Refuse Pit (Site Type Keyword)

Parent: Artifact Scatter

A discrete excavation directly attributable to human activity that was used for the disposal of discarded artifacts, ecofacts and other cultural materials.

526-548 (548 Records)

Surveyors Dividers (2014)
IMAGE RGA Inc. . Allison Gall.

Surveyors Dividers (PCN 961).


Synthesis Report for Archaeological Testing at the New River Authorized Dam Site, Maricopa County, Arizona, Phase II (1982)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard Ciolek-Torello. J. Simon Bruder. Robert E. Gasser. Jannifer W. Gish. Cheryl Taylor. Donald E. Weaver.

This report presents the results of additional archaeological testing at the New River Authorized Dam Site. This site, the location of a proposed flood control dam to be constructed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, is situated along the New River about 27 km north of its confluence with the Agua Fria and 32 km northwest of downtown Phoenix. In an earlier testing program 22 prehistoric and historic sites were investigated in the upstream portion of the project area. The present work...


The Tanque Verde High School Archaeological Project: Excavations at a Hohokam Limited Activity Site in the Northeastern Tucson Basin (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text S. Jerome Hesse.

Archaeological testing and data recovery at AZ B:9:360 (ASM), a Hohokam limited activity site in the northeastern Tucson Basin, resulted in the discovery of two roasting pits, an associated activity surface, and two large trash-filled pits. Botanical data suggest that the site was used for processing locally procured upper bajada wild plant resources as well as domesticated crops (maize). Chronometric data indicate a likely span of site use from the Rillito phase of the Colonial period to the...


Tracks through Time: The Archaeology of the METRO Light Rail Corridor, Volume II: Investigations at Pueblo Grande and La Plaza, and Water Management (2011)
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This book presents the results of the archaeological investigations that were conducted along then Light Rail route before and during its construction. As with any project that receives federal funding, METRO was legally required to undertake archaeological investigations along the project corridor; but production of this volume reflects not only METRO's commitment to legal compliance with environmental laws, but also the commitment of the cities of Phoenix, Tempe, and Mesa to preserve and...


Tracks through Time: Urban Archaeology along the METRO Light Rail Corridor, Volume I: Introduction, Background, and Preliminary Field Studies (2011)
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This book presents the results of the archaeological investigations that were conducted along then Light Rail route before and during its construction. As with any project that receives federal funding, METRO was legally required to undertake archaeological investigations along the project corridor; but production of this volume reflects not only METRO's commitment to legal compliance with environmental laws, but also the commitment of the cities of Phoenix, Tempe, and Mesa to preserve and...


Tracks through Time: Urban Archaeology along the METRO Light Rail Corridor, Volume IV, Part 1: Technical Analyses and Material Culture (2011)
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This book presents the results of the archaeological investigations that were conducted along then Light Rail route before and during its construction. As with any project that receives federal funding, METRO was legally required to undertake archaeological investigations along the project corridor; but production of this volume reflects not only METRO's commitment to legal compliance with environmental laws, but also the commitment of the cities of Phoenix, Tempe, and Mesa to preserve and...


Tracks through Time: Urban Archaeology along the METRO Light Rail Corridor, Volume IV, Part II: Paleoethnobiological Analyses and Archaeological Synthesis (2011)
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This book presents the results of the archaeological investigations that were conducted along then Light Rail route before and during its construction. As with any project that receives federal funding, METRO was legally required to undertake archaeological investigations along the project corridor; but production of this volume reflects not only METRO's commitment to legal compliance with environmental laws, but also the commitment of the cities of Phoenix, Tempe, and Mesa to preserve and...


Tree Row Site, IL (11F53) Faunal Database REVISED 2 (2016)
DATASET Steven Kuehn.

Late Archaic faunal assemblage from the Tree Row Site (11F53), Fulton County, Illinois. Recovery includes 1/4" mesh and flotation. Faunal remains identified by Steven Kuehn. This revised version of the database was used by the EAFWG.


