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Archaeological Data Recovery at the Rohrig Substation, Queen Creek, Arizona (2006)
DOCUMENT Full-Text T. Kathleen Henderson.

The Southwest Germann site is among the largest of prehistoric Hohokam settlements in the Queen Creek area. The Rohrig Substation property is located at its southwestern edge and overlaps a previously unreported habitation locus. Archaeological testing (Phase 1 data recovery) at the substation documented the presence of adobe-walled rooms, puddling pits, and trash deposits that were probably contained within an adobe-walled compound on the easternmost side of the Rohrig property. Salt River...


Archaeological Investigations: Arizona Nuclear Power Project, Salt River Project, Bureau of Land Management and Private Lands, Maricopa County, Arizona: Final Report for Archaeological Investigations at NA15,137 and NA15,142: Two Sites Along the Palo Verde to Westwing Transmission System (1979)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Ronald K. Yablon.

The Museum of Northern Arizona conducted archaeological investigations at two sites along the Palo Verde to Westwing Transmission System, northwest of Phoenix, Arizona. NA15,137 is an extensive Hohokam sherd and lithic scatter dating to the late Colonial and Sedentary Periods. The remains indicate a seasonal occupation with an agricultural subsistence base. NA15,142 is the remains of a late 1920s to early 1930s homestead. Recovered material and archival research confirm these dates. Apparently...


Archaeological Monitoring and Surface Collection at Two Sites in Tonto Natural Bridge State Park, Gila County, Arizona (1991)
DOCUMENT Full-Text JoAnn E. Kisselburg. Kim Adams. Walter Punzmann. Barbara S. Macnider.

Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) monitored blading and trenching activities in the Tonto Natural Bridge State Park. The monitoring, which included surface artifact collection, was conducted to mitigate the impacts to cultural resources by the construction of a parking lot and the installation of underground utility lines. The work was completed under archaeological permit 91-18 issued by the Arizona state Museum. This survey identified a moderately dense lithic scatter in the...


An Archaeological Survey in the Blackwater Area, Volume 2: Site Descriptions and Related Data (1994)
DOCUMENT Full-Text David A. Gregory. Diane L. Douglas.

The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), United States Department of the Interior, was in the initial stages of the Water Management Project designed to bring Central Arizona Project water to the Gila River Indian Community (GRIC). Under terms of a contract signed in 1992 with the GRIC, facilities designed and constructed by Reclamation would deliver 173,000 acre-feet of water annually onto the reservation. Federal law mandates consideration of potential impacts of such projects upon cultural...


An Archaeological Survey of the Salt River Project Lower Buckeye Road Canal Relocation Project, Maricopa County, Arizona (1988)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Barbara S. Macnider.

Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) conducted an archaeological survey in southwestern Phoenix along Lower Buckeye Road at the request of Judy Brunson of the Salt River Project (SRP). The survey was performed in order to provide an inventory and assessment of the cultural resources that would be affected by the relocation of the Lower Buckeye Road canal. The project consisted of six parcels that totaled approximately 7.1 acres (2.86 ha); all parcels, except for Parcel 3, are...


An Archaeological Survey of the Santa Cruz River Valley from the Headwaters to the Town of Tubac in Arizona (1941)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Edward Bridge Danson.

The Santa Cruz River is located in south-central Arizona in the Santa Cruz and Pima Counties. A short stretch of the rivers lies in northern Sonora and forms a big horseshoe bend as the river cuts across the foot of the Patagonia Mountains from the San Rafael Valley into the Santa Cruz Valley proper. In the San Rafael Valley, where the headwaters of the river are found, the Santa Cruz passes few towns or villages. The first one is Lochiel, a small cluster of houses on the International...


Archeological Investigations Along the Salt-Gila Aqueduct (1979)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Pat H. Stein.

In 1978, the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) directed the Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA) to complete an intensive archaeological survey of the proposed alignment for the Salt-Gila Aqueduct, a feature of the Central Arizona Project. The survey area was 11,115 acres and included the 60 mile-long transmission line (with a typical width of 200 meters), three proposed utility line locations, one flood retention dike location, 11 possible spoil or realignment areas, and a subsidence well....


