Pit (Site Type Keyword)

Parent: Archaeological Feature

A discrete excavation directly attributable to human activity. Use more specific term(s) if possible.

426-450 (1,464 Records)

Basalt Least Cost Path Final Map (2010)
GEOSPATIAL Karen Holberg.

The aim of the LEAP projects was to publish multi-layered e-publications and develop and link them to associated digital archives. The original LEAP project was funded by the AHRC while the LEAP II, A Trans-Atlantic LEAP, was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This final map project is part of a 2011 LEAP II project "Placing immateriality: situating the material of highland Chiriquí" by Karen Holberg. The files contained in this record include an .mxd map project and an image of the...


Basalt Least Cost Path Final Map (2010)
GEOSPATIAL Karen Holberg.

The aim of the LEAP projects was to publish multi-layered e-publications and develop and link them to associated digital archives. The original LEAP project was funded by the AHRC while the LEAP II, A Trans-Atlantic LEAP, was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This final map project is part of a 2011 LEAP II project "Placing immateriality: situating the material of highland Chiriquí" by Karen Holberg. The files contained in this record include an .mxd map project and an image of the...


Basketmaker Community Features (2020)
DATASET Crow Canyon Archaeological Center.

The Basketmaker Communities Project, a multi-faceted research and public education archaeological initiative undertaken by Crow Canyon from 2011 through 2017. The primary purpose of the Basketmaker Communities Project was to study the history and social organization of a large Basketmaker III period (A.D. 500–750) settlement in the central Mesa Verde region and to track the long-term impacts of that settlement on later populations. This dataset contains data on the features documented from...


Bechtel Power Corporation 1978 Arizona Station Plant Site Study, Salt River Project, State and Private Lands, Apache and Navajo Counties, Arizona: An Addendum to Preliminary Draft for Phase I: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Research (1974)
DOCUMENT Full-Text James E. Bradford. Peter J. Pilles, Jr..

As a result of the Salt River Project consultant's meeting on June 18, 1974, additional, more current information on the Arizona Station Project was made available to the Museum of Northern Arizona. Because of this, it was decided that the archaeological recommendations for the project should be reviewed and re-submitted. This report discusses the new developments and presents the basis for conclusions made regarding the archaeological assessments.


The Beeline Archaeological Project (1990)
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,...


Behrend's Sites Arizona Site Steward File (1978)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Rex Tjaden. S. Deats.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Behrend's Sites, located on Tonto National Forest land. The sites are comprised of a masonry structure, artifact scatter, roasting pits, and a slab cyst. The file consists of a heritage inventory form, cultural resources preliminary inventory form, site map, and page of field notes. The earliest dated document is from 1978.


Bellows Air Force Station Resources
PROJECT Uploaded by: Rachel Fernandez

Project metadata for resources within the Bellows Air Force Station cultural heritage resources collection.


Between Mimbres and Hohokam: Exploring the Archaeology and History of Southeastern Arizona and Southwestern New Mexico (2014)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Rachel Fernandez

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...


Between the River and the Terrace: Archaeological Investigations Within the Red Mountain Freeway Corridor, From Gilbert Road to Higley Road (2002)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: adam brin

This report discusses the results of archaeological testing at four cultural resource sites to assess their eligibility for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), and the results of data recovery excavations at one of the four sites to mitigate impacts from construction. Entranco completed this project at the request of the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) prior to the proposed construction of the Red Mountain Freeway (RMF) Gilbert Road to Higley Road segment...


Bird Houston (7NC-F-138) Locus B Ceramic Minimum Number of Vessels (MNV) Catalog (2017)
DATASET Louis Berger.

Listing by Feature and Vessel numbers of specific ceramic specimen and their cross mends used to calculate a minimum number of vessels (MNV) for the Locus B occupation at the Bird-Houston site.


Bird-Houston (7NC-F-138) Locus B Glass Minimum Number of Vessels (MNV) Catalog (2017)
DATASET Louis Berger.