Tree Row Site, IL (11F53) Project
PROJECT Uploaded by: Steven Kuehn

The Tree Row site (11F53) is contained within alluvial fan deposits at the base of the western bluffs of the central Illinois River valley in Fulton County, Illinois. The site includes Mississippian, Early Woodland, and Late Archaic occupations. Only the Late Archaic occupation is considered here. A small creek deposited the fan at the edge of the steep, western bluffs of the central Illinois River valley. The site offered immediate access to forested uplands and upland prairie to the west...


The Tres Alamos Site on the San Pedro River, Southeastern Arizona (1947)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Carr Tuthill.

The ruins lie on the east bank of the San Pedro River some twelve miles by road north of the town of Benson. At this point the river has started to cut into an erosion terrace or bench on which the ruins are located. This bench rises about one hundred to one hundred and fifty feet above the bed of the river, and is eroded by relatively short but deep and steep-banked gullies or arroyos into several tongues of land fanning out toward the river. Evidences of prehistoric occupation are found on the...


Tucson Aqueduct Project Phase A
PROJECT Donald E. Weaver, Jr.. Donald E. Weaver, Jr.. USDI Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office.

Reaches 1 and 2 of the Tucson Aqueduct portion of the Central Arizona Project extend from the terminus of the Salt-Gila Aqueduct just east of Picacho Reservoir (12 km southeast of Coolidge) south along the western flanks of the Picacho Mountains, east along the southern flanks of the Picacho Mountains through Picacho Pass, and then south to the vicinity of Red Rock. A Class III archaeological survey of the aqueduct corridor and associated areas was conducted by Arizona State Museum...


Tucson Aqueduct Project Phase B
PROJECT Lynn S. Teague. Jon Czaplicki. John C. Ravesloot. USDI Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office.

The Tucson Aqueduct Phase B Project represents the first substantial archaeological investigations and excavations to be conducted in the Avra Valley. Prior to the 1983 intensive survey of the Phase B alignment by archaeologists from the Arizona State Museum, archaeological investigation of the Avra Valley had been limited primarily to occasional clearance surveys and test excavations. The identification of 47 prehistoric sites during the 1983 survey (Downum and others 1986) and the...


Tucson at the Turn of the Century: The Archaeology of Block 83 (1994)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jonathan B. Mabry. James E. Ayres. Regina L. Chapin-Pyritz.

During May of 1990, archaeologists investigated the historic remains on Tucson Block 83, still preserved beneath the debris of more recent buildings that had been demolished for construction of a new downtown bus station. With a specially-designed wide blade, a backhoe gently scraped away the foot-deep demolition debris to reveal adobe, brick, and stone house foundations, trash piles, well shafts, and privy pits dating between about 1880 and 1920 (most of them dating to near the turn of the...


Tuzigoot: An Archaeological Overview (1976)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Dana Hartman.

This report is the result of a proposed subterrene drainage project at Tuzigoot National Monument. In June, 1975, the Museum of Northern Arizona contracted with the National Park Service (Contract No. CX81005004) to study the impact of the drainage project on the archaeological resources at the Monument. In conjunction with this phase of the project, Museum archaeologists were to locate all possible undisturbed deposits in the pueblo. These deposits would be plotted on an archaeological base map...


Uplands Complex Data: Plain Ware Ceramics from All Contexts (1997)
DATASET Archaeological Research Institute, Arizona State University.

The Uplands Complex Data tables provide a summary of the artifacts recovered during Arizona State University (ASU), Office of Cultural Resource Management's (OCRM) Roosevelt Platform Mound Study (RPMS) research at 52 sites located in four study areas in the bajadas and foothill-transition zone that surround and define the Tonto Basin.The Uplands Complex Data table Plain Ware Ceramics from All Contexts presents a summary of the plain ware ceramic vessels recovered from all investigated contexts...


Uplands Complex Data: Plain Ware Ceramics from Screened Contexts (1997)
DATASET Archaeological Research Institute, Arizona State University.

