Canal or Canal Feature (Site Type Keyword)

Parent: Agricultural or Herding

Ditch or interrelated group of ditches, acequias, head gates, and drains that constitute an irrigation system for individual watering and irrigation features.

326-350 (722 Records)

Excavations at Pueblo del Rio (AZ T:12:116[ASM]), A Hohokam Village in West Phoenix, Arizona (2010)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Gina s. Gage. Douglas B. Craig Ph.D..

Northland Research, Inc. (Northland) has completed archaeological investigations within a portion of the Pueblo del Rio site, AZ T:12:116(ASM), a large Hohokam habitation site located in southwest Phoenix. The investigations were designed to collect information and analyze materials from a sample of features at the site in order to mitigate the impacts of commercial development (Moore and Stahman 2007). The work was sponsored by the Stravinski Development Group, LLC, in conformance with Section...


Excavations at the Mound 3 Precinct Southeast Cemetery, Las Colinas, AZ T:12:10(ASM) (2008)
DOCUMENT Full-Text K.J. Schroeder.

Advanced Mobile Storage, Inc . (AMS) Phoenix. Arizona, undertook upgrades and modifications to its existing storage facility in the Fall of 2007, during which time all ground disturbing activities were monitored by Roadrunner Archaeology & Consulting (RAC) staff. The storage facility is an irregular L-shaped area within a 385 x 460 ft area consisting of approximately 3.074 acres of privately owned property. In addition, an area approximately 20 x 17 5 meters of Phoenix City property was...


Excavations in the Santa Cruz River Floodplain: The Early Agricultural Period Component at Los Pozos (2001)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: adam brin

Archaeological research reported in this volume was conducted under an on call contract between Desert Archaeology, Inc. and the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT; Contract 9446). This contract provides for documentation and appropriate treatment of cultural resources encountered during long-term implementation of proposed ADOT improvements to the Tucson area segment of the Interstate 10 corridor between the Interstate 19 interchange on the south and Tangerine Road on the north (Mabry...


Excavations of Feature 32, a Canal at AZ BB:13:794 (ASM), Tucson, Pima County, Arizona (2016)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Gary Huckleberry. Michael W. Lindeman.

In this document, the results of data recovery at AZ BB:13:794 (ASM) are reported. The work was done prior to construction by Pima County of a paved multiuse path along the western bank of the Santa Cruz River. BB:13:794 was recommended to be eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places (National Register) under Criterion D, based on the potential of Feature 32 to yield significant information about prehistoric irrigation and farming in the Santa Cruz floodplain....


The Excavations of Los Muertos and Neighboring Ruins in the Salt River Valley, Southern Arizona (1945)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Emil W. Haury.

This publication which originally was Emil W. Haury's doctoral dissertation for the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, is based on the work of the Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition of 1887-1888. The fieldwork was organized and overseen by Frank Hamilton Cushing. The Hemenway Expedition's work in the Salt River Valley was in truth a pioneering effort. Neither here nor in the adjoining Gila Valley had any systematic work of any sort been done. Although seen by some...


Farming on the Floodplain: Archaeology fo the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport Center Runway (Runway 7L-25R) Reconstruction Project, Part 2: Appendices (2007)
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Between December 2000 and June 2005 Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) of Tempe, Arizona, completed five field sessions of archaeological monitoring, testing/data recovery I, and data recovery II. The entire airport is highly modified by grading, modern fill, paving, and building; thus, the ground surface offers few clues to what lies beneath. However, the airport is bounded by known historic and prehistoric archaeological sites, including Pueblo Salado to the immediate west and...


Farming on the Floodplain: The Archaeology of the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport Center Runway (Runway 7L-25R) Reconstruction Project, Part 1: The Report (2007)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: system user

Between December 2000 and June 2005 Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) of Tempe, Arizona, completed five field sessions of archaeological monitoring, testing/data recovery I, and data recovery II at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport Runway 7L-25R and Taxiways D-E (collectively referred to hereinafter as the Center Runway project). The first session monitored geotechnical boring and coring (Ryan 2001); the second through fourth seasons included additional monitoring plus...


Faunal Analysis Data for Terrace S25 (2015)
DATASET Ronald Faulseit.

This file contains all of the data from Dr. Heather Laphams analysis of the animal bones collected during the 2015 excavation of Terrace S25 on Cerro Danush, Dainzú-Macuilxóchitl, Oaxaca, Mexico


Faunal Analysis for Phase II Data Recovery at Pozos de Sonoqui/AZ U:14:49 (ASM) Within the Proposed Alignment of Riggs Road (2018)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Andrea Gregory.

