Formative (Temporal Keyword)

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Analyses of Archaeological Use-Wear on Artifacts Recovered from the Salado Draw Watershed, Lea County, New Mexico (2023)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Samuel Cason.

This lithic use-wear study is a component of an undertaking entitled Salado Draw Archaeological Survey, Small-scale Excavation, and Geomorphological Characterization, GSA Contract No. GS-10F-0396P. The work was commissioned by the U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Carlsbad Field Office (CFO) as part of research carried out under the Permian Basin Programmatic Agreement, Blanket Purchase Agreement No. 11, Contract No. L14PA00010. It addresses Task 16 (lithic use-wear and...


Archaeobotanical Data and Site Reports for El Ujuxte and La Blanca, Guatemala Excavations
PROJECT Michael Love.

These are the raw data files associated with the analysis of archaeobotanical remains recovered from excavations of the Middle Formative La Blanca and Late Formative El Ujuxte, Guatemala. Aside from the raw botanical data, these files include the 1996,1997, and 2000 informes from El Ujuxte and the 2005 and 2008 informes from La Blanca.


Archaeological and Geomorphological Investigations along Salado Draw, Lea County, New Mexico. Public Poster (2023)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Samuel Cason.

This is a public audience poster that summarizes multiple facets of a multi-part archaeological and geomorphology study. It is a component of an undertaking entitled Salado Draw Archaeological Survey, Small-scale Excavation, and Geomorphological Characterization, GSA Contract No. GS-10F-0396P. The work was commissioned by the U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Carlsbad Field Office (CFO) as part of research carried out under the Permian Basin Programmatic Agreement,...


Archaeological Investigations in the Salado Draw Watershed, Lea County, New Mexico—A Public Education Report, Technical Report 23-135, Statistical Research, Inc. (2023)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Samuel Cason.

This public education is a component of an undertaking entitled Salado Draw Archaeological Survey, Small-scale Excavation, and Geomorphological Characterization, GSA Contract No. GS-10F-0396P. The work was commissioned by the U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Carlsbad Field Office (CFO) as part of research carried out under the Permian Basin Programmatic Agreement, Blanket Purchase Agreement No. 11, Contract No. L14PA00010. It addresses Task 17 (public education report)...


Archaeological Survey and Small-Scale Excavation in the Salado Draw Watershed, Lea County, New Mexico (redacted) (2023)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Samuel Cason. Michael Heilen. Phillip Leckman. Taylor McCoy.

This report is a component of an undertaking entitled Salado Draw Archaeological Survey, Small-Scale Excavation, and Geomorphological Characterization, General Services Administration Contract No. GS- 10F-0396P. The work was commissioned by the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Manage- ment– (BLM–) Carlsbad Field Office (CFO) as part of research to be carried out under the Permian Basin Programmatic Agreement, Blanket Purchase Agreement No. 11, Contract No. L14PA00010. It...


Connectivity from the Southwest to the Southern Northern Periphery Interaction Between West-Central Colorado and the Mesa Verde Region (2008)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Todd McMahon.

Formative period archaeological sites in West-Central Colorado have stimulated debate and discussion related to its archaeological cultural classification. Indirect evidence and comparisons with recent artifact analysis for neighboring areas to the north and west of this region suggests that pan-Ancestral Puebloan culture influenced this area from 200 B.C. till A.D.1200. This interaction resulted either by trade and emulation or was developed by an earlier migration into the area. West-Central...


Cultural Resources Management Plan for Fort Huachuca Military Reservation, Arizona (1997)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Carla R. Van West. Mark T. Swanson. Jeffrey Altschul.

This Cultural Resource Management Plan (CRMP) describes Fort Huachuca's legal responsibility for management of its cultural resources and summarizes what is known about its archaeological and historical-period properties. As of the fall of 1994, 343 prehistoric and historical-period components occurring as 315 reported archaeological sites have been recorded on Fort Huachuca. Two hundred and fifty-one components are prehistoric, 92 are historical period, and 28 are dual prehistoric-historical...


