Notes on Ceramic Types in Southern Nevada

1945 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-390
Author(s):  
Gordon C. Baldwin
Keyword(s):  
Archaeological Excavation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Southern Nevada ◽  
Recreational Area

While there has been a great deal of archaeological excavation in the area now included in the Boulder Dam National Recreational Area in southern Nevada and northwestern Arizona, comparatively little of this material has been written and published. Within this area, which encompasses about 2,700 square miles of desert and mountain land, there has been extensive occupation by various peoples throughout most of the past two thousand and more years.

The Tower Mill: An archaeological excavation of Queensland's oldest extant building

1996 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay Hall ◽  
Jonathan Prangnell ◽  
Bruno David
Keyword(s):  
City Council ◽  
Archaeological Excavation ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

The Tower Mill, Brisbane's oldest extant building, was excavated by the University of Queensland to determine for the Brisbane City Council the heritage potential of surrounding subsurface deposits.  Following the employment of GPR, excavation revealed interesting stratifications, features and artefacts.  Analysis permits an explanation for these deposits which augment an already fascinating history of the site's use over the past 170 years or so.

Towers on the Earthen Foundation: New Insights by the Excavation and Boring Survey at the Bayon Temple

Heritage ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 2835-2852
Author(s):  
Ichita Shimoda
Keyword(s):  
Soil Property ◽  
The Other ◽  
Archaeological Excavation ◽  
Heavy Load ◽  
Compacted Soil ◽  
The Past ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
Foundation Structure ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Water Contents

Bayon temple, built in the latter half of the 12th century, is one representative temple of the Angkor monuments. To shed light on the foundation structure of the central towers that stand on the elevated terrace, archaeological excavation and boring tests were conducted. Based on these surveys, a unique foundation structure was revealed under the central towers. It was confirmed that there is no laterite or sandstone support structure directly beneath the upper structure, and that there is only compacted soil at a thickness of approximately 16 m above the natural sedimentary soil. On the other hand, a laterite masonry 6 m thick and 7–9 m wide was confirmed from around the compacted soil. In other words, the heavy load of the central towers is supported by compacted soil that is constrained from the sides by a laterite structure. In addition, the boring surveys provided new insights into the low structural property of the backfilled soil after the past excavation survey below the central tower and the extension process of the elevated terrace supporting the central towers. Delivered information about the foundation structure and material of central towers, including soil property, water table, water contents, and bearing capacity will be valuable for the future structural assessment of this temple.

scholarly journals Minimally Invasive Research Strategies in Huron-Wendat Archaeology

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonnie Glencross ◽  
Gary Warrick ◽  
Edward Eastaugh ◽  
Alicia Hawkins ◽  
Lisa Hodgetts ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Minimally Invasive ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Archaeological Excavation ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Archaeological Investigation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Indigenous Groups ◽  
Rapid Pace ◽  
Investigative Techniques ◽  
Descendant Communities

ABSTRACTThe rapid pace of economic, political, and social change over the past 150 years has framed and reframed archaeological practice in Ontario. Indigenous groups have become increasingly involved in and critical of archaeological research. Indigenous peoples who value archaeological investigation of ancestral sites, but also desire to protect their buried ancestors, have restricted archaeological excavation and the analysis of remains. Over the last decade, research and consulting archaeologists in Ontario, Canada, have worked collaboratively with Indigenous peoples with an eye to developing sustainable archaeology practices. In the spirit of sustainable archaeology, a comprehensive research project and field school run by Wilfrid Laurier University is training the next generation of archaeologists to adopt investigative techniques that minimize disturbance of ancestral sites. Here we present the results of our surface, magnetic susceptibility, and metal detecting surveys of a Huron-Wendat village site, which pose minimally invasive solutions for investigating village sites in wooded areas. The water-sieving of midden soils in an attempt to recover 100 percent of cultural materials, and the analysis of archived collections also honor the values of Indigenous descendant communities by limiting additional invasive excavation.

The Scott Site, Le Flore County, Oklahoma

1953 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 314-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert E. Bell
Keyword(s):  
Archaeological Excavation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Single Exception ◽  
Fourche Maline

Although considerable archaeological excavation has been conducted throughout eastern Oklahoma during the past fifteen years, it is only recently that attempts have been made to present a chronological framework for the area (Orr, 1946; Krieger, 1946, 1947; Newell and Krieger, 1949; Bell and Baerreis, 1951). Within this framework of prehistory, the latter portions such as those represented by the Gibson and Fulton aspects are probably the best understood. "With a single exception (Baerreis, 1951), the earlier cultures remain relatively incognito. One of these early cultures is commonly referred to as Fourche Maline. Unfortunately, however, the Fourche Maline materials remain to be clearly described and identified.

