The Department of the Air Force (DAF) is charged by federal law and statutes to identify, evaluate, and protect important cultural and historical properties on DAF land for the benefit of this and future generations of Americans. In executing these mandates, DAF has produced several thousand professional quality monographs, reports, and studies that record valuable data and insights on our Nation’s history and prehistory, as reflected on our installations and ranges. The Air Force Civil Engineer Center (AFCEC) has partnered with Digital Antiquity and Argonne National Laboratory to curate these resources in the Digital Archaeological Record (tDAR).
Since 2011, Digital Antiquity has worked with Air Force installations to establish a system for digitally curating DAF cultural resources documents and making those documents available to approved users. Installations have the ability to organize their file types in a way that is useful for their needs, while providing controlled levels of access to approved users.
This is the main collection for DAF. Here you can find collections of documents, data, images, and other digital information generated from and/or related to archaeological and other cultural resources and investigations on or nearby DAF facilities. The collection was created by the Center for Digital Antiquity in cooperation with US Air Force, US Space Force, and Air National Guard Cultural Resources Management personnel.
Site Name Keywords
Belle Chance •
Scott Air Force Base Historic District •
Building 1966 •
Building 1967 •
18PR447 •
Chapel II •
Building 1968 •
50-80-15-4853 •
LA 38135 •
8BR00085
Site Type Keywords
Non-Domestic Structures •
Governmental Structure •
Historic Governmental Structure •
Archaeological Feature •
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex •
Military Structure •
Artifact Scatter •
Domestic Structures •
Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features •
House
Other Keywords
National Register of Historic Places •
Melrose Air Force Range •
NRHP •
Cannon AFB •
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station •
Site Records •
Map •
OAHP •
Camp Bullis Survey •
Site Form
Culture Keywords
Historic •
Archaic •
Woodland •
PaleoIndian •
Prehistoric •
Late Archaic •
Euroamerican •
Middle Woodland •
Middle Archaic •
Early Woodland
Investigation Types
Heritage Management •
Reconnaissance / Survey •
Architectural Documentation •
Historic Background Research •
Architectural Survey •
Site Evaluation / Testing •
Archaeological Overview •
Records Search / Inventory Checking •
Systematic Survey •
Consultation
Material Types
Chipped Stone •
Ceramic •
Chert •
Glass •
Metal •
Building Materials •
Fauna •
Shell •
Fire Cracked Rock •
Ground Stone
Temporal Keywords
Historic •
Prehistoric •
Cold War •
20th Century •
Cold War Era •
World War II •
19th Century •
WWII •
Archaic •
18th Century
Geographic Keywords
United States of America (Country) •
North America (Continent) •
USA (Country) •
Texas (State / Territory) •
Bexar County (County) •
Texas •
San Antonio •
Bexar (County) •
New Mexico (State / Territory) •
California (State / Territory)
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 401-500 of 8,681)
Cultural Resources Inventory and Determination of Eligibility of Post World War II Cultural Resources at Wake Atoll (2008)
Final Historic Building Inventory and Evaluation for Aircraft Control and Warning (AC&W) Sites (1998)
Historic American Landscape Survey, Wake Island: Photographs, Written Historical and Descriptive Data (2010)
Historic Building Inventory and Evaluation: Alaska Radar System (ARS) Late Cold War Facilities (2014)
Historic Property Discovery Procedures for MDA Wake Island Flight Communications Test Facility (2021)
History of the Aircraft Control and Warning System in Alaska: Air Defense of Arctic Skies, 2013 Update (2013)
Integrated Cultural Resources Management Plan (2004-2009) Aircraft Control and Warning Installations, Alaska (2004)
Integrated Cultural Resources Management Plan Distant Early Warning (DEW) System, Alaska (2006) (2006)
Memorandum of Agreement Between the U.S. Air Force and the Alaska State Historic Preservation Officer Regarding the Conversion of Selected Former DEW Line Stations Submitted to the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Pursuant to 36 CFR 800.6(a) (1996)
Memorandum of Agreement Between the US Air Force and the Alaska State Historic Preservation Office Regarding the Environmental Restoration of Seven Distant Early Warning Sites, Alaska (2005)
Military Development in Alaska 1867-1939 Draft Chronology Compiled by John Haile Cloe and the 3rd Wing History Office (2008)
The Military in Alaska Draft Chronology, Being Compiled by John H. Cloe Office of History, 3rd Wing (2003)
Preservation Briefs #36 - Protecting Cultural Landscapes: Planning, Treatment and Management of Historic Landscapes (1994)
Proclamation 8336 of January 6,2009 Establishment of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine Nation Document (2009)
Programmatic Memorandum of Agreement Among the United States Department of Defense The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers (1986)
Summary of PRSC Installations Addressed in the Integrated Natural Resources Management Plan and Natural Resources Considerations (2020)
Survey and Documentation of World War II Defensive Fortifications at Eareckson Air Station, Shemya Island, Alaska (2016)