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DATASET Ian Kerr. Erin Claussen. Michael Nassaney.

This is an artifact lexicon which outlines all the various artifact types and categories of material that archaeologists have found at Fort St. Joseph.

DATASET Western Michigan University - Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project.

Provides provenience information for photographs of artifacts.

IMAGE Pamela Rups.

Not based on archaeological or historical findings, this image is purely speculative as to the appearance of Fort St. Joseph. It is however historically accurate in terms of the potential placement of buildings within a palisade and the architectural styles that may have been represented at the fort.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christine Newman. Melissa Memory. Brenda Swann.

In 1997 the C.A.R.L. Archaeological Survey began their survey and assessment of the cultural resources on the Kissimmee Prairie State Buffer Preserve. Since this date, several trips have been made to the property that have resulted in the identification and documentation of nineteen archaeological and historical sites on the property. The C.A.R.L. Survey identified sixteen sites, and the Archaeological and Historical Conservancy, Inc. recorded three sites. Although this is a significant number,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christoper Lintz. Amy Earls. Nicholas Trierweiler. Jan Biella.

Since 1978 Kirtland Air Force Base and Sandia Laboratories have contracted for thorough on-ground surveys for the identification and evaluation of prehistoric and historic archaeological sites. A total of 13 surveys were completed for 31,281 acres on the Base and Forest Service Withdrawal Lands between 1978 and 1985. On May 7, 1987, Mariah Associates, Inc. was awarded the first of a three-phase contract designed to provide a comprehensive historic preservation plan for Kirtland Air Force Base....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard W. Effland, Jr.. Margerie Green.

At the request of Judith Imhoff of the Environmental Management Department of Arizona Public Service Company, Archaeological Consulting Services (ACS) initiated a cultural resource survey for the proposed 230 kV transmission line extension in the vicinity of the Kyrene Steam Power Plant. Dr. Richard W. Effland and Margerie Green of ACS served as co-principal investigators and field directors for the project. Johna Hutira and Shereen Lerner assisted in the field investigation. The purpose of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael Johnson.

An addendum to the report AR 90-03-052A assessing the damage to sites AR 03-03-05-221 and AR 03-03-05-218.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Paul Shumacher. Roland Richert.

These documents are a series of letters regarding research on the astronomical features in the Great House at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. It also includes an invoice and billing information for the services provided by John Malloy for a 1971 report concerning the astronomical features. Outlined are details of equipment needed and labor required to complete proposed research on astronomical features in the Great House.

PROJECT Andrew Reinhard. Joe Lewandowski. Zak Penn.

Atari, Inc. dumped ca. 800,000 video game cartridges into a specially dug cell in the Alamogordo, NM city landfill in September 1983. This action, even though it was reported in the New York Times and Alamogordo Daily News, became an urban legend stating that Atari dumped its unpopular E.T. games, rumored to be the "worst video game ever made." On April 26, 2014, the City of Alamogordo in cooperation with archaeologists and a documentary film crew, excavated the cell and recovered just over...

DATASET Mark Flaa.

Alamogordo ran eBay auctions on 44 separate days between November 13, 2014, and August 4, 2015, each day’s listings consisting of 1–96 individual lots. Each of the auctioned games came with a metal City of Alamogordo property tag and ID number as well as a certificate of authenticity signed by the mayor, Susie Galea, and by Howard Scott Warshaw, Atari wunderkind developer and creator of the E.T. game. Despite the variable conditions of the artifacts, the games served (and still serve) as a...

PROJECT United States Air Force Air Combat Command. Stevens J. Sanderson. Stevens J. Sanderson.

Phase I and Phase II investigations of three sites on Avon Park Air Force Air Force Range.

DOCUMENT Full-Text John Welch. John H. Madsen.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file that consists of the AZ AA:3:156 (ASM) site, located on State Trust land. The site is comprised of depressions, a pit house (alternatively described as a room block in various documents), artifact scatter, trash deposits, and a burial ground. The file consists of a Arizona State Museum archaeological survey form and five maps of the site location. The earliest dated document is from 1986.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ruth Lopez.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file that consists of the site AZ F:11:3, comprised of a Depression Era road and trash concentration, located on Bureau of Land Management land. The file consists of an Arizona State Museum archaeological site card, map of the site location, and site map. The earliest dated document is from 1993.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Gregory R. Seymour. Mark Slaughter. WIlliam L. Deaver. Richard V. N. Ahlstrom.

