Sheet Midden (Site Type Keyword)
Parent: Midden
A surficial archaeological deposit containing discarded artifacts and other cultural materials. Midden deposits normally contain ashy or charcoal-stained sediments, and domestic-related items such as sherds, lithic debitage, and bone.
176-200 (409 Records)
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Cores_and_Flakes.csv (2020)
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The Coronado Project: Anasazi Settlements Overlooking the Puerco Valley, Arizona, Volume 2 (1993)
The three volumes of The Coronado Project present a wealth of information on the archaeology of the Puerco Valley of east-central Arizona. Volume 2 presents the analytical data for each artifact category and for the biological resources. Project authors examine the available resources, their acquisition, and the paleoeconomy in relation to the physical setting of the project area sites. They also present results of the human remains analyses, including a review of the remains recovered from...
Cultural Resource Site Examination Report of The Henry Stacy Site (NYSM #12283) for PIN 3805.44.121 (3 of 5), Culvert Replacement, 104-3406-3094, Towns of New Haven (MCD #07510), Oswego County, NY (2011)
The goal of this project is to complete a Site Examination for the Henry Stacy Site (NYSM #12283) so that information can be collected to assess the site’s eligibility for the National Register of Historic Places prior to the completion of NYSDOT PIN 3805.44.121 (3 of 5) in the Town of New Haven, Oswego County, New York. Cultural deposits at the Henry Stacy Site cover the entire project area and there were no negative Phase II excavation units. Depth of cultural deposits varied between 25 and...
A Cultural Resources Sample Survey of Operation Zones, Barry M. Goldwater Range, Marine Corps Air Station, Yuma, Arizona (1989)
From June to September 1989, Statistical Research conducted a non-collection Class II cultural resources survey of 5,200 acres within the R2301W segment of the Barry M. Goldwater Range in Yuma County, Arizona. The areas targeted for survey conformed to topographic surfaces on which archaeologists had found sites in the past. These areas were concentrated in the Baker Peaks and northern Copper Mountain regions as well as the eastern flanks of the Tinajas Altas and Gila Mountain ranges. The...
Cultural Resources Survey and Testing of the Port Royal Harbour Redevelopment Tract (2008)
In October 2007, Brockington and Associates, Inc., conducted a cultural resources survey of the 77-acre Port Royal Harbour Redevelopment Tract in Beaufort County, South Carolina. This work was conducted in compliance with state and federal laws and regulations concerning the management of historic properties (i.e., archaeological sites, buildings, structures, objects, or districts listed on or eligible for the National Register of Historic Places [NRHP]) affected by...
Data Recovery at AZ EE:9:117, a Small Site along the Santa Cruz River North of Nogales, Arizona (2000)
The project along South River Road was conducted for Santa Cruz County prior to road improvements. The data recovery focused on a single site, AZ EE:9:117 (ASM), a small fieldhouse site along the Santa Cruz River, with a prehistoric and a historic-period component. The prehistoric component included two pithouse remnants, numerous extramural pits, and one unique mortuary feature. Dates recovered through several different methods suggest a long, low-intensity, prehistoric use of the site from...
Data Recovery at Site AZ AA:12:311 (ASM) and Archaeological Monitoring for the Coventry Homes Pipeline Project (1997)
From July to November, 1996, SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants conducted an archaeological testing, data recovery, and monitoring project along a segment of a proposed buried effluent pipeline for Del Webb’s Coventry Homes. Limited data recovery at site AZ AA:12:311 (ASM) was conducted from September 4th to September 20th, 1996. The monitoring phase of the project took place from September to November, 1996. The principal goal of this project was to mitigate the impacts that construction of...
Data Recovery Investigations of 30 Archaeological Sites at Talking Rock Ranch, Williamson Valley, Yavapai County, Arizona (2010)
This document details the data recovery results for mitigation of adverse effects to 30 archaeological sites within the 3,185-acre private development known as Talking Rock Ranch located approximately 17 miles northwest of Prescott in Williamson Valley, Yavapai County, Arizona. EnviroSystems Management, Inc. conducted archaeological data recovery investigations at these sites at the request of Harvard Investments, Inc. (the landowner and developer). The development required an Individual Permit...
Data Recovery Investigations of Four Wilmington Phase Sites (38BU132, 38BU372, 38BU1236, and 38BU1241), Beaufort County, South Carolina: A Study in Middle Woodland Subsistence Strategies (1992)
Data recovery investigations were carried out by Brockington and Associates, Inc., at four Wilmington phase shell midden sites located in the Colleton River Plantation tract, Beaufort County, South Carolina. The field work was initiated during October 1990 and was completed April 1991. The field investigations consisted of the excavation of 1 by 1 m units, excavated in arbitrary 10 cm levels. Samples were retained for flotation analysis. Zooarchaeological, ethnobotanical, radiocarbon, and...
