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.

426-450 (548 Records)

Proposed Mead to Phoenix 500kV DC Transmission Line Project: Appendix D: Eastwing Substation and Westwing Substation Expansion: Archaeological Surveys (1983)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Donald R. Keller. Donald E. Weaver, Jr..

Two proposed substation site alternatives along the Agua Fria River were surveyed for archaeological resources by the Museum of Northern Arizona in December 1982. One small previously recorded potsherd concentration and a number of isolated artifacts were located within the Westwing area. An extensive Hohokam site was located within the Eastwing parcel, along with a segment of the historic Marinette Heading Canal. The Westwing substation alternative is strongly recommended in preference to the...


PUEBLO ON THE PLAINS: THE SECOND SEASON OF INVESTIGATIONS AT THE MERCHANT SITE IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO Volume 1 (2021)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Myles Miller. Timothy B. Graves. Charles Frederick. Mark Willis. John D Speth. J. Phillip Dering. Susan J. Smith. Crystal Dozier. John G. Jones. Jeremy Loven. Genevieve Woodhead. Jeffery Ferguson. Mary Ownby.

This report presents the results of the second season of investigations at the Merchant village site (LA 43414) in southeastern New Mexico. The excavations and analyses were sponsored by the Carlsbad Field Office (CFO) of the Bureau of Land Management and funded under the Permian Basin Programmatic Agreement. Excavations focused on sections of room blocks in two areas of the main village, the agricultural fields, and midden deposits.


PUEBLO ON THE PLAINS: THE SECOND SEASON OF INVESTIGATIONS AT THE MERCHANT SITE IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW MEXICO Volume 2 (2021)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Myles Miller. Timothy B. Graves. Charles Frederick. Mark Willis. John D Speth. J. Phillip Dering. Susan J. Smith. Crystal Dozier. John G. Jones. Jeremy Loven. Genevieve Woodhead. Jeffery Ferguson. Mary Ownby.

This report presents the results of the second season of investigations at the Merchant village site (LA 43414) in southeastern New Mexico. The excavations and analyses were sponsored by the Carlsbad Field Office (CFO) of the Bureau of Land Management and funded under the Permian Basin Programmatic Agreement. Excavations focused on sections of room blocks in two areas of the main village, the agricultural fields, and midden deposits.


Pueblo Viejo: Archaeological Investigations at a Classic Period Cemetery in El Reposo Park, Phoenix, Arizona (1993)
DOCUMENT Full-Text M. Zyniecki.

The City of Phoenix sponsored a voluntary archaeological project at the proposed location of a new recreation building. The project area is within the large Hohokam village of Pueblo Viejo, AZ T:12:73(ASM). The village was occupied from the Colonial period through the Classic period and covers about 640 acres. Field work at the site was conducted between March 30 and April 14, 1992, by a crew of four. Post-excavation monitoring of utility trenches by a single archaeologist took place September...


pXRF Chemical Signatures for Obsidian Sample from Terrace S19, Cerro Danush (2013)
DATASET Ronald Faulseit.

These are the raw data recorded for particular trace metals from the pXRF detector. The provenience of each piece is reported. For further information on provenience or the sample, consult the project report 2010


pXRF Obsidian Sample Data from Terrace S25, Cerro Danush (2015)
DATASET Ronald Faulseit.

These are the provenience, description, and measurement data for the obsidian pieces analyzed through pXRF from Terrace S25 on Cerro Danush. See Project Report 2015 for further information on proveniences and such.


pXRF Results for Obsidian Sample from Terrace S19, Cerro Danush (2013)
DATASET Ronald Faulseit.

These are the results from the pXRF analysis of just under 300 pieces, mostly prismatic blades, collected on Terrace S19, Cerro Danush during the 2009-2010 field season. For more specific information on the project, please consult the Project Report from 2010.


pXRF Results for Obsidian Sample from Terrace S25, Cerro Danush (2015)
DATASET Uploaded by: Ronald Faulseit

This file contains the results of pXRF analysis from the obsidian collected during excavations of the residences on Terrace S25, Cerro Danush, Dainzú-Macuilxóchitl


Quarterly Progress Report, National Park Service Activities with the Cooperation of the Smithsonian Institution, 1966 (1966)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Smithsonian Institution, Missouri Basin Project.

