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Northland Research, Inc. (Northland) is pleased to submit this proposal for archaeological testing to ComSense, Inc. for the Casa Nueva project. The project area is approximately 4.7 acres. This proposal was solicited by Mark Appleby of ComSense, Inc. as a prelude to obtaining federally guaranteed construction loans for proposed low-income housing to be built in the Casa Nueva project area. Investigation of archaeological resources is a pre condition of obtaining Federal Housing Authority loans...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James M. Heidke.

Five hundred and twenty-two sherds recovered from excavations at the West Branch site were submitted for temper characterization. Temper source characterization was based on Lombard's (1987c) reconnaissance mapping of temper resource compositional zones, or petrofacies, in the Tucson Basin and Avra Valley; and incorporates refinements to the Tucson Basin model made by Lombard (1987a, 1987b, 1987d, 1990) and Heidke (1994); and refinement of the Avra Valley model made by KamiUi (1994). Samples...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Douglas B. Craig.

Archaeological fieldwork for the Rancho Vistoso Survey was done between March 31, 1986 and July 3, 1986. A total of 240 person days was expended surveying the nearly 8,000 acres within the project boundaries. Forty-six sites and 128 non-sites were recorded and given field designations (FD’s). Two large prehistoric villages, known from earlier archaeological work in the area, were also mapped in detail and systematic surface collections made. The following section describes all surface artifact...

DOCUMENT Full-Text William H. Doelle. Paul R. Fish.

The study of Tucson’s prehistory has been pursued with an unprecedented intensity in recent years, and it seemed essential that the new results that were emerging be shared on a broader basis. This volume is the outcome of papers prepared for the Second Tucson Basin Conference in conjunction with the 1986 fall meeting of the Arizona Archaeological Council.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard L. Boston. E. Melanie Ryan.

On February 5, 2002, City of Phoenix Archaeologist Todd Bostwick contacted Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) to set up a meeting with the City’s Department of Street Transportation staff to coordinate the recovery of a burial that was encountered during the installation of a sewer line. In 1996, Mr. Bostwick recovered a cranium and a whole vessel under emergency conditions from a construction trench that had cut through a Hohokam inhumation (Bostwick 1996). The City attempted to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Paige Florie. Michael Droz. Glennda Gene Luhnow.

The Archaeological Review prepared by the City of Phoenix Archaeology Office for the project (dated 8/17/2010) identified the projected location of a previously unverified segment of Canal Patricio in a small area at the far southwestern edge of the project Area of Potential Effect (APE). The projected location of this canal was based on review of Howard’s (1991 [1992]) Central Phoenix Basin Archaeological Map. As a result, an archaeological canal testing program was required for the property...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael Foster.

KB Home of Phoenix, Arizona is planning the residential development of approximately 80.0 acres on the northern edge of the community of Casa Grande, Arizona. A previous archaeological survey of the parcel resulted in the identification of a single prehistoric Hohokam site, AZ AA:1:139 (ASM), in the northern half of the project area (Hart 2001). The site, which appears to extend beyond the boundary of the parcel, is described as an artifact scatter (ceramics and flaked stone) with a single...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael S. Foster. Ronald F. Ryden.

Sun Belt Holdings-Vistancia LLC is planning a 3,825-acre housing development (White Peak Ranch) on private land in Maricopa County, Arizona. A cultural resources survey identified 16 archaeological sites within the proposed development. Three sites, AZ T:3:128 (ASM), AZ T:3:281 (ASM), and AZ T:3:283 (ASM), were recommended as eligible under Criterion D for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), however, the ACOE, with the concurrence of the Arizona SHPO, recommended the sites be tested...

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The Central Arizona Water Control Study provided the occasion to reassess the current state of our knowledge of the prehistory of the greater Salt-Gila Basin. There are two reasons for conducting this review. The first is to provide a baseline review of the current research questions, problems, and unknowns in our understanding of the prehistory of the area. The second purpose is to stimulate, through the examination of old ideas, the development of new views on the prehistory of this area. In...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James B. Harrison III. S. Jerome Hesse.

SWCA® Environmental Consultants (SWCA) conducted a cultural resources inventory of a 265-acre parcel of privately held land in Sahuarita, Pima County, Arizona. This survey was conducted at the request of Rancho Sahuarita, which proposes to develop this parcel as Region 10 of the Rancho Sahuarita development. One archaeological site, a probable historic irrigation feature and agricultural field, and 15 IOs were recorded during the course of this project. The site is a Hohokam ceramic scatter...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael Stubing. Douglas R. Mitchell.

A small archaeological data recovery program was conducted October 16-21, 1996 at the prehistoric Hohokam site of La Lomita, AZ U:9:67 (ASM), Phoenix, Arizona. The current archaeological work augments previous testing, data recovery, and monitoring efforts conducted prior to, and during, construction and renovation of buildings within the school grounds. The archaeological investigations and monitoring within the grounds were conducted by SWCA, Inc. for Balsz School District No. 31. Four...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sara C. Ferland.

SWCA Environmental Services (SWCA) was contracted by the National Farm Workers Services Center, Inc. (NFWSC) to conduct archaeological testing for canals and related features in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. NFWSC is proposing to construct senior housing on the property. The City of Phoenix (COP) Archaeology Office recommended that testing be conducted prior to any ground disturbance due to the presence of three prehistoric canal segments on the property. No sites have been previously...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Danielle Desruisseaux.