The Uplands Complex Data tables provide a summary of the artifacts recovered during Arizona State University (ASU), Office of Cultural Resource Management's (OCRM) Roosevelt Platform Mound Study (RPMS) research at 52 sites located in four study areas in the bajadas and foothill-transition zone that surround and define the Tonto Basin.The Uplands Complex Data table Plain Ware Ceramics from Screened Contexts presents a summary of the plain ware ceramic vessels recovered from excavated, screened...


VAFB-2020-25: Identification of Historic Properties and Assessment of Effects, Honda Culverts Repair Project, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Santa Barbara County, California (2020)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Josh Smallwood. Christopher Ryan.

This document is a Section 106 report consisting of a historic property inventory report and assessment of effects for the Honda Culverts Repair Project (813-17-007). The purpose of the project is to replace the existing culverts that are 12.5-foot-diameter, corrugated metal pipes that were emplaced during construction of this segment of Coast Road in 1979–1983. The two pipes have been scoured along the bottom and have lost structural integrity. The proposed Honda Creek Culverts Repair Project...


Vanishing River Volume 4: Chapter 10: Temporal Variation in Undecorated Pottery: A Tool for Chronology Building (1997)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Barbara Montgomery. Stephanie M. Whittlesey.

Chapter 10 presents results from a ceramic seriation of undecorated pottery to identify temporally-sensitive attributes. Montogomery and Whittlesey describe their analysis of particular undecorated pottery attributes, which were selected based on their potential sensitivity to temporal change. They identify several attributes that are particularly sensitive to time: temper, slip, and polish. They also note several other variables that display slight variation through time. These authors propose...


Vanishing River Volume 4: Chapter 13: Site Structure and Domestic Organization (1997)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Eric Klucas. Richard Ciolek-Torello. Charles R. Riggs.

Chapter 13 addresses changes in social organization from the pre-Classic to Classic periods in the lower Verde Valley through an examination of changes in domestic space. First, Klucas and co-authors identify the nature (i.e., composition, arrangement, size) of the domestic residential units that occupied the prehistoric settlements. They then examine differences in these variables between different settlements (e.g., between large settlements and small farmsteads) and across time periods. These...


Western Lower Papaloapan Archaeology (Veracruz, Mexico): Forms
PROJECT Uploaded by: Barbara Stark

This archive includes an introduction to the field projects and publications as well as copies in pdf of original field and laboratory forms, digitized data files (generally in excel), and files with descriptions of variables in digitized files. The files will be added to tdar through a series of updates. The projects were sponsored by funding various agencies, with permission from the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Mexico.


Where the Rivers Converge, Roosevelt Platform Mound Study: Report on the Rock Island Complex (1995)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Owen Lindauer.

This report is the second site description volume for the Roosevelt Platform Mound Study. This volume describes the four sites investigated in the Rock Island Complex by the Roosevelt Platform Mound Study. It also presents some of the analyses and integrated conclusions that address the project's research objectives established by the Bureau of Reclamation and Tonto National Forest archaeologists and outlined in our research design. This volume primarily describes a single large site,...


White Bend Site, IL (11HA938) Faunal Database REVISED 2 (2016)
DATASET Steven Kuehn.

Middle Archaic and Late Archaic faunal assemblage from the White Bend Site (11HA938), Hancock County, Illinois. Recovery methods included 1/4" mesh and flotation. Fauna identified by Steven Kuehn. This version of the file was used by the EAFWG.


White Bend Site, IL (11HA938) Project
PROJECT Uploaded by: Steven Kuehn

The White Bend site (11HA938) is located along the east bank of the West Fork of the LaMoine River valley bottomland near the confluence of an intermittent stream in eastern Hancock County in west-central Illinois. The Illinois State Archaeological Survey of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (formerly the Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program) conducted Phase III excavations at the site in in 2006 and 2007 and recovered faunal materials from Archaic occupations...