This document contains three quarterly progress reports from Fiscal Year 1966. These statements are intended to provide the Field Committee with a summary of archeological studies within the Missouri Basin, undertaken by the River Basin Surveys of the Smithsonian Institution in cooperation with the National Park Service and other agencies.


Radiocarbon Analysis Report, Beta Analytic (2010)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Ronald Faulseit.

This file contains the report from Beta Analytic regarding their analysis of 10 charcoal samples collected during the 2010 project. For more information on sample provenience and collection methods, please read the Project Report for 2010


Radiocarbon Analysis Report, Center for Applied Isotope Studies, UGA (2015)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Ronald Faulseit

This file includes the radiocarbon analysis report for 18 charcoal samples collected during the 2015 field season on Terrace S25, Cerro Danush. Because the lab did not conduct the calibrations, I conducted them using the program Calib v. 7.1, which uses the program intcall13.14c, (Stuiver and Reimer 1993).


Recent Archeological Salvage Operations in the Missouri Basin (1955)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard Wheeler.

This is a reprint from “Progress, Missouri River Basin,” a Quarterly Report of the Interior Missouri Basin Field Committee, October-December, 1955. This document reports on archeological projects carried out during the summer of 1955. Three field units of the Missouri Basin Project of the Smithsonian Institution River Basin Surveys and four field parties sponsored by State institutions, in cooperation with the National Park Service, carried out archeological projects in two dam and reservoir...


Recent Investigations of the Barranca Canal at the Dutch Canal Ruin, NANT Property, Phoenix, Arizona (2014)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Gary Huckleberry. T. Kathleen Henderson. Connie A. Darby.

The results of data recovery investigations of a prehistoric canal within the city-owned NANT property are presented in this report. The canal was identified in June 2012, while boundary testing the southern limits of the prehistoric site, Dutch Canal Ruin, AZ T:12:62 (ASM), and could be recognized as a continuation of the Barranca Canal, a previously identified alignment within the Canal Patricio System, AZ T:12:131 (ASM). Because testing had established that archaeological resources...


The Reeve Ruin of Southeastern Arizona (1958)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Charles C. Di Peso.

Archaeologists interested in the prehistory of the Gila-Salt drainage of southern Arizona proposed that a group of Pueblo people termed the Salado, moved into the desert area of northern Pimeria Alta sometime during the Classic Period of the Hohokam historical continuum. Although this hypothesis has become a tradition, certain researchers have, on occasion, questioned its validity. The Amerind Foundation, Inc., after working for a number of years in historic contact sites in Pimeria Alta, turned...


Remedial Archaeological Investigations at Sites 44PG179 and 44PG243, Fort Lee (FL1989.001)
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During the latter part of October 1988, MAAR Associates, Inc. (MAI) conducted field work for the remedial archaeological investigations of sites 44PG179 and 44PG243 located at Fort Lee, Prince George County, Virginia. The investigations consisted of both on-site archaeological excavations and additional historical research which were conducted in order to assess the results of disturbance impacts caused by earth-moving activity at the two sites. The following report presents the findings of the...


Remedial Archaeology Investigations at Sites 44PG179 and 44PG243, Fort Lee, Virginia (1989)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Harding Polk II.

Archaeological investigations were conducted at two previously recorded sites at Fort Lee (44PG179 and 44PG243) by MAAR Associates, Inc. (MAI) for the Norfolk District of the Army Corps of Engineers. The investigations were performed as a result of surface disturbances from unauthorized heavy equipment activity in order to determine if these disturbances impacted any potential cultural resources. Other than the initial inventory survey, site 44PG243 has never been subjected to archaeological...


Replacement of Locks and Dams 7 and 8 Monongahela River 1986
PROJECT Beverly A. Mitchum. US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District. US Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District.

