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.

2,026-2,050 (2,467 Records)

Polle Pueblo Arizona Site Steward File (1998)
DOCUMENT Full-Text F. Olson. A. Olson.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Polle Pueblo site, comprised of a large masonry pueblo with associated trash, hearths, and a plaza, located on Tonto National Forest land. The file consists of an archeological and historical site inventory form, blank sketch of site setting form, hand drawn site map, and a map of the site location. The earliest dated document is from 1954.


Pollen Analysis and C14 Dating of 42Sa10685, an Isolated Hearth in San Juan County, Utah (1982)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick L. Harden. Linda J. Scott.

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POLLEN ANALYSIS AT SIX SITES IN RED ROCKS STATE PARK, ALONG THE PARK ACCESS ROAD, AND ALONG THE LOWER RED ROCK LOOP ROAD, YAVAPAI COUNTY, ARIZONA (1990)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Pollen was analyzed from sub-surface proveniences at these sites to assist in answering research questions outlined for this study concerning subsistence. Research questions which may be addressed through the pollen record include identification of the nature of activities that took place at the sites, identification of the nature of the subsistence strategies involving wild and domesticated plants, and identification of permanent or seasonal habitations at sites AR-03-04-06-128(CNF) and...


POLLEN ANALYSIS AT THE HATCH SITE (5WL38) AND THE BERNHARDT SITE (5WL1860), NORTHEASTERN COLORADO (1992)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Hatch site (5WL38) is located in the Pawnee National Grasslands of Weld County. Deposits identified as Late Plains Woodland were noted. A single hearth yielded a radiocarbon date of 880 + 50 BP (1070 + 50 AD). In addition, occupation zones were also noted and identified as Late Plains Woodland. Pollen samples were examined from the hearth fill, as well as each of two occupation zones. The Bernhardt site (5WL1860) is located approximately 100 meters southeast of the Dent site (5WL269)....


Pollen Analysis of Samples from Two Dead Juniper Village, NM 0:3:1:11 (LA 87432), Kirtland Air Force Base, Bernalillo County, New Mexico (1991)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Glenna Dean.

This report presents the results of an analysis conducted on 20 pollen samples taken from various prehistoric features at the Two Dead Juniper Village site in 1983. Analysis revealed the pollen on squash, corn, cholla, prickly pear, grass seeds, Mormon tea, sagebrush, sunflowers and globemallow.


POLLEN AND STARCH ANALYSIS OF GROUNDSTONE FROM THE CHRYSOPS SITE (48CR9375), CARBON COUNTY, WYOMING (2015)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 48CR9375, located in the eastern portion of the Washakie Basin, includes several open-air, hearth-tethered activity areas. Radiocarbon dates of 5850 ± 40 BP, 5350 ± 40 BP, and 5760 ± 40 BP were returned on two hearths and an isolated feature, respectively, indicating occupation at the end of the Great Divide phase and beginning of the Opal phase of the Early Archaic Period. A piece of groundstone recovered from an activity area adjacent to Feature 9, an unlined basin hearth, and a control...


POLLEN, ORGANIC RESIDUE (FTIR), ELEMENTAL COMPOSITION (Pxrf), AND MACROFLORAL ANALYSIS OF FEATURE FILL SAMPLES FROM SITES STM-034, STM-036, STM-040, STM-045, STM-049 AND STM-060, SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA (2015)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Jennifer L.B. Milligan.

The Stateline Solar Farm (SSF) Project Area, located in the Mojave’s Desert’s Ivanpah Valley, San Bernardino County, California, occupies a predominately flat area between several mountain ranges. Lakebed and alluvial fans dating through the Pleistocene as well as a Precambrian outcrop comprise the 6,487 acres encompassed by the project area (Hannah Hicok, personal communication May 6, 2015). During construction monitoring archaeologists located four possible hearths (STM-034, STM-036, STM-040,...


POLLEN, STARCH, PARASITE, MACROFLORAL, AND/OR PROTEIN RESIDUE ANALYSES AT FORT THORNBURGH, SITE 42DA1005, AND SITE 42DC1424, UTAH (2003)
DOCUMENT Full-Text R.A. Varney. Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Samples from three archaeological sites were examined for pollen, starch, and macrofloral remains. A single sample from a probable historic trench privy at Fort Thornburgh in northeast Utah was examined for pollen, starch, and parasites to detect evidence of foods consumed, as well as the possibility that parasite eggs were present. Two samples from 42Da1005, a dual component site with occupations dating from the Archaic and Fremont periods, were examined for pollen, starch and macrofloral...


Porolissum Forum Project
PROJECT Eric De Sena. Alexandru Matei.

The Porolissum Forum Project (www.porolissum.org) is a joint American-Romanian research endeavor whose mission it is to understand: 1) Roman building activity and usage within the area of the city's forum; 2) lifeways of the inhabitants of the Roman city, including socio-economic relationships with native European groups; 3) the nature of the site in the immediate post-Roman periods (after AD 271). Porolissum is one of the largest and best-preserved archaeological sites in all of Romania....


Port Dauphin (1MB221), Mobile County, Alabama.
PROJECT George W. Shorter, Jr.. Gregory Waselkov.

