Hearth (Site Type Keyword)

Parent: Archaeological Feature

Discolored area of soil, often including charcoal, ash deposits or fire cracked rock, exhibiting evidence of use in association with fire. May be bounded (e.g., rock ring) or ill-defined.

1,051-1,075 (2,467 Records)

Dolores Archaeological Program Technical Reports, DAP-037: Excavations at Horse Bone Camp (Site 5MT2199), an Archaic-Anasazi Limited Activity Site (1982)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Gary A. Brown.

Horse Bone Camp, Site 5MT2199, is a limited activity site believed to have been occupied during both the Archaic (3000 B.C.-A.D. 500) and Anasazi (A.D. 600-1200) time periods. On the basis of ceramic evidence, use of the site during the latter period appears to have spanned the Sagehen (A.D. 600-850), McPhee (A.D. 850-970), and Sundial (A.D. 1050-1200 ) phases according to Dolores Archaeological Program (D.A.P.) temporal systematics. Occupation of the site during both the Archaic and Anasazi...


Dolores Archaeological Program: Synthetic Report (1986)
DOCUMENT Citation Only D. A. Breternitz. Christine K. Robinson. Timothy Gross.

The Dolores Project was a large water-impoundment project constructed by the Bureau of Reclamation in southwestern Colorado. From 1978 until 1985 the University of Colorado contracted with the Bureau of Reclamation (Contract No. 8-07-40-S0562) to mitigate the adverse effects of the Dolores Project on the cultural resources in the project area; Washington State University was the major subcontractor. The mitigation program was called the Dolores Archaeological Program (DAP). This volume presents...


Dolores Archaeological Program: Synthetic Report 1978-1981 (1984)
DOCUMENT Full-Text David A. Breternitz.

The "Dolores Archaeological Program: Synthetic Report 1978-1981" is the second publication in a series of reports by the Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Department of the Interior, on the findings of the Dolores Archaeological Program including excavation activities, and the preservation and analysis of newly discovered artifacts.


The Dolores Legacy: A User's Guide to the Dolores Archaeological Program Data (1999)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Jesse Clark

A user's guide to the Dolores Archaeological Program data, compiled with assistance from a State Historical Fund grant from the Colorado Historical Society. This is highly recommended as a point of entry into the large and complex DAP datasets. It contains a general introduction to the DAP and its datasets, by Richard Wilshusen; an introduction to the provenience data and DAP temporal-spatial taxonomy and interpretations, by Christine Ward; brief descriptions of each of the major databases; an...


Down by the River: Archaeological and Historical Studies of the Leon Family Farmstead (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Homer Thiel.

A brief cultural background of the Tucson Basin and a set of research questions that guided work at BB:13:157 and BB:13:505 have been presented in Chapter 1. The work at prehistoric sites is presented in Chapter 2, while Chapter 3 chronicles the history of the Leon family and their property. Excavations at the Leon farmstead and the adjacent historic period canal are described in Chapter 4. The historic-period artifacts recovered from the Leon farmstead are examined in Chapter 5. Chapter 6...


Draft Archaeological Investigations in the Picachio Basin: Southwest Powerlink Project - Sand Hills To the Colorado River Segment (1984)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lorann Pendleton.

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Draft Environmental Impact Report for the Penasquitos Canyon Preserve Master Plan (1992)
DOCUMENT Citation Only City of San Diego.

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Draft Report Dacw51-85-M-0461, Archaeological Testing for the Sauquoit Creek Flood Control Project: a Supplemental Cultural Resource Survey (1985)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Glenn W. Sheehan.

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Draft: A Cultural Resources Survey and Intensive Testing of Archaeological Sites IN Maquoketa Caves State Park, Jackson County, Iowa, Volume I (1980)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathleen A. Roetzel. Richard A. Strachan. Robert Douglas. Michael Eigen. Patricia Emerson.

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Draft: Archaeology of the Manzanita Mountains: 2002 Survey of the Eastern Portion of Kirtland Air Force Base and Department of Energy Lands Withdrawn from the US Forest Service, Bernalillo County, New Mexico (2003)
DOCUMENT Full-Text James Gallison. David Wilcox. Roberto Herrera.

From 3 June to 1 November 2002, engineering-environment Management, Inc., (e2M), under contract with Kirtland Air Force Base conducted a Section 110 Cultural Resources Investigation of 6,000 acres of US Forest Service lands withdrawn to Kirtland Air Force Base (4,850 ac) and the Department of Energy (1,150 ac) located in the Manzanita Mountains of New Mexico. There are nine previously recorded sites in the project area. The New Mexico State Historic Preservation Office determined that two of...


Dunes and Deflation: Excavations at LA 124525 and LA 161918 at the Intrepid Potash East Mine, Eddy County, New Mexico (2013)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Douglas H. M. Boggess. Andrew Zink. Pam McBride. Stephen Hall. David Hill. Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman. Chad Yost. Melissa K. Logan. Peter Kovacik. R.A. Varney.

