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DOCUMENT Full-Text Tiffany C. Clark.

Desert Archaeology, Inc., has completed archaeological testing of a 2.2-acre site for the proposed Salt River Project (SRP) McReynolds Substation located in southern Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. The work was initiated due to the possibility that archaeological remains associated with the Lombeye Ruin, AZ T:12:109 (ASM), a National Register-eligible site, may be present in the project area. Testing began on 25 May 2004, under the direction of Tiffany Clark, and was completed on 2 June 2004....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bruce G. Phillips. Daniel H. Sorrell. Manuel R. Palacios-Fest. Louise Purdue. Glenn W. Berger. Jill Heilman.

The COP conducted road improvement and storm drain upgrades along 35th in southwest Phoenix. These improvements include new road construction (that is, widening), the installation of new fire hydrants and catch basins, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, bus bays, signs, trees, and trenching for new storm drains and connectors. Generally, such activities entail vertical excavations up to approximately 16 feet. Two prehistoric features, a pit house and a hearth, were uncovered and represent, along with...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Heather West. David Tucker.

Between June 19 and June 23, 2006, SWCA conducted archaeological testing of a 26.82-acre parcel of privately owned land (Parcel No. 118-11-049J) in the northwestern part of the Julian Wash Site (AZ BB:13:17 [ASM]) within the City of Tucson, Pima County, Arizona. Testing was conducted in response to the intention of the client, Meridian Engineering, to undertake commercial development of the area. The focus of the current archaeological testing project was to determine the presence or absence of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert J. Watt.

This document represents a treatment plan that is designed to investigate the extent of subsurface cultural resources in a portion of AZ T:16:19 (ASM) located on private land at the southwest comer of the community of Maricopa, Pinal County, Arizona. Approximately 139 acres of AZ T:16:19 (ASM) occurs within two parcels (Solid State and Hogenes) proposed to be developed as residential sites. At the request of Pinal County, Miller Holdings, Inc. contracted with SWCA, Inc. Environmental Consultants...

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This report presents the results of archaeological survey, testing and data recovery investigations conducted in the Estrella Mountain Ranch Development, near Goodyear, Arizona. The project area includes over 11,000 acres that is part of a residential development. In order to develop the area, the property owners were required to obtain a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to comply with Section 404 of the Clean Water Act. The Corps is the lead federal agency for this project since...

PROJECT Uploaded by: Melinda Salisbury

This project includes Archaeology Field Survey Reports contributed by the Bureau of Land Management's, Arcata, California field office.This initial contribution will establish a regional digital archive project whose goal is to accumulate heritage documents, greatly enhancing our ability to preserve historic resources within the North Coast Region.

DOCUMENT Full-Text David A. Gregory.

During July and August of 1987, Statistical Research conducted a cultural resources survey of approximately 2400, acres, located in and around Alamo Dam and Reservoir and within the property administered by the Los Angeles District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. During the survey.,44 archaeological sites and eight isolated, non-site occurrences of cultural materials were discovered and recorded. Other environmental data relevant to the interpretation of cultural resources within the study area...

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WACC reports on survey and excavation projects within the boundaries of the Petrified Forest National Park.

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A collection of National Parks Service WACC reports produced between 1975 and 2005, focused on the Saguaro National Park, Pima County, Arizona.

DOCUMENT Full-Text James D. Gallison. Michael H. Jennings. Matthew Edwards. Christine Hajek.

From 30 May 2012 to 12 December 2012, HDR │EOC (HDR), under contract with Sundance Consulting Inc., conducted a Section 110 cultural resources investigation of approximately 6,000 (uncorrected) acres of Department of Defense land located in the area of Four Hills at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. The actual area of survey included approximately 4,000 ac (66 percent of the total area). There are 14 previous archaeological investigations within or overlapping the current study areas. Taken...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James D. 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 (Contract DACA45-02-D-0010 ). Fifty-one new sites were located in the field and evaluated for eligibility to the National Register of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James D. Gallison. J. David Kilby. Roberto Herrera. Michael Church. Nicole Ramirez. Lucas Kellett.

This study is a continuation of the inventory survey work initiated by e2M in 2002 (Gallison et al. 2003) and continued by e2M in 2003 (Gallison et al. 2005a) and reflects the completion of a 20,000-acre pedestrian survey of the remaining western portion of the withdrawn area located on the Tijeras and Mount Washington USGS 7.5 minute Quadrangles. The survey resulted in updating 133 of the 139 previously recorded sites and recording 54 newly discovered cultural resource sites on New Mexico ARMS...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James D. Gallison. David Kilby. David Wilcox. Roberto Herrera.

Beginning in January 2003, engineering-environment Management, Inc., (e2M), under contract with Kirtland Air Force Base, conducted a Section 110 cultural resources investigation of 6,654 acres of United States Forest Service (USFS) lands withdrawn to Kirtland Air Force Base (4,824 acres) and the Department of Energy (1,830 acres) located in the Manzanita Mountains of New Mexico (DACA45-03-D-0005). The primary objectives of the survey were to revisit and update previously recorded archaeological...

