Plaza (Site Type Keyword)
Parent: Non-Domestic Structures
An area which may be partially or completely enclosed by structural remains (standing or collapsed), used for community activities. May contain temporary structures (e.g. sun shades or ramadas) as well as special activity areas (e.g. milling bins, hearths).
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The use of mortuary data collected early this century poses a number of problems and opportunities. In this paper I address some of these issues with respect to mortuary databases from the ancestral Zuni villages of Hawikku and Kechipawan. These data were collected in the 1910s and 1920s; the excavations had goals that were somewhat different than current goals. This paper explores the basic qualities of these databases and the challenges of making the data comparable to other...
The Importance of Cultural Resource Management to Industrial Archaeology (2019)
Cultural resource management (CRM) and industrial archaeology are newer fields to the broad scope of archeology. CRM and industrial archaeology both have methods on identifying and processing cultural resources, but CRM can provide valuable methods on preserving, reusing or identifying industrial heritage. This paper will display how CRM and industrial archaeology are needed together to fully understand the cultural importance and physical important of the building in the past and present.
INAA Data from the greater Cibola Region (2018)
These data represent all of the new and previously published INAA ceramic compositional data and group assignments from Peeples 2018: Connected Communities Peeples, Matthew A. (2018) Connected Communities: Networks, Identity, and Social Change in the Ancient Cibola World. University of Arizona Press. Tucson, AZ.
Informe parcial del Proyecto Valle de Malpaso La Quemada Temporada 1992 (1993)
Field work from the 1992 season at La Quemada
Informe parcial del Proyecto Valley de Malpaso-La Quemada Temporada 1993 (1995)
Fieldwork from the 1993 season at La Quemada
Interactions with the Incorporeal in the Mississippian and Ancestral Puebloan Worlds (2014)
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...
Interactions with the Incorporeal in the Mississippian and Ancestral Puebloan Worlds
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...
Introduction To Parking Prehistory (1966)
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.
Introduction to the 1995 Field Season (1995)
Our Goals are to examine the site of Blue Creek to better understand the political and economic interaction between the Maya of the Coastal Belize Zone and those of the Eastern Peten Zone. In addition, we view the Blue Creek project as an opportunity to undertake a comprehensive, integrated community study.
INVESTIGACIONES ARQUEOLÓGICAS EN LAS UNIDADES HABITACIONALES DE ISLA CILVITUK, CAMPECHE, MEXICO
With the permission of the Consejo de Arqueología, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, intensive archaeological survey, instrument mapping, and test excavations were carried out at Isla Cilvituk from 1994 to 1996. Isla Cilvituk is a large aggregated site, 50 hectares in size, located on an island in Laguna Silvituc and situated in a lacustrine zone that runs to the south from Lake Mocu, Campeche, to the Peten Lakes, Guatemala. We completed a 100 percent full-coverage survey of the...
INVESTIGACIONES ARQUEOLÓGICAS EN LAS UNIDADES HABITACIONALES DE ISLA CILVITUK, CAMPECHE, MEXICO: Informe Técnico Final para las Investigaciones de 1994-1996, Presentado al Consejo de Arqueología, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico, D.F. (2006)
Con la autorización del Consejo de Arqueología, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, se llevó al cabo el trabajo de campo entre junio hasta agosto de los años 1994, 1995, y 1996. Los análisis del gabinete y del laboratorio se condujeron durante los meses en medio y los años subsecuentes. La primera fase del proyecto involucró el reconocimiento intensivo, el levantamiento y mapeo del sitio, y excavaciones de sondeo para determinar si era probable que las investigaciones de la...
An Investigation of Turtle Use at Isla Cilvituk, Campeche, Mexico (2010)
Previous research in Mesoamerican fauna analysis has contributed insights into resource use, but Maya turtle use remains unexamined. Faunal analysis, zooarchaeology, vertebrate taphonomy, and behavioral archaeology provide a guideline into the past taphonomic and life histories of the turtle bones recovered from Isla Cilvituk (A.D. 900-1525). The primary objective of my research is to establish an archaeology model of exploitation of the small and large turtles recovered from Isla...
Investigations at Ojo Bonito: The 1988 Arizona State University Summer Field School (1988)
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...
Investigations At the Lilbourn Site 1970-1971 (1977)
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.