Catalog details the artifacts and cross mends from each feature that constitute the reconstructed glass vessels used to calculate the minimum number of glass vessels from features at Locus B of the Bird-Houston site (7NC-F-138)


Bird-Houston Site (7NC-F-138) Phase II and III Artifact Catalog (2017)
DATASET Louis Berger.

artifact catalog from Phase II and III excavations at the Bird-Houston Site (7NC-F-138), includes identified floral and faunal specimen


Bird-Houston Site (7NC-F-138), U.S. Route 301 Corridor
PROJECT John Bedell. FHWA.

The Louis Berger Group, Inc., conducted Phase II and III archaeological investigations at the Bird-Houston Site (7NC-F-138), located in St. Georges Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, in advance of the proposed U.S. Route 301 construction. The Bird-Houston Site is the remains of a small farm occupied between about 1775 and 1920. The site has two distinct parts about 200 feet apart; Locus B was occupied from about 1775 to 1825, and Locus A was occupied from about 1825 to 1920. Documentary...


Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus A: Buttons (2012)
IMAGE Louis Berger.

Laboratory photo of buttons recovered from various contexts in Locus A, the Bird-Houston Site (7NC-F-138)


Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus A: Feature 1 Well After Mechanical Excavation of Surrounding Subsoil (2012)
IMAGE Louis Berger.

Field photo of Locus A Feature 1, the well, after hand excavation of upper layers and mechanical excavation of surrounding subsoil. View to North


Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus A: Pharmaceutical Bottle Fragments (2012)
IMAGE Louis Berger.

Laboratory photo of 19th-century glass pharmaceutical bottle fragments recovered from various contexts in Locus A at the Bird-Houston site (7NC-F-138).


Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus B: Bone Handled Utensil Recovered from Feature 15 (2012)
IMAGE Louis Berger.

Field photo of bone-handled iron utensil (Cat./Spec. No. 239.24) recovered from Stratum A Level 2 East Half, Feature 15, the well, in Locus B of the Bird-Houston Site (7NC-F-138).


Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus B: Brass Button and Broach Pin (2012)
IMAGE Louis Berger.

Laboratory photo of brass button (Cat./Spec. No. 243.8) recovered from Locus B Feature 15 Stratum B Level 1 East Half and brass broach pin (Cat./Spec. No. 238.21) recovered from Locus B Feature 15 Stratum A Level 1 West Half.


Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus B: Feature 1 Well After Mechanical Stripping of Plowzone (2012)
IMAGE Louis Berger.

Field photo of identification and cleaning of Locus B Feature 1, the well, after mechanical removal of plowzone.


Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus B: Feature 15 Well After Mechanical Excavation of Surrounding Subsoil (2012)
IMAGE Louis Berger.

Field photo of Locus B Feature 15, resuming hand excavation after mechanical removal of surrounding subsoil, view to west.


Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus B: Feature 3 West Profile (2012)
IMAGE Louis Berger.

Field photo of Locus B Feature 3 west profile after excavation of east half. Unidentified iron artifact in-situ at base of excavation.


Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus B: Redware Bowl In-Situ Feature 15 Well (2012)
IMAGE Louis Berger.

Field photo of redware bowl in-situ within Locus B well, Feature 15 Stratum A, Level 2, west half (Cat./Spec. No. 240.11), view to north.


Bird-Houston Site [7NC-F-138], Locus B: Unidentified Iron Object Recovered from Feature 3 (2012)
IMAGE Louis Berger.

Field photo of unidentified iron object recovered from Locus B Feature 3, Stratum A, Level 1 (Cat./Spec. No. 220.4) after excavation.


Black Mesa: Archaeological Investigations on Black Mesa, the 1969-1970 Seasons (1972)
DOCUMENT Full-Text George J. Gumerman. Deborah Westfall. Carol S. Weed.

Black Mesa is large elevated land mass which comprises a part of the Navajo and Hopi Indian reservations in the northeast corner of Arizona. This report is the second volume in a series devoted to the archaeology of the region by the Prescott College Archaeological Field School. It is mainly a descriptive account of the survey of 193 Anasazi, Navajo, and Anglo sites and the excavation of nine of the Kayenta Anasazi villages.


Black Mesa: Survey and Excavation in Northeastern Arizona - 1968 (1970)
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...