Pit (Site Type Keyword)
Parent: Archaeological Feature
A discrete excavation directly attributable to human activity. Use more specific term(s) if possible.
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Article for Popular Archaeology on Iron Age pit technology: types, interpretation, and excavation.
Plan Drawings Terrace S19 (2010)
This pdf file contains the plan drawings from the excavations of Terrace S19 on Cerro Danush.
Plan Drawings Terrace S25, Cerro Danush (2015)
This .pdf contains the plan drawings for the excavation units on Terrace S25, Cerro Danush, Oaxaca, Mexico. Please consult the project report for 2015 for more information.
Plan for Additional Data Recovery and Report on Monitoring of Demolition and Archaeological Trenching, Phase 2 Area of the Frank Luke Addition Project, City of Phoenix Housing Department (2012)
Archaeological trenching and the monitoring of demolition of existing structures in the Phase 2 area of the Frank Luke Addition project in the City of Phoenix has determined that the Hohokam site of La Ciudad, also known as AZ T:12:1 (ASM), extends into the proposed construction area for the Frank Luke Addition project. This report presents the findings of monitoring and trenching and a recommendation for a data recovery program to document register eligible resources that will be affected by...
Plan of Work: Los Guanacos, Elliot/Kyrene Locus, Tempe, Arizona (1992)
Northland Research, Inc. (Northland) prepared this research proposal in response to a request from Judy Brunson of Salt River Project (SRP) for archaeological investigations of a portion of AZ U:9:116(ASM), also known as Los Guanacos (other designations include AZ U:9:41[ASU], AZ U:9:71[ASU], and Alta Vista). The project area consists of the proposed site of the SRP Central Support Complex in Tempe, Arizona. Archaeological Research Services (ARS) conducted archaeological testing of this...
Plantations Without Pillars: Archaeology, Wealth, and Material Life at Bush Hill
"The results of archaeological investigations conducted at Bush Hill plantation (site 38AK660) by personnel with the Savannah River Archaeological Research Program are summarized in the following monograph. Bush Hill plantation is located near Upper Three Runs Creek in Aiken County, South Carolina on the Savannah River Site, a nuclear research facility operated by the U.S. Department of Energy. Data recovery excavations were conducted at the site between 1996 and 1999 in response to the...
Plantations Without Pillars: Archaeology, Wealth, and Material Life at Bush Hill Volume 1 Context and Interpretation (2004)
"The results of archaeological investigations conducted at Bush Hill plantation (site 38AK660) by personnel with the Savannah River Archaeological Research Program are summarized in the following monograph. Bush Hill plantation is located near Upper Three Runs Creek in Aiken County, South Carolina on the Savannah River Site, a nuclear research facility operated by the U.S. Department of Energy. Data recovery excavations were conducted at the site between 1996 and 1999 in response to the...
Plates 18-33, Phase II Archaeological Investigations at Loci 1, 15, 18, 20 and Phase III Data Recovery at Locus 16, 44HT27, Fort Monroe, Hampton Virginia (2004)
This document contains copies of photographs detailing Phase II investigations of the thunderbird site located at Fort Monroe, Hampton, Virginia.
Plates 53-75, Phase II Archaeological Investigations at Loci 1, 15, 18, 20 and Phase III Data Recovery at Locus 16, 44HT27, Fort Monroe, Hampton Virginia (2003)
Photographs of test trenches during Phase II investigations at Fort Monroe, Hampton, Virginia.
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)
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...
Pre-construction Archaeological Resource Survey for the New Civil Engineering Building, Bellows Air Force Station, Waimanalo, Koolaupoko, Oahu, Hawai'i (2009)
A pre-construction archaeological resource survey was conducted by T. S. Dye & Colleagues, Archaeologists, Inc., at the proposed Iodation of the new Civil Engineering Building at Bellows Air Force Station, Waimanalo, O'ahu. The survey consisted of the excavation of four backhoe trenches, recording of stratigraphy, identification of traditional Hawaiian features, and collection of samples. Excavations revealed a disturbed paleosol throughout the project area, two traditional Hawaiian fire-pit...
Pre-Construction Archaeological Survey for New Recreational Lodging at Bellows Air Force Station (2009)
A pre-construction archaeological resources survey was conducted by T S. Dye & Colleagues, Archaeologists, Inc. at the proposed location of the New Recreational Lodging project at Bellows Air Force Station, Waimānalo, O'ahu. The survey was carried out in two phases. During the first phase, nine backhoe trenches excavated in the proposed leach field revealed two buried cultural layers containing numerous small pit features, seven of which were dated to the traditional Hawaiian period. The 7...
Prehistoric Adaptation to a Desert Spring Environment: Archaeological Investigations of Surprise Spring, San Bernardino County, California (1990)
The results of a program of archaeological survey and test excavations at the Surprise Spring site (CA-SBr-424) are presented. The site is located on the U.S. Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, California. The springs are formed by tectonic activity along a ridge immediately east of the site. Prior to 1941, the springs flowed above ground. Continual pumping of water has dropped the water table to around 250 feet below surface, thereby suppressing the springs. The area...
