Ancient Structure (Site Type Keyword)

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Architectural remnant of a prehistoric building of unknown form or function. Use more specific term if possible.

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San Andrés figurine photograph set (2004)
IMAGE Uploaded by: Christopher von Nagy

Processed digital photographs of figurines recovered by the PLC from San Andrés, Tabasco.


Settlement, Subsistence, and Specialization In the Northern Periphery: The Waddell Project. Vols. 1 and 2 (1989)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: system user

Under the sponsorship of the Bureau of Reclamation, the New Waddell Dam Borrow Areas Mitigative Data Recovery Project, more simply known as the Waddell Project, performed data recovery at 17 sites in the vicinity of Lake Pleasant, Arizona. Supplemental surveys conducted under the same contract added two sites to the inventory slated for investigation. The project area, composed of multiple survey areas, was spread across two drainages, the Agua Fria and New River, in what is considered the...


Site Plan, 41BX1031, Camp Bullis, Texas (1994)
IMAGE Ann Mesrobian. Cullom.

Sketch map of site 41BX1031, Camp Bullis, Texas. Included is an archaeological overview and topographical features.


State Route 260 - Payson to Heber
PROJECT Arizona Department of Transportation.

Reports from the State Route 260 - Payson to Heber archaeological project, sponsored by the Arizona Department of Transportation.


Statistical Documentation for Neutron Activation Analysis Compositional Group Assignments (2018)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Matthew Peeples. Jeffery Ferguson.

This document provides detailed information on the statistical procedures used to produce compositional groups from NAA data in the greater Cibola region sample, as well as table documenting statistical assessments of those groups. This document accompanies: Peeples, Matthew A. (2018) Connected Communities: Networks, Identity, and Social Change in the Ancient Cibola World. University of Arizona Press. Tucson, AZ.


Stone Circles of Chaco Canyon, Northwestern New Mexico (1978)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas C. Windes.

In the summer of l972, the Chaco Center, a research facility of the National Park Service and the University of New Mexico, implemented a proposal to intensively survey the 32 square miles composing Chaco Canyon National Monument. During the course of this survey a number of unusual sites for which there had been little previous documentation were recorded. A limited number of these sites were later classified as shrines belonging to a visual-communications network, skillfully placed to link...


The Structure and Organization of Basketmaker III Field Houses at the Cottonwood Seep Site (1993)
DOCUMENT Full-Text David H. Greenwald.

Early settlement of the Cottonwood Seep Site consisted of small, informal pit structures and large jacal surface structures that were used on a seasonal basis for a period from approximately A.D. 500 until about A.D. 800. This paper examines the structure and organization of the Basketmaker III settlement, focusing on group organization, site function, resource availability, and environmental considerations. Unlike many of the surrounding Basketmaker III field house sites, the Cottonwood Seep...


Task Product 6: Revisions to the Master Plan (MP) Bellows Air Force Station, Oahu, Hawai`i (1988)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter Jensen.

The purpose of the section is to summarize for each Management Area (a) the type and extent of archaeological research which has been completed in the area, (b) the findings of the research in terms of site identification and significance evaluation, and (c) the potential effects of proposed Mater Plan Developments and other undertakings on recorded cultural resources in the area and to recommend for each area appropriate additional archaeological work.


The Tortolita Phase in the Tortolita Foothills: Investigations at the Triangle Road Site (AZ BB:9:87 [ASM]) Oro Valley, Arizona (1999)
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The project was undertaken prior to development of the Neighborhood 5B parcel of the Rancho Vistoso property by Monterey Homes of Tucson. Treatment of the site is subject to the provisions of the Town of Oro Valley Grading Ordinance and the Rancho Vistoso Planned Area Development District, which calls for the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) to oversee treatment of sites on the property. The Triangle Road site (AZ BB:9:87 [ASM]) was a Tortolita phase hamlet located near...


Treatment and Data Recovery Plan for the SRP Palo Verde to Pinal West 500 kV Transmission Line, Maricopa and Pinal Counties, Arizona (2007)
DOCUMENT Full-Text T. Kathleen Henderson.

