied from IMG0009; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 17_1B: West interior wall SW oblique copied from IMG0010; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 17_1C: North interior wall NW oblique copied from IMG0014; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 17_1D: East interior wall NE oblique copied...


Early Pueblo III great house Room 18 overviews (1998)
IMAGE Gary Brown. Joel Gamache.

Aztec West, Sector 1, Room 18 overviews (room photographed in 1998 by Art Ireland prior to backfilling). Early PIII one-story room added to south East Wing of West Ruin(see Morris 1928). Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 18_1A: South interior wall SW oblique copied from IMG0047; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 18_1B: South interior wall SE oblique copied from IMG0049; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 18_1C: West interior wall SW oblique copied from IMG0047a; Image AZRU-E Wing_Room 18_1D: West interior wall SW oblique...