This report documents the results of a testing program completed by SWCA, Inc. Environmental Consultants in August of 1990 in anticipation of the modification of Bartlett Dam. Modifications to the dam were planned as part of the Central Arizona Project's Regulatory Storage Division (Plan 6) and the Safety of Dams Project. During the month of April, 1990, archaeologists from Northland Research, Inc. conducted an archaeological survey of approximately 929 acres located on the Lower Verde River...

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At the request of the Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office, Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) conducted an intensive Class III cultural resources survey of approximately 1,700 acres of the Lower Verde Area around the perimeter of Bartlett Reservoir on the Tonto National Forest. Approximately 150 acres of the project area were inaccessible due to either the elevated level of Bartlett Reservoir or steep terrain. This survey identified 108 sites, which far exceeded original...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chester King.

Seven shell beads and a bead or ornament fragment were recovered from excavations at a portion of the RIV-2798 conducted by Statistical Research in October 1993. This report provides descriptions of the beads and discusses the time periods during which they were deposited. Also included in the PDF are notes, edits, and correspondence between Statistical Research Inc and Chester King.

DOCUMENT Full-Text W. J. Beeson. R. B. Woodbury.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Bean Patch site, comprised of multiple pueblos, pit houses and possible pit houses, artifact scatter, trash middens, and a great kiva, located on Archaeological Conservancy land. The file consists of 20 Arizona State Museum archaeological survey forms. The earliest dated document is from 1956.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard V. Ahlstrom. James E. Bradford.

The initial Phase I investigation for the Salt River Project 1978 Power Plant Study has been completed. This report presents that data which was collected during library research and actual field reconnaissance and is intended to offer a background on the archaeological and ethno-historical resource base of the two proposed areas being considered for plant site and wellfield location. A discussion of the possible impacts with alternatives to these is also included. The report includes...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard W. Effland. Scott Fedick.

The Salt River Project (SRP) and Arizona Public Service Company (APS) constructed three transmission lines along a portion of the Beeline Highway on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community (SRPMIC). SRP proposed to build a new line that connects the Pinnacle Peak, Brandow, and Papago Buttes substations. At the same time, APS proposed to realign two existing transmission lines and move them out of the Salt River channel and onto the north terrace above the river. Prior to construction,...

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In 1997, a group of scholars assembled at the Amerind Foundation in Dragoon, Arizona, for five and one-half days of secluded focused discussion on the archaeology and history of an area largely absent from archaeological reports and history books, southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico. The researchers present at the seminar included Bruce Masse, Anne Woosley, Allan MacIntyre, Jeff Altschul, John Douglas, Jeff Clark, Bill Doolittle, Jim Neely, Jerry Howard, Peggy Nelson, Jonathan...

DOCUMENT Full-Text George J. Gumerman.

During the month of June and part of July, 1968, the Center for Anthropological Studies operated an archaeological field school on Black Mesa on the Hopi and Navajo Indian reservations under sponsorship of the Peabody Coal Company of St. Louis, Missouri. A total of eight sites was excavated and 56 sites were surveyed. What follows is a descriptive report of these investigations. It should he emphasized that this report is mainly descriptive, and that interpretations, where they occur, are...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kim Adams.

Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) conducted survey of 200 acres and limited testing of cultural resources on Fort McDowell Mohave-Apache Indian Community (FMIC) land at the request of Mr. Jon Czaplicki of the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation). The work was performed to define the boundaries of archaeological sites to be avoided by agricultural development. Eight sites were slated for preservation; however, only seven sites were relocated and flagged, and two new sites were...

PROJECT Dean Snow.

The Bray (Battle Hill) site is associated with The Lake George Project. The Bray Site (ALB 143) is located on the lower slopes of Battle Hill. The site is a prehistoric cultural resource and was discovered by Edward Krause. The excavations here took place from July 9th until 1st of August 1979. The site was named after the landowner who was Dana S. Bray. Out of the 243 sites that were given a provisional site number with the ALB prefix only 54 sites that were tested and produced artifacts...

DATASET Dean Snow.

This is the catalog from the site Bray (Battle Hill) excavations of 1979.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Dean Snow. Michael Bender.

This file contains the Bray Catalog Guide from the 1979 excavations. The catalog guide was written by Dean R. Snow and Michael M. Bender.