The Bartlett Dam Project: Archaeological Test Excavations at Fourteen Sites in the Lower Verde Valley, Maricopa County, Arizona (1991)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Gregory R. Seymour. Mark Slaughter. WIlliam L. Deaver. Richard V. N. Ahlstrom.

This report documents the results of a testing program completed by SWCA, Inc. Environmental Consultants in August of 1990 in anticipation of the modification of Bartlett Dam. Modifications to the dam were planned as part of the Central Arizona Project's Regulatory Storage Division (Plan 6) and the Safety of Dams Project. During the month of April, 1990, archaeologists from Northland Research, Inc. conducted an archaeological survey of approximately 929 acres located on the Lower Verde River...


Boundary Delineation and Limited Testing of Several Sites on the Fort McDowell Indian Reservation, Maricopa County, Arizona (1994)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Kim Adams.

Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) conducted survey of 200 acres and limited testing of cultural resources on Fort McDowell Mohave-Apache Indian Community (FMIC) land at the request of Mr. Jon Czaplicki of the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation). The work was performed to define the boundaries of archaeological sites to be avoided by agricultural development. Eight sites were slated for preservation; however, only seven sites were relocated and flagged, and two new sites were...


Canoa Ranch Arizona Site Steward File (2004)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Ann Marie Wolf. E. Huber. M. C. Thurtle. R. P. Jones.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Canoa Ranch group of 11 archaeological sites located on Pima County land. The sites are comprised of habitation areas; agricultural features, including rock alignments to mark fields and control water flow; and lithic and sherd scatter. One historic surveyor's cairn is found within the area. The file consists of an Arizona Site Steward Program OPS form and 11 Arizona State Museum archaeological site cards.


Cottonwood Box Ruin Arizona Site Steward File (1983)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Wood. McAllister.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file that consists of the Cottonwood Box Ruin which is located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of a masonry room block with artifact scatter and possible terracing and checkdams. The file consists of a heritage inventory form, unlabeled form, two hand drawn site maps, an artifact collection record form, cultural resources inventory form, and a map of the site location. The earliest dated document is from 1983.


Dealer's Choice Arizona Site Steward Files (2003)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Ashley. Leonard.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Dealer's Choice site, comprised of prehistoric masonry room blocks and extensive trash scatter, located on Tonto National Forest land. The file consists of a heritage inventory form and a site map. The earliest dated document is from 2003.


Final Report for Plan 6 Supplemental Cultural Resource Surveys (1985)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Margerie Green. R. W. Effland, Jr.. J. H. King.

This final report reflects a year of on-call Class III cultural resource surveys for Plan 6, the Regulatory Storage Division of the Central Arizona Project. Included are eight reports representing close to 6000 acres of survey performed in the vicinity of the planned New Waddell Dam by Archaeological Consulting Services for the Arizona Projects Office, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Because New Waddell Dam is designed to be rock filled, one of the focal points of the contract was to survey proposed...


Hansen Pipeline (1983)
DOCUMENT Citation Only P. Brown.

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.


Land Use and Resource Exploitation of the Sonoran Desert: A Sample Survey of Cultural Resources in Mohave, La Paz, and Yavapai Counties, Arizona (1990)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Bruce A. Jones.

In April and November, 1989, Statistical Research conducted a cultural resource survey of nearly 4,000 acres of land owned by the State of Arizona in Mohave, Yavapai and La Paz counties. The field reconnaissance documented 16 archaeological sites consisting of artifact scatters, trails, rock features, rock art and stationary grinding-features. The non-random survey strategy was based on a stratified sample of 640 acre-study units in the Hualapai and Aquarius Mountains, the Big Sandy Valley and...


Lower Mayfield Canyon Ruin Arizona Site Steward File (2001)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Scott Wood. F. Olson. A. Olson.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Lower Mayfield Canyon Ruin site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site consists of a settlement, alternatively described as a caserón, compound, or pueblo, as well as trash deposits containing human bones. The file consists of a site data form, heritage inventory form, three site maps, three pages of unlabeled site data forms, and a map of the site collection. The earliest dated document is from 1929.


