Archives of Archaeology

DOCUMENT Full-Text Alan P. Olson.

During the winter of 1959-1960, Transwestern Pipeline Inc. and Gulf Interstate Co. constructed a 30 inch transmission pipeline form Texas to the California border. The Museum of Northern Arizona, in agreement with the National Park Service, provided the personnel for archaeological salvage on a portion of the line across northern Arizona. The project was under the overall direction of Charles R. Steen and Zorro A. Bradley of the Southwestern Region Headquarters of the National Park Service in...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas W. McKern.

The data on skeletal materials from the vicinity of Santa Barbara, California, including the islands of San Miguel, Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz, have appeared periodically in anthropometric studies of the California Indians. The following pages are concerned with the description of skeletal material from a prehistoric group of California Indians. The skeletons which form the subject of this report were the result of two summers (1927, 1928) archaeological work on the island of Santa Cruz in the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David A. Baerreis. John E. Dallman.

During the months of July and August, 1956, excavations were conducted by a University of Wisconsin field party at four village sites on the Missouri River in the vicinity of Mobridge, South Dakota. The field work formed part of the salvage operations in this region which was soon to be flooded by water impounded behind a dam constructed near the city of Pierre. The selection of the sites for study was based on a brief reconnaissance of the area made in April, 1956, in the company of Paul L....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Wilbur A. Davis. James W. Leach. W. S. Laughlin.

The Katmai Project was organized by the Washington, D.C., office of the National Parks Service. Initial planning and the program of procedure was worked out by the National Park Service during the fall and winter of 1952-53. The purpose of the project was scientific analysis of the resources of the Katmai National Monument, which is situated on the Alaska peninsula. The division of Archaeology and History of the Katmai Project was placed under the direction of Dr. William S. Laughlin of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joan E. Freeman. A. Elkins.

During the month of May, 1938, archaeological excavations were begun and completed in a cave (D1-30) which was located in the bluffs on the west side of Woodward Hollow in Delaware County, Oklahoma. The excavation of this site as well as the excavation of other sites, was conducted in the area of Delaware County bordering the Grand or Neosho River, an area which was flooded by water which backed up in the river valley after the construction of a dam near Langley. The entire salvage program,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Donald L. Brockington.

During February and March, 1962, excavations were conducted at Sipolite, near Puerto angel, Oaxaca, Mexico. The purpose of the excavation was to establish a cultural sequence and to study its interconnections with other pasts of Mesoamerica and to investigate possible relationships with central and South America. This report examines several Mesoamerican ceramic traditions through both a descriptive and statistical analysis. The report is a revised version of a dissertation presented in 1965...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David A. Baerreis. John J. Solon.

In 1960, at its annual meeting, the Society for American Archaeology authorized the establishment of a new publication series making use of Microcards as the medium of publication. This move toward a condensed, durable, and accessible medium of publishing archaeological data and reports was viewed as a new approach to preservation technology in 1960. The University of Wisconsin was chosen to publish the series and a total of 29 archaeological reports were published on as the Archives of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Alfred E. Johnson. Raymond H. Thompson.

During the summer of 1962, the archaeological field school of the University of Arizona conducted excavations at the Ringo site situated on the west slope of the Chiricahua Mountains in Cochise County, Arizona. The Ringo site was essentially Mogollon with late additions from the Western Pueblo region. It was occupied in the period between A.D. 1250 and 1325. Significant information derived from the site is summarized in AMERICAN ANTIQUITY, Vol. 28, No. 4. The present report includes detailed...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thales de Azevedo. Maria David de Azevedo.

This original paper was presented by the author at a conference on folklore in 1957 and examines the pottery pipes manufactured in rural areas of the State of Bahia. Editor David A. Baerreis encouraged the author to publish this study in the ARCHIVES OF ARCHAEOLOGY in an effort to present the information to a wider audience. The following report is published in its original Portuguese. The Archives of Archaeology Series is a 29-volume set jointly published by the University of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text George C. Vaillant.

This thesis on the "Chronological Significance of Maya Ceramics" was undertaken by George C. Vaillant at the behest of Dr. A. M. Tozzer in August 1926, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Harvard University. It forms a part of research undertaken while a graduate student in the Division of Anthropology on the ceramics of North America. This thesis is an early attempt to correlate Mayan ceramics with strata of known age. The Archives of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David A. Baerreis. Reid A. Bryson.

During the summer of 1963 archaeological excavations were conducted in a series of Mill Creek components in northwestern Iowa. The objectives of the research were to determine the extent to which culture change in this late prehistoric culture might be related to climatic factors and specifically apply a battery of techniques that might reveal the nature of climate changes during the time period under consideration. The specific investigation might properly be said to have been stimulated buy...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joseph Tiffany.

