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PROJECT Arleyn Simon. Peter McCartney. Glen Rice. USDI Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office. Charles Redman. Brenda Shears.

The Roosevelt Platform Mound Study (RPMS) was one of three mitigative data recovery studies that the Bureau of Reclamation funded to investigate the prehistory of the Tonto Basin in the vicinity of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. The series of investigations constituted Reclamation's program for complying with historic preservation legislation as it applied to the raising and modification of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. Reclamation contracted with the Arizona State University Office of Cultural Resource...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Karolyn Jackman Jensen. Margaret Glass. Catherine Johnson.

In 1993 Arizona State Parks received an Arizona Heritage Fund/State Historic Preservation Office grant to rebuild the historic wall that originally surrounded the New Yard at Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park(AZ X:6:90(ASM)). The project entailed removing a reconstructed adobe wall and replicating the original adobe wall, which was originally built by the prisoners in 1900. Although a previous archaeology survey noted that subsurface cultural remains may be present surface indications...

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Under the sponsorship of the Bureau of Reclamation, the New Waddell Dam Borrow Areas Mitigative Data Recovery Project, more simply known as the Waddell Project, performed data recovery at 17 sites in the vicinity of Lake Pleasant, Arizona. Supplemental surveys conducted under the same contract added two sites to the inventory slated for investigation. The project area, composed of multiple survey areas, was spread across two drainages, the Agua Fria and New River, in what is considered the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kevin Boness. Al Hendricks. John Madsen. Keith Pajkos. E. Pasanea. Ken Rozen.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Sheep Hill site, comprised of Sinagua pit houses and a field house with accompanying artifact scatter, located on State Trust land. The file consists of 11 Arizona State Museum archaeological survey forms. The earliest dated document is from 1986.

DOCUMENT Full-Text H. S. Gladwin. F. Olson. A. Olson. R. Kelly. Rachel Most.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Shoofly Ruin site, comprised of a sandstone pueblo and accompanying artifacts, located on Tonto National Forest land. The file consists of a heritage inventory form, three site maps, a blank sketch of site setting form, two maps of the site location, a Museum of Northern Arizona site card, and an Arizona State Museum archaeological survey form. The earliest dated form is from 1929.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Gary L. Shaw.

Site form for 3PU0438. Site 3PU0438 is a historic residential site or farmstead. The site area been severely impacted by bulldozing and burning. There is also a modern trash dump on top of the site. Due to the severe disturbance of the site and its relatively common site type, it is considered to be ineligible for inclusion on the NRHP and no further work is required.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lynn Evans.

This is an abstract from the "Frontier and Settlement Archaeology" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Michilimackinac is well known as a French and British fur trade entrepôt in what is now northern Michigan. Analysis of personal adornment artifacts from a recently excavated fur trader's household revealed that the assemblage included some artifacts more commonly associated with the Spanish, jet beads and a fan stick fragment. Are these artifacts...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David H. Greenwald.

Early settlement of the Cottonwood Seep Site consisted of small, informal pit structures and large jacal surface structures that were used on a seasonal basis for a period from approximately A.D. 500 until about A.D. 800. This paper examines the structure and organization of the Basketmaker III settlement, focusing on group organization, site function, resource availability, and environmental considerations. Unlike many of the surrounding Basketmaker III field house sites, the Cottonwood Seep...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Holly S. DeMaagd.

At the request of Janice Cunningham of U.S. West Communication (US West), Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) performed subsurface testing along a proposed utility (fiber optic communication cable) right-of-way. The right-of-way will be located within the southern access road for the Grand Canal, which passes through Pueblo Grande Historic Landmark (Pueblo Grande). The canal is owned by the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) and administered by the Salt River Project (SRP)....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael Freisinger.

On September 11, 1995, construction of the parking lot at Tubac Presidio State Historic Park began west of the schoolhouse. The project area is located in the SE 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of Section 7, Township 21 South, Range 13 East. The Presido has been assigned site # AZ DD:8:33 ASM and the schoolhouse AZ DD:8:10 ASM. On September 11, 12, 13 and 18 archaeological monitoring was carried out during 1) grading, cutting and filling of the parking lot area, 2) excavation and capping of two wells, 3)...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jim McKie. Euler. Abel.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Turkey Creek Caves site, comprised of two caves with smoke-blackened roofs and accompanying artifacts, located on Prescott National Forest land. The file consists of a site data form, Museum of Northern Arizona card, map of the site location, and a black and white photograph of the site. The earliest dated document is from 1954.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bill Gillespie. Shereen Lerner. Deni J. Seymour. Catherine M. Cameron. M. M. E.. McClellan. Danziger.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Upper Davidson Canyon Archaeological District, located on Coronado National Forest land. The sites within the district contain Hohokam, Archaic, Historic, and possibly Paleo Indian cultural deposits. The sites are comprised of a wide variety of features and artifacts including village sites, pit houses, a corral, a historic house, agricultural features, resource extraction and production sites, hearths, and a roasting pit. The file consists of a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Scott Wood. F. Olson. A. Olson. Mark Zyniecki. E. A. Wood. Elaine Zamora.

This contains the Arizona Site Steward file for the Upper Mayfield Canyon site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of masonry room blocks; compounds, including one of quartzite and limestone; a limestone pueblo; and houses. Areas between residential structures contain abundant trash deposits. Human graves and one dog burial are also located on site. The file consists of two site steward data forms, two heritage inventory forms, an Arizona State Museum archaeological...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christine Thiel. J. Scott Wood. Denise Ryan.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Valentine Pueblo site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of a Preclassic Hohokam room block with accompanying petroglyoph, plaza, and lithic and sherd scatter. The file consists of a heritage inventory form, hand drawn site map, map of the site location, and site data form. The earliest dated document is from 1997.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jim I. Mead. Harold D. Dyer.

Arizona State Parks (ASP) required the assessment of bones found exposed along the arroyo cut of the San Pedro River in San Rafael Valley, Santa Cruz County, southeastern Arizona. These remains held potential of being: 1) modern cattle (Bos) remains; 2) Spanish-age cattle (Bos); 3) Holocene-age Bison; or 4) Rancholabrean-age (> 11,000 B.P.) Bison or other large ungulate remains. This was the initial reason to enter lands held by San Rafael Ranch State Park (SRRSP). Cathy Johnson (ASP) contacted...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Thomas W. Stafford.

Three samples of bone collected from Cuncaicha Rockshelter in Peru were pulverized at the University of Arizona and received for XAD purification and AMS radiocarbon dating. These samples represent three unique specimens identified as vicuña (Vicuna mensalis) or Andean deer (Hippocamelus antisensis).

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael A. Freisinger.

A historic trash dump site was discovered by the City of Yuma while excavating a handicap access sidewalk for a washroom facility building below the Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park and a City River Park. The excavation area is partially on City property and State Land (Arizona State Parks). The area of concern is in a recently excavated cut-bank containing historic trash; large mammal bones (cow), glass, metal, porcelain, and ceramics. Approximately 10-15 artifacts and 50+ bones and...