Mound / Earthwork (Site Type Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text David Dove.

Mitchell Springs provided the central Montezuma Valley of southwestern Colorado a rare and reliable water source that has been used by ancients for millennia. People began to settle near the springs in the middle of the AD seventh century and by the twelfth century a sprawling watershed-wide community with large-scale architectural and agricultural works had formed. Using a combination of data from surveys and recent excavations, this article explores the ties between the rise of elite...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Rachel Fernandez

The Scott Project, directed by the Office of Contract Archaeology, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and funded by the Illinois Department of Transportation, was initiated during 1988 in response to the planned construction of a civilian air cargo facility that is to operate jointly with the present Scott Air Force Base. The project area, located in southwestern Illinois in southeastern St. Clair county, encompasses nearly 4,000 acres. The projected expansion area encompasses a range...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Pournelle. Carrie Hritz. Jennifer R. Smith.

Final Report to the National Science Foundation for NSF-BCS High Risk Research in Physical Anthropology and Archaeology Award # 1045974. 18 Figures, 1 Table, 1 Appendix.

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Schoenwetter.

Use of sediment samples collected from the Hinkson Site for a classroom research project late in 1989 provided opportunity to extract and examine the pollen they contained. Since the effort was undertaken by students with no prior experience of pollen study, the raw data is to some degree suspect. However, the student work was supervised by experienced personnel, and students were encouraged to rely on supervisory help whenever a problematic issue arose. The samples should be re-observed before...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mary Cecilia Godburn.

A survey of the historical properties of Fort Lee, Prince George County, Virginia.

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This project contains a survey of the historical properties of Fort Lee, Prince George County, Virginia. The survey was published in 1989.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Charles C. Di Peso.

A collection of brief notes from Hohokam-Mogollon burial plateaus with specific references to other publications.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ron Cockrell.

This report is a history of the administration of the area and cultural resources encompassed by what once was known as the Mound City Group National Monument and is now designated Hopewell Culture National Historical Park. The report describes the administration, management, and preservation of the cultural resources in the park. The period covered is generally from the late 1940s into the late 1990s. President Warren G. Harding signed a presidential proclamation on March 2, 923,...

PROJECT James H. Kellar. US Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District. US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District.

The report entitled Appraisal of the Archeological Resource of the Huntington Reservoir Area, Wabash River Indiana, written by James H. Kellar was submitted to the United States Department of Interior, National Park Service, under the terms of Purchase Order No. 29-737. The following reports the results of an archaeological surface survey in the area to be inundated by the construction of the Huntington reservoir in the upper Wabash River Valley, Indiana. Much of the work was accomplished by...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark J. Lynott. Jennifer Pederson Weinberger. N'omi B. Greber. Orrin C. Shane, III. Bret J. Ruby. William H. Pickard. Jeffrey W. Weinberger. William S. Dancey. Jarrod Burks. Dawn Walter Gagliano. John Weymouth. Bruce Bevan. Rinita Dalan. Rolfe D. Mandel. Katherine Spielmann.

The papers in this volume were originally prepared for presentation at a symposium titled “In the Footprints of Squier and Davis: Hopewell Archaeology in Ross County, Ohio” at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Milwaukee, WI (April 11, 2003). Curiosity about the nature and contents of the mounds around Chillicothe, Ohio led Squier and Davis to conduct the first major archeological field study in North America. Field research is still the foundation of all...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ben Nelson.

Field work from the 1992 season at La Quemada

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ben Nelson. Loni Kantor. Ian Robertson. Vincent Schiavitti. Nicola M. Strazicich. Paula Turkon.

Fieldwork from the 1993 season at La Quemada

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joan Gallagher. Duncan Ritchie. Ann K. Davin.

This resource only includes the appendices of the report starting at page 119. The documentation relating to facility-specific resources has been integrated into the historic contexts developed for the analysis of historic resources within the Sudbury Annex. The documentation consists of a series of primary documents, including maps, secondary sources, and general thematic and historical works.

DOCUMENT Full-Text M Scott Thompson.