Prehistoric Agricultural Activities on the Lehi-Mesa Terrace: Excavations at La Cuenca del Sedimento (1989)
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 and Historic Occupation of the Lower Verde River Valley: The State Route 87 Verde Bridge Project (1992)
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 and Historic Research Along the Navajo-McCullough Transmission Line Right-of-Way (1975)
The Los Angeles Water and Power Company Navajo-McCullough Transmission Line Right-of-Way corridor is located for the most part in Clark County, Nevada, but also diagonals across the southeast corner of Lincoln County, Nevada. The total length of the corridor in Nevada is over 100 miles long and the archaeological survey was conducted within a 50 meter distance to either side of the center line. Access roads added to the distance that was intensively surveyed. Where it was observed that there was...
The Prehistoric Archaeology of Heritage Square (1995)
Less than a decade ago, it seemed that the Hohokam had appeared out of nowhere. Here was a vibrant population of pottery making, irrigating, settled farmers, and the people before them: the nomadic Archaic tribes, who wandered the desert from one stand of ripening fruit to another in time with nature’s pulse. The one culture appeared so unlike the other that it seemed impossible to account for the sudden change in lifestyles. Then, in the 1980s, the first clues were found to bridge the gap...
Prehistoric Archaeology of the West Sinter Quarry Cortez Mountains, Nevada (1988)
This report documents the methods and results of archaeological investigations conducted by the Desert Research Institute Social Sciences Center i n the Buckhorn Mining District of the Cortez Mountains, Nevada. The investigations were conducted for Cominco American to mitigate the adverse impacts to significant cultural resources resulting from expansion of the Buckhorn Mine onto land administered by the Bureau of Land Management. Mitigation efforts included avoidance of impacts by project...
Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of South Central Arizona: the Picacho Reservoir Archaic Project (1986)
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 Uses of a Developing Floodplain: Archaeological Investigations on the East Bank of the Santa Cruz River at A-Mountain (1999)
Between 18 March and 12 April 1997, archaeological fieldwork was conducted at two sites in the Congress Street to Twenty-ninth Street segment of the Arizona Department of Transportation's Interstate 10 Corridor Improvement Project in Tucson, Arizona. Both sites are buried in the eastern Holocene terrace of the Santa Cruz River, directly opposite A-Mountain. In Locus 1 were stratified alluvial deposits containing features dating to the early Cienega phase (800-400 B.C.) and late Cienega phase...
The Prehistory of Sun City Vistoso, Arizona (1988)
This report presents the results of testing and data recovery efforts at four sites in Sun City Vistoso: AZ BB:9:152 (ASM), AZ BB:9:153 (ASM), AZ BB:9:154 (ASM), and AZ BB:9:190 (ASM). All four sites are Hohokam limited activity sites dating to the Sedentary period. Testing operations consisted of excavating narrowly-spaced backhoe trenches in an attempt to identify subsurface cultural features. No subsurface features were identified at AZ BB:9:152 and AZ BB:9:154; consequently, no further work...
Prehistory of the St. Johns Area, East-Central Arizona: The TEP St. Johns Project (1981)
The TEP (Tucson Electric Power) St. Johns Project was conducted by the Cultural Resource Management Section of the Arizona State Museum under contract to Tucson Electric Power Company and was designed to mitigate impacts to cultural resources located within a proposed railroad right-of-way corridor east of St. Johns, Arizona. The proposed corridor begins at a point 8 miles northeast of St. Johns and extends 27 miles southward to the proposed TEP SpringerviIle Generating Station north of...
Prehistory, History, and Geomorphology of the Mississippi River Valley In the Montrose Bottom. a Phase I Archaeological Survey of Primary Roads Project F-61-1(55)--20-56 A.K.A. PIN 79-56040-1, Lee County, Iowa (1991)
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Preliminary Archaeological Testing at the West Branch Site, AZ AA:16:3, in the Saguaro Knolls Development Area (1997)
This document discusses the results of preliminary archaeological work for the Saguaro Knolls development project. The Saguaro Knolls project area is a 55 a tract of land that is slated for residential development. It lies wholly within a previously recorded archaeological site, AZ AA:16:3 (ASM), the West Branch site. A recent archaeological survey confirmed that archaeological remains were present on the surface of the parcel (Stephen 1997). As a result of these findings Desert Archaeology,...
Preliminary Data Recovery Results at Pueblo del Rio, AZ T:12:116 (ASM), Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona (2006)
The results of backhoe trenching and data recovery excavation at the site of Pueblo del Rio within SunState Builders’ parcel. The area consists of 77.72 acres of land previously tested in 2005 (Lots 6, 7, 12, 13, and 14) and in 2006 (Lots 8, 9, 10, and 11). Following the completion of extensive backhoe trenching in the various lots, twelve feature areas containing likely habitation structures, relic canals, and burials were selected for data recovery— three along the planned road corridors in...