Huntington Ruin, site AZ AA:12:73 (ASM), is a large Hohokam village site located just northwest of Rillito Peak at the northern tip of the Tucson Mountains. Between February 17 and 28, 1998, archaeologists from SWCA. Inc., Environmental Consultants (SWCA) conducted data recovery excavations at the northern periphery of this site as part of the Avra Valley Road Improvements Data Recovery Project. The goal of the project was to mitigate impacts to buried cultural deposits located within the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mary-Ellen Walsh. Mark R. Hackbarth.

At the request of City of Phoenix (COP) Street Transportation Department, Logan Simpson Design Inc. (LSD) investigated the discovery of human remains exposed during trenching by COP for a storm drain construction project in central Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. The project consisted of the installation of a storm drain, catch basins, and connector pipes as well as the moving of water meters and fire hydrants. In compliance with COP policy and the Arizona Antiquities Act, LSD previously had...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Helga Wöcherl. J. Homer Thiel.

This document reports the results of archaeological monitoring and data recovery along a proposed extension, Marana, Arizona. The alignment runs through a portion of the known prehistoric site of Los Morteros (AZ AA:12:57[ASM]), and the historic-period homestead of Charlie Maish (AZ AA:12:377[ASM]). The work was requested by Pulte Homes Corporation for sewer and road construction in a future development section and was performed between June and October 1999 (Arizona State Museum Permit Number...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Justin Rego.

This report presents the results of archaeological monitoring and testing for a COP sewer line project. The project involved the installation of sewer and connector pipes, the removal of corrugated pipe and the installation of utility access holes along the existing and new sewer alignments within Broadway Road. Archaeological monitoring and test trenching were conducted under an approved Treatment Plan. No archaeological features were identified during testing, but six isolated occurrences were...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Wesley Gibson.

This report presents the results of archaeological monitoring during grounddisturbing activities at the site. Logan Simpson was requested to monitor ground-disturbing activities because of the potential to encounter cultural resources. The project involved replacing and reconnecting sewer lines from an existing house to city sewer lines. Ground-disturbing activities included mechanical and hand trenching.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Justin P. Rego.

This document presents the results of archaeological monitoring for two COP Neighborhood Services Department (NSD) improvement projects. The two parcels are each within the 50-ft-wide buffer zone of an unnamed canal that is projected to traverse the properties. The COP recommended archaeological monitoring to document possible cultural resources within the project area. All ground disturbing activities were monitored within 50 ft on either side of two prehistoric canals projected to cross two...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Leigh Davidson.

This report presents the results of archaeological monitoring during ground-disturbing activities at two separate playground locations. At the area of potential effects [APE] 1, the project involved removing sand and wood chip mulch from the surface and followed by rototilling and grading the exposed ground surface within one play pen. At the APE 2, the sand and wood chip mulch was removed, and the exposed ground surface was rototilled and graded within six separate play pens. In addition, one...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cynthia Keller.

This report presents the results of archaeological monitoring. The monitoring was conducted at the request of the City of Phoenix Street Transportation Department (project no. ST87100105) under an on-call archaeological services contract between the City and SWCA, Inc. (Contract no. 100168) and was assigned project number PGM 2002-10 by the City of Phoenix Archaeology Section. Archaeological monitoring was conducted during all soil disturbing activities since the project area passes within 100...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sara C. Ferland.

In preparation for building construction, the Salt River Project (SRP) is reconfiguring an irrigation facility on Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) easement in Phoenix, Maricopa County. Specifically, existing above ground irrigation canals are being abandoned and replaced with subsurface concrete pipes. Because Reclamation is a federal agency, the project is subject to compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended. The project area is located within the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Justin P. Rego. Michael Bryk. Lesley Rodriguez.

This report presents the results of archaeological monitoring for a COP water line project. The project involved the installation of a new waterline along an existing alignment in Phoenix. Archaeological monitoring was conducted under the established Monitoring and Discovery Plan for the city of Phoenix (Montero and Stubing 2004). As a result of the project, five features were recorded and two previously reported sites were given ASM site numbers.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Leigh Davidson.

This report presents the results of archaeological monitoring during ground disturbing activities at the site. The planned project involved the installation of a water sprinkler system, the installation of an AC pad and drainage swell, vegetation removal, grading in the backyard, and landscaping in the front yard. Monitoring was conducted during all trenching and general ground-disturbing activity within the project area. Field investigators examined vertical and horizontal exposures of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Alexandra Howard. Christopher Garraty.

This document presents the results of archaeological monitoring in advance of Sun State Builder’s (Sun State) anticipated construction of warehouse facilities within an L-shaped area. This project area is situated within a Hohokam village habitation site with a known platform mound. The project area also encompasses a historic residential property that has not been evaluated for National Registry of Historic Places (NRHP) eligibility. The project involved excavation (mechanical grading and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lesley Rodriguez.

This document presents the results of archaeological monitoring for a housing improvement project. The project involved the installation of a new sewer system and a fence. Logan Simpson Design (LSD) monitored 13 ft (3.9 m) of excavated trench and eleven post holes within the Casa Buena site (AZ T:12:36[ASM]). Monitoring was conducted during all ground-disturbing activity within the area of potential effects. Construction activity occurred both inside and outside of the residence. Field...