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DOCUMENT Citation Only Frank Ritz. Dayle Cheever.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text S. Jerome Hesse.

On December 16, 2003 and January 7, 2004, an archaeologist from SWCA Environmental Consultants (SWCA) monitored construction excavations and activities associated with the EPNG Line 1007 30-day anomaly repairs as part of El Paso’s pipeline integrity project in Pinal County, Arizona. Archaeological monitoring was undertaken to ensure no potentially significant cultural resources would be adversely affected by construction activities within the archaeological sites, AZ AA:2:105 (ASM), located on...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Oslynn Benjamin. Glennda Gene Luhnow.

The Grand Canalscape Phase II (TIGER) Shared-use Pathway project is a City of Phoenix (City) pathway improvement project that completes a shared-use path along the Grand Canal from North 23rd Avenue south of West Indian School Road in Phoenix to the City of Tempe border at 56th Street. Pathway improvements were constructed along three discontinuous segments of the Grand Canal: • Segment 1: Grand Canal alignment between I-17 and 15th Avenue; • Segment 2: Grand Canal alignment between 16th...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Oslynn Benjamin. Glennda Gene Luhnow.

June 12, 2020 (Revised September 18, 2020) The Grand Canalscape Phase II (TIGER) Shared-use Pathway project is a City of Phoenix (City) pathway improvement project that completes a shared-use path along the Grand Canal from North 23rd Avenue south of West Indian School Road in Phoenix to the City of Tempe border at 56th Street. Pathway improvements were constructed along three discontiguous segments of the Grand Canal: • Segment 1: Grand Canal alignment between I-17 and 15th Avenue; • Segment...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Suzanne Griset. India S. Hesse. Paul M. Rawson.

Prior to widening, the City of Tucson (COT) Department of Transportation sponsored a series of investigations to identify archaeological sites that would be affected by the road project and to mitigate adverse effects to the sites, where needed. The first step in identifying archaeological sites was a cultural resources survey, conducted by SWCA Environmental Consultants in 2009. Although no archaeological sites were found during the survey, much of the study area was inaccessible due to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Patricia Cook.

Desert Archaeology, Inc., conducted data recovery a prehistoric archaeological site located within the Los Reales Landfill, Tucson, Pima County, Arizona. Subsurface archaeological features were encountered in late May 2007, during normal landfill activity by landfill personnel to mine sediments. The exposure of four features caused the sediment excavation activities to cease. Desert Archaeology was contacted by landfill administrators on 25 May 2007, to assess the features and to determine if...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lourdes Aguila.

Data recovery was completed at Pueblo del Rio as specified in the work plan developed after the testing phase. The purpose of the data recovery was to recover sufficient information from the portion of Pueblo del Rio within the EPNG right-of-way to answer general research questions as outlined in the treatment plan and to mitigate the adverse effect of the proposed EPNG undertaking on the cultural resources within the right-of-way. These goals were accomplished. However, the highly disturbed...

DOCUMENT Full-Text M.L. Brack.

The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) purchased property at North Freeway, Tucson, Arizona, to facilitate improvements along the Interstate 10 (I-10) corridor. Following completion of construction, ADOT proposed selling the property lying outside the I-10 right-of-way. EcoPlan Associates, environmental consultants to ADOT, requested a cultural resources assessment of the property prior to sale. Desert Archaeology, Inc., identified potentially significant surface remains and initiated a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Margaret Glass. Richard Boston. Stephen W. Yost. Gina Gage. Bruce G. Phillips. Stephen C. Reichardt. Karolyn J. Jackman.

The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) plans to extend the Red Mountain Freeway through Mesa, Arizona from State Route (SR) 87 to US Route (US) 60. This project will result in the construction of a new limited access six-lane freeway. Construction on the right-of-way is currently confined to the area between SR 87 and Gilbert Road. The proposed route runs through an area of dense historic and prehistoric cultural resources south of McDowell Road, and passes through the northern edge of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Stephen W. Yost. Margaret Glass. Karolyn Jackman. Gina Gage. Bruce G. Phillips.

The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) plans to extend the Red Mountain Freeway through Mesa, Arizona from State Route (SR) 87 to US Route (US) 60. This project will result in the construction of a new limited access six-lane freeway. Construction on the right-of-way is currently confined to the area between SR 87 and Gilbert Road. The proposed route runs through an area of dense historic and prehistoric cultural resources south of McDowell Road, and passes through the northern edge of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Suzanne Griset. S. Jerome Hesse.

On July 1, 2014, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) granted Sierrita Gas Pipeline LLC (Sierrita) notice to proceed with the construction of the Sierrita Pipeline Project (the Project), a new natural gas pipeline and appurtenant facilities in Pima County, Arizona, that deliver natural gas from El Paso Natural Gas Company’s existing pipeline system southwest of Tucson to an interconnect point at the U.S.-Mexico border near the town of Sasabe. Concurrent with the construction of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael W. Lindeman.

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Shereen Lerner.

In the spring, 1996, Mesa Community College (MCC) undertook the second year of a field school at AZ U:10:1(ASU). The site is located in Maricopa County on land owned by the Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community (Community). The field school was conducted with the permission of the Community under a permit issued by the Cultural and Environmental Services Division of the Community Development Department. The Bureau of Indian Affairs issued an Archaeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA)...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Shereen Lerner.

