Arizona (Geographic Keyword)
626-650 (652 Records)
Site AZ Q:2:35 (ASM) was originally recorded as a sherd and lithic scatter during an earlier survey of the proposed expanded right-of-way (ROW) of the Salt River Project (SRP) Coronado Coal Haul Railroad (Neily and Irwin 1990). At the request of SRP, SWCA, Inc. Environmental Consultants, initiated testing at the site using systematic backhoe trenching (Boden 1991). Archaeological testing identified six subsurface features, including five pits and one concentration of burned sandstone. None of...
Testing Report and Data Recovery Plan for the Operations Area of the Treatment Plant Locus of Site AZ AA:12:111 (ASM), Pima County, Arizona (1999)
Between February 16 and March 12, 1999, a crew of ten to twelve archaeologists from SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants undertook archaeological test excavations at a portion of site AZ AA:12:111 (ASM) located within the Operations Area at the Ina Road Water Pollution Control Facility (Treatment Plant). A crew of ten to twelve archaeologists began excavations on February 16, 1999, and proceeded as outlined in the testing plan. The testing was designed to identify and evaluate buried cultural...
Their Own Road: Archaeological Investigations along State Route 260 Payson to Heber – Christopher Creek Section and Sharp Creek Campground (2014)
Archaeological testing and data recovery were conducted at seven prehistoric or multicomponent sites and three historic period linear sites in advance of highway realignment in the Christopher Creek section and Sharp Creek Campground portion of the State Route 260 – Payson to Heber project. The results of the investigations of the seventeen prehistoric, historic, or multicomponent sites are reported in this volume. The results of the archival research on the historic period sites will be...
Their Own Road: Archaeological Investigations along State Route 260 Payson to Heber – Kohls Ranch Section (2017)
Archaeological testing and data recovery were conducted at twelve prehistoric or multicomponent sites in advance of highway realignment in the Kohls Canyon section of the State Route 260—Payson to Heber project. The results of archaeological fieldwork are reported in this volume. Archival research on the history of Camp Geronimo, AZ O:12:75 (ASM) is also reported here. An administrative history of Indian Garden, AZ O:12:32 (ASM) is published separately, as Desert Archaeology, Inc. Technical...
Their Own Road: Archaeological Investigations along State Route 260 Payson to Heber – Little Green Valley section (2018)
This report describes testing and data recovery excavations conducted in advance of the realignment of the Little Green Valley section, between Mileposts 263.75 and 267, of State Route 260 between Payson and Heber. The work was sponsored by the Arizona Department of Transportation; the lead federal agency and landowner was the Tonto National Forest.
Their Own Road: Archaeological Investigations along State Route 260 Payson to Heber – Preacher Canyon Section (2012)
Archaeological testing and data recovery were conducted at seven prehistoric or multicomponent sites and three historic period linear sites in advance of highway realignment in the Preacher Canyon section of the State Route 260 – Payson to Heber project. The results of the investigations of the seven prehistoric or multicomponent sites are reported in this volume. The results of the archival research and fieldwork on the historic period sites will be reported in a separate volume.
Their Own Road: Archaeological Investigations along State Route 260 Payson to Heber—Doubtful Canyon Section (2022)
Archaeological test excavations at nine sites and data recovery excavations at three sites in advance of highway realignment project in the Doubtful Canyon section of the SR 260—Payson to Heber project. A previously documented historic highway is also present in the project area. A small supplemental survey of additional right-of-way was conducted, although that work resulted in no newly identified sites.
Thermal feature data - Chapter 7 (2019)
Thermal feature data from Chapter 7. This dataset includes provenience, location, hearth type, slab construction description, area, volume, and ash feature and pot rest presence/absence information for all recorded intramural and extramural thermal features.
Tonto Creek Archaeological Project, Archaeological Investigations along Tonto Creek, Volume 1: Introduction and Site Descriptions for the Sycamore Creek and Slate Creek Sections (2000)
The Tonto Creek Archaeological Project (TCAP) area was located in the Tonto Basin of east-central Arizona. The project, funded by the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) was undertaken by Desert Archaeology in advance of the 1994-1996 realignment of Arizona State Route 188. The area available for investigation was a 61-m-wide (200-ft) corridor centered on the planned route for the realigned highway. The corridor followed a 13.3-km (8-mi) stretch of the western terrace overlooking Tonto...
Tonto Creek Archaeological Project, Archaeological Investigations along Tonto Creek, Volume 2: Site Descriptions for the Punkin Center Section (2000)
The Tonto Creek Archaeological Project (TCAP) area was located in the Tonto Basin of east-central Arizona. The project, funded by the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) was undertaken by Desert Archaeology in advance of the 1994-1996 realignment of Arizona State Route 188. The area available for investigation was a 61-m-wide (200-ft) corridor centered on the planned route for the realigned highway. The corridor followed a 13.3-km (8-mi) stretch of the western terrace overlooking Tonto...
Tonto National Monumemnt: An Archaeological Survey: Archaeological Investigations in the Tonto Basin, Central Arizona (1985)
This report represents an inventory of the cultural resources within Tonto National Monument in central Arizona. It describes the results of the 100-percent survey of the monument, presents a discussion of previous work done in the Tonto Basin and of the cultural history and natural setting of the regIon. This is followed by site descriptions, artifact analyses and results, interpretations of the subsistence patterns and external relationships of the inhabitants of the sites, and chronology of...
The Town of Hackberry, Mohave County, Arizona: A Cultural Resources Survey and Research Design for Data Recovery Along a Reroute of the Preferred Alignment of the Proposed Mead to Phoenix 500kV Transmission Line (1993)
The following document presents the results of a cultural resources compliance survey conducted by SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants, at Hackberry, Mohave County, Arizona, and a research design for data recovery along the proposed Hackberry reroute of the preferred alignment of the proposed Mead to Phoenix 500kV transmission line. The project was undertaken to reroute the proposed line because Western Area Power Administration (Western) was unable to secure the original proposed right-of-way...