Salt River Project Agricultural  Improvement and  Power District  (SRP)  plans  to construct a new  500  kV  transmission  line  between  the  existing  Hassayampa  Switchyard,  west  of Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, and the proposed Pinal West Substation, western Pinal County, Arizona (Figure 1). Designated the Palo Verde to Pinal West (PV-PW) transmission line,  this  powerline  is  the  first  of two  that SRP  plans  to  eventually  construct between  the Hassayampa  Switchyard  and...


Tree Ring Specimens / Original Timbers in Casa Grande Ruins (1964)
DOCUMENT Full-Text David Wilcox. Richard Howard. Gordon Vivian. A. H. Schroeder. Aubrey F. Houston.

These documents are a series of memorandums from both 1964 and 1976 regarding wooden timbers found in the Great House at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. The memos discuss the removal of the timbers and shipment for the purpose of dendrochronology. The condition of the timbers is discussed regarding the possible difficulting in dating them due to burning.


Valley of Mexico Archaeological Survey Project
PROJECT Jeffrey Parsons.

Here are the Valley of Mexico survey data collected by University of Michigan projects directed by Jeffrey R. Parsons between 1967 and 1973, and by Richard E. Blanton in 1969. These descriptive data were originally published in 1983 as Archaeological Settlement Pattern Data from the Chalco, Xochimilco, Ixtapalapa, Texcoco, and Zumpango Regions, Mexico, University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology, Technical Reports No. 14, by J. R. Parsons, K. W. Kintigh, and S. A. Gregg. Associated resources...


Verde Reservoirs Sediment Mitigation Study - Cultural Resources Class I Inventory (2021)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jerome Hesse. Branden Fjerstad. Suzanne Griset.

Salt River Project (SRP) has requested that the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) conduct the Verde Reservoirs Sediment Mitigation Study (VRSMS) to evaluate options for restoring the storage capacity lost and to reduce future capacity impacts from the natural sedimentation process within the Horseshoe Reservoir on the lower Verde River northeast of Phoenix. The loss of capacity, coupled with the increase in hydrological variability associated with climate change, creates concerns about...


When Trash Becomes Treasure: A Postclassic Maya Obsidian Core Cache from Nojpeten (2014)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Angela McArdle.

This paper examines an obsidian cache offering excavated near the corner of a Postclassic Maya platform structure in Nojpeten, on the island of Flores, Guatemala. The cache consists of approximately 190 obsidian prismatic blade cores and core fragments, but the original number of cores placed in the cache likely fell between 173 and 182, with a best estimate of 177, 178, or 180. The cores were found about 20 cm southwest of the structure in a circular concentration measuring approximately 35 cm...


Zooarchaeological and Stable Isotope Analysis of Deer at Isla Cilvituk, Campeche, Mexico (2018)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Paisley C. Palmer.

The purpose of my thesis is to analyze the deer from the zooarchaeological assemblage recovered from the archaeological site of Isla Cilvituk, Campeche, Mexico, to determine if environmental depression affected Isla Cilvituk. Isla Cilvituk is a Maya archaeological site located in a lacustrine region on the Yucatán peninsula. Environmental depression is defined as the destruction of ecosystems by the mismanagement of resources and/or climate shifts. I focus on deforestation and animal...


Zooarchaeological and Taphonomic Analysis of Fauna Remains from Isla Cilvituk, Campeche, Mexico (2004)
DOCUMENT Full-Text John A. Hunter.

Zooarchaeological, taphonomic, and behavioral analyses offered insight into human-animal relationships at the Maya archaeological site, Isla Cilvituk (AD 900-1525), located in southwestern Campeche, Mexico. Taxonomic abundance, spatial analyses, and reconstruction of animal life histories provided evidence of taxonomic abundance; species are not statistically associated with elite and non-elite structure types, butchering and cut marks are evidence, differential disposal is not evident in...