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Between A.D. 1250 and 1450, a large number of ceremonial racetracks were built at and between villages in north-central Arizona. This assemblage began as a relatively dispersed collection, stretching from the Sedona area down to Cave Creek and from the Bradshaw Mountains to the Mazatzal Wilderness. Over time, the racetrack network grew in intensity but became spatially focused atop Perry Mesa, along the middle Agua Fria River. In conjunction with the Legacies on the Landscape Project and...
Recording the Cold War: Identifying and Collecting Cold War Resources Data on Military Installations (Legacy 07-285)
The goals of this study were threefold: to identify DoD Cold War facilities and associated documentation at a select number of installations; to create a systematic approach for identifying, compiling, and analyzing available data; and to prepare time and cost metrics on the process.
Recording the Cold War: Identifying and Collecting Cold War Resources Data on Military Installations - Report (Legacy 07-285) (2008)
The goals of this study were threefold: to identify DoD Cold War facilities and associated documentation at a select number of installations; to create a systematic approach for identifying, compiling, and analyzing available data; and to prepare time and cost metrics on the process.
Refined Canal Ages and Implications for the Organization of Turney’s Canal System 2, Phoenix, Arizona (2021)
This is a presentation from the 2021 Arizona Archaeological Council (AAC) Fall symposium on "The Archaeology of Canals in the Arizona Desert". Archaeological projects conducted by Desert Archaeology northwest of the Park of Four Waters provided opportunity to obtain refined ages for the use of the primary main canals that compose Turney’s Canal System 2. When canal age and destination are considered, as defined by the villages that the canals served, it is seen that System 2 is composed of...
Refocusing at the Frontier: A New Perspective on Basketmaker Projectile Points and Boundaries (2022)
Booklet to accompany Society for American Archaeology poster presentation.
A Regional Archaeological Overview of the Montezuma Hydroelectric Pumped-Storage Project, Maricopa and Pinal Counties, Arizona (1975)
This report provides a regional archaeological overview prepared for the Montezuma Hydroelectric Pumped-Storage Project by the Office of Cultural Resource Management, Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, under contract with the Salt River Project, Phoenix, Arizona. Specifically, it is designed to fulfill the archaeological data requirements for the Phase I Regional Study outlined by Wirth Associates, the consulting firm coordinating all environmental studies connected with the...
Relocation and Assessment of Twelve Sites on the Fort McDowell Indian Reservation Maricopa County, Arizona: Report (1994)
The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) assisted the Fort McDowell Indian Community (FMIC) with cultural resource investigations in advance of widening and realigning portions of Fort McDowell Road (also known as Mustang Way). These improvements were required to facilitate increased road use associated with the construction and operation of the Fort McDowell Indian Community Irrigated Farmland Development Project. At the request of Reclamation, Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS)...
Relocation, Reassessment, and Remapping of 74 Archaeological Sites Located Along Reaches 3, 4, and 5 of the Tucson Aqueduct (Phase B)
The Phoenix Area Office (PXAO), Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), has developed an archaeological site database for the Central Arizona Project (CAP) main stem canal. The current data is based on data resulting from Class III surveys conducted in the 1970s and 1980s prior to the canal’s construction. The majority of these sites have not been revisited since they were first recorded. An unknown number of these sites were destroyed by either construction or excavation, while others are no...
Relocation, Reassessment, and Remapping of 74 Archaeological Sites Located Along Reaches 3, 4, and 5 of the Tucson Aqueduct (Phase B) (2013)
The Phoenix Area Office (PXAO), Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), has developed an archaeological site database for the Central Arizona Project (CAP) main stem canal. The current data is based on data resulting from Class III surveys conducted in the 1970s and 1980s prior to the canal’s construction. The majority of these sites have not been revisited since they were first recorded. An unknown number of these sites were destroyed by either construction or excavation, while others are no...