A total of 3,757 faunal fragments was recovered from Phase II data recovery investigations at Pozos de Sonoqui, AZ U:14:49(ASM). The project area is situated within saltbush communities bordered by creosote-bursage with pockets of denser, shrubbier vegetation associated with drainages and areas along nearby Queen Creek, Sonoqui Wash, and the Gila River; irrigation canals were present prehistorically and upland resources are also located in proximity to the site (Chenault and Stubing 2012). The...


Faunal Analysis Report for Terrace S25 (2015)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Ronald Faulseit.

This is the report by Dr. Heather Lapham of the analysis of the faunal materials recovered during the 2015 excavations of Terrace S25 on Cerro Danush.


Feature Excavation Forms, Terrace S25, Cerro Danush (2015)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Ronald Faulseit.

Excavation forms for features excavated on Terrace S25


Final Data Recovery And Burial Removal At Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)): Unit 15, The Former Maricopa Counry Sheriff's Substation, Washington And 48th Streets, Phoenix, Arizona (2008)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Banks L. Leonard. Donelle Huffer. Rebecca J. Hill. Andrew D. Lack. David R. Abbott. Blayne R. Brown.

In a development plan proposed in 1999, two areas were to be excavated below grade for a building foundation and a runoff detention basin and the rest of the parcel was to be resurfaced at grade. Because this parcel is immediately east of the Iarge Hohokam village site of Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1(ASM)), a two-phase testing program determined the distribution of intact prehistoric cultural remains and established that mortuary features with human remains would be impacted if the existing...


Final Design Concept Report: 51st Avenue Grade Separation Structure at the Arizona Canal Diversion Channel (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text HDR Engineering, Inc..

The proposed project is located in west Phoenix and east Glendale in the vicinity of the 51st Avenue and Cactus  Road  intersection.  The  Arizona  Canal  and  ACDC  bisect  the  area  in  a  southeast  to  northwest direction  starting  south  of Cactus  Road and east  of 51st  Avenue,  and departs  north  of Cactus  Road and west  of 51st  Avenue.  There  are  paved  and/or gravel-dirt  paths  on  each  side  of the  Arizona Canal  and ACDC.  The  area  between the  Arizona Canal  and  ACDC...


Final History to 1916 (1916)
DOCUMENT Full-Text The United States Reclamation Service.

After the passage of what is known as the Reclamation Act, approved June 17, 1902, the people of Salt River Valley made very earnest efforts to induce the Secretary of the Interior to authorize the construction of the Salt River Project. They were successful in these efforts and the project was tentatively authorized by the Secretary on March 12, 1903. It was early decided by the Interior Department that in cases where the lands, that would receive the benefit of the proposed project, were...


Final Report for Class III Pedestrian Survey, Shovel Probe Testing, Limited Nonsite Backhoe Trenching, and Magnetometer Sampling for the San Xavier District Farm Rehabilitation Project, Tohono O’odham Nation, Pima County, Arizona (2012)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert J. Stokes.

This is part of the San Xavier Farm Rehabilitation Project. Additional entries related to this project can be found at the following link: https://core.tdar.org/collection/27482 The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) assisted the Tohono O’odham Nation’s (Nation) San Xavier District’s (District) Farm Cooperative (CoOp) in developing some 1,400 acres of new farm land along both sides of Interstate 19 south of the existing CoOp farm fields. This project was in accordance with the...


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...


Final Report of Class III Cultural Resource Survey for the SCIDD Florence Canal, Phase I: Station 45+00 to 1224+00, Pinal County, Arizona: Photo Log (2012)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd..

As authorized under the Arizona Water Settlements Act of 2004, the San Carlos and Irrigation Drainage District (SCIDD) is undertaking a 10-year rehabilitation project of its irrigation system. SCIDD is the non-Indian irrigation component of the San Carlos Irrigation Project (SCIP), which provides irrigation water to the communities of Florence, Coolidge, and Casa Grande in Pinal County, Arizona. The Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office (Reclamation) directed Archaeological Consulting...


Final Report of Class III Cultural Resource Survey for the SCIDD Florence Canal, Phase I: Station 45+00 to 1224+00, Pinal County, Arizona: Photos (2011)
IMAGE Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd.. E. M. Ryan. Linda Schilling. Thomas E. Jones.

As authorized under the Arizona Water Settlements Act of 2004, the San Carlos and Irrigation Drainage District (SCIDD) is undertaking a 10-year rehabilitation project of its irrigation system. SCIDD is the non-Indian irrigation component of the San Carlos Irrigation Project (SCIP), which provides irrigation water to the communities of Florence, Coolidge, and Casa Grande in Pinal County, Arizona. The Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office (Reclamation) directed Archaeological Consulting...