A Cultural Resources Survey of the Bush Highway for the Bush Highway Overlay Project: Power Road to State Route 87 (2015)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Hoski Schaafsma. Diane Fenicle. Jill Heilman.

The Maricopa County Department of Transportation (MCDOT) is planning a pavement preservation project along the Bush Highway from Power Road to just south of State Route (SR) 87 (also known as the Beeline Highway), Maricopa County, Arizona (Figure 1). MCDOT tasked EcoPlan Associates, Inc. (EcoPlan) with cultural resource survey in advance of road improvement. The results of the survey are presented in this report.


Formative Settlements on the Pinaleno Mountains Bajada: Results of Phased Archaeological Treatment of Sites AZ CC:6:40 and AZ CC:6:43 (ASM) within the U.S. Highway 191 Right-of-Way between Mileposts 110.40 and 117.60 south of Safford, Graham County, Arizona (2004)
DOCUMENT Full-Text David E. Purcell.

Data recovery at two prehistoric archaeological sites along U.S. Highway 191 south of Safford in Graham County, southeastern Arizona.


Geomorphology and Geoarchaeology Investigations in the Salado Draw Watershed, Lea County, New Mexico (2023)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jill Onken.

The unusually high concentration of Paleoindian period sites in the Salado Draw area provides a unique opportunity to gain significant new knowledge about the Paleoindian period occupation of southeastern New Mexico. In addition to Paleoindian period materials—which include Clovis, Folsom, Dalton, Plainview, Midland, Angostura, Golondrina, and Wilson projectile points—the Salado Draw project area also contains site components dating to the Archaic, Formative, and historical periods. This study,...


MACROFLORAL ANALYSIS AT SITE LA 32078, NEW MEXICO (2010)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Floated light fractions from features at site LA 32078 on the White Sands Missile Range in south-central New Mexico were examined for macrofloral remains. Individual botanic, charcoal, and wood samples from these features also were identified. This site is an Early Formative Period, Jornado Mogollon, Mesilla phase (A.D. 200-A.D. 1000) habitation site containing shallow hut-type structures, shallow and deep pit structures, a small hearth/thermal feature, large bell-shaped pits, one small and...


ORGANIC RESIDUE (FTIR) ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES FROM SITES LA 37113, LA 37127, LA 37130, LA 37149, LA 37155, LA 37156, LA 37175, LA 161979, AND LA 162325, MCGREGOR RANGE, FORT BLISS MILITARY RESERVATION, NEW MEXICO (2010)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Melissa K. Logan.

Twenty burned limestone rocks and associated sediment samples from Formative and Archaic components of rock-lined baking pits at sites LA 37113, LA 37127, LA 37130, LA 37149, LA 37155, LA 37156, LA 37175, LA 161979, and LA 162325 on McGregor Range at the Fort Bliss Military Reservation in New Mexico were submitted for organic residue analysis. Of the samples submitted, nine burned rocks and associated sediment samples were selected for organic residue analysis based on their ability to provide a...


Permian Basin BPA#9: Archaeological Survey of Ring Midden Sites in the CFO District (2024)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: David Unruh

The BPA#9 project was developed under the Permian Basin Mitigation Program to conduct an intensive survey and inventory of approximately 60,000 acres within seven individual parcels of land situated across the foothills of the Guadalupe and Sacramento Mountains. Combined, these seven study units constitute the project area. Statistical Research, Inc. (SRI), was contracted by the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Carlsbad Field Office (CFO) to perform this survey,...


POLLEN AND MACROFLORAL ANALYSIS AT THE HOT SPRING LAKE SITE, 42DV2,UTAH (2001)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Samples from the Hot Spring Lake site, 42DV2, were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. Individual charcoal samples were identified prior to submission for radiocarbon analysis. Site 42DV2 is a large, open, multicomponent site located near the southeast edge of the Great Salt Lake in northern Utah. This site exhibits extensive Archaic and Late Prehistoric and some Formative/Fremont deposits. Pollen and macrofloral analyses were undertaken specifically to provide information...


