Acronyms
CRM
What is Cultural Resource Monitoring?
A review of previous studies completed in the area and existing known cultural resources
What is a desktop study?
Primary tool used for desktop study.
What is a computer?
Historic period artifact used to hold liquids
What is a glass bottle?
APE
What is the Area of Potential Effect?
A pedestrian field survey with shovel and/or auger testing to re-locate known sites or test to determine probability of an unknown site in an area
What is a Phase I survey?
Used during a Phase I pedestrian field survey.
What is a shovel or auger?
A dense pile of shells
What is a shell midden?
NRHP
What is the National Register of Historic Places?
Visually observe ground disturbing activities of a construction project and conduct limited investigation should an unanticipated discovery be uncovered.
What is monitoring?
Used for sifting through excavated material.
What is a sieve or screen?
Objects with cultural significance buried with human remains
What are funerary objects?
GPR
What is ground penetrating radar?
Review existing desktop study and based on known cultural resources in the project area and probability for unknown sites, offer recommendations for the project to avoid or minimize adverse impact to resources.
What is mitigation?
Survey instrument used for measuring horizontal and vertical angles
What is a theodolite?
Often found represented by "sherds" at archaeological sites.
What is pottery?
CTCLUSI
What is the Confederate Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians?
An intensive field study with systematic excavation to evaluate a known site for NRHP-eligibility.
What is a Phase II survey?
Uses radar pulses to observe anomalies below the ground surface
What is ground penetrating radar?
Sharp object made of chert or obsidian.
What is a stone tool?