Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona

Part of: WACC documents organized by park

WACC documents associated with archaeological work at the park.

Site Name Keywords
Grand Canyon National Park • Whitmore Wash • Deer Creek • Tuna Creek • Beamer's Cabin • Furnace Flats • Shoshone Point • AZ B:7:7 (ASM) • AZ G:3:6 (ASM) • AZ B:10:8 (ASM)

Site Type Keywords
Archaeological Feature • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Rock Shelter • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Agricultural or Herding • Corral • Mine • Quarry • Artifact Scatter

Culture Keywords
Ancestral Puebloan • Historic • PaleoIndian • Archaic

Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation • Archaeological Overview • Reconnaissance / Survey • Site Evaluation / Testing • Systematic Survey • Heritage Management

Material Types
Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Ground Stone • Fauna • Glass • Metal • Macrobotanical • Pollen • Shell

Temporal Keywords
Prehistoric • Pueblo II • Pueblo III • Archaic • Historic • Preceramic - Pueblo II • Archaic to Pueblo II

Geographic Keywords
Arizona (State / Territory) • United States of America (Country) • North America (Continent) • US (ISO Country Code) • Coconino County (County) • Arizona • Grand Canyon • Shivwits Plateau • Kanab Canyon • USA (Country)

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  • Archeological Data Recovery at the Rim of the Grand Canyon, Shoshone Point Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona (2008)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Nancy E. Pearson.

    Archeologists from the Western archeological and Conservation Center completed archeological data recovery in June and July 2005 in advance of the construction of a vault toilet in the multicomponent site, AZ B:16:680. The proposed toilet will be installed near a thermal feature, Feature 6, and will adversely affect or destroy the information likely to be yielded from its subsurface deposits. With Arizona SHPO concurrence, the park’s cultural resources personnel developed a research design to...

  • Archeological Reconnaissance of Lands Adjacent To Grand Canyon (1978)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text George Teague. Carole McClellan.

    This project was undertaken to provide a partial inventory and assessment of cultural resources in the Grand Canyon Adjacent Lands study area. This area, illustrated in Figure 1, includes portions of Kanab, Whitmore, Parashant, and Andrus Canyons and a part of the Shivwits Plateau, all located in the part of northwest Arizona known as the Arizona Strip. The study area was divided into western (Shivwits) and eastern (Kanab) survey areas. Archeological survey was carried out in June and July 1977...

  • A Cross Section of Grand Canyon Archeology: Excavations at Five Sites Along the Colorado River (1986)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Anne Trinkle Jones.

    In the spring of 1984, five sites along the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park were test excavated prior to stabilization. The sites, four of which are in dry shelters, span 130 river miles on both sides of the Colorado, and encompass preceramic through historic occupations. Data from the stratified deposits were used to answer research questions regarding changes in subsistence and technology through time. Analyses of flotation, pollen and macrofossil samples showed excellent...

  • Data Recovery for Five Archeological Sites Desert View Road Realignment Grand Canyon National Park (2008)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Andrea C. Vermeer.

    Archeologists from the National Park Service, Western Archeological and Conservation Center (WACC), conducted archeological investigations at five sites that will be affected by the proposed re-alignment of Desert View Road at Grand Canyon National Park. Fieldwork during June of 2000 included the relocation, mapping, and testing of these sites, as well as data recovery. The analysis and cataloging of all recovered materials were accomplished during the summer and fall of the same year. This...

  • Rum, Rubble, and Rubbish: Data Recovery at the Historic Sites in the Light-Rail Corridor Project, Grand Canyon National Park, Coconino County, Arizona (2008)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Loy C. Neff.

    Archeologists from the Western Archeological and Conservation Center (WACC), National Park Service (NPS), conducted an archeological data recovery project at Grand Canyon National Park (GRCA) as part of the Light-Rail Corridor Project (LRCP). The LRCP is a proposed rapid transportation system intended to accommodate the increasing numbers of tourists visiting the South Rim. The project included data recovery at 18 previously recorded historical sites, most of which are associated with the...

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