In the spring, 1997, Mesa Community College (MCC) undertook the third year of a field school at AZ U:10:1(ASU). A field report summarizing the findings for the 1995 and 1996 field seasons has been submitted to the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Cultural and Environmental Services Division of Community Development (CESD). The site is located in Maricopa County on land owned by the Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community (Community). The field school was conducted with the permission...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Helga Wocherl.

The results of archaeological monitoring at AZ AA:16:39 (ASM) and the results of phase 2 data recovery at AZ AA:16:410 (ASM) and subsequent monitoring are detailed in this report. Following recommendations from phase 1 data recovery (Wocherl 2000b), the work was conducted pursuant to the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) initiated by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), as lead federal agency for this project. Under authority of Arizona State Museum (ASM) Permit Number 2000-107ps(A1), Desert...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Daniel Garcia. S. Jerome Hesse.

Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport Authority (PMGAA) proposes the Northeast Area Development Plan (NADP), which would relocate the existing airport passenger terminal complex to the northeastern corner of Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport (the Airport), in the City of Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona. Ricondo and Associates, Inc., under contract to PMGAA, retained SWCA Environmental Consultants (SWCA) to conduct National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) eligibility testing at four archaeological sites—AZ...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Suzanne Griset.

Meritage Homes (Meritage) proposes to construct a residential subdivision in the town of Oro Valley (Town), north of Tucson, Arizona. One recorded site, AZ BB:9:262/338 (ASM), is located in the northeastern portion of the proposed Kai 291 North project area. Lucas (2014) recommended that the site be tested for its eligibility for listing in the National Register of Historical Places (NRHP). The Town required that Meritage assess the eligibility of the site and include the results in its...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Helga Wöcherl.

The results of archaeological Phase 1 data recovery, including exploratory excavation and supplemental archival research, of an artifact scatter, Component B, within the municipal boundaries of the Town of Sahuarita, Pima County, Arizona, are presented in this report. The work was requested by Sage Landscape Architecture and Environmental for the planned Quail Crossing Boulevard alignment to be constructed by the Town of Sahuarita on State Trust Land (State Land Department Row #16-112095)....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Andrew Dutt. Michelle N. Stevens.

The City of Tucson had proposed to construct a water recharge basin on the east side of the Santa Cruz River between Sweetwater Road and Camino del Cerro. Phase 1 archaeological data recovery was conducted at the City's request because the project area lies within the boundaries of AZ A A:12:91 (ASM), also known as the Los Pozos site. Previous archaeological work has established the significance of the Los Pozos site, which has been determined to be eligible for inclusion on the National...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Helga Wöcherl.

The purpose of this report is two-fold. It is, first and foremost, a report on the results of a relatively small field investigation within a portion of the Los Pozos site. These recent investigations did not encounter buried archaeological features despite discovery of such in an immediately adjacent area during a previous project. Due to a gradual accumulation of substantial amounts of fieldwork over the past 20 years, the second part of this report is a compilation and synthesis of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Suzanne Griset. David M. R. Barr. S. Jerome Hesse. Paul M. Rawson.

Pima County Department of Transportation is proposing to construct a newly aligned road in Pima County. The realigned road would cross through two previously investigated archaeological sites—AZ AA:12:11 (ASM) and AZ AA:12:788 (ASM), the latter more commonly known as the Rillito Fan site. Pima County Office of Sustainability and Conservation retained SWCA Environmental Consultants to develop and implement a Phase 1 data recovery (data testing) plan for the portions of these two sites that would...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Deborah Swartz.

Current excavations at the West Branch site, AZ AA:16:3 (ASM), by Desert Archaeology, Inc., focused on a small portion of the southern end of the site prior to private construction. Artifacts will be curated at the Arizona State Museum (ASM) with accession number 2003-0382. Forty-one features identified within the project area included: 7 structures, 2 extramural surfaces, 3 trash concentrations, 1 horno, 1 roasting pit, 6 burial features, and 21 additional extramural pits. The horno and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John T. Marshall.

Northland Research, Inc. (Northland) has complete Phase I data recovery within a portion of the prehistoric site of La Villa (AZ T:12:148[ASM]), a large Hohokam village in the lower Salt River Valley. The 1.6-acre project area is in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. Maricopa County Human Services Campus plans to expand existing facilities into the subject property. La Villa is considered National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) eligible under Criterion D (information potential). Previous...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steve Swanson. Christopher Papalas. Ryan Arp.

EPG conducted Phase I data recovery testing within three parcels near the northwest corner of 36th Street and Southern Avenue in Phoenix, Arizona, for compliance with ARS §41-865 and Chapter 8, Section 802[B2] of the City’s Historic Preservation Ordinance. The parcels (APN 122-70-002, 122-71-003 and 122-70-008) are within the recorded boundaries of prehistoric archaeological site AZ T:12:137(ASM), a series of prehistoric loci referred to in the archaeological literature as “Las Canoas” or “Las...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark R. Hackbarth.

Phase II data recovery investigations were completed according to the specifications of the Treatment Plan previously approved by ASM and COP and infield discussions with COP and the State Historic Preservation Office conducted on March 23 and 27, 2012, and summarized in an email sent to ASM on March 27, 2012. LSD completed mechanical stripping around the features identified during Phase I testing and during Phase II mechanical stripping. Features exposed during the stripping were hand excavated...