Investigations at the Pueblo Alto Complex, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico 1975-1979: Volume I Summary of Tests and Excavations at the Pueblo Alto Community (1987)
Pueblo Alto is one of 13 or 14 greathouses in Chaco Canyon in which the Bonito phase had been widely identified. Altos classification as Chacoan greathouse includes the complex of traits that Powers et al. (1983:15-16) have used to classify “Chacoan structures.” These traits include large site, size large rooms with high ceilings, massive stone, core and veneer walls, and construction of large-scale units indicative of complex planning efforts. In this report, the Bonito phase is not restricted...
Investigations at the Pueblo Alto Complex, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico 1975-1979: Volume II Part 1 Architecture and Stratigraphy (1987)
This volume is devoted primarily to the description of the field work conducted at Pueblo Alto (Figure 1.1). Over 4,700 pages of field notes and 5,500 photographs cover the excavation of 13 rooms and 2 kivas at Pueblo Alto along with the description of all tests. These investigations have been reorganized and distilled here. To the interested reader some idea of the magnitude of the notes for Pueblo Alto is suggested by comparison with Judd’s work at Pueblo Bonito that netted two shoe boxes full...
Investigations at the Pueblo Alto Complex, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico: Volume II Part 2 Architecture and Stratigraphy (1987)
This volume is devoted primarily to the description of the field work conducted at Pueblo Alto (Figure 1.1). Over 4,700 pages of field notes and 5,500 photographs cover the excavation of 13 rooms and 2 kivas at Pueblo Alto along with the description of all tests. These investigations have been reorganized and distilled here. To the interested reader some idea of the magnitude of the notes for Pueblo Alto is suggested by comparison with Judd’s work at Pueblo Bonito that netted two shoe boxes full...
Investigations at the Pueblo Alto Complex, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico: Volume IV Microfiche (1987)
This document provides a microfiche version of all appendixes from volumes I-III of the "Investigations at the Pueblo Alto Complex, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico" publications.
Irene Mounds Mortuary Data: Body Treatment Raw Data and Multiple Correspondence Analysis Scores (2013)
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...
Isla Cilvituk: Finding Primary Contexts Using GIS (2008)
My main goal with this thesis was to create a sampling design, using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), which would allow me to determine the best datable contexts at Isla Cilvituk. Once this sampling design was created, I analyzed the spatial distribution of these datable contexts using the frequency of specimens divided by the total volume of each archaeological layer as a measurement of density (m3). This analysis was divided into two parts. The first analysis looked at the distribution...
Jackrabbit Ruin Arizona Site Steward File (1983)
This is an Arizona Site Steward file for Jackrabbit Ruin, comprised of a 40- to 50-room proto-Hopi pueblo with accompanying burial area and possible kiva depressions, located on State Trust land. The file consists of two site data forms, an Arizona State Inventory of Historic Places form, The Archaeological Conservancy site planning study, a cultural resource vandalism report, a map of the site location, and five color photographs depicting site vandalism. The earliest dated document is from...
Jesse Walter Fewkes
This project contains diverse works of Jesse Walter Fewkes over time on the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument including tables, maps, images and reports.
Kincaid: a Prehistoric Illinois Metropolis (1951)
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La Arqueología Histórica en los Pueblos de Ebtun, Cuncunul, Kaua, Tekom, y Tixcacalcupul, Yucatán, México
With the authorization of the Consejo de Arqueología, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), we conducated investigations in historical archaeology of the towns of Ebtun, Kaua, Cuncunul, Tekom, and Tixcacalcupul and their related settlements situated in north-central Yucatan, Mexico. The purpose of the investigation is to document and explain changes in cultural practices and agrarian ecology in Maya-speaking communities from AD 1545 to 2000, comparing archaeological settlement...
La Arqueología Histórica en los Pueblos de Ebtún, Cuncunul, Kaua, Tekom, y Tixcacalcupul, Yucatán, México: Informe técnico de campo para la temporada de 2006 (2008)
Por medio de la autorización del Consejo de Arqueología, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), se llevó a cabo el proyecto de investigación en la arqueología histórica del pueblo de Ebtún y los pueblos circundantes de Kaua, Cuncunul, Tekom, y Tixcacalcupul, localizados en la región norte-central de Yucatán, México (Figura 1). El propósito de la investigación fue desarrollar y profundizar el conocimiento de los cambios en las prácticas culturales y la ecología agraria en las...