Paleoclimatic Inferences from a 120,000-Yr Calcite Record of Water-Table Fluctuation in Browns Room of Devils Hole, Nevada

1994 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barney J. Szabo ◽  
Peter T. Kolesar ◽  
Alan C. Riggs ◽  
Issac J. Winograd ◽  
Kenneth R. Ludwig
Keyword(s):  
Great Basin ◽  
Water Table ◽  
Flow System ◽  
Present Level ◽  
Water Table Fluctuation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Southern Nevada ◽  
Uranium Series Dating ◽  
Devils Hole ◽  
Ash Meadows

AbstractThe petrographic and morphologic differences between calcite precipitated below, at, or above the present water table and uranium-series dating were used to reconstruct a chronology of water-table fluctuation for the past 120,000 yr in Browns Room, a subterranean air-filled chamber of Devils Hole fissure adjacent to the discharge area of the large Ash Meadows groundwater flow system in southern Nevada. The water table was more than 5 m above present level between about 116,000 and 53,000 yr ago, fluctuated between about +5 and +9 m during the period between about 44,000 and 20,000 yr ago, and declined rapidly from +9 to its present level during the past 20,000 yr. Because the Ash Meadows groundwater basin is greater than 12,000 km2 in extent, these documented water-table fluctuations are likely to be of regional significance. Although different in detail, water-level fluctuation recorded by Browns Room calcites generally correlate with other Great Basin proxy palcoclimatic data.

Elevational Shifts of Coleogyne ramossissima in the Mojave Desert during the Little Ice Age

1994 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 216-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberly L. Hunter ◽  
Joseph R. McAuliffe
Keyword(s):  
Little Ice Age ◽  
Mojave Desert ◽  
Vegetation Change ◽  
Plant Macrofossils ◽  
Ice Age ◽  
The Past ◽  
Southern Nevada

AbstractPlant macrofossils from woodrat (Neotoma) middens collected in the Mojave Desert of southern Nevada were used to reconstruct the timing and magnitude of vegetation change during the past 1000 yr. Although vegetation at the site now is dominated by the shrub Coleogyne ramossissima, this species does not occur in fossil middens prior to 600 ± 50 yr B.P. The appearance and persistence of C. ramosissima in middens was coincident with the Little Ice Age (ca. 1250 to 1850 A.D.) and was probably related to an increase in precipitation.

scholarly journals A bridge over the past: Prehistoric settlement traces, a Roman cemetery, and a structure connecting periods on the Danube bank : New results of the archaeological excavation connected to the Graphisoft Park extension project

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 14-22
Author(s):  
Barbara Hajdu ◽  
Farkas Márton Tóth
Keyword(s):  
Archaeological Excavation ◽  
History Museum ◽  
The Past ◽  
Long Time

As archaeologists of the Budapest History Museum, we conducted a rescue excavation connected to the Graphisoft Park extension project between September and mid-December in 2019, and from the end of March to mid-August in 2020, by the Danube in Óbuda (Old Buda), near Aquincum, in District 3 of Budapest. The excavation uncovered parts of a complex, multi-period, and, in some places, multi-layer site. Although it had been known and researched for a long time, the site still had many exciting, unforeseen surprises, which we briefly present here.

A record of mid- and late Holocene paleohydroclimate from Lower Pahranagat Lake, southern Great Basin

2019 ◽  
Vol 92 (2) ◽  
pp. 352-364
Author(s):  
Kevin M. Theissen ◽  
Thomas A. Hickson ◽  
Ashley L. Brundrett ◽  
Sarah E. Horns ◽  
Matthew S. Lachniet
Keyword(s):  
Great Basin ◽  
Late Holocene ◽  
Fine Fraction ◽  
Total Inorganic Carbon ◽  
Dry Period ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
Southern Nevada ◽  
Show Evidence ◽  
Hydroclimatic Variability

AbstractWe present a continuous, sediment core-based record of paleohydroclimate spanning ~5800 cal yr BP to recent from Lower Pahranagat Lake (LPAH), a shallow, alkaline lake in southern Nevada. We apply stable isotopes (δ18O and δ13C) from fine-fraction authigenic carbonate, which are sensitive recorders of hydroclimatic variability in this highly evaporative region. Additional geochemical proxies (total organic carbon, C/N, and total inorganic carbon) provide supporting information on paleoecological change in and around the lake. Our data suggest progressively wetter conditions starting at the later part of the middle Holocene and extending into the late Holocene (~5500–3350 cal yr BP) followed by a millennial-scale dry period from ~3150 to 1700 cal yr BP. This latter interval encompasses the ‘Late Holocene dry period’ (LHDP) reported by other investigators, and our data help refine the area affected in this episode. Our data also show evidence for a series of century-scale fluctuations in regional hydroclimate, including wet and dry intervals between 2350 and 1600 cal yr BP, and drier conditions over the past few centuries. Paleohydroclimate trends in the LPAH record show correspondence with those from the central Great Basin to the north, suggesting that both areas were subject to similar climatic forcings.

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