The Archives of Archaeology Series is a 29-volume set jointly published by the University of Wisconsin Press and the Society for American Archaeology on opaque microcards, a now obsolete format. The Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center at the University of Wisconsin—La Crosse has digitized the original opaque microcards and made the digital copies available through tDAR. This article describes the digitization of the original records on opaque microcards.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Paul S. Martin. John B. Rinaldo. William A. Longacre.

This document is a catalog of all the stone, bone, shell and baked clay artifacts recovered at the Carter Ranch Site during the two seasons, 1961-1962, by the Southwest Archaeological Expedition of the Chicago Natural History Museum. A generalized description and specific dimensions of individual specimens are given along with other details. In addition, detailed site maps, showing the distribution of 175 elements of pottery designs at the Carter Ranch Site used in the analysis of stylistic...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Paul S. Martin. John B. Rinaldo. William A. Longacre. Leslie G. Freeman, Jr..

This report contains statistical and descriptive data that resulted form the excavation of eight villages and the reconnaissance of one hundred and seventy sites in east central Arizona. This information was gathered during 1959 and 1960 by the Southwest Archaeological Expeditions of the Chicago Natural History Museum under the leadership of Dr. Paul S. Martin. The sites investigated during this expedition included the Hooper Ranch Pueblo, the Rim Valley Pueblo, the Thode Site, three small...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Paul S. Martin. John B. Rinaldo. William A. Longacre.

This report includes the documentary materials pertaining to an archaeological reconnaissance and to the excavating of two archaeological sites in east central Arizona. This work was accomplished in 1959 by the Southwest Archaeological Expedition of the Chicago Natural History Museum. Classification, measurements, and proveniences of all stone and bone tools; complete pottery counts by rooms and levels; and a description of all sites observed on the archaeological survey are included...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Paul S. Martin. James N. Hill. William A. Longacre.

The data published herewith present all details of all artifacts excavated at Broken K Pueblo, Arizona, during the season of 1963. The descriptions include name of type; descriptive details, such as measurements, frequency of each type, find-spot; and complete rendering of all counts of potsherds by types, by levels and by provenience. These materials were recovered by the Southwest Archaeological Expedition of the Field Museum of Natural History under the direction of Martin, Hill, and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Floyd W. Sharrock.

This report examines the origins and presents a catalog of the artifacts that compose the Hazzard Collection. The Hazzard Collection consists of artifacts and human remains collected form Four Corners region during the late 19th century. The report consists of description, photographs, and provenience information that was compiled by the archaeologists at University of Utah. The Archives of Archaeology Series is a 29-volume set jointly published by the University of Wisconsin Press and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Albert H. Schroeder.

The Museum of Northern Arizona has spent a number of years sponsoring archaeological investigations which have led to defining the Sinagua culture in the neighborhood of the San Francisco Mountain area of northern Arizona. The Gila Pueblo Archaeological Foundation has devoted considerable research to the definition of the Hohokam in southern Arizona. Dr. Colton, in his various publications on the Sinagua, also demonstrated that the Hohokam up to about 1125 A.D. and the Sinagua from 1125 to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ellison Orr.

This document contains ten volumes of archaeological survey and excavation reports prepared by Ellison Orr between 1934 and 1939 for WPA archaeological projects in Iowa. The index and evaluation of the reports is provided by editor and compiler Marshall McKusick. The Archives of Archaeology Series is a 29-volume set jointly published by the University of Wisconsin Press and the Society for American Archaeology on opaque microcards, a now obsolete format. The Mississippi Valley...

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The possibility of an additional channel of Old World influence into northern North America besides the traditional Bering Strait route has been raised from time to time by such scholars as Frederica de Laguna, Henry B. Collins, Robert F. Heizer and Wendell Oswalt, who saw such influence as originating along the northeast coast of Asia (including the Japanese islands) and traveling thence via the Aleutians. A significant amount of archaeological field work and collecting has been carried out by...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chester S. Chard.

The purpose of this study is an attempt to analyze aboriginal Kamchadal culture in order to ascertain, insofar as possible, its origins, relationships, and role in the culture history of the North Pacific. It does not purport to be a complete ethnography, although it should serve as an introductory one. It was felt that instead of merely lining up raw materials for others to work on, it would be of more immediate value and use to culture historians to analyze them, selecting the significant...

DOCUMENT Full-Text B. K. Swartz.