In July 2010, the area around the lower east catchment basin at Intrepid Potash, Inc.’s East Mine was disturbed to allow for road and additional access around the pond. A series of ponds around the East mine tailings pile are designed to store brine water for re-use in the processing plant. The lower east catchment basin is the last pond in this series of ponds. The construction of additional access was required for water management activities during a high precipitation event that eventually...


Dunlap-McMurry Burial (48NA67) Natrona County, Wyoming (1979)
DOCUMENT Citation Only George M. Zeimens. Danny Walker. Thomas K. Larson. John Albanese. George W. Gill.

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The Early Agricultural Period Component at Los Pozos: Feature Descriptions and Data Tables (2001)
DOCUMENT Full-Text David A. Gregory.

This volume contains descriptive data for excavated features and materials collected from the Early Agricultural period component at Los Pozos (AZ AA:12.91 [ASM]). These data are analyzed and discussed in a companion volume (Gregory, ed. 2001), while a related volume (Gregory, ed. 1999) reports on the Middle Archaic component investigated at this same site. The site name acknowledges several Early Agricultural period wells discovered during work at the site. These data were collected as part of...


Early Collecting in the Vicinity of Fort St. Joseph (1900)
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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 Post Paleo-Arctic Site in the Alaska Range (1988)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles E. Holmes.

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An Early Prehistoric Site at Bellows Beach, Waimanalo, Oahu, Hawaiian Islands (1967)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard Pearson. Patrick Vinton Kirch. Michael Pietrusewsky.

A stratified prehistoric site located in sand dunes at Bellows Air Force Base on the windward coast of Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, was excavated during 1967. A living area containing pits and house remains dating from A.D. 600 was excavated according to natural layers. The artifacts are similar to those found from the South Point (Ka Lae) area of Hawaii and to early types from the Marquesas Islands.


Eating Ethnicity: Examining 18th Century French Colonial Identity Through Selective Consumption of Animal Resources in the North American Interior (2004)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Rory Becker.

Cultural identities can be created and maintained through daily practice and food consumption is one such practice. People need food in order to survive, but the types of food they eat are largely determined by the interaction of culture and their environment. By approaching the topic of subsistence practices as being culturally constituted, the study of foodways provides an avenue to examine issues of cultural identity through selective consumption. Eating certain foods to the exclusion of...


EC South Range Archaeological Characterization Nevada Test and Training Range (2009)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael Cook. Marcus Grant. Eric Hansen. Richard Arnold. Sherri Wenzlau. Robert Dickerson.

Geo-Marine, Inc., conducted archaeological inventory of 6,989 acres on EC South Range, part of the Nellis Test and Training Range. The primary goal of the project was to integrate empirical data, including associations of features and material culture with potential sacred significance, and ethnographic data to characterize the archaeological resources of EC South Range. Ethnographic data were provided by Native American crew members during fieldwork. The project addressed requirements under...


Edwards Plantation
PROJECT Ralph Bailey.

Archaeological data recovery at a portion of 38BU1 on Spring Island, South Carolina.


El Potrerito Midden 1 Coring Field Notes (1998)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Paula Turkon.

Scanned copy of field notes recording the core sampling within Midden 1 at the site of El Potrerito.


El Rio Bonito: An Ethnoecological Study of the Bonita Creek Watershed, Southeastern Arizona (1993)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Diana Hadley. Richard V.N. Ahlstrom. Scott Mills.

The Bureau of Land Management is aware of the evidence for long-term human habitation along Bonita Creek. It has been said that, at times during the last century, Bonita Creek was home to perhaps dozens of families. Details of this period of occupation are, however, wanting. In addition, the town of Safford has been drawing substantial quantities of water from Bonita Creek for many years. How has this history of human use affected the environment of Bonita Creek? To answer this question, the...


Eligibility Testing at Ten Sites in the Fannin-McFarland and Tucson Aqueducts, Central Arizona Project Canal, Maricopa, Pinal, and Pima Counties, Arizona (2017)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Douglas Mitchell. Walter R. Punzmann. Gary Huckleberry. Peg Davis. Emily Higgins Keppler. Jennifer Rich. Lesley Hudson. Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd..

ACS conducted testing at 10 sites within Reclamation’s CAP ROW seeking to resolve the National Register of Historic Places (Register) eligibility status of sites within the CAP ROW. This document presents the results of that testing.


An Eligibility Testing Plan for Sites in the Fannin-McFarland and Tucson Aqueducts, Central Arizona Project Canal, Maricopa, Pinal, and Pima Counties, Arizona (2017)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Douglas Mitchell. Peg Davis. Gary Huckleberry. Andrea Gregory.

In an effort to better manage cultural resources on Reclamation land, PXAO has developed an archaeological site database for the CAP canal. The database was developed using all the previous main stem survey data; however, the Register eligibility status of the majority of these sites was unknown following completion of the CAP. Additionally, an unknown number of sites were either destroyed by construction or excavation, while others are no longer within Reclamation’s CAP right-of-way (ROW). PXAO...


Elko Railroad Relocation Project Archaeology: Management Summary (1986)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Rusco.

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Elko Railroad Relocation Project: Preliminary Report, Archaeology Along the Twelfth Street Alternative Route (1978)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Evelyn Seelinger.

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