GAI Consultants, Inc. conducted cultural resource investigations from May to August 1985 and again from July to August 1986 at five locales in preparation for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed replacement of Locks and Dams 7 and 8 on the Monongahela River in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The principal investigator was Beverly A. Mitchum and the project manger was Robert J. Houston. The study consisted of a review of the archaeological sites within one-half-kilometer of the Monongahela...


Report of Results of Archaeological Testing for a Portion of Canal Patricio at The Lofts at McKinley Property, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona (2011)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Paige Florie. Michael Droz. Glennda Gene Luhnow.

The Archaeological Review prepared by the City of Phoenix Archaeology Office for the project (dated 8/17/2010) identified the projected location of a previously unverified segment of Canal Patricio in a small area at the far southwestern edge of the project Area of Potential Effect (APE). The projected location of this canal was based on review of Howard’s (1991 [1992]) Central Phoenix Basin Archaeological Map. As a result, an archaeological canal testing program was required for the property...


Report on 4 Possible Archaeological Sites in Annapolis (1963)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Henry T. III Wright. Historic Annapolis, Inc..

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.


Report on the Archaeological Investigation of Buried Trash Deposits Uncovered at Indian Springs AFAF PHASE I and II (1999)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith Myhrer.

Report on Phase II investigations of a historic trash pit. The buried trash consisted of aqua colored alcohol bottles (40%), ceramic dishes (may be soap dishes) (15%), cans (5%), cut bovine bones (30%), burned wood (5%), and small objects (including a burned shoe) (5%).


Representative Eighteenth Century Buttons (2014)
IMAGE RGA Inc. . Allison Gall.

Left to Right: Brass Button (PCN 997); Brass Button (PCN 970); Pewter USA Button (PCN 960); White Metal Button (PCN 1035); Decorative Button (PCN 1083).


Representative Teaware (2014)
IMAGE RGA Inc. . Allison Gall.

Top Row, Left to Right: Wheildonware (PCN 1089; 4c); White Salt Glazed Stoneware (PCN 1112; 27c); Earthenware Teapot (PCN 1087; 114c). Bottom Row, Left to Right: China Glaze Saucer (PCN 970; 1); Porcelain (PCN 1087); Porcelain (PCN 1086); Porcelain Saucer (PCN 1086; 23c).


Research Design for the Archeological Survey of Cape Cod National Seashore, McManamon 1979 (1979)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Francis McManamon.

This research has two general goals: first, to identify the physical characteristics and estimate the numbers and locations of archeological sites within Cape Cod National Seashore (CACO); second, to assess the significance of these sites according to the information they might provide about history, prehistory, specific past ways of life and general patterns of human behavior.


Research Design: For Archaeological Data Recovery Along the Salt River Project Coronado Coal Haul Railroad (1990)
DOCUMENT Full-Text David H. Greenwald. Richard V. N. Ahlstrom. Mark L. Chenault.

The following document constitutes a research design for archaeological data recovery within planned expansions of the Salt River Project Coronado Coal Haul Railroad.The project area is located in Apache County, Arizona, south of Interstate 40 near the town of Navajo. Three sites were listed in the project RFP and specific information regarding the impacts to those sites and the location of the sites in relation to the Coal Haul Railroad were provided in that document. The research design is...


Results of Archaeological Testing and Data Recovery Plan for the Hillcrest Development, Avondale, Maricopa County, Arizona: The Cashion Site, AZ T:11:39 (ASM) (2006)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Banks L. Leonard. David R. Abbott. Cory Dale Breternitz. John D. Gooding. Gary Huckleberry.

Archaeological testing was conducted in seven parcels of private land in two contiguous areas in and near the large prehistoric village known as the Cashion Site, AZ T:11:39 (ASM). The area is planned for development that will result in impacts to cultural resources. Part of the project area was nominated to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) because it includes the approximate location of the prehistoric site, but the boundary of the area nominated was arbitrarily drawn using...