Final Report of Class III Cultural Resource Survey for the SCIDD Florence Canal, Phase I: Station 45+00 to 1224+00, Pinal County, Arizona: Report (2012)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Melanie Ryan. Thomas E. Jones. Robert Stokes.

As authorized under the Arizona Water Settlements Act of 2004, the San Carlos and Irrigation Drainage District (SCIDD) is undertaking a 10-year rehabilitation project of its irrigation system. SCIDD is the non-Indian irrigation component of the San Carlos Irrigation Project (SCIP), which provides irrigation water to the communities of Florence, Coolidge, and Casa Grande in Pinal County, Arizona. The Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office (Reclamation) directed Archaeological Consulting...


Final Report of Class III Cultural Resource Survey for the SCIDD-Florence Canal, Phase I
PROJECT USDI Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office.

As authorized under the Arizona Water Settlements Act of 2004, the San Carlos and Irrigation Drainage District (SCIDD) is undertaking a 10-year rehabilitation project of its irrigation system. SCIDD is the non-Indian irrigation component of the San Carlos Irrigation Project (SCIP), which provides irrigation water to the communities of Florence, Coolidge, and Casa Grande in Pinal County, Arizona. The Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office (Reclamation) directed Archaeological Consulting...


Final Report of Monitoring for the Southwest Gas 2" Steel Main Replacement Project, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona (2013)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Glennda Gene Luhnow.

Monitoring for the Southwest Gas 2" Steel Main Replacement Project identified two features within AZ T:12:37(ASM)-Casa Buena, and three canal exposures representing two canals (designated at AZ T:12:416 and T:417[ASM]). All feature recording protocols followed those methods set forth in the approved City of Phoenix blanket work plan (Montero and Stubing 2004). ACS’ monitoring for the Southwest Gas 2" Steel Main Replacement Project resulted in the monitoring of 98 new excavations, and the...


Final Report on Archaeological Testing at Crimson Pueblo, AZ U:9:173 (ASM), and The Denmark School Site Along the Red Mountain Freeway (State Route 202) Between Gilbert and Thomas Roads in Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona (2001)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Banks L. Leonard. Rebecca J. Hill. Cory Dale Breternitz.

Archaeological testing was conducted on a portion of Crismon Pueblo (AZ U:9:173 [ASM]), the Denmark School site, and a segment of additional property between Gilbert Road and Thomas Road in the right-of-way of the Red Mountain Freeway (State Route 202) in Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona. The project area was originally covered with in-use citrus orchards. Therefore, prior to the initiation of fieldwork, tree removal was conducted within and adjacent to the right-of-way, which required monitoring....


Final Synthesis Report: Archaeological Investigations, Fort Dix Military Installation, Burlington and Ocean Counties, New Jersey (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter Pagoulatos.

In 2004, a planning level (Phase I) survey was completed at the Fort Dix Military Installation in Burlington and Ocean Counties, New Jersey. Since 1995, Fort Dix has undertaken a long-term investigation to identify, evaluate, prioritize, and manage archaeological resources at the installation. A stratified research methodology was initially employed by placing standardized sampling units into zones of high and low sensitivity. Areas of high and low archaeological sensitivity consisted of...


Final: The Eastern Mining Area Project Coolidge To Hayden Segment Data Recovery: Hohokam Agriculture in the Middle and Upper Gila River Valley of Pinal County, Arizona (1997)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Sulgi Lotze

SWCA conducted limited data recovery at 13 sites crossed by the Coolidge to Hayden segment of the larger Eastern Mining Area (EMA) 115kV Transmission Line system in east-central Arizona. The Coolidge to Hayden segment generally follows a west-to-east alignment from Coolidge, Pinal County, to Hayden in Gila County, which roughly parallels the course of the Gila River. Salt River Project (SRP) owns the transmission line system, which was constructed to serve the mining communities of the...


The Ford Plantation Project, Georgia
PROJECT Thomas G. Whitley. Scott Butler. The Ford Plantation L.L.C. (Richmond Hill, Georgia).

Brockington and Associates, Inc., conducted an intensive Phase I cultural resources survey and Phase II testing project in 1998, for the Ford Plantation Development, in Bryan County, Georgia. The project encompassed approximately 720 hectares (1,800 acres). Survey consisted of background archival research (to locate previously identified cultural resources and to assess the potential for new discovery), fieldwork (excavation of shovel test probes, pedestrian reconnaissance, and 2 by 2 meter test...