This research explores how people’s relationships with the spirits of the dead are embedded in political histories. It addresses the ways in which certain spirits were integral “inhabitants” of two social environments with disparate political traditions. Using the prehistoric mortuary record, I investigate the spirits and their involvement in socio-political affairs in the Prehispanic American Southeast and Southwest. Foremost, I construct a framework to characterize particular social...

PROJECT Uploaded by: M Scott Thompson

This research explores how people’s relationships with the spirits of the dead are embedded in political histories. It addresses the ways in which certain spirits were integral “inhabitants” of two social environments with disparate political traditions. Using the prehistoric mortuary record, this study investigate the spirits and their involvement in socio-political affairs in the Prehispanic American Southeast and Southwest. Foremost, this research constructs a framework to characterize...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Todd Howell.

The 1988 Arizona State University Archaeological Field School under the direction of Dr. Keith Kintiqh was held at the privately-owned Hinkson ranch just southwest of the Zuni Indian Reservation. The Hinkson ranch holds qreat research potential because of a dense prehistoric occupation (primarily Pueblo II & III) that has been relatively undisturbed by pothuntinq or other destructive processes. If the great house and great kiva of the Hinkson Complex were built and occupied after the collapse...

PROJECT Uploaded by: Jonathan Leader

All archaeological grey literature and data relating to the historic Mitcheiville site on Hilton Head Island in Beaufort County in South Carolina within the past 50 years. The information found here is held within the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology and has been deemed accessible and usable for public research.

DOCUMENT Full-Text John M. Antieau.

This report presents the results of an archaeological survey and subsequent test investigation of sites along the 68 km (42 mi) right-of-way for a proposed 500 KV transmission line from a point on the boundary of the Tonto National Forest northeast of Florence Junction to the existing Kyrene substation south of Tempe, Arizona. The power line will consist of a series of four-legged transmission towers placed at approximately 1700 foot intervals. The right-of-way varies between 30 m (100 ft) and...

DATASET M Scott Thompson.

In the dissertation titled "Interactions with the Incorporeal in the Mississippian and Ancestral Puebloan Worlds," the author analyzed the Irene Mortuary Data: Inhumation Body Treatment data set in an examination of the performance of mortuary ritual at Middle and Late Mississippian period settlement on the Georgia and South Carolina coast. The analysis of body treatment and the larger consideration of mortuary ritual were designed to understand the identities of the spirits of the dead in...

DATASET M Scott Thompson.

Documentation of this data set in tDAR is in progress.

DATASET M Scott Thompson.

In the dissertation titled "Interactions with the Incorporeal in the Mississippian and Ancestral Puebloan Worlds," the author analyzed the Irene Mounds Mortuary Material Accompaniment data set in an examination of the performance of mortuary ritual at the Mississippian period Irene Mounds site. The analysis of mortuary accompaniments and the larger consideration of mortuary ritual were designed to understand the identities of the spirits of the dead in Mississippian period villages of the...

PROJECT Uploaded by: alycia hayes

This project contains diverse works of Jesse Walter Fewkes over time on the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument including tables, maps, images and reports.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Byron Cummings.

Written by Byron Cummings, at the time of its publication the Director Emeritus of the Arizona State Museum, this book describes the excavations and other investigations of Kinishba that Cummings organized and led during the 1930s. This report, which Cummings wrote for general readers, was published "under the auspices of the Hohokam Museums Association and the University of Arizona. The book describes the site's architectural and archaeological features and artifacts, as well as the ancient...

PROJECT Uploaded by: Charlene Collazzi

Project metadata for resources within the Kirtland Air Force Base cultural heritage resources collection.

DATASET David R. Abbott.

This sheet contains data for whole and reconstructible vessels recovered from mortuary contexts at Pueblo Grande in Phoenix, AZ. Soil Systems, Inc (SSI) excavated the features during their data recovery work for the Kitchell project (SSI 99-01), located east of Pueblo Grande Museum near the intersection of 48th St. and Washington. The data set records information on the following variables for each vessel: form, ware and type, temper description, and comments