Payson Pueblo 110 Arizona Site Steward File (1954)
DOCUMENT Full-Text F. Olson. A. Olson.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Payson Pueblo 110 site, comprised of a small granite pueblo with artifact scatter and trash, located on Tonto National Forest land. The file consists of an archeological and historical site inventory form, blank sketch of site setting form, hand drawn site map, and map of the site location. The earliest dated document is from 1954.


Payson Rock Ruin Arizona Site Steward File (1954)
DOCUMENT Full-Text F. Olson. A. Olson. Joe Janes. Lindauer. S. Horton. J. S. Wood.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Payson Rock Ruin site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site consists of a masonry complex, storage and occupied rock shelters, bedrock grinding features, prehistoric and historic petroglyphs, a wickiup ring, and associated artifacts. The site appears to have first been occupied by the Payson Tradition before being reoccupied by the Apache in historic times. The file consists of a heritage inventory form and three hand drawn site maps....


The Roosevelt Bajada Survey, Tonto Basin, Gila County, Central Arizona (1991)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard V. N. Ahlstrom. Mark L. Chenault. Kirk C. Anderson.

Between October, 1990, and January, 1991, SWCA, Environmental Consultants conducted archaeological survey of approximately 1,800 acres of Tonto National Forest land in the Roosevelt Basin, central Arizona. This project, the Roosevelt Bajada Survey, was done to provide survey data on portions of the Basin that are not being investigated by Arizona State University (ASU) as part of its Roosevelt Lake Project. The survey recorded 111 new sites and rerecorded five previously known sites; four...


Round Valley Pueblo 671 Arizona Site Steward File (2002)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Harold S. Gladwin. F. Olson. A. Olson.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Round Valley Pueblo 671 site, comprised of a large Payson-tradition granite and sandstone pueblo, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site also contains a Hohokam pit house village. The file consists of a heritage inventory form, a hand drawn site map, an unlabeled site data form, and a map of the site location. The earliest dated document is from 1929.


Rye Creek Ruin Arizona Site Steward File (1981)
DOCUMENT Full-Text J. S. Wood. Emil W. Haury. W. Kaemlein, Jr.. F. Olson. A. Olson.

This contains the Arizona Site Steward file for the Rye Creek Ruin site, located on Tonto National Forest land. The site is comprised of a masonry pueblo or compound with room and courtyard burials, as well as trash middens and a possible watchtower. The file consists of a cultural resources inventory form, Bureau of American Ethnology catalogue of manuscripts card, a copy of "A Report on Excavations at the Rye Creek Ruin," two hand drawn site maps, four maps of the site location, two Arizona...


The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community Class III Cultural Resources Survey, Maricopa County, Arizona (1991)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Deni J. Seymour.

Between March 11 and 21, 1991, SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants conducted a cultural resources survey of approximately 2,300 acres of Pima -Maricopa Indian Community Lands in Maricopa County, Arizona. The survey was conducted in order to locate and describe cultural remains within the project area that might be adversely affected by proposed development of the area in conjunction with the Central Arizona Project, Water Distribution Facilities. A total of 20 sites (AZ U:5:41 through AZ...


Salt River Project, Coronado Generating Station, Coal Haul Railroad - Realignments 1 & 2, Private, Federal, and State Lands, Apache County, Arizona: Final Report for Preliminary Evaluation of Realignments 1 and 2 of Coronado Generating Station Coal Haul Railroad (1976)
DOCUMENT Full-Text J. James Trott.

At the request of Salt River Project, an evaluation of Realignments 1 and 2 of the proposed D-2 alignment of the Coronado Generating Station Coal Haul Railroad has been prepared. Archaeological investigations of both realignments were conducted on two occasions. On April 13, 1976, an aerial reconnaissance of the realignments was conducted and on May 3-7, 1976, the proposed locations of 24 bore holes and 19 test pits, located along the realignment were surveyed. Based on information collected...


Shoofly Village Arizona Site Steward File (2000)
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.


Sunflower Mesa Ruin Arizona Site Steward File (1997)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Scott Wood. Elaine Zamora.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file that consists of the site Sunflower Mesa Ruin, comprised of a masonry pueblo and retaining walls with accompanying sherd and lithic scatter, located on Tonto National Forest land. The file consists of a site data form, two maps of the site location, and an Arizona State University site survey form.