Data Retrieval Investigation, Sheridan Hollow Parking Facility Historic Archeological Site, Albany, New York
From 2003 to 2005, Hartgen Archeological Associates, Inc. conducted a series of archeological investigations in advance of the construction of a parking facility in the Sheridan Hollow neighborhood of Albany, New York. The archeological examination, required by Section 14.09 of the New York State Historic Preservation Act, focused on two urban residential lots on Sheridan Avenue, occupied about 1840-1920. For most of the 19th century, the neighborhood was occupied by Irish immigrants and...
Dealer's Choice Arizona Site Steward Files (2003)
This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Dealer's Choice site, comprised of prehistoric masonry room blocks and extensive trash scatter, located on Tonto National Forest land. The file consists of a heritage inventory form and a site map. The earliest dated document is from 2003.
The Desert Mountain Properties Archaeological Testing Project, Scottsdale, Arizona (1998)
Archaeological test excavations were conducted for Desert Mountain Properties, Inc. in north Scottsdale, Arizona. Testing was conducted at nine prehistoric sites, AZ U:1:132, U:1:148, U:1:149, U:1:150, U:1:153, U:1:154, U:1:168, U:1:169, and U:1:170 (ASM). The sites included two field house loci (U:1:132 and U:1:148), three artifact scatters (U:1:149, U:1:153, U:1:170), one artifact scatter with rock features (U:1:154) and three rock-feature agricultural fields (U:1:150, U:1:168, U:1:169). Two...
A Design for Salado Research (1990)
The Roosevelt Platform Mound Study (RPMS) was one of three mitigative data recovery studies that the Bureau of Reclamation funded to investigate the prehistory of the Tonto Basin in the vicinity of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. The series of investigations constituted Reclamation's program for complying with historic preservation legislation as it applied to the raising and modification of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. Reclamation contracted with the Arizona State University Office of Cultural Resource...
Diagnostic_Artifact_Photo_Log.csv (2020)
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DiagnosticArtifactsLog.csv (2020)
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Dog Burial from Isle Royale, Lake Superior: An Example of Household Ritual Sacrifice in the Terminal Woodland Period (1990)
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.
Draper Park Site (20Sc40), Port Huron, Michigan; 1974-1977 Excavations (1979)
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.
The Eastern Mining Area Transmission Line Survey: Archaeological Resources in the Salt-Gila Uplands of Central Arizona (1994)
SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants (SWCA), of Tucson, Arizona, conducted the Eastern Mining Area (EMA) survey project under contract to Salt River Project (SRP) between October, 1993, and February, 1994. One central purpose of the project was to create an inventory of archaeological resources to assist in the planning of future improvements and other modifications to existing SRP transmission lines. The project included 107 person-field days of Class III archaeological survey along...
El Potrerito Midden 1 Coring Field Notes (1998)
Scanned copy of field notes recording the core sampling within Midden 1 at the site of El Potrerito.
EMVPP Field & Lab Manual (2003)
The field and lab manual for the 2003 El Morro Prehistory Project. The same manual was used in other EMVPP seasons. Most aspects of this manual can be applied to the Ojo Bonito Archaeological Project, the Heshotauthla Archaeological Research Project, the Upper Little Colorado Prehistory Project, and the Rudd Creek Archaeology Project. This manual describes field and laboratory procedures, how to fill out the forms, and how the provenience system works. It also has relevant ceramic type...
EMVPP Field & Lab Manual (2003)
The field and lab manual for the 2003 El Morro Prehistory Project. The same manual was used in other EMVPP seasons. Most aspects of this manual can be applied to the Ojo Bonito Archaeological Project, the Heshotauthla Archaeological Research Project, the Upper Little Colorado Prehistory Project, and the Rudd Creek Archaeology Project. This manual describes field and laboratory procedures, how to fill out the forms, and how the provenience system works. It also has relevant ceramic type...
End of Fieldwork Report: Archaeological Testing at AZ AA:12:130 (ASM) for the Effluent Pipe Outfall Realignment, Pima County Landfill, Pima County, Arizona (1997)
Archaeologists from SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants, conducted test excavations at site AZ AA:12:130 (ASM) on November 21 and 22, 1996. These excavations consisted of five backhoe trenches long the centerline of a planned effluent pipe outfall realignment for Pima County Waste Water Management. This document summarizes the results of archaeological testing on the segment of the pipeline that crosses the plotted location of a known Middle Archaic site. Four features were identified during...
Excavation of the Indian Neck Ossuary - General Photos, September 1979, Wellfleet, MA (1979)
These photos show general images related to the excavation of the Indian Neck ossuary, Wellfleet, MA in September, 1979. The ossuary site was discovered inadvertently when a backhoe operator digging a hole for a new septic tank for a resident noticed human skeletal remains in the dirt he had removed from the backhoe excavation. Each photo is described in the following list: ** Photo #1 [a1-caco_survey_19_bn_387.tif] shows the surface at the Indian Neck ossuary site prior to archaeological...
Excavation of the Indian Neck Ossuary, September 1979, Wellfleet, MA (1979)
Photo showning the midden level that was stratigraphically above the ossuary feature. In this photo, the piece fo white plastic sheeting shown covers a human cranium that was exposed in the profile in the photos