Traditional Perspectives on Water, Canals, Archaeology, and Cultural Resources (2021)
This is a presentation from the 2021 Arizona Archaeological Council (AAC) Fall symposium on "The Archaeology of Canals in the Arizona Desert". Research and excavation of ancient canals and archaeological sites is an academic pursuit for most archaeologists. For Native people, canals have a greater importance. Water is life, the return of irrigation water after so long is changing the landscape, emphasizing how the past is still important to living communities. This discussion will present...
Treatment and Data Recovery Plan for the SRP Palo Verde to Pinal West 500 kV Transmission Line, Maricopa and Pinal Counties, Arizona (2007)
Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (SRP) plans to construct a new 500 kV transmission line between the existing Hassayampa Switchyard, west of Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, and the proposed Pinal West Substation, western Pinal County, Arizona (Figure 1). Designated the Palo Verde to Pinal West (PV-PW) transmission line, this powerline is the first of two that SRP plans to eventually construct between the Hassayampa Switchyard and...
Treatment Plan for the S.R. 260 - Payson to Heber - Project (1999)
(wip) Treatment plan for State Route 260 between Payson and Heber, including a research plan, plan of work, and monitoring/discovery plan for the entire 42-mile project area.
Tuzigoot Burials (1992)
Tuzigoot Pueblo is the type site for the Tuzigoot Phase of the Southern Sinagua Tradition and was occupied from c. A.D. 1140 to c. 1400. This report gives the results of re-analysis of data from burials excavated at Tuzigoot in 1933-1934. The purpose of the study is to abstract the organizing principles of social status, a subject of current archeological interest. This project was conducted within constraints that would be imposed by repatriation of mortuary remains. Nearly all of the 411...
The Tuzigoot Survey and Three Small Verde Valley Projects: Archaeological Investigations in the Middle Verde Valley, Arizona (1986)
This report presents the results of the TUZI 86A archeological project, whose main objective was the inventory of cultural resources within Tuzigoot National Monument and a proposed land acquisition area adjacent to the monument. It states the results of the survey, presents a summary of previous work in the project area, and discusses the cultural history and natural setting of the region. This is followed by site descriptions, artifact analyses and results, interpretations of the subsistence...
Update: The Digital Archive of Huhugam Archaeology (2021)
This is a presentation from the 2021 Arizona Archaeological Council (AAC) Fall symposium on "The Archaeology of Canals in the Arizona Desert". Staff from the Center for Digital Antiquity will provide an update on the Digital Archive of Huhugam Archaeology (DAHA), which contains over 2000 digital datasets, documents, reports and images focused on the ancient Huhugam (1500 B.C. – 1450 A.D.) of the southwestern U.S. These files are primarily “grey literature,” that is, unpublished reports and...
US Army National Guard Cultural Resources Planning Level Survey - Summary Report (1998)
In 1997, the National Guard Bureau (NGB) tasked the U.S. Army Engineer District, St. Louis, with assisting the Army National Guard (ARNG) in complying with the cultural resource requirements outlined in Army Regulation 200-4 and Department of Defense Instruction 4715.3. The St. Louis District was asked to develop a national project minimally to address three objectives of the NGB cultural resources program: (1) national Planning Level Surveys (PLS) for all ARNG federally owned or supported...
The use of sampling in archaeological survey (1974)
This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.
Virtuoso Hohokam Flintknapping in the Gila Bend Region (2010)
State Route 260 is mentioned in this article about flintknapping in the Gila Bend region.
W.J. and The Valley: The Story of W.J. Murphy and His Part in Developing the Salt River Valley in Arizona (1975)
Among the papers left by William John Murphy and his wife, Laura Fulwiler Murphy, were some 500 letters and other papers. Ralph Murphy recalling on his own memory, wrote a book that he hoped to get published through commercial channels. The author's agent that he dealt with insisted that his manuscript was too dull and urged him to make it more dramatic. This he attempted in a revision which he called W. J., which never got beyond the manuscript form. There is a store of information about W....
Walnut Canyon National Monument: An Archeological Survey: Archeological Investigations in the Walnut Canyon Drainage, North Central Arizona (1985)
The 1985 survey of Walnut Canyon recorded 242 sites, of which the majority were prehistoric. The first period of occupation dates to the Sunset phase, from A.D. 800 to 950, when the southeast section of the monument was most obviously occupied; there is some indication of sporadic early use in other parts of the monument. There is a hiatus from around A.D. 950 to 1066, the date of eruption of Sunset Crater. At the beginning of the 12th century there is a dramatic increase in...
When is a Great Kiva? Excavations at McCreery Pueblo (1993)
During August 1992, the National Park Service conducted archeological test excavations at McCreery pueblo, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. McCreery Pueblo is a late Pueblo II-early Pueblo III site consisting of a small masonry room block, a great kiva, a trash mound, and nine other features. Over 65 m2 were excavated at the site. Recovered were 5,128 sherds, 3,332 flaked-stone artifacts, 18 hammerstones, 15 ground-stone artifacts, and 18 ornaments. Numerous floral and faunal...
Where did the Water Go? (2021)
This is a presentation from the 2021 Arizona Archaeological Council (AAC) Fall symposium on "The Archaeology of Canals in the Arizona Desert". The Huhugam created a vast irrigation canal system that extended for miles feeding agricultural fields and villages along the Salt and Gila Rivers. When the Gila River ran dry the Gila River Indian Community worked hard to return the water to the people. The Pima-Maricopa Irrigation Project, the first tribally built irrigation system would deliver...