DEES Research Science Themes: Archaeology and Anthropology

DEES scientists conduct a wide variety of archaeological research in regions ranging from the arid Southwestern U.S. to China. The research ranges from studies of earlier civilizations to studies focused on the preservation of historic legacies from recent events such as nuclear testing at the Nevada National Security Site (formerly, the Nevada Test Site). DEES archaeologists are conducting historic artifact inventories with federal agencies to facilitate stewardship decisions as they appropriate lands for specific uses. These land uses include military training, construction of power lines and prospecting and development for renewable energy projects including solar, wind and geothermal. Archaeologists at DRI make use of modern techniques including ground penetrating radar (GPR) and light detection and ranging (LiDAR), often in combination with geographic information systems (GIS) and specialized laboratories equipped with traditional light and electron microscopes.

DEES research projects related to "Archaeology and Anthropology" are listed below.
  • Yuma Proving Ground Cultural Resources (Rhode)
  • Cooperative Agreement between US Army Environmental Center and the Desert Research Institute for Cultural Resources Services (Rhode)
  • A Class III Cultural Resource Inventory of the Kathy Drop Zone, Dugway Proving Ground, Tooele County, Utah (Rhode, Page)
  • LandPro Army Landscape Dynamics Support Program (Bullard)
  • Lincoln County Powerline survey (Edwards)
  • Lincoln County Archaeological Initiative (Beck)
  • North Creek Shelter (Rhode)
  • Remote Sensing to Aid in the Search of Prehistoric Anasazi Agricultural Fields and Seasonal Dwellings in NW Arizona (Buck)
  • Using dogs to detect human remains in arid lands (Cablk, Holz, Lander)
  • Archaeological and Paleoenvironmental Research on the Northeast Tibetan Plateau (Rhode)
  • Luminescence Sediment Dating of Pleistocene Hominin and Tool Sites at Atapuerca, Spain (Berger)
  • Luminescence chronology of pre-contact irrigation systems in Arizona (Berger)
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1 A Class III Cultural Resource Inventory and Site Protection Measures in Support of Testing and Training, U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground, Tooele County, Utah
2 A Class III Cultural Resource Inventory for Phase 2 of the PD-Tess Project, US Army Dugway Proving Ground, Tooele County, Utah
3 A Class III Cultural Resource Inventory for the Training Area Expansion, Dugway Proving Ground
4 Basic Research Linkages Among the Soil-Hydrologic-Biologic Systems Common to the Desert Piedmonts, U.S. Army Yuma Proving Grounds
5 Catalogue of Analogs: Identifying Terrain Similarities between the World's Deserts and the US Army's Desert Hot Weather test site, Yuma Proving Ground YPG, southwestern Arizona
6 Collaborative research: Development of a luminescence dating capability for Antarctic glaciomarine sediments: Tests of signal zeroing at the Antarctic peninsula
7 Developing a Luminescence Geochronometer for Antarctic "Dry Valleys" Lakes
8 Developing a Luminescence Geochronometer for Arctic Ocean Cores
9 Geochemical and Physical Characteristics of Vehicle Endurance and Dust Test Courses at U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground
10 Geomorphic Mapping in Support of an Archaeological Predictive Model: Proposed Eastern and Western Expansion Areas, Marine Corps Ground Air Combat Center, 29 Palms, California
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Frits Went Laboratory

Located in Reno, Nevada
Fritz Went LabThis unique laboratory houses the EcoCell Laboratories and the EcoPod Chambers.

Archaeology Laboratory

Located in Las Vegas, Nevada
DRI's Archaeology Laboratory The archaeology laboratory is equipped for morphological and technological analyses of stone tools and ceramics, microscopic lithic use-wear studies, and computerized catalog generation.