POLLEN, STARCH, PHYTOLlTH, AND MACROFLORAL ANALYSIS OF RESIDUE AND MACROFLORAL ANALYSIS OF BASKETRY MATERIAL FROM THE PECTOL COLLECTION, UTAH (2001)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Surface scrapings from the interior of a Fremont grayware cooking vessel were examined for pollen, starches, and phytoliths in an effort to determine the food or foods cooked. In addition, two residue samples were collected and examined from the interior of a large parching tray. Structural elements of this parching tray also were identified. These samples are part of the Pectol Collection consisting of Formative (Fremont) and Late Prehistoric artifacts that were collected by a private...


Population and History in the Ancient Titicaca Basin (2001)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Matthew Bandy

Matthew Bandy's doctoral dissertation, reporting the results of a settlement survey of 98 square kilometers on the Taraco Peninsula, an area of the Tiwanaku Heartland in the southern Titicaca Basin.


A Prehistoric Context for Southern Nevada (2012)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Heidi Roberts

In 2010 the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), Lower Colorado Region, obtained funding through the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act (SNPLMA) as a Southern Nevada Agency Partnership sponsored project to synthesize these new data and update Margaret Lyneis’ prehistoric context. Toward this goal, HRA Inc., Conservation Archaeology was selected by Reclamation to incorporate the new archaeological data and update the Prehistoric Context for Federal land managers, et al., to use for...


PROTEIN RESIDUE ANALYSIS FOR SAMPLES FROM SITES LA 37155, LA 37127, LA 37130, LA 37156, LA 37175, AND LA 162325, FORT BLISS MILITARY RESERVATION, NEW MEXICO (2010)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Linda Scott Cummings.

A total of 15 stone artifacts that included stones from rock-lined pits, plane scrapers and agave knives were submitted for protein residue analysis from several Archaic and Formative period sites located within the Fort Bliss Military Reservation. Previous to this study, burned limestone rocks were submitted to PaleoResearch for organic (FTIR) analysis from these same sites, as well as from a few other sites in the general area (Logan 2010). FTIR analysis was successful in detecting plant...


Proyecto La Blanca/El Ujuxte (PROBLALUX) Investigaciones Arqueológicas de La Blanca, Guatemala, Temporada 2006 Informe Final (2008)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Thomas Hart

Site report for the 2006 excavation season at La Blanca, Guatemala.


Results of the Salado Draw Archaeological Starch Pilot Study, Lea County, New Mexico. Statistical Research, Inc., Technical Report 22-131 (2023)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Perry.

This starch identification study is a component of an undertaking entitled Salado Draw Archaeological Survey, Small-scale Excavation, and Geomorphological Characterization, GSA Contract No. GS-10F-0396P. The work was commissioned by the U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Carlsbad Field Office (CFO) as part of research carried out under the Permian Basin Programmatic Agreement, Blanket Purchase Agreement No. 11, Contract No. L14PA00010. It addresses Task 15 (starch...


Taraco Pensinula Archaeological Survey
PROJECT Uploaded by: Matthew Bandy

Systematic Survey of about 98 km2 of the Taraco Peninsula in Bolivia, conducted in the late 1990s.


Wearing Culture: Dress and Regalia in Early Mesoamerica and Central America (2014)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Chelsea Walter

Wearing Culture connects scholars of divergent geographical areas and academic fields-from archaeologists and anthropologists to art historians-to show the significance of articles of regalia and of dressing and ornamenting people and objects among the Formative period cultures of ancient Mesoamerica and Central America. Documenting the elaborate practices of costume, adornment, and body modification in Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Oaxaca, the Soconusco region of southern...