Port Dauphin, on Dauphin Island, served throughout the early years of French colonial settlement on the Gulf coast as a support facility to the main settlements upriver, the town sites of Mobile -- first at Old Mobile, at Twenty-seven Mile Bluff on the Mobile River from 1702 to 1711, and then at the city's modern location at the head of Mobile Bay and the mouth of the Mobile River. The historian Antoine Simon Le Page du Pratz referred to Mobile as the birthplace of the French colony of Louisiane...


Port Dauphin Village Site Artifact Photos, Mobile County, Alabama. (1997)
IMAGE Gregory Waselkov. George W. Shorter, Jr..

Artifact photos from the Port Dauphin Village site (1MB221).


Port Dauphin Village Site Excavation Photos, Mobile County, Alabama. (1997)
IMAGE Gregory Waselkov. George W. Shorter, Jr..

Field excavation photos from the Port Dauphin Village site.


Pre-Ceramic Site In Western Iowa (1958)
DOCUMENT Citation Only W. D. Frankforter.

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.


Prehistoric & Historic Land Use of the Pisgah Crater Lava Flows & Lavic Lake Area, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, San Bernardino County, CA (1994)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Meg McDonald. Daniel F. McCarthy.

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.


Prehistoric Agricultural Activities on the Lehi-Mesa Terrace: Excavations at La Cuenca del Sedimento (1989)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: adam brin

This study is the first of two volumes that describe the results of archaeological investigations undertaken within the Tempe Section of the Outer Loop Freeway system. This work was funded by the Arizona Department of Transportation and conducted under Contract 86-102. Three sites were investigated as part of this project, including La Cuenca del Sedimento, a farmstead/fieldhouse site, and AZ U:9:69(ASM) and AZ U:9:71(ASM). All three sites were crossed by portions of the Las Acequias-Los Muertos...


Prehistoric Agricultural Strategies in West-Central New Mexico (1987)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Patrick F. Hogan.

Environmental fluctuations are frequently cited as a major factor effecting population displacement and cultural development in the American Southwest. Recent research suggests that the interaction of environmental, demographic, and behavioral variables might account for these presumed causal relationships, but behavioral responses to environmental fluctuations remain poorly understood. The environmental factors most likely to have been stressful to agriculturalists such as the prehistoric...


Prehistoric and Historic Occupation of the Lower Verde River Valley: The State Route 87 Verde Bridge Project (1992)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark R. Hackbarth.

This study presents the results of archaeological investigations undertaken within the proposed corridor of State Route 87 on the Fort McDowell Indian Reservation and Tonto National Forest, in northeastern Maricopa County, Arizona. This work was funded by the Arizona Department of Transportation (Contract 89-28) and conducted under the aegis of the Tonto National Forest. Six archaeological sites were investigated for this project, including three prehistoric lithic procurement sites, a Hohokam...


Prehistoric Game Monitoring on the Banks of Mill Creek: Data Recovery at CA-RIV-2804, Prado Basin, Riverside County, California (1995)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Donn R. Grenda.

This report presents the results of data recovery at archaeological site CA-RIV-2804 (hereafter referred to as RIV-2804), a historic property eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The site is located at an elevation ranging from 499 feet (152.1 m) to 512 feet (156.1 m) above mean sea level (AMSL) on the crest of a small ridge above Mill Creek, in the Prado Flood Control Basin, Riverside County, California. The work was conducted by Statistical Research, Inc....


Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of South Central Arizona: the Picacho Reservoir Archaic Project (1986)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Frank E. Bayham. D. H. Morris. M. Steven Shackley.

The Central Arizona Project (CAP) is a federal project being implemented to transport Colorado River water to large segments of central and southern Arizona. The project requires an extensive amount of construction of aqueducts, pumping stations, and canals. This report is the result of archaeological investigations along one portion of the aqueducts, the Tucson Aqueduct. This aqueduct alignment will bring water to the Picacho Reservoir region of central Arizona. Archaeological survey along...


Prehistoric Landscape Use in the Central Alaska Range
PROJECT John Blong.

This dataset is comprised of lithic analysis data from terminal Pleistocene through late Holocene prehistoric lithic assemblages recovered at nineteen archaeological sites in the upper Susitna River basin, southern Alaska Range


Prehistoric landscape use in the central Alaska Range: coding sheet for lithic analysis dataset from the upper Susitna River basin (2016)
DOCUMENT Full-Text John Blong.

This document is a coding sheet to accompany the lithic assemblage dataset from terminal Pleistocene through late Holocene prehistoric lithic assemblages recovered at nineteen archaeological sites in the upper Susitna River basin, southern Alaska Range.


Prehistoric landscape use in the central Alaska Range: lithic analysis dataset from the upper Susitna River basin (2016)
DATASET John Blong.

This dataset is comprised of lithic assemblage data from terminal Pleistocene through late Holocene prehistoric lithic assemblages recovered at nineteen archaeological sites in the upper Susitna River basin, southern Alaska Range


Prehistoric Lifeways at La Costa North: An Investigation of Archaeological Sites (1978)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles Bull.

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Prehistoric Patterns of Campsite Selection In the Pryor Mountains, Montana (1970)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lawrence L. Loendorf.

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Prehistoric Settlement Pattern Analysis of a Portion of the Hanna Basin, Wyoming (1981)
DOCUMENT Citation Only David Reiss.

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