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.
151-175 (548 Records)
The Cline Mesa archaeological sites are part of an extensive settlement complex called the Cline Terrace Complex at the northwestern end of the Tonto Basin, along the eastern bank of Tonto Creek. The Arizona State University, Office of Cultural Resource Management, Roosevelt Platform Mound Study (RPMS) divided the Cline Terrace Complex into three management groups: the Mound, Bandolero, and Indian Point management groups. The Cline Terrace Mound group included the Cline Terrace mound, which is...
Cline Mesa Data: Shell Artifacts from Screened Contexts (1997)
The Cline Mesa archaeological sites are part of an extensive settlement complex called the Cline Terrace Complex at the northwestern end of the Tonto Basin, along the eastern bank of Tonto Creek. The Arizona State University, Office of Cultural Resource Management, Roosevelt Platform Mound Study (RPMS) divided the Cline Terrace Complex into three management groups: the Mound, Bandolero, and Indian Point management groups. The Cline Terrace Mound group included the Cline Terrace mound, which is...
Cline Mesa Data: Shell Taxa from All Contexts (1997)
The Cline Mesa archaeological sites are part of an extensive settlement complex called the Cline Terrace Complex at the northwestern end of the Tonto Basin, along the eastern bank of Tonto Creek. The Arizona State University, Office of Cultural Resource Management, Roosevelt Platform Mound Study (RPMS) divided the Cline Terrace Complex into three management groups: the Mound, Bandolero, and Indian Point management groups. The Cline Terrace Mound group included the Cline Terrace mound, which is...
Cline Mesa Data: Shell Taxa from Screened Contexts (1997)
The Cline Mesa archaeological sites are part of an extensive settlement complex called the Cline Terrace Complex at the northwestern end of the Tonto Basin, along the eastern bank of Tonto Creek. The Arizona State University, Office of Cultural Resource Management, Roosevelt Platform Mound Study (RPMS) divided the Cline Terrace Complex into three management groups: the Mound, Bandolero, and Indian Point management groups. The Cline Terrace Mound group included the Cline Terrace mound, which is...
Cline Mesa Data: Special Artifacts from All Contexts (1997)
The Cline Mesa archaeological sites are part of an extensive settlement complex called the Cline Terrace Complex at the northwestern end of the Tonto Basin, along the eastern bank of Tonto Creek. The Arizona State University, Office of Cultural Resource Management, Roosevelt Platform Mound Study (RPMS) divided the Cline Terrace Complex into three management groups: the Mound, Bandolero, and Indian Point management groups. The Cline Terrace Mound group included the Cline Terrace mound, which is...
Cline Mesa Data: Special Artifacts from Screened Contexts (1997)
The Cline Mesa archaeological sites are part of an extensive settlement complex called the Cline Terrace Complex at the northwestern end of the Tonto Basin, along the eastern bank of Tonto Creek. The Arizona State University, Office of Cultural Resource Management, Roosevelt Platform Mound Study (RPMS) divided the Cline Terrace Complex into three management groups: the Mound, Bandolero, and Indian Point management groups. The Cline Terrace Mound group included the Cline Terrace mound, which is...
Collections Inventory of the Roland Robbins Archaeological Collection from the Hancock-Clarke House, Lexington, Massachusetts (2009)
The Hancock-Clarke House in Lexington, Massachusetts, was home to the town’s 18th-century ministers and their families. In order to preserve the house, the Lexington Historical Society purchased it and moved it across the street in 1896. In the 1960s, they acquired the house’s original site and arranged for excavations by Roland Robbins prior to moving the house back to its traditional location. Robbins relocated the foundation of the house and also discovered four previously unknown cellar...
Completion of Archaeological Fieldwork at the La Plaza Hohokam Village Site, AZ U:9:165(ASM), for the Tempe Transportation Center (2007)
The City of Tempe is building the Tempe Transportation Center adjacent to the Central Phoenix/East Valley Light Rail Transit Project that Valley Metro is constructing. The transportation center project includes construction of a “green” three-story building in the western part of the site and a bus plaza in the eastern part of the site adjacent to a transit station. Planning studies concluded that the construction of the transportation center could adversely affect a large Hohokam archaeological...
Condition Report for Fort Hill Rural Historic District Cape Cod National Seashore (2007)
This Condition Report for the Fort Hill Rural Historic District of Cape Cod National Seashore reviews previous documentation of the cultural landscape and provides an updated evaluation of the condition of the property as well as updated guidance for both day-to-day and long-term landscape management and interpretation. This report consists of a historical overview, an inventory of existing conditions, and a review of the significance of landscape characteristics and features. Based on...
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...
The Courson Archeological Projects: Final 1985 and Preliminary 1986 (1987)
In 1984, Harold Courson acquired the Sam Handly ranch in the Wolf Creek Valley. For years the Handly ranch was famous for a series of stone-outlined features known as the Buried City. Appreciation of these archeological sites led Courson, in 1985, to retain archeologist David T. Hughes for an assessment of the scientific value of two sites endangered by erosion . The work has since expanded to include excavation at other sites and a survey of the Courson properties. Based on the findings of the...
Creamware Teapot Found in Feature 5 (2014)
Left to Right: Teapot (PCN 774, 775, 966, 967, 968, 972, 973; 250c); Lid (PCN 775; 250c).
Cultural Resource Investigations in Conjunction with the Replacement of Locks and Dams 7 and 8, Monongahela River, Pennsylvania and West Virginia (1986)
GAI Consultants, Inc., conducted cultural resource investigations at five locales in preparation for the U S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE) proposed replacement of Locks and Dams 7 and 8, USACE subject property Grays Landing, on the Monongahela River in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The investigations included the survey of approximately two miles of floodplain at Grays Landing, Pennsylvania; the investigation of historic potteries at New Geneva and Greensboro, Pennsylvania; the investigation...