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WACC reports of archaeological excavation and survey projects within and near Montezuma Castle and Tuzigoot National Monuments and the Middle Verde Valley in general, Yavapai County, Arizona.

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WACC reports of archaeological excavation and survey projects within Yosemite National Park.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Pat H. Stein.

In 1978, the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) directed the Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA) to complete an intensive archaeological survey of the proposed alignment for the Salt-Gila Aqueduct, a feature of the Central Arizona Project. The survey area was 11,115 acres and included the 60 mile-long transmission line (with a typical width of 200 meters), three proposed utility line locations, one flood retention dike location, 11 possible spoil or realignment areas, and a subsidence well....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Dana Hartman.

Salt River Project (SRP) recently assumed responsibility for the construction of a 2 3/4 mile segment of the Coronado-Silverking APS-SRP Common Corridor Transmission Line. Due to this change in construction plans, Bettina Rosenberg, SRP Archeological Administrator, contacted the Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA) on November 30, 1977, and requested a resurvey of the tower locations on this portion of the transmission line. The line was originally surveyed by Arizona State Museum (ASM), but the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven De Vore. Caven Clark. Chuck Bitting. Jay Sturdevant.

Between June 5 and 15, 2007, the Yarborough Open Site #4, 3NW303, at the Steel Creek Horse Camp located within the Buffalo National River in Newton County, Arkansas, was investigated with archeological prospection techniques including archeo-geophysics and geoarcheology. The archeo-geophysical techniques included a magnetic survey, a vertical electrical (resistivity) sounding, and a magnetic susceptibility profile in order to evaluate the eastern portion of the site for potential campground...

DOCUMENT Full-Text George Teague. Carole McClellan.

This project was undertaken to provide a partial inventory and assessment of cultural resources in the Grand Canyon Adjacent Lands study area. This area, illustrated in Figure 1, includes portions of Kanab, Whitmore, Parashant, and Andrus Canyons and a part of the Shivwits Plateau, all located in the part of northwest Arizona known as the Arizona Strip. The study area was divided into western (Shivwits) and eastern (Kanab) survey areas. Archeological survey was carried out in June and July 1977...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Susan J. Wells. Keith M. Anderson.

Inventory survey of Montezuma Castle National Monument was conducted from April 11 to May 7, 1988. Of the 70 sites recorded, 30 were new additions to the site inventory. Cliff dwellings, rockshelters and pueblos were recorded along with one and two-room masonry structures, roasting pits and artifact scatters. Agricultural feature sites include the canals at Montezuma Well. A site with prehistoric cobble concentrations, a burial ground, a bedrock mortar site, a lithic scatter, a historical site...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kay Simpson. Susan J. Wells.

The second phase of an archeological inventory of Saguaro National MOnument, Rincon Mountain Unit involved examination of 10,000 acres between 3,000 and 4,000 feet elevation along Tanque Verde Ridge, the Rincon Creek headwaters area and selected high elevation areas in the Rincon Mountains. One hundred twenty archaeological sites and 202 isolated artifact locations were recorded. Seven types of prehistoric sites are described: rockshelters, bedrock mortar locations, lithic quarries,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mary Sullivan. Monique Sawyer-Lang. Richard W. Effland, Jr.. Margerie Green.

An archaeological clearance survey of the proposed Gila River Farms Expansion area was undertaken by Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS). This survey was performed in accordance with the provisions and regulations of the National Historic Preservation Act in order to locate, identify, and assess cultural resources that might be adversely impacted when the Gila River Indian Community (GRIC) begins to utilize this land for agriculture. A total of four sites, four artifact scatters, and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christina G. Allen.

This report presents the results of an archeological survey conducted on Bureau of Land Management land near Huerfano, New Mexico, by the Office of Contract Archeology, University of New Mexico. The purpose of the survey, carried out for the Salt River Project, was to inventory and assess the cultural resources that might be affected by the construction and use of three relocated exploratory drill hole locations and two relocated access roads. This work follows a survey of 48 drill hole...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steve Dominguez. Dennis Danielson. Karen Kramer.

During 1988 a survey was conducted of 704 acres along trails and 433 acres of proposed burn areas, covering a total of 1,137 acres (Utah Project #U88-NA-184N). Eight prehistoric sites and seven historic sites were recorded. The prehistoric sites are small- to medium-sized lithic scatters, each of which appears to have resulted from one or several episodes of temporary use. Several characteristics of settlement strategies and lithic material use patterns have been observed in analysis of the...

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The U.S. Air Force, through contractual services with LABAT-ANDERSON Incorporated, conducted an archeological field investigation in Harmon County, Oklahoma. Four archeological assistants under the direct supervision of Joseph K. Anderson of the Museum of the Great Plains (MGP) performed the investigation between October 4 and 10, 1993. The investigation involved the examination of 640 acres [259.2 hectares (ha)].