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DOCUMENT Full-Text Walter R. Punzmann. Glennda Gene Luhnow.

Cox Communications, Inc. (Cox) recently conducted a utility installation to a private residence located at East Virginia Street, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. The utility installation required directional drilling on a City of Phoenix (City) utility easement. This location is within the boundary of AZ T:12:37(ASM)/Casa Buena, a Hohokam habitation site that contains known architectural feature, extramural features, and human remains. Given that the project was located on a City easement, and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Barbara S. Macnider.

Using private funds, the Reel Men Rentals is constructing a new facility on a 1.185-acre parcel located at in Phoenix. The project involves the construction of a building, parking lot, loading docks, and associated infrastructure. The parcel is located at the north of the prehistoric site Las Canopas, AZ T:12:137(ASM). Since this is a village site there is the potential to uncover human remains during construction excavations. Therefore, the project needs to comply with the State burial law, ARS...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cory Breternitz.

Between March 9 and April 6 2009, PaleoWest Solutions in Archaeology monitored approximately 45-50 meters (m) of utility trenching. Two trenches were excavated to a depth of approximately 2.25 m for the new Arizona Federal Credit Union (AFCU) building currently under construction. The longest trench, only a portion of which was monitored (approximately 35-40 m), ran across the entire width of the street. The second trench, also only a portion of which was monitored (approximately 10 m), was...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Andrea Stahman.

Northland Research, Inc. (Northland) has completed archaeological testing within a portion of Lombeye Ruin (AZ T:12:109[ASM]/AZ T:12:15[PGM]), a large, multicomponent Hohokam habitation site located along the Salt River in Phoenix, Arizona. The work was conducted for Courtland Homes, Inc. (Courtland) prior to the planned development of the property and in accordance with City of Phoenix Preservation Ordinance, Section 802(A.l) and A.R.S. § 41-865. The purpose of the testing was to determine if...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael S. Foster.

This document presents the results of archaeological testing to determine the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) eligibility of five sites located in the proposed Bella Vista Development in Pinal County. SWCA Environmental Consultants (SWCA) conducted the testing at the request of Vanderbilt Farms as part of a due diligence process. The five historic period sites include what were reported to be three possible canal segments (AZ U:14:374 [ASM], AZ U:14:375 [ASM], AZ U:14:376 [ASM]), the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael S. Foster. Chris North. Jim Hasbargen.

This document presents a National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) eligibility testing and Native American Consultation plan for the proposed White Peak Ranch development in northwest Maricopa County, Arizona. Vistancia, L.L.C. is planning a 3825-acre housing development in the White Peak Ranch parcel. A cultural resources survey identified 16 archaeological sites within the proposed development (Hasbargen 2003). Although the project is located on private land, the proposed development will...

DOCUMENT Full-Text URS Corporation.

This plan of action was prepared pursuant to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) of 1990 (Pub. L. 101-601; 25 U.S.C. 3001-3013; 104 Stat. 3048-3058) to define a strategy for treatment of human remains inadvertently discovered during munitions removal from the Munitions Response Site (MRS) XU403a within the Parcel N Debris Area at the former Williams Air Force Base (AFB). Williams AFB was built in 1941 southeast of Phoenix in Maricopa County, Arizona, and operated...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James B. Rodgers.

Scientific Archeological Services has just completed an archeological inventory of a small parcel situated immediately east of the Old Crosscut Canal in eastern Phoenix, Arizona. This parcel is to be impacted by the construction of two main surface channel features of the Old Crosscut Canal Project. This overall drainage project is to be a joint venture of the Flood Control District of Maricopa County and the city of Phoenix itself, and its development will involve certain reconstruction of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jerry Brian Howard.

Past studies of the Hohokam irrigation systems have focused on the examination of small segments of individual prehistoric canals. The application of open channel equations to individual cross-sections has provided information on discharge capacity and water velocity at specific points in time and space. This study focuses on the development of techniques and approaches to modeling the operation of complete canals. Extant records of cross-sections of the Prehistoric Hohokam canals are compiled...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jill Heilman. Helana Ruter. Daniel H. Sorrell. J. Simon Bruder.

At the request of Olsson Associates, Inc. (Olsson), EcoPlan Associates, Inc. (EcoPlan) cultural resource specialists relocated and assessed where possible National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) eligibility for known cultural resources within both the Phoenix- and Tempe-owned portions of Papago Park, Maricopa County, Arizona. This research was done in support of a new regional master plan for the park. The master plan is being developed cooperatively by the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Banks L. Leonard. Rebecca Hill.

This report describes the methodology, results, and recommendations of a partial data recovery and burial removal project conducted by Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI) in March and May 1999 for Kitchell Development Co. for a parcel along the east side of the large Hohokam village site known as Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)) in Phoenix, Arizona. According to proposed development plans, two areas were to be excavated below grade for a building foundation and a runoff detention basin and the rest of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Diana C. Kamilli.

Ten plainware potsherds from the Country Club Road Project were submitted for thin sectioning and petrographic analysis in the hopes that differences in the compositional assemblages would give clues to temper collection patterns, pottery movement, material treatment, or firing technology. All ten sherds were cut into standard thin sections, stained for alkali feldspar and calcic plagioclase, and examined under a research Zeiss petrographic microscope.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Elizabeth Miksa.

This report contains the description of data collection procedures and analysis methods for petrographic thin sections of potsherds recovered from the MCDOT Pueblo Blanco project near Scottsdale, Arizona. Fifty-three plainware, redware, polychrome, and buffware sherds from AZ U:9:95 (ASM) and AZ U:9:97 (ASM) were analyzed. In addition, five polychrome sherds from AZ U:15:3 (ASM) were analyzed for comparison with the Pueblo Blanco polychrome sherds. The type of analysis employed for this project...