Cultural Resource Survey of the Shade Tree Tract (2006)
In January, August, and September 2005, Brockington and Associates, Inc., conducted a cultural resources survey of the 142.1-hectare Shade Tree tract, located on Johns Island, Charleston County, South Carolina. This survey included a background review and the systematic excavation of shovel tests at 5, 15, and 30 meter intervals across the upland portions of the project tract. All dirt roads on the tract were visually inspected.
Cultural Resources Extent Testing of 4.6 Acres Partially within the site of La Lomita (AZ U:9:67[ASM]), for the Mountain Park Health Center Gateway Site, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona (2013)
Northland Research, Inc. (Northland) has completed archaeological testing within a 4.6-acre parcel in Phoenix. The project was conducted because the Hohokam site of La Lomita (AZ U:9:67[ASM]/AZ U:9:24[ASU]/P:3:4[GP]) and a prehistoric irrigation canal are plotted within the area of investigation. Roughly the northern 2.7 acres of the parcel fall within the recorded boundary of La Lomita. The remaining 1.9 acres fall within the 250-foot buffer around the recorded site boundaries that requires...
Cultural Resources Investigation of the Proposed Jenkins Hill Estates Subdivision Near La Grange, Tuolumne County, California. (1999)
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.
A Cultural Resources Monitoring Plan for the EPNG Line No. 1103 Anomaly Repair at AZ AA:16:44 (ASM), Pima County, Arizona (2003)
This cultural resources monitoring plan was developed at the request of El Paso Corporation (El Paso) as part of El Paso’s pipeline integrity project, specifically relating to an anomaly repair on Line No. 1103 within the boundaries of the Salida del Sol Hohokam site (AZ AA:16:44[ASM]) in Pima County, Arizona. El Paso proposes to install a split sleeve over the anomaly, which is located on land owned by El Paso Corporation, but the proposed construction will require the excavation to extend...
A Cultural Resources Study of a 223 Acre Parcel Near Valley Springs, Calaveras County, California (1994)
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.
Cultural Resources Survey and Evaluative Testing of the Battery Gaillard Tract (2005)
Brockington and Associates, Inc., conducted an intensive cultural resources survey and evaluative testing of the 22 acre Battery Gaillard Tract (TMS 355-13-00-001), Lots 49 and 50 of the Magnolia Ranch subdivision (TMS 355-09-00-079 and 355-09-00-080, respectively), as well as a 1.4 acre marsh lot (TMS 355-09-00-092) in Charleston County, South Carolina in April and July 2004. These investigations involved background research, systematic shovel testing, ground penetrating radar survey, and...
Cultural Resources Survey for the SRP Browning-to-Dinosaur Substations 500kV/230kV Transmission Line, Maricopa and Pinal Counties, Arizona (2005)
This report presents the results of a Class III cultural resources survey of the right-of-way corridor and associated work areas for a new double circuit 500kV/230kV transmission line to be built between the existing Salt River Project (SRP) Browning Substation in Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona and the proposed SRP Dinosaur Substation located on unincorporated, state-owned land east of Queen Creek in Pinal County, Arizona. The survey was requested by...
Cultural Resources Survey of the Salt River Project Canals, Maricopa County, Arizona (1998)
At the request of the Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office, Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) conducted a Class III (Intensive), non-collection cultural resources survey of approximately 170 miles of the Arizona, Arizona Crosscut, Grand, Tempe, Tempe Crosscut, Consolidated, Eastern, South, Western, Highline, and Kyrene Branch Canals in Maricopa County, Arizona. The canals, which are owned by the Reclamation, are maintained and operated by the Salt River Project (SRP). The...
Cultural Resources Survey of the Salt River Project Canals, Maricopa County, Arizona, Revised (1998)
Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) conducted a Class III (Intensive), non-collection cultural resources survey on approximately 170 miles of the Arizona, Arizona Crosscut, Grand, Tempe, Tempe Crosscut, Consolidated, Eastern, South, Western, Highline, and Kyrene Branch Canals in Maricopa County, Arizona. The survey was undertaken at the request of Jon S. Czaplicki, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) archaeologist and Contracting Officer's Technical Representative for Contract...
Cultural Resources Testing at Las Canopas (AZ T:12:137[ASM]), Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona (2005)
Northland has completed cultural resources testing at two parcels. During the project, 83 trenches were mechanically excavated, totaling 1,613.3 meters. Trenches were roughly 20 m long, 65 cm wide, and 1.5 m deep. They were laid out in a checkerboard pattern across both loci, with trenches spaced 40 m apart east-west. This equates to approximately a 1.25 percent subsurface sample of the 20.7 acre project area. Testing confirmed the presence of features associated with Las Canopas (AZ...
Dainzú-Macuilxóchitl Archaeological Project
This archive contains all of the data derived from field research at the site of Dainzú-Macuilxóchitl in the Oaxaca Valley of Mexico. This is a multi-year project consisting of intensive survey and mapping, as well as comprehensive excavations. The mapping and survey are designed to provide a detailed topographic map of the site and provide a basic temporal and spatial settlement description. Intensive excavations are focused on residential areas. This project has been financially supported...
Data Recovery Investigation of Clay Hill Plantation (38DR375), Dorchester County, South Carolina (2018)
Archaeological investigations at 38DR375-Locus 1 identified two distinct occupations: an early eighteenth- to mid-nineteenth-century occupation related to Clay Hill Plantation activities and a late nineteenth- to early twentieth-century tenant farm settlement. These investigations identified multiple activity areas, including six distinct structures (Structures 1-6), across 38DR375-Locus 1, all of which formed part of the former Clay Hill Plantation settlement. These structures include a privy...