Remnants of Adobe and Stone: The Surface Archeology of the Guevavi and Calabazas Units, Tumacacori National Historical Park, Arizona (1992)
During March 1992, archeologists from the Western Archeological and Conservation Center conducted survey, detailed mapping, and feature recording at the missions of Guevavi and Calabazas in the Santa Cruz River Valley of southern Arizona. The most prominent features at the sites today are standing walls of Spanish-period churches. However, both sites also contain prehistoric and later historic components as well. The National Park Service is in the process of acquiring 8 acres at Guevavi from...
Rendering Economies: Native American Labor and Secondary Animal Products in the Eighteenth-Century Pimería Alta (2011)
While the ostensible motivation for Spanish missionization in the Americas was religious conversion, missions were also critical to the expansion of European economic institutions in the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. Native American labor in mission contexts was recruited in support of broader programs of colonialism, mercantilism, and resource extraction. Archaeological research throughout North America demonstrates the importance and extent of the integration of Native labor into...
The Reno-Park Creek Project: archaeological investigations in Tonto Basin, Arizona (1978)
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Report on Archaeological Survey of Bureau of Reclamation Lands Along the Middle Gila River Near Cochran and Winkelman (2000)
This is the final report of the Cochran Survey project. The draft report can be found at the following link: https://core.tdar.org/document/393912 The Cochran Survey was administered over a period of 25 months, beginning in April 1998 and ending in May 2000. As funding became available delivery orders were submitted from the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) to Archaeological Consulting Services (ACS) to increase the survey coverage under their Section 110 mandate. Initially, the survey...
A Report on Four Cultural Resource Surveys Conducted on Tonto National Forest Land Near Globe, Gila County, Central Arizona: The Guzman Project (1995)
From 1991 to 1994, Tonto National Forest (TNF) and SWCA., Inc., Environmental Consultants conducted four cultural resource surveys near Globe, Arizona for Guzman Construction in preparation for a proposed land exchange involving TNF-administered lands. This document summarizes the findings of that series of surveys. Specifically, it compiles data presented in three survey reports prepared by SWCA (Ahlstrom 1993, 1994; Ahlstrom and Euler 1991; SWCA 1992). The surveys described in these reports...
Research Design and Plan of Work for Testing AZ U:6:87, U:6:105, U:6:253, and U:6:83(ASM), Fort McDowell Indian Reservation: Report (1995)
The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) assisted the Fort McDowell Indian Community (FMIC) with cultural resource investigations in advance of widening and realigning portions of Fort McDowell Road (also known as Mustang Way). These improvements were required to facilitate increased road use associated with the construction and operation of the Fort McDowell Indian Community Irrigated Farmland Development Project. Reclamation requested that Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. develop a...
Research Design and Testing Plan for Four Sites Along the Red Mountain Freeway (Loop 202) From Gilbert Road to Higley Road, Mesa, Arizona (2000)
This document consists of a research design and work plan for archaeological testing at four cultural resource sites within the proposed Red Mountain Freeway (RMF), Gilbert Road to Higley Road segment in Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona. Testing will be conducted to evaluate the eligibility of AZ U:9:226 (ASM), AZ U:10:117 (ASM), AZ U:10:122 (ASM), and AZ U:10:123 (ASM) for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) prior to proposed construction of the RMF. Nine cultural...
A Research Design for the Upper and Lower Ruins, Tonto National Monument (1997)
Tonto National Monument, in the Tonto Basin of central Arizona, contains two well-known cliff dwelling sites: the Upper Ruin (AZ U:8:49 [ASM]) and the Lower Ruin and South and North Annex (AZ U:8:47 [ASM]). The integrity of both of these sites, but particularly the Upper Ruin, is threatened by natural deterioration and continued ground disturbance from rodent and water action. Mitigating these disturbances may entail subsurface archaeological excavation in future years. The research design...
Research Design, Papago Water Supply Project: Class III Archaeological Survey for Schuk Toak and San Xavier Districts (1985)
As a result of the Southern Arizona Water Rights Settlement Act of 1982, part of the water that will be delivered to southern Arizona via the Central Arizona Project (CAP) aqueducts is allotted to the Papago Indian Reservation along with 28,200 acre-feet of water from other sources, Franzoy-Corey Engineers and Architects of Phoenix has been selected by the Papago Tribe as principal engineers for planning irrigated-agricultural developments on the Schuk Toak ...