DOCUMENT Full-Text James M. Heidke. Diana C. Kamilli. Elizabeth Miksa.

The goal of the present study is to identify the provenance of ceramics recovered from project area sites in the lower Verde River on the basis of the temper found within them (Ciolek-Torrello et al. 1992:111-75 to III-85). The focus of this study is on sand temper. Ceramic wares and/or types produced within the study area are distinguished from those imported from other areas. A reconnaissance sample of wash sands from the lower Verde River area was collected and analyzed to provide the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Erik Steinbach. Mark Hackbarth. Glen E. Rice.

The Frank Luke Addition was built in 1952 as one of three public housing complexes making up the City of Phoenix East Asset Management Program (East AMP). In an effort to revitalize the City’s public housing facilities and meet goals of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the City of Phoenix Housing Department proposes to redevelop the Frank Luke Addition. A portion of the Frank Luke Addition falls within the 250 foot buffer zone around the Patrick Locus, which is a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Banks L. Leonard.

This report describes the methodology, results, and recommendations of a two phase archaeological testing project conducted by Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI) in March and May 1999 for Kitchell Development Co. (KDC) for a parcel of land along the east side of the Hohokam village Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)) in Phoenix, Arizona. Phase 1 testing involved the excavation and recording of eight backhoe trenches in two parts of the parcel. Phase 2 testing was designed to help define the limits of the...

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This report documents Phase II data recovery at a portion of the project site performed by archaeologists from Jacobs Engineering (Jacobs) in Phoenix, Arizona. Under contract with Maricopa County Department of Transportation (MCDOT), archaeologists from Jacobs conducted data recovery at the site from January 8, 2013, through May 1, 2013. The Phase II data recovery resulted in the discovery of 104 features and excavation of 85 features, along with the recovery of thousands of artifacts.

DOCUMENT Full-Text A.E. (Gene) Rogge. Glenn P. Darrington.

In 1998, the Phoenix City Council approved the Sonoran Preserve Master Plan, building on the City’s history of setting aside lands for recreation, environmental education, and preservation of native habitats (Burke and Ewan 1999), The plan defines a vision for a Sonoran desert preserve to protect additional open space in north Phoenix. Much of the land within the Phoenix Sonoran Desert Preserve planning area is Arizona State Trust land. The Arizona Preserve Initiative (API), signed into law in...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Glen E. Rice. Erik Steinbach.

Archaeological trenching and the monitoring of demolition of existing structures in the Phase 2 area of the Frank Luke Addition project in the City of Phoenix has determined that the Hohokam site of La Ciudad, also known as AZ T:12:1 (ASM), extends into the proposed construction area for the Frank Luke Addition project. This report presents the findings of monitoring and trenching and a recommendation for a data recovery program to document register eligible resources that will be affected by...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Arizona State University (ASU).

Papago Park in the City of Tempe extends from Tempe Butte northward across the Salt River bed into the southern portion of the Papago hills. The archaeological sites in the park are relatively small, but they represent both the Indian and Anglo occupation of the Salt River Valley, and span more than one thousand years of history (A.D. 800 to late 1800s and early 1900s). Excavations at two of the sites have produced artifacts dating to a) the prehistoric Indian period, b) the early historic...

DATASET M Scott Thompson.

The Prehispanic American Southeast and Southwest Comparative Mortuary Database is a relational database that served as the primary data management tool for the dissertation titled "Interactions with the Incorporeal in the Mississippian and Ancestral Puebloan Worlds." The database contains mortuary data for the following prehistoric settlements: Mississippian - Irene Mounds site Zuni area - Hawikku and Kechiba:wa Hohokam (Salt River Valley) - Pueblo Grande, Casa Buena, Grand Canal Ruins,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text T. Kathleen Henderson.

Less than a decade ago, it seemed that the Hohokam had appeared out of nowhere. Here was a vibrant population of pottery making, irrigating, settled farmers, and the people before them: the nomadic Archaic tribes, who wandered the desert from one stand of ripening fruit to another in time with nature’s pulse. The one culture appeared so unlike the other that it seemed impossible to account for the sudden change in lifestyles. Then, in the 1980s, the first clues were found to bridge the gap...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Scott Courtright.

The results of backhoe trenching and data recovery excavation at the site of Pueblo del Rio within SunState Builders’ parcel. The area consists of 77.72 acres of land previously tested in 2005 (Lots 6, 7, 12, 13, and 14) and in 2006 (Lots 8, 9, 10, and 11). Following the completion of extensive backhoe trenching in the various lots, twelve feature areas containing likely habitation structures, relic canals, and burials were selected for data recovery— three along the planned road corridors in...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Danielle Desruisseaux. Randy Fox. Todd L. Howell. Darby Moore. Douglas R. Mitchell. David Purcell. Chris T. Wenker. Tom Yoder. Mark Zyniecki.

This report discusses the results of archaeological data recovery conducted at eleven prehistoric sites within the proposed Carlota Copper Mine (Carlota). The project area is located west of Miami, Arizona, principally on lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service, Tonto National Forest. In order to comply with the appropriate federal legislation regarding the cultural resources within the project area, Carlota contracted with SWCA to conduct archaeological investigations. A series of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael Stubing.

Archaeological mitigation was conducted within the proposed Sierra Vista development located three miles southwest of the Town of Cave Creek, Arizona. The proposed development will impact six sites, AZ U:l:315 (ASM), AZ U:1:316 (ASM), AZ U:1:317 (ASM), AZ U:1:318 (ASM), AZ T:4:243 (ASM), and AZ U:1:244 (ASM). The six sites are Hohokam rock features and artifact scatters. The sites were originally recorded as Loci 1-6 within AZ U:1:308 (ASM) (AZ U:1:2 ASU). During the current mitigation project...