The following study is the result of an appraisal of the petroglyph resources of the Klamath basin, in southwestern Oregon, conducted by the Klamath County Museum from 1959 to 1961. For purposes of this paper the Klamath Basin is defined as the watershed of the Klamath River on the east slope of the Cascade Mountains plus the Lost River interior drainage basin, an area of about 1000 square miles. This area closely corresponds to the territory historically inhabited by the Klamath-Modoc...

DOCUMENT Full-Text W. Raymond Wood.

The purpose of this study is to describe the remains from 25KX1, the Ponca Fort, and to assess the position of the site in Plains archaeology. While the ethnology of the Ponca has received some attention, the archaeology of the tribe is still subject for speculation. One of the objectives of the excavation program of the Nebraska State Archaeological Survey in north central Nebraska between 1933 and 1940 was to locate precisely and excavate a Ponca village site. Of the several sites...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James L. Swauger.

This document contains five reports on petroglyph surveys conducted during the summer of 1960 in the Upper Ohio Valley. These include the Francis Farm Petroglyph site (36 Fa 35), the New Geneva Petroglyph site (36 Fa 37), the Sugar Grove Petroglyph site (36 Gr 5), the Table Rock Petroglyph site (46 OH 36), and the Timmons Farm Petroglyph site (46 OH 64) which are located in both West Virginia and Pennsylvania. The Archives of Archaeology Series is a 29-volume set jointly published by...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Alfred E. Johnson. William W. Wasley.

Through contracts with the National Parks Service, archaeological salvage operations were conducted by the Arizona State Museum in the area of the Painted Rocks Reservoir, western Arizona. Three separate field projects were accomplished during a period extending from 1958 to 1961. The following tables are supplement to published reports for this project and contain basic data on the provenience of sherds and artifacts recovered during the excavations. All of the major sites are represented,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Harumi Befu. Chester S. Chard.

It is the aim of the present compilation to provide the Japanese-language source materials utilized in the editors' recent paper "Preceramic Cultures in Japan" ("American Anthropologist", Vol. 62, No. 5, pp.815-849, 1960). In conjunction with the western-language sources cited therein, the reader will therefore have at his disposal the necessary documentation both to amplify the summery picture presented and, if desired, to draw his own conclusions. We have omitted Japanese sources published...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David A. Baerreis. Joan E. Freeman. J. T. Curtis. A. Elkins.

This report on D1-47, a bluff shelter in northeastern Oklahoma, is one of a series of reports on sites in Delaware County prepared by the staff and graduate students of the Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin. An extensive series of sites were excavated between 1937 and 1940 by means of the Works Projects Administration archaeological program sponsored by the University of Oklahoma prior to the inundation of much of the river valley land by the construction of a dam on the Grand...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James B. Shaeffer. Alice M. Brues. Oren E. Evans. Gillette Griswold. E. B. Sayles. Sherman P. Lawton. Elmer Craft. James Marler.

The Oklahoma Archaeological Salvage Project is concerned with the salvaging of the prehistoric record of Oklahoma whenever it is threatened with destruction. However the main effort of the project during the period from 1956 to 1958 was the survey and salvage excavation of sites located within the construction right of ways of the state highway system. The site reports contained in this volume represent the survey and excavations conducted on the Fort Sill Military Reservation in 1959 and two...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James B. Shaeffer. Alice M. Brues. A. L. Buck. Oren E. Evans. Charles C. Carpenter. David E. Kitts. Carl O. Riggs.

The Oklahoma Archaeological Salvage Project is concerned with the salvaging of the prehistoric record of Oklahoma whenever it is threatened with destruction. However the main effort of the project during the period from 1956 to 1958 was the survey and salvage excavation of sites located within the construction right of ways of the state highway system. The site reports contained in this volume represent that period and are devoted exclusively to the sites excavated as part of the highway...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joan E. Freeman. A. Elkins.

The site under discussion in this report was one of approximately seventy-five which were excavated in the area immediately along the Grand or Nesho Rover in 1938-1940. The excavations were conducted through the Works Projects Administration under the sponsorship of the University of Oklahoma. They were designed to salvage as much archaeological material as possible before the dam being constructed on the Grand River backed up water which would inundate the sites. This site and others were...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David M. Pendergast.

The excavations at Maria Camp were carried out in conjunction with an investigation of Eduardo Quiroz Cave, an archaeological project of the University of Utah in central Cayo District, British Honduras. Selection of Maria Camp for testing was motivated in part by the danger of destruction occasioned by location of the site near a well-traveled road, construction and repair of which have already resulted in leveling of several mounds and minor damage to others. In addition to the salvage...