Research Design: For Archaeological Data Recovery Along the Salt River Project Coronado Coal Haul Railroad (1990)
The following document constitutes a research design for archaeological data recovery within planned expansions of the Salt River Project Coronado Coal Haul Railroad.The project area is located in Apache County, Arizona, south of Interstate 40 near the town of Navajo. Three sites were listed in the project RFP and specific information regarding the impacts to those sites and the location of the sites in relation to the Coal Haul Railroad were provided in that document. The research design is...
A Research Report and Restoration Considerations for the Interpretive Development of Historic Resources at Brigham City, A.T. (1980)
Brigham City, a fortified Mormon settlement on the Little Colorado River near the City of Winslow, Navajo County, Arizona, was established in 1876 as a United Order community and abandoned by the Church in 1881. The property was subsequently incorporated into the La Prade farm and dairy, which was in operation from about 1897 until the mid-1940's. At present, the site is owned by the City of Winslow. Much of the arable land surrounding the site has been leased to a Winslow resident for...
Results of Archaeological Testing at the New SRP Hunt Electrical Substation, Pinal County, Arizona (2005)
SRP plans to construct a new electrical substation (Hunt Substation) southeast of the intersection of Empire Boulevard and Gary Road within Pinal County, Arizona. The project area is in the NW 1/4 of the SW 1/4 of the NW 1/4 of Section 6, Township 3 South Range 8 East, Gila and Salt River Base Line and Meridian. This area is depicted on the Sacaton NE, Arizona USGS 7.5-minute topographic quadrangle (1978). The subject parcel is approximately 300 feet by 300 feet (two acres), and is located...
Results of Limited Excavation and In-situ Site Preservation at the Pima Community College Desert Vista Campus (2006)
This report details the results of limited excavation and in-situ preservation efforts at four loci located on the northern end of the Valencia site, AZ BB:13:15 (ASM), and at AZ BB:13:74 (ASM). Working together, Pima Community College, the City of Tucson, the State Historic Preservation Office, the Tohono O’odham Nation, and Desert Archaeology, Inc., were able to craft a strategy that maximized information gain and preserved these two important archaeological sites. The project contained three...
Results of Phase I (Limited) Data Recovery at AZ T:12:116(ASM) for Proposed Improvements Along 43rd Avenue at the Roosevelt Irrigation District Canal, Southwest Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona (2004)
The City of Phoenix (COP) is planning to build a new bridge structure at the crossing of 43rd Avenue and the Roosevelt Canal, widen the 43rd Avenue alignment, and relocate a Salt River Project (SRP) irrigation canal and two utility lines attached to the existing bridge structure. The project is eligible for Federal aid funding by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and is considered an undertaking subject to Section 106 review. Significant cultural resources have been previously identified...
Results of Phase II Archaeological Testing for Chicanos Por La Causa, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona (2000)
Chicanos por la Causa, Inc. (CPLC), with a Housing and Urban Development (HUD) CDBG grant provided by the City of Phoenix, requested that the Cultural Resource Division of the Louis Berger Group, Inc. (Berger) undertake limited Phase II archaeological testing at their proposed DeColores Domestic Violence Shelter Expansion site to ensure proper treatment and protection, if warranted, of any existing cultural resources. Due to the potential for future violence to and in order to protect the...
Results of the 1984-85 Archaeological Investigations at the Picacho Mountains Petroglyph Sites (1986)
The Picacho Mountains are host to an amazingly large and complex assemblage of petroglyph sites. Over 4,100 separate designs have now been recorded in the area making it one of only a handful of such concentrations in the state. In January of 1984, the Bureau of Reclamation contracted with the Institute for American Research for a sample survey of the upper bajada and mountain edge zones of the Picacho Mountains and a detailed study